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NOTES OF A FRUSTRATED ZIONIST- Not a Nice Jewish Boy

nospam@example.com (Freeman Center For Strategic Studies) — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:06:31 -0600

Notes From A Frustrated Zionist
Not a Nice Jewish Boy
by Bernard J. Shapiro,
Chairman and Editor of Publications
Freeeman Cednter For Strategic Studies

Like just about every Zionist, I am in terrible pain because of the continued diplomatic and strategic imbecility of the Israeli government. That doesn't mean that all members are equally bad, only that as a group they continue doing stupid things together.

Examples:
1. Since Oslo (1993) they have chosen to empower our enemies.
2. The policy of retreat and appeasements which never worked with any nation in the history of the world, became an Israel strategic policy.
3. The minimize the importance of the PA bid for UN recognition as if the fact that they have already lost the battle for unbiased history. Nowhere in their thinking is the concept of fighting back.
4. Israeli's raised since the founding of the State of Israel to be Lions of Judah are led into battlefields, like lambs to the slaughter. Israeli civilians, woman, children and the elderly are forced to run for cover during missile barrages. Terrorists rip their bodies apart as if they were not even human. It all makes me think of the Holocaust. Never Again???
5. Since 1982 (Lebanon) the leftist establishment has used every Dirty Non-Democratic Trick in the book to destroy Zionism and the morale of true Israeli Patriots.
6. Israel's Attorney General, the Police, Border Patrol, Supreme Court, News Media, Shin Bet (Israel's Secret Service) and all the leftist pro Arab political parties (plus Arab terrorist political parties) all conspire to crush the democratic Zionist will of 95% of Israel's Jewish population.
7. To me, this is not Kosher. Only a change in the electoral system can force a change. Only a change in all branches of Israel's government from the Justice Department through the IDF Officer Corp and especially the powers of the Prime Minister. A quick look at Israeli shows that each minister and the very powerful PM have the ability to do the opposite of what they are elected to do.
8. This sickens and revolts me. I have written about it many time in the past. Unfortunately the left has emasculated the Zionists, dating back
to the Altalena. And before that Jabotinsky was silenced in Europe, as he warned about the coming Holocaust. [My grandfather, Harry W. Freeman was also waning Jews all over Texas about the dangers of Nazism in the 30's.]

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YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE

nospam@example.com (Freeman Center For Strategic Studies) — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:28:29 -0500

YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE
by Jack Berger
Member of the Board of Directors
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
October 17, 2011

You are standing today, all of you (all generations) before Hashem, your G-d, from the heads of your tribes, your elders your children from the (highest) in society to the drawer of your water, for you to pass into the covenant Hashem, your G-d in order to establish you today as a people to Him and that He will be a G-d to you I call on heaven and earth today to bear witness against you. I have placed life and death before you, a blessing and a curse, you shall choose life so that you will live to dwell on the land that I swore to your forefathers (to your fathers and grandfathers) and to Abraham, Isaac and to Jacob. (Deut. 29-30)

Looking at the world today I think back to the words of Charles Dickens, It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us When I first read those words in high school, I believed that they were far removed from the rest of my life. America was in a simpler place. My only serious question was why wouldnt Sandy Koufax pitch the first game of the World Series after all was Yom Kippur really that big a deal and it wasnt like he wore a kippah and kept kosher. It was a time when questions hadnt been asked yet and didnt need to be answered. Today has caught up with yesterday.

For me, years before my Bar Mitzvah, I remember the words on our Day of Atonement. Words when secular Jewish friends of mine only came to synagogue one day a year would show up on Yom Kippur to hear who will live and who will die The profundity of that one line and its finite reality, its focus, its simple yet unambiguous statement is a statement that few Jews can turn away from or forget. The gift we have been given is the gift of time money comes, money goes, our days are moments as part of an eternity that we are only blessed to know for a very short time.

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ISRAEL'S CHARACTER FLAWED LEADERSHIP

nospam@example.com (Freeman Center For Strategic Studies) — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 13:24:57 -0500

ISRAEL'S CHARACTER FLAWED LEADERSHIP
by David Basch
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
October 16, 20011

"The Arabs do indeed believe in a policy of decisive defeat
of Israel. What is more, unlike Israel, the Arabs have the
manpower and the religious ideology to weather the war
of attrition that Boobi acquiesces in...."

At every stage of the conflict -- except for times before election --
Boobi Netanyahu has shown in his important acts that he is a true
believer in the Arabs as partners to Israel's ultimate peace.

Note that before every election Israelis heard Boobi's silver tongue
going on record as backing uncompromising, hard line programs
to beat back the designs of the Arab enemy. Yet, when in office, he
consistently betrayed these right wing preferments.

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ADMINISTRATIVE DETENTION ORDERS AGAINS JEWISH NATIONALISTS

nospam@example.com (Freeman Center For Strategic Studies) — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:03:56 -0500

ADMINISTRATIVE DETENTION ORDERS AGAINS JEWISH NATIONALISTS
by ADINA KUTNICKI
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
September 26, 2011

(Editors Note: The author variously uses the terms GSS [General Security Services], Shin Bet, Shabak, ISA [Israel Security Agency]. They are all names for Israels internal security service.]

In western democracies, a persons home is considered his castle. Therefore, if a government banishes a citizen from his home, the act must be based on a judicious interpretation of the law. The detainee must present a clear and present danger.

Chief Justice Aharon Barak, previous president of the Supreme Court, underscored his belief in this principle, albeit not from a perspective which protects the rights of Jewish nationalists. On July 15, 2002, Justice Barak ruled in the Ajuri case: Our point of departure is that in principle removing a person from his dwelling place and forcibly moving him someplace else causes serious harm to his self respect, his freedom, and his possessions. A persons home is not only a roof over his head, it is the means for establishing his physical and social relationships. A number of a persons basic human rights are harmed when he is forcibly removed to another place , even if such a move does not involve an international crossing. Tragically, his legal opinion was rendered in relation to the protection of the civil and human rights of terrorists! The security services recommended their expulsion from Nablus to Gaza, and the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the terrorists.

Even the pro-Arab Btselem human rights organization is unhappy about administrative detention/expulsion orders, stating: Undoubtedly the state should act determinedly against settlers who harm Palestinians and their property, but the way to achieve this is via criminal proceedings and not administrative orders that are based on confidential information.

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PAYING AN INSTALLMENT ON THE TERRORISM BILL

nospam@example.com (Freeman Center For Strategic Studies) — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:07:23 -0500

PAYING AN INSTALLMENT ON THE TERRORISM BILL
by David Basch
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
August 18, 2011

"Tit for tat responses by Israel -- the standard Israeli response
to attack -- is merely an encouragement of the enemy."

Israel this morning is paying another installment on the bill she
incurred when she surrendered Gaza to the enemy and enabled Gaza to
become a dangerous Arab military base.

This fact needs to be called loudly to the attention of Israelis, who
are among the most liberal, ideologically obsessed persons on earth.
They have all too often followed the rosy line of the leftists that
have led the nation to blunder after blunder, surrendering land,
diplomatic posture, and moral standing. Confidence in the leftist
way should have already been scuttled by its dismal failures.

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800 POUND GORILLA IN THE ROOM

nospam@example.com (Freeman Center For Strategic Studies) — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:05:47 -0500

800 POUND GORILLA IN THE ROOM
by David Basch
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
June 10, 2011

"Unless Israel's people and government wake up immediately
to the Arab knife being brought ever closer to the Israeli
throat and develop effective tactics for Israel's survival
... through bringing the Arab war deep into enemy strongholds
and denying him the means and the strategic position to
defeat Israel, the dangerous possibilities of Israeli defeat
forever linger. But the needed Israeli action can only be
undertaken when Israel wakes up to the implacable nature of
the enemy, ..."

What supporter of Israel can have confidence in the Jewish State if
up to this date the country refuses to recognize the reality of the
800 pound gorilla in the room, that the Arab goal is to destroy
Israel?

In that context, it is evident that the Arab enemy uses negotiations
only as a means to further that deadly goal. That enemy tactic has
worked splendidly for the Arabs, giving them a steady stream of step
by step Israeli surrenders without the Arabs themselves having to make
a single concession to Israel.

It is not reassuring to contemplate that Israel remains in a perpetual
strategic fog, unable to recognize the deadly aim of its Arab
adversary. Failing to recognize this, Israel continually rejects
decisive action against the enemy since it fears an angry Arab
reaction that will foreclose what is the delusional possibility of a
peace agreement.

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LEARNING FROM THE PAST

nospam@example.com (Freeman Center For Strategic Studies) — Fri, 13 May 2011 12:05:05 -0500

LEARNING FROM THE PAST
by David Bash
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
May 13, 2011

"Has Israel at this point gone over the edge, beyond
recouping the conditions of "secure and recognized
borders" agreed to in UN Resolution 242,...?"

Shimon Peres demonstrates that political views are more related to
character than to facts. Given a personal character obsessed to be
more righteous than any biblical divinity, the resulting views are
correspondingly bizarre, going against necessities for defense and
long term self preservation. That is the lesson we may learn from
Peres's career. to prove this, just check out Peres's views as revealed
in a recent interview in the Jerusalem Post.

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ISRAEL INDEPENDENCE AFTER 63 YEARS

nospam@example.com (Freeman Center For Strategic Studies) — Mon, 09 May 2011 09:38:50 -0500

ISRAEL INDEPENDENCE AFTER 63 YEARS
by Bernard J. Shapiro
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
May 9, 2011

No one should fool themselves into thinking that giving the Arabs of Judea and Samaria Jordanian citizenship would solve anything in the long run. Jordan is not as friendly (population wise) as we are led to believe. Though the government is helpful and friendly, that could change in the blink of an eye. Should American troops leave Iraq and it falls to Iran, the consequences would be severe for Israel. With Syria, Lebanon, and Gaza under Iranian control, it could easily extend its reach to Jordan and the Judean-Samarian ridge overlooking Israel's vulnerable coast.

My Bottom Line (Conclusion)

Israel's central problem is psychological and no amount of beautiful rhetoric and wonderful proposals can change that.

When will the Nationalist Camp realize that we are "at war already" with the PLO/Hamas/Hezbollah supporting tyranny (the LEFT) that rules Israel? At what point will Israelis realize that the CIVIL WAR they fear, IS ALREADY TAKING PLACE AND THEY ARE LOSING? When will the true Zionists take over Israel and rid the country of the Arab and Jewish traitors.

After 2000 years of homelessness, we are privaliged in this generation to see a new and productive Jewish State. Why do we let these evildoers threaten to take it from our hands.

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FREEMAN CENTER DISGUSTED AT BIBI GROVELING BEFORE ANTI-SEMITES OF EUROPE

nospam@example.com (Freeman Center For Strategic Studies) — Thu, 05 May 2011 13:02:21 -0500

FREEMAN CENTER DISGUSTED AT BIBI GROVELING BEFORE ANTI-SEMITES OF EUROPE
by Bernard J. Shapiro
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
May 5, 2011

When I founded the Freeman Center back in 1992, I gave a copy of Bibi's book, A PLACE AMONG THE NATIONS, everyone joining. I was very impressed at the clear understanding of history and the Jewish place in it. I especially appreciated the chapter on Czechoslovakia and how it related to the current Arab-Israeli issues.

Now, we see the pitiful image of Israel's PM running after the princes of Europe hat in hand. Does he have no pride? Does he not know how powerful Israel is really? Has he not read the articles of Paul Eidelberg and Yoram Ettinger broadcast here for the world to see?

Despite protestations of Israel's Supreme Court of the Arab People (and not Jews), there is NO SUCH THING AS INTERNATIONAL LAW!!! The only thing that has ever mattered in world history is POWER. Machiavelli knew it. So did Lao Tsu, Muhammed, Pol Pot, Genghis Khan, Julius Caesar, Napoleon, Mao, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin.

Power can be used for good or evil. The defense of Israel and the Jewish People is the most righteous use of power in the course of human history.

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THINGS TO COME? WILL ISRAEL SURVIVE?

nospam@example.com (Freeman Center For Strategic Studies) — Wed, 04 May 2011 12:48:32 -0500

THINGS TO COME? WILL ISRAEL SURVIVE?
by David Basch
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
May 4, 2011

"To the clear eyed, two states living peacefully
side-by-side in what has been Israeli controlled
Mandate of Palestine territories has been a figment
of the imagination. The Arabs had wanted a new
state only as a stop-gap on the way to the elimination
of Israel...."

"One must live in dread of the proposals that Netanyahu
will be presenting to the US Congress in days ahead."

What I think I see developing before my eyes is the birth of a new
Arab state on Israel's lands. Israel's Leftists and their
collaborators -- which include Netanyahu -- will at long last be
achieving their dream. Once upon a time they had dreamed of a Jewish
state living in safety and security on their ancestral lands, but,
this in the last decades, this had given way to their powerful and
exciting dream of a new Arab state.

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DANGEROUS MYTHS THAT REMAIN

nospam@example.com (Freeman Center For Strategic Studies) — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:55:14 -0500

DANGEROUS MYTHS THAT REMAIN
by David Basch
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
April 27, 2011

"How anyone can conclude that carving out an Arab nation
from the unalloted lands of the Mandate of Palestine that Israel
today controls is a recipe for peace is every bit as nonsensical
as the other theory that Palestine is the core problem of the
Middle East region...."

"Who in his right mind thinks that surrendering nationhood to the
Palestinian Arabs would end the many decades of Arab strife? "

"I do not know what Dr. Asa Kasher smokes but, if we analyze his
view, he has no basis for concluding that the Arabs that Israel
confronted in 1948 have a right to a state...."

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DEFENSE VS. OFFENSE - BARAK VS. SHAPIRO

nospam@example.com (Freeman Center For Strategic Studies) — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 10:39:13 -0500

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth... ...Plato
"The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see." ... Ayn Rand
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TWO ARTICLES: DEFENSE VS. OFFENSE

DM EHUD BARAK VS. BERNARD J. SHAPIRO

Barak has raised the idea of a separation between the PA and Israel. It is not a new idea and as far back as 1995 I explained why it won't work. Here is that article. Today in 2011 his big "idea" is missile shields. They won't work either. Anit-missiles systems are very expensive and the terrorists can keep producing thousands of cheap missiles to overwhelm them.

SEPARATION & SECURITY FENCES

The Primary Fallacy
By Bernard J. Shapiro (1995)
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
The Maccabean Online

The idea of separation has much appeal to an Israeli population feeling threat0ened daily by hostile Arabs. The Israeli government recently advanced an elaborate plan to construct hi-tech fences and new military checkpoints between Israel and the Palestinian West Bank in an effort to reduce the risk of militant violence. Israeli security officials brought the plan before the Knesset a day after Islamic extremists opened fire on an Israeli bus near the West Bank town of Hebron, killing two Jewish settlers and wounding five. The separation plan involves building extensive fences, other barriers and restricting Palestinian access into Israel through eight to ten crossings points.

The border would be heavily patrolled by Israeli soldiers and police. Cost estimates range from $300 million to $500 million. An economic report on the draft plan said the cost would be too high and separation would lead to political and economic instability in the PLO areas, perhaps intensifying the danger of attacks from opponents of the Israeli-PLO peace process. Analysts such as Dore Gold, Emanuel Winston and Ze'ev Schiff have discussed many of the reasons why it simply won't work.

For another reason why it is the wrong approach to security, it is worth repeating a story I wrote, which appeared in an article entitled, DETERRENCE OR DHIMMIZATION (THE MACCABEAN, January 1995): Back in 1965, in a small meeting room in Tel Aviv, former Defense Minister Moshe Dayan gave a pep talk to a group of RAFI (Rishimat Poalai Israel) volunteers, myself included. At that time, RAFI, a breakaway faction of the Mapai Party, included such notables as former Prime Minister David Ben Gurion and former Defense Minister Shimon Peres. Peres and Dayan had been considered the "hawks" of Mapai and it was no accident that in the 1965 election they supported a strong defense and security policy.

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MORE COMMENTS OF A FRUSTRATED ZIONIST

nospam@example.com (Freeman Center For Strategic Studies) — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 12:12:36 -0600

MORE COMMENTS OF A FRUSTRATED ZIONIST
By Bernard J. Shapiro
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
www.freeman.org
February 21, 2011

How Israel Should Respond to Recognition of PA

The Israeli policy of expressing regret as country after country recognizes the terrorist PA as a legitimate country is foolish. [See article below:] Such a country, ripped from the heart of Israel is both an economic absurdity, but a serious and existential threat to Israel's survival.

WHAT IS A PROPER RESPONSE FOR A SELF RESPECTING NATION:
1. Withdraw Israeli ambassador and expel that countries ambassador
2. Immediately renounce OSLO, re-occupy YESHA and launch a new military offensive to root out terrorists
3. And finally annex YESHA and make the whole recognition problem mute.

HOW ISRAEL SHOULD RESPOND TO IRANIAN WARSHIPS OFF THE COAST

1. Very simple, sink them preemptively
2. No warnings, no threats, no words like "unfortunate, provocative"
3. Just sink them and let their ambassador to Israel complain to the FM and PM. Oh I forgot, they don't recognize Israel, so who cares.
4. If the UN takes up the issue then withdraw from the UN and expel all UN personel from Israeli territory.Who needs that anti-Semitic organization
5. If the US, EU, or Arab/Muslim Nations complain then respond by sending them a short not. It should say: This is the NEW ISRAEL. Wild and Crazy so you had better not MESS WITH US. It is a great slogan for Texas ("Don't Mess With Texas"), why not Israel.

Watch our deterence level shoot up. In a rough neighborhood like the Middle East, it is always better to be feared than loved.
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SHAPIRO COMMENTS ON ETTINGER -Israel America's Unique Ally

nospam@example.com (Freeman Center For Strategic Studies) — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 18:09:07 -0600

SHAPIRO COMMENTS ON ETTINGER -Israel America's Unique Ally
by Bernard J. Shapiro
Greeman Center For Strategic Studies
February 20, 2011

As always Yoram Ettinger writes a clear and well researched article. No one can improve on what he does. My complaint is more political and strategic. Most of us know about how important Israel is to America. That will never change the 100 years of hostility to Jews and Israel by the US State Department, CIA, NSA, Justice Department and especially the current White House.

1. Given all the facts enumerated below, why doesn't Ettinger NOT DEMAND that America treat Israel as a strategic ally and NOT "banana repuplic."

2. And more important, why have Israeli and Jewish leaders groveled before the US like the weak ghetto Jews of the past.

Back in pre WWll days Ze'ev Jabotinsky understood the strategic needs of the Jewish People both in Europe but also in Israel. His ideas harkened back to the great Israelite warriors who conquered Eretz Yisrael (Israel) during biblical times. Leaders like Joshua, David, The Maccabees, Shinshon, and Bar Kochba.He was silenced by the organized Jewish leadership. After his death in 1940 was maliciously barred from burial in Israel until Menachem Begin was elected in the late 1970's.

During, days still fresh enough for me to remember, new warriors emerged to fight for Israel. Though they had many flaws (we all do), people like David Ben Gurion, Menachem Begin, Avraham Stern, Ariel Sharon and Moshe Dayan and Yoni Netanayhu led the country to many victories on the battlefield. Others like Moshe Arens, Rabbi Meir Kahane zl and Herb Zweibon zl (AFSI) and Moton Klien (ZOA), Emanuel A. Winston fought their battles for Israel on the political front. Caroline Glick, Prof. Paul Eidelberg, Steven Plaut, Helen Freedman (AFSI), Nadia and Ruth Matar (Women in Green) have fought both on the ground and politically.

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ANOTHER ARAB RUSE IN THE MAKING?

nospam@example.com (Freeman Center For Strategic Studies) — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 04:22:45 -0600

ANOTHER ARAB RUSE IN THE MAKING?
by David Basch
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
January 26, 2011

"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. But ..."

Learning from reports that Israeli governments have been in communication with
Arab leaders, who are reported as desiring peace -- now where have I heard that
before? -- is not any report that I can be hopeful about. I certainly don't trust the
Arabs and certainly not Israeli leaders who, time and again, are led on the basis
of Arab promises to drop Israel's guard.

After all, did not old Yassir promise the leftist negotiators and Rabin that he wanted
peace? And what happened? On the basis of Yassir's encouraging words, Israel
brought that terrorist and his whole terrorist Arab army back to Israel, set them
up in control of enclaves and gave them all kinds of Israeli aid, so that they could
strike against Israel, producing intifadas and dead and maimed Israelis galore.

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