Moving to Israel

As most people have probably been reading about the dangerous situation in Iran (we wrote about it here last week) it has come as no surprise to many that Israel has been prominently brought to the spotlight. This occurred again the other day, not in the usual “it’s the Jews and Israels fault” sort of way but in a cry for help.

It seems the Iranian anti-regime activists are hoping for an Israeli technological hand to help them fight the Islamic Republic. The dissidents have appealed to Israel to help opposition television and radio stations which are blocked and being jammed by the Islamic Republic (Nokia and Siemens) resume broadcast to Iran. Hundreds have been reported dead and thousands injured in the protests that began after the so called “election” a few weeks ago produced the same rogue regime that has been leading Iran until now.

We here in Israel are no strangers to the homicidal tendencies of the mullah’s paid terrorist Hamas and Hizbullah gangs and of course should do all we can to help those in need when facing these same criminals.

Let’s hope Israel’s technology can indeed help the situation in Iran and, equally as important, let’s hope the Israels and Americas of the world will be able to, please Hashem, stand up to all the evil forces out there and put the global and local terror threat that Iran provides to rest for good.

Ari

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how US President Barack Obama, along with his family, attended the second night Passover Seder in the White House with staff and friends. This is believed to be the first White House Seder attended by an American president. I also noted how we must look closely before celebrating such an event as being a positive occurrence for Israel and the Jewish people by noting that it was former President Jimmy Carter, hardly a friend of Jews of the world, who had set the closest precedence to this and we all know how his reign of terror played out (and, unfortunately with his world wide influence, continues to play out to this day).

Therefore, I thought it was interesting to point out an article by Carol Schwartz entitled “Seder in the White House, Oy Vey” that takes this point further and brings in examples throughout history telling us to beware of what such an event can mean. It is a truly chilling account as it makes us look at our own past and see how we are potentially putting ourselves in great danger once again when we take our supposed “great relations” with our host (and foreign) government and assume that it bodes well for our long term future there.

As Carol closes her article “Let us not forget our history and let us remember that history has a way of repeating itself. (May G-d protect us.)”

Ari

As the murderous terrorist attacks in India seem to have come to a close and the wreckage is sorted through Israeli experts have begun to voice their opinions on the whole affair as well as the methods that were used to finally kill the terrorists.

Israel’s analysis will be particularly scrutinized as, unfortunately, Israel has lots of experience in such terror acts and the Mumbai Chabad House was one of the higher profile targets. Though thoughts will continue to come forth in the coming weeks and months, one of the facts that seem to be in agreement is the lack of prior intelligence that helped to lead to the attacks. While reacting to a coordinated attack of such scope is certainly no easy task and should be taken into account one positive that can hopefully come out of this tragedy is yet another people being exposed to the realities of extreme Islam that has terrorized Israel for years and is now pouring out to the rest of the world.

We can only hope that, together with G-d’s help, this continuing opening of the world’s eyes will help to eventually stop the murderous rampage that radical Islam has unleashed on the world. May Hashem bless the souls of all the good people who were killed as well as their families.

Ari