Comments for Candidly Speaking from Jerusalem http://wordfromjerusalem.com Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:30:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 Comment on Rosh Hashanah Greetings by Martin Lackner http://wordfromjerusalem.com/?p=2408#comment-18445 Martin Lackner Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:51:08 +0000 http://wordfromjerusalem.com/?p=2408#comment-18445 Isi, Naomi and all your loved ones. Thank your for your greetings and good wishes. I and my family reciprocate with our best, warm and positive wishes for you all and hope that the near future will bring peace and prosperity to you all and to Israel. We have been watching the meetings, speeches demeanor and body language of those involved in the "NEW" peace talks (I wish they stopped calling this process "Peace Talks" ...) Bibi is an enigma, but I still trust him and hope he knows what he is doing. Abbas reflects a woodden, stiff, undetermined figure and from our point of view will not deliver anything, as usual. King Abdullah and President Mubarak appeared uncomfortable and a bit at a loss of why they were there... From appearances, until the state of mind of the Arab world does not turn towards a sincere wish for peace and constructive thinking, nothing will change. They also have to stop hating each other. This will take a -l-o-o-o-n-g- time. And the beat goes on, and on and on. Another U.S. President, his Secretary of State and a few in the Administration still falsely assume that "they know" what good for the Middle East and as falsely believe they can pressure the Israelis for more "concessions" . After all, Israel is a Giant in the Middle East and can afford to give away land and more land to people who don't care about land and only want a "Judenrein" Middle East. Israel and it's people will prevail in the end. Shana Tova Isi, Naomi and all your loved ones. Thank your for your greetings and good wishes. I and my family reciprocate with our best, warm and positive wishes for you all and hope that the near future will bring peace and prosperity to you all and to Israel.

We have been watching the meetings, speeches demeanor and body language of those involved in the “NEW” peace talks (I wish they stopped calling this process “Peace Talks” …) Bibi is an enigma, but I still trust him and hope he knows what he is doing. Abbas reflects a woodden, stiff, undetermined figure and from our point of view will not deliver anything, as usual.
King Abdullah and President Mubarak appeared uncomfortable and a bit at a loss of why they were there…
From appearances, until the state of mind of the Arab world does not turn towards a sincere wish for peace and constructive thinking, nothing will change. They also have to stop hating each other. This will take a -l-o-o-o-n-g- time.
And the beat goes on, and on and on. Another U.S. President, his Secretary of State and a few in the Administration still falsely assume that “they know” what good for the Middle East and as falsely believe they can pressure the Israelis for more “concessions” . After all, Israel is a Giant in the Middle East and can afford to give away land and more land to people who don’t care about land and only want a “Judenrein” Middle East.

Israel and it’s people will prevail in the end. Shana Tova

]]> Comment on Signup to Isi’s Mailing List by Rosh Hashanah Blessings | Candidly Speaking from Jerusalem http://wordfromjerusalem.com/?page_id=2403#comment-18408 Rosh Hashanah Blessings | Candidly Speaking from Jerusalem Mon, 06 Sep 2010 08:37:28 +0000 http://wordfromjerusalem.com/?page_id=2403#comment-18408 [...] May I also invite you to encourage your friends who may be interested in following my commentaries and columns to subscribe to Candidly Speaking from Jerusalem [...] [...] May I also invite you to encourage your friends who may be interested in following my commentaries and columns to subscribe to Candidly Speaking from Jerusalem [...]

]]> Comment on Claims Conference: Isi Leibler Interviewed on Israel National News radio with Walter Bingham by Susan Levin http://wordfromjerusalem.com/?p=2352#comment-18052 Susan Levin Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:02:53 +0000 http://wordfromjerusalem.com/?p=2352#comment-18052 Kol Hakavod to Mr. Leibler for bringing to light the abuses of the Claim's Conference. That it is a shanda, is putting it mildly. Several years ago, I sent them a letter questioning a donation they made; needless to say my comments were ignored. Has integrity on the part of their Board gone out the window; was it ever there? Does power continue to corrupt? To make matters worse, there is no guarantee that any of the abuses will be remedied. Kol Hakavod to Mr. Leibler for bringing to light the abuses of the Claim’s Conference. That it is a shanda, is putting it mildly. Several years ago, I sent them a letter questioning a donation they made; needless to say my comments were ignored. Has integrity on the part of their Board gone out the window; was it ever there? Does power continue to corrupt? To make matters worse, there is no guarantee that any of the abuses will be remedied.

]]> Comment on Claims Conference: Isi Leibler Interviewed on Israel National News radio with Walter Bingham by Safti http://wordfromjerusalem.com/?p=2352#comment-17554 Safti Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:26:46 +0000 http://wordfromjerusalem.com/?p=2352#comment-17554 Dear Walter, You are an excellent interviewer! Thank you for having Mr. Leibler and the gentleman who was formerly with The World bank on your show. I am personally interested in the plight of Holocaust survivors who must choose between heat in Winter, and buying nutritious food. It is a disgrace. Dear Walter,
You are an excellent interviewer!

Thank you for having Mr. Leibler and the gentleman who was formerly
with The World bank on your show. I am personally interested in the plight of Holocaust survivors who must choose between heat in Winter, and buying nutritious food. It is a disgrace.

]]> Comment on Claims Conference: Isi Leibler Interviewed on Israel National News radio with Walter Bingham by More on the Claims Conference | Candidly Speaking from Jerusalem http://wordfromjerusalem.com/?p=2352#comment-17549 More on the Claims Conference | Candidly Speaking from Jerusalem Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:49:50 +0000 http://wordfromjerusalem.com/?p=2352#comment-17549 [...] Isi Leibler Interviewed on Israel National News radio with Walter Bingham [...] [...] Isi Leibler Interviewed on Israel National News radio with Walter Bingham [...]

]]> Comment on Anti-Semitism soars in Holland by Arthur F. (Amsterdam) http://wordfromjerusalem.com/?p=2371#comment-17526 Arthur F. (Amsterdam) Sun, 22 Aug 2010 22:16:06 +0000 http://wordfromjerusalem.com/?p=2371#comment-17526 Dear Mr. Leibler, You seem to have better understanding of the current Dutch situation than most Dutch people themselves. Holland has changed radically over the past 25 years, but not for the better. Dutch newspapers do not print objective facts anymore, that is long gone. The irony of it all is the fact that the Dutch have been so tolerant towards immigrants from other cultures because of what happened between 1933-1945 to the Jews in Europe (and yes, in Holland too). After the war a much heard slogan was "Never again!". Why was that? Was it a feeling of guilt? Yes, there were righteous amongst the Dutch, but as you say, there were probably many more collaborators. The DVD "Polygoon Journaal in de tweede Wereldoorlog" will show you many of them, welcoming the Nazis in Amsterdam with raised right arms. When I first saw it I was terribly shocked. So the Dutch have "learned" that what happened to the Jews was wrong and should never happen again. This might have evolved in what was not so long ago known as our cozy multi-cultural society. But today things are different. Today we have imams spreading hate in mosques in Rotterdam, The Hague and Amsterdam. Hate towards infidels, everyone being non-muslim and above all, towards Jews. You'll find plenty examples on Youtube. Now Mr. Geert Wilders wants to put a halt to this. Is he being intolerant towards muslims? No, not really. He simply is against those aspects of Islam that predict hate towards so called infidels such as Christians and Jews. He is against those who justify violence against the western world and Israel in the name of Allah and the Quran. He is against the way muslim women are treated (as some kind of untermenschen). He is against the medieval culture that uses sharia and that sort of thing. I can promise you that Geert has nothing against normal, secular Muslims. But, because of this indoctrinated tolerance of the Dutch towards immigrants and people from other cultures, Mr. Wilders has now become a second Hitler in their opinion, because he treats Muslims the way the Nazis treated the Jews... Is somebody in our government or at our newspapers able to point out history is not repeating itself here? Dear Mr. Leibler,
You seem to have better understanding of the current Dutch situation than most Dutch people themselves. Holland has changed radically over the past 25 years, but not for the better. Dutch newspapers do not print objective facts anymore, that is long gone. The irony of it all is the fact that the Dutch have been so tolerant towards immigrants from other cultures because of what happened between 1933-1945 to the Jews in Europe (and yes, in Holland too). After the war a much heard slogan was “Never again!”. Why was that? Was it a feeling of guilt? Yes, there were righteous amongst the Dutch, but as you say, there were probably many more collaborators. The DVD “Polygoon Journaal in de tweede Wereldoorlog” will show you many of them, welcoming the Nazis in Amsterdam with raised right arms. When I first saw it I was terribly shocked. So the Dutch have “learned” that what happened to the Jews was wrong and should never happen again. This might have evolved in what was not so long ago known as our cozy multi-cultural society. But today things are different. Today we have imams spreading hate in mosques in Rotterdam, The Hague and Amsterdam. Hate towards infidels, everyone being non-muslim and above all, towards Jews. You’ll find plenty examples on Youtube. Now Mr. Geert Wilders wants to put a halt to this. Is he being intolerant towards muslims? No, not really. He simply is against those aspects of Islam that predict hate towards so called infidels such as Christians and Jews. He is against those who justify violence against the western world and Israel in the name of Allah and the Quran. He is against the way muslim women are treated (as some kind of untermenschen). He is against the medieval culture that uses sharia and that sort of thing. I can promise you that Geert has nothing against normal, secular Muslims. But, because of this indoctrinated tolerance of the Dutch towards immigrants and people from other cultures, Mr. Wilders has now become a second Hitler in their opinion, because he treats Muslims the way the Nazis treated the Jews…
Is somebody in our government or at our newspapers able to point out history is not repeating itself here?

]]> Comment on Anti-Semitism soars in Holland by Jerry Meents http://wordfromjerusalem.com/?p=2371#comment-17519 Jerry Meents Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:16:05 +0000 http://wordfromjerusalem.com/?p=2371#comment-17519 I came in contact with Anti-Semitism in the Netherlands (Holland) already in 1935-1936. I was in a summer camp (Kolonie) in Petten for my health with 3 jewish children and non-Jewish children. We got our haar shaved off, but not the other children. We got ice tea with no sugar but the others got it with sugar. We were called by derogatory Jewish names. And I was not Jewish because my father was Jewish but my mother was not. I was according to the Germans a half Jew. And after the liberation of The Netherlands and some survivors came back from the camps, anti-Semitism started to go up at that time already. Yes there were richteous gentiles in The Netherlands who saved Jewish lives, and some saved more than one Jewish life, but those righteous gentiles were not in the tens of thousands. We had only about 5,000 come back from the camps, and aboud 9,000 survivors from hiding after WWII was over, that's not a hell lot from a population of 9.5 millioen There were approximately the 10,000 Jewsh survivors who were married to a non-Jewish partner who did not go to a concetration camp or exturmination camp or had to live in hiding ( however some of the mixed married Jews were send to an camp and were murdered and even some socalled half Jews lived in hiding) Jerry Meents. jmeents3729@msn.com I came in contact with Anti-Semitism in the Netherlands (Holland) already in 1935-1936.
I was in a summer camp (Kolonie) in Petten for my health with 3 jewish children and non-Jewish children.
We got our haar shaved off, but not the other children.
We got ice tea with no sugar but the others got it with sugar.
We were called by derogatory Jewish names.
And I was not Jewish because my father was Jewish but my mother was not.
I was according to the Germans a half Jew.
And after the liberation of The Netherlands and some survivors came back from the camps, anti-Semitism
started to go up at that time already.
Yes there were richteous gentiles in The Netherlands who saved Jewish lives, and some saved more than one Jewish life, but those righteous gentiles were not in the tens of thousands.
We had only about 5,000 come back from the camps, and aboud 9,000 survivors from hiding after WWII was over, that’s not a hell lot from a population of 9.5 millioen
There were approximately the 10,000 Jewsh survivors who were married to a non-Jewish partner who
did not go to a concetration camp or exturmination camp or had to live in hiding ( however some of the mixed married Jews were send to an camp and were murdered and even some socalled half Jews lived in hiding)

Jerry Meents.
jmeents3729@msn.com

]]> Comment on Restraint or deterrence by Arkady http://wordfromjerusalem.com/?p=2344#comment-17455 Arkady Sat, 21 Aug 2010 18:52:24 +0000 http://wordfromjerusalem.com/?p=2344#comment-17455 I do agree wholeheartedly. Mr. Netanyahu /Barrack/ whoever in charge shall not shake the air through loudspeakers but the Earth and bomb shelters. That's how world turns - respect comes Not to the people with loud voice but to the men with the hard fists. It was a mistake just to agree to investigation of the Flotilla "accident". Just blowing ship out of the water was a defensive act . I had a friend, journalist, who had always said: "First fight is better than the last one". Meaning: it's better to fight for your rights immediately upon first intrusion than later for the rest of it. Looking forward to see burning Lebanese arms warehouses. I do agree wholeheartedly. Mr. Netanyahu /Barrack/ whoever in charge shall not shake the air through loudspeakers but the Earth and bomb shelters.
That’s how world turns - respect comes Not to the people with loud voice but to the men with the hard fists.
It was a mistake just to agree to investigation of the Flotilla “accident”. Just blowing ship out of the water was a defensive act .
I had a friend, journalist, who had always said: “First fight is better than the last one”. Meaning: it’s better to fight for your rights immediately upon first intrusion than later for the rest of it.
Looking forward to see burning Lebanese arms warehouses.

]]> Comment on Bungle at Israeli London Embassy by NormanF http://wordfromjerusalem.com/?p=2359#comment-17231 NormanF Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:38:00 +0000 http://wordfromjerusalem.com/?p=2359#comment-17231 Not really a surprise. Israel's Foreign Ministry is honeycombed with leftists who are holdovers from the Labor/Kadima days. They are not going to be replaced any time soon. Not really a surprise. Israel’s Foreign Ministry is honeycombed with leftists who are holdovers from the Labor/Kadima days. They are not going to be replaced any time soon.

]]> Comment on Bungle at Israeli London Embassy by Stefan http://wordfromjerusalem.com/?p=2359#comment-17207 Stefan Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:34:49 +0000 http://wordfromjerusalem.com/?p=2359#comment-17207 Nothing new about this, I'm afraid. A few years ago I emailed the embassy asking why they were talking up a festival of Israeli film on the South Bank. Indeed, it was the first ever israeli film festival at England's premier cultural centre - joy all around... until you looked at the films that were chosen. Pretty much all of them took negative views of Israel. I spoke to a guy at the Embassy: most Israeli film producers are left wing so what can one expect, he said. Sure, I replied. And, baruch Hashem, Israel's a democracy; I wasn't calling for a ban on left-wingers. But, I argued, given the content of the festival, why did the Embassy feel it had to promote it so enthusiastically? Surely it could have released a more measured public response? E.g. While welcoming the interest in Israeli culture and having confidence in the high quality of Israeli film making it is regrettable that those who selected the films chose to ignore what was at that time the smash hit Israeli film Ushpizin. They also chose to ignore Epharim Kishon's death that year (2005) - an opportunity to show his Oscar-winning film Salach Shabati, perhaps? Such inclusions would have given British audiences an opportunity to taste a wider range of Israeli life - a far more representative one than the narrow polemical dramas that were on offer. Thus, the Embassy missed an opportunity to laud Israel democracy while constructively criticising the blinkers being put on unwitting audiences. Nothing new about this, I’m afraid. A few years ago I emailed the embassy asking why they were talking up a festival of Israeli film on the South Bank. Indeed, it was the first ever israeli film festival at England’s premier cultural centre - joy all around… until you looked at the films that were chosen. Pretty much all of them took negative views of Israel. I spoke to a guy at the Embassy: most Israeli film producers are left wing so what can one expect, he said. Sure, I replied. And, baruch Hashem, Israel’s a democracy; I wasn’t calling for a ban on left-wingers. But, I argued, given the content of the festival, why did the Embassy feel it had to promote it so enthusiastically? Surely it could have released a more measured public response? E.g. While welcoming the interest in Israeli culture and having confidence in the high quality of Israeli film making it is regrettable that those who selected the films chose to ignore what was at that time the smash hit Israeli film Ushpizin. They also chose to ignore Epharim Kishon’s death that year (2005) - an opportunity to show his Oscar-winning film Salach Shabati, perhaps? Such inclusions would have given British audiences an opportunity to taste a wider range of Israeli life - a far more representative one than the narrow polemical dramas that were on offer. Thus, the Embassy missed an opportunity to laud Israel democracy while constructively criticising the blinkers being put on unwitting audiences.

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