Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Fwd: [nashimbyarok-WIG] Succesful 1st Sovereignty Conference! כינוס ריבונות מוצלח! AFSI was part of it!


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Yasher Koach to Women in Green,  Nadia Matar and Yehudit Katzover who are amazing women and have stepped up to the plate in Israel to raise consciousness and dared to take the dream of actualization of  Israel Sovereignty to new heights. Our heartfelt yearning for Eretz Yisroel Hashleima inclusive of Judea and Samaria under Israel Sovereignty no longer mere lip service. 

So proud of AFSI to be a part of it.  See link to Helen Freedman and Judy (Freedman) Kadish speaking at the event at the bottom of this post..


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Subject: [nashimbyarok-WIG] Succesful 1st Sovereignty Conference! כינוס ריבונות מוצלח!

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Sovereignty:  It is Possible and it is Vital
First of Eight Conferences this year Promoting Sovereignty in Judea and Samaria
 by SHIRA SHREIER
 PHOTOS GERSHON ELLINSON
 Links to all speeches are at bottom of mail
"The Time Has Come for Sovereignty" proclaimed a large backdrop to the dais as over 100 people gathered in a large white tent in the Oz VeGaon Nature Preserve in Gush Etzion on Friday morning, November 10 for the first in a series of eight conferences this year promoting the application of Sovereignty in Judea and Samaria. Other conferences will take place (in Hebrew) in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Ra'anana, Haifa, Petah Tikva, Givat Shmuel and Sderot. The Oz VeGaon Nature Preserve was established by the Women in Green movement, with the encouragement of the Gush Etzion Council, in memory of the three boys – Gilad, Ayal and Naftali - abducted and murdered by Hamas terrorists three years ago, as an immediate and appropriate Zionist response to this brutal act of terrorism. Oz VeGaon has developed into a vibrant and impressive center of education, culture and tourism.
The 9th issue of the Sovereignty Journal, hot-off-the-press, in both Hebrew and English, published by the Sovereignty Movement (founded by the Women in Green), was distributed at the Conference and participants could be seen eagerly turning the pages and browsing the articles during the program.
"The sovereignty vision is no longer mere talk and declarations and is certainly not a weak, isolated voice as it was at the beginning of the publicity campaign of the Sovereignty movement seven years ago," according to the Sovereignty Journal editorial board. "Thanks to public figures, spearheads of public opinion and a supportive and encouraging public, this vision is being transformed into operational, organized political programs found on the agenda of the Israeli public and politics and is arousing active discussion and debate."
For a sneak preview, the Sovereignty Journal Issue #9 features an article by Minister Gila Gamliel who presents an outline for a political plan: Israeli Sovereignty in Judea and Samaria and a Palestinian State in Sinai; Scoop: A team of experts is preparing TAMA 100, a National Outline Plan that will include Judea and Samaria as an indivisible part of the State of Israel for the first time; Former Minister Gideon Saar: Sovereignty must be the Likud's position; The Shas Party in favor of Sovereignty: An Interview with MK Yoav Ben Tsur, head of the faction; and more.
 Growing Support for Sovereignty
"The circle supporting Sovereignty is widening and the list of politicians favoring Sovereignty is growing," said Yehudit Katsover, co-head of Women in Green with Nadia Matar (who translated Yehudit's words from Hebrew into English for the largely English-speaking crowd).  "Sovereignty in the Land of Israel began in this week's Torah portion of Chayei Sarah when our forefather Abraham paid the full price of 400 silver shekels to Efron the Hittite to purchase the Cave of Machpela in Hebron to bury his wife Sarah." She attributed Abraham's success in bringing about the revolution of monotheism to his dynamic personality. "Avraham did what God asked. He was a man of action, who acted with alacrity and confidence in his mission," she said.
Greetings were brought by Sam Solomon, business executive and entrepreneur, and chairman of the board of Women in Green.  "My wife, Meryl, and I are proud and privileged to be supporters of Women in Green, Oz Ve'Gaon and the Sovereignty Movement. They need your economic support. They are probably the largest volunteer organization in Israel supporting Judea and Samaria," he said. "It is important to have real dialogue about Sovereignty. The mantra about two states is an ideology not based on fact. 75-80% of Israelis are pro-Sovereignty, meaning autonomy for local Arabs under Israel sovereignty." 
Helen Freedman and Judy Freedman Kadish, co-executive directors of American Friends for a Safe Israel (AFSI) who led a large delegation of members from the US, also greeted those assembled. "Ribonut – Sovereignty – is an idea which AFSI has always had. We believe in Yisrael Shleima – one state with no divisions," Helen Freedman said.  Her daughter, Judy, added, "AFSI will always remain a partner with Women in Green and the Sovereignty Movement. May you go from strength to strength!"
"My speech is already printed in the Sovereignty Journal #9 in Hebrew and English. You can read it there," began MK Yehuda Glick of the Likud. "How did the two-state concept enter our terminology? The extreme left-wing parties have a method; they use brainwashing. In the past few years, the terminology has changed. Everyone knows that in a few years there will be Sovereignty. They know we are here for good. This is our land. We must give thanks to God. 70 years ago they were talking about the final solution, not the one state/two state solution. Look where we are today. We must take the initiative." In his article, he writes that, "the most ideal plan today is the one proposed by the Federation Movement, calling for the implementation of a realistic solution, meaning the application of Israeli law in Judea and Samaria, granting equal civil rights to the Arabs of Judea and Samaria and a federal regime divided into cantons."
Yehudit Katsover introduced Minister of Agriculture Uri Ariel as "one of the first people who pushed the issue of Sovereignty forward, and in these days acts together with MK Bezalel Smotrich, helping to move the entire government to the right and succeeding to maintain a high ideological standard."
"I want to say one thing. What Yehudit and Nadia and all their friends are doing is very important and dramatic. The time has come for Sovereignty! That is the plain truth," Minister Ariel declared. "My friend, Bezalel Smotrich, has called Sovereignty the Decision-Making Program. We want to push this plan forward, together with you and the People of Israel, so that between the Jordan and the Sea, there will be only one nation. We hope there will be a big community right here in Oz VeGaon and also in Emek Bracha below and in Hevron (with hopefully100,000 Jews living there) and in Beit Lechem. We need to change the situation – the nation is returning to its land."
"I am excited to be at this first conference of the Sovereignty series," said guest speaker Ken Abramowitz, founder of SavetheWest.com, chairman of American Friends of Likud, and general partner and co-founder of healthcare venture NGN Capital. Addressing the topic of "How to Save Western Civilization From Itself," he began with a three-minute talk on the concept of the need for devising a winning strategy in terms of national security, and then briefly discussed the key problems of Western Civilization (US, Europe, Israel, Christians and Jews) which is under attack from the "outside" and "inside" and needs different strategies for different problems. He described the key solutions as being: Maximize Growth of Economy, Protect our Culture, and Protect the People physically. He said that 1/3 of the population of the world – the rational centrists - are "normal" while 2/3 - the Leftists, Political Islam, United Nations and Isolationists - are not "normal" and believe in false narratives.  "What will be in 50 years?" he asked. "What percentage of the people will be "normal"? It depends on whether we can get our act together."
In Issue #9 of the Sovereignty Journal, Abramowitz writes:
Judea and Samaria were given to Abraham and the Jews by God in the Bible. Jews have lived here for 3,800 years.  So called "Palestinian" Arabs are largely squatters who moved here during the past 100 years from Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.
Jerusalem, Shilo, Beit El, Hebron, Kiryat Arba, Efrat, Shechem and 40 other cities were mentioned in the Tanach. None were mentioned in the Koran. Jewish legal rights to Jerusalem (and even all of Judea/Samaria) were "irrevocably" recognized in the San Remo conference of 1920 by unanimous agreement of the 51 members of the League of Nations. Moreover, for the past 150 years, Jews have been the majority population in Jerusalem. The IDF in Judea/Samaria protects 800,000 citizens and protects 1.4 million Muslim Arabs from inside (Hamas, Islamic Jihad) and outside terror organizations (particularly Iran and ISIS).
Without proper IDF protection, a Palestinian State would be immediately attacked and occupied (as in Syria now) by the four worldwide professional "Political Islam" terror organizations: Iran, ISIS/Al Qaeda, Muslim Brotherhood, and the Saudi Wahhabis. A Palestinian State would be dedicated to Israel's destruction and represents an existential threat to Israel. A Palestinian State would inevitably declare war on Israel, forcing the IDF to re-invade, thereby costing 100-500 IDF lives and thousands of civilian lives. A Palestinian State would uncontrollably dig water wells, eventually destroying the aquifers, causing Israel to lose 25% of its water supply. Sniper shooting and terror operations from the Palestine State into Israel could cause 25% of the citizens living on the border to flee (as happened in Jerusalem after 1948).
In essence, Judea/Samaria protects Western Civilization. Any weakening of Israeli sovereignty over this territory would imperil the security of the rest of the West and irretrievably so.
The final speaker at the conference, Atty. Karen Stahl-Don, an expert in international law, spoke about "Why International Law is Israel's Best Friend."
"In addition to the Bible as the source for our rights to all of the land of Israel, we have valid and binding documents and tools available to us which we are not utilizing but with which we can win and disrupt the false narrative," she stated.  "The good news is that we are not as alone in the international arena as we think (see www.thinc.info). We need a new successful international law paradigm for the Israel/Palestine conflict to promote Israel's right to Judea and Samaria."
"The young population in Asia and Africa view Israel as a model to emulate," she explained. "We can build upon that by using tools of international law and building bridges. It is time to assert our rights according to international law and promote sovereignty."
"The bad news is that the narrative has been entrenched by anti-Israel narrative, leaving no room for discussion," she said. "Mahmoud Abbas wants to revise history along with the text of Resolution 181 – the 1947 Partition Plan (see The Legal Grounds website). We need to get the passion back and stop the brainwashing that has completely changed the direction of the dialogue."
"Resolution 181 detailed intense interaction and cooperation between the proposed states and required agreement from all parties," Stahl-Don noted. "It requires Arab cooperation. You can't blame Israel if the Arabs don't cooperate. Resolution 181 never came to fruition and was abandoned. The UN never implemented the mechanism for achieving economic union.  No final boundaries were ever set (there was just a sketch for a proposal). Therefore, Resolution 181 is now null and void. The British Mandate for Palestine document, which established the modern-day legal status of Judea and Samaria as part of Israel, remains decisive today!"
She concluded, "We have to use the tools, enforce our rights and disrupt the false narrative. The promise of Abraham has become part of international law."
Speeches can be viewed by clicking on the following links:
Introduction by Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0huxgYgGMfk&feature=youtu.be
Helen Freedman and Judy Freedman Kadish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ES5iStxAfY&feature=youtu.be
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Sunday, November 12, 2017

Brooklyn College: Advocating Genocide and a Third Intifada

AFSI BROOKLYN Endorses 2 Zionist Events This Week: Tuesday November 14th Protest CAIR in QUEENS, Wednesday, November 15th, KJC presents Eve Harow

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AFSI Brooklyn Endorses Protest November 14th against CAIR. Queens Borough President and Queens District Attorney Partners with CAIR. this Tuesday November 14: for an Event Empowering Hate Crimes. https://afsibrooklyn.blogspot.com/2017/11/queens-borough-president-and-queens.html


Fwd: Save the Datel, Wednesday November 15th 7:15 pm Kingsway Jewish Center Presents Eve Harow - Israel Radio Personality and International Spokesperson - 50 years since 1967 Liberation. or Occupation? 
Kingsway Jewish Center
2810 Nostrand Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11229
718-258-3344


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Robin Ticker

Activist emails sent to my list  are L'Ilui Nishmat Yisrael ben David Aryeh ob"m (Izzy - Kaplan) and Howard Chaim Grief great activists and lovers of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichronum Baruch.  May their memories serve as a blessing. 
posted on afsibrooklyn.blogspot.com

Personal emails to individuals will not be posted to my blog. 

Fwd: Save the Datel, Wednesday November 15th 7:15 pm Kingsway Jewish Center Presents Eve Harow - Israel Radio Personality and International Spokesperson - 50 years since 1967 Liberation. or Occupation

Friday, November 10, 2017

Queens Borough President and Queens District Attorney Partners with CAIR. this Monday November 14: for an Event Empowering Hate Crimes.

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AFSI Brooklyn endorses
Patriots & Zionists Unite! CAIR Must Go!

Public · Hosted by Events Supporting Israel in NYC and The New Jewish Defense League NYC
https://www.facebook.com/events/178665206018640/

CAIR's goal -to implement Sharia and destroy our way of life.

Patriots and Zionists- Go to the Helen Marshall Cultural Center-Queens Borough Hall, 120-55 Queens Blvd, Kew Gardens, NY on November 14th at 5pm.

We must alert the public and we must put CAIR on notice. Sharia is NOT welcome here! Anti-American activitiy is NOT welcome here! Anti Israel activity is NOT welcome here!

If we are silent, their activities will continue until their mission is complete-a Sharia compliant USA and the elimination of the state of Israel.

Be there on November 14th! Bring signs! Bring American and Israeli flags!
Tuesday at 5 PM - 6:30 PM


Why is the Queens Borough President and Queens DA partnering with CAIR to conquer HATE crimes?

CAIR teaching others how to stop Hate crimes is like a wolf teaching others how to treat lambs.

- CAIR, Why don't you Advocate to stop Hate Crimes in Muslim Countries First!

This is the actual title of their event: 
Conquering Hate Together the Power of Our Voices

Helen Marshall Cultural Center - Queens Borough Hall120-55 Queens BlvdKew Gardens, NY 11424November 14th 2017, 6:00pm - 8:00pmSpecial Guest Speakers Judy and Dennis ShepardPersonal Perspectives:
  • Joselo Lucero, activist and brother of Marcelo Lucero, killed in a hate crime
  • Afaf Nasher, esq. Executive Director, CAIR-NY (NY chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations)
  • Anita Nagel Weisbord, Holocaust Survivor, Volunteer - Kupferberg Holocaust Center, Queensborough Community College
  • Andrew Jackson, (Sekou Molefik Baako) Queens Library Board of Trustees and Executive Director emeritus Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center, Queens Library
They came for the others. then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak for me... (written on the promotional flier)Queens DA , Queens District Attorney Richard a. Brown and Melinda Katz,
Queens Borough President Invite you to this special forum on hate crimes.  The special speakers will be Judy and Dennis Shepard. Nineteen years after their son Matthew was murdered, the Shepards stand stronger than ever as they help lead the fight against hate crimes.


FYI: Some informational links about CAIR

Before CAIR Lectures Republicans, It Should Stop Supporting Terrorists By D.C. McAllister  FEBRUARY 7, 2015

The Council on American-Islamic Relations should have no moral authority to discuss Islam in America until it renounces its terrorist ties.


Jihadist Groups in the US: What Next?

by Benjamin Weingarten

February 9, 2017 

SRAELI SOLDIERS REFUSE TO REMOVE HEBRON SETTLERS March 11, 2015

CAIR Has Been Identified By The Government At Trial As A Participant In An Ongoing And Ultimately Unlawful Conspiracy To Support A Designated Terrorist Organization, A Conspiracy From Which CAIR Never Withdrew


CAIR: Islamists Fooling the Establishment

by Daniel Pipes and Sharon Chadha

Middle East Quarterly
Spring 2006


Does CAIR who advocates for Islam really care about hate crime against LGBT or Latinos or Holocaust victims? CAIR is using Mathew Shepherd and all the other speakers who are victims of hate or family member of terror victims as a cover of their own hate. Using Taqiyya, deceipt, CAIR  hides behind those who are legitimate. 

They are the wolf masquerading as a sheepdog. 

Islam is all inclusive when it comes to victims of Islamic Hate. They don't discriminate. Gays fall into the same category as infidels which includes, women, Christians, Jews, Yezidi's etc. 

Harvey Weinstein and Tariq Ramadan: A comparison

Today's feminists and "freedom fighters" burn Weinstein in effigy, but do not believe the women charging Tariq Ramadan. How convenient.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/21250

Are the Queens Borough President and the District Attorney all that naive or will they disregard wikipedia as being Islamaphobic. 

....In recent times, extreme prejudice persists, both socially and legally, in much of the Islamic world against people who engage in homosexual acts. In AfghanistanBruneiGaza Strip (State of Palestine), IranIraqMauritaniaNigeriaSaudi ArabiaSudanUnited Arab Emirates and Yemen, homosexual activity carries the death penalty.[8][9][10][11][12]

Islam and Pedophilia https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Islam_and_Pedophilia  Pedophilia is permitted in the Qur'an, was practiced by Prophet Muhammad and his companions, and some Muslims today continue to commit the crime, following their prophet's example.

Richard Brown, Queens Count District Atty and Queens Borough President Melinda Katz should have invited representatives of family members of the Orlando Gay Bar attack who were Gay and Latino victims of Arab terror at this event. Is the purpose of this event to whitewash that event and other recent Arab terror attacks to change peoples negative perception of Islam and provide them with respectability they do not deserve?

Orlando nightclub shooting
June 12, 2016, Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old security guard, killed 49 people and wounded 58 others in a terrorist attack/hate crimeHe was shot and killed by Orlando Police Department (OPD) officers after a three-hour standoff. Pulse was hosting a "Latin Night" and thus most of the victims were Latinos. It is the deadliest incident of violence against LGBT people in U.S. history, and the deadliest terrorist attack in the U.S. since the September 11 attacks in 2001. At the time, it was the deadliest mass shooting by a single shooter in the U.S. (until it was surpassed the following year by the Las Vegas Strip shooting). It remains the deadliest U.S. mass shooting in which the perpetrator did not commit suicide.

Islam violates the laws of Universal Morality otherwise known as the 7 Noahide Laws

Let us raise awareness  of the 7 Noahide Laws and show have Islam violates basic laws of Universal Morality. http://www.chabad.org/therebbe/article_cdo/aid/62221/jewish/Universal-Morality.htm

- In Muslim Countries women can't go out unescorted without risking getting assaulted

- According to Sharia It takes 4 male witnesses to prosecute Rape

- Honor killing is permitted and practiced under Sharia.

- Holocaust Survivors and Holocaust foundations should remember that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, the leading Muslim in Palestine, partnered with Hitler Yemach Shemo.

- Islam considers all Kefirs (non practicing Muslims) as 2nd class citizens unworthy of human rights. 

- Justified and practiced under Sharia following the example of Mohammad is beheading men while taking infidel women as Sex Slaves. Prophet Mohammad is the ultimate example and role model for modern day Radical Islamic Terrorists. 

- Remember the recent Genocide of Yezidi men and enslavement by ISIS of Yezidis women and children

- Remember the Genocide and sex enslavement by Mohammad to Hebrew tribe Banu Nadir in Khaybar in 600's.  

- How dare CAIR who advocates for Islam, an ideology that preaches hate and Taqiyya (deceit) preach to others about fighting Hate Crimes! 

Please watch these YouTube's about Islam.   Hopefully you will be convinced that Islam falls under the classification of militant ideology rather than classification of religion

Ex-Muslim Woman Told The Truth About Islam And What She's Telling Will Shock You. Almost 1 million  hits 1:21:39 minutes

Brigette Gabrielle  1400 shocking years of Islam in 5 minutes - Muslims are scared of this!!! almost 2.5 million hits. 18:23 minutes

Islam and Slavery 250,000 hits.8:48 minutes

Do what you can to protest this event! Forward this post.  Join protest in person and voice your protest to the organizers of the event for poor judgement in partnering with CAIR. 

Contact: 718-286-6413 hcforum@queensda.org


Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Brooklyn Afsi Meeting November 6, 2017 Dreyfus, Balfour, State of Israel Independence, Shleimus Haaretz Curriculum, the Rebbe's vision plus more...

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What an educational and fun evening spent in the company of good friends and like minded passionate activists for Israel!

Thank you Janet Young for being the inspiration behind this meeting in honor of Rabbi Avi Schwartz's visit to the States. 

The meeting began with Rabbi Raanan Isseroff reading Chapter 24 of Psalms as per the request of Evelyn Haies in tribute to RCRF's next Dinner (we just had the 23rd) commemorating Yahrzeit of Rachel Imeinu in 2018.  Never to early to plan!

Tehillim - Psalms - Chapter 24

As he was reading the Tehillim I reflected how our group embodies and strives for being among those destined to ascend Har HaBayit and prayed that these words actualize speedily in our day!

3Who will ascend upon the Lord's mount and who will stand in His Holy place?גמִי־יַֽ֖עֲלֶה בְּהַ֣ר יְהֹוָ֑ה וּמִי־יָ֜ק֗וּם בִּמְק֥וֹם קָדְשֽׁוֹ:
4He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not taken My name in vain and has not sworn deceitfully.דנְקִ֥י כַפַּ֗יִם וּבַ֪ר לֵ֫בָ֥ב אֲשֶׁ֚ר לֹֽא־נָשָׂ֣א לַשָּׁ֣וְא נַפְשִׁ֑י (כתיב נַפְשִׁו) וְלֹ֖א נִשְׁבַּ֣ע לְמִרְמָֽה:
5He shall receive a blessing from the Lord and charity from the God of his salvation.היִשָּׂ֣א בְ֖רָכָה מֵאֵ֣ת יְהֹוָ֑ה וּ֜צְדָקָ֗ה מֵֽאֱלֹהֵ֥י יִשְׁעֽוֹ:


Tamar Adelstein, Director of Women for the Itegrity and Security of Israel began her remarks by  bringing up the Balfour Declaration.  In that Declaration, the Nations of the World acknowledged that Israel was the homeland of the Jewish People. She noted that Israel was not granted the Land by this Declaration. It was Given to the Jewish people by G-d. However, the Declaration acknowledged Israel's rights to the Land of Israel by the Nations of the World.  In connection to this, Tamar mentioned the  Medrash of the 3 Oaths found in the Talmud.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Oaths The Three Oaths is the popular name for a Midrash found in the Talmud,[1] which relates that God adjured three oaths upon the world. Two of the oaths pertain to the Jewish people, and one of the oaths pertains to the other nations of the world. The Jews for their part were sworn not to forcefully reclaim the Land of Israel and not to rebel against the other nations, and the other nations in their turn were sworn not to subjugate the Jews excessively.

In connection to the 3 Oaths, the Balfour Declaration is proof that the Jews did not forcefully reclaim the Land of Israel.  Tamar then spoke about the Parsha of the week, Parshath Chayei Sarah and the purchase of Avraham Avinu of Maarat HaMachpela. She described how Efron repeatedly offered to give the Land away to Avraham.   Yet Avraham understood his real intentions and insisted on buying the Land. The Lubavitcher Rebbe said that since this is the first piece of Land owned by the Jewish People it was important to strip it completely of its previous owner and therefore was bought for an exorbitant sum of money so that now the Land will be recognized first and foremost by its new Honorable owner rather than by its previous owner.

Larry Dickter 

Larry gave us a historical overview of the Balfour Declaration.  It all started in the 1880s when French military intelligence accused a Jewish Officer Alfred Dreyfus of spying for the Germans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Dreyfus and he was accused of treason.  There was a public show trial that went on for years where they broke his sward and sent him to Devil's Island.  

An assimilated Journalist for a Viennese Paper, by the name of Theodor Herzl covered the Dreyfus. 

...As the Paris correspondent for Neue Freie Presse, Herzl followed the Dreyfus affair, a political scandal that divided the Third French Republic from 1894 until its resolution in 1906. It was a notorious antisemitic incident in France in which a Jewish French army captain was falsely convicted of spying for Germany. Herzl was witness to mass rallies in Paris following the Dreyfus trial. There has been some controversy surrounding the impact that this event had on Herzl and his conversion to Zionism. Herzl himself stated that the Dreyfus case turned him into a Zionist and that he was particularly affected by chants of "Death to the Jews!" from the crowds. 

... Beginning in late 1895, Herzl wrote Der Judenstaat (The State of the Jews), which was published February 1896 to immediate acclaim and controversy. The book argued that the Jewish people should leave Europe if they wished to, either for Argentina or, preferably, for Palestine, their historic homeland. The Jews possessed a nationality; all they were missing was a nation and a state of their own.[22] Only through a Jewish state could they avoid antisemitism, express their culture freely and practice their religion without hindrance.[22] Herzl's ideas spread rapidly throughout the Jewish world and attracted international attention.[23] Supporters of existing Zionist movements, such as the Hovevei Zion, immediately allied themselves with him, but establishment Jewry vilified him and considered his ideas as a threat to their attempts at integration and a rebellion against God.

 In 1897, at considerable personal expense, he founded Die Welt of Vienna, Austria-Hungary, and planned the First Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland. He was elected president (a position he held until his death in 1904), and in 1898 he began a series of diplomatic initiatives to build support for a Jewish country. 

The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the British government during World War I announcing support for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a minority Jewish population. It read:
His Majesty's government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.
The declaration was contained in a letter dated 2 November 1917 from the United Kingdom's Foreign SecretaryArthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland. The text of the declaration was published in the press on 9 November 1917.

Larry mentioned 2 very important books on Zionism which he loves. The Revolt by Menachem Begin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Revolt and Perfidy by ben Hecht https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfidy_(book)
A good reference to the Comprehensive Zionist history that Larry was speaking about can be found in the following link. 
Arlene Kushner Lays Out The Jewish Rights To The Land of Israel http://daledamos.blogspot.com/2012/12/arlene-kushner-lays-out-jewish-rights.html. She discusses
  • Sam Remo
  • Balfour Declaration
  • By "Right June 1922 Winston Churchill policy paper, "by right not by Sufference"
  • League of Nations Formalizes Mandate
  • "Mandate" Explained
  • Area of Mandate Palestine
  • Mandate Transfer to UN
  • Violence in Palestine 1929
  • White Paper 1939 British backed White Paper. There was a quota of 75,000 Jews.  (death mill for European Jews)
  • Jewish Legion fought wtih Brithish. Jews went to Cypress
  • Partition of Palestine November 29, 1947 aborted because of Arab rejection
  • Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel May 14, 1948 5 Iyar 5708
  • War of Independence
  • Six Day War
  • Resolutionj 242
  • "Occupation" Israel is not an "occupier" in Judea and Samaria.
Micky Cohen the gangster helped to fund the Irgun.
Other historical facts..  Margret Thatcher - Iron Lady, PM of England was. hot and cold re: Israel. Labor party of England became anti semitic. 
Arabs got 78% of the Land. Jews 22% of Mandate of Palestine
Larry summed up: Jews this past century have not taken advantage of the opportunity to move to Israel.  
It started with Jabotinsky. Jews didn't leave Israel. In 1940's there was a bill to bring 20,000 children to America but Roosevelt didn't push it. Today, there are thousands of Jews who choose Germany over Israel.

Rabbi Avi Schwartz was video'd into the meeting by Janet Young.
He showed that the Holocaust did not play a significant roll in the establishment of the State of Israel as many believed. 
In the 1890's already there were 3 groups
  1. The indigenous Jews
  2. Sephardic Jews expelled from 1492 Spanish Inquisition
  3. Aliya Aleph Petach Tikva, Zichron Yaakov
Evelyn Haies mentioned the purchase of Kever Rochel by Sir Moses Montifiore in 1827 http://rachelstomb.gov.il/page.aspx?itemid=montifiore  Talking about Jewish Setllement in the Land of Israel, The RCRF Museum at Kever Rochel  had The Wall of Settlements which details Gaza since the time of David HaMelech, since the chief rabbi of Gaza, Yisrael ben Moshe of Najara wrote Kol Ribon that we still sing 300 years later on Friday nights.  The Druze of Pekiin protected the Jews during invasions from the north and they still protect us today.  Other presentations included are on First Settlement, Degania,  Petah Tikva. The Wall of the Tsaddikim and their role in pre-State Israel includes information on the Montefiores, Rav Alkali, Kalishers, Rav Aryeh Levin, Rav Kook, Rav Shlomo Goren.

1897 Herzl organized 1st Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland. Herzl died in 1904
1904 Aliya Bet
1946 Already 500,000 Jews in Israel
1946-1948 - 100,000 refugees arrived to Israel
1947 Moshe Sharett filibustered the Petition in UN
April 1948 
President Truman's Decision to Recognize Israel
 At midnight on May 14, 1948 – 6 p.m. in Washington – the British would relinquish control of Palestine, which they had been administering since World War I under mandate from the League of Nations. One minute later, the Jewish Agency, under the leadership of David Ben­-Gurion, would proclaim the new state. (The name "Israel" was as yet unknown, and most of us assumed the new nation would be called "Ju­daea.") The neighboring Arabs made it clear that the fighting, which had already begun, would erupt into a full-scale war against the new state the moment the British left. In order to avoid this, the British and the State Department wanted to turn Palestine over to the trusteeship of the United Nations. 
It was the courageous decision of President Truman with the counsel of Clark M. Clifford who served as Special Counsel to President Truman at the time  to recognize  the new state so quickly in light of serious opposition from the  Secretary of State, General of the Army George C. Marshall.  That has won Truman an immor­tal place in Jewish history..

England left Israel for it's own interest. According to Rabbi Schwartz, England was bankrupt after WWII. it could not sustain the Commonwealth. It left Jordan in 1946. It left India in 1947. It left Israel in 1948. It would have left Israel no matter what. England was not nice to both Jews and Arabs alike. 
Tamar Adelstein then commented in support of what Rabbi Avi Schwartz was saying and quoted from the Sefer הקריאה והקדושה of the previous Rebbe who said that the establishment of the State of Israel was a political moment. 
Joan Peter's book on Israeli demographics called From Time In Memorial came up in discussion.  Many Jews forced to leave Arab countries came to Israel while many Arabs left Israel in the 1948 War of Independence.

Update on Martef HaShoah  - almost forgotten Chamber of the Holocaust now undergoing renovation 
Chamber of the Holocaust: Jerusalem
Rabbi Avi Schwartz gave the group a first hand update of Martef Hashoah, the first Holocaust museum in Eretz Yisroel situated on Har Zion in the Old City of Jerusalem.  Har Zion was liberated by Avi's father in 1948.  In 1948 Simon Wiesenthal went back to Austria and collected ashes from 22 Concentration camps.  There was a 3 day funeral where the casters came from tel Aviv to Har Tzion. .  This is the only place where Holocaust survivors and their descendents can visit. Tombstones of communities wiped out. This museum is now undergoing a renovation under a leading historian of the Holocaust  Dr. Fonzi and Rabbi Schwartz are making into their mission to revive it.  On October 2017 Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu called it a "graveyard of ashes without bodies". 
Prime Minister Binyamin and Sarah Netanyahu visit Martef HaShoah
Raanan Isseroff
Raanan handed out an abridged copy of the Sheleimus Haaretz Curriculum. A full version link can be seen at  http://www.chabad4israel.org/outrch/Curriculim%20For%20Teaching%20About%20Shleimus%20HaAretz.pdf

Robin Ticker
Robin spoke about the Park Slope Food Coop and the fight against BDS that has infiltrated not only the PSFC but also campus all over the world. It is almost an epidemic.  Related links can be found on abolishbds.blogspot.com 

Shmuel Koenig is calling the Rabbanim asking them to end the Silence, asking them not to be so humble and to please go public to denounce the 2 State Solution.  Zocher Habrit!

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Robin Ticker

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