Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Iran planning terrorist attacks in Europe?
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Meanwhile, Conservative leader David Cameron issued his first detailed statement on
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The Intelligence Summit Misses the Mark: the German-Jesuit Threat to World Peace
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Europe to Take Out Iran for Jerusalem
Europe Misses the Mark - Will It Return as the Sign of the Cross?
Is Germany in Danger of Backsliding?
The German-EU Grows Restless Over Mideast Crisis
Ehud Olmert Playing with German Fire
Tony Blair's Speech Concedes Defeat
God Save Us From Islam and Europe!
Bavarian Pope Entrusts Germany To Lead Europe, Others Wary Of The Grand Inquisitor
Get away with murder?
Avishai Raviv was an Israeli government agent provocateur (whose code name was "Champagne" for the bubbles of incitement he created to tarnish the right-wing Israelis) who goaded Yigal Amir to assassinate Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (although this is hotly disputed by investigative reporters like Barry Chamish).
Avishai Raviv has never been charged with incitement or as an accessory to the murder of Yitzhak Rabin and has disappeared from sight, undoubtedly just following orders.
I was NEVER involved with the extremist Jewish group "Eyal" but had met Avishai Raviv during a Temple Mount Faithful demonstration in Jerusalem when he helped me to protect Gershon during Tisha B'Av when the police carried Gershon away from the Mugrabi Gate and dropped him and he hit his head and went unconscious and the throng practically trampled him except for me trying to cover him and shouting at the people to be careful that Gershon was on the ground -- and I'm pretty sure it was Avishai who helped me keep the people from stepping on him.
Howard Grief, an attorney and member of the Temple Mount Faithful, witnessed it all and wrote The Jerusalem Post about it (we both had a letter published the same day: Howard's letter was called "Police Brutality" and mine was called "Discrimination" - The Jerusalem Post, Friday, Aug. 25, 1995).
Before that incident I had met Avishai Raviv in the office of the Temple Mount Faithful when he and someone else came there. He had invited Moshe Weisfish (Gershon Salomon's cousin) and I to his apartment in Hebron, but it was later explained to me that Avishai was a "shtinker" (informer) and that the police wanted to falsely associate the Temple Mount Faithful with such people and how he had even taken it upon himself once in Tel Aviv to have an office on campus with "Temple Mount Faithful" on the door or something like that, which Gershon immediately forbade him upon knowledge of it as he had no authority to do it and did NOT represent the Temple Mount Faithful in any manner, shape or form.
This is what I remember of the agent provocateur Avishai Raviv and his fake group "Eyal."
I might add though that after the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, some female (British?) reporter (probably my age) who knew Nick Day of The Traveller, kept trying to get Avishai's phone number or have me contact him (since she heard I had met him) until I told her I wanted nothing to do with him. She was unrelenting until Nick Day told her to back off. I guess she was his friend or acquaintance.
Shimon Peres Came to Power Over Rabin's Dead Body
The Yitzhak Rabin Murder Video (the Kempler Video)
Shimon Peres Charged with the Murder of Yitzhak Rabin?
| David Ben-Ariel is a Christian Zionist writer and author of Beyond Babylon: Europe's Rise and Fall. With a focus on the Middle East and Jerusalem, his analytical articles help others improve their understanding of that troubled region. Check out the Beyond Babylon blog. |
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Temple Institute: Accepting Torah
Sivan 5, 5767, May 22, 2007
Erev Shavuot
When 600,000 souls, the forefathers of all who would accept the yoke of Torah upon themselves, stood at the foot of Mount Sinai, their commitment was unconditional: "We will do and we will listen." (Exodus 24:7) These are the first and last words of a Torah life. The first words because the oath of obedience is necessarily followed by a lifetime of study and exploration of how to perform the commandments we received at Sinai, how to make them real. The last words because only such a profound commitment awakens within us the resolve never to throw up our hands and say, "I just can't do it. I just can't bring myself to fulfill the commandments."
When the children of Israel said in unison the words: "We will do and we will listen," (ibid) they were voicing their commitment to both the Written Torah and the Oral Torah, both of which were handed down at Sinai. Without the discipline of the Oral tradition to shed light upon and explain the intricacies of the written commandments we would be hard pressed to keep our promise "to do." In order "to do" we first must "listen." However, we can only hear what the oral tradition has to instruct us after we have made the commitment "to do." A conundrum perhaps, but most definitely a way of life that has guided the nation of Israel for over three thousand years. This "unresolvable" "chicken and egg" dilemma is the very source of energy that drives us to pursue the truth of Torah and make it real in this world through the performance of the mitzvot - commandments - all 613 of them. "You shall have no other gods before Me... remember the Shabbat - the Sabbath day... honor your father and your mother..." (Exodus 20: 2-12) There isn't a single commandment of the 613 received at Sinai that doesn't require explanation in order to be fulfilled. And this explanation is the Oral Torah.
Ignorance has never been an excuse to forgo a mitzva. We don't back down from observing Shabbat - kehilchato - in accordance with the commandments - because we are uncertain about the nature of electricity. On the contrary, our sages spare no effort to understand electricity in the light of Torah and then apply it to the observance of the mitzvot in order to enhance our Shabbat experience. This has been characteristic of Jewish life throughout the millennia. So it is baffling that a disagreement over the observation and application of the commandment to ascend to the Temple Mount in order to perform the mitzva of "revering the Holy Temple" has been unresolved for forty years. Of course we are referring to the opportunity which presented itself before the Jewish people forty years ago when the Temple Mount was liberated by the Israel Defense Forces and returned to Jewish sovereignty after two thousand years. Once again having physical access to those areas on the Mount which are permitted to visit according to Jewish tradition, should surely satisfy the basic requirements for a resumption of the mitvza once the particulars of the commandment's fulfillment are reviewed and made known. However, there are those who have have claimed ignorance of the precise location where the Holy Temple stood as being an absolute impediment to the performing of the mitzva. This, in spite of two thousands years of precedent and literature at their fingertips. This, in spite of archeological evidence and other modern scientific methods of investigation which can aid in revealing the true historical location of the Holy Temple. And this, in spite of the fact that there are great Torah scholars in Israel today who do cite these sources and precedents and are calling upon Jews to ascend the Temple Mount, in accordance with halachah. There is no room for mystery in our need to perform each commandment to the best of our abilities. There is no room for raising our hands in defeat. "We will do and we will listen" precludes the easy option of inaction. Listening to the intellectual silence of self imposed "ignorance" is not a guide to Torah observance.
"We will do and we will listen." We will continue to visit the Temple Mount and, walking always within the parameters of the Written Torah and the Oral Torah, continue to move forward to the day when fulfilling the commandment to go up to the Holy Temple on the Festival of Shavuot and bringing our first fruits as offering of thanks to the G-d of Israel for the Land of Israel, in the spirit and word of the Torah of Israel, will be a performable reality.
Tune in to this week's Temple Talk, with Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven, as they discuss the spiritual qualities of the month of Sivan, the multifaceted nature of the festival of Shavuot, and the steadily growing phenomenon of Jewish faces being seen on the Holy Temple Mount.
On this week's Light to the Nations on the Universal Torah Network, Rabbi Richman continues to discuss the golden menorah that stands in the Holy Temple's Sanctuary: Holy Temple Studies 27: Details of the Menorah, Part I. To view this week's show, premiering Thursday, please click here. You can still view Rabbi Richman exploration of the holiday of Shavuot, entitled "The Festival of Shavuot: Spiritual insights into the inner meaning of the Shavuot holiday."
DVD collections of past Light to the Nations shows are now available for purchase at the Universal Torah Network's online store. If you are a member of the Temple Institute, please log onto our members area to receive the code you will need to receive your members discount on your purchase of any Light to the Nations DVDs. If you are a member but have never logged in or have forgotten your password, please contact us. If you are interested in becoming a member, click here for more information.
To learn more about the festival of Shavuot and how it was celebrated in the Holy Temple, please click here.
Click here to view the new Sivan calendar, the latest installment on our online A Year in the Light of the Holy Temple.
Be sure to view Rabbi Richman's five minute teaching on this week's Torah reading of Naso, (Numbers 4:11-7:89), also on the Universal Torah Network.
We wish to all a joyous Shavuot.
Yitzchak Reuven
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Lithuania bans EU-sponsored gay rights parade
22.05.2007 By Helena Spongenberg
Lithuanian officials in Vilnius have rejected an EU-sponsored tolerance campaign rally over fears that the event could spark unrest in the Baltic country known for its anti-gay sentiments.
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God and the Gays: To Be or Not to Be (Part 1)
God and the Gays: All that Glitters isn't Gold (Part 2)
God and the Gays: Once Gay, Always Gay? (Part 3)
God and the Gays: Of Vice and Men (Part 4)
God and the Gays: A Time to Heal (Part 5)
God and the Gays: Make Up Your Mind (Part 6)
A Model For Israel
The Arabs in the Lebanon finally found a job their army might be able to handle, -- before their artificial state collapses again into the lap of the larger artificial state of Syria, the Vatican's pet.
The Lebanese army has cut off the power and water to a "Palestinian refugee" camp and is shelling it and the city of Tripoli. Given the problem it is the only sober response.
Hope no one's waiting for the "world community" to condemn the government of this artificial state for its responsive attack on these "poor innocent civilians" with their nests of jihadists and endless bombing attacks. How come PM Siniora hasn't been indicted by the "International Court of Justice" at the Hague to get his lethal injection like Milosevic did for trying to protect his nation against NATO-assisted jihad?
We remember Sabra and Shatila in 1982 when the Christians of the Lebanon took revenge on pally militias for their barbarities in towns like Damour; and we remember how Israel and Ariel Sharon were blamed, just as they would have been blamed had they stepped in to stop the favorite Arab sport; it is the purpose of Jews especially in Israel is to be blamed for everything as a prelude to their being pushed into indefensible positions in the name of "peace" (the final solution, Europe's peace before they contracept themselves to zilch-ville).
None of us is so naively hopeful to believe that the NSC-sponsored government of the anti-Jewish State of Israel (aka. state of dependency on Foggy Bottom) will shut off the electricity and water to the savages in Gaza, Ramallah, Jenin, Tulkarm, Hebron and shell them till they vacate the premises upon which they're trespassing, -- and murdering or trying to murder Jews all the while.
Imagine there's no kassams, no Fatah or Hamas, too....... You might say I'm a dreamer but really, it would be very easy to do. Hose out the stables of the media, courts, Knesset and the leftist defeatists sitting on the IDF's head and then proceed to Victory, the only road to peace.
O happy day!
[Eugene Narrett's new book WW III: the War on the Jews and the Rise of the World Security State explains the various reasons this joyous denoument has not yet arrived, discussing the roots of the State of Terror and its alternative. 2007 www.lightcatcherbooks.com
Monday, May 21, 2007
Avishai Raviv, Eyal, and Yitzhak Rabin
by David Ben-Ariel
Avishai Raviv was an Israeli government agent provocateur (whose code name was "Champagne" for the bubbles of incitement he created to tarnish the right-wing Israelis) who goaded Yigal Amir to assassinate Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (although this is hotly disputed by investigative reporters like Barry Chamish).
Avishai Raviv has never been charged with incitement or as an accessory to murder of Yitzhak Rabin and has disappeared from sight, undoubtedly just following orders.
I was NEVER involved with the extremist Jewish group "Eyal" but had met Avishai Raviv during a Temple Mount Faithful demonstration in Jerusalem when he helped me to protect Gershon during Tisha B'Av when the police carried Gershon away from the Mugrabi Gate and dropped him and he hit his head and went unconscious and the throng practically trampled him except for me trying to cover him and shouting at the people to be careful that Gershon was on the ground - and I'm pretty sure it was Avishai who helped me keep the people from stepping on him.
Howard Grief, an attorney and member of the Temple Mount Faithful, witnessed it all and wrote The Jerusalem Post about it (we both had a letter published the same day: Howard's letter was called "Police Brutality" and mine was called "Discrimination" - The Jerusalem Post, Friday, Aug. 25, 1995).
Before that incident I had met Avishai Raviv in the office of the Temple Mount Faithful when he and someone else came there. He had invited Moshe Weisfish (Gershon Salomon's cousin) and I to his apartment in Hebron, but it was later explained to me that Avishai was a "shtinker" (informer) and that the police wanted to falsely associate the Temple Mount Faithful with such people and how he had even taken it upon himself once in Tel Aviv to have an office on campus with "Temple Mount Faithful" on the door or something like that, which Gershon immediately forbade him upon knowledge of it as he had no authority to do it and did NOT represent the Temple Mount Faithful in any manner, shape or form.
This is what I remember of the agent provocateur Avishai Raviv and his fake group "Eyal."
I might add though that after the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, some female (British?) reporter (probably my age) who knew Nick Day of The Traveller, kept trying to get Avishai's phone number or have me contact him (since she heard I had met him) until I told her I wanted nothing to do with him. She was unrelenting until Nick Day told her to back off. I guess she was his friend or acquaintance.
Shimon Peres Came to Power Over Rabin's Dead Body
Vatican Linked to the Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
The Yitzhak Rabin Murder Video (the Kempler Video)
Shimon Peres Charged with the Murder of Yitzhak Rabin?
Will Yitzhak Rabin's "Bloody Shirt" Defeat Shimon Peres Again?
The Kempler Video of Yitzhak Rabin's Assassination
David Ben-Ariel is a Christian-Zionist writer and author of Beyond Babylon: Europe's Rise and Fall. With a focus on the Middle East and Jerusalem, his analytical articles help others improve their understanding of that troubled region. Check out the Beyond Babylon blog.
