by Zeev Galili
TRANSLATED BY Ada Geller
My Six-Day war is the war in which I lost a friend who, more than anyone else, left his indelible imprint on mine and my family’s lives. The existential anxiety that preceded the war and the triumphal intoxication in its wake, were obliterated once the bad news arrived – Joshua Diamant had been killed in the battle for Jerusalem
The Israeli poet, Itamar Jaoz-Kest, a Holocaust survivor who as a child was incarcerated in the Bergen-Belsen Extermination Camp, writes a poem in
response to the poem written by German author, Guenther Grass, in which he says:
“Israel’s nuclear power endangers fragile world peace”
Here is the poem translated into English and German, followed by the Hebrew original.
ITAMAR YAOZ-KEST
By Zeev Galili
Translated by Leah Keshet
For years, I have been walking in the footsteps of my grandfather who was killed in the disaster at Meron one hundred years ago* I interviewed tens of family members and historians of the period * I dug through memoirs and books of historical research and discovered only part of the pieces of an ancient puzzle * And suddenly there appeared an unknown great-grand-daughter from Canada and the diary of her grandmother describing the whole period, and the picture emerged * Following this discovery – a reunion with family members of my uncle, who had emigrated from our land 103 years ago * A story about family from the land of Israel and a story about personal rediscovery.
A few weeks ago, I turned on my computer in the morning, and the first email that flashed on the screen leapt at me like a bolt of lightning.
An unknown lady wrote that she had read an article I had written on the internet some dozen years earlier, about my grandfather Moshe Rosenthal, who had been killed in the disaster on Lag Ba’Omer, 1911 in Meron.
The writer, who knew that she was the great-grand-daughter of Moshe Rosenthal, wanted to find out how we were related. She added that she had in her possession a copy of memoirs, the handwritten diary of her grandmother, Yocheved Segal Z”L
I almost fell off my chair in surprise and excitement. Yocheved Segal was the youngest sister of my mother, and a beloved aunt. I had no idea that she had a granddaughter in Canada – a mathematics professor, Leah Edelstein-Keshet
By Zeev Galili
Translated by Leah Keshet
For years, I have been walking in the footsteps of my grandfather who was killed in the disaster at Meron one hundred years ago* I interviewed tens of family members and historians of the period * I dug through memoirs and books of historical research and discovered only part of the pieces of an ancient puzzle * And suddenly there appeared an unknown great-grand-daughter from Canada and the diary of her grandmother describing the whole period, and the picture emerged * Following this discovery – a reunion with family members of my uncle, who had emigrated from our land 103 years ago * A story about family from the land of Israel and a story about personal rediscovery.
A few weeks ago, I turned on my computer in the morning, and the first email that flashed on the screen leapt at me like a bolt of lightning.
An unknown lady wrote that she had read an article I had written on the internet some dozen years earlier, about my grandfather Moshe Rosenthal, who had been killed in the disaster on Lag Ba’Omer, 1911 in Meron.
The writer, who knew that she was the great-grand-daughter of Moshe Rosenthal, wanted to find out how we were related. She added that she had in her possession a copy of memoirs, the handwritten diary of her grandmother, Yocheved Segal Z”L
I almost fell off my chair in surprise and excitement. Yocheved Segal was the youngest sister of my mother, and a beloved aunt. I had no idea that she had a granddaughter in Canada – a mathematics professor, Leah Edelstein-Keshet
The professor, who goes by the name of Abdullah F. Alnafisi, a graduate of the American University in Beirut and a Ph.D. in politics from Churchill College of Cambridge University, UK, has the United States as object of his projected confrontation and the “Jews”, cursed by eternal hate in the Koran.
Who will carry out the confrontation foreseen by the professor? Why, Al Qaeda, naturally, but the white militia members and the Ku Klux Klan, which the professor collectively calls “rednecks”, they might jump the gun and do it for the Moslems. Are these “rednecks” on the Jihad bandwagon, too? Why not? Jimmy Carter is a redneck and his bread is buttered by the Arabs. (Just a thought; Does Bill Clinton qualify as “redneck”)
What are the “possible means” for these attacks? WMD, Weapons of Mass Destruction, nothing less. Little “confetti” of anthrax, as professor Abdullah so casually describes to his kafiehed listeners, will do it. And, dear listeners, please do not to worry about supplies, “Al-Qaeda has labs, Hezbollah has labs.” They even “sell the stuff to Rumania and Hungary”.
Targets? Washington D.C. obviously, and while you are at it, do that big Nuke plant on the shore of Lake Michigan as well. You do all that to the “infidels” and the “cries of joy” of the Moslems will reach heaven, where a “real celebration” will commence
An attack of WMD on America has been given a certain amount of plausibility by a number of government officials. In this case, however, if this honorable ex-member of the Kuwaiti parliament has anything to do with the aforementioned attacks on America’s shore and the ever-hated Jews, we have very little to worry about. You see, Doctor Abdullah F. Alnafisi, who claims he is not a cave-dwelling Bedouin, thinks the United States is located in North Africa. (His statement So), while the flames of the crematoria remain low among the old European genocide practitioners the fervor for mass killing burns strong among the Moslems.
Here you can see and hear the voice of Abdullah F. Alnafisi
Barack Obama appears to be a narcissist. Granted, only a qualified mental health diagnostician can determine whether someone suffers from Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) and this, following lengthy tests and personal interviews. But, in the absence of access to Barack Obama, one has to rely on his overt performance and on testimonies by his closest, nearest and dearest.
Narcissistic leaders are nefarious and their effects pernicious. They are subtle, refined, socially-adept, manipulative, possessed of thespian skills, and convincing. Both types equally lack empathy and are ruthless and relentless or driven.
Perhaps it is time to require each candidate to high office in the USA to submit to a rigorous physical and mental checkup with the results made public.
“The Jews attempted, to establish a State”. Br. Gen.Benny Peled
After the death of Aluf [Br. Gen.] Benny Peled, who was the commander of the Israeli airforce during the Yom Kippur War, many praises were said in his memory. About his having been a daring, courageous warrior; about his enormous contribution to restructuring the air force and re-establishing it after the Yom-Kippur War; about his leadership, meticulousness, and thoroughness; about the criticism he expressed against the Israeli government in the areas of taking responsibility, learning from mistakes, and proper management.
Mentioned here and there were things he said during and after his military career about the character of the State of Israel. These were presented as amusing items. He requested that a bell be rung upon his death and an announcement be made that there had just died a man who held that the Jews attempted, to establish a State, but all that they had been able to accomplish was another Jewish Kehilla [organized community like in GHETTO].
During his lifetime, Peled often made similar pronouncements. . These were not slips of the tongue. He was a serious person with a thought-out belief system, which, in effect, was identical to the point of view known as “Canaanite”.
HEBREW VERSION OF THIS ARTICLE
One picture is worth a million words. Such is the photograph above. It illustrates the method by which the British administration in Palestine successfully eliminated the first Intifada [Arabic for uprising] during the years 1936-1939.
The photo shows a British armored railroad wagon behind a railcar on which two Arab hostages are seated. In this way the British prevented the mining of the railroad tracks by Arab terrorists. This type of railcar preceding the regular trains turned the Arabs seated there (generally Mukhtars and notables from villages along the railway route) into cannon fodder. Should they try to blow up the trains, they would explode along with their own people and their leaders.
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AVRAHAM VON MANSTEIN
I was told about the headstone by my friend Dr. Rami Reiner of the University of Beer Sheva.
Who was Avraham Ben Avraham von Manstein?
What brought him to convert to Judaism?
How did he survive in Nazi Germany almost to the end of the war?
What is his connection to the Nazi General Erich von Manstein?
sir winston churchill 1939
It was Arthur Koestler, the Jewish author, who coined the phrase “Darkness at Noon” in a book bearing that title published in 1940. Throughout the book Koestler analyzed the political and psychological processes that permitted Stalin to carry out his campaign of murderous purges in which most of his colleagues in the [party] leadership were butchered. Essentially, Koestler tried to explain what brought the victims to cooperate with the hangman until the very last moment. They continued to believe in communism even in the moments before facing the firing squad. They died believing that in their deaths they were making their contribution to the Communist Revolution.
