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May 14, 2008
SHALOM FROM JERUSALEM,
Tonight marks the 60th anniversary for the May 14, 1948 declaration by David Ben Gurion that the ancient Jewish state—destroyed by the Romans nearly 20 centuries ago—had been re-born. It was a warm Sabbath evening when the declaration was made in Tel Aviv, against the advice of many of Ben Gurion’s top advisors who urged him to wait until it was clear the United States would back the declaration. But the white haired leader decided to proceed even without such a guarantee, and the US government recognized the new state 11 minutes later—the first to do so on earth.
I am marking the special day by attending the annual Christian Friends of Israel conference here in Jerusalem this evening, where veteran Jewish Israeli author Lance Lambert, whose father perished at Auschwitz, will speak on the topic: A NATION BORN IN A DAY—THE MIRACLE OF ISRAEL. Worship will be led by two other longtime Israeli friends of mine, Barry and Batya Segal. Our only concern is actually getting to the meeting at the Pavilion on Jaffa Road in the center of the city, given that many roads are closed for the visit of George W. Bush and his wife, who arrive here mid-day, along with many other current and former world leaders.
Below is my personal tribute to this remarkable country, born 60 years ago this evening. It was published today on the World Net Daily web site. I hope you enjoy it. My monthly news report will be sent to you the last week of this month, focusing on the prospect that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will be soon forced out of office due to criminal suspicions against him, ongoing Palestinian rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip, and the violent and ominous Hizbullah takeover of increasing portions of Lebanon.
Israel: Diamond in the rough
Posted: May 14, 2008
1:00 am Eastern
© 2008
JERUSALEM – A 60-year-old orthodox Jewish Jerusalem resident was violently assaulted while carrying an Israeli flag last week during the country's annual Memorial Day for fallen soldiers.
The attack took place as commemorative sirens were sounding throughout the biblical Promised Land, prompting most citizens to stand at attention in remembrance of the over 22,000 soldiers who have fallen during the past six decades, most of them in one of Israel's many wars (if we include the two violent Palestinian revolts, as we should, the number is now up to eight wars, not including Saddam's wonderful Scud attacks in early 1991).
So who assaulted the observant man that dared to hoist the blue and white Israeli flag during the memorial siren? No, not enraged Palestinian Hamas terrorists or some Arab Muslim woman hiding a knife underneath her chador. The attackers were ultra-orthodox Jews who oppose the existence of the Jewish-run state of Israel on purely religious grounds. These extremely pious folks prefer to wait for the Messiah to come and set up a strictly orthodox state, considering any loyalty to the current largely secular country a desecration of God's holy name.
This is just one small example of the many peculiarities and contradictions that one cannot help but notice in the modern state of Israel.
Here are a couple additional oddities. Officials in the neighboring Arab country of Jordan banned several planned demonstrations this month that were designed to protest Israel's reappearance on the regional map 60 years ago this week. One of the events was a large rally in Amman sponsored by pro-Palestinian groups and opposition Jordanian political parties, including the Islamic Labor Front.
But inside democratic Israel, such anti-state Arab rallies are being openly staged this month in several locations, with police permission, especially in the Muslim-dominated lower Galilee region. One anti-Israel demonstration last week brought together hundreds of Arab-Israeli citizens in the historic town of Jaffa, located within Tel Aviv's southern municipal boundaries.
In March, Jordan's Hashemite authorities barred relatives of the slain Palestinian terrorist who sadistically gunned down eight young Jewish seminary students in Jerusalem from holding a public mourning service for him. But here in Israel's capital city, where 26-year-old Ala Abu Dhaim lived and died, public activities were permitted, even if under strong protest from many Jewish residents of the holy city.
Of course, such seeming absurdities are precisely what makes Israel stand out so glaringly in one of the world's most turbulent and autocratic regions.
Israel is a thriving democracy in a sea of Islamic-ruled states. One of them, Iran, is governed by radical Shiite Muslims who vow to wipe out the Jewish state. Others, such as Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia, are ruled by despotic and fairly corrupt Sunni Arab regimes. Or they are perennial basket case countries like Lebanon and Iraq, divided between always feuding sects. Or they are simply ruled by very exotic, if sometimes dangerous characters like Libya's Moammar Gadhafi.
If you draw a horizontal line from the Atlantic Ocean across North Africa directly through Israel and ending up in northern India, you will find only two other countries located along that line with stable regimes that allow a fair degree of political and religious freedoms to their citizens – Morocco and Jordan. Still, their relative freedoms and political moderation pales in comparison to Israel's, for all of the Jewish state's manifold problems and struggles to survive in a very hostile neighborhood.
Israel's participatory democracy is hardly perfect. One need not look any further than the current police probe of possibly illegal financial contributions received by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to discern that obvious fact.
The country's million-plus Arab citizens frequently complain of discrimination against them, and it is indeed a fact that their towns and villages receive less government aid per capita than do majority Jewish areas. But it's also true that many Arab citizens are not terribly loyal to their own state, as the demonstrations mentioned above illustrate. And it is frankly not easy for many Israelis to really trust them, given that more than a few Arab Israelis have carried out terror attacks over the years, or actively supported Palestinian death squads.
Israel's several thousand Messianic citizens can also testify to suffering some degree of discrimination. Actual violence is sometimes directed against them – as we tragically witnessed when a 16-year-old pastor's son was severely wounded by a package bomb at his home in Samaria last month. Threats and acts of violence seem to be often overlooked or downplayed by authorities. Many black Ethiopian Israelis complain that they are sometimes slighted in employment and educational opportunities, as most Sephardic Jews from North Africa and other non-European areas grumbled about in earlier decades.
Yet despite these shortcomings and manifold others like them, Israel remains one of the most remarkable countries in the world. The ancient Hebrew prophets warned that Jacob's offspring would be scattered from their covenant land to the remotest parts of the earth if they continued to sin against their Maker, and so it occurred. I am reminded of the literalness of these dire prophecies every time I speak to Jewish groups in Hawaii, New Zealand and Australia – the exact opposite side of the globe from the Middle East, with the two Anglophile countries situated in the southern hemisphere to boot.
But I have also witnessed firsthand the doubling of Israel's Jewish population during the 28 years I have lived and worked here as a journalist. I've marveled as the percentage of world Jewry residing in Israel rose from around one-quarter when I arrived in 1980 to well over 40 percent today. And I am quite aware of official statistics showing that very soon now, the largest single Jewish community on earth will once again be located inside the borders of the ancient Promised Land – for the first time since the Romans destroyed the Jewish Temple and slaughtered or drove most of the Jews out of the land nearly 2,000 years ago.
I feel a sense of awe when I see pictures of an almost treeless Jerusalem during the early decades of the 20th century, and then look out of my central city apartment window upon lush gardens and verdant green parks featuring hundreds of Jerusalem pine tress, olive trees, tamarisk, eucalyptus, carob, almond, acacia and towering palm trees, and yes, even many budding fig trees. With the financial support of Jews and others around the world, over 200 million trees have been planted here during the past 100 years – a remarkable feat in a semi-arid land.
And the cranes are everywhere to be seen – no, not the long-neck birds (they do fly overhead at times) but towering construction cranes putting up tall apartment buildings at a dizzying pace in every portion of Israel's disputed capital city.
I could go on and describe in detail Israel's lopsided contribution to medical and technological breakthroughs that we all take for granted. I could recount the history of its unique drip irrigation system now used in drier climates everywhere, bringing abundant agricultural productivity where there was little or none before – including to some of Israel's declared enemies.
But space does not permit me to do all that. So instead I will simply say, "Israel, I salute you" during this special 60th birthday week. And knowing full well that your many enemies are working day and night for your ultimate destruction, I also declare aloud that I firmly believe the same Ancient of Days who scattered you from His special land is now gathering you, and will continue to watch over you like a shepherd keeps his flock.
DAVID DOLAN is a Jerusalem-based author and journalist who has lived and worked in Israel since 1980.
May 26, 2008
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Shalom from Jerusalem,
Below is this month’s Israel news review and analysis report, covering the most important developments in the country and region during May. I focus this time on the real prospect that a major Israeli military operation is pending in the Gaza Strip, and what such a conflict might look like. This comes after a series of horrendous rocket and mortar attacks this month that left a number Israelis dead or critically wounded. I also examine indirect Hamas-Israel ceasefire talks going on simultaneously in Cairo, along with the recent news that peace negotiations are taking place in Turkey between Israel and Syria. All this comes as the Prime Minister is facing possible criminal indictment on questionable money transfers to him in the coming weeks, which would force him from office. Read on!
We have posted on my web site (www.ddolan.com) the cover story I authored for the May Jerusalem Post Christian Edition on Israel’s remarkable modern history. The article is titled “Six Decades of Israel: A special review of the 60 years since the miraculous rebirth of the Jewish State. It was an honor to be asked to write the eight-page overview of this unique country’s short history since 1948, although so much has happened of great importance during the past six decades that I had to leave out a few significant developments in order to keep to my assigned word limit. Many of you will know that I wrote an earlier historical overview book, HOLY WAR FOR THE PROMISED LAND, which has been published in four editions since it was first put out by Thomas Nelson in 1991 (the latest edition is from Broadman & Holman of Nashville). The book has sold well over 100,000 copies in English and eight other languages, having also been published in the UK, seven European countries and Brazil.
HAMAS ESCALATES ATTACKS AS ISRAEL TURNS 60
By David Dolan
May was an extra special month in the Promised Land as dignitaries from around the world gathered to celebrate Israel’s 60 year anniversary as a modern country. Tens of thousand of visiting Jewish and Christian tourists joined international leaders and local citizens in marking the remarkable re-creation of the world’s only Jewish state on May 14, 1948—following a nearly two thousand year absence from the regional map.
However the festivities took place amid stepped up Palestinian rocket attacks from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, striking nearby Israeli cities and towns and leaving several civilians dead and others severely wounded. The attacks prompted officials to warn that a major military operation could soon be imminent to uproot Hamas from the volcanic coastal zone. At the same time, indirect ceasefire negotiations in Egypt stalled as both sides rejected the other’s demands.
As Hamas-allied Shiite Hizbullah forces brought Lebanon to the brink of civil war during May, Ehud Olmert publicly confirmed that Turkey is mediating peace talks between Israel and Hizbullah’s main puppet masters, Syria. However many Israeli pundits and politicians expressed deep skepticism over the Prime Minister’s motives in announcing he is indirectly talking with the Iranian-backed regime in Damascus, given he may be facing indictment over fresh criminal bribery allegations. Olmert promised to resign if formal charges are filed against him, prompting several of his cabinet subordinates to prepare for a sudden Kadima party vote to succeed him.
Although Hizbullah handed back portions of Beirut captured in street battles with anti-Syrian Lebanese Sunni Muslim and Druze forces in early May, a subsequent truce accord mediated by the Arab League gave the radical group unprecedented political power in the fractured country—an ominous indication of further anti-Israel attacks to come.
ISLAMIC TERRORISTS PUSH TO THE LIMIT
The weeklong Passover holiday ended in late April with more unprovoked Palestinian terror attacks upon Israeli civilians, this time next to the northern Samaria Arab town of Tulkarm. Two Israeli security guards working inside an industrial zone there were shot dead by Palestinian terrorists who successfully penetrated the zone’s security fence. The industrial complex, which brings together Arab and Jewish businesses and workers, was established as a “peace dividend” of the failed Oslo peace accords. Both of the male Jewish victims, in their early 50s, left behind wives and children. The Iranian-backed Islamic Jihad group took initial responsibility for the unprovoked twin murders.
On May 9, a Hamas mortar shell struck a kibbutz near the Gaza Strip, instantly killing 48 year old Jimmy Kedoshim while he was peacefully tending his garden. The father of three was deeply mourned by Kibbutz Kfar Aza residents, and also by many other Israelis who knew him as an engine powered paragliding champion, having won several national competitions. Kedoshim’s wife Anna had been gardening at her husband’s side until just minutes before the attack, when she entered their nearby home to escape the afternoon heat.
The following day, more than 20 rockets and mortar shells were fired into areas around the Gaza Strip, causing structural damage but thankfully no additional casualties. Palestinian groups said the barrage was meant to avenge ongoing Israeli army operations against Hamas and Islamic Jihad activists in the Gaza Strip.
Four days later, a 75 year old Israeli woman was instantly killed when a Palestinian Kassam rocket crashed into a house in another Israeli community ten miles east of the Gaza Strip. Shlomit Katz had decided to visit friends living in the western Negev community of Yesha, where the rocket struck.
The untimely deaths of two Israeli civilians, slaughtered when terror suddenly reigned down from the skies while they were simply living their quiet lives, caused additional mourning during the week between Israel’s annual Holocaust Remembrance Day and Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers. Speaking at the official state ceremony on May 6 to commemorate and salute Israel’s 22,437 soldiers killed in eight wars, dozens of limited operations and hundreds of terror attacks since 1948, Prime Minister Olmert said Israel’s survival in such a hostile region “depends on our willingness and ability to continue to defend ourselves, to battle our enemies when we need to.”
MOTHER AND CHILD
As hundreds of foreign dignitaries, including American President George W. Bush, were gathering inside Jerusalem’s main convention center to mark David Ben Gurion’s historic declaration of independence in Tel Aviv, an Iranian-made Grad rocket struck a shopping mall in Ashkelon. A 24 year old mother was holding her young daughter in her lap while talking to a doctor at a gynecological clinic, located on the top floor of the four story Hutzot mall, when the rocket came crashing through the roof in the coastal city with 120,000 residents.
The subsequent explosion and falling debris severely injured all three females, along with another female patient sitting in a nearby waiting room. An additional eight people shopping or working in the crowded floors below were wounded, most of them struck by falling debris. Around 87 others were treated for shock as the large building shook from the powerful blast. Officials said the number of wounded and/or dead would have been significantly higher if the Grad rocket had not exploded when striking a thick crossbeam holding up the roof, which they said kept it from crashing through the floors below.
The sinister attack seemed to be the final straw for many Israeli officials, some of whom heard about it while meeting with their foreign counterparts in the early evening of May 14. Defense Minister Ehud Barak toured the scene the following evening, where he told angry residents “You all need to bite you lips, but not for very much longer.” Other political and military officials spoke even more bluntly, telling military reporters that a massive IDF operation to oust Hamas leaders from power in the Gaza Strip, and to defeat and dismember the estimated 20,000 Hamas militia force, would likely begin soon after this month’s anniversary celebrations are over—meaning possibly at any time now.
As reported in last month’s news report, such an operation is projected to be very costly in terms of IDF casualties. On top of top of that, civilian injuries and deaths on both sides could be quite high. Security experts warn that Hamas and Islamic Jihad will probably launch all available Grad and Kassam rockets and mortar shells at Israeli communities in the initial stages of such an operation, which officials admit could mean many hundreds of hits in the area. The rogue Palestinian groups cynically station most of their fighters and store weapons in the middle of their own civilian neighborhoods, meaning hundreds of Arab non-combatants could be killed in what is projected to be fierce ground combat.
Adding to government concerns is the possibility that Shiite Hizbullah forces in Lebanon might support their fellow Muslim radicals in Gaza by lobbing missiles at Israel from the north, probably under orders from Tehran. Israeli military leaders say the Lebanese group—which emerged politically stronger after launching street battles against anti-Syrian forces in early May—now possesses a massive arsenal around four times larger than at the start of the Second Lebanon War in July 2006, with rockets that can hit as far as Beersheva in the south, along with Israel’s nuclear power plant in nearby Dimona.
GIVE PEACE WITH HAMAS A CHANCE?
It became clear during May that Egyptian-mediated indirect ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas would probably not succeed after both sides spelled out their conflicting requirements to enact a temporary six-month truce. Analysts said failure to reach a truce pact would quickly lead to intensified conflict, although Hamas officials seemed eager to forestall a crushing IDF operation, meaning they still might reverse their stand and accept Israel’s ceasefire conditions.
Hamas leaders attending the talks, including former Palestinian Authority (PA) Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahar, rejected Israel’s insistence that abducted IDF soldier Gilad Shalit be set free as part of a temporary truce deal. Hamas officials claimed Israel would not agree to their demand for an immediate opening of all border crossings into the Gaza Strip as soon as an agreement was initialed, but wanted to wait and see if several other terror groups based there, especially the Iranian-controlled Islamic Jihad group, actually stopped firing rockets and mortar shells into Israel over a period of some days. Israel would also not commit to an instant halt to all military operations inside the Palestinian coastal zone, said Hamas leaders.
Media reports said Hamas negotiators who met with Egypt’s main mediator, Intelligence chief Omar Suleiman, were angry to discover that Cairo basically backed the Israeli truce positions over their own. In particular, Egypt wants to see the border crossing at Rafah, which connects the Gaza Strip to Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, restored to full PA control, as was the case before PA forces were routed in violent clashes with Hamas gunmen last June. Egypt also agreed with Israel that European Union monitors should be stationed at the crossing—another position Hamas rejected. Hamas leaders maintained the conditions were aimed at “further humiliating the Palestinians and aggravating their suffering.”
Israeli Middle East analysts said the American-backed Mubarak regime fears growing Hamas military and economic power in the Gaza Strip, and the radical group’s burgeoning alliance with Iran, almost as much as Israel does. They note that the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (from which the Arabic acronym HAMAS is derived) was established in 1988 as a direct offshoot of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Movement, which seeks to oust the Mubarak government and replace it with a Islamic fundamentalist administration that would revoke the 1978 Camp David peace treaty with Israel and return to the active path of jihad war against the detested “Zionist entity.” Therefore it is in Cairo’s vested interest to see Israeli forces crush Hamas in the small Palestinian coastal zone, even if Egyptian leaders will dutifully rebuke Jerusalem for any massive IDF action, along with most other Arab states—fanned as usual by strongly anti-Israel Arabic media reports by the Qatar-based Al Jazeera satellite news network.
GIVE PEACE WITH SYRIA A CHANCE?
While indirect ceasefire negotiations with Hamas were struggling in Cairo, it was formally announced in Jerusalem and Damascus that the Muslim nation of Turkey was mediating indirect peace talks between Israel and Syria. Media reports that secret exploratory negotiations were taking place first surfaced last year, as noted at the time in this monthly news summary, but were either denied or at least not confirmed by officials in all three countries. However a joint decision was made by the parties to place the talks on the public record, with simultaneous announcements made in all three capitals on May 21.
The statement from the Prime Minister’s office hit the Israeli public like a bombshell. Many politicians from across the political spectrum charged that Ehud Olmert was attempting to deflect attention away from pending criminal charges against him by agreeing to raise the veil surrounding the controversial peace talks. Indeed, the announcement—which reportedly also shocked and angered Syria’s main ally, Iran—was made the very same hour as a court imposed gag order restricting publication of some of the details of the charges against Olmert was lifted. However the Premier’s aides maintained the timing was decided upon by the three countries some days before, and had nothing to do with the ongoing police investigation.
Whatever the case, it has been clear from public opinion surveys for some time that a large majority of Israelis do not want their leaders to conduct peace talks with Damascus unless the Iranian-allied regime agrees beforehand to break all ties with Tehran and stop actively supporting the Hizbullah movement that is increasing its chokehold over Lebanon and threatening to rain missiles upon Israeli cities once again.
Various opinion surveys taken in the wake of the dramatic announcement revealed that while a slight majority of Israelis are not opposed in principal to holding peace talks with Syria, a significant majority—over 60%—are not willing to abandon the strategic Golan Heights, from where Israel gets a good portion of its vital national fresh water supplies, not to mention some of its best vineyards and its only snow ski resort (on the Mount Hermon peak that towers above the Heights, which also hosts an irreplaceable military outpost that monitors activity in neighboring countries, up to western Iran).
More disquieting to government officials, a full 35% said in one survey that they were “moderately to highly likely” to engage in civil disobedience to disrupt any scheduled Israeli land withdrawal from the verdant high ground that sits like a king directly above the Sea of Galilee’s eastern shoreline, the city of Tiberius and the entire Upper Galilee region.
GIVE US YOUR WATER!
There was further public consternation when Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Mualem claimed that PM Olmert had already consented to Syria’s precondition that he pledge to carry out a complete Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights as part of any final peace accord. Adding even more fuel to the fire, he insisted the Israeli leader had agreed that such an evacuation would have to be right up to the northeastern shore of the Sea of Galilee, which was not the recognized 1948 international border between Israel and Syria, but includes territory Syrian soldiers captured in skirmishes with IDF forces in the run-up to the Six Day War. It was this outlandish demand—which would give Syria legal access under international law to the lake’s fresh water—that caused earlier American-mediated peace talks between Israel and Syria to break down in January 2000.
The besieged PM denied that he had given such a pullout commitment, but many Israeli politicians and analysts said they suspected Olmert was not telling the truth. Opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu, who opinion polls project will return to the premier’s chair if new elections are held in the coming months, lashed out at his political rival, saying “Olmert, who is up to his neck in investigations, has no moral or public mandate to conduct fateful negotiations on Israel’s future.” He added that if Syrian government claims are true that the PM has already agreed to a pullback up to the Sea of Galilee shoreline, “it would be an unprecedented diplomatic and security abandonment.” Likud party officials added that they would not feel obligated to honor any peace accord signed by Olmert if Netanyahu returns to power.
Turkish media reports said that diplomatic delegations from both Syria and Israel had actually been staying in the same hotel in Ankara, the Turkish capital. However they said the negotiators never formally met, but exchanged written messages via their Turkish hosts. The next round of indirect talks is scheduled to be held in early June in Istanbul.
Some Israeli analysts said the main reason Olmert may have begun peace talks now with Syria is to help insure that the Assad regime does not actively join any military attack upon Israel if Iran’s nuclear program is struck by either Washington or Jerusalem in the coming months, as many anticipate. Meanwhile the White House denied an Israel Army Radio report that Bush has already decided to order a military assault before he leaves office next January. However security sources noted the US President gave out strong signals while visiting here that he is indeed planning such a strike, telling the Knesset in a stirring speech for instance that America would never allow Israel to be destroyed by hostile regional countries.
MUSICAL CHAIRS
Israeli media reports in late May quoted police sources saying evidence was overwhelming that PM Olmert had illegally pocketed copious amounts of money given to his office by American Jewish Orthodox financier Morris Talansky over the past decade. They added that the New York millionaire had began his cash flow in order to shore up Jewish control over eastern Jerusalem, which Olmert—then mayor of Judaism holiest city on earth—had pledged he would always protect. Talansky reportedly decided to testify against the Premier after it became clear Olmert was ready to hand over parts of the city to Palestinian control as part of the final peace accord requested by President Bush in the coming months.
Political analysts said Olmert would probably appoint Vice Premier Haim Ramon to replace him if he is forced to step down, as many expect by the end of summer. That would be followed by a struggle to pick a new Kadima party leader, with polls showing the race would be close between Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Transport Minister Shaul Mofaz. Defense Minister Ehud Barak predicted new elections will be held by the end of this year.
Whoever emerges as Israel’s next government leader, it is the King of Kings who holds the troubled country’s fate in His unshakable hands. It is extremely good to ponder that ultimate truth as the winds of war blow strong amid fallacious promises of peace. “Do not fear, for I am with you. Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you. Surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand” (Isaiah 41:10).
DAVID DOLAN is a Jerusalem-based author and journalist who has lived and worked in Israel since 1980.
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