Karin Friedemann Botches Israel's History

Husband and wife team Joachim Martillo and Karin Friedemann have combined once again in order to give Taming Korach more material. In an article on her Friedemann's site, Israel Steals Palestinian Heritage, History she incorrectly assumes:

In English to use the word Jew is anachronistic before the 10th century

This is not true. In The Book Of Esther, which took place some 2500 years ago and was recorded for sure several thousand years ago, the word Jew is mentioned seven times. In one case:

The Book Of Esther-Chapter 3
Now it came to pass, when they spoke daily to him, and he did not listen to them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai’s words would stand; for he had told them that he was a Jew.

 ספר אסתר פרק ג
ויהי באמרם \{כאמרם\} אליו יום ויום ולא שמע אליהם ויגידו להמן לראות היעמדו דברי מרדכי כי הגיד להם אשר הוא

Talk about getting history wrong! These are the amateurish mistakes that are typical of the Friedemann/Martillo combo. The common thread that joins their sites is the complete refutation of Zionism coupled with an utter lack of understand of Rabbinical Judaism (in this case simply the Writings). How can one who makes such sensational accusations be taken seriously when they are based on incorrect facts sugar-coated with flowery writing styles?
The article does on to say:

In Facts on the Ground Columbia Professor Nadia Abu Al Haj writes, "In the context of Israel and Palestine, archaeology emerged as a central scientific discipline because of the manner in which colonial settlement was configured in a language of, and a belief in, Jewish national return." Even though asserting ownership to a country after absence of 2000 years is preposterous, Israel's theft of Palestine from the native population is popularly legitimised through the claim that today's Jews descend from inhabitants of Greco-Roman Judea.

Preposterous? Kind of like Christians and Muslims who decided to annex and mutilate Jewish scriptures and embellish them with utter lies? Talk about occupation! This is the mother of all copyright violations! Muslims know damn well that the Land of Israel belongs to the Jews. Why was the Land uncultivated for thousands of years-barren? Why was the Western Wall made into a garbage dump under Muslim occupation? Is their a statue of limitations on occupation? The occupation will only end when Jews return to Judaism and reclaim their ancient Land. If the Jewish claims on the Land of Israel are absurd, than why to Muslims, in particular, cite figures like King David who conquered the Land and made war with "Arabs" of his time?
Sands comments

Sand admits, "[The] chances that the Palestinians are descendants of the ancient Judaic people are much greater than the chances that you or I [meaning Israeli Jews] are its descendents."

are equally idiotic because the word Palestinian was taken from the Hebrew "Plishtim," a group of non-Jewish Semites who lived in the South of Israel some 3,000 years ago. The Romans, in an attempt to erase the Jewishness of the Land of Israel, called Israel "Palestine." This has been the status quo, the Roman Occupation, for roughly 2,000 years. If the Palestinians are the actual Jews להבדיל, then where is their Torah? Blowing themselves up and using their children as shields is akin to the sacrificing of children done by pre-Arab idolaters recorded in the Torah:

Leviticus (18:21)
And you shall not let any of your seed pass through the fire to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God; I am the Lord.

Nothing has changed in the Middle East in 3,500 years. You have Jews and the maniacs around them. Perhaps the only exception is that now the are maniacs writing about us as well-even some from amongst us.
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Responses to Ethnic Ashkenazim Against Zionist Israel are provided in the comments section.

Richard Silverstein: Not Offended By Gay Porn

I was a bit taken back by those words. But, I think it confirms what I suspected earlier:

Richie you are as queer as folk man-admit it!

This explains his hostility towards Torah Judaism, and a lot of other things about that crazy character!

Tovia Goldman and the New Immigrants

Much has been written and said about the new wave of immigrants from the Former Soviet Union. However, only every once in a while does someone show up from Sweden. Interestingly, I had that experience, as I wrote, several years ago with a young immigrant from Sweden, Tovia Goldman. Like many of the Russian immigrants, Goldman is of mixed background-the bi-product of assimilation in the exile. No matter, Goldman has made his apparent home Israel.


Disturbingly, like some the immigrants from the FSU, he carried with him lingering self-hatred from the exile and in some cases-as with him-a hatred of Jews that runs deep. Listed below are segments of the subsequent conversations I've had with Tunia:

I'd kick your...ass.

Yeah I remember you were into this whole Sephardi pride bullshit, I for one would have hoped you'd matured away from that."

..you meet with me face to face and I'll beat the shit out of you

..you have no fear of G-d when you knowingly transgress the commandments of Lashon Hara and Halbanat Pnei Chavero Be-Rabim

But if you continue I might have to talk to other people about you...so they know who you are, I think i'll be entitled to that according to Halacha.

...that's between you and your G-d

You seem to have this superficial, ritualistic view of Judaism within any concept of its depth and inner soul.

And for people like that the Torah becomes a Sam Chayim, something which is used for bad purposes, and which can even give the rasha more strength to pursue his bad plans. and these are the basics, if you don't know how to relate to your fellow human being you have no business putting on tfillin or putting all that pride in your kippah as you seem to do and so on. Because of people like you the Second Temple was destroyed-Sinat Chinam...

Put up or shut up, as you told me. I'll be coming to Jerusalem next week to kick your...ass, and agree to this as a man and shut the f**k up.

Yehudo-Nazi

Hi Jewish skinhead

I'll write you as long as I feel like it f**face.
and I don't give a f**k about your nerd/blog which apart from you and your Mom and a few other fascist closet homosexuals might read. you even tried to get me in on it, "please read my pathetic little blog". haha

Here is a someone of Jewish background struggling with his Jewish identity. Unfortunately, he is like so many Europeans in Tel Aviv, whose liberal politics is only a front for their elitism and racist ethos, hearkening back to a period of Jewish secularism from pre-World War II Germany. There the Jew tried to do everything he could to distance himself from his Jewish identity-to fit into an "accepting" Western society. Coming back to Israel after having been through the moral freezer of Europe, the Russian/European immigrant doesn't understand the religious faith of his Sephardic (or Mizrachi-a Jew from an Arab country) counterpart. Whereas the Sephardic Jew clung to traditionalism in the exile, the Ashkenazic Jew (often) eschewed it. Hence, his dismay, revulsion, and hostility towards his fellow Jew. He, the European Jew was taught not to be a shanda l-goyim-an embarrassment before the gentiles. But, now that he is in his own homeland, he still carries with him the habits and customs of his former spiritual imprisonment of Europe. Above he writes "...that's between you and your G-d," as if there is more than one להבדיל-one for me and one for him? Those Jews outside of Israel often ask me what I experience being here in Israel for years on end. Here was some of it...

The Future Christians of America

    In an amazing twisted irony, Eric Yoffie, leader of the "Reform" movement was apparently born with the name in Hebrew that means beautiful or good. Unfortunately, he is ironically one of the most guilty parties in the Israeli-Arab conflict and a misleader of the Jewish people. He is the antithesis of a good Jew-part of a heretical "branch of Judaism," like the early Christians, that seeks to take Jews away from the Torah and it's precepts. He is the leader of the F.C.A.-The Future Christians of America.


    Adding to his crimes, Yoffie insists of casting his opinions upon the current settlement crisis. Here is a heretic of the highest order using his "Jewishness" and his vulgarly ironic name to attack Israel's position and undermine its Torah claim to the Land of Israel. Is this a friend of Israel? The Gemara relates (Sotah 49b)*:

In the footsteps of the Messiah insolence will increase and honor dwindle..
בעקבות משיחא חוצפא יסגא ויוקר יאמיר
תלמוד בבלי מסכת סוטה דף מט/ב

Unfortunately, we are seeing this insolence on the highest levels-amongst the leadership of some of the biggest Jewish groups. The end result? More assimilation, less Jews and more Christians. Just what the early Christians (and present) wanted, eh?


*The page number "49" in Hebrew, when read in reverse is "Tam or טם" which is "closed" the root of the word טומאה, impure (the inability to produce life).
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Epilogue
    I was in the center of town with a friend from New York who was returning to the States in a few days. He asked me, as we sat amongst a crowd of young frum American kids, "what will be of American Jews." The discussion turned to the topic of assimilation and "Jews for Jesus" (J4J). I him him that the Christians who get involved with them inevitably learn some kind of Jewish rituals. Many of them, some whom I know, converted to Judaism (Orthodox). The Jews who get duped into that probably couldn't be saved anyway-they didn't have a rigorous education as youngsters.


    However, the "reform" movement actually re-forms Jews into Christians. They are the real J4J. The Jewish man (or woman) who doesn't have the Torah knowledge goes into the larger gentile world that his parents told him to *"conquer." Instead, it conquers him. He meets a non-Jewish girl who accepts him for who he is and doesn't give him the Friends treatment of endless narcissistic fronting. So he marries the girl because beforehand the "reform rabbi" tells them, "if you raise your kids Jewish then they'll be Jewish." So the kids, who are not Jews, "consider themselves Jewish," but don't follow Jewish rituals and don't study Torah. The Jew has been converted to Christianity (or Americana), and the Jewish community has facilitated it and made it "kosher!" When someone like Meir Kahane or another knowledgeable and caring Jew coming along and says, "wait! stop!," then they are labeled an inciter, a hooligan, a terrorist, a threat to the liberal Jewish agenda.


    When the grandparent, who may have even studied in a heder (rigorous Orthodox Jewish learning school in Europe) sees his/her great-grandchildren wearing a Christian cross-then and only then does she internalize her mistake-but it's too late.


*Gensis (47:27)

And Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions in it, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.


ספר בראשית פרק מז
(כז) וַיֵּשֶׁב יִשְׂרָאֵל בְּאֶרֶץ מִצְרַיִם בְּאֶרֶץ גּשֶׁן וַיֵּאָחֲזוּ בָהּ וַיִּפְרוּ וַיִּרְבּוּ מְאֹד

-(47:27) the Jews took land holdings in Egypt
-the verb ויאחזו בה va-yeachzu-bah also could mean that they (Egypt) took a grip
on the Nation of Israel, just as Israel was acquiring their land, Egypt was
acquiring them!

He Who Misleads the Multitudes Cannot Repent

This is dedicated to those listed on the Wall Of Shame!

Why Does Israel Suffer?

The New Age Zionist

Around about 2004 I lived in Ramat Aviv in Northern Tel Aviv, the last residence of Yitshak Rabin. As one can imagine, there were plenty of secular “peace-nikim” there. One curious character was Tuvia Goldman. Wearing a knitted kippa off and on, Tuvia was a “Zionist” from Sweden. However, after having talked to him on more than one occasion, he was not a religious Zionist but rather a New Age Zionist.

What is a New Age Zionist? He is someone who loves Jabotinsky, Hertzl, Ben-Gurion, and all of the pioneers of secular Zionism and the “forefathers” of the State Of Israel. A New Age Zionist (NAZ) loves the I.D.F. and makes sure to serve. He believes in the State of Israel-the secular State of Israel and needs to make sure that it remains secular and European-run. He must make sure that he serves so that when he drags Jews screaming from their houses he can say how “noble” and “Israeli” he is. A NAZ is a secular Israeli, or even a hutznik (non-Israeli Jew), like Silverstein. He will, in the same breath, tell you how “Jewish” he is. His Jewishness has nothing to do with the Torah-it is a contrived Jewishness. He is Jewish because he is free in the Land of Israel. Free to eat milk and meat. Free to not observe Shabbat or other holidays. Free to have tattoos and curse in Arabic.
In reality the NAZ is really the Israeli whose secular grandfather left Europe to be free from Nazi and free from Judaism. That is his “hope.” To remain a Jew without Judaism. He has influenced some of his Mizrachi (Jews from Arab countries) friends to follow suit-he now has more followers.
Here is a a letter I received from Mr. Goldman:

A sign of power and hope. (May 16, 2004)
I just want to tell you all that I was one of the more than 150 000 people yesterday at Kikar Rabin yesterday that demonstrated for sanity and reason, to end the unneccesary bloodshed and to save our soldier’s lives. This stalemate is crippling this country and has to be stopped.

The settlements are the cause of so many problems and is the worst and most irrational thing this country has ever done. The settlements in Gaza, which the Likud convention decided not to leave, is the quintessential example of this problem.
The majority of the country’s citizens are for a withdrawal and Sharon is too chicken to act upon that support but continues to hide behind the right-wing extremists which “prevent” him from acting upon his dis-engagement plan. He probably does not want to disengage but I could be wrong.

Leave Gaza and all the other settlements is our call !!!

Am Yisrael chai/Tobias

Well, Tuvia was wrong in saying “He probably does not want to disengage but I could be wrong.” Unfortunately, he was wrong. Notice that the NAZ has to make an apparently positive statement to hide his dark intentions. Like Silverstein’s “Tikun Olam,” he needs to mask his nefarious intentions with a cover-lie. His closing lie is “Am Yisrael chai.” Chai? Lives? Where? Some of those people who were evacuated are still looking for places to live. How about those in Sderot and Ashkelon who were missled (and misled) for years? They were living in bomb shelters. How about the folks in comfy-cosy Ramat Aviv Gimel? Perhaps in their case, עם ישראל חי בסרט? (Israel lives in a dream world)!

Rabbi Shlomo Amar: The Sephardic Soul Not For Sale

According to the Jerusalem Post, the Chief Sephardic Rabbi Shlomo Amar שליט"א has stated in a letter to Orthodox Jewish leaders in the USA:

"We ask you to take advantage of your strength and power to influence the authorities in the US, that they should examine the issue with truly democratic criteria and to take into consideration the Torah and the Halacha that obligate Jews to settle everywhere."

In one statement Rabbi Amar, whom I have had the privilege to meet on several occasions, has shown the difference between a real Sephardic Torah scholar and the conniving European leftovers whose likes are displayed on the Wall of Shame on the left. Rabbi Amar, like Rav Ovadya שליט"א demonstrates that the Sephardic Jew, who loves the Land of Israel חיבת ציון cannot be bought and sold-his love of Judaism is non-negotiable. For those of you who have read the comments section on the article Not So Soft Bigotry (Harry Maryles' blog Emes Ve-Emunah), it is apparent that there are Jews who do not appreciate the special role that Sephardic Jews have played in shaping the mankind's view of monotheism. Now is their opportunity to appreciate, full-throttle.

Naomi Klein: A Jewish Soul Yearns

In Hatikva, the anthem of the State of Israel, it is written:

A Jewish soul yearns
נפש יהודי הומיה

These words, describing the Jew in this 2000+ exile, aptly describe most, if not all Jews living outside (and inside) Israel before 1948, and perhaps even currently. Such is the case with Naomi Klein. Her talents are swirling around every en vogue subject matter on planet earth-the economy, globalization, the underprivileged-under powered, the State of Israel, ect. She appears on talk show after talk show debate and presenting her ideas-and selling her books. However, perhaps the phenomena we are actually seeing here is simply a Jew in the exile who is clinging to every ideology except her own-Judaism.
Klein's book, The Shock Doctrine, as she describes it discusses the behavior of the public (and its leadership) during a crises. However, during the recent war with Gaza, where Israeli citizens "inside the Green Line" were systematically attacked by neighboring Gazans-even after the withdraw of Israelis from the Strip (the ethnic cleansing of Gaza). Is this yet another case of a secular Jew who simply doesn't understand the dynamics of the problems in Israel? Another Zohan?

She stated in a recent conference in Ramallah:

There is a debate among Jews-I'm a Jew by the way,

By the way-you spend all of your time and resources pandering to the gentile elite-do you know anything about Torah Judaism? Is that even a phrase you recognize? Are we who have chosen to slug in out in Israel doomed to be judged by an increasingly ignorant Diaspora intelligentsia? Ms. Klein showed up to this meeting of what Haaretz called "Ramallah's intellectual elite." Run that by me again? Is there even an intelligent person in Ramallah? Haaretz isn't fooling this blogger! Is that elite carpetbagging European Jews who have come to express solidarity with the other side, while remaining absolutely ignorant of their own religion and heritage? Klein manages to brush off her brazen, pompous show-of-ignorance by proclaiming the excuse every other Jewish Tikun-Olamer has used: "I am Jew." Daniel Pearl was forced to face this realization, as do the Israelis living near Gaza. However, we should hope that Naomi Klein's proclamation will be followed by a return to her nation and not by an endorsement of some petty boycott aimed at punishing Jews for defending themselves in their own land. After all, Israel is the only country in the world that will accept a Jew, like Klein, with no preconditions-other than her being a Jew. "Palestine" certainly won't.
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update September 2009:
The Dungeon Master Richard Silverstein has penned a recent article about the Klein and her boycott efforts.  My response can seen under the name "eathummus."

Felicia Langer-Old Fashion German Schadenfreude?

Anyone who has spent time studying languages knows that it is really the language of a nation that defines its character. There is a "wonderful" German word called schadenfreude. Roughly translating it means "malicious joy" or "gloating." As you can see right away-this word is uniquely German. Germany has recently taken schadenfreude to a higher level. Felicia Langer, a Polish born (1930) Israeli lawyer who left Israel for Germany in 1990 has been awarded the Federal Cross of Merit.

Ms. Langer, who apparently never Hebraized her name, has found a home in the most famous kosher slaughter-house in the world-Germany. Perhaps a Hebrew name is not fitting for a woman who just accepted an award which has an enormous cross on it. So how does schadenfreude play a part in this? For one thing, looking at her web site:

In 1947 she met her future husband Mieciu Langer, a survivor of five Nazi con-centration camps. In 1949 the young couple married, and in 1950 they emigrated to Israel to join Felicia’s mother.

The proper spelling of concentration camp is not con-centration camp! A con is something phony, a put on, a fake! So here, purposely or intentionally, Langer is calling the Nazi concentration camps a fake! Perhaps that's why she apparently praised Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's attitude towards Israel. According to her site, she herself thinks the concentration camps were a fake-that is her own wording. So is it her schadenfreude in receiving this award or Horst Köhler's in "awarding" it to her?
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Update: Apparently, several Jewish recipients of this award are threatening to return it in light of Langer's having been given it.

Lieberman's Legal Problems

I am no supporter of Jewish secularism, but I have reveled in the attention that Avigdor Lieberman has attracted. His taking on the ravenous, elitist Israeli European intelligentsia is something I drooling in envy of. However, is Lieberman really a sheep in wolf's clothing? According to Haaretz, the official paper of the Ashkenazi anti-Jewish elite here, Lieberman has stated that he is willing to abandon his own house in the event of a "final peace deal." Hello? Is this where secular right-wing "fascist" falls on his face and prostrates before his secular European post-Semitic handlers? Here is the emptiness of the secular Jewish identity. How easily he is turned over-even if he was jesting! It is forbidden for a Jewish to relinquish his possessions or the Land of Israel to a non-Jew-even his own house. What kind of idiot would say that publicly. Silverstein and his bunch probably think of Lieberman as a true "right-winger!" Right-wing is the Torah-the right side.

Here is an example of the secular leftist intelligentsia trying to thwart the will of the Israeli public. Lieberman won a landslide victory, yet the powers-that-be cannot stand to have an ardent right-winger represent the country. They have to have a stool-pigeon for Obama to play with.

The legal system in this county is a farce! Here you have a Frankenstein-patchwork of every Jew you can imagine-each with his own religious ideology, along with Arab bystanders who together form a morass of confusion and instability! This whole Lieberman issue only serves to provide sad proof of this chaos.

Introducing Amram-Secular Leftist Zionist

I have a very close friend who was born in 1953. His parents are Lithuanian Holocaust survivors and I have had many discussions with him about Israel and Judaism. Here is a recent discussion:

Amram
look up what amnesty international has to say about israel and hamas. israel and hamas are the opposit sides of the same coin. both don't give shit about civilians. and don't give me the crap that the arabs have started the problem. because it's zionism which is the cause. after 2000 years and the promise we will return after the f-g messiah comes and than we change the rules of the game and expect the other side to comply is simply arrogance. and that the arabs didn't agree to a decision of the UN in 47, so what? how do the israelis say about the UN - UM Shmum. if america wouldn't veto all decisions against israel peace would be here to stay. but no, jews believe to be the better people, after all we are the chosen ones, we are closer to god than anybody else. we don't have to think how to get along with other people. the other have to think how to get along with us! no wonder people hate us all over the world. if there is anti semitism it is also because the behaviour of jews. you f-g arrogant shit.

Taming Korach
And Muslim and Christians don't think they are right? Only Jews have to justify their religion? Namely, only Orthodox Jews? Naaah! If Zionism is so wrong, then why did secular Europeans like yourself instigate it? All of sudden you backtrack and say it's wrong? You have the explaining to do..

Phony "Rabbis" Stage Fast For Arabs In Gaza

According to The Jerusalem Post, a group of American impostor “Rabbis” are staging a Jewish fast for Gaza. The article states:

led by rabbis Brian Walt, former executive director of Rabbis for Human Rights-North America and Brant Rosen of the Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation in Evanston, Illinois, is taken from the Jewish tradition of holding a communal fast in times of crisis.

Well, it looks like Rabbi Brenda is at it again! Jews against Judaism. In actuality when we fast here in Israel, it is for the sins of people like this-these vile people who attempt to use their false teaching as a weapon against the Torah community and Israel as a whole.

Their website states:

The Talmud teaches,
On three things the world stands: on justice, on truth, and on peace (Mishnah Avot 1:18).

Wowee! The Talmud? There is no section “Avot,” or fathers, in the Talmud-in either the Bavli or the Yerushalmi! Perhaps they meant to say “Mishna Avot.” The Amoraim who compiled the Talmud never chose to comment on פרקי אבות (Chapters of Our Fathers). However this brings up a related topic-the obsession of the heretical movements in “Judaism” with Pirkei Avot. They have created a new religion, actually, called “Pirkei Avot!” The unfortunate irony is that the forefathers of the Jewish people עה”ש would be fasting and crying (maybe they are) knowing that Jews are using religious rituals as a method of helping the enemies of Israel. Perhaps this is even a kind of idolatry!

Another mistake that these “Rabbis” made was a mistranslation of a quote from Pirkei Avot:

On three things the world stands: on justice, on truth, and on peace (Mishnah Avot 1:18).

Here, the word din דין, from the verb “la-dun”-to judge, is actually translated judgment. In fact justice, tsedek צדק, is a totally different word with a different root in Hebrew! These are “Rabbis!” Check out the Pinas Kehati English translation of the Misha to verify this. The original Hebrew is below.

משנה מסכת אבות פרק א

על שלשה דברים העולם עומד, על הדין ועל האמת ועל השלום, שנאמר (זכריה ח) אמת ומשפט שלום שפטו בשעריכם

Are these people aware that Sderot and others areas in the south of Israel were under siege for years? Where were they? I don’t see one Sephardic name on that list. However, the south of Israel-Ashkelon, Sderot, Ashdod are filled will Mizrachi Jews-poorer Jews put, by the government of Israel (by their own admission) into far away places with desolate economies. And now a group of snotty, ignorant, self-righteous “Jewish leaders” from North America are going to stage a fast for those who have been tormenting them for years-even after the withdraw from and illegal destruction of Jewish houses in Gaza (the ethnic cleansing of Gaza).

Recently, I went to a lecture in Ramat Shlomo of Rabbi Moshe Shapira שליט”א in which he said that the greatest evidence of truth is when lies bow and prostrate themselves before truth and admit to their falsehood. Here in Israel, we are waiting for that day to come!

Justin White
Jerusalem, Israel
July 2009

With Torah Tipp-Ex: Correcting The Internal Occupation

In a newly “penned” article, With an Iron Pen: 20 Years of Hebrew Protest Poetry, Richard Silverstein has given a glowing review of a collection of misguided “poetry” composed by secular European Israelis. Their purpose-to give their thoughts on the Israeli presence in the territories, which they deem “occupied.” As we will see, the occupation is in fact within them.

First, the phrase “iron pen” comes from Jeremiah 17:1:
1. The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond; it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;

ספר ירמיה פרק יז

א) חטאת יהודה כתובה בעט ברזל בצפרן שמיר חרושה על לוח לבם ולקרנות מזבחותיכם

This is a reference (which the authors want to point to) to the sins of of Jews at that time. However, in verse 4, it goes on to say:

4. And you, yourself, shall discontinue from your heritage that I gave you; and I will cause you to serve your enemies in the land which you know not; for you have kindled a fire in my anger, which shall burn for ever.

ספר ירמיה פרק יז
ושמטתה ובך מנחלתך אשר נתתי לך והעבדתיך את איביך בארץ אשר לא ידעת כי אש קדחתם באפי עד עולם תוקד

Apparently the answer to misquoting of this verse by the authors is in the subsequent verse! Here is says that the Land of Israel is the inheritance of the Jews. The punishment for sinning is to be placed outside of the Land. How can Jews be occupying a Land that G-d has given to them (even if they aren’t deserving at any given time to be there physically)? Clearly the occupation is within them! The fact that they cannot recognize that the Land of Israel is the eternal inheritance, from G-d is the quintessential occupation.

Perhaps, even more interesting is the fact that Silverstein and the authors have overlooked the fact that the prophet Jeremiah was actual descended from the prostitute Rehav רחב as it says in the Talmud:
Megila 14b
R. ‘Ena Saba cited the following in objection to R. Nahman: ‘Eight prophets who were also priests were descended from Rahab the harlot, namely, Neriah, Baruch, Serayah, Mahseyah, Jeremiah, Hilkiah, Hanamel and Shallum.’ R. Judah says: Hulda the prophetess was also one of the descendants of Rahab the harlot. [We know this] because it is written here ‘the son of Tikvah’ and it is written elsewhere [in connection with Rahab]. ‘the line [tikvath] of scarlet thread’!28 — He replied: ‘’Ena Saba’29 — or, according to another report. ‘Black bowl’,30 — the truth can be found by combining my statement and yours’.31 We must suppose that she became a proselyte and Joshua married her.
(28) Josh. II, 18.
(29) Lit., ‘old eye’.
(30) Alluding perhaps to his ugliness (Maharsha).

תלמוד בבלי מסכת מגילה דף יד/ב
רב עינא סבא לרב נחמן שמונה נביאים והם כהנים יצאו מרחב הזונה ואלו הן נריה ברוך ושריה מחסיה ירמיה חלקיה חנמאל ושלום רבי יהודה אומר אף חולדה הנביאה מבני בניה של רחב הזונה היתה כתיב הכא בן תקוה וכתיב התם את תקות חוט השני אמר ליה עינא סבא ואמרי לה פתיא אוכמא מיני ומינך תסתיים שמעתא דאיגיירא ונסבה יהושע ו

It points out, in addition, that Rehav was a convert:

Zevachim 116b
Because, as a master said, There was no prince or ruler who had not possessed Rahab the harlot. It was said: She was ten years old when the Israelites departed from Egypt, and she played the harlot the whole of the forty years spent by the Israelites in the wilderness. At the age of fifty she became a proselyte. Said she: May I be forgiven as a reward for the cord, window, and flax.1
(1) For hiding them in flax, and then letting them down by a cord through a window (ibid. 6, 15).

תלמוד בבלי מסכת זבחים דף קטז/ב
דאמר מר אין לך כל שר ונגיד שלא בא על רחב הזונה אמרו בת י’ שנים היתה כשיצאו ישראל ממצרים וזנתה [כל] מ’ שנה שהיו ישראל במדבר אחר נ’ שנה נתגיירה אמרה יהא מחול לי בשכר חבל חלון ופשתים

In finality, we understand that Rehav, who people like the authors of With An Iron Pen despise, was the only one (along with her household) was spared the sword when Joshua and company came through Jericho. Why? Because she hid the spies who came through and prepared for the Israeli invasion of the Land of Israel. It’s too bad Richard Silverstein doesn’t check his sources before he quotes his fellow idiots-in-crime. Apparently Jeremiah’s iron pen was only a bi product of Rehav’s iron loyalty:

Joshua (6:17):
And the city shall be accursed, it and all who are in it, to the Lord; only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers whom we sent.

ספר יהושע פרק ו
והיתה העיר חרם היא וכל אשר בה ליהוה רק רחב הזונה תחיה היא וכל אשר אתה בבית כי החבאתה את המלאכים אשר שלחנו

Peace Is Not Shalom

There has been an almost endless discussion of peace since the inception of the State Of Israel. It goes without saying that this region has seen a disproportionate amount of bloodshed and tension. In order to deal with this increasing difficult deadlock, both participants and observers in this conflict have dubbed the efforts to come to a "final agreement" the Peace Movement. Its Israeli counterpart is called שלום עכשיו (Shalom Achshav). Is Peace Now really Shalom Achshav?
According to Webster's dictionary, the definition of peace is:

Pronunciation:
\ˈpēs\
Function:
noun
Etymology:
Middle English pees, from Anglo-French pes, pees, from Latin pac-, pax; akin to Latin pacisci to agree — more at pact
Date:
12th century

1: a state of tranquillity or quiet: as a: freedom from civil disturbance b: a state of security or order within a community provided for by law or custom a breach of the peace
2: freedom from disquieting or oppressive thoughts or emotions
3: harmony in personal relations
4: a state or period of mutual concord between governments b: a pact or agreement to end hostilities between those who have been at war or in a state of enmity
5: used interjectionally to ask for silence or calm or as a greeting or farewell
— at peace
: in a state of concord or tranquillity

So, the Western definition of peace is essentially quietness and tranquility, coming from the Latin word pax. The book Why The Jews, by Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin points out that in the Roman Empire, pax Romana meant establishing such tranquility by violently crushing opposition to it's rule.

What is Shalom then? Shalom is, first and foremost, one of the names of the Almighty. In fact, according to Jewish law, the word Shalom cannot be spoken in a bathroom, just as prayers cannot. The root of the word Shalom שלום is shalem שלמ or completeness-not tranquility. King Solomon's name is from this root-the Kingdom Of Israel was at its greatest size (complete), hence-Shlomo שלמה. During Shlomo's reign, there were no wars on earth-the only time in human history*! Can the folks at Nobel match that? The mistranslation of Peace Now into Hebrew (or vice verse) shows the difference between the western concept of "peace" and the actual "Biblical" meaning that comes from Judaism. The division of the Land Of Israel and it's occupation by foreign peoples only delays true harmony in the world-שלום.

*This is deduced from what we learn about Shlomo HaMelech in Melachim Aleph chapter 5 verse 6 where we learn that he had 40,000 stables of horses for his chariots and 12,000 horsemen. The Talmud Yerushalmi, Sanhedrin indicates that all of these (the horses and horsemen) were "batlanim"-unemployed or idle, not needed for an army because there were no wars in his days (Penei Moshe). Life in his reign was entirely serene as Melachim Aleph 5:5 tells us.

-from Kings 1, Chapter 5:
5. And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.
6. And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
מלכים א פרק ה פסוק ה
וַיֵּשֶׁב יְהוּדָה וְיִשְׂרָאֵל לָבֶטַח אִישׁ תַּחַת גַּפְנוֹ וְתַחַת תְּאֵנָתוֹ מִדָּן וְעַד בְּאֵר שָׁבַע כֹּל יְמֵי שְׁלֹמֹה:
מלכים א פרק ה פסוק ו
וַיְהִי לִשְׁלֹמֹה אַרְבָּעִים אֶלֶף אֻרְוֹת סוּסִים לְמֶרְכָּבוֹ וּשְׁנֵים עָשָׂר אֶלֶף פָּרָשִׁים:

תלמוד ירושלמי מסכת סנהדרין פרק ב דף כ טור ג /ה"ו
ויהי לשלמה ארבעים אלף אוריות סוסים למרכב ושנים עשר אלף פרשים בטלנים