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Only four days after Sergeant Azaria’s conviction IDF soldiers hesitate shooting terrorist. Someone is tying their hands to the back.
[watch] Four soldiers murdered – Let IDF fight back
[watch] “Peace” Camp Leader: There Are Too Many Settlers To Evacuate, We Must Try Something Else
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Renowned Israeli author A.B. Yehoshua, of the “Peace Camp,” and Executive Director of American Friends of Ariel Avi Zimmerman, of the “Nationalist Camp,” sit at the same table to discuss Israeli politics. In this segment – how do we frame “the conflict”?
Why is this important, because A.B. Yehoshua is finally coming to the realization that Jewish pioneers in Judea and Samaria are there to stay and that another solution to Arab-Israeli conflict must be found. This is a profound shift in his thinking.
This interview is a 4 part series of videos.
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[watch] Giving heart and soul…
When it seems there is nothing left, there is still heart and soul.
Around the world there are people busy spreading hate, shouting about killing Jews: “From the river to the sea Palestine will be free (i.e. free of Jews)” and “Too bad Hitler didn’t finish the job”. In Gaza there are people actively trying to kill us, bombarding our children with missiles and planning terror attacks in to our towns.
In Israel we are focused on each other, on protecting homes and lives. Many are grieving; many more are struggling with wounds from Hamas attacks.
Parents send their children to the army. They don’t go for the fun and adventure. They go because it’s necessary to protect our family and friends from people bent on destroying us.
Parents spend years doing everything they can to keep their children safe until suddenly, the tables are turned and the children become the protectors.
Israeli parents watch with pride and carefully concealed terror when their children, now soldiers, go to battle. Every wounded soldier might be their soldier. Every car that stops outside their home, every knock on the door, might be the army representatives coming to tell them that their beloved son (or husband and sometimes daughter or wife) is dead.
When soldiers are brought wounded to the hospital, a new more private battle begins. The battle for recovery can take years, sometimes complete recovery is not possible.
Parents of the wounded race to the hospital and then have to wait. Watch and wait as doctors battle wounds to repair the body. Wait for each tiny step in the healing process. Now closer to their child, they are still fairly helpless. What can be done but watch and wait?
When it seems there is nothing left, there is love.
In this clip you can see the Israeli singer Muki using his song “Free Heart” to pour love in to a wounded soldier, to boost his healing strength. In this small way he could give back to those who had given everything to protect us all.
Watch the clip, the face of the reporter describing what happened – it’s not the words that matter, it’s the emotion. Muki explains, that the people he met in the hospital were revealed in all their glory and beauty (of their souls) and he hopes that the people of Israel will be able to hold on to the knowledge that this is who we are, also when we are not in the midst of a crisis – because that is who we are.
Watch Muki sing: “Free heart. Today my heart is free, no chains, no more worries…”
I don’t know how this will affect non-Israelis. Can you see the love? Can you feel its power?
This is our strength. Even when nothing is left, we still have heart and soul.
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[watch] Mike Huckabee Receives Award for his Defense of Jerusalem
Israel Rising was privileged to be invited to an intimate gathering with Mike Huckabee and the Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce. Mike Huckabee has been one of the most outspoken friends of the Jewish people and Israel. With this being 50 years since the liberation of Jerusalem, 100 years after the Balfour Declaration, and 150 years since the visit of Mark Twain to jerusalem, it was fitting for the award to be given in the very place where Mark Twain stayed on his journey to the Holy Land. It was this trip and the travel log “Innocents Abroad” that launched Twain’s career.
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[watch] Israel’s Education Minister Sends Message to the UN from Golan/Syrian Border
“The UN resolution from this week suggests that this is occupied territory and should be handed over to those enemies.
“Obviously, that’s absurd. Israel will stay here forever. No speech and no Security Council resolution will change that fact.”
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[watch] Ambassador Danny Danon: Kerry Not Telling Truth
Israel’s Ambassador Danny Danon swung back at John Kerry yesterday for fabricating details of the US involvement in crafting the UNSC Resolution which made it illegal for Jews to live in the Old City of Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria, the cradle of Jewish civilization.
MSNBC ANCHOR: Ambassador, do you accept what Secretary Kerry has to say?
DANNY DANON: No. Absolutely not. When you —
MSNBC: So he’s lying in your view? You don’t believe what he’s saying?
DANON: Let’s review the facts. In 2011 there was a very similar resolution. The U.S. vetoed it. In 2014, another similar resolution to the one passed on Friday, the U.S. blocked the vote without using the veto power. Recently in the last resolution we know the U.S. unfortunately was involved with the resolution.
At the security council the U.S. is a pen holder on every resolution regarding Israel and the Middle East. You can ask other ambassadors who sit at the security council. No one would have supported such a resolution without the support of the United States.
Even ambassadors approached me before the vote and told me we wanted to abstain but the minute we saw what the U.S. was doing and got the signal, we would support the resolution.
MSNBC: To be clear and I’m going off what you are saying, do you believe secretary Kerry is lying to your government and lying to the American people?
DANON: I don’t know what to tell you about that. I can only tell you the facts. If the U.S. was not supporting this resolution it wouldn’t have passed. That’s a fact.
We have seen it in the security council in the past. How many times in the U.N. people are trying to gang up against Israel and pass resolutions against Israel?
I have seen in the last year for dozens of times. The U.S. stood by us, but now think about the timing. Three weeks before the change of guard in the white house, all of the sudden it’s happening? It’s not a coincidence.
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