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Thursday, February 18. 2016
ISRAEL TODAY and TOMORROW as I SEE IT
Israel Today and Tomorrow as I See It
By Bernard J. Shapiro
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
February 18 2016
I once wrote (about 25 years ago) s great short story called led Tale of the Mystic Buffalo. Like the buffalo, the Jewish People were quite strong and very smart in many ways. But as a group they lack the basic intelligence to keep the non-Jews around them, whether Arabs or Europeans (Nazis, Communists or Fascists. This story appears in my book, THE BATTLE FOR ERETZ YISRAEL Jews, G-D & Israel (2092-2011).
I tell the Indian story of the buffalo and how they Indian depended on it for just about all their needs. The Indians were free to roam the plains and follow the millions of buffalo, even killing them with bow and arrow or spear. The buffalo was a big mammal and was over 6 feet at the shoulder. The had horns and a mighty kick, but they had a simple weakness. The millions of buffalo travelled as huge herds across the great plains. The young and the weak would lag behind prey to the Indians.
When the great white hunters like Buffalo Bill came to the west to supply the railroad crews with meat as they crossed the plains with rails, the buffalo were thinned out to almost nothing. The Indian opposed the rails crossing their sacred home lands and it became US government policy to destroy the Indian culture by totally wiping out the buffalo.
The Jews and Israel's, like the buffalo have allowed themselves to be killed for thousands of years by not really fighting aggressively against their enemies. Some Zionist groups like Biblical Heroes (David, Joshua, Bar Kochba, and The Maccabees) have tried to turn things around. During the return to Zion in the early 20th Century Labor Zionist under David Ben Gurion decided to fight for a state. Unfortunately they dived themselves into two groups, left and right. The Left tried to work with the Nazi-like British (who hated Jews like Hitler). The Right under Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Begin and Avraham Stern wanted to fight like hell against the despised anti-Semitic English.
Among Humans, Jews are one of the most intelligent races in most academic categories, like medicine, physics, mathematics etc. But they lack what I call Social Intelligence, that is the ability to maneuver in an adverse world without groveling before the non-Jew. For example, an uneducated black will survive on streets of New York - no matter what (drugs, extortion, prostitution and gambling).
The Middle East is a rough neighborhood for Israel. Even Western Europe is getting bad for Jews again.
The Israel Military used to be a tough (no holds bared army. Following the GRAND DELUSION of Oslo Peace, It began to deteriorate. World opinion started to be taken into account. I remember Ben Gurion saying: "t is not what the goyem say, but what the Jews do that matters."
It is simply wrong for Israelis to be subject to terrorised all the days of their lives and to be forced to fight the same wars with the Arabs over and over again. I would put a stop to it and crush the enemy. The Lor-d our G-d does NOT really want us to suffer that much. It is evil Leftist (Ghetto-post-Zionist anti-Semitic Jews) who want that to happen. I that the Arabs that try to kill or harm us, raise their voices aqgait Zion and replace us should be expelle from our Holy Land. And all their backers and fellow travelers with them.
Eretz Yisrael should be built up from the mountains to the sea. Cheap housing and apartments so Jews can resettle the land from all over the World. Before WWII escape for Jews. TODAY THERE IS!
While have often prayed that the Lion of Judah would yell once again at the evil doers of the Nations. I have another animal which should symbolize the Jewish people. That is a WOLF PACK. Wolves hunt in packs and share the food.
They mate for life. If one dies, they never mate again. The do not seek individual power like factions in work together for the good of the pack. Now in Israel, each Cabinet Member considers his ministry his own kingdom. The Kennest must change and work together for the good of Israel. The challenges for Israel are great and only working together can we be victorious.
Sunday, December 14. 2014
For Zion's sake I will not hold my peace
and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest." Isaiah 62.
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Remember, we opposed Oslo in 1993 and Obama in 1997 (before his first election). We believed in the late Rav Meir Kahane and Dr. Baruch Goldstein. We supported prayer for Jews on the Temple mount before it was a popular issue. We opposed discrimination in housing for Jews. We opposed the anti-Zionist Supreme court and the Israeli media. We believe in massive, rapid construction in Yesha. We opposed the expulsion of Jews from Gaza.
Politically we called for the formation of a National, Zionists, and religious coalition to solve Israel's security and economic problems. We have always believed that instead of Hasbara we should be fighting a massive PR battle to counter the lies and slanders against the Israel and the Jewish People.
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Monday, July 28. 2014
HARD FACTS ISRAEL MUST FACE - And The Actions They Must Do
And The Actions They Must Do
By Bernard J. Shapiro
1. The world will never accept Israels right to live in peace.
2. The Arabs can kill hundreds of thousands and no one will say anything. One Arab killed by Israel will raise a storm in the media.
3. The current conflict in Gaza is a good example. Hamas uses civilians to make Israel look bad when they attack military structures and targets. Israel uses the Iron Dome system to protect its civilians.
Thus the death toll looks disproportionate. The media uses this to damage Israels image.
4. Israel supplied the concrete, electricity and fuel to build the tunnels that allow terrorists to attack its civilians. This MUST stop.
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By Bernard J. Shapiro
1. The world will never accept Israels right to live in peace.
2. The Arabs can kill hundreds of thousands and no one will say anything. One Arab killed by Israel will raise a storm in the media.
3. The current conflict in Gaza is a good example. Hamas uses civilians to make Israel look bad when they attack military structures and targets. Israel uses the Iron Dome system to protect its civilians.
Thus the death toll looks disproportionate. The media uses this to damage Israels image.
4. Israel supplied the concrete, electricity and fuel to build the tunnels that allow terrorists to attack its civilians. This MUST stop.
5. Instead of sending Israeli soldiers into the tunnels to destroy them and risk death, there are other methods. Israel can pump high potency gas and air into the tunnels and then light it. The fire will spread throughout the tunnel system and destroy Hamas and their rockets.
6. Israel does not have to agree to a cease fire until Hamas is destroyed and Gaza returned to Israel. The disengagement was a disaster and we all know it.
7. Jews should once more be allowed to re-build their homes there.
8. The disaster of leaving Gaza should never be repeated in Yesha (Judea and Samaria). Can you imagine rockets raining down on the Israels coastal plain from the hill overlooking the high concentration of population and industry.
Several factors are important for Israels. Israel must greatly increase its population through massive aliya. The dramatic rise in anti-Semitism in the world make this even more important. A larger population will need a strong economic base to provide jobs and a huge increase in housing for the new immigrants. The ridiculous restrictions on building in Yesha must be ended. No nation or organization in the world should tell Jews where to build in their own country.
The idea that Israel must put its building on hold until peace is achieved is absurd. There will be peace with the terrorists when elephants can fly. The so called peace process was always a hoax. Time to end the fantasy and wake up to the hard facts.
As oil revenues come online from Israeli drilling, more money needs to be put into military research and development. Some of the funds must go into venture capital funds to attract investors and build a larger economy to provide employment to Israels growing population. Everyone should be mobilized in the new economy, including orthodox Jews, women, Druze and Christian citizens.
Hostile Arabs, who are not happy living in a Zionist country should lose there right to vote and be given funds and tickets to leave the Israel. We do not need disloyal people within our borders.
The right of Jews to play on the Temple Mount in peace should be protected and respected. If Arabs riot or attack the Jews they should be arrested and expelled.
Israel should not be forced to fight the Arabs every few years in some strange kabuki dance of death. The Freeman Center recommends the General Patton principle: Move fast and destroy the enemy and force a surrender on our terms. Israels demands for quiet for quiet just delay a few years the next battle. And more Israel soldiers killed and wounded.
There should be no cease fire. In fact, The siege should be tightened: no electricity fuel or supplies (even food) until surrender. No more Mr. Nice Guy. The world be damned. Where were they during the Holocaust when we need help.
Be strong, Bibi. Israel has a major ally better than Obama and Kerry. It is the Almighty who protects His People Israel with a Mighty Hand.
Bernard J. Shapiro is the Director of the Freeman Center For Strategic Studies and the editor of its publications.
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Wednesday, April 9. 2014
MY PASSOVER MESSAGE 2014 - Joyous But Frustrated
Joyous But Frustrated
By Bernard J. Shapiro
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
Why, I ask myself are the Israelis so difficult to understand and so stupid in so many ways. We all know that many Jews have achieved great heights of intellectual supremacy. Then why are Israeli political leaders intellectually sub-normal.
Why do some Israelis act like they stepped straight out of the pages of George Orwells book "1984" and speak a strange form of Hebrew called newspeak.
I todays headlines some hotheads slashed the tires of some border police and IDF vehicles. Not nice and we all can agree that this is delinquent behavior. BUT IS IT TERRORISM!
The whole Israeli establishment rises up against "so called" price tag attacks. No evidence, no trials, no actual guilty parties. The government rushes to destroy Jewish homes in retaliation. I ask you one question: Where is the outrage over hundreds of attacks on Jews by Arabs?
Jews are abused on the Temple Mount everyday and the Israeli Police think this is Kosher. Is this a Jewish Country or what. Why do the courts, border police, the Left Political Parties, the universities have "carte blanc" to attack the Jew. University professors inculcate anti-Zionism in their students. WE MUST STOP THIS MADNESS!
The High Court assumes the power to overthrow the Democratic Rule of the Knesset. This must stop. The courts defend "fake" rights of Arabs over Jews. I object to this and demand JUSTICE for the Jewish People in Eretz Yisrael.
Israel never should have sighed the absurd Oslo agreements. They should be terminated immediately. Much damage has already been done, but much can be undone. Steps to reclaim Zionism:
1. Extend Israel sovereignty to all the Land of Israel from the River to the Sea
2. Arrest and prosecute all terrorist leaders of PLO, Fatah, Hamas et all (Hang Abbas, Exkrat, Barghouti, Rajoub from the highest tree in Israel after a proper trial).
3. Leftist anti-Zionists Jews terrorist collaborators should be sent to prison for long terms.
4. Huge industrial scale building of houses and apartments for Jews should be built from the River to the congested Mediterranean coast. No more 50 houses here and 100 there. If you build, the Jews will come from all over the diaspora. Especially if the housing is cheap, making transition easy.
5. Arabs should be subject to strict taxation like Jews.
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Friday, March 14. 2014
By Bernard J. Shapiro
An editorial for The Maccabean Online (July 2006)
"He who is merciful when he should be cruel will in the end be cruel when he should be merciful."...Midrash Samuel (Jewish rabbinic text from early Middle Ages)
From the very early days of the Haganah and continuing with the emerging Israel Defense Forces (IDF), there was a policy of self-restraint or havlagah. This policy mandated that defenders could only return fire, hold their positions, and never to engage in counter-terror. This policy was based on the false premise that the Arab masses did not support the war against the Yishuv (the Jewish population before independence) and then the State of Israel and would be brought into the conflict if Israeli forces were too aggressive. There were some good and practical reasons for restraint in the early days. There was legitimate f! ear that the British would cut off immigration if the Jews were to go on the offensive against the Arabs. Havlagah was essentially a Haganah (Labor/Socialist) policy and many supporters of Jabotinsky\'s Revisionist Zionist movement broke off from them to form fighting units (Irgun Zvai Leumi and Stern) unrestrained by that policy.
The modern IDF was dominated by Labor and quickly adopted the policy of restraint and the concept of "purity of arms" as its official doctrine. The later reinforced the former by adding that a soldier should never have to obey an illegal order to commit some atrocity. The enemy, including prisoners of war, should be treated with dignity and civilian populations should be spared as much harm as possible, even if this causes greater Israeli casualties. There was some flexibility in this strict moral code.
This policy of restraint may have been practical during the pre-state days and even during the! early years of Israeli independence. These periods were characterized by weakness and relative dependence on foreign goodwill. Following the Six Day War in 1967, the need for havlagah decreased and the damage it caused began to become more evident. Israel became the preeminent power in the Middle East, yet failed to grasp the strategic opportunities that came with such dominance. Here are some of the historical highlights of the failed policy of restraint:
1. Following the Six Day War (1967) and the capture of Jerusalem, Moshe Dayan turned over control of Judaism\'s most sacred place, the Temple Mount, to Moslem authorities. He did it to appease their sensibilities to the Israeli capture of the city. Jewish rights were ignored to please the defeated Arabs, who had plotted our destruction. Dayan also prevented a mass exodus of Arabs from YESHA, which ultimately led to the problems we face today.
2. During the War of Attrition with Egypt (1969-70), the Israeli forces adopted primarily a defensive posture. They built a system of bunkers (The Bar Lev Line) along the Suez Canal. Israeli soldiers were heavily pounded daily by Egyptian artillery. Finally they began to use aircraft to strike targets deep into Egypt. The policy of restraint kept them from striking anything but military and minor economic targets. Israeli soldiers died because the government was inhibited from causing Egypt \'real\' pain.
3. The Yom Kippur War of 1973 is a classic example of restraint run amok. Israeli military intelligence did not fail to recognize the approaching danger as has been the common account. In fact, Israel\'s leaders made the political decision not to utilize the great power of the IDF to crush the Egyptian and Syrian armies that they KNEW were planning to attack. Thousands of Israeli soldiers died needlessly.
4. The Camp David Accord with Egypt was another example of the failure to exert Israeli power. The oil fields of Sinai would have given Israel economic independence from America. The cost of redeployment from Sinai placed Israel in almost permanent debt to American diplomacy (often pro-Arab). Did Israel achieve anything worthwhile at Camp David? I think not and believe history will bear me out. Egypt has become one of the most ant-Semitic and hostile Arab countries in the world. As a result of Camp David, the Egyptian army now threatens Israel, having been equipped with the most modern American weapons.
5. During the War in Lebanon (1982), the IDF reached Beirut and then failed to complete the destruction of the PLO. Our enemies were allowed to escape and prepare to fight another day. Why didn\'t the Israeli Navy sink the ships loaded with PLO troops (including Arafat) as they fled Beirut? RESTRAINT!
6. In 1987 the intifada began and the Israeli forces showed great restraint and thus were incapable of crushing it. Of course, Israel received no credit in the Western media for such restraint. The failure to defeat this uprising began a process of demoralization among the Israeli population.
7. The Persian Gulf War (1991) and the SCUD attacks on Israel led to further demoralization. The failure to adequately respond to Iraq\'s aggression and the humiliating sealed rooms, led to a rapid decline in Israeli morale and desire to defend itself. More and more Israelis began to feel impotent, weak and fatigued with the continuous battle for survival. The Oslo Accords were the logical outcome of this depression and feeling that they could not sustain the struggle.
8. The Oslo Accords (1993) were the ultimate failure of the policy of restraint. Israel like America actually was very powerful. The IDF was unequaled in the Middle East while the US was the most powerful nation in the world.! Yet despite this power, Israel\'s leaders, were ready to grant equal status to a band of murderers and ultimately create a state of "Palestine" which would challenge its right to the Land and its capital of Jerusalem.
9. Israeli forces in Lebanon should have been given a free hand to \'punish\' all those who facilitate attacks on them including Syria, Lebanon, and Iran. There should be no more agreements that tie Israeli hands.
The damage caused by havlagah (restraint) has been immense and it far past time to reverse that policy. Americans have been viciously attacked in Africa, Yeman, and Saudi Arabia. The attempt to try to criminalize terrorism has been a dreadful mistake. Terrorism is sponsored by states who allow their territory and funds to help the organization of terrorist. The Oslo agreement allowed Arafat to set up terrorist headquarters near Israel\'s heartland. From there he sent terrorists to attack Israel. With plausible deniability he claims "he is not responsible."
Dr. Aaron Lerner of the Independent Media Review & Analysis in Israel reports that Palestinians are celebrating attacks against USA across the West Bank Israel Radio reported this afternoon that young Palestinians across the West Bank are celebrating the terrorist attacks against the USA - waving Palestinian flags and handing out candy. There are reports of shooting in some places but it is not clear if it is Palestinian police trying to clear streets of celebrants or Palestinians shooting in the air.The largest crowd, according to Israel Radio, is in the Balata refugee camp.
The American State Department policy of equating terrorist and defender equally must stop. This kind of moral equivalency allows the terrorist to believe he can do no wrong.
Both America and Israel must massively and disproportionately retaliate for terrorist attacks. The murderers of Americans and Israelis must be stopped. It is not impossible but it will be a long and difficult battle.
Bernard J. Shapiro is Executive Director of the Freeman Center For Strategic Studies and editor of THE MACCABEAN ONLINE, its monthly Internet magazine.
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In todays increasingly volatile region, incidents like shooting death of an
IDF soldier have the potential to spark a wider escalation.
IDF troops on duty near Rosh Hanikra
IDF troops on duty near Rosh Hanikra Photo: Reuters
All indications are that the gunman who shot and killed an IDF soldier on the Lebanon border Sunday night, without any provocation or cause, was a Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) member who acted alone.
Urgent questions remain unanswered: Why did the LAF soldier pull the trigger? If he was indeed a rogue attacker, how will the LAF deal with him? And why did the IDF allow St.-Sgt. Maj. Shlomi Cohen, 31, to travel alone near the border in an unarmored vehicle at night? As the IDF investigates, the incident will serve as a reminder that the Lebanese border, usually calm and stable since the ceasefire that ended the 2006 Second Lebanon War, can still produce sudden outbursts of deadly violence at any time.
IDF officer killed in cross-border shooting laid to rest
In todays increasingly volatile region, such incidents have the potential to spark a wider escalation, one that could see Hezbollah and the IDF begin to trade blows. In fact, senior IDF commanders are seeing large-scale preparations by Hezbollah for its next clash with Israel.
The IDF too is readying itself.
Counteracting the explosive risks are stabilizing factors.
First among them is Israeli deterrence, which remains in place, based on the enemys understanding of the devastating firepower the IDF can employ. To bolster this deterrence, IDF units on the northern border have been given enough flexibility to respond immediately and forcefully to attacks against them.
Additionally, the IDFs methodical decision-making process, based on a careful assessment of the situation, helps prevent knee-jerk reactions.
That Hezbollah remains neckdeep in sectarian Shiite-Sunni fighting in Syria and faces growing numbers of attacks on its home court of Lebanon suggest it stands little to gain from opening up a second front against Israel.
Therefore, its involvement in Sundays incident appears unlikely.
For these reasons, the IDF chose to respond with restraint. (The shots fired by IDF soldiers soon after the initial shooting were in response to suspicious border activity and did not constitute retaliation.) The restraint is a reflection of the fact that it is not in either sides interest to escalate. This is especially true for the LAF, which, militarily speaking, is weak and would stand to lose a great deal in any clash with Israel.
Another stabilizing factor lies in the regular meetings by IDF officials with the LAF, as well as with representatives of the UN Interim Force In Lebanon (UNIFIL) to discuss border security. The talks are aimed at trying to prevent unnecessary developments.
The security dialogue will now enable the IDF to demand firm answers from the Lebanese military and, no less importantly, to deliver a clear warning that any repeat will jeopardize the borders stability in the future.
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Friday, January 24. 2014
by Bernard J. Shapiro
An Editorial for the January Maccabean Online
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
Since I completed my book, THE BATTLE FOR ERETZ YISRAEL, Jew, G-d and Israel, 1992-2011, I have not written very much. There is a good reason for that and it is a sad one.
It seems, as the French long ago said: " The more things change, the more they stay the same." Frankly, I am getting bored in my old age. I once believed that the rise of Israel took the Jews out of the Ghettos of Europe and the horror of the Holocaust. But it seems that it was easier to take the Jew out of the Ghetto than to take the Ghetto out of the Jew.
Once proud Sabras (native Israelis) now let Arab teenagers throw rocks and Molotov cocktails at them. They are trapped on the roads of the Holy Land, attacked with sniper fire and lynched. The Israeli police, border patrol and Israel Defense Forces let it happen.. Political correctness has run amok.
Jews can not pray on the Temple Mount, their holiest site. It is the site where Abraham, our father, was tested by G-d and proved his willingness to sacrifice his son Isaac as G-d commanded.. Arabs have re-written history and now claim that their was never a Jewish connection to our Holiest Site. They claim that Abraham, Jesus and other Jewish prophets were Moslems. They continue to destroy all traces of our connection to the site and the Israeli government does nothing. I would not tolerate it! I would throw the Waqf off the Temple Mount and replace them with unbiased Jewish police. Jews, Moslems and Christians will, of course be free to worship there.
Continue reading "REFLECTIONS OF A FRUSTRATED ZIONIST - 2014"
THE MACCABEAN, November 1998
Pollard's Wife to Globe and Mail: Set the Record Straight
October 25, 1998,
Dear Editor:
Re: Jewish-American Spy A Cause Celebre Around the World, Globe and Mail October 24, 1998.
From: Esther Pollard (Mrs. Jonathan Pollard)
When a man's fate and his very life hang in the balance, the Globe and Mail has an obligation to do its homework first, instead of recycling old canards and allegations. Contrary to what the Globe and Mail published, here are the facts:
He was never accused of treason. He was never indicted for treason. He was not charged with spying against the US, only with spying on behalf of Israel.
This is an old canard that the CIA trots out for the media with predictable regularity. In fact, Jonathan Pollard never had access to sources-and methods, or codes information . Even though the real culprits, (Aldrich Ames, David Boone and others), who compromised this sensitive information have since been arrested, the CIA has never stopped scapegoating Pollard for their crimes.
Jonathan Pollard has never been indicted for harming the United States, its agents, its property or its installations. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE THAT WOULD SUPPORT SUCH A CHARGE. The only information that Jonathan Pollard gave over to the Israeli Government was information related to the vital security of the State of Israel - information that the US had legally pledged to share with Israel.
Continue reading "POLLARD FILE PREPARED ESPECIALLY FOR JOE SAMUELS"
Thursday, July 18. 2013
Expectations, Satisfactions and Frustrations
by Bernard J. Shapiro
My first excitement about Israel came in 1956 with the Sinai Campaign. My grandmother was a leading member of Misrachi and we talked about Israel some and there was always a blue and white Jewish National Fund box in her home. My grandfather Harry W. Freeman was one of the founders of the Zionist Organization of America in Houston. But it was not until Israel burst onto the front pages of The Houston Chronicle in 1956 that I really believed it was real.
From that day on till today, I have read as much as possible about Israel. First books, magazines, faxes TV News. Now the Internet is a major source of news about Israel. In fact, my non-profit organization, the Freeman Center For Strategic Studies was a pioneer in Jewish advocacy with an early gopher before the World Wide Web was established.
Most of what I read and learned was from the David Ben-Gurion (Mapai - Labor Zionist) perspective. The other side of Israels story was mostly suppressed in Israeli history and literature. As a leader of both Hillel and founder of the Student Zionist Organization (UC Berkeley - 1960-64), I caught the attention of the Jewish Agency and was aided in my aliya to Israel (1964).
Continue reading "A ZIONIST REFLECTS ON ISRAEL"
Saturday, July 13. 2013
Diskin: Israel nears point of no return on two-state solution -NOT
Diskin: Israel nears point of no return on two-state solution -NOT
by Bernard J. Shapiro,
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies - July 13, 3013By YUVAL DISKIN, Jerusalem Post July 13
Despite his former Shin Bet military and intelligence service, this is the most stupid strategic analysis of Israel's policy I have ever read.
Diskin, an extreme leftist can not even see the what is right before his eyes. He also learns nothing from history. He is still pushing the "peace hoax" with the "so called Palestinians" long after the hoax is 20 years old with tens of thousands of Israelis killed and maimed.
He still blames Israel for lack of negotiations. I oppose negotiations, because one should never negotiate what is rightfully theirs. He cites false demographic data, ignoring the fine work of Yoram Ettinger. He also ignores the fact that birthrates change and Israel is subject to immigration.
A strong Zionist approach to the Arab minority problem would cause voluntary emigration of unhappy Arabs from Israel.
What would make them unhappy---not being able to kill Jews and convert Israel into Palestine. It does not bother me, if they are unhappy.
Monday, February 18. 2013
Good News From Israel -Feb 17
Good News From Israel -Feb 17
by Michael Ordman
In the 17th Feb 2013 edition of Israels good news, the highlights include:
· Israeli scientists have developed a cure for a disease causing millions of genetic deformities.
· Israels new parliament will have a larger proportion of women than those of the USA or UK.
· Israeli surfers saved 8 children from drowning in Hawaii.
· Israeli 3D printers can now print your false teeth.
· An Israeli company won the top award at the Munich CleanTech Conference.
· Israel exported 60 million flowers to Europe for Valentines Day.
· The UN heard first hand about the fruits of Israeli technology.
A cure for genetic deformities. A team including researchers from Israels Technion has developed an innovative technique that they believe will cure deformities and blindness caused by ectodermal dysplasia, which affects seven out of every 10,000 babies born in the world. Via in-vitro experiments, damaged cells caused by mutant p63 genes can be greatly improved using a chemical substance called PRIMA-APR246.
http://www.jpost.com/Health/ Article.aspx?id=302834
Israeli stem cells slow down blood cancer. Israels Gamida Cell Ltd. reported success in the Phase III clinical trial of its StemEx treatment for leukemia and lymphoma. Compared to a control group, far more patients receiving StemEx survived 100 days or more following transplantation.
http://www.gamida-cell.com/ press_item.asp?ID=53
Saving life in Armageddon. Emek Medical Center in Afula, is near Megiddo, the fabled site of Armageddon. The hospital treats 50% Jews and 50% Arabs. In 2012, the head of Emeks intensive care unit traveled with two nurses, to the Mulago Hospital in Kampala, Uganda, to open a new trauma center and train local staff.
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/ IsraelExperience/Coexistence- 24-Jan-2013.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=8DSH476DUrw&noredirect=1
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Sunday, January 27. 2013
A Saga of 4000 Years
by Bernard J. Shapiro
January 27, 2013
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The article, Christians Are Guilty of the Holocaust, by Giulio Meotti in Arutz Sheva yesterday is both painful and necessary for all Jews and Christians to read:
While I have studied this history over many years, his article was tough for even a scholar to fathom.
The Catholic Church was as bad as Jews believed possible, but Lutheranism was worse. Please read his article at the end of my commentary. As I have written many times before, I fear a Second Holocaust.
The reasons for this fear are many and well substantiated. The level of anti-Semitism is rising rapidly and have now reached the level of the 1930's. There are four kinds of anti-Semitism that today are mixing in todays world into a toxic formula for Jews. They are:
1. Traditional European Nationalist anti-Semitism. Jews are seen as a foreign race affecting the purity of the various nations.
2. The Christian religion, evolving between Catholic and protestant Jew haters. Various sects believe in the false accusations of deicide, blood libel and devil worship. Some just simply "replacement theology" (G-ds Israel is replaced by Christians).
3. The Islamic religious traditions based on the Koran. The Islamist philosophy ranks all nations servants of the true religion founded by Muhammad. It is a cruel and cold faith where murderers of Jews, Christians, Hindus and other non-Moslems are insured a place in paradise.
4. Once Jews became sovereign in their own land as the Holy Scriptures predicted, many non Jews began to fear retribution for the evil they meted out to the Jews over the last 3500 years.
Continue reading "JEWISH SURVIVAL IN THE WORLD TODAY"
Thursday, November 29. 2012
NOTES OF A FRUSTRATED ZIONIST- Not a Nice Jewish Boy
Notes From A Frustrated Zionist
Not a Nice Jewish Boy
by Bernard J. Shapiro,
Chairman and Editor of Publications
Freeeman Cednter For Strategic Studies
Like just about every Zionist, I am in terrible pain because of the continued diplomatic and strategic imbecility of the Israeli government. That doesn't mean that all members are equally bad, only that as a group they continue doing stupid things together.
1. Since Oslo (1993) they have chosen to empower our enemies.
2. The policy of retreat and appeasements which never worked with any nation in the history of the world, became an Israel strategic policy.
3. The minimize the importance of the PA bid for UN recognition as if the fact that they have already lost the battle for unbiased history. Nowhere in their thinking is the concept of fighting back.
4. Israeli's raised since the founding of the State of Israel to be Lions of Judah are led into battlefields, like lambs to the slaughter. Israeli civilians, woman, children and the elderly are forced to run for cover during missile barrages. Terrorists rip their bodies apart as if they were not even human. It all makes me think of the Holocaust. Never Again???
5. Since 1982 (Lebanon) the leftist establishment has used every Dirty Non-Democratic Trick in the book to destroy Zionism and the morale of true Israeli Patriots.
6. Israel's Attorney General, the Police, Border Patrol, Supreme Court, News Media, Shin Bet (Israel's Secret Service) and all the leftist pro Arab political parties (plus Arab terrorist political parties) all conspire to crush the democratic Zionist will of 95% of Israel's Jewish population.
7. To me, this is not Kosher. Only a change in the electoral system can force a change. Only a change in all branches of Israel's government from the Justice Department through the IDF Officer Corp and especially the powers of the Prime Minister. A quick look at Israeli shows that each minister and the very powerful PM have the ability to do the opposite of what they are elected to do.
8. This sickens and revolts me. I have written about it many time in the past. Unfortunately the left has emasculated the Zionists, dating back
to the Altalena. And before that Jabotinsky was silenced in Europe, as he warned about the coming Holocaust. [My grandfather, Harry W. Freeman was also waning Jews all over Texas about the dangers of Nazism in the 30's.]
Continue reading "NOTES OF A FRUSTRATED ZIONIST- Not a Nice Jewish Boy"
Wednesday, November 21. 2012
Bernard J. Shapiro Comments on "Ceasefire"
Bernard J. Shapiro Comments on "Ceasefire"
A ceasefire with barbarians is not a ceasefire. The war is just postponed while Hamas and other terrorists are free to re-arm and fight another day. The cost to Israel of constant war is immense.
My advice to the "learned" generals and politicians of Israel is simply:
1. Fight to win
2. Fight to destroy the enemy
3. Maximize not minimise civilian causulities as per Americans in WWII (Hiroshima and Dresden)
4. Islam is a barbarian blood worship cult that must be destroyed for Western Civilization to survive.
5. Jews will never be popular no matter how hard they try to be "nice Jewish boys and girls." I say be Lions of Judah and Roar.
6. There is no such thing as International Law, since Power is the driving force in all disputes between nations.
7. International players including American should never be consulted or depended upon the protect the Jewish People.
8. Left to the mercies of the West, Israel would have been destroyed long ago.
9. The thrust for delusional Peace beginning after 82 has caused a major deterioration in Israel Strategic Planing and the morale of its population.
10. Freeman Center experts led by me would deem Opperation Pillar of Defense a FAILURE. It will need to be repeated again and again, until It is done corectly as described above.
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Posted by Freeman Center For Strategic Studies in ISRAELI POLITICAL, JEWISH HISTORY at 20:26
Thursday, September 6. 2012
By Charles Bybelezer
September 6, 2012 -Daily Mailer, FrontPage
Recently, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to extend well-wishes on the occasion of Id al-Fitr, the Muslim holiday marking the end of Ramadan.
He did so despite the fact that Abbas continues to shun negotiations with the Jewish state and again has threatened to pursue a unilateral declaration of Palestinian statehood at the UN General Assembly in September.
Netanyahus goodwill gesture reportedly was followed by similar phone calls to Abbas by Israeli envoy Yitzhak Molcho and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak. Molcho also called PA Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad.
The calls came on the heels of other goodwill gestures made by Israel over the last few months aimed at coaxing the Palestinians back to the negotiating table; including, but not limited to:
1. The issuance of thousands of additional Israeli work permits to Palestinian laborers;
2. The advance to the PA on the eve of Ramadan of approximately NIS 200 million in levies collected by Israel on behalf of the Palestinians so that government salaries could be paid;
3. The signing of an economic accord with the PA in order to enhance trade;
4. The signing of a deal to end a hunger strike by Palestinians jailed in Israel, in which Israel even agreed to allow convicted terrorists to pursue academic studies;
5. The tabling of an offer, confirmed by PA Minister of Prisoner Affairs Issa Qaraqe, to release in four stages 125 Palestinian security prisoners, many of whom were convicted of murdering Israelis (the proposal was summarily rejected by Abbas, who demanded the prisoners be released simultaneously);
6. The transfer to the PA of the bodies of approximately 90 deceased terrorists, whose remains subsequently were glorified en masse in official ceremonies.
Continue reading "ISRAEL'S 'FUTILE GESTURES' "
Posted by Freeman Center For Strategic Studies in ISLAM, ISRAELI POLITICAL, JEWISH HISTORY, MEDIA BIAS, WORLD HISTORY at 10:40
Tuesday, September 4. 2012
To all Freeman Center members and supporters and all Lovers of Zion
We wish you a wonderful Shana Tova (Jewish New Year) filled with Joy, Health, Peace, Prosperity, Sweetness, Love and Security in the coming year.
Please remember all our hard work with a tax deductible contribution toward our continued success in 5773. Please contribute to The Freeman Center's essential educational activities.
Mail check to address above or by paypal:
Thank you.....Bernard
By Bernard J. Shapiro
Chairman and Editor of all Publications
As we approach the New Year 5773, I am reflecting over lifetime surpassing the biblical three score (20) and ten. I have seen a lot, learned a lot, suffered and been redeemed a lot. I am not a perfect Jew. I have many failings. The worst, I imagine, is my failure to understand Jewish ritual.
Since I was very young, I never seemed to follow authority. It didnt matter who it was: parent, political or religious leader. I was born a rebel and have been a rebel all my life. I was greatly influence by my grandfather, Harry W. Freeman, who had studied to be a Rabbi in the Russian-Polish Pale at the end of the 19th century. Like many young Jews of that period, he joined the Communist Party to overthrow the Czar. They believed that the Jews must be freed from the oppression and persecution that affected their daily life.
The Czars secret police blessed him by driving him out of country and he escaped to America. This saved him from Nazi extermination and thus I live today by that Mazal. He landed in Galveston, became an attorney and founded the first chapter of ZOA in Houston as the real solution to the "Jewish Question."
Continue reading "THE DAYS OF AWE (5773)"
Monday, October 17. 2011
by Jack Berger
Member of the Board of Directors
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
October 17, 2011
You are standing today, all of you (all generations) before Hashem, your G-d, from the heads of your tribes, your elders your children from the (highest) in society to the drawer of your water, for you to pass into the covenant Hashem, your G-d in order to establish you today as a people to Him and that He will be a G-d to you I call on heaven and earth today to bear witness against you. I have placed life and death before you, a blessing and a curse, you shall choose life so that you will live to dwell on the land that I swore to your forefathers (to your fathers and grandfathers) and to Abraham, Isaac and to Jacob. (Deut. 29-30)
Looking at the world today I think back to the words of Charles Dickens, It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us When I first read those words in high school, I believed that they were far removed from the rest of my life. America was in a simpler place. My only serious question was why wouldnt Sandy Koufax pitch the first game of the World Series after all was Yom Kippur really that big a deal and it wasnt like he wore a kippah and kept kosher. It was a time when questions hadnt been asked yet and didnt need to be answered. Today has caught up with yesterday.
For me, years before my Bar Mitzvah, I remember the words on our Day of Atonement. Words when secular Jewish friends of mine only came to synagogue one day a year would show up on Yom Kippur to hear who will live and who will die The profundity of that one line and its finite reality, its focus, its simple yet unambiguous statement is a statement that few Jews can turn away from or forget. The gift we have been given is the gift of time money comes, money goes, our days are moments as part of an eternity that we are only blessed to know for a very short time.
Continue reading "YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE"
Sunday, October 16. 2011
by David Basch
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
October 16, 20011
"The Arabs do indeed believe in a policy of decisive defeat
of Israel. What is more, unlike Israel, the Arabs have the
manpower and the religious ideology to weather the war
of attrition that Boobi acquiesces in...."
At every stage of the conflict -- except for times before election --
Boobi Netanyahu has shown in his important acts that he is a true
believer in the Arabs as partners to Israel's ultimate peace.
Note that before every election Israelis heard Boobi's silver tongue
going on record as backing uncompromising, hard line programs
to beat back the designs of the Arab enemy. Yet, when in office, he
consistently betrayed these right wing preferments.
Continue reading "ISRAEL'S CHARACTER FLAWED LEADERSHIP"
Posted by Freeman Center For Strategic Studies in ISLAM, ISRAELI POLITICAL, JEWISH HISTORY, MILITARY/STRATEGIC at 13:24
Monday, September 26. 2011
by ADINA KUTNICKI
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
September 26, 2011
(Editors Note: The author variously uses the terms GSS [General Security Services], Shin Bet, Shabak, ISA [Israel Security Agency]. They are all names for Israels internal security service.]
In western democracies, a persons home is considered his castle. Therefore, if a government banishes a citizen from his home, the act must be based on a judicious interpretation of the law. The detainee must present a clear and present danger.
Chief Justice Aharon Barak, previous president of the Supreme Court, underscored his belief in this principle, albeit not from a perspective which protects the rights of Jewish nationalists. On July 15, 2002, Justice Barak ruled in the Ajuri case: Our point of departure is that in principle removing a person from his dwelling place and forcibly moving him someplace else causes serious harm to his self respect, his freedom, and his possessions. A persons home is not only a roof over his head, it is the means for establishing his physical and social relationships. A number of a persons basic human rights are harmed when he is forcibly removed to another place , even if such a move does not involve an international crossing. Tragically, his legal opinion was rendered in relation to the protection of the civil and human rights of terrorists! The security services recommended their expulsion from Nablus to Gaza, and the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the terrorists.
Even the pro-Arab Btselem human rights organization is unhappy about administrative detention/expulsion orders, stating: Undoubtedly the state should act determinedly against settlers who harm Palestinians and their property, but the way to achieve this is via criminal proceedings and not administrative orders that are based on confidential information.
Continue reading "ADMINISTRATIVE DETENTION ORDERS AGAINS JEWISH NATIONALISTS"
Thursday, September 22. 2011
By Bernard J. Shapiro
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
September 22, 2011
My Dear Subscribers and Lovers of Zion,
Another year has passed and we find Israel in a more perilous situation than any year since the War of Independence. The Israel Defense Forces are powerful and fully capable of destroying all enemies.
But there is a mighty force that prevents the activation of this force to protect the People of Israel. That force is a polititical, media, judicial, secret service, border police and left wing military elite, who have chosen to permit Arab terrorist to gain dominance in our Holy Land. They deliberately prosecute, persecute and destroy the Builders of Zion and turn a blind eye to the pervasive theft of the Land of Israel by terrorists.
When an Arab attacks a Jew, the Jew is prosecuted for defending himself. The Arab goes free to harass, steal and attack more Jews in the future. There is no deterrence. They laugh at the Jews, like the Nazis did during the Holocaust, as they striped them naked and marched them to their death.
I will not be silent as the Israel, we prayed for over 2000 years, is destroyed by week and incompetent leadership. Leadership that has lost the Zionist passion of the Maccabees, Bar Kochba, Ben Gurion, Jabotinzky, Stern and Kahane.
On this Rosh HaShona, may the Almighty give strength to his People Israel and courage to fight for survival, even if everyone in the World is against them. May the friends of the Freeman Center be blessed with Health, Love, Prosperity, Security and Peace.......Bernard
PS. Attached are the Hardback and paper covers (also E-book) of my new book, due out on Amazon before Chanukah and Christmas.
Posted by Freeman Center For Strategic Studies in BERNARD J. SHAPIRO, ISRAELI POLITICAL at 19:18
Friday, September 16. 2011
By Steven Plaut
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
September 16, 2011
As you know, much of the world is getting ready to recognize a state
for Palestinians in coming days. The US may veto the vote in the
Security Council to set up Palestine in Israeli lands, and then
again maybe it will not veto it. Other countries are going ahead with
plans to vote for Palestine in the General Assembly, to grant
Palestine embassy space, to grant it formal recognition, and so on.
After years of paying lip service to the righteous need for granting
Palestinians a state, Netanyahu and his cowardly crew are scratching
their heads about what to do and how to stop all this. The best Bibi
has come up with is a plan to give a speech in that building on the
East River near 42nd street.
Continue reading "LET'S VOTE FOR INDEPENDENCE!!"
Posted by Freeman Center For Strategic Studies in POLITICAL SATIRE at 06:15
Thursday, August 18. 2011
by David Basch
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
August 18, 2011
"Tit for tat responses by Israel -- the standard Israeli response
to attack -- is merely an encouragement of the enemy."
Israel this morning is paying another installment on the bill she
incurred when she surrendered Gaza to the enemy and enabled Gaza to
become a dangerous Arab military base.
This fact needs to be called loudly to the attention of Israelis, who
are among the most liberal, ideologically obsessed persons on earth.
They have all too often followed the rosy line of the leftists that
have led the nation to blunder after blunder, surrendering land,
diplomatic posture, and moral standing. Confidence in the leftist
way should have already been scuttled by its dismal failures.
Continue reading "PAYING AN INSTALLMENT ON THE TERRORISM BILL"
Posted by Freeman Center For Strategic Studies in MILITARY/STRATEGIC at 15:07
Friday, June 10. 2011
by David Basch
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
June 10, 2011
"Unless Israel's people and government wake up immediately
to the Arab knife being brought ever closer to the Israeli
throat and develop effective tactics for Israel's survival
... through bringing the Arab war deep into enemy strongholds
and denying him the means and the strategic position to
defeat Israel, the dangerous possibilities of Israeli defeat
forever linger. But the needed Israeli action can only be
undertaken when Israel wakes up to the implacable nature of
the enemy, ..."
What supporter of Israel can have confidence in the Jewish State if
up to this date the country refuses to recognize the reality of the
800 pound gorilla in the room, that the Arab goal is to destroy
In that context, it is evident that the Arab enemy uses negotiations
only as a means to further that deadly goal. That enemy tactic has
worked splendidly for the Arabs, giving them a steady stream of step
by step Israeli surrenders without the Arabs themselves having to make
a single concession to Israel.
It is not reassuring to contemplate that Israel remains in a perpetual
strategic fog, unable to recognize the deadly aim of its Arab
adversary. Failing to recognize this, Israel continually rejects
decisive action against the enemy since it fears an angry Arab
reaction that will foreclose what is the delusional possibility of a
peace agreement.
Continue reading "800 POUND GORILLA IN THE ROOM"
Posted by Freeman Center For Strategic Studies in ISLAM, ISRAELI POLITICAL, JEWISH HISTORY, MILITARY/STRATEGIC at 12:05
Friday, May 13. 2011
by David Bash
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
May 13, 2011
"Has Israel at this point gone over the edge, beyond
recouping the conditions of "secure and recognized
borders" agreed to in UN Resolution 242,...?"
Shimon Peres demonstrates that political views are more related to
character than to facts. Given a personal character obsessed to be
more righteous than any biblical divinity, the resulting views are
correspondingly bizarre, going against necessities for defense and
long term self preservation. That is the lesson we may learn from
Peres's career. to prove this, just check out Peres's views as revealed
in a recent interview in the Jerusalem Post.
Continue reading "LEARNING FROM THE PAST"
Monday, May 9. 2011
by Bernard J. Shapiro
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
May 9, 2011
No one should fool themselves into thinking that giving the Arabs of Judea and Samaria Jordanian citizenship would solve anything in the long run. Jordan is not as friendly (population wise) as we are led to believe. Though the government is helpful and friendly, that could change in the blink of an eye. Should American troops leave Iraq and it falls to Iran, the consequences would be severe for Israel. With Syria, Lebanon, and Gaza under Iranian control, it could easily extend its reach to Jordan and the Judean-Samarian ridge overlooking Israel's vulnerable coast.
My Bottom Line (Conclusion)
Israel's central problem is psychological and no amount of beautiful rhetoric and wonderful proposals can change that.
When will the Nationalist Camp realize that we are "at war already" with the PLO/Hamas/Hezbollah supporting tyranny (the LEFT) that rules Israel? At what point will Israelis realize that the CIVIL WAR they fear, IS ALREADY TAKING PLACE AND THEY ARE LOSING? When will the true Zionists take over Israel and rid the country of the Arab and Jewish traitors.
After 2000 years of homelessness, we are privaliged in this generation to see a new and productive Jewish State. Why do we let these evildoers threaten to take it from our hands.
Continue reading "ISRAEL INDEPENDENCE AFTER 63 YEARS"
Thursday, May 5. 2011
by Bernard J. Shapiro
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
May 5, 2011
When I founded the Freeman Center back in 1992, I gave a copy of Bibi's book, A PLACE AMONG THE NATIONS, everyone joining. I was very impressed at the clear understanding of history and the Jewish place in it. I especially appreciated the chapter on Czechoslovakia and how it related to the current Arab-Israeli issues.
Now, we see the pitiful image of Israel's PM running after the princes of Europe hat in hand. Does he have no pride? Does he not know how powerful Israel is really? Has he not read the articles of Paul Eidelberg and Yoram Ettinger broadcast here for the world to see?
Despite protestations of Israel's Supreme Court of the Arab People (and not Jews), there is NO SUCH THING AS INTERNATIONAL LAW!!! The only thing that has ever mattered in world history is POWER. Machiavelli knew it. So did Lao Tsu, Muhammed, Pol Pot, Genghis Khan, Julius Caesar, Napoleon, Mao, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin.
Power can be used for good or evil. The defense of Israel and the Jewish People is the most righteous use of power in the course of human history.
Continue reading "FREEMAN CENTER DISGUSTED AT BIBI GROVELING BEFORE ANTI-SEMITES OF EUROPE"
Wednesday, May 4. 2011
by David Basch
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
May 4, 2011
"To the clear eyed, two states living peacefully
side-by-side in what has been Israeli controlled
Mandate of Palestine territories has been a figment
of the imagination. The Arabs had wanted a new
state only as a stop-gap on the way to the elimination
of Israel...."
"One must live in dread of the proposals that Netanyahu
will be presenting to the US Congress in days ahead."
What I think I see developing before my eyes is the birth of a new
Arab state on Israel's lands. Israel's Leftists and their
collaborators -- which include Netanyahu -- will at long last be
achieving their dream. Once upon a time they had dreamed of a Jewish
state living in safety and security on their ancestral lands, but,
this in the last decades, this had given way to their powerful and
exciting dream of a new Arab state.
Continue reading "THINGS TO COME? WILL ISRAEL SURVIVE?"
Thursday, April 28. 2011
by David Basch
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
April 27, 2011
"How anyone can conclude that carving out an Arab nation
from the unalloted lands of the Mandate of Palestine that Israel
today controls is a recipe for peace is every bit as nonsensical
as the other theory that Palestine is the core problem of the
Middle East region...."
"Who in his right mind thinks that surrendering nationhood to the
Palestinian Arabs would end the many decades of Arab strife? "
"I do not know what Dr. Asa Kasher smokes but, if we analyze his
view, he has no basis for concluding that the Arabs that Israel
confronted in 1948 have a right to a state...."
Continue reading "DANGEROUS MYTHS THAT REMAIN"
by Steven Plaut
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
April 28, 2011
It was in the year 2013. The Israelis at long last gave up their
attempts to resist the pressures of the world. Their newly elected
national unity government approved the plan. The Palestinians, led by
a coalition of the PLO and the Hamas, had already earlier announced
the creation of a Palestinian state. Israels Left had been holding
weekly protests in support of Palestinian statehood. When the UN had
officially and unanimously called for such a state, even the United
States of Barack Obama voted in favor.
The national unity government of Israel announced that Israel was
willing to accept the unanimous UN proposal for peace, supported by
every single country in the world. Israel would return to its
pre-1967 borders, remove all Jewish settlements from the territories
of the new state of Palestine, recognize Palestine, and grant
Palestine all of East Jerusalem, that is, all of the city located east
of a line running north-south through Zion Square, renamed Martyrs
Continue reading "SATIRE - PEACE AT LAST"
Posted by Freeman Center For Strategic Studies in ISRAELI POLITICAL, POLITICAL SATIRE at 10:22
Sunday, April 24. 2011
by David Basch
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
April 24, 2011
"The question is whether PM Netanyahu's next proposal
will mark a new direction in negotiation -- one that
walks Israel back from earlier surrender agreements that
should be declared nul and void on grounds of the perfidious
performance of the Arab enemy."
It has been PM Netanyahu's unhappy lot that he has been the one called
on to make fateful decisions for Israel and the Jewish people. Maybe
that statment should be corrected that it is Israel and the Jewish
people's unhappy lot that it is he that is called on to decide these
issues for them. Reflecting on what has happened, he has not done well
for them.
One need only recall that in his first term as PM, elected to stand
fast on behalf of Israel against the Oslo process that was delivering
Israel into the hands of those that sought to destroy the nation, he
failed to stop it in its tracks and even expanded it by contributing
the early surrender of additional large portions of Hebron to the
Arabs. A decade later, after running on another right wing program, he
became the first Israeli leader to subscibe to a Palestinian State.
Leading up to this, he was also for the surrender of Gaza, the very
surrender that brought Israel's southern cities under Arab
Continue reading "FATEFUL DECISION COMING FOR ISRAEL"
Posted by Freeman Center For Strategic Studies in WORLD HISTORY at 11:40
Sunday, April 3. 2011
They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth... ...Plato
"The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see." ... Ayn Rand
Barak has raised the idea of a separation between the PA and Israel. It is not a new idea and as far back as 1995 I explained why it won't work. Here is that article. Today in 2011 his big "idea" is missile shields. They won't work either. Anit-missiles systems are very expensive and the terrorists can keep producing thousands of cheap missiles to overwhelm them.
The Primary Fallacy
By Bernard J. Shapiro (1995)
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
The Maccabean Online
The idea of separation has much appeal to an Israeli population feeling threat0ened daily by hostile Arabs. The Israeli government recently advanced an elaborate plan to construct hi-tech fences and new military checkpoints between Israel and the Palestinian West Bank in an effort to reduce the risk of militant violence. Israeli security officials brought the plan before the Knesset a day after Islamic extremists opened fire on an Israeli bus near the West Bank town of Hebron, killing two Jewish settlers and wounding five. The separation plan involves building extensive fences, other barriers and restricting Palestinian access into Israel through eight to ten crossings points.
The border would be heavily patrolled by Israeli soldiers and police. Cost estimates range from $300 million to $500 million. An economic report on the draft plan said the cost would be too high and separation would lead to political and economic instability in the PLO areas, perhaps intensifying the danger of attacks from opponents of the Israeli-PLO peace process. Analysts such as Dore Gold, Emanuel Winston and Ze'ev Schiff have discussed many of the reasons why it simply won't work.
For another reason why it is the wrong approach to security, it is worth repeating a story I wrote, which appeared in an article entitled, DETERRENCE OR DHIMMIZATION (THE MACCABEAN, January 1995): Back in 1965, in a small meeting room in Tel Aviv, former Defense Minister Moshe Dayan gave a pep talk to a group of RAFI (Rishimat Poalai Israel) volunteers, myself included. At that time, RAFI, a breakaway faction of the Mapai Party, included such notables as former Prime Minister David Ben Gurion and former Defense Minister Shimon Peres. Peres and Dayan had been considered the "hawks" of Mapai and it was no accident that in the 1965 election they supported a strong defense and security policy.
Continue reading "DEFENSE VS. OFFENSE - BARAK VS. SHAPIRO"
Monday, February 21. 2011
By Bernard J. Shapiro
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
February 21, 2011
How Israel Should Respond to Recognition of PA
The Israeli policy of expressing regret as country after country recognizes the terrorist PA as a legitimate country is foolish. [See article below:] Such a country, ripped from the heart of Israel is both an economic absurdity, but a serious and existential threat to Israel's survival.
1. Withdraw Israeli ambassador and expel that countries ambassador
2. Immediately renounce OSLO, re-occupy YESHA and launch a new military offensive to root out terrorists
3. And finally annex YESHA and make the whole recognition problem mute.
1. Very simple, sink them preemptively
2. No warnings, no threats, no words like "unfortunate, provocative"
3. Just sink them and let their ambassador to Israel complain to the FM and PM. Oh I forgot, they don't recognize Israel, so who cares.
4. If the UN takes up the issue then withdraw from the UN and expel all UN personel from Israeli territory.Who needs that anti-Semitic organization
5. If the US, EU, or Arab/Muslim Nations complain then respond by sending them a short not. It should say: This is the NEW ISRAEL. Wild and Crazy so you had better not MESS WITH US. It is a great slogan for Texas ("Don't Mess With Texas"), why not Israel.
Watch our deterence level shoot up. In a rough neighborhood like the Middle East, it is always better to be feared than loved.
Continue reading "MORE COMMENTS OF A FRUSTRATED ZIONIST"
Sunday, February 20. 2011
SHAPIRO COMMENTS ON ETTINGER -Israel America's Unique Ally
by Bernard J. Shapiro
Greeman Center For Strategic Studies
February 20, 2011
As always Yoram Ettinger writes a clear and well researched article. No one can improve on what he does. My complaint is more political and strategic. Most of us know about how important Israel is to America. That will never change the 100 years of hostility to Jews and Israel by the US State Department, CIA, NSA, Justice Department and especially the current White House.
1. Given all the facts enumerated below, why doesn't Ettinger NOT DEMAND that America treat Israel as a strategic ally and NOT "banana repuplic."
2. And more important, why have Israeli and Jewish leaders groveled before the US like the weak ghetto Jews of the past.
Back in pre WWll days Ze'ev Jabotinsky understood the strategic needs of the Jewish People both in Europe but also in Israel. His ideas harkened back to the great Israelite warriors who conquered Eretz Yisrael (Israel) during biblical times. Leaders like Joshua, David, The Maccabees, Shinshon, and Bar Kochba.He was silenced by the organized Jewish leadership. After his death in 1940 was maliciously barred from burial in Israel until Menachem Begin was elected in the late 1970's.
During, days still fresh enough for me to remember, new warriors emerged to fight for Israel. Though they had many flaws (we all do), people like David Ben Gurion, Menachem Begin, Avraham Stern, Ariel Sharon and Moshe Dayan and Yoni Netanayhu led the country to many victories on the battlefield. Others like Moshe Arens, Rabbi Meir Kahane zl and Herb Zweibon zl (AFSI) and Moton Klien (ZOA), Emanuel A. Winston fought their battles for Israel on the political front. Caroline Glick, Prof. Paul Eidelberg, Steven Plaut, Helen Freedman (AFSI), Nadia and Ruth Matar (Women in Green) have fought both on the ground and politically.
Continue reading ""
Thursday, January 27. 2011
by David Basch
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
January 26, 2011
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. But ..."
Learning from reports that Israeli governments have been in communication with
Arab leaders, who are reported as desiring peace -- now where have I heard that
before? -- is not any report that I can be hopeful about. I certainly don't trust the
Arabs and certainly not Israeli leaders who, time and again, are led on the basis
of Arab promises to drop Israel's guard.
After all, did not old Yassir promise the leftist negotiators and Rabin that he wanted
peace? And what happened? On the basis of Yassir's encouraging words, Israel
brought that terrorist and his whole terrorist Arab army back to Israel, set them
up in control of enclaves and gave them all kinds of Israeli aid, so that they could
strike against Israel, producing intifadas and dead and maimed Israelis galore.
Continue reading "ANOTHER ARAB RUSE IN THE MAKING?"
Posted by Freeman Center For Strategic Studies in ISLAM, ISRAELI POLITICAL, MILITARY/STRATEGIC at 04:22
Friday, January 21. 2011
TRIBUTE TO HERB ZWEIBON z"l (of blessed memory)
TRIBUTE TO HERB ZWEIBON z"l (of blessed memory)
Bernard J. Shapiro
David Wilder
[Freeman Center Note]: I woke up at 3:AM CST feeling something was wrong. I went to my computer and was shocked to read the tribute below to Herb Zweibon z"l (of blessed memory) by David Wilder. Herb was a dear friend of mine and not just a perpetual inspiration. We first met in 1990 at an AFSI National meeting in New York. Though a long time Zionist, Herb presented me with a coherent serious Zionist ideology with out the wishy washy fuzziness of other Jewish Organizations. From that day forward, AFSI and I were in sync.
I founded and AFSI chapter in Houston (1990) and then started the Freeman Center For Strategic Studies in 1993. Herb became a member of the Freeman Center's Board of Directors and I was on the Board of AFSI. We worked together for Eretz Yisrael. When upset or depressed at the foolish and dangerous events in the world and Israel, I would frequently call Herb. Herb always took the time to talk to me and keep me motivated. If we need money to keep operating, Herb always would send me a generous check.
Jabotinsky and Shmuel Katz were his intellectual and ideological teachers, but Herb was mine. I loved him and will miss him more than words can say.......
.......Bernard J. Shapiro, Chairman
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
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BioShock (Xbox 360) review
"The setting of Rapture is unique, which in horror-themed FPS terms means the developers were free to pull off new environmental tricks like having water leaking in through the windows, or making the walls creak from the pressure in addition to the usual flickering lights and distant screams. Irrational also knew how to handle irony and awkward juxtaposition, too. Watching a little girl in a pink dress whos stabbing corpses with a giant syringe get attacked by a bunch of lunatics wielding rusty pipes is unsettling. Its even more unsettling when it all unfolds as How Much Is That Doggy in the Window? plays on an old turntable in the background."
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Recovery slow as Japan marks 2 years since tsunami
Japan is remembering the moment two years ago when a massive earthquake hit the northern part of the country, triggering a tsunami and nuclear meltdown. 300,000 remain displaced by the triple disaster. (March 11) AP
TOKYO (AP) — Japan marked the second anniversary on Monday of a devastating earthquake and tsunami that left nearly 19,000 people dead or missing and more than 300,000 people still displaced.
At memorial observances in Tokyo and in barren towns along the northeastern coast, those gathered bowed their heads in a moment of silence marking the moment, at 2:46 p.m. on March 11, 2011, when the magnitude 9.0 earthquake — the strongest recorded in Japan's history — struck off the coast.
"I pray that the peaceful lives of those affected can resume as soon as possible," Emperor Akihito said at a somber service at Tokyo's National Theater.
Japan has struggled to clean up radiation from the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, whose reactors melted down after its cooling systems were disabled by the tsunami, and rebuild lost communities along the coast. A new government elected in December has vowed faster action, but has yet to devise a post-disaster energy strategy — a central issue for its struggling economy.
About half of those displaced are evacuees from areas near the nuclear plant. Hundreds of them filed a lawsuit Monday demanding compensation for their suffering and losses.
Throughout the disaster zone, the tens of thousands of survivors living in temporary housing are impatient to get resettled, a process that could take up to a decade, officials say.
"What I really want is to once again have a 'my home,' " said Migaku Suzuki, a 69-year-old farm worker in Rikuzentakata, who lost the house he had just finished building in the disaster. Suzuki also lost a son in the tsunami, which obliterated much of the city.
Farther south, in Fukushima prefecture, some 160,000 evacuees are uncertain if they will ever be able to return to abandoned homes around the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, where three reactors melted down and spewed radiation into the surrounding soil and water after the tsunami knocked out the plant's vital cooling system.
The lawsuit was filed by a group of 800 people in Fukushima against the government and Tokyo Electric Power Co., the utility that operates the now-closed Fukushima plant. It demands an apology payment of 50,000 yen ($625) a month for each victim until all radiation from the accident is wiped out, a process that could take decades.
Evacuees are anxious to return home but worried about the potential, still uncertain risks from exposure to the radiation from the disaster, the worst since Chernobyl in 1986.
While there have been no clear cases of cancer linked to radiation from the plant, the upheaval in people's lives, uncertainty about the future and long-term health concerns, especially for children, have taken an immense psychological toll on thousands of residents.
"I don't trust the government on anything related to health anymore," said Masaaki Watanabe, 42, who fled the nearby town of Minami-Soma and doesn't plan to return because the radiation in the ground is too high.
In Kawauchi, one of many towns with varying degrees of access restrictions due to radiation, village chief Yuko Endo is pinning his hopes on the success of a long decontamination process that may or may not enable hundreds of residents to return home.
Much of the area is off-limits, though some restrictions gradually are being lifted as workers remove debris and wipe down roofs by hand.
Many residents might give up on returning if they are kept waiting too long, he said.
"If I were told to wait for two more years, I might explode," said Endo, who is determined to revive his town of mostly empty houses and overgrown fields. "After spending a huge amount of money, with the vegetable patches all cleaned up and ready for farming, we may end up with nobody willing to return."
A change of government late last year has raised hopes that authorities might move more quickly with the cleanup and reconstruction.
Since taking office in late December, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has made a point of frequently visiting the disaster zone, promising faster action, and plans to raise the long-term reconstruction budget to 25 trillion yen ($262 billion) from 19 trillion yen (about $200 billion).
"We must speed up the reconstruction effort for the survivors who are living with heart and soul," Abe said in an address at the memorial service. "I believe that would be a way to serve justice for the perished, whose spirits are looking after us from the heaven."
Hopes for a significant improvement may be misplaced, said Hiroshi Suzuki, chairman of the Fukushima Prefectural Reconstruction Committee.
"There have been no major changes by the new government in response to the nuclear accident, though the budget has been increased," he said. "If the reconstruction budget continues to serve as a tool for expanding public works spending, then I believe local societies and economist will be undermined."
Another lingering problem is discrimination against evacuees from Fukushima.
Watanabe, who used to work for a company maintaining the nuclear plant's lighting systems, said his sons are sometimes shunned or taunted by classmates who say things like, "Don't come near me. You're radioactive."
Many fear their children will find it hard to find spouses due to worries over potential long-term harm from radiation, Suzuki said.
The struggles to rebuild and to cope with the nuclear disaster are only the most immediate issues Japan is grappling with as it searches for new drivers for growth as its export manufacturing lags and its society ages.
Towns impatient to rebuild face the stark reality of dwindling, aging populations that are shrinking still further as residents give up on ever finding new jobs in areas where the backbone industries of fish processing and tourism were wrecked by the tsunami or paralyzed by the nuclear crisis.
Decommissioning the nuclear plant could take 40 years as its operator works on finding and removing melted nuclear fuel from inside its reactors, disposing of spent fuel rods and treating the many tons of contaminated waste water used to cool the reactors.
Japan's 54 nuclear reactors shut down for regular inspections and then special tests to check their disaster preparedness, though two restarted last summer, to help meet power shortages. While polls show the majority of Japanese remain opposed to restarting more nuclear plants, Abe's government has indicated it favors restarting those that meet revised safety standards.
The government looks likely to back away from a decision to phase out nuclear power by the 2030s: Abe says it may take a decade to decide on what Japan's energy mix should be.
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Do Blondes Really Have More Fun?
(NEW YORK) -- The blond gods and goddesses worshiped by ancient Greeks and Romans may have owed their glamorous locks to an extraordinarily complex but incredibly tiny change in the part of the genome that determined what they looked like.
And all these years later, that same mutation is still at work, grinding out humans with golden hair, some of whom are worshiped today.
New research showing how one small change in DNA -- the master plan for each organism -- altered the course of human history by introducing blonds to the world thousands of years ago also adds a little credibility to the notion that gentlemen really do prefer blondes.
"Blond is a color that has been alluring for a long time in European culture," where the first blonds appeared as early humans worked their way north, David Kingsley, professor of development biology at Stanford University and senior author of a study published in the journal Nature Genetics, said in a telephone interview.
Kingsley really isn't all that interested in why blondes are held in such high esteem, or even why a small percentage of humans have blond hair. He wants to know how that change came about.
For the past few years scientists have been intrigued by the traits that make me different from you, and they are making significant progress in figuring out how different genes do different things.
It seemed so much simpler just a couple of decades ago. It was widely believed that genes were turned on, or off, (called expressed) so if you wanted to cure cancer, all you had to do was figure out which gene to shut down, or crank up, depending on whether that gene caused or cured cancer.
But the human genome project shattered that simple myth.
Kingsley's study vividly demonstrates that a single gene can do many things, and it doesn't have to be turned on or off. It can be "dialed up, or down," said Kingsley, who is also a scientific investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
To create a line of brown mice with blondish hair, the scientists just had to tweak the expression of a single gene by about 20 percent. That same gene is responsible for many other functions throughout the mouse genome, and it continued on with its other duties, unaffected by that small change.
That is the same process that has been passed from one human generation to the next since the first blonds appeared.
Kingsley said scientists now think only a very small percent of DNA actually does what they used to think was the only function of genes, producing proteins to build everything from heart muscles to skin cells. Instead, he said, most of the DNA is part of the genome's internal regulatory system, turning some genes on or off, or dialing them up or down.
That's why a single gene -- like the one that produces blond hair -- can do many things in many places.
"I like the analogy of zone controlled heat," he said. "You have a furnace in the house, you've got thermostats in different rooms and you can dial up or down the heat and adjust the temperature in a single room."
If the furnace stops working, every room gets cold. But if a thermostat in one room is changed, only that room is affected. And that's what occurred in his mice.
Adjusting the "thermostat" by just 20 percent produced a change in hair color, but other functions attributed to that same gene elsewhere in the body continued uninterrupted.
This gene is not the only one involved in producing blond hair color. There are about six other genes involved, but it's significant that tweaking this gene, and only this gene, produced such a dramatic result.
Again, these scientists aren't trying to figure out how to produce more blonds. That ambition died out with Nazi Germany. What they want to do is determine which of the millions of genes needs to be tweaked, and how much, to help the body fight a specific illness, or respond to a certain drug, without messing up the entire system.
That's a huge challenge, but this research, like others, suggests it's possible.
But does it really say anything about an evolutionary preference for blonds?
Evolution is based on natural selection -- an organism selects a mutation because it is useful -- like a cave man who can whip every guy in the clan. He's so admired that he mates often, passing on his muscle genes to many offspring, who eventually become dominant.
However, Charles Darwin and many biologists since have argued over something called "sexual selection." Do we select some mutations because they make us sexy?
Birds do, obviously. Bright plumage attracts mates, so the birds with fancy feathers produce more offspring.
That would suggest sexual selection is why so many women become blondes, either with or without chemical aids.
But not necessarily, according to Kingsley. The same gene that produces blond hair also is involved in lighter skin pigment. As early humans moved north out of Africa, they encountered a much less sunny climate and no longer needed the dark skin that protected them from ultraviolet radiation from the sun, so they "selected" for lighter skin, which helped them absorb more vitamin D.
That clearly is a survival advantage. But blond hair?
Maybe we like blonds just because they are different. Humans started out with dark hair, dark skin and dark eyes. The first blonds appeared in northern Europe and Scandinavia, and have since turned up in other areas, including the Solomon Islands northeast of Australia, known for the darkest skin outside of Africa.
The appearance of blond natives in the Solomon Islands was due to a gene mutation that was completely different from the change that introduced blondness to Europe, and it had an unpleasant effect. The first natives on those islands who showed up with blond hair were treated as freaks.
By the way, not all blonds were gods and goddesses among the ancient Greeks and Romans. Prostitutes also colored their hair blond.
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Fun was built into every millimeter of the thinnest, lightest iPod touch. It does more than ever, more powerfully than ever, from playing games to playing music to just playing around. And everything looks tremendous on the 4-inch Retina Display.
iPod touch features a 6-mm ultrathin design and brilliant, 4-inch Retina display. The front-facing FaceTime HD camera lets you make video calls, record HD video, and capture self-portraits. Discover music, movies, and more from the iTunes Store, or browse apps and games from the App Store. And with iOS 6—the world's most advanced mobile operating system—you get Siri, iMessage, Facebook integration, Game Center, and more.
It's the thinnest, lightest iPod touch ever.
For the first time, iPod touch is made from the same kind of anodized aluminum used in the MacBook line. And it's made the same way too: By machining the enclosure from a single piece of aluminum. The first thing you'll notice about iPod touch is its barely-there weight. Then its supersmooth finish. Then all those Apple details — like the highly polished beveled edges. And iPod touch is made from one of the strongest grades of aluminum there is. Which means that it not only looks and feels incredible, it's tough enough to tag along on more than a few nights out.
Keep fun close at hand.
The iPod touch loop is a colorful way to keep your iPod touch at the ready.* That's perfect for when you want to shoot from a hard-to-reach camera angle. Flip iPod touch up to type a quick iMessage. Or just sport it when you're pocketless. The loop also keeps your iPod touch safe, so you don't have to worry about a slip, fumble, drop, or overzealous robot dance.
The loop is easy to attach and detach.
Just push the button on the back, slide the loop over it, give the loop a little tug, and you're good to go. The design is so streamlined, you won't even notice the button until you need it.
Brilliant design.
When you see iPod touch for the first time, you won't believe your eyes. But when you hold it in your hand — that's when you get how unbelievable it is. It weighs next to nothing, yet it's no lightweight: It still does all the gaming, surfing, messaging, and everything else you love, more powerfully than ever.
4-inch Retina display. Big fun.
iPod touch has a 4-inch Retina display, so all your fun has a beautiful canvas. Your hairpin car-racing turns, your dance party playlist, your favorite celeb gossip site — everything is sharp, vivid, and lifelike. And the display is a perfect widescreen fit for your HD movies and TV shows because you can watch them all without letterboxing.
One hand rules the screen
The Retina display is tall but not wide. That means everything you do on iPod touch can be a one-handed operation, and your thumb has room to roam. The display is advanced, with finger-friendly Mulit-touch technology built into the glass instead of beneath it. So less gets between you and y our games, music, messages – whatever you love to see and do.
FaceTime camera. Smile.
The front-facing FaceTime HD camera lets you make video calls, record HD video, and capture self-portraits.
Dual-core A5 chip. Power meets play.
It's the most powerful iPod touch ever. That's because the dual-core A5 chip provides up to twice the processing power and up to seven times faster graphics than the previous generation. So games are incredibly responsive and realistic. Your samurai swordplay is sharper than ever, your zombie-dodging ultrasmooth. And because the A5 chip isn't a power hog, you get great battery life: up to 40 hours of music or 8 hours of video on a single charge.2 So you can keep on swinging, slicing, and racing. And listening, watching, and browsing.
Music and video. Up your entertainment quotient.
Every iPod is all about music. But iPod touch is about music and then some. It lets you tote around your entire music and video library for an instant fix of entertainment wherever you are.
Music and iTunes
The latest song you have on endless repeat. The indie track your friend recommended. That classic rock album your parents loved — and, it turns out, you love too. Your music library is yours alone, and your iPod touch is where it all plays. And with every kind of music on iTunes just a tap away, you can find the perfect song for whatever mood — or room or car — you're in.
Movies and TV shows never looked better on iPod touch. Videos play in true widescreen on the 4-inch Retina display. Colors positively pop thanks to 44 percent greater saturation. And if you're in the mood for that movie your friends can't stop raving about, head to the iTunes Store, where you can download it right to iPod touch.
When you download your favorite music, apps, movies, TV shows, and books from the iTunes Store to iPod touch, iCloud makes all that content accessible on all your other devices — iPhone, iPad, Mac, or PC — so you never have to connect cables or manually sync to transfer your content.3 It's easy like that.
Games ad apps. Get ready for the big games.
Fast dual-core performance and sharp graphics make iPod touch the hands-down, thumbs-up, most popular portable gaming device in the world. The App Store features more than 800,000 apps — including over 100,000 games — many of which are free.4 Boredom, you just got served.
Game Center
This is where gamers become friends. And friends become foes. Game Center is your social gaming hub, where you create a profile, invite other gamers on your next mission, and claim top-of-the-leaderboards bragging rights. Start a challenge with a random player around the world or with your buddy down the block. Let the schooling begin.
More from the App Store
Say you want to learn how to speak your name in Russian. Or find out who sings that great song you're hearing in the store. Or get that photo filter that makes your pics look super vintage-y. Chances are, if you can think of it, you can find it in the App Store. And even if you can't think of it, you can probably find it in the App Store.
Built-in apps. Fully stocked fun.
It's not just about what's out there. It's also about what's in here. iPod touch comes loaded with lots of powerful built-in apps. Send unlimited texts with iMessage over Wi-Fi. See your friend's every expression with a FaceTime video call.5 Check your email with Mail, and browse the web with Safari. And iOS 6 adds Siri, Facebook integration, Maps, Passbook, and more.
Sharing and staying connected. Know what's up. The minute is goes down.
iPod touch makes it easier and quicker than ever to stay in touch, with Facebook and Twitter integration, FaceTime, iMessage, and more.
With deep Facebook and Twitter integration, iPod touch lets you be even more social with your social network. Post photos instantly to Facebook from the Photos app, see your friends' birthdays in Calendar and Contacts, even Like apps and songs — and see what your friends Like. You can also tweet pics and videos directly from whatever app you're in. Before you head out the door, Siri can tell you whether you need your jacket, what time the movie starts, and which pizza place has the best Yelp reviews.
Siri on iPod touch. It's all the fun you could ask for.
Siri will wake you up, open your apps, give you movie and restaurant picks, answer your most random questions, and remind you to do stuff. In a nice way. All you have to do is ask.
AirPlay. From one widescreen to another.
With AirPlay, you can wirelessly stream whatever's on your iPod touch to your HDTV via Apple TV.7 Say you have some friends over and want a little more real estate to show them something that's on your iPod touch — a video of you punking a friend or an epic scene from your favorite movie. Tap the AirPlay icon from the app you're in — such as Photos, Music, Videos, or Safari — and everything on your small screen plays on your big screen. You can also stream music to any AirPlay-enabled speakers or AirPort Express-connected speakers, so your sounds sound even bigger.
And AirPlay Mirroring lets you share exactly what's happening on your iPod touch screen at any given moment with everyone in the room — on your HDTV via Apple TV. Show a new site you discovered. Stream games live as you're playing, and give your alien butt-kicking skills the full display they deserve.
Bluetooth. Wireless is more.
With Bluetooth built into iPod touch, pairing with Bluetooth-enabled headphones and speakers is a cinch. And if your car has a Bluetooth-enabled sound system, you can play your tunes to it right from iPod touch. So you never have to miss a beat.
Designed with the Environment in Mind.
Good design takes into account environmental impact. That's why nearly every Apple product is made from highly recyclable materials like aluminum, and why we refuse to use harmful toxins.
Every iPod touch is free of toxic materials like brominated flame retardants (BFRs) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC). In fact, Apple has one of the strictest BFR-free and PVC-free standards in the industry. We even disassemble products and test all the components in our Cupertino lab to make sure our suppliers meet our environmental standards.
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