No Jews Ever Lived In The Land Before 1900.

That is the ruling UNESCO has proclaimed after their Muslim Masters demanded the exhibit by the Simon Wiesenthal Center People, book, Land - The 3,500 Year Relationship of the Jewish People and the Land of Israel was cancelled.

A United Nations agency pulled an exhibit on the Jewish people's "3,500-year relationship" to the land of Israel, after the Arab League lodged a last-minute protest, according to a report.

The exhibit, entitled “People, Book, Land – The 3,500 Year Relationship of the Jewish People and the Land of Israel," was created jointly by the Jewish human rights group the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, and was scheduled to open Jan. 20 at UNESCO's Paris headquarters. But less than a week before it was to open, UNESCO informed the SWC is was canceling it because the Arab League had claimed the exhibit “could create potential obstacles related to the peace process in the Middle East,” the U.S.-based Jewish newspaper The Algemeiner reported.

Invitations had already gone out, and the fully prepared exhibition material was already in place, the paper reported. The display was co-sponsored by Israel, Canada and Montenegro. Rabbi Marvin Hier of the Wiesenthal Center, called the move was an “absolute outrage.”

“The Arabs don’t want the world to know that the Jews have a 3,500-year relationship to the Land of Israel,” Hier said.

In a letter to Irina Bokova, president of UNESCO, Abdulla al Neaimi, from the United Arab Emirates, expressed “deep worry and great disapproval” over the program showing the age old connection between Israel and the Jewish people.

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Why is the United States paying the lion's share of dues to the UN?  Why isn't Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and/or Oman not paying the lion's share.  After all they control the place.

And the Europeans, those useful idiots, have said nothing, did nothing, applauded UNESCO for this act.

The TRUTH is that there has been a Jewish presence in the land for the last 3,500 years.  The Arabs arrived only in the 1480's.  They are NOT the indigenous people.  The blood of the Canaanites or the Philistines DO NOT run through their veins.  They are from Yemen and should return to that nation.  This was proven by genetics.  Genes do not lie.

This lie of the Fakistinians being the indigenous people of the land is just a lie.  Genetics and archeology prove this to be the lie.  Yet the old hatred, the European anti-Semitism that hasn't died but has resurrected itself after 70 years of hiding, has promoted this lie.  A lie to destroy the only safe haven on the planet for every Jew, the State of Israel.

Latma TV Update

Back again from vacation, Latma (The Tribe) is back with humor and satire.

The Tribal Update this week describes how the ugly Israeli harms Israel's reputation in London, it examines the growing rift among the leaders of the social justice protests, and BSN Network's Niki Simon reports on a new Palestinian heritage site.

A Weekend Of Rockets, Egypt Wants To Be The Hero, & Iran Coming Up On The Horizon

This last weekend was one of terror and death.

From the IDF Spokesperson:

More than 45 mortars and rockets were fired over the past three days from the Gaza Strip at southern Israeli communities including Ashdod (population of over 200,000), Ashkelon (population of 113,000), Gan Yavne (population of 19,000) and Be’er Sheva (population of 195,000), causing light to moderate injuries to at least three people and damaging several buildings, including a school. Moshe Ami, father of four from Ashkelon, was killed from sharpnel wounds.

This was as of Monday.  16 people are in the hospital with wounds, one is a baby.

The Israelis have lost their patience.  There are so many rockets, so many attacks a nation can take before they decide to attack back.  And they will attack back.

IDF commanders were given the green light by officials in Jerusalem to take all necessary steps to stop rocket fire from Gaza on Tuesday, including undertaking ground operations as need be.

But military officials told the Associated Press, while the decision allowed the IDF to act in accordance with the severity of terror attacks from Gaza, it was unlikely a ground offensive would be ordered without massive rocket fire.

The sudden spike in rocket and mortar attacks on Israel's southern communities began when terrorists started launching large salvos at Israel over the weakened.

Israel has responded by maintaining its policy of airstrikes-for-rocket-attacks paradigm, which has marked - and maintained - Israel's poor security situation in the Gaza belt region.

One Israeli civilian and at least 12 Gaza terrorists have been killed in the exchange of fire that began on Saturday.

The IDF says there have been no Israeli airstrikes since around midnight Monday. Two rockets were fired from Gaza during that time.

Amid the exchange Egyptian officials have repeatedly lionized their own diplomatic efforts in recent days to secure 'Israeli restraint' in the face of wanton terror attacks on its civilian population.

"In the past few hours, Egypt saved Gaza from severe destruction and succeeded in securing Israeli restraint to give Egyptians time to reach a cease-fire agreement with Palestinian factions," Egypt's ambassador to the Palestinian Authority, Yasser Othman, told the AP.

On Monday, Netanyahu said Israel would have to incorporate an offensive element into its security policies, citing the Talmudic dictum "he who would harm us, his blood is on his head."

Netanyahu spokesman Mark Regev responded to Egyptian claims saying Israel's position has not changed.

But critics say Netanyahu's rhetoric is not manifest in his government's actions, and that the so-called 'green light' given to the IDF is meaningless if it doesn't result in material changes to the strategic paradigm in Israel’s south.

Netanyahu has, thus far, resisted mounting calls from Israeli lawmakers and security experts – Including three former IDF chiefs of staff – to smash Hamas and root out Gaza's terror infrastructure.

Rocket and mortar attacks have disrupted life in southern Israel. On Tuesday local councils, ignoring IDF assurances the security threat was negligible, closed school for some 200,000 children.

The closure was seen by many observers as symptomatic of a growing loss of public faith in how Israel's leaders and security officials are handling national security affairs.

Some 1 million Israelis live within range of rockets from Gaza.

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Egypt is claiming that a cease-fire is in effect.  That is what they claimed all last weekend, yet after a few hours, the rockets start flying.  To Hamas, to Islamic Jihad a cease-fire means take a meal break, then reload.  I don't believe that the Israeli people will be able to restrain themselves any longer.

Meanwhile, UNESCO has granted Palestine Fakistine member status.  Such a move is in direct violation of the Oslo Accords.  Since the Accords are now dead, so are they benefits to the Palestinian Fakistinian Authority.

In a series of retaliatory moves against the Palestinian Authority, Israel on Tuesday night decided to accelerate Jewish construction over the pre-1967 lines and temporarily suspend the transfer of tax funds to the PA.

The PA immediately slammed the two decisions made by the Inner Cabinet, a forum of eight ministers, which had convened for several hours.

Israel’s decision to build new housing units in east Jerusalem and two West Bank settlements will destroy the peace process, the PA warned.

“It’s a blow to the Quartet efforts to achieve peace,” said Nabil Abu Rudaineh, a spokesman for PA President Mahmoud Abbas.

“The talk about freezing tax revenues belonging to the Palestinian Authority is a provocation and theft of our money,” Rudaineh said. “We call on the Quartet and the US administration to put an end to these practices, which will have a negative impact on the whole region.

The Inner Cabinet’s measures were a direct response to the PA’s continued pursuit of unilateral statehood in favor of a negotiated agreement with Israel.

It issued the punitive steps just one day after the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) accepted the Palestinian Authority’s bid to become its 195th member. The PA also plans to request membership in other UN agencies.

Settlement construction has been a hot-button issue for the Palestinians, who have insisted that such building is a stumbling block to peace and that they will not talk with Israel unless it freezes such activity.

Israel has refused to heed this demand. Despite this, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has a poor record of authorizing settler construction and Jewish building in east Jerusalem.

It is unusual for his office – which placed a 10-month moratorium on new settlement building that ended in September 2010 and which has often been accused of imposing a “silent freeze” on Jewish building over the pre- 1967 line – to state upfront that it was “accelerating” such construction.

You cannot demand from the Israeli public continued restraint when the Palestinian leadership continues to slam doors in their face,” said an Israeli official.

“They refuse to condemn the rocket attacks that killed an Israeli citizen [on Saturday].
They praised the kidnapping of Gilad Schalit and have refused to conduct peace negotiations while going for unilateral moves at the United Nations,” the official said.

The building approvals include 1,650 units in east Jerusalem Jewish neighborhoods, 327 in two West Bank settlements, 277 in Efrat and 50 in Ma’aleh Adumim. All units were already in the planning stages but needed final approvals.

Now according to an Israeli official, “they have been given a green light.” The official noted that all the building would occur in areas that would remain part of Israel in any final-status agreement with the Palestinians.

Separate from the issue of construction, the Inner Cabinet agreed to put a “temporary hold” on the transfer of tax funds to the Palestinian Authority. It also contemplated canceling VIP passes for Palestinian officials which allow them to pass quickly through Israeli checkpoints in the West Bank.

No decision was reached on whether Israel would make its annual payment of $2 million to UNESCO.

On Monday, the United States said that it would freeze a $60 million payment to UNESCO scheduled for later this month.

During a tour of the West Bank city of Hebron earlier in the day, Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz (Likud) said that it would be “strange” to continue to provide the organization with funds when the US has frozen financial support for UNESCO.

But, he said, UNESCO didn’t initiate the Palestinian membership drive. So the primary response should be against those who instigated it, the PA under Abbas’s leadership.

As such, Steinitz said, he had supported withholding tax funds from the Palestinian Authority since the PA began its clear unilateral pursuit of statehood.

“For the last half a year, there has been a Palestinian strategy to make use of their automatic majority in international bodies to gain a state without peace, without security, without ending the conflict and without recognizing the State of Israel,” he said.

“It is a betrayal of the very heart of the peace process. It can not pass silently.”

Steinitz said he rejects claims that withholding funds could cause the collapse of the PA. In the past, under the governments of Ehud Barak and Ehud Olmert, the funds were frozen and the PA continued, albeit with difficulty.

“No one wants to dismantle the PA,” Steinitz said. "Netanyahu’s government wants to make peace with it."

“But if it plans to be a state that will be in conflict with Israel, I am not sure that our first interest is to preserve a PA government that could become a hostile state like Gaza,” he said.

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Although rumors coming from the PA is that the PLO will dismantle the PA soon.  Good that eliminates any treaties Israel would have with the PA.  Could be interesting to see the PLO try to get water, or electricity.  I hope they can make their own.

It seems that Bibi Netanyahu finally has discovered that he has balls.  He is trying to persuade his cabinet the necessity of attacking Iran and taking out their Nuclear Sites.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak are trying to muster a majority in the cabinet in favor of military action against Iran, a senior Israeli official has said. According to the official, there is a "small advantage" in the cabinet for the opponents of such an attack.

Netanyahu and Barak recently persuaded Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who previously objected to attacking Iran, to support such a move.

Although more than a million Israelis have had to seek shelter during a week of rockets raining down on the south, political leaders have diverted their attention to arguing over a possible war with Iran. Leading ministers were publicly dropping hints on Tuesday that Israeli could attack Iran, although a member of the forum of eight senior ministers said no such decision had been taken.

Senior ministers and diplomats said the International Atomic Energy Agency's report, due to be released on November 8, will have a decisive effect on the decisions Israel makes.

Sooner or later either Israel will attack Iran or Iran will detonate a nuclear  bomb over Tel Aviv.  Sometimes Prime Ministers have to make the decision to attack even though they know the world will condemn them.  Rabin knew it in 1976 when he sent Israeli commandos to Uganda to rescue Israelis being held hostage.  Begin knew it in 1981 when the IAF destroyed the Iraqi Nuclear Reactor at Osirik.  Now Netanyahu needs to make the hard decision and order the attack on Iran.  The world will condemn Israel, Obama will probably not use the veto in the Security Council, but the people of Israel will be safer.  And so will the people of Europe, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, etc...

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How To Steal A Holy Site

If you are an Arab claim that it belongs to Muslims and get UNESCO to declare it so.

This has been done to Joseph's Tomb, Rachel's Tomb, The Tomb of the Patriarchs, and now The Kotel.

The Palestinian Authority’s rewriting of the Bible has reached a new peak or – low – with a “scientific study” claiming that Jews did not begin to claim a connection to the Western Wall (Kotel) until 500 years ago.

The Western Wall, also known in pre-State times as the “Wailing Wall,” is the outer wall of the Second Temple compound and has been a symbol of the deepest connection between most of the Jewish world, both religious and secular, and Judaism for two thousand years following the destruction of the Second Temple.

“Jews did not worship at the Wailing Wall at any time until the Balfour Declaration of 1917, according to a report on the “study” posted by the PA Undersecretary of the Ministry of Information D. Mutawakkil Taha.

Writing on the official PA website, he added that the report quotes the “Jewish Encyclopedia, published in 1917” that “the Western Wall became part of the Jewish religious tradition around the year 1520, as a result of Jewish immigration from Spain, after the Ottoman conquest the year 1517... This was not part of the wall of the so-called Jewish Temple.”

The Ministry of Information also stated that a basis for the study’s denial of an ancient Jewish connection to the Western Wall is a Reform Judaism leader's comment that “there is no sanctity to the Western Wall in Judaism.”

The study also leans on one alleged opinion based on the “Biblical Criticism” theory that regards the Bible as an historical document and rejects much of 2,500 years of translations and interpretations by revered rabbinic sages.

The report concludes that the “Occupying Power” of Israel has practiced "racism" and has conducted “massacres against the Wailing Wall and the Islamic and Christian sanctities.

“Nor can any Muslim or Arab or Palestinian, for whatever reason, give up a single stone or piece of dust from the Wailing Wall or other holy places, because that would be a concession on the Temple Mount, Jerusalem and the holy sites.”

The PA report was published one day after the Palestinian Authority castigated approval by the Israeli Cabinet for a multi-million dollar tourist center at the Western Wall area. The Palestinian Authority sad the plan was illegal because the area is claimed by the PA.

The Temple Mount site itself is the holiest site in Judaism, but the Arab world the past several years has conducted a campaign the past several years to deny Biblical accounts of the Jewish First and Second Temples.

The campaign also has included rewriting interpretations of the Bible, claiming that the “Binding of Isaac” actually was the “binding of Ishmael,” the forefather Abraham’s first son by the maidservant of his wife Sarah, who later gave birth to Isaac.

Muslim clerics, despite protests by Israeli archaeologists, also have removed tons of debris from the Temple Mount area as part of an effort to eliminate any discoveries of remnants of the First and Second Temples.

The pictures with that article are pictures taken between 1890 and 1900 of Jews worshiping at the Kotel.  The Balfour Declaration was written in 1917.

This is another attempt by the Arabs and supported by the Obama Administration Regime to wipe out all trace of ancient Jewish life.

For the record:  Joseph's Tomb, Rachel's Tomb, The Tomb of the Patriarchs, and especially The Kotel are JEWISH HERITAGE SITES.  They are NOT Mosques, Tomb of Imams or any site related to Islam, regardless of what the PA, UNESCO or Barack Hussein Obama claim!

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The Tomb of the Patriarchs

Recently UNESCO declared (Without Proof) that The Tomb of the Patriarchs and Rachel's Tomb were not Jewish Heritage Sites, but in fact they were designated Mosques.  This is being done to destroy any ancient connection between the Jewish people and the Nation of Israel by the Muslims who will stop at nothing to destroy every Jew in the World.

There's a petition online against UNESCO's actions in declaring Rachel's tomb to be a 'mosque' and trying to deny that the tomb and the Machpeila cave in Hebron are part of Israel's Jewish heritage.

We the undersigned protest The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) ruling that Israel has no right to add the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, where almost all of Israel’s patriarchs and matriarchs are buried, to the National Heritage list. The Tomb of the Patriarchs, the oldest Jewish shrine and the second holiest site in Judaism, centers around the Cave of Machpelah, an ancient double cave revered for almost 4,000 years as the burial site of the Hebrew patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and their wives. The connection of the Jewish people to the Cave of Machpelah was established some 3,800 years ago, when Abraham, the first Hebrew, purchased it for the express purpose of using it as a burial site for himself, his wife Sarah, and their future generations. It is the cradle of Jewish history and the focal point of Jewish identity. The rectangular enclosure over the caves is the only fully surviving Herodian structure. Thus the Tomb of the Patriarchs is of inestimable historical value as well as great sacred significance for the Jewish people.

We also protest the decision by UNESCO to re-label as an Islamic mosque the tomb of Rachel, Israel’s other matriarch, and to demand that Israel remove the site from its National Heritage list. The Tomb of Rachel, Judaism's third-holiest site, has been the scene of prayer and pilgrimage for more than three thousand years, and has an especially meaningful connection for Jewish women. Rachel, the matriarch who died in childbirth and was buried at that spot on the road to Hebron, has been a comfort and hope to Jews since biblical days. “Thus says the Lord, 'Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for your work shall be rewarded…and they shall return from the enemy's land and there is hope for the future'… 'Your children shall return to their own country.” Jeremiah 31:16-17. Until 2000, the Palestinians recognized the site as Rachel’s Tomb. It was called “Rachel’s Tomb” in Al-mawsu'ah al-filastiniyah, the Palestinian encyclopedia published after 1996 and in PALESTINE, THE HOLY LAND, a Palestinian publication, with an introduction by Yasser Arafat. However, during the second intifada, Al-Hayat al-Jadida, a Palestinian daily, announced a new-found historical connection to Rachel’s Tomb, declaring that is was "originally a Muslim mosque.”

In an effort to erase Jewish history and supersede Jewish religious sites with Islamic institutions, Muslims have intentionally built mosques upon numerous synagogues and Jewish holy sites. The clearest examples are the Al-Aqsa mosque which sits on Jerusalem's Temple Mount, and the Dome of the Rock, which was built on Judaism’s holiest site of the two biblical Jewish Temples. This pattern repeats itself at the second and third holiest sites. Thus at the Tomb of the Patriarchs, there are domes over the tombs of Abraham and Sarah and a mosque over the tombs of Isaac and Rebecca. Photos from the early 1900's show no Muslim cemetery near the Tomb or Rachel. After 1948 Muslims built their own cemetery surrounding three sides of Rachel’s tomb and now claim that Rachel's Tomb is one of their burial plots and that it contains a Muslim rather than Jewish notable.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office decried the ludicrous nature of the UNESCO decision:
“The attempt to detach the Nation of Israel from its heritage is absurd. If the nearly 4,000-year-old burial sites of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs of the Jewish Nation – Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah –are not part of its culture and tradition, then what is a national cultural site?”
“Sites such as the Tomb of the Patriarchs and Rachel’s Tomb (which sits on the edge of Bethlehem) present an inconvenient truth for the pro-Palestine movement and its supporters, who want to claim that the Jews have no historic ties to this land.”

In cooperating with efforts to erase Jewish historical ties to Israel, UNESCO is aiding and abetting those who hope to and obfuscate Israel’s Jewish past and undermine Israel’s Jewish future.

The UNESCO mission states: “Heritage is our legacy from the past, what we live with today, and what we pass on to future generations. Our cultural and natural heritage are both irreplaceable sources of life and inspiration.”

We demand that there be no exception to UNESCO’s mission when it comes to Jewish heritage. Israel’s Jewish legacy must be recognized and preserved and not swept away to conform with the pro-Palestinian narrative. In attempting to sever the Jewish cultural, religious and natural heritage bond with the Tomb of the Patriarchs and Rachel’s Tomb, UNESCO denies the history it is mandated to preserve, engages in a political maneuver designed to weaken a member UN nation, and undermines its own principles. It aims to rob the Jewish people not only of two sacred sites, which are irreplaceable sources of life and inspiration, but also of their past and a legacy to pass on to future generations. We demand that UNESCO, whose purpose it is to protect heritage, also protect Jewish heritage, rather than deny it.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

Please sign the petition.  This destruction of Jewish Heritage is taken directly from Hitler's playbook.  If this angers you as it did me, then in addition to signing the petition, you can send a letter to your Congressman and Senator protesting the use of US funds for anti-Semitic actions.

Rachel's Tomb