PA Teaching Terrorism to Children

PA TV Bunny Rabbit Threatens to 'Eat the Jews'

by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz

The latest TV character created to incite Palestinian Authority children to
anti-Semitism, Islamic triumphalism and violence has debuted on a popular
show produced by Hamas. The character is a cute rabbit who aspires to finish
off the Jews and eat them.

The rabbit's name is Assoud, which translates as "lions," and he has come
from Lebanon "in order to return to the homeland and liberate it," according
to the

Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) organization, which translated the



"I, Assoud, will finish off the Jews and eat them."

dialogue.

In a PA children's program called Tomorrow's Pioneers, a young girl
hostess asks the new character, "Why is your name Assoud, since you are a
rabbit?"

Assoud replies: "A rabbit is a [term] for a bad person and coward. And I,
Assoud, will finish off the Jews and eat them."

"Allah Willing!" the girl exclaims.

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Later in the show, children are taught that the Jewish city of Tel Aviv
is actually Arab and that it must be "liberated" by way of Hamas-style
terrorism.

Assoud asks the child hostess of the program, "Do you know the original
name of our city... Tel Aviv?"

"It's our city: Tel-Rabia," she replies, "but the Zionists today call it
Tel Aviv, but it will stay ours.... And we will return with Allah's will."

Assoud: "How will we go to our city if the Jews took it?"

"We will continue the resistance [a PA term for terrorism]," she answers.

The program ends with singing: "We will never recognize Israel...." with
the hostess emphasizing the call to "liberate our homeland from the Zionist
filth."

The show, Tomorrow’s Pioneers, first became known for its genocidal
Mickey Mouse look-alike character,

Farfur. The show's producers had Farfur murdered by Israelis and
replaced by

Nahoul the bee, who was killed off in an episode in which Israel would
not allow him to leave Gaza for medical treatment.

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Day of prayer and fasting this Tuesday in response to the threats facing the Jewish people

The hareidi-religious Council of Torah Sages in Israel and the United States has issued a call for a day of prayer and fasting this Tuesday in response to the threats facing the Jewish people.

Addressed to “Our fellow Jews living in Eretz Yisroel (the Land of Israel) and to Jewish communities everywhere,” the proclamation continues: “The difficult situation of the Jewish community in Eretz Yisroel fills us with trepidation. Nobody knows what the new day will bring. In our sins, we see the fulfillment of the posuk [Biblical verse] "Behold Your enemies are in uproar and those who hate You have raised their heads. Against Your nation they deviously plot, and take counsel against those whom You protect." Our eyes are lifted in prayer to the Creator, that all of the goings-on in the world turn out for the good.

“From both within and without the crisis mounts. The danger threatens both body and soul. During these days, items are on agendas that could place entire populations of Jews into grave danger, G-d forbid - including those in the Holy City of Jerusalem. Further, there are constant attempts to undermine the foundations of pure education in Eretz Yisroel and to cause harm to the holiness of the Nation of Israel.

Therefore it is incumbent on us to fortify ourselves with Torah, prayer and good deeds, to awaken the mercy of Heaven.“Dear brethren, awaken and inspire yourselves to pour out prayer before the Creator of the world, that He have pity and protect His nation from all who stand up against us, that He abolish the intentions of those who hate us and nullify the plots of our enemies, and that the eyes of the misguided be opened to the realization that their path is foolishness and they should leave Hashem's nation to guard its path and faith, without hindrance or interference.

We therefore call on members of Hashem's holy nation in all the places they reside, men, women and children, to gather in tefilla [prayer] on Tuesday, Erev Rosh Chodesh Adar Rishon, 5768, to recite chapters of Psalms and the liturgy of Yom Kippur Koton .

May Hashem hear our pleas, and turn His face to us so that we may be saved with a permanent salvation soon. And let us merit to see, quickly, the redemption of Yisroel, and gaze upon the building of the Beis HaMikdosh, quickly in our days, amen.

The proclomation is signed by the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah (the hareidi-religious Council of Torah Sages), and the hareidi political parties Agudas Yisroel (Chassidic) and Degel HaTorah ("Flag of Torah”) – together the United Torah Judaism party. It was joined by the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of America.

Special Sderot Prayer Added to Arsenal

Special Sderot Prayer Added to Arsenal
by Hillel Fendel

"One must not rely on miracles," Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu reminds - after composing a special prayer to be recited on Sabbath for the residents of Sderot.

Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu, a former Chief Sephardic Rabbi (Rishon LeTzion) of Israel, has composed a special prayer for "Sderot, Ashkelon, and environs" - at the request of the Sderot Security Committee Chairman, Alon Davidi.

Davidi asked Tzfat's Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, who visited Sderot this week, if his father could compose a special prayer on behalf of the residents of Sderot and the western Negev. Within a day, the prayer was written, and its author asked that it be recited every Sabbath morning just prior to the opening of the Holy Ark.

The prayer includes the idea that we may not rely on miracles, implying that we must take concrete steps to fight the enemy.

It is based on a prayer written by the late saintly Kabbalist of Jerusalem, Rabbi Salman Mutzafi (1900-1975). It is rooted in the Halakhic [Jewish legal] ruling of the Shulkhan Arukh code of law (O.C. 576) that calls for fasting and prayer for troubles such as "Gentiles that come to make war on Israel."

The English translation is as follows:

"Master of the Universe. We have come this day to place our supplication before You, on behalf of Your nation Israel, and to request mercy for them - for we rely upon the abundance of Your compassion, as is written: "And He said, I shall cause all My Goodness to pass before you, and I shall call out with the Name of G-d before you, and I shall show favor when I shall want to show favor, and I shall have mercy when I shall want to have mercy" (Ex. 33,19).

So much praise we must lay before You - for we have merited to see clearly the miracles and wonders You wrought for us against our enemies who plot to destroy us. Yet, in Your goodness, You have saved us and rescued us from thousands of rockets that they have fired at us - and especially at the cities of Sderot, Ashkelon, and environs; and from most of them we were saved, by Your great mercies.

Our Sages have taught that one must not rely on miracles, and especially in situations of danger that have already killed and maimed Jews. The residents of these areas and their children live in fright and fear, and many of them have left their homes. The honor of Israel is being desecrated, while the Government of Israel ties its soldiers' hands, preventing them from waging war in response - and is even scheming to give G-d's inheritance to terrorists, who would then, Heaven forbid, do in central Israel what they do in Sderot.

Master of the Univese, our eyes are turned pleadingly toward You, that you show us grace, and give to Your nation Israel favor, good sense, courage and bravery to fight the evil ones - and not to strengthen them. May we [have the strength] to smite and rout all our enemies, and to fulfill the prayer of King David, peace be upon him: "I pursued my enemies and caught them, and I did not return until I destroyed them; I crushed them until they could no longer rise up; they have fallen under my feet" (Psalms 18,38).

Please, G-d, shut the mouths of all those who denounce and besiege us, whether above or below. May this verse be fulfilled for us: "No weapon that is formed against you shall succeed, and every tongue that rises against you in judgment - you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of G-d and the recompense of their righteousness by Me, says G-d" (Isaiah 54,17).
And may this verse, written at the hand of Isaiah Your prophet, be fulfilled for us: "Do not fear, for I am with you. Do not dismay, for I am your G-d. I have adopted you and helped you and supported you with the right hand of My righteousness. All who rage against you shall be ashamed and disgraced... those who war against you will be as nothingness. For I am the Lord your G-d, Who hold up your right arm and says to you, 'Do not fear, I will help you.' Do not be afraid, O worm Jacob, O little Israel, for I will help you, says G-d and your Redeemer, the Holy of Israel. Behold, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff. You shall fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the storm wind shall carry them - and you shall rejoice in the Lord, and shall glory in the Holy One of Israel.'

And may You redeem us completely and speedily, and may we merit to see the Messiah, son of David, crowned in his crown, and the Messiah, son of Joseph, complete in his glory and his beauty in the building of our Holy Temple, speedily in our days,

Amen, may it be Your will.

Special Prayes for Sderot

תפילה מיוחדת למען שדרות ועוטף עזה
הרב מרדכי אליהו חיבר תפילה מיוחדת למען תושבי שדרות, אשקלון ועוטף עזה. הרב ביקש לקרוא את התפילה כל שבת לפני פתיחת ארון הקודש.
ישי פרידמן
במהלך ביקורו של רבה של צפת, הרב שמואל אליהו בשדרות השבוע, בקש ממנו אלון דוידי, יו"ר המטה לביטחון שדרות, אם אביו הראשון לציון, הרב מרדכי אליהו יוכל לחבר תפילה לשלומם של תושבי שדרות ועוטף עזה. הרב שמואל אליהו מסר לאביו את הבקשה, למחרת חוברה תפילה מיוחדת על ידי הראשל"צ הרב אליהו. הרב אליהו ביקש לקרוא את התפילה כל שבת לפני פתיחת ארון הקודש.
הרב אליהו אמר גם שאין לסמוך על הנס ויש להחזיר מלחמה שערה. "אמרו חכמינו זכרונם לברכה 'אין סומכים על הנס', ובמיוחד שחלק מבני ישראל נהרגו וחלק נפצעו. ותושבי המקום חיים בפחד ובבהלה הם וילדיהם. רבים גלו מבתיהם. כבוד ישראל מחולל וממשלת ישראל כובלת את ידי החיילים שלא להשיב מלחמה שערה. ועוד זוממים לתת נחלת ה' בידי המחבלים שיעשו במרכז הארץ כמו שעושים בשדרות וסביבותיה, חלילה".
תפילה למען שדרות אשקלון וסביבותיהם

על-פי קריאת הרה"ג המקובל הרב מרדכי אליהו שליט"א

פסק מרן בשו"ע [סימן תקע"ו סעיף א'] "כשם שמתענים ומתריעים על הגשמים כך מתענים על שאר צרות כגון גויים שבאו לערוך מלחמה עם ישראל או ליטול מהם מס, או ליקח מהם הארץ וכו' הרי אלו מתענין ומתריעין עד שירוחמו.
וכתב הרמב"ם [בהלכות תענית פרק א' הלכה ב] "ודבר זה מדרכי התשובה הוא שבזמן שתבוא צרה ויזעקו עליה וירעו ידעו הכל שבגלל מעשיהם הרעים הורע להן ככתוב: "עונותיכם הטו אלה" וגו' וזה שיגרום להסיר הצרה מעליהם". ובסעיף ג' כתב: "אבל אם לא יזעקו ולא יריעו אלא יאמרו דבר זה ממנהג העולם אירע לנו וצרה זו נקרה נקרית הרי זו דרך אכזריות וגורמת להם להדבק במעשיהם הרעים ותוסיף הצרה צרות אחרות".

תפילה זו חוברה ע"י המקובל האלקי ציס"ע רבי סלמן מוצפי זצוקלה"ה והותאמה לצרכי הזמן והמצב

רִבּוֹנוֹ שֶל עוֹלָם. הִנֵה בָּאנו הַיּוֹם הַזֶּה לְהַפִּיל תְּחִנָּה לְפָנֶיךָ בְּעַד עמך בית ישראל וּלְבַקֵּש רַחֲמִים עָלֵיהם כִּי נִשְׁעַנְנו עַל רֹב חֲסָדֶיךָ כְּמוֹ שֶׁנֶאֱמַר: וַיֹאמֶר אֲנִי אַעֲבִיר כָּל טוּבִי עַל פָּנֶיךָ וְקָרָאתִי בְּשֵׁם ה' לְפָנֶיךָ וְחַנֹּתִי אֶת אֲשֶׁר אָחֹן וְרִחֲמְתִּי אֶת אֲשֶׁר אֲרָחֵם.
וּמָה שֶבַח לְךָ נַעֲרוֹג, כִּי זָכִינוּ לִרְאוֹת עַיִן בְּעַיִן נִסִּים וְנִפְלָאוֹת שֶהִנְחַלְתָ לָנוּ נֶגֶד אוֹיְבֵנוּ אֲשֶר זוממים לְהַשְּׁמִידֵנוּ וְאַתָּה בְּטוּבְךָ הוֹשַעְתָנו והצלתנו מאלפי טילים שירו עלינו ובפרט על הערים שדרות, אשקלון וסביבותיהם. ומרובם הגדול ניצלנו ברחמיך המרובים.
אמרו חכמינו זכרונם לברכה 'אין סומכים על הנס', ובמיוחד שחלק מבני ישראל נהרגו וחלק נפצעו. ותושבי המקום חיים בפחד ובבהלה הם וילדיהם. רבים גלו מבתיהם. כבוד ישראל מחולל וממשלת ישראל כובלת את ידי החיילים שלא להשיב מלחמה שערה. ועוד זוממים לתת נחלת ה' בידי המחבלים שיעשו במרכז הארץ כמו שעושים בשדרות וסביבותיה, חלילה.
ריבנו של עולם עֵינֶנוּ לְךָ תְּלוּיוֹת שֶׁתְּחָנֵּנוּ ותתן לעמך ישראל חן ושכל טוב אומץ וגבורה להלחם ברשעים ולא לחזקם. להכות כל אויבינו שוק על ירך ולקיים תפילתו של דוד המלך ע"ה "אֶרְדּוֹף אוֹיְבַי וְאַשִֹּיגֵם וְלֹא אָשׁוּב עַד כַּלּוֹתָם, אֶמְחָצֵם וְלֹא יֻכְלוּ קוּם, יִפְּלוּ תַּחַת רַגְלָי".
אנא ה' סְתּוֹם פִּיוֹת כָּל הַמְקַטְרֵגִים וְהָצָרִים עָלֵינוּ בֵין מִלְמַעְלָה וּבֵין מִלְמָטָה. וְקַיֵּים בָּנוּ מִקְרָא שֶׁכָּתוּב: כָּל כְּלִי יוּצַר עָלַיִךְ לֹא יִצְלַח וְכָל לָשׁוֹן תָּקוּם אִתָּךְ לַמִּשְׁפָּט תַּרְשִׁיעִי זֹאת נַחֲלַת עַבְדֵי ה' וְצִדְקָתָם מֵאִתִּי נְאֻם ה'. וּתְקַיֵים בָּנוּ מִקְרָא שֶׁכָּתוּב עַל יְדֵי יְשַׁעְיָה חוֹזָךְ אַל תִּירָא כִּי עִמְךָ אֲנִי אַל תִּשְׁתַּע כִּי אֲנִי אֱלֹקֶיךָ אִמַּצְתִּיךָ אַף עֲזַרְתִּיךָ אַף תְּמַכְתִּיךָ בִּימִין צִדְקִי. הֵן יֵבֹשׁוּ וְיִכָּלְמוּ כֹּל הַנֶּחֱרִים בָּך יִהְיוּ כְאַין וּכְאֶפֶס אַנְשֵׁי מִלְחֲמְתֶּךָ. כִּי אֲנִי ה' אֱלֹקֶיךָ מַחֲזִיק יְמִינֶךָ הָאוֹמֵר לְךָ אַל תִּירָא אֲנִי עֲזַרְתִּיךָ. אַל תִּירְאִי תּוֹלַעַת יַעֲקֹב מְתֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל אֲנִי עֲזַרְתִּיךָ נְאֻם ה' וְגֹאֲלֵךְ קְדוֹשׁ יִשְּׂרָאֵל. הִנֵּה שַׂמְתִּיךְ לְמֹרַג חָרוּץ חָדָשׁ בַּעַל פִּיפִיּוֹת תָּדוּשׁ הָרִים וְתָדוֹק וּגְבָעוֹת כַּמוֹץ תָּשִׂים. תִּזְרֵם וְרוּחַ תִּשָּׂאֵם וּסְעָרָה תָּפִיץ אוֹתָם וְאַתָּה תָּגִיל בַּה' בִּקְדּוֹשׁ תִּתְהַלָל.
וְתִגְאָלֵנוּ גְּאוּלָה שְׁלֵימָה בִּמְהֵרָה. וְנִזְכֶּה וְנִרְאֶה מָשִׁיחַ בֵּן דָוִד מוּכְתָּר בְּכִתְּרוֹ וּמָשִׁיחַ בֵּן יוֹסֵף מְשׁוּכְלָל בְּהַדְרוֹ וְיָפְיוֹ בְּבִנְיָן מִקְדָשֵׁינוּ בִּמְהֵרָה בְּיָמֵינוּ אָמֵן כֵּן יְהִי רָצוֹן.
מצוות עשה דאורייתא לצעוק לפני ה' בכל עת צרה גדולה שלא תבוא על הציבור.

Fatah as 'Moderate'

"Fatah as 'Moderate': A Hard Look Post-Annapolis, published by the Center for Near East Policy Research at the Beit Agron International Press Center in Jerusalem. The booklet may be viewed in its entirety by clicking here.

An Authentic Jewish Response to an Orthodox Rabbi Who Wants to Divide Jerusalem

Question: How can an Orthodox Rabbi possibly reconcile advocating for the division of Jerusalem with Judaism?
-Loraine Meltz, Bakersfield CA

Answer: Thank you for that question Loraine, but unfortunately as Orthodox Jews we are unable to answer you so we are forwarding on the question to the Rabbi.

Shalom Rabbi,

This letter is being written with shivering hands and chattering teeth from a cold, wet tent on the border between Israel and Gaza. We have read and re-read your article published in the Jewish Journal “An Orthodox Rabbi’s plea: Consider dividing the Jerusalem.” As it is Jewish behavioral ethic to judge one’s fellow with the benefit of the doubt, we are trying to stifle our initial feelings of perfidious betrayal and thoughts that you are merely capitalizing on your status as an Orthodox Rabbi for opportunistic self-aggrandizement. With Israel’s fate being decided in Annapolis this week, we are trying to understand how you, an honest and sincere G-d fearing, Torah-observant Rabbi, could possibly advocate for the division of Jerusalem, the Capitol of the Jewish People.

In Israel today, there are hundreds of thousands of Arab Muslim citizens who proactively advocate for the destruction of Israel. Their elected Muslim Knesset members meet with terrorist leaders to conspire against us and consistently endorse policies that would lead to the eventual annulment of our Jewish State. We are surrounded by countries who have historically sought to destroy the State of Israel since before she was even created. Egypt, Syria, Iran, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and all the other countries in the Arab League have not given up the dream to put an end, once and for all, to the “Zionist Entity”. Honestly, these threats are nothing new and have simply become expected, but it is appalling for a self-described Orthodox Rabbi to advocate for the division of our sacred Capitol, and the undeniable moral and strategic weakening of the State of Israel that would follow.

Perhaps seeing the Middle East through the prism of CNN or the occasional solidarity mission to a five-star hotel would lead one to believe that simply relinquishing the Land liberated in 1967 would lead to peace. Please allow us to share a little bit of a different perspective. We are reservist soldiers who have left our lives and our families for up to a month every year to protect Israel and the Jewish people. For the past few years, we have been stationed in the Gaza region where we are located now. In 2005, the unilateral disengagement from Gaza evicted 8,000 Jews from their homes, and Gaza was ceded to the Palestinian Authority. Today, in place of the promised peace and calm that was to result from the disengagement, Gaza is now a war-torn territory controlled by the Hamas, and there are more guns, missiles, and artillery than ever before in history. Multiple rockets and missiles fall daily onto the helpless citizens of Sderot, within the 1948 borders of Israel! We recently visited with the people of Sderot to show our support, and a local teacher informed us that her young students, when asked why they thought snails had shells, unanimously replied “to hide from the Kassam rockets.” Is this the fate you wish upon the Jewish children of Jerusalem Rabbi Kanefsky?

While we could continue expending energy and focus on exposing the moral ambivalence, erroneous and specious historical assertions in your article, that would not be an honest depiction of our true difficulty with your proposals. If you were a politician or a journalist, perhaps such a discussion would be in order. But you, Rabbi Kanefsky, purport to be an Orthodox Rabbi. You know that Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 times in the Bible, while the Koran has not one reference to our holy city. You know that for more than 2,000 years our people have been praying daily for Jerusalem, solemnly breaking a glass in memorial of her Temple’s destruction, and leaving a portion of the walls in our homes unfinished because our cherished city lies in ruins. You know the words of King David who told us of the tears we shed “by the Rivers of Babylon… when we remembered Zion,” and both promised and warned of what would happen if we should ever forget our beloved Jerusalem. You know of our murdered ancestors who whispered Jerusalem with their last breath.

Rabbi Kanefsky, you call for honesty. You claim to believe in the Torah as the word of G-d, yet when composing an argument as critical as the division of our national and spiritual Capitol, you do not even quote one Jewish source! Rather than determining your stance based on Torah, Jewish Law, or the word of G-d, you quote “International Law” composed by many of the same nations who assisted or looked away as six million members of our family were slaughtered.

Intellectual Honesty, Rabbi Kanefsky. G-d demands it and your congregants, students, and followers deserve it. Please retract your article and stand with Jerusalem and the Nation of Israel. If you do not, accept our challenge to a debate and we will let the truth speak for itself. In these times of isolation and unparalleled danger, it is vital for us as a nation to unite with courage, clarity, and faith in G-d.

We look forward to hearing from you soon.
B’Ahavat Yisrael (With love of Israel),

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The Bostoner on Earthquakes

The earthquake here in eretz yisroel was felt sometime after midnight. In the morning one chossid jokingly said it was Hashem rocking us in bed like a mother rocking her child in a cradle.

During Shalosh Seudos the Rebbe shlit"a said that after feeling the earthquake in the middle of the night he was pondering the meaning of trembling and awe and fear of G-d what we call in lashon hakodesh, Yiras Shamayim with retes, ziya and ra'ada.

The Rebbe gave a mashal using the parable of a tuning fork, where once hit the fork resonates a tone. One tine of the fork is hit however the companion tine shkes as well. Scientifically this is due to sound waves which are oberservable phenomonen in water. If I throw a pebble into water the water waves ripple and I can see the movement. This is tru in air as well but our eyes cannot observe it.

The Rebbe explained that what is true in the physical world holds true spiritually as well. If my neighbor quakes and shakes the message is that I must be shaking and trembling as well. Sometimes Hashem's message is that we have to unite and feel eachother's pain and fear. Perhaps this is one of the lessons of yiras shamayim.