Opuscula Orthodox Jews Will pay now And will pay later

CAVEAT: This applies to only a few of the “super Jews” who live in places such as Jerusalem, Beni Brak, Williamsburg, Monsey, and a few other places.

These people are paying now by becoming infected through their stupidity.

They will pay later as their actions invite even more anti-Semitism and more “anti-black hat” attitudes from non-black hat Jews.

 

 

THE FOLLOWING headline Israel mulling Bnei Brak quarantine after police report difficulty enforcing lock down appeared on the Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) at https://tinyurl.com/quca286.

 

(March 29, 2020 / JNS) The Israeli government is considering placing the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak under quarantine, Israeli Finance Ministry Director General Shai Babad told the country’s parliament on Sunday (29 MAY 2020).

With police reporting difficulty in enforcing lock-down directives in the city, which has an infection rate higher than the national average, Babad told the Knesset’s Special Committee on Dealing with the Coronavirus, “We are having more than a few problems with ultra-Orthodox society in areas like Bnei Brak.”

Babad made the comment hours after hundreds of Bnei Brak residents gathered for the burial of Rabbi Tzvi Shenkar, with thousands reportedly attending a funeral procession just before. Videos show hundreds gathering in close proximity to one another, breaking social distancing directives.

Several clashes between residents and police attempting to enforce the lock-down have taken place in ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods in recent weeks.

Last week, Israeli Health Ministry data showed that 24 percent of infections have occurred in synagogues, with the next most common places of infection being hotels (15 percent), restaurants (12 percent), supermarkets (seven percent) yeshivas (five percent) and medical clinics (five percent). Educational institutions, old age homes, day cares, mikvehs, election ballot stations, shopping malls, event halls and gyms all fell under five percent.

According to internal Health Ministry data published in Haaretz, infections in Bnei Brak are increasing eight-fold every three days, compared to the two-fold national average. In Jerusalem, which also has a high ultra-Orthodox population, the cases are quadrupling in the same time period.

The Knesset discussion of a potential full lock-down, said Babad, is centered on “how we could put a closure in place and isolate those areas,” referring to the ultra-Orthodox areas with high infection rates and non-compliance with government orders intended to decrease spread of the outbreak.

Source: https://tinyurl.com/quca286

 

In the Ashkenazi “ultra-Orthodox” community many feel they are entitled to do whatever they will; just like the young nazis who feel that they cannot be infected and die, and if a few old folks die, so what. “They were old anyway.”

There are a few in the Sefardic community in Israel and in the U.S. who, despite being “senior citizens” with underlying conditions disregard governments’ “Stay Home” rules. In two cases, the men have equally elderly wives at home who also have underlying health conditions.

Stupid. Yes.

Self-centered? Yes.

Placing themselves unnecessarily at risk? Yes.

The young people I can understand. They simply don’t care about anyone but themselves. They board planes for Florida, breathe infected air for two-plus hours, get off the plane and then are told to “self-isolate” for 14 days.

If the governor (of Florida) believes they will do that, he’s a bigger fool than we thought.

 

Almost no observant Jew wants to give up his minyan. He may manage to make minyans only on Shabat, but making those minyans is a special part of his life.

But

     * The rabbis have told us to pray at home.

     * The governments have told us to stay home.

WHY would anyone “make minyan” when their life, and the lives of others, is in jeopardy? Only a fool or a person who is “entitled.”

 

And this, too, shall pass.

Hopefully, a preventative soon will be found and equally soon a cure will be found, and the Chinese Virus of 2020 will be something our grandchildren will tell their grandchildren.

 

Meanwhile we have to suffer not only the Chinese virus but the entitled youth and stupid “ultra-Orthodox” and others who refuse to believe they cannot be infected.

עינים להם ולא יראו * אזנים להם ולא יאזנו

PLAGIARISM is the act of appropriating the literary composition of another, or parts or passages of his writings, or the ideas or language of the same, and passing them off as the product of one’s own mind.

Truth is an absolute defense to defamation. Defamation is a false statement of fact. If the statement was accurate, then by definition it wasn’t defamatory.

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Opuscula Trump declares Jerusalem Israel’s capital

The Internet is replete with references to Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The only references to Jerusalem and the “Palestinians” are on pro-”Palestinian” web sites and in the dreams of leftist politicians.

If you like maps, two sites are worthy of a visit:

“Mandate for Palestine” - The Legal Aspects of Jewish Rights at http://tinyurl.com/2btdush
History in Maps - Israel & "Palestine" at http://tinyurl.com/2eovou5

What’s in a name – “Palestine,” history

The first clear use of the term Palestine to refer to the entire area between Phoenicia and Egypt was in 5th century BCE Ancient Greece, when Herodotus wrote of a "district of Syria, called Palaistinê" in The Histories, which included the Judean mountains and the Jordan Rift Valley. (Source: Timeline of the name "Palestine" at http://tinyurl.com/oacnnod )

By comparison, Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib ibn Hāshim (or simply Muhammad) was born in Mecca around 570 of the CURRENT ERA (="AD"). King David, Israel's second king, established Jerusalem as his capitol, according to multiple sources, "more than 3,000 years ago," centuries before Muhammad was born. The first expulsion of Jews from Jerusalem was by Nebuchadnezzar around 600 BCE.

Partition

The UN's Plan Of Partition And End Of The British Mandate is documented on the UN.org's page at http://tinyurl.com/hqwv836 .

The plan included:
• The creation of the Arab and Jewish States not later than 1 October 1948;
• Division of Palestine into eight parts: three were allotted to the Arab State and three to the Jewish State; the seventh, the town of Jaffa, was to form an Arab enclave within Jewish territory;
• The international regime for Jerusalem, the eighth division, to be administered by the United Nations Trusteeship Council.

The Council was still born.

The Jewish Agency accepted the resolution despite its dissatisfaction over such matters as Jewish emigration from Europe and the territorial limits set on the proposed Jewish State. The plan was not accepted by the Palestinian Arabs and Arab States on the ground that it violated the provisions of the United Nations Charter, which granted people the right to decide their own destiny. They said that the Assembly had endorsed the Plan under circumstances unworthy of the United Nations and that the Arabs of Palestine would oppose any scheme that provided for the dissection, segregation or partition of their country, or which gave special and preferential rights and status to a minority.

The New York Times position, titled Nov. 29, 1947 - U.N. Partitions Palestine, Allowing for Creation of Israel (http://tinyurl.com/yads588v), is that The plan, which organized Palestine into three Jewish sections, four Arab sections and the internationally-administered city of Jerusalem, had strong support in Western nations as well as the Soviet Union. It was opposed by Arab nations.

The General Assembly voted, 33-13, in favor of partition, with 10 members, including Britain, abstaining. The six Arab nations in the General Assembly staged a walkout in protest. The New York Times reported: “The walkout of the Arab delegates was taken as a clear indication that the Palestinian Arabs would have nothing to do with the Assembly’s decision. The British have emphasized repeatedly that British troops could not be used to impose a settlement not acceptable to both Jews and Arabs, and the partition plan does not provide outside military force to keep order. Instead, it provides for the establishment of armed militia by the two nascent states to keep internal order.”

How did Jerusalem fall into modern Israel’s hands?

Briefly, from Britannica.com (http://tinyurl.com/lfhaut5) Arab and Israeli forces clashed for the third time June 5–10, 1967, in what came to be called the Six-Day War (or June War). In early 1967 Syria intensified its bombardment of Israeli villages from positions in the Golan Heights. When the Israeli Air Force shot down six Syrian MiG fighter jets in reprisal, Nasser mobilized his forces near the Sinai border, dismissing the UN force there, and he again sought to blockade Elat. In May 1967 Egypt signed a mutual defense pact with Jordan.

Israel answered this apparent Arab rush to war by staging a sudden air assault, destroying Egypt’s air force on the ground. The Israeli victory on the ground was also overwhelming. Israeli units drove back Syrian forces from the Golan Heights, took control of Gaza and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, and drove Jordanian forces from the West Bank. Importantly, the Israelis were left in sole control of Jerusalem.

In other words, the invaders from 1948 ran from the city and left it in Jewish hands. Under Jewish control, Jews had access to their holy sites, likewise Muslims and those of other beliefs.

President Trump may have recognized the facts on the ground, but he did NOT “declare that Jerusalem is Israel’s capitol.” King David did that more then 3,000 years ago.

U.S. State Department to the contrary

Contrary to what the pro-Arab U.S. State Department would have people believe, Jerusalem has been Israel’s capital since 1967.

The government – Knesset – meets there.

The Supreme Court sits there.

Main offices of most national offices are there.

Tel Aviv – thanks to the U.S. State Department’s clout – has most of the embassies, but now that State has been over-ruled by the first forceful U.S. president since 1967, the U.S. and other nations will relocate their embassies to Israel’s capital. Even Arab leaders – Egypt’s late President Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat and Jordan’s late King Hussein bin Talal – have met Israeli leaders in Jerusalem; even U.S. politicians meet their Israeli counterparts in Jerusalem.

If the PA rules Jerusalem the capital will be free of Jews

Palestinian land laws refer to ownership of land under the Palestinian Authority (PA). These laws prohibit Palestinians from selling Palestinian-owned lands to "any man or judicial body corporation of Israeli citizenship, living in Israel or acting on its behalf." These land laws were originally enacted during the Jordanian rule of the West Bank (1948–1967). Land sales to Israelis are considered treason by the Palestinians because they threaten the founding of a future state and to "halt the spread of moral, political and security corruption". Palestinians who sell land to Israelis can be sentenced to death, although death penalties are seldom carried out; a death sentence has to be approved by the Palestinian Authority President.

Under Israeli law, Muslims and followers of other beliefs can live freely in Jerusalem and, unlike under Jordanian rule, have no fear that the government will turn a blind eye to vandalism of holy sites.

If I forget thee, O’Jerusalem . . .

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PLAGIARISM is the act of appropriating the literary composition of another, or parts or passages of his writings, or the ideas or language of the same, and passing them off as the product of one’s own mind.

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Opuscula Through the Looking Glass

According to Paris-based UNESCO, the organization strives to build networks among nations that enable this kind of solidarity, by:

• Mobilizing for education: so that every child, boy or girl, has access to quality education as a fundamental human right and as a prerequisite for human development.
• Building intercultural understanding: through protection of heritage and support for cultural diversity. UNESCO created the idea of World Heritage to protect sites of outstanding universal value.
• Pursuing scientific cooperation: such as early warning systems for tsunamis or trans-boundary water management agreements, to strengthen ties between nations and societies.
• Protecting freedom of expression: an essential condition for democracy, development and human dignity.

"UNESCO is known as the "intellectual" agency of the United Nations. At a time when the world is looking for new ways to build peace and sustainable development, people must rely on the power of intelligence to innovate, expand their horizons and sustain the hope of a new humanism. UNESCO exists to bring this creative intelligence to life; for it is in the minds of men and women that the defences of peace and the conditions for sustainable development must be built." http://en.unesco.org/about-us/introducing-unesco

Based on its recent Jerusalem Israel decisions, if anyone believes the UNESCO statement, I have a bridge to sell them.

TWO ARTICLES from the Times of Israel web site on Sunday, Oct. 30, 2016 prompted the look at the United Nations Education, Scientific & Cultural Organization (UNESCO) mandate.

The first, headlined

Oldest Hebrew mention of Jerusalem found on rare papyrus from 7th century BCE
belies every recent UNESCO vote on the Jewish connection to Israel’s capital, Jerusalem.

A “drop head” adds

Reference to consignment of wineskins ‘to Jerusalem’ appears on 2,700-year-old First Temple-era scrap believed plundered from Judean Desert cave

The article leads off claiming A RARE, ancient papyrus dating to the First Temple Period — 2,700 years ago — has been found to bear the oldest known mention of Jerusalem in Hebrew.
The fragile text, believed plundered from a cave in the Judean Desert cave, was apparently acquired by the Israel Antiquities Authority during a sting in 2012 when thieves attempted to sell it to a dealer. Radiocarbon dating has determined it is from the 7th century BCE, making it one of just three extant Hebrew papyri from that period, and predating the Dead Sea Scrolls by centuries.

Note five critical words: mention of Jerusalem in Hebrew.

Not Aramaic.

Not Arabic.

Not even Greek or Latin.

Hebrew.

Since the founder of Islam, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdullāh ibn Abdul-Muttalib ibn Hashim, was not born until – according to most scholars – the year 570 of the Current Era (a/k/a AD), it is chronologically impossible to link Jerusalem solely with Islam. Only fools – which apparently populate UNESCO – would close their eyes to historical and archeological facts of which the latest discovery is included.

UNESCO most assuredly will contend that the fragment is a fake; that the radiocarbon dating is tainted and, in the end, that it all is a Judeo-Christian conspiracy against Islam.

Israel’s prime minister, in a “glass half full,” Pollyanna stance, kowtowing to the so called “Palestinian Authority” told reporters

Despite defeat, Netanyahu hails progress for Israel at UNESCO

noting a second United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO) vote ignoring Jewish ties to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem was actually a diplomatic achievement for the Jewish state.

Prime minister’s statement notes that fewer countries supported resolution ignoring Jewish ties to Jerusalem than in previous years, more abstained.

Apparently Netanyahu is as politically blind as the UNESCO members who deny Jerusalem’s Jewish history and who automatically vote against Israel on every issue.

Opuscula UNESCO: Blind In one Eye Can’t see from other

IS IT STUPIDITY OR FEAR that caused 31 nations to deny any historical Jewish presence in Israel’s capital.

The 31 nations passed a resolution acknowledging only Islamic history of the Temple Mount – referring to the site only as “Al-Ḥaram Al-Sharif” and ignoring any Jewish history at the sacred site.

In all, there were five Israel-related items on the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) agenda: Muslims prevailed in all five.

This DESPITE archeological proof that Jews were on the mount centuries before Muhammad arrived on the scene. This despite literary evidence that the Temple was on the mount centuries before Muhammad arrived on the scene.

Don’t take the Jews’ word for it – check it out in Rome where Titus’ arch still depicts Roman soldiers carrying off the Temple menorah.

Discount if you will all the writings as “sepur savta” – grandmother’s stories – disregard the unchallenged life in Babylon where Jews wrote “if I forget thee o’Jerusalem.” If the Jews never were in Jerusalem, why cry over the loss of the city? (Even then, some Jews remained in Jerusalem. It NEVER has been completely free of Jews; not when the Babylonians ruled, not when the Romans ruled, not even when the Moslems ruled. Even under Jordanian control – when Jews had few freedoms – Jews still lived in their holy city.)

In July 2011, USA Today headlined Ancient bell found in Jerusalem Old City sewer and reported that A tiny golden bell pulled after 2,000 years from an ancient sewer beneath the Old City of Jerusalem was unveiled Sunday by Israeli archaeologists, who hailed it as a rare find.

The orb half an inch in diameter has a small loop that appears to have been used to sew it as an ornament onto the clothes of a wealthy resident of the city two millennia ago, archaeologists said.

HaAretz, an Israeli newspaper and propagandist for the Palestinian Authority, headlined on Oct. 21, 2015 Were There Jewish Temples on Temple Mount? Yes has as its lead paragraph The preponderance of archaeological and historical evidence is overwhelming and the argument that there is 'no proof' of the Temples is a modern political artifact.

The Wall Street Journal reported under the headline A Boy’s Discovery Rebuts Temple Mount Revisionism that while "Palestinians deny Jewish roots at the holy site, a newly unearthed artifact confirms historical truths."

An unidentified writer for Palestine Facts notes that In 715 AD, Prophet Muhammad SAW made a journey to Heaven from the Dome of Rock, the site built by Caliph Abd al-Malik in 687 AD. Muslims all over the world could now associate with the place even more and al-Aqsa Mosque was built on the same site. Based on this, Jerusalem became the third most sacred city for Muslims after Makkah and Medina. Dropping the Roman name, it was given a Muslim name ‘Bait al-Muqaddas’ in line with al-Bait al-Haram in Makkah.

No one denies the Muslim presence in Jerusalem. The Temple was allowed – rightly or wrongly - by the Israeli government to remain under Muslim control after the city was returned to the Jewish state. Allowing the Muslims to control the Temple mount never denied that the first and second Temples were Jewish or suggested anything other than the Muslims were late arriving, even after non-Jews had control of the city.

But UNESCO, blind to reality, denies the history of the site, proving that the organization belies its name: the United Nations Educational (no), Scientific (no) and Cultural (no) Organization.

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THE RESOLUTIONS

According to Middle East Resolutions: Detailed Voting Results on UNESCO’s web site were as follows:

The first item that came up for a vote was Item 5, Implementation of 35 C/Resolution 49 and 184 EX/Decision 5 (IV) relating to the Ascent to the Mughrabi Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem. The roll call vote was 31 voting for the resolution (against Israel), 5 against (in support of Israel), and 17 abstentions. The five votes supporting Israel on this item were from Germany, Denmark, USA, Italy, and Slovakia.

The second item was item 14, Jerusalem and the Implementation of 35 C/Resolution 49 and 184 EX/Decision 12. The roll call vote was 34 voting for the resolution (against Israel); 1 against (USA), and 19 abstentions.

The third item was item 15, Implementation of 184 EX/Decision 37 on “the two Palestinian sites of al- Haram al-Ibrahimi/Tomb of the Patriarchs in al-Khalil/Hebron and the Bilal bin Rabah Mosque/Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem”. The roll call vote was 44 voting for the resolution (against Israel), 1 against (USA), and 12 abstentions.

The fourth item was item 36, Implementation of 35 C/Resolution 75 and 184 EX/Decision 30 concerning educational and cultural institutions in the occupied Arab territories. The roll call vote was 41 voting for the resolution (against Israel), 1 against (USA), and 15 abstentions.

The final item was item 37, Report by the Director-General on the reconstruction and development of Gaza; Implementation of 184 EX/Decision 31. The roll call vote was 41 voting for the resolution (against Israel), 1 against (USA), with 15 abstentions.

Opuscula Hard Impossible To believe the UN

 

אִם-אֶשְׁכָּחֵךְ יְרוּשָׁלִָם

If I forget thee, O, Jerusalem - Psalm 137, composed during the Babylonian exile, 598/7 to 587/6 BCE*; by comparison, Mohammed lived from 571 to 632 CE** - 1,157 years from end of the Exile to the birth of Mohammed.)

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations body responsible for protecting historical and archeological sites throughout the world, has changed its language for the Temple Mount, acquiescing last week to a request by the Palestinian Authority that it refer to the site using the term "Al-Aqsa mosque" only.

The place place in Jerusalem formerly known as "The Temple Mount" is actually "Al-Aqsa" and is strictly an Islamic site.

Never mind the archeological facts..

Never mind that Mohammed's Koran never mentions Al-Aqsa or even Jerusalem.

Never mind that the Tanak (Torah, Prophets, Writings) - mentions the Temple and Jerusalem hundreds of times. All those times must be coincidental "bubbe meise ***" or "sepuray savta" - grandma stories..

Never mind that "It also stands in denial of Islam itself, and the official statements of the ‘Supreme Moslem Council (sic),’ the Muslim Waqf which administers the Temple Mount.. In the English-language booklet ‘A Brief Guide to Al-Haram Al Sharif’ published by the Waqf in Jerusalem in 1924, it states: Its identity with the site of Solomon’s Temple is beyond dispute. This, too, is the spot according to the universal belief, on which ‘David built there an altar unto the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings’ (II Samuel 24:25)."

The prophet Samuel is believed to have lived between 931 and 877 BCE.

THE UN NEVER has dealt with Israel with an even hand.

UNESCO in 2015 declared Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem and the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron as Muslim sites that are part of a Palestinian state.

According to CNS News

UNESCO in 2011 became the first U.N. agency to admit “Palestine,” a decision that triggered a U.S. funding cutoff mandated by a 1990 law barring financial support for “the United Nations or any specialized agency thereof which accords the Palestine Liberation Organization the same standing as member states.”

Until then, American taxpayers accounted for 22 percent of UNESCO’s operating budget, and the cutoff sparking a financial crisis for the Paris-based agency.

Since then the Obama administration has repeatedly sought waiver authority to enable it to resume funding, without success.

The Jewish Week, obviously a blatantly biased publication, notes that

There’s a kind of parlor game in pro-Israel circles, one usually accompanied by a player’s roll of the eyes or knowing sigh: How unfair to Israel can the United Nations be?

Of course, there’s the infamous “Zionism Equals Racism” declaration from 1975. Then there’s the fact that Israel continues to be effectively barred from membership on the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, a prestigious body that monitors human rights around the world. And last summer there was the U.N.’s claim that Israeli troops deliberately targeted both Palestinian civilians and U.N. facilities during the conflict with Hamas in Gaza.

According to Abu Mazen (a/k/a Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas) the

“Al-Aqsa is ours and so is the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. They have no right to desecrate them with their filthy feet. We won’t allow them to do so and we will do whatever we can to defend Jerusalem.”

Look at a map of the ancient Middle East - say from Roman times. Is the City of David shown as "Jerusalem" of "al-Quds"? The following map, titled "The Califate in 750 (CE)" clearly shows Jerusalem - NOT "al-Quds" as one would suspect on an Islamic califate map. (There are links to additional maps at the end of this exercise.)

Click on image to to enlarge

Islamist themselves discuss the Temple and that Israel was given by God to the Jewish people. Somehow UNESCO and Obama refuse to acknowledge what Jews, Christians, and Muslims (chronologically) know to be truth.

Dig this

Finally, if all other literary evidence is cast aside as wishful thinking, there is archeology.

Professional archeologists as well as children have been finding archeological evidence that Jews were present in what is the current political Israel since well before either Christians or Muslims walked the land.

While it is harder for those who insist that "Israel never was Jewish," they somehow manage to close their eyes to reality and science, claiming any artifacts were "planted" by the Jews.

The Jewish Virtual Library provides an abbreviated list of archaeology finds since 2004.

Additional links to archeological resources are found below.

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* BCE=Before Current Era = BC
** CE=Current Era = AD

*** BUBBE MEISE, alt: bubbe-myseh, bubbe-meiseh, bubbe-meise, bubbe mayseh, bobe mays = "Something of little importance, an inconsequential thing or minor happening."

Other map resources

https://www.bergbook.com/htdocs/Cache317.htm

In David's time

Ottoman Empire, c 1481 (CE)

Alexander G. Findlay, F.R.G.S. 1849

Other archeological resources

Jerusalem Even Older Than Thought: Archaeologists Find 7,000-year-old Houses

Biblical Archaeology News 2016

Biblical Archaeology Society

List of artifacts in biblical archaeology

Rare 3,000-year-old King David era seal discovered by Temple Mount Sifting Project