A note about Sukkot

From Aish.com:

When the Jews left Egypt and began wandering in the barren desert, they were unarmed, unprotected, and left vulnerable to the elements of wind, cold, bandits and animals. Since they were constantly travelling, God instructed them to build flimsy, temporary booths -- called Sukkot.

These hardly provided any protection from the elements. Yet the Jews learned a profound lesson: Safety and security does not come through thick walls and burglar alarms, but ultimately through trust and reliance in God.

Read more about "time of our joy", here.

Kudos to Rutger's Hillel Campus Community

Seven thousand righteous pro-Israel students and supporters stood up against the taunts of a much smaller crowd of pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered across the street during a Thursday night pro-Israel rally at Rutgers University.

There were no reports of violence.

The Pigs are Coming! The Pigs are Coming!

Geva Zion, a veteran of the I.D.F. K-9 unit, has developed an effective system to detect Arab terrorists and bombs. Zion is training wild bores to find mines and bombs. Zion claims that his 2 new pigs “Soda” and “Chaziza” can track explosives quicker and better than any dog or electronic detection device, according to Yediot Ahronot, September 30, 03.

I don't know about you but I just love the symbolism.

Why the "Fence" doesn't make any sense

1. If it is true that the fence will limit penetration into the “other side” then it will turn the lives of the 200,000 Jews who remain on the “wrong side” into a living hell, and into an inferno that will make the Warsaw ghetto look like children’s play.

2. From the “Arab side of the fence” Katyushas and Kassams will be launched constantly on Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Netanyah, and Afula just as they are presently launched over the fence separating Gaza from “southern Israel”.

3. “Arab Israelis” will continue to intensify their terror campaign on the “Israeli side of the fence”, demanding autonomy and statehood in the Negev and in the Galilee.

4. The cost of the fence will result in billions of dollars that could be used much more effectively to fight Arab terror.

Click on this Smooth Stone archive page, and scroll down to the last post to find a link to an article that discusses why the Fence does make sense.

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Arabs have been killing Jews since as early as 1882

We've often heard the ludicrous claim that Zionists introduced terrorism into the Middle East. However, this cannot be substantiated by the facts. Arabs in then-Palestine attacked and terrorized Jews and their villages for 39 years before any sort of organized Jewish defense responded. From 1882 to 1921, Jewish villages were attacked and Jews were murdered.

And keep in mind that this started 35 years before the Balfour Declaration. Clearly the problem is not Zionism, but rather, reactionary xenophobia toward the Jews by an intolerant dominant ethnic group. Can you guess which group?

The following Jewish villages (listed from north to south) were attacked by Arabs between 1882 and 1914:

Sejera, Kinneret, Yavniel, Degania, Merhavia, Hadera, Petakh Tikvah, Ben Shemen, Ness Tziona, Rehovot, and Gedera.

By 1920 to 1921 the attacks were more frequent and more organized. In March, 1920 an armed band of Arab irregulars from the village of Halsa attacked the Jewish village of Tel Hai killing eight Jews.

Also attacked in March and April were the Jewish villages of:

Ayelet Hashachar, Mashmar Hayarden, Mahanyim and Rosh Pina in the upper Galilee, and Sharona Menahamiya, Kfar Tavor and Degania in the lower Galilee.

Kinneret was attacked first in March and then again in April, causing an emergency meeting to be held in June to decide on how to defend against Arab attacks. It was decided to set up a defense force which they called the Haganah.

Attacks on Metulla, Hamara, and Kfar Giladi in 1920 forced the evacuation of those villages.

On April 25 the village of Bnei Yehuda was attacked, driving out all the inhabitants, who were forced to abandon the village. Bnei Yehuda was never rebuilt. And it wasn't the Jews who began to destroy villages and attempt to expunge "the other" from the area.

In May of 1921 bands of Arab irregulars attacked the Jewish neighborhoods of Haifa, Hadera, Jaffa, Petah Tikva, and Rehovot.

In November, 1921 the Haganah repelled an Arab attack on the Jewish quarter of Jerusalem.

So much for "occupation" being a root cause of Muslim terrorism.

Edward Said, dead.

Edward Said is dead. He was called a scholar. A man who was a professional liar was not a major scholar, certainly about the Middle East, which was not his field and about which his major lies were created, like his fake refugee childhood.

Said mourned his "beautiful" house in Jerusalem from which his family was supposedly thrown out in '48, but there is only one problem: Said grew up in Cairo, the son of an American father who owned a very lucrative office supply company. He was driven around with chauffeurs, attended the best private schools. He never even set foot in Jerusalem his entire childhood.

Said was a cheap intellectual fraud, and a rock-throwing thug, no better than the murderous rioters now besieging Israel and carrying out pogroms.

Read more about the "Palestinian" liar at www.commentarymagazine.com.

A Smooth Stone "Educate Yourself" Link

An eye-opening site run by former Muslims who have left the faith.

http://www.faithfreedom.org/

Islam has an Image Problem

What a surprise.

Animal kills 19 Humans at Israeli Restaurant

A female "Palestinian" homicide bomber walked into a popular restaurant in the northern Israeli city of Haifa today, and detonated a device that killed at least 19 people including three children, one a baby just a few months old.

Please do not feed the palestinians