TIP: U.S. Supports Israel's Pursuit of Peace Negotiations

U.S. Supports Israel's Pursuit of Peace Negotiations

• Netanyahu prepared to discuss all core issues 
• House: PA unilateral actions detract from peace process
  
  http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=hsJPK0PIJpH&b=689705&ct=8972585  The Israel Project.org

Secretary of State Clinton meets with Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu at the beginning of peace talks, September, 2010

Washington, Dec. 16 - The United States House of Representatives has passed a resolution (Dec. 15) affirming the importance of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and rejecting unitaleral moves by the Palestinians to declare statehood.

Israel says a Palestinian unilateral declaration of independence would be meaningless since it avoids direct negotiations as a means to lasting peace, delaying the possibility of agreement on critical issues. Several countries in Latin America have recognized a Palestinian state that would occupy all territory captured by Israel in 1967 - but the United States and the European Union have rejected the move.

The House resolution supports a "negotiated solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict" and condemns "unilateral measures to declare or recognize a Palestinian state."

A negotiated solution, it says, is the only way to create two democratic states living side by side in "peace, security and mutual recognition."

Palestinians abandoned directed talks with Israel in September after a 10-month Israeli moratorium on building in the territories expired. The United States is now trying to get indirect negotiations going between the parties - but the Palestinians are resisting even that.

Key questions between the Israelis and Palestingians regarding security, borders, refugees and Jerusalem are still unresolved.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu committed the U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell on Tuesday (Sec. 14) that he is ready to discuss all the core issues in American-led indirect talks.

"The expectation is that borders and security arrangements will be the first two issues to be tackled," according to Haaretz, an Israeli daily.

Mitchell proposed bilateral talks on Wednesday (Dec. 15) - meaning parallel but separate American-led talks with the Israelis and Palestinians - as a means of restoring the negotiations.

Arab nations came out against any talks between Israel and the PA, "direct or indirect," unless the U.S. delineates what the future borders of a Palestinian state would be.

NYT: Declassified papers detail how Nazi anti-Semitism was transmitted to the Arab world after WW II

According to the New York Times, declassified papers detail "how [ after WW II ] high-ranking Nazis escaped from Germany to become advisers to anti-Israeli Arab leaders and “were able to carry on and transmit to others Nazi racial-ideological anti-Semitism.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/us/12holocaust.html?_r=1&_r

 The NY Times article is based on a U.S. government report published Friday, December 10, 2010 by the National Archives  http://www.archives.gov/iwg/reports/hitlers-shadow.pdf

From the NYT article:

In chilling detail, the report also elaborates on the close working relationship between Nazi leaders and the grand mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, who later claimed that he sought refuge in wartime Germany only to avoid arrest by the British.

In fact, the report says, the Muslim leader was paid “an absolute fortune” of 50,000 marks a month (when a German field marshal was making 25,000 marks a year). It also said he energetically recruited Muslims for the SS, the Nazi Party’s elite military command, and was promised that he would be installed as the leader of Palestine after German troops drove out the British and exterminated more than 350,000 Jews there.

On Nov. 28, 1941, the authors say, Hitler told Mr. Husseini that the Afrika Corps and German troops deployed from the Caucasus region would liberate Arabs in the Middle East and that “Germany’s only objective there would be the destruction of the Jews.”

The report details ... how high-ranking Nazis escaped from Germany to become advisers to anti-Israeli Arab leaders and “were able to carry on and transmit to others Nazi racial-ideological anti-Semitism.”

“You have an actual contract between officials of the Nazi Foreign Ministry with Arab leaders, including Husseini, extending after the war because they saw a cause they believed in,” Dr. Breitman said. “And after the war, you have real Nazi war criminals — Wilhelm Beisner, Franz Rademacher and Alois Brunner — who were quite influential in Arab countries.”

ARZA and URJ open Carmel Fire - Israel Emergency Fund

You can help. ARZA and the URJ, with our partners, the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism, will help rebuild human lives through the IMPJ Humanitarian Fund.  Contributing to our Carmel Fire-Israel Emergency Fund* is one more way for you to participate in building Israel, the land that we love.

To contribute to this effort, go to:


Carmel Fire-Israel Emergency Fund

If you live in Canada, you can donate online by going to: http://www.arzacanada.org/

Or if you prefer to mail your contribution, you may send it to:

ARZA

633 Third Ave, 7th Floor

New York, NY 10017


*Neither ARZA nor the URJ withholds any overhead costs for Emergency Funds, with the exception of direct costs such as credit card fees.

Israel's Tragic Fire: How You Can Help

Israel’s Tragic Fire: How You Can Help

Israel has been hit by an unprecedented disaster. A wildfire raging in the north near Haifa has taken at least 42 lives. Thousands of acres of forest have been destroyed and entire villages have been blackened.

The Israel Project is working to get out the facts globally about the fire and the need for help. You can donate to this by going here.

The Jewish Federations of North America has sent up a fund. Checks can be sent to the Israel Forest Fire Disaster Relief Fund, Wall Street Station, PO Box 148, New York, NY 10268. They should be made out to The Jewish Federations of North America. Or donate through http://www.jewishfed.org/be-philanthropist/458/fire-relief-fund-for-israel

The Jewish National Fund has several different ways to help:
To arm the firefighters with the protective gear and equipment they need, go to www.jnf.org/fifdonate. 

To Replenish Trees in Israel’s Forests
- Donate $10 by texting JNF to 20222 from your cell phone.

- Go to www.jnf.org/trees and plant a tree.

 

http://www.afmda.org/   for online emergency donations to Magen David Adom, with regard to servicing victims of fire outside of Haifa.

 Adapted from combined sources 
 

Arson suspects apprehended rekindling forest fire in Israel

Coastal District Police Commander Roni Attia said Friday that two arson suspects were apprehended in the North, near Kiryat Bialik.

The suspects were allegedly attempting to rekindle a fire in the forest with the use of Molotov cocktails. Police are not connecting the arsonists at this stage to the massive fires in the Carmel and Atlit but rather to the fire which broke out earlier at the Tzur Shalom area of Kiryat Bialik


Attia added that arson is suspected in a number of separate fires, including Kiryat Bialik and Kiryat Tivon.

Earlier on Friday, police found a bike, a bag, and a wig inside near a fire center in Tzur Shalom, leading them to believe that the fire was caused by an arsonist or arsonists.

Police Spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told the Post that there are 3 fire centers - Tzur Shalom, the Atlit - Tirat Hacarmel area, and the Carmel hillsides. In one, Tzur Shalom, north of Haifa, "we located suspicious items pointing to arson. As for the other two major fires, it is too early and the incidents are to large in scale to know their causes at this stage." The death toll in the fires rose to 42 on Friday, according to Army Radio.

Galillee police were spread out over the area searching for suspects.

 

Source: Jerusalem Post,  12.3.2010   http://www.jpost.com/VideoArticles/Article.aspx?id=197845

Des Moines Interfaith Thanksgiving Service, 1 pm, Nov. 21

 From Rabbi David Kaufman,  Temple B'nai Jeshurun   dkaufman@aol.com

 

 

Community Interfaith

Thanksgiving Service

 

Sunday, November 21^st

 

1 pm

 

at Temple B’nai Jeshurun

5101 Grand Ave in Des Moines

 

 

JCRC, DMARC, AMOS, the Interfaith Alliance of Iowa, the Catholic Diocese of Des Moines, Rev. Dave Nerdig of Faith Lutheran Church, Temple B'nai Jeshurun and I, Rabbi David Kaufman, among others would like to invite you to attend the annual (or at least almost annual) Thanksgiving Interfaith Service, to be held this year at Temple B’nai Jeshurun [5101 Grand Ave in Des Moines] at 1:00 p.m. on Nov. 21. We missed having it last year! It is an inspirational event.

 

This year, the service will be held at the same time as the Temple’s Chanukah Happening event, so participants and attendees will have the opportunity to experience that event and shop at the vendor tables!

 

Faith leaders from a number of religious organizations will participate and a good time will be had by all. Thank you so much for your willingness to engage in the interfaith religious life of greater Des Moines.

 

 

For more information please call the Temple’s office at

515-274-4679

 

This is a free event, open to the public

 

David Jay Kaufman
Rabbi
Temple B'nai Jeshurun
Des Moines, Iowa
www.templebnaijeshurun.org
www.rabbikaufman.blogspot.com
515-274-4679
dkaufman@aol.com

Interfaith Thanksgiving Service in Des Moines, 1 pm, Nov. 21

 

Community Interfaith

Thanksgiving Service

 

Sunday, November 21^st

 

1 pm

 

at Temple B’nai Jeshurun

5101 Grand Ave in Des Moines

 

 

JCRC, DMARC, AMOS, the Interfaith Alliance of Iowa, the Diocese of Des Moines, Rev. Dave Nerdig of Faith Lutheran, Temple B'nai Jeshurun and I, Rabbi David Kaufman, among others would like to invite you to attend the annual (or at least almost annual) Thanksgiving Interfaith Service, to be held this year at Temple B’nai Jeshurun [5101 Grand Ave in Des Moines] at 1:00 p.m. on Nov. 21. We missed having it last year! It is an inspirational event.

 

This year, the service will be held at the same time as the Temple’s Chanukah Happening event, so participants and attendees will have the opportunity to experience that event and shop at the vendor tables!

 

Faith leaders from a number of religious organizations will participate and a good time will be had by all. Thank you so much for your willingness to engage in the interfaith religious life of greater Des Moines.

 

 

For more information please call the Temple’s office at

515-274-4679

 

This is a free event, open to the public 

 

 From: Rabbi David Kaufman   From: DKaufman@aol.com