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Th e international diplomatic conference held in Paris on Sunday was “like having marriage counseling with neither the husband nor the wife present,” a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told BBC News. After calling the confab attended by representatives of more than 70 countries a “relic of the past,” David Keyes noted, “Th e barrier for this two-state solution for two peoples isn’t the prime minister of Israel.” Instead, Keyes went on to say, the true obstacle to

Ben Rhodes and US President Barack Obama on Air Force One. Photo: Pete Souza / White House via Wikimedia Commons.

David Keyes, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s BY BARNEY BREEN adviser for strategic communi- spite machine.” foreign media spokesman. Photo: Screenshot. cations will come to an end on UN Watch Executive Director -PORTNOY Friday with the inauguration of Hillel Neuer tweeted, “No joke: peace is Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. “He’s said no to recognizing Israel as a Jewish state; he’s Outgoing President Barack President-elect Donald Trump — Obama names aide who bragged said no to direct negotiations with Israel; and, frankly, he’s Obama’s choice on Tuesday of top was a leading advocate of the Iran of whitewashing Iran’s Holocaust- said no to stopping the glorifi cation or murderers and the aide Ben Rhodes to serve on the US nuclear deal and a vocal critic of denying regime to Holocaust horrifi c hate speech which is indoctrinating children from a Holocaust Memorial Council drew Israeli settlement policies. memorial very young age,” Keyes stated. a slew of online ire over Rhodes’ “So Ben Rhodes, who is a Jonathan Greenberg — Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel controversial record on Israel- veritable enemy of Israel, Obama senior vice president of the Haym Nahshon tweeted that Sunday’s summit in the French related issues. appoints to Holocaust Memorial Salomon Center — tweeted, “Other capital “turned as fl at as a failed souffl é.” Rhodes — whose role as Council,” American Spectator board members should refuse to Obama’s deputy national security Managing Editor Melissa sit with him.” Mackenzie tweeted. “Th e man is a Continued on Page A3

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sively that whenever the Israeli government Obama’s failure to carry out his red-line tion of Mubarak initially placed Egypt under has confidence in America’s backing, it has threat against the Syrian regime’s use of the control of the Muslim Brotherhood and ALAN DERSHOWITZ been more willing to make generous compro- chemical weapons has weakened American strengthened Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Only a BOSTON mise offers, than when it has reason to doubt credibility among its allies and adversaries coup, opposed by the Obama Administration, American support. President Obama did not alike. It has created a vacuum of power that restored some semblance of stability to Egypt. understand this crucial reality. Instead of Russia was quick to fill. Turkey, too, has Lebanon has become a wholly owned subsid- having Israel’s back, he repeatedly stabbed flexed its bullying muscles, as its irascible iary of Hezbollah, a terrorist group under the Israel in the back, beginning with his one–sided and egomaniacal leader has used the excuse influence of Iran that has 100,000 missiles The Middle East is a more dangerous Cairo speech near the beginning of his tenure, of ISIS to go after another American ally, the aimed at Israel’s population centers. The Shia place after eight years of the Obama Presi- continuing through his failure to enforce the Kurds, who have at least as strong a claim to arc now runs from Iran through parts of Iraq dency than it was before. The eight disastrous red-line on chemical weapon use by Syria, then statehood as do the Palestinians. and Syria and into Lebanon. Obama years follow eight disastrous Bush allowing a sunset provision to be included in America’s traditional allies in the This is the tragic legacy of the Obama years during which that part of the world the Iran deal, and culminating in his refusal to mid-East – Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the administration’s failed efforts to undo the became more dangerous as well. So have veto the one-sided Security Council resolution, Emirates and Jordan – have all been weakened harms caused by the Bush administration. many other international hot spots. In sum, which placed the lion’s share of blame on the by the Obama policies, most especially by the Radical Islamic terrorists have replaced the past 16 years have seen major foreign Israelis for the current stalemate. Iran deal. America’s traditional enemies – Iran, authoritarian secular tyrants. Both are bad, policy blunders all over the world, and most These ill-advised actions – especially the Syria and Hezbollah – have been strength- but tyrants at least produce a degree of especially in the area between Libya and Security Council resolution – have disincentiv- ened, along with Turkey. stability and predictability. They also tend to Iran, that includes Israel, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, ized the Palestinian leadership from accepting Terrorism has increased and moved keep their tyranny domestic, whereas terror- Lebanon, Turkey and the Gulf. the Netanyahu offer to sit down and negotiate northward to Europe, partly as a result of the ists tend to export their evil tactics. We should With regard to the conflict between Israel a compromise peace. They have been falsely Syrian crisis. have learned the lesson from the replace- and the Palestinians, the Obama policies have led to believe that they can achieve statehood ISIS, Al Qaeda, the Taliban – and other ment of the tyrannical Shah of Iran by the far made the prospects for a compromise peace through the United Nations, or by other means terrorist offshoots – thought weakened, more tyrannical and dangerous Ayatollahs. more difficult to achieve. When Israel felt that that do not require compromise. remain a serious threat to regional stability But we did not. We insisted on supporting America had its back – under both President The Iran Deal, while it delayed Iran’s and to civilians. the “democracy” of the Arab spring, which Clinton and Bush 43 – they offered generous acquisition of nuclear weapons, virtually A destabilized Middle East poses resulted in the replacement of undemocratic proposals to end settlements and occupation in guaranteed that it would be allowed to increasing dangers to American allies and to domestic tyrants by undemocratic interna- nearly all of the West Bank. Tragically the Pales- develop a nuclear arsenal as soon as the peace. The blame for this instability is shared tional terrorists. tinian leadership – first under Arafat and then major restrictions on the deal expire in the by presidents Bush and Obama. The overthrow History will look kindly on Obama’s under Abbas – did not accept either the Barak- next decade. Israel will never allow a regime of Saddam Hussein and the invasion of Iraq domestic successes, but it will judge his Clinton offers in 2000-2001, nor the Olmert offer sworn to the destruction of the Nation-State of divided that country into ungovernability and Mideast policy harshly. in 2008. Now they are ignoring Netanyahu’s the Jewish People to secure such a genocidal invited Iran to play a major role in its current Alan M. Dershowitz, Felix Frankfurter open offer to negotiate with no pre-conditions. weapon. So the likelihood of an eventual destabilized condition. The toppling of Gaddafi Professor of Law, Emeritus at Harvard Law In his brilliant book chronicling the dangerous military confrontation has been left Libya open to increasing terrorist influ- School and author of Taking the Stand: My American-Israeli relationship – “Doomed increased rather than decreased by the poorly ences. The attempt to replace Assad has turned Life in the Law and Electile Dysfunction: A To Succeed” – Dennis Ross proves conclu- negotiated Iran deal. Syria into a nightmare. The forced resigna- Guide for the Unaroused Voter. How Zionists Helped Destroy Segregation in Baltimore

country, including the National Theater in an important symbolic blow against racial the Washington, DC. When the Bergson Group discrimination. But as it turned out, the Algemeiner Journal RAFAEL MEDOFF/ realized that the National barred African- controversy was not over. Americans from attending, they quickly The Maryland Theater didn’t bar African- (USPS 927800) is published weekly JNS.ORG looked for an alternative venue. Americans, but it did restrict them to the (except for the week of Passover Civil rights activists used a variety of balcony, which bigots nicknamed “n—-r and Succos) tactics to oppose theater discrimination, from heaven.” Alerted of this by local NAACP activ- Subscription rate $40 per year lawsuits to picket lines. In Charlotte, North ists, the Bergson Group fashioned a kind of Algemeiner Journal After a year when Jewish and African- Carolina, Jewish newspaper editor Harry good cop-bad cop strategy. Just hours before American relations were strained by the Black Golden made headlines with his “Rent-a- the first curtain, Bergson officials informed 508 Montgomery Street Lives Matter’s denunciation of Israel and other Brooklyn, N.Y. 11225-3023 Child” scheme, which ridiculed racist theaters the theater management that if they did not uncomfortable incidents, it’s worth recalling a by having white children accompany African- rescind the seating discrimination, the NAACP Periodicals Postage little-known episode that points to the kind American women to the theater; the ladies would picket the show with signs declaring, Paid at Brooklyn, N.Y. of intergroup relations that Dr. Martin Luther were admitted on the assumption that they “There is No Difference Between Jim Crow and at additional mailing offices King, Jr. worked so hard to foster. were the children’s nannies. in Maryland and Persecution [of Jews] in In the autumn of 1946, Zionist activists “Flag” author Ben Hecht and 32 other Palestine.” The Bergsonites also threatened to POSTMASTER: known as the Bergson Group sponsored a playwrights then announced that they would personally escort several African-Americans Send address changes to Broadway play called “A Flag is Born,” which not permit their works to be performed at to the show as their guests, to be seated in the was authored by the Academy Award- theaters that barred African-Americans. regular sections. Algemeiner Journal winning screenwriter and playwright Ben P.O. Box 250746 The Washington engagement of “Flag” was The pressure worked. Hecht. Starring a young Marlon Brando and rescheduled for the Maryland Theater in Balti- The Maryland Theater management Brooklyn, N.Y. 11225 -3023 Yiddish theater luminaries Paul Muni and more, and a train car was secured to bring 18 agreed to recognize the Bergson Group as the Celia Adler, “Flag” depicted the plight of US Senators and a number of foreign diplo- “lessee of the theater.” That made the theater’s Let your voice be heard! Holocaust survivors in post-war Europe, and mats to Baltimore for the February 1947 event. ticket agents employees of the Bergson the fight for Jewish independence in British In making the switch from Washington Group, and subject to whatever seating policy [email protected] Mandatory Palestine. to Baltimore, the Bergson Group struck the activists chose to adopt. A dozen African- The London Evening Standard expressed Americans attended the opening night To advertise in horror that large audiences were flocking performance on February 12, 1947 and “were to what it called “the most virulent anti- seated indiscriminately, without untoward the new Algemeiner British play ever staged in the United States.” results,” the Baltimore Afro-American e-mail: [email protected] American publications took a different view: reported. February 12 is, fittingly, Abraham Time called the play “colorful theater and Lincoln’s birthday. or call biting propaganda,” while Life complimented Exuberant NAACP leaders hailed the 718-771-0400 its “wit and wisdom.” “tradition-shattering victory” won by the After a successful 10-week run on alliance of black and Zionist activists against Broadway, “Flag” was scheduled to be Ben Hecht. Photo: Alchetron. performed in various cities around the Continued on Page A3 www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2017 A3 World News. UK Prime Minister French Diplomat: Paris Rejects Labour Leader Conference ‘Two-State Jeremy Corbyn’s Call for Solution’ Declaration Probe Into Israeli ‘Sends Subliminal Political ‘Interference’ Message to Trump’

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United Kingdom Prime Minister Theresa May has rejected Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn’s call for an investigation into the reported “improper interference in this country’s democratic process” by Israeli officials. A government spokesperson said Britain’s relationship with the Jewish state remained “strong,” following Corbyn’s letter to May citing the claims of a controversial four-part Labour head Jeremy Corbyn testifying before the documentary by Al Jazeera about the influ- Home Affairs Select Committee over his party’s ence of the so-called Israel lobby on UK politics. antisemitism inquiry. Photo: Video Screenshot. Corbyn — whose party has been mired in an antisemitism scandal and dogged by But Corbyn said the film revealed allegations of being anti-Israel — was refer- “unacceptable” Israeli power that “under- ring to an undercover reporter’s footage of mines the integrity” of the UK government. He an Israeli embassy employee, Shai Mason, wrote to May, “I would therefore ask that you discussing his intention to “take down” several treat the matter as such and launch an inquiry British politicians, including Minister of State into the extent of this improper influence.” for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Alan The British premier’s spokesperson said the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and French President Francois Hollande, pictured in center, shake Duncan, and calling Foreign Secretary Boris government “consider[ed] the matter closed.” hands at the Jan. 15 conference on Mideast peace in Paris. Photo: US State Department. Johnson an “idiot.” Al Jazeera‘s claims have been met with Mason was fired days after the video was severe criticism by Jewish community leaders, BY JNS.ORG national needs.” released and the embassy has renounced as well as concern by major pro-Israel groups Meanwhile, US Secretary of State John his statements, with Israel’s ambassador to over how an undercover journalist was able to Sunday’s Mideast peace conference in Kerry said the conference“moved the ball London, Mark Regev, issuing a direct apology. infiltrate private meetings. Paris concluded that the “two-state solution” forward” on the peace process. is the only way forward to resolve the Israeli- “It underscores this is not just one admin- Palestinian conflict and warned both sides istration’s point of view, this is shared by the Continued from Page A1 against taking any independent action, reiter- international community broadly,” Kerry said. Spite ating the long-standing international position This is expected to be the last international on the issue. forum Kerry participates in before the end of In their final communique, conference his term this Friday. participants from some 70 countries said they Israeli officials have made it clear that “call on each side…to refrain from unilateral they are looking forward to the “new era” of the steps that prejudge the outcome of negotia- Trump administration, who has harshly criti- tions on final-status issues, including, inter cized efforts to impose solutions on the Jewish alia, on Jerusalem, borders, security, refugees state. “This conference is among the last twitches and which they will not recognize.” of yesterday’s world. Tomorrow’s world will be While the statement did not explicitly different — and it is very near,” Netanyahu said criticize President-elect Donald Trump, a days before the conference convened. Journalist Lori Lowenthal Marcus French diplomat said that “tortuous and Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations tweeted, “The only interest in the Holocaust I’ve complicated paragraph” was intended “to Danny Danon echoed the prime minister’s seen from @rhodes44 is his effort 2 help create pass a subliminal message” to the incoming message, saying that he plans to “work with the another 1.” The US Holocaust Memorial Council is American administration, Reuters reported. incoming US administration to undo the damage comprised of 68 members — 55 of whom are Ahead of the meeting, Trump’s advisers caused by the [recent United Nations] Security presidential appointees. The members serve told French officials that the president-elect Council resolution [against Israeli settlements] five-year terms on the council, which meets strongly objected to the conference being and these other one-sided initiatives.” twice annually. held just days before his Jan. 20 inauguration, The United Kingdom also cited the Last week, as reported by The Algemeiner, Haaretz reported. changing American administration in its the ombudsman of PBS called on the station to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netan- explanation for why it participated in the issue a “clarifying or correcting” statement in the yahu, whose government did not attend the conference only as an observer, sending wake of a false claim made by Rhodes during an conference, called the gathering a “useless” junior diplomats to Paris and not signing the interview with Judy Woodruff in December that attempt by France and the Palestinians to communique. Israel was constructing “tens of thousands” of “force terms on Israel that conflict with our new settlements in the West Bank. Just a few days after the PBS “NewsHour” Continued from Page A2 proud that it was “A Flag is Born” that they interview, Rhodes — who was born to a Jewish Segregation attended without insult. Breaking down this mother — was called an “expert at fiction” by theater discrimination. The NAACP used that vicious and indecent tradition in Maryland Israeli Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer for victory as potent ammunition in its battles to is worthy of the high purpose for which ‘Flag’ asserting that the Obama administration did not desegregate other Baltimore theaters in the was conceived and written. The incident is orchestrate the passage of the anti-settlement years to follow. forceful testimony to the proposition that UN Security Council resolution last month. “I am proud that it was my play which to fight discrimination and injustice to one In a New York Times Magazine profile terminated one of the most disgraceful group of human beings affords protection to published in May, Rhodes — the holder of practices of our country’s history,” a beaming every other group.” a M.F.A. in creative writing — admitted to Ben Hecht declared after the opening Dr. Rafael Medoff is director of The Rachel Steinmetz tweeted, “In a final F-U creating a media “echo chamber” to promote performance in Baltimore. “For the first David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust to the #Jewish community #Obama names the Iran nuclear deal. Reporters were “saying time in the history of the State of Maryland, Studies, and author or editor of 16 books his shill #BenRhodes to #Holocaust Memorial things that validated what he had given them Negroes were permitted to attend the legiti- about Jewish history, Zionism, and the Council.” to say,” he revealed. mate theatre without discrimination. I am Holocaust. A4 | FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2017 World News. In Secret Recording, Participants at ‘Students for Justice in Palestine’ Conference Heard Attacking America as ‘World’s Greatest Imperial Power’

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In a never-before-released recording obtained by Th e Algemeiner of part of a closed-door anti-Zionist student conference A section of the newly discovered wall at the Timna copper mines in southern Israel. at Virginia’s George Mason University in Photo: Dr. Erez Ben-Yosef. November, participants are heard accusing the United States — “the world’s greatest imperial Wall Dating Back to King David power” — of enabling and perpetrating crimes in the Middle East. Attendees of the 2016 National Students for Jus- Era Excavated at Israel’s Th e blatant anti-Americanism was voiced tice in Palestine conference. Photo: Twitter. at the 2016 National Students for Justice in of the oppressed people to fi nd aid and arms Timna Mines Palestine (NSJP) conference, during a panel for their liberation struggle, no matter where on “Syrian-Palestinian Liberation.” Panelists it comes from, as long as they maintain their included Palestinian-Syrian activist Wael independence.” Elasady, co-founder of Students United for Elasady and Smith are both known for BY JNS.ORG “Today, we are discovering more and Palestinian Equal Rights, and International expressing anti-Israel and anti-American more evidence of a concentrated, hierarchical Socialist Movement member Ashley Smith. views. Elasady has described Israel as a An ancient wall dating back to the 10th society that interacted extensively with its In the tape, Elasady is heard blaming “colonial project carried out by a racist and century BCE excavated at an archaeological neighbors, which matches up with texts from US “imperialism” for facilitating the Assad violent settler society.” He has also claimed dig in southern Israel may lend credence to the Bible and other sources,” said Dr. Erez regime’s alleged war crimes in Syria and for that Zionism has a “racist core” and has the biblical story of King David’s great battle Ben-Yosef of Tel Aviv University, who headed causing regional instability, which allows advocated for steps to be taken to “upend the against the Edomite tribe. the team that uncovered the wall. the world to turn a blind eye to Israel’s US-Israeli relationship.” At the Timna copper mines antiquities “We have plenty of archaeological proof “ethnic cleansing of Palestine, increas[ing] its Smith has accused Israel of engaging in site in the Arava desert region, researchers to determine that the miners who worked the Judaization of Jerusalem and expand[ing] its “apartheid-like behavior,” and referred to the US discovered a well-fortifi ed wall that once ran Timna mines weren’t humble slaves, as had settlements without repercussions.” as the Jewish state’s “main international sponsor,” for hundreds of meters and stood at least fi ve been assumed, but rather expert miners who Smith said that while he saw the confl ict which has “stood completely unswayed by…the meters (16.5 feet) tall. Many sling stones were oversaw the complex, demanding work by in Syria as a “popular uprising of the people… oppression of the Palestinians…” discovered next to the edifi ce, which may be apprentices,” he added. for democracy, for equality, for a liberation SJP has a record of fomenting unrest at evidence of the clash mentioned in Samuel 8:13. from a tyrannical regime,” he took issue with American colleges. As Th e Algemeiner has previ- those on the Left who viewed the struggle ously reported, a 2016 Brandeis study found that purely through the lens of “imposed American “one of the strongest predictors of perceiving a imperialism.” hostile climate towards Israel and Jews is the Daughter of Robert Kennedy, He specifi cally called out activist presence of an active SJP group on campus.” journalist Max Blumenthal for “reversing his Th e group’s national conference at Slain by Palestinian Gunman for position” on Syria — fi rst referring to the civil George Mason University prompted a group war as a “right of revolt” of the people, and of Virginia lawmakers to issue an open letter Pro-Israel Stance, Calls then calling it a “‘color revolution’ orchestrated calling for the immediate cancellation of the by the US with the project of regime change.” event. “SJP is an organization that incites ‘Fabulous’ Jewish State ‘Example Smith argued that the Syrian people violence,” one of the signatories told Th e must carry out a “revolutionary struggle Algemeiner at the time. of People Determined to Make from below to liberate people…Diplomacy At the NSJP conference in question, as will not bring liberation [in Syria], as all the Israeli fl ag was reportedly used as a “doormat” negotiations over Palestinian liberation [have] by attendees. Something Work proved as well. We have to defend the right

and died the following day. Sirhan Sirhan told his interrogators that he had set out to kill RFK BY RUTHIE BLUM Israelis, and how they were determined to for his vocal support for Israel. build a new country,” she told interviewer According to a report released by the think Th e daughter of the late US Senator Ya’akov Ahimeir — whose own father, Zionist tank the Jerusalem Center for Public Aff airs in Robert F. (Bobby) Kennedy — assassinated revisionist Abba Ahimeir — was a well-known 2008, RFK’s dispatches from Palestine during in June 1968 during his run for president by a fi gure in Palestine when RFK arrived. “After the war included descriptions such as: Palestinian — waxed poetic about the Jewish seeing such horror in Europe…they were Th e Jewish people in Palestine who state in an interview with Israel’s Channel going to build a country of courage and of believe in and have been working toward this 1, saying that she came by her awe with the democracy and of values. And…he realized, national state have become an immensely when he saw the Israelis, that the United States country honestly, from her family. proud and determined people. It is already Kathleen Kennedy Townsend on Israel’s had a special relationship to this country, and Speaking in-studio during a recent trip a truly great modern example of the birth Channel 1. Photo: Screenshot. to Israel, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend — needed to make sure that that relationship of a nation with the primary ingredients of for the benefi t of all.” attorney, politician, long-time Democratic stayed fi rm.” dignity and self-respect. RFK’s assassin, a Jordanian citizen born Party activist and niece of President John F. She then added, “And, as you know, in Another item he wrote was headlined: to a Christian family in Jerusalem in Manda- Kennedy, Jr. — said that she feels a “special 1968, he was fi ghting for the 50 jets that would “Make Up for Lack of Arms with Undying tory Palestine, is serving a life sentence at the bond” with Israel, inherited from her father. be given to the Israeli army, and he was killed Spirit, Unparalleled Courage.” Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San “Everywhere around the world could because of his support [for Israel].” Th e JCPA report stated that RFK Diego. In a 1989 interview from prison, he said, look to Israel as an example of people who Townsend was referring to her father’s was critical of a temporary slippage “My only connection with Robert Kennedy was are determined to make something work,” she murder at the hands of 24-year-old Sirhan of the American government’s support for his sole support of Israel and his deliberate said. “It’s fabulous.” Sirhan, who — after RFK’s address to Jewish statehood. He feared that the US was attempt to send those 50 bombers to Israel to She recounted her father’s stint as a supporters at the Ambassador Hotel in Los shifting towards Britain’s negative policies obviously do harm to the Palestinians.” journalist at the age of 22 — for the defunct Angeles when he won the California primary and its aim “to crush” the Zionist cause. “If Asked by Ahimeir whether she is able Boston Post — when he covered Israel’s War — opened fi re with a revolver, hitting the the American people knew the true facts,” to forgive her father’s murderer, Townsend of Independence in 1948. candidate three times and wounding fi ve Kennedy wrote, “I am certain a more honest responded: “To tell you the truth, that’s a little “[H]e wrote about the courage of the other people. RFK was rushed to the hospital and forthright policy would be substituted diffi cult.” www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2017 A5 U.S. News.

frankly, if these trends continue, it will be PBS Ombudsman Calls for impossible to realize a two-state solution.” Later, in response to a question about ‘Clarification, Correction’ Over criticism of the abstention, Rhodes stated, “Well, look, we respect, of course, friends on both sides of the aisle who have expressed Ben Rhodes’ False Claim on different views on this. Again, I think the question is going to be when history looks at Settlements these types of decisions, when people look back and they say,’You saw tens of thousands of settlements being constructed; you saw — as was addressed in the resolution — incite- Deputy US National Security Adviser for Stra- tegic Communications Ben Rhodes. BY BARNEY BREEN-PORTNOY ment to violence on the Palestinian side.’” Photo: Screenshot. Just a few days after the PBS “NewsHour” A PBS news program should issue a “clarifying or correcting” statement in the wake of a interview, Rhodes — as reported by The In a New York Times Magazine profile claim made by a top Obama administration official during an interview last month that Israel was Algemeiner — was called an “expert at fiction” published in May, Rhodes — who holds constructing “tens of thousands” of new settlements in the West Bank, the station’s ombudsman by Israeli Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer a M.F.A. in creative writing — admitted to said on Friday. for asserting that the Obama administration creating a media “echo chamber” to promote Michael Getler was commenting on a Dec. 23 interview with Ben Rhodes — outgoing Presi- did not orchestrate the passage of the Security the Iran nuclear deal. Reporters were “saying dent Barack Obama’s deputy national security adviser for strategic communications — conducted Council resolution. things that validated what he had given them by PBS “NewsHour” anchor Judy Woodruff. Getler’s attention was brought to the matter by the to say,” he revealed. Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) media watchdog group, which pointed out that the total number of settlements and outposts is 228, and that no new settlements have been built in recent years. “[I]t seems clear to me that Rhodes misspoke when he talked about thousands and tens of thousands of settlements,” Getler wrote. In response to a query from Getler, Rhodes said, “I assume I was referring to settlers/individual settlement units, rather than settlement blocs.” In his email, Rhodes went on to describe settlement units as “housing, whereas settlements are generally used to refer to a cluster of houses (which can obviously take different forms –apartments, houses, etc).” In the interview with Woodruff, in which he defended the Obama administration’s abstention from the recent vote on the anti-settlement UN Security Council resolution that was approved — Rhodes said, “I think if you look at the map of the West Bank, if you look at the future of the two-state solution, these settlements are encroaching further and further beyond the separation barrier that the Israelis themselves built; thousands of new settlements are being constructed and, Israel Arrests 13 Hamas Terrorists in West Bank

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Israeli security forces recently arrested 13 Hamas terror- ists, the Shin Bet security agency revealed Sunday. The suspects were arrested in a joint operation by the Israel Defense Forces and the Shin Bet that exposed an exten- sive Hamas infrastructure in the Ramallah area and in Judea and Samaria’s Binyamin region. The operation also seized money, a vehicle and propa- ganda material, the Shin Bet said in a statement, explaining that the terrorist command center operated under a hierar- chical structure and comprised dozens of terrorists who were working to strengthen Hamas’s “broad regional impact” in the West Bank. Part of the command center’s operations focused on economic and social activity, including financial support for the families of imprisoned and dead Hamas terrorists. The command center received steady funding from Hamas headquarters in Gaza and from the terrorist group’s satellites abroad. The exposure of this infrastructure demon- strates that the group has continued its attempts to put itself in a position to topple the Palestinian Authority’s seat in the West Bank, and presses on with its project of committing terror attacks against Israel.

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As for annexing parts of the West Bank, Israel is under no obligation to maintain the The Pitiable, Pathetic Paris Peace Parley status quo forever, because the Palestinians refuse to coexist with a Jewish state. Israel has been incredibly patient in holding off annexa- tion of some or all of the West Bank. Palestinian terror and incitement; then, after Regarding moving the US embassy from entrenching their failures, the diplomats retire Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Kurtzer knows that and use the media to pontificate on what their SHMULEY BOTEACH Congress passed a law to this effect in 1995. successors should do. ENGELWOOD But Congress made the mistake of providing The latest representative of this class to the president a loophole to ignore the law, speak out is Daniel Kurtzer, who served as which is why the embassy remains in Tel George W. Bush’s US ambassador to Israel. Aviv. So, Friedman not only has the law on his In a recent op-ed in the New York Times, side, but the foresight that Palestinian apolo- Barack Obama’s and John Kerry’s “peace” Kurtzer complained that Trump’s selection of gists lack: the understanding that recognizing summit in Paris, to which neither Israel nor David Friedman as United States ambassador Jerusalem as the indivisible capital of Israel the Palestinians even bothered to show up to Israel is a serious mistake. He asserted that French President Francois Hollande addresses will end the Palestinian fantasy of one day — was a farce. The anti-Israel, anti-settle- “Mr. Friedman would be representing not the attendees on June 3, 2016, at the MFA at controlling Jerusalem. ment declaration issued at the conference American people but a small, extreme minority theConvention Center in Paris, France. Photo: From there, the Palestinian house of was predictable and pre-established, and of Americans who have in mind the interests of Wikimedia Commons cards will collapse. Arab governments that one wonders what possible justification a small, extreme minority in Israel.” recognized only by the United Kingdom, have used innocent Palestinian refugees as there could be for 70 nations to waste so I know David Friedman. He is a man of Iraq and Pakistan. So what illegal occupa- pawns to demonize Israel will recognize that much money sending their representa- integrity, professionalism and total dedica- tion of the West Bank is Kurtzer referring to? these refugees will never migrate to Israel and tives — including 35 foreign ministers — to a tion to the Jewish people. And it is Kurtzer, not Which legal entity did Israel illegally occupy? demographically overrun the Jewish state, ridiculous and useless one-day gathering that Friedman, who represents the fringe of Jewish A vanished Ottoman Empire? A dissolved and that Palestine will never be liberated achieved precisely nothing. opinion in the US and Israel. British mandate? A Palestinian state that has “from the river to the sea.” The principle purpose of the conference, Kurtzer argued that Friedman is wrong never existed? From who, pray tell, did Israel Many critics seem frustrated that it seems, was to serve as Obama’s and Kerry’s for the job because, he “has been publicly take this land? Friedman will carry out a foreign policy that last anti-Israel gasp. After passing UN Security arguing that Israel has a right to build settle- Eugene Rostow, a former undersecre- treats Israel as an ally, as opposed to Presi- Council Resolution 2334 condemning Israeli ments and annex parts of the West Bank. tary of state for political affairs in the Johnson dent Obama’s favorite whipping post. The fact settlements, they needed one more interna- He believes that the United States should administration, observed that UN Security that Friedman is close to the president-elect tional move to confirm the sentiment. recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and Council Resolution 242, the backbone of all and is a solid friend of Israel’s will ensure that Well done, gentlemen. move the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to peace negotiations, gives Israel a legal right he has an important voice in ensuring that I predict that when the Obama administra- Jerusalem.” to be in the West Bank. The resolution “allows the democratic state of Israel is not forced to tion is over, we will still continue to hear Kerry But Israel — historically, politically, Israel to administer the territories” it won make concessions to non-democratic terror bloviating about how Israel is the reason there religiously and geographically — has more in 1967 until “a just and lasting peace in the entities bent on its destruction. is no peace. This follows a long and predictable rights to sovereignty in Judea and Samaria Middle East” is achieved. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, “America’s pattern that has emerged over the last several than the Palestinians. So Friedman is correct when he says that Rabbi,” is referred to by The Washington Post decades of US Middle East policy: The State No one disputes that the West Bank was Israel has a right to build settlements in the as “the most famous Rabbi in America.” He Department urges the president to pursue the Biblical cradle of early Jewish civilization West Bank. In fact, the Palestinians agreed to it is the author, most recently, of “The Israel its formula for bringing about peace between and that the land was unlawfully occupied when they signed the Oslo Accords. Whether Warrior: Standing Up for the Jewish State Israel and the Palestinians; the president and by Jordan between the 1948 War of Indepen- doing so is in Israel’s best interests is for Israel’s from Campus to Street Corner.” Follow him his secretary of state waste years in this quixotic dence and the 1967 Six-Day War. Jordan’s government (the current one having been on Twitter @RabbiShmuley. endeavor, marked by their inability to confront annexation of the West Bank in 1950 was elected three consecutive times) to decide.

tives” will usher in a new era of peace. The historic Palestinian strategy has never Palestinian state capacities: This is an been about achieving statehood, but about Why the Palestinian Issue interesting one. The conference statement preventing a negotiated solution in order to hints that we shouldn’t automatically expect perpetuate the image of the Palestinians as the Won’t Disappear a Palestinian state to be like Norway from people to whom history has dealt the cruelest the get-go. And there are two reasons for blow. It’s why the Palestinians make delib- that. First: the PA has been stealing billions of erately unrealistic demands, like the “right dollars in international aid money from day of return”– a goal the Palestine Liberation brought us the passage of United Nations one of its existence. Second, apart from a few Organization originally pledged to achieve Security Council Resolution 2334, which exceptions like Jordan and the areas under through violence — and suing the United paves the way for imposing a solution outside Kurdish control, Middle Eastern states — of Kingdom due to the 1917 Balfour Declaration. BEN COHEN/JNS.ORG the Sunni and Shiia, Arab, Turkish and Persian In terms of building up public support NEW YORK the framework of direct Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, and the January 15 Paris Mideast variety — are little more than dungeons with around the world, it’s a Palestinian strategy that conference, at which no less than 72 countries, flags on top of them. has worked. Hence, we can assume that if Presi- including the US, have pulled up in the French But hey, that’s nothing that a bit of “civil dent-elect Donald Trump does a 180-degree turn capital to issue a statement so utterly divorced society dialogue” can’t fix, eh? on President Obama’s approach to the Israelis, It’s been clear for a long time that there from reality that you can’t help laughing. I don’t want to be unfair here, because the narrative of the Palestinians — ignored by is little difference between the character of Leave aside the obvious objections: that there have been some wonderful efforts to America, facing 50 years of “occupation” under terrorist attacks in Israel and those in the this conference perpetuates the fallacy that encourage dialogue between Arab and Jewish Israel — will become emblematic of public West. Trucks ram into crowds– as they did the Israeli-Palestinian conflict lies at the heart citizens of Israel, but for that approach to work, resistance to the foreign policies of the Trump in Nice, Berlin and Jerusalem. Terrorists blow of the Middle East troubles, or simply that the you need to first recognize the humanity in administration. In the American context, the up or shoot up nightclubs — as they did in spectacle of 72 countries fixating on Israel — each other. What would actually get discussed Democratic Party is now the most significant Orlando, Tel Aviv and Bali. Knife-wielding when neighboring Syria has been turned into at these dialogues, anyway? An Israeli asking barometer of that process. Islamists dash into venues, ranging from a graveyard — is nauseating. a Palestinian, “Why are your preachers calling The Palestinians can also play power shopping malls to police stations, stabbing Look instead at the worldview expressed us sons of apes and pigs again?” politics. They can carry on with their campaign anyone in reach — as they did in Minnesota, in the conference statement, a draft of Maybe none of this matters anymore. to achieve membership in international Brussels and, yes, Tel Aviv. which was distributed in advance. The tools Maybe Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin bodies as an independent state. They can Compared to 15 years ago, there is a for achieving and sustaining a “two-state Netanyahu is right when he says that the curry favor with Russian President Vladimir much greater empathy in the West for Israel’s solution,” it declared, are “economic incen- Paris conference is the “final gasp” of a Putin in the next stage of his conflict with the existential position these days. European tives, the consolidation of Palestinian state failed strategy. He has good reason, after West. And they can insert themselves into US leaders like French Prime Minister Manuel capacities, and civil society dialogue.” all, to believe that, especially after hearing domestic issues — rising antisemitism, the Valls, German Chancellor Angela Merkel Alright then. the condemnation of Resolution 2334 from political culture on university campuses, the and British Prime Minister Theresa May have Economic incentives: Forget about Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson. legality of boycotts — in a way that few other shown far greater readiness than even US turning Gaza into a flourishing port city for as Yet, while the change of administration in foreign policy issues can do. President Barack Obama to recognize that long as Hamas is running the place. Ignore the Washington may strengthen Israel’s diplomatic As I said, Netanyahu may well be right about anti-Zionism is a form of antisemitism, that fact that Palestinian Authority (PA) corruption position for the immediate period, and while the the Paris talks as the last gasp of Obama’s strategy the campaign to boycott Israel is founded and nepotism have concentrated immense Palestinians will have to get to the back of the line to secure Palestinian independence. But that upon hatred and that Israel lives in a neighbor- wealth around Ramallah with no trickle to the in terms of America’s international priorities, the doesn’t mean the battle is over. Far from it. hood where, every day, someone influential rest of the West Bank. Disregard the rampant Palestinian question itself will not disappear. In Ben Cohen, senior editor of TheTower. calls for its annihilation. scale of organized crime in the West Bank, as many ways, it will find its status enhanced. org & The Tower Magazine, writes a weekly Sadly, this understanding doesn’t carry documented by the Palestinian academic Ali To begin with, there’s the public column for JNS.org on Jewish affairs and over into the workings of diplomacy. The Qleibo. Instead, these countries plan to carry domain. And this brings us to something Middle Eastern politics. last days of the Obama administration have on believing that pumping “economic incen- that the Europeans have never understood: www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2017 A7 Opinion. Hamas’ Cyber Bikini Intifada Will Trump Bow to Arab Intimidation on Jerusalem? for the trap, but the scheme was uncovered by the IDF Military Intelligence Directorate’s Infor- RUTHIE BLUM mation Security Department when complaints TEL AVIV of other suspicious online activity were lodged. Fourth, if an intifada breaks out, Israelis In the process of investigating those issues, the who lost interest in territorial compromise Hamas “honey plot” was uncovered. MITCHELL BARD after the Gaza disengagement brought terror rather than peace, will be even more reluctant To counteract such threats, which the NEW YORK IDF reported happily resulted in no security to support any withdrawal from the West Bank. Along with bloodlust and brawn, Hamas breaches, a campaign has been launched to Fifth, an uprising will reinforce the belief proved this week that it also has brains, at warn soldiers about cyber entrapment and that the Palestinians cannot be trusted to keep least where its enemies’ weaknesses are provide guidelines for those whose phones the peace even after an agreement because The fact that there is any hesitancy to concerned. But even though the terrorist have already been compromised. they will use any excuse to turn to violence. organization that controls the Gaza Strip has move the embassy is itself a colossal US Meanwhile, the IDF may expand its The reaction to Palestinian threats grown quite proficient at using the internet to policy failure, and a glaring example of execu- social media rules for soldiers to forbid them regarding the embassy parallel those of Kerry incite violence against Jews, it clearly is still no tive spinelessness. Where else does the US let from revealing any information about their and his predecessors to Palestinian irreden- match for Israel in the realm of cyberspace. its policy be dictated by threats of violence? military service over the internet. tism. Rather than tell the Palestinians that we Unbeknownst to the Israeli public until Giving in to blackmail from terrorists only The irony of this foiled attempt on the will not tolerate any violence, and that we will Tuesday, while Hamas was distributing candy emboldens them, and in the case of Jerusalem, part of Hamas is two-fold. In the first place, punish them if they do not heed our warning, in the streets of Gaza to celebrate Sunday’s they’ve learned that whipping up hysteria, and one of the aspects of Western democracies our feckless diplomats convince their political truck-ramming attack — which killed four periodically resorting to violence, is sufficient that the Islamist terrorist organization aims to bosses that we must give in to their demands. IDF soldiers who were about to embark on to cow the world’s only superpower. eradicate by way of the sword is the freedom Usually, what follows is pressure on Israel to an educational field trip — the Islamist goons With everything that’s happening in the of men and women to behave as they wish, make concessions to appease Palestinian anger. had been engaged in a clever sting opera- Middle East, does anyone really believe that consensually, anywhere from the boardroom President Trump needs to take the same tion to obtain classified information from the the Muslim world is going to get upset over the to the bedroom. tough line that he has expressed toward Israeli military. moving of the US Embassy 40 miles down the Choosing to lure the Israeli boys with the United Nations after its reprehensible Posing as beautiful girls on social stolen profiles of overtly sensual females was road and acknowledging the fact that Jerusalem adoption of yet another anti-Israel measure media, with enticing photos and hip Hebrew a way of trying to topple the Jewish state from has been Israel’s capital since independence, last month. He should let the Palestinians lingo, Hamas cyber operatives succeeded in within, through its own “immoral decadence.” and will remain so in perpetuity? seducing boys in uniform. and other leaders in the region know that no Yet what it revealed was Hamas’ deep sexual Is ISIS, which is now fighting for its As in the documentary film and later economic or military aid will be forthcoming to perversion, coupled with a whole lot of envy. survival in Syria and Iraq, going to send MTV series “Catfish,” these young guys anyone who in any way threatens our embassy The second irony has to do with soldiers to fight a jihad for Jerusalem? believed that the scantily clad women in Jerusalem. An attack on the embassy is an Israel’s grasp of the depth of cyber threats Are the Sunnis and Shiites, who slaughter they were chatting, flirting and exchanging attack on the United States, he should tell — something other countries are now scram- each on a daily basis in a death match for messages with were genuine bombshells, and them, and will trigger a military response not bling to confront — and concerted efforts to regional supremacy, going to be distracted even potential girlfriends. Well, until the “girls” only against the perpetrators but the organiza- thwart and combat them. by the American flag flying over a building in stopped responding, that is, as soon as they tions or governments behind them. Early last summer, the IDF completed Jerusalem? Will the Gulf States that face Iran’s got their targets to download a certain app, By moving the embassy, President the construction of a cyber control center to hegemonic ambitions turn on the country which was actually spyware. Trump can send a strong message that protect the army’s data. This came two years that they need most to keep their royal heads According to the IDF blog, this app “can America will once again behave like a super- after a cyber defense situation room was on their shoulders? turn a mobile device into an open book — power. We will no longer lead from behind. established, and soon after that, special units And will the US move spark another leaving contacts, location, apps, pictures and The simple act of moving our ambassador were created to repel attacks against Israeli intifada? Not likely. files accessible … [and] can stream video from infrastructure, such as the electrical grid, the down the road from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem will First, Israel is much better prepared for the camera and audio from the microphone.” water and banking systems and telephone show that, unlike President Obama, Trump the outbreak of violence than it was in the past. networks. But, while rightly worried about the cannot be blackmailed or intimidated, and Second, Palestinian Authority President dire consequences of a cyber attack that could that Iran, Russia, Syria, China, the Palestin- Mahmoud Abbas has been trying to stir up shut down civilian functioning and impair ians and our other enemies will no longer be Muslim anger by regularly accusing Israel of military capabilities, it missed such a basic — allowed to ignore or threaten our interests. threatening the Al-Aqsa Mosque — and has failed. almost primitive — bit of Hamas foreplay. Dr. Mitchell Bard is the author/editor Third, an escalation of terror will under- Israel has learned that it is easier to of 24 books including the 2017 edition of mine the already unconvincing case that fight an actual war than to keep “lone-wolf” Myths and Facts: A Guide to the Arab-Israeli Palestinians are ready for statehood, and that terrorism — such as the truck-ramming attack Conflict; The Arab Lobby, and the novel After Israel should capitulate to their demands. in Jerusalem — at bay. Now it must figure Anatevka: Tevye in Palestine. out what to do about the havoc that can be wreaked by dangerous identity-theft cyber pests posing in bikinis. France in December 2015, this sympathetic of taking a stand on behalf of the medical An IDF soldier on his cellphone. portrayal of Palestinian violence led Roger community and patients. One is left to wonder Photo: IDF/Twitter. Indeed, Israel may be able to infiltrate Iran’s nuclear mechanisms with worms, but Cukierman, head of the Council of Jewish what quid-pro-quo arrangement — financial or getting its populace to stay away from chat Institutions in France, to condemn the display otherwise — lies at the heart of this strategy. This was a case, the blog said, of Hamas rooms is a mission that even the mighty IDF as “an apology for terrorism” and warn “that The exhibition’s organizers are using a weapon that was not a bomb, gun or will find impossible. [it] could inflame antisemitic violence.” themselves guilty of the same sin of omission vehicle, but rather a simple friend request. Ruthie Blum is the managing editor of While “In Between Wars” indicates the vis-à-vis Palestinian medical care. MSF could It is not clear how many soldiers initially fell The Algemeiner. NGO’s embrace of a politicized agenda, what is have used this platform as an opportunity to entirely unclear is how it fits into MSF’s stated discuss threats to medical access for Palestin- goal of providing medical care to those in need. ians, including the use of medical facilities The exhibition makes only passing mention and infrastructure by Palestinian terrorists Why Is ‘Doctors Without of the process through which Israel grants to store weapons and plan attacks on Israeli Palestinians medical permits to reach Israeli civilians and soldiers. Its failure to do so Borders’ Prescribing Anti- medical facilities, instead focusing its attention throws into stark relief how the organization’s on Palestinian violence and “resistance.” blind advocacy comes at the expense of its It is ironic and noteworthy that MSF is core interests as a medical organization. Israel Propaganda in Dubai? holding these exhibitions in countries like MSF’s descent into political advocacy is a Jordan and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), cautionary tale for other international humani- both of which have troops fighting as part of tarian and human rights NGOs. By increasingly the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen. embracing one-side of a complex, protracted referring to images of “armed soldiers face[ing] At a time when medical facilities and conflict, MSF jeopardizes the impartiality that young stone throwers or Molotov cocktails” as YONA SCHIFFMILLER personnel have come under repeated attack allows it to operate in conflict zones around “icons symbolizing the struggle of the Pales- JERUSALEM in that conflict – including those supported the world. By inserting itself so crudely into tinian people against the Israeli occupation.” by MSF – addressing the protected status of the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Similarly, one of the exhibits displays the hospitals, doctors and medics would appear organization does tremendous harm to the living rooms of Palestinian homes, identifying to be more pertinent to a medical organiza- heart of its humanitarian mission of providing them as a place to pay tribute to “martyrs” – a tion than pandering to local anti-Israel animus. emergency aid to those who need it most. MSF does not limit itself to attacking term that whitewashes the murderous terror Alas, MSF has chosen to curry favor with Yona Schiffmiller is the Director of the the legitimacy of Israel and Zionism. It also attacks carried out against innocent civilians. non-democratic regimes by providing a steady North America Desk at NGO Monitor, a romanticizes deadly Palestinian violence by Unsurprisingly, after being displayed in stream of political propaganda at the expense Jerusalem-based research institute. A8 | FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2017 Impressions.

Why Israelis Too Much Empathy Can Be a Went Ape Over Bad Thing the Story of a BY JEREMY ROSEN It was a review of Bloom’s book by the Anglo- Missing Monkey Jewish Simon Baron-Cohen in the New York Times Paul Bloom, a professor of psychology at Yale Book Review on December 30, 2016, that helped me University, has just published a book entitled Against clarify the issue. He opens his review thus: BY RUTHIE BLUM Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion. The When I read about what happened in the West book raises some excellent questions. To put it Bank Village of Duma on July 31, 2015, I immedi- simply, Bloom argues that empathy is not a very good ately felt empathy. …a firebomb was thrown inside the home of a Palestinian family…18-month-old Ali On Monday, every Israeli news outlet basis for making ethical decisions. The book has been Dawabsheh…burned to death. Within weeks, both devoted space to the frantic search for Connor, a widely reviewed and attacked. Yet as any thinking parents…succumbed to their wounds and died. … 17-year-old male capuchin monkey who escaped person recognizes, it all depends on what you mean I empathized with that Palestinian family despite from the Zoological Center Tel Aviv-Ramat Gan, by empathy. my being Jewish. more commonly known as the “Safari,” and was There is a distinction between empathy and It’s true that most Jews felt revulsion and later briefly spotted in busy Tel Aviv. sympathy. Dictionary definitions say, “Empathy: The sympathy. Indeed, from the president of Israel According to a spokeswoman who has power of understanding and imaginatively entering downward, expressions of horror, sympathy and known the “nice and friendly” simian since his into another person’s feelings.” Sympathy, on the support were overwhelming. I am very pleased the birth, Connor fled to get away from Kimchi, a other hand, might be defined as “sharing another’s criminal was caught, prosecuted and convicted. But more dominant male. The two “roommates,” she emotions. An affinity or harmony.” Both words are I cannot think of anyone using the word empathy or said, never got along well, and in the last couple used similarly and often interchangeably, yet differ its equivalent. Was this because the situation is so of years, the friction between them escalated, subtly in their emotional meaning. fraught and so much pain has been experienced on becoming too much for poor Connor to bear. Bloom says that empathy goes much further than both sides? And was it because when the crime goes Connor’s first breakout occurred two days sympathy, and on the surface, he is right. Empathy the other way, the Palestinians hand out sweets in earlier, when he jumped the fence of his outdoor only occurs in those moments when we share the celebration? enclosure and wandered around the 250-acre emotional experience of another person. Empathy So why, I ask, did Simon Baron-Cohen present site, managing to elude concerned zookeepers. would cause a therapist treating a depressed person this anti-Israel narrative? But with his escape to the big city a couple to also become depressed. Compassion is more Of course, I thought, here is another example of of days later, Connor’s caretakers were fearful for appropriate than empathy. Compassion refers more a Jews eager to burnish their left-Wing credentials. his safety amid the bustling, unfamiliar human to how one reacts to someone in pain or suffering, and vehicular traffic. They asked the public to than how one actually feels. Bloom defines compas- be on the lookout for him, and for anyone who sion as “concern for others, wanting their pain to go encounters him not to panic him with sudden away, wanting their lives to improve — but without movements or loud noises. the shared emotional experience that’s so central to This is not the first time a story about an empathy.” I may feel compassion for my torturer, but animal on the loose in Israel has made the papers. I certainly will not empathize with him. How often do we say, “I know exactly how you feel,” when we cannot possibly know unless we have experienced the same pain? We cannot get inside of another person to know what they really feel. But we say these things when we visit the sick or a house of mourning, because we want to be helpful, supportive and emotionally present rather than scientifically or philosophically accurate and precise. Paul Bloom. Photo: Yale. Even if we have had similar experiences, we still can only extrapolate. We cannot know another’s feelings. Empathy, in this case, means more than sympathy. Bloom argues that empathy is “biased, pushing us in It is an assertion of political loyalties and priorities. the direction of parochialism and racism.” Sympathy That, to me, proves that Bloom is right. helps add an important layer of reinforcement that, I sympathize with suffering; I can want to see for example, can modify the extent to which we suffering assuaged and conflict resolved. But I cannot enforce the law. Sympathy for a poor man stealing to empathize with a cause that seeks to destroy mine. Connor, the missing 17-year-old capuchin mon- support his hungry family for example will lead his Although I do not support settlements, when a polit- key who went missing on Monday. Photo: Facebook not approve of stealing but to try to find help for them. ical argument is supported with violence, I cannot Bloom wants us to be more analytical and empathize with it, because I am a potential target, too. When the Torah talks about understanding The reason this one seems to resonate more accurate, and that is why he argues for sympathy or the soul of the stranger and insists that we treat the than previous ones has to do with the length of compassion rather than empathy. As a philosophy stranger as one of us, that is when the stranger is a time that the episode has gone on, and with the graduate, I am inclined to agree with him. The trouble is partner in society. But when the stranger is positively feelings of sympathy and amusement that small the Torah does not seem to. Commands to love neigh- trying to destroy your community, there is no such monkeys arouse in human beings. bors or strangers surely imply more than sympathy. exhortation. What is most striking about the whole The Torah adds a layer onto justice and the law. I do not know what any particular Palestinian drama, however, is the context in which it How do we explain Exodus 23:9 saying, “You or ISIS sympathizer feels towards Jews. But as a unfolded. shall know the feeling (nefesh) of the stranger group, I know that they are not favorably inclined On Sunday evening, the controversial because you were strangers.” We are specifically towards us. They have been indoctrinated to dislike Middle East “peace” summit held in Paris and commanded to remember what the experience was Jews. I understand this. I understand their antipathy, attended by diplomats from more than 70 like. Nefesh literally means the being, the very soul of and I sympathize with their predicament. But I countries culminated in a declaration of support a person. Doesn’t this sound like empathy? Except of cannot empathize with them, because they cannot for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian course it was a command given to people who may empathize with me. Neither can I empathize with conflict — a typical precursor to the demand that never have experienced slavery and alienation in those who behave inhumanly, or dehumanize others. Israel withdraw to the 1949 armistice lines. Egypt beyond the generation of the Exodus. It cannot I wonder if it isn’t precisely because Judaism The following morning, while Connor was mean having had the same experience. So perhaps emphasizes care, concern and sympathy that roaming the streets of Tel Aviv, new details were Bloom was wrong from a Jewish point of view to so many Jews have the tendency to go too far in revealed about the investigation into Prime suggest that such deep feeling ought to have no place expressing empathy and sympathy, even when it is to Continued on Page A10 in legal decisions. our detriment. www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2017 A9 Legal Notice.

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Bowman Esq., DELAN, deceased, or their estates, if and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, 9, 2017, at 9:30 o'clock in the forenoon Referee Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney any there be, whose names, places of County of Kings, City and State of New of that day, why a decree should not Notice of formation of WANG 1686 for Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite residence and post office addresses York, BLOCK 1465, LOT 30. Approxi- be made in the estate of Robert Allen LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy of 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 are unknown to the petitioner and mate amount of judgment $524,555.47 a/k/a Robert R. Allen lately domiciled State of NY (SSNY) on 1/3/17. Office AJ 12/30; 1/6 /13/20 cannot with due diligence be ascer- plus interest and costs. Premises will at 178-43 Crandall Avenue, Springfield location: Kings County. SSNY desig- tained. Being the persons interested be sold subject to provisions of filed Gardens, New York 11434 admitting nated as agent upon whom process SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF as creditors, legatees, distributees Judgment for Index# 5843/13. Edward to probate a Will dated July 6, 2001, a may be served and shall mail copy of KINGS QUICKEN LOANS INC., or otherwise in the Estate of DAVID Mark Rappaport Esq., Referee Gross copy of which is attached, as the Will process against LLC to: 6617 16th Ave., Plaintiff against ALEKSANDER DELAN, deceased, who at the time Polowy, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff 1775 of Robert R. Allen, deceased, relating Bklyn, NY 11204. Purpose: any lawful KHARKOVER, et al Defendant(s). of death was a resident of 128 Beach Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, to real and personal property, and act. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclo- 115th Street, Rockaway Park, NY NY 14221 directing that Letters Testamen- AJ 1/13/20/27; 2/3/10/17 sure and Sale entered on November 11694, in the County of Queens, State AJ 1/6 /13/20/27 tary issue to: Laura S. Francis Dated, 29, 2016. I, the undersigned Referee of New York. SEND GREETING: Upon Attested and Sealed Dec 2, 2016 HON. NOTICE OF SALESTATE OF NEW will sell at public auction in Room the petition of LOIS M. ROSENBLATT, SUPREME COURT - COUNTY PETER J. KELLY Surrogate Margaret YORK, SUPREME COURT: KINGS 224 of the Kings County Courthouse, Public Administrator of Queens OF KINGS FEDERAL NATIONAL M. Gribbon Chief Clerk RAZIS & COUNTY- 21st Mortgage Corpora- 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. on County, who maintains her office at MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION ROSS, P.C. Attorney for Petitioner tion, as Mortgage Loan Servicer to the 2nd day of February , 2017 at 2:30 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, ("FANNIE MAE"), a Corporation 23-09 31st Street, Astoria, New York Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, p.m. premises Lying and being in the Queens County, New York 11435, as organized and existed under the laws 11105 (718) 932-7500-Telephone a federal savings bank d/b/a Chris- Borough of Brooklyn and State of New Administrator of the Estate of DAVID of the United States of America, Plain- [NOTE: This Citation is served upon tiana Trust, a division of Wilmington York. In the condominium known DELAN, deceased, you and each of you tiff -against- LYNETTE DAVIS AKA you as required by law. You are not Savings Fund Society, FSB, solely in its as “The 235 Ocean Parkway Condo- are hereby cited to show cause before LYNETTE J. DAVIS AKA LYNETTE required to appear. If you fail to appear capacity as Trustee for and on behalf minium.” Together with an undivided the Surrogate at the Surrogate’s Court GOODRIDGE, et al Defendant(s). it will be assumed you do not object to of the Knoxville 2012 Trust, Plaintiff(s) 5.56% interest in the Common of the County of Queens, to be held Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure the relief requested. You have a right to vs. Tracy Brock, James Louis, Paulette Elements. Said premises known as at the Queens General Courthouse, and Sale entered herein and dated have an attorney appear for you.] Small, et al, Defendant(s). Index No. 235 Ocean Parkway, 2A, Brooklyn, N.Y. 6th Floor, 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, September 16, 2016, I, the undersigned AJ 1/13/20/27; 2/3 12524/14. In pursuance and by virtue 11218. Tax account number: SBL#: Jamaica, City and State of New York, Referee will sell at public auction at of a judgment of foreclosure and sale 5339-1103. Approximate amount of on the 9th day of February, 2017 at the Kings County Courthouse 360 SUPREME COURT – COUNTY in the amount of $866,028.89 plus lien $ 504,479.28 plus interest and 9:30 o’clock in the forenoon, why the Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, OF KINGS U.S. BANK TRUST, N.A., interest and costs duly granted by this costs. Premises will be sold subject to Account of Proceedings of the Public NY on February 9, 2017 at 2:30 p.m. AS TRUSTEE FOR LSF9 MASTER Court and entered in the Kings County th provisions of filed judgment and terms Administrator of Queens County, as premises situate, lying and being in PARTICIPATION TRUST, Plaintiff Clerk’s Office on the 11 day of August, of sale. Index No. 501108-14. Robert Administrator of the Estate of said the Borough of Brooklyn, County of against LUIS RODOLFO PEARSON 2016, I, the undersigned Referee, duly L. Howe, Esq., Referee. McCabe, deceased, a copy of which is attached, Kings, City and State of New York, A/K/A LUIS RODOLFO PEARSON appointed in this action for such Weisberg & Conway, P.C. Attorney(s) should not be judicially settled, and bounded and described as follows: A/K/A LUIS R. PEARSON; MARCIA purpose, will expose for sale and for Plaintiff 145 Huguenot Street – why the Surrogate should not fix and BEGINNING at a point on the south- PEARSON; ALANA PEARSON; sell at Public Auction to the highest Suite 210 New Rochelle, New York allow a reasonable amount of compen- erly side of Maple Street, distant 220 CAMILLE PEARSON; LISA PEARSON, bidder therefor in Room 224 of Kings 10801 (914) 636-8900 sation to GERARD J. SWEENEY, feet westerly from the corner formed et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a County Supreme Court, 360 Adams rd J 12/30; 1/6 /13/20 ESQ., for legal services rendered to by the intersection of the southerly Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale Street, Brooklyn, NY, on the 23 DAY petitioner herein in the amount of side of Maple Street with the westerly entered on December 6, 2016. I, OF FEBRUARY, 2017 at 2:30 P.M., the NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT $19,467.44 and that the Court fix the side of Nostrand Avenue; being a plot the undersigned Referee will sell real estate and mortgaged premises COUNTY OF KINGS Federal National fair and reasonable additional fee 100 feet by 20 feet by 100 feet by 20 at public auction in Room 224 of directed in and by said judgment Mortgage Association (“Fannie Mae”) for any services to be rendered by feet. Block 5033 Lot 31. Said premises the Kings County Courthouse, 360 to be sold and in said judgment a corporation, organized and existing GERARD J. SWEENEY, ESQ., hereafter known as 276 MAPLE STREET, Adams Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. on the described as follows: All that certain under the laws of the United States in connection with proceedings on BROOKLYN, NY Approximate amount 16th day of February, 2017 at 2:30 plot, piece or parcel of land, with the of America, Plaintiff AGAINST Karen kinship, claims etc., prior to entry of of lien $366,259.49 plus interest & p.m. premises described as follows: buildings and improvements thereon Wood a/k/a Karen L. Wood; et al., a final Decree on this accounting in costs. Premises will be sold subject All that certain plot, piece or parcel erected, situate, lying and being in Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment the amount of 6% of assets or income to provisions of filed Judgment and of land, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated collected after the date of the within Terms of Sale. If the sale is set aside the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, May 31, 2016 I, the undersigned accounting; and why the Surrogate for any reason, the Purchaser at the Kings, City and State of New York. known and designated as Block 1452 Referee will sell at public auction at should not fix and allow an amount sale shall be entitled only to a return Said premises known as 491 East 53rd Lot 21. Said premises known as 1892 the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 equal to one percent on said Sched- of the deposit paid. The Purchaser Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11203. (Block: Bergen Street, Brooklyn, NY 11233. Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, ules of the total assets on Schedules A, shall have no further recourse against 4728, Lot: 28). Approximate amount Premises sold subject to provisions of NY 11201 on February 2, 2017 at A1, and A2 plus any additional monies the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the of lien $ 445,751.44 plus interest and the filed judgment and terms of sale. 2:30PM, premises known as 102-19 received subsequent to the date of this Mortgagee’s attorney. Index Number costs. Premises will be sold subject to SUBJECT TO restrictions, covenants, Seaview Avenue a/k/a 10219 Seaview account, as the fair and reasonable 13812/2013. BRUNO F. CODISPOTI, provisions of filed judgment and terms etc. of record, prior lien(s), if any, and Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11236. All that amount payable to the Office of the ESQ., Referee David A. Gallo & Associ- of sale. Index No. 501751/14. Mark A. an easement, if any, contained in Deed certain plot piece or parcel of land, Public Administrator for the expenses ates LLP Attorney(s) for Plaintiff Longo, Esq., Referee. Fein, Such & recorded September 25, 1997 in Reel with the buildings and improvements of said office pursuant to S.C.P.A. 95-25 Queens Boulevard, 11th Floor, Crane, LLP Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 28 4028 Page 934.LEONARD SPECTOR, erected, situate, lying and being in the §1106(3); and why the claim of NYC Rego Park, NY 11374 File# 7254.8744 East Main Street, Suite 1800 Rochester, ESQ., RefereeHelfand & Helfand, Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, Human Resources Administration in AJ 1/6 /13/20/27 NY 14614 (585) 232-7400 Attorney(s) for Plaintiff, Office City and State of New York, Block: the amount of $661,090.53 should not AJ 1/13/20/27; 2/3 address, 350 Fifth Avenue - Suite 5330, 8305 Lot: 1. Approximate amount of be partially paid to the extent of the net File No. 2005-2377 PROBATE New York, NY 10118 judgment $465,843.41 plus interest distributable estate, Dated, Attested CITATION SURROGATE'S COURT- NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME AJ 1/20/27; 2/3/10 and costs. Premises will be sold and Sealed 15th day of December, QUEENS COUNTY CITATION THE COURT: KINGS COUNTY LIVE subject to provisions of filed Judgment 2016 HON. PETER J. KELLY Surro- PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW WELL FINANCIAL, INC.; Plaintiff(s) Index# 7831/2013. Jay D. Cohen, Esq., gate, Queens County Margaret M. YORK, By The Grace of God Free and vs. IRIS LUMBSDEN A/K/A IRIS Continued on Page A10 A10 | FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2017 Tradition. Legal Notice.

uninvolved. He may have been Jewish by birth, but he had not LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE Who Am I? suffered the fate of his people. He had not grown up as a Jew. He had Continued from Page A9 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT not lived among Jews. He had good COUNTY OF KINGS, WILMINGTON NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME reason to doubt that the Israelites SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, Oxford. They were not born to rule. COURT: KINGS COUNTY U.S. BANK would even recognise him as one of DOING BUSINESS AS CHRISTIANA They were people who doubted TRUST, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR LSF9 JONATHAN SACKS them. How, then, could he become TRUST, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL their own abilities. There were times MASTER PARTICIPATION TRUST; LONDON their leader? More penetrat- CAPACITY, BUT SOLELY AS when they felt like giving up. Moses, Plaintiff(s) vs. DANIELLE KRAMER; ingly, why should he even think of TRUSTEE FOR BCAT 2015-13BTT, Elijah, Jeremiah and Jonah reached MICHAEL A. MASTROGIOVANNI; Plaintiff, vs. COLETTE R. BURNETT, becoming their leader? Their fate et al; Defendant(s) Attorney (s) for points of such despair that they ET AL., Defendant(s). Pursuant to was not his. He was not part of it. Plaintiff (s): ROSICKI, ROSICKI & prayed to die. They became heroes of a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale He was not responsible for it. He did ASSOCIATES, P.C., 2 Summit Court, Moses’ second question to the moral life against their will. There duly filed on October 05, 2016, I, the not suffer from it. He was not impli- Suite 301, Fishkill, New York, 12524, God at the burning bush was, Who was work to be done – God told them undersigned Referee will sell at public cated in it. 845.897.1600 Pursuant to judgment are you? “So I will go to the Israelites so – and they did it. It is almost as if a auction at the Kings County Supreme What is more, the one time he of foreclosure and sale granted herein and say, ‘Your fathers’ God sent me sense of smallness is a sign of great- Court, Room 224, 360 Adams Street, on or about July 22, 2016, I will sell at to you.’ They will immediately ask had actually tried to intervene in Brooklyn, NY on February 23, 2017 ness. So God never answered Moses’ Public Auction to the highest bidder their affairs – he killed an Egyptian at 2:30 p.m., premises known as 1214 me what His name is. What shall I question, “Why me?” at in Room 224 of Kings County taskmaster who had killed an East 82nd Street, Unit # 106 and say to them?” (Ex. 3:13). God’s reply, But there is another question Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Israelite slave, and the next day tried Garage Space G53, Brooklyn, NY. All Ehyeh asher ehyeh, wrongly trans- within the question. “Who am I?” can Brooklyn, New York. On February to stop two Israelites from fighting that certain plot, piece or parcel of lated in almost every Christian Bible be not just a question about worthi- 23, 2017 at 2:30 pm. Premises one another – his intervention was land, with the buildings and improve- as something like “I am that I am,” ness. It can also be a question about known as 1844 EAST 37TH STREET, ments thereon erected, situate, lying deserves an essay in its own right not welcomed. “Who made you BROOKLYN, NY 11234 Block: 8480 identity. Moses, alone on Mount and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, ruler and judge over us?” they said Lot: 68 ALL that certain plot piece or (I deal with it in my books Future Horeb/Sinai, summoned by God to County of Kings, City and State of to him. These are the first recorded parcel of land, situate, lying and being Tense and The Great Partnership). lead the Israelites out of Egypt, is not New York, Block 8060 and Lot 1150 words of an Israelite to Moses. He in the Borough of Brooklyn, County His first question, though, was, just speaking to God when he says & 1037. Unit No. 106 together with had not yet dreamed of being a of Kings, City and State of New York. Mi anochi, “Who am I?” (Ex. 3:11). those words. He is also speaking to an undivided 0.5512 percent interest leader and already his leadership As more particularly described in the “Who am I that I should go to himself. “Who am I?” in the common elements of the judgment of foreclosure and sale. Sold Pharaoh?” said Moses to God. “And was being challenged. condominium and Garage Unit No. There are two possible subject to all of the terms and condi- Consider, now, the choices 53, together with a 0.0643 percent how can I possibly get the Israelites answers. The first: Moses is a prince tions contained in said judgment and Moses faced in his life. On the undivided interest in the common out of Egypt?” On the surface the of Egypt. He had been adopted as terms of sale. Approximate amount one hand he could have lived as elements of the condominium. meaning is clear. Moses is asking a baby by Pharaoh’s daughter. He of judgment $384,270.08 plus interest a prince of Egypt, in luxury and at Approximate amount of judgment is two things. The first: who am I, to be had grown up in the royal palace. and costs. INDEX NO. 502755/2014 ease. That might have been his fate $394,198.90 plus interest and costs. worthy of so great a mission? The He dressed like an Egyptian, looked Leo Salzman, Esq. ; REFEREE had he not intervened. Even after- Premises will be sold subject to second: how can I possibly succeed? and spoke like an Egyptian. When AJ 1/20/27; 2/3/10 ward, having been forced to flee, provisions of filed Judgment Index # God answers the second. he rescued Jethro’s daughters from he could have lived out his days 22137/13. Jeffrey Miller, Esq, Referee “Because I will be with you.” You will some rough shepherds, they quietly as a shepherd, at peace with Knuckles, Komosinski & Manfro, LLP, succeed because I am not asking go back and tell their father, “An the Midianite family into which he Continued from Page A8 565 Taxter Road, Ste. 590, Elmsford, you to do it alone. I am not really Egyptian saved us” (2:19). His very Ape NY 10523, Attorneys for Plaintiff had married. It is not surprising that asking you to do it at all. I will be name, Moses, was given to him by AJ 1/20/27; 2/3/10 when God invited him to lead the Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over doing it for you. I want you to be My Pharaoh’s daughter (Ex. 2:10). It Israelites to freedom, he resisted. his possible deal with Arnon Mozes, representative, My mouthpiece, My was, presumably, an Egyptian name NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT Why then did he accept? Why emissary and My voice. (in fact, Moses, as in Ramses, is the the publisher of Yedioth Ahronoth. COUNTY OF KINGS Federal National did God know that he was the man God never answered the first ancient Egyptian word for “child”. In addition, the National Mortgage Association ("Fannie for the task? One hint is contained question. Perhaps in a strange way The etymology given in the Torah, Council for the Child released Mae"), a corporation organized and in the name he gave his first son. a disturbing report about the existing under the laws of the United He called him Gershom because, alarming number of children in States of America, Plaintiff AGAINST he said, “I am a stranger in a foreign Israel who go to bed hungry every Ilda Clarke; Daniel Clarke; et al., land” (2:22). He did not feel at home Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment night. And Israeli security forces of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated in Midian. That was where he was, revealed that they had arrested but not who he was. November 28, 2016 I, the undersigned 13 Hamas terrorists operating in Referee will sell at public auction at But the real clue is contained the West Bank. Also, tragically, on the Room 224 of the Kings County in an earlier verse, the prelude to Monday night, an IDF soldier was Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, his first intervention. “When Moses Brooklyn, NY 11201 on February 23, was grown, he began to go out to his killed in the Golan Heights while performing routine maintenance on 2017 at 2:30PM, premises known as own people, and he saw their hard 1057 East 95th Street, Brooklyn, NY labour” (2:11). an armored vehicle. 11236. All that certain plot piece or These people were his people. These are only a few of the parcel of land, with the buildings and He may have looked like an Egyptian types of items that prompt many improvements erected, situate, lying but he knew that ultimately he was anxiety-ridden Israelis to announce and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, not. It was a transforming moment, periodical moratoria on the media, County of Kings, City and State of not unlike when the Moabite Ruth in an attempt to avoid excessive NY, Block 8164 Lot 18. Approximate said to her Israelite mother-in-law agitation about things over which amount of judgment $389,164.90 plus interest and costs. Premises Naomi, “Your people will be my they feel they have no control. will be sold subject to provisions of people and your God my God” (Ruth Moses answered himself. In Tanakh that Moses means “I drew him from But one little monkey hiding filed Judgment Index# 506396/2014. 1:16). Ruth was un-Jewish by birth. as a whole, the people who turn out the water,” tells us what the word in bushes or alleyways next to sushi Doron Leiby, Esq., Referee Shapiro, Moses was un-Jewish by upbringing. to be the most worthy are the ones suggested to Hebrew speakers). So bars and cafes has the power to DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for But both knew that when they saw who deny they are worthy at all. The the first answer is that Moses was change that, if only briefly. Connor’s the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boule- suffering and identified with the prophet Isaiah, when charged with an Egyptian prince. story does not elicit irrational anger vard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) sufferer, they could not walk away. 759-1835 Dated: January 3, 2017 his mission, said, ‘I am a man of The second was that he was at the TV set. It does not push Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik AJ 1/20/27; 2/3/10 unclean lips’ (Is. 6:5). Jeremiah said, a Midianite. For, although he was the malaise button. Rather, it has called this a covenant of fate, brit ‘I cannot speak, for I am a child’ (Jer. Egyptian by upbringing, he had awakened hope and spurred prayer goral. It lies at the heart of Jewish Notice of formation of limited liability 1:6). David, Israel’s greatest king, been forced to leave. He had made for a positive outcome. identity to this day. There are Jews company(LLC) Name: warehouse of echoed Moses’ words, ‘Who am I?’ his home in Midian, married a Indeed, Israelis are not merely who believe and those who don’t. yes LLC. Articles of organization filed (2 Samuel 7:18). Jonah, sent on a Midianite woman Zipporah, sad or worried about Connor; we with the Secretary of State of New There are Jews who practise and mission by God, tried to run away. daughter of a Midianite priest and York(SSNY) on 11/07/2016. Office those who don’t. But there are few are rooting for him. According to Rashbam, Jacob was was “content to live” there, quietly location kings county. SSNY has Jews indeed who, when their people Ruthie Blum is the managing about to run away when he found as a shepherd. We tend to forget been designated as the agent of the are suffering, can walk away saying, editor of The Algemeiner. his way blocked by the man/angel that he spent many years there. LLC upon whom process against it This has nothing to do with me. with whom he wrestled at night He left Egypt as a young man and may be Served SSNY shall mail copy Maimonides, who defines this principle of faith.” What funda- (Rashbam to Gen. 32:23). was already eighty years old at the of the process to the LLC 2 Wyckoff as “separating yourself from the mental principle of faith? Faith in Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11237. Purpose: The heroes of the Bible are not start of his mission when he first community” (poresh mi-darkhei the collective fate and destiny of the all lawful activity figures from Greek or any other stood before Pharaoh (Ex. 7:7). He ha-tsibbur, Hilkhot Teshuva 3:11), Jewish people. AJ 1/20/27; 2/3/10 kind of myth. They are not people must have spent the overwhelming says that it is one of the sins for Who am I? asked Moses, but possessed of a sense of destiny, majority of his adult life in Midian, which you are denied a share in in his heart he knew the answer. determined from an early age to far away from the Israelites on the the world to come. This is what the I am not Moses the Egyptian or achieve fame. They do not have what one hand and the Egyptians on the me, then I must shoulder them. For Hagaddah means when it says of Moses the Midianite. When I see the Greeks called megalopsychia, other. Moses was a Midianite. I am who I am because my people the wicked son that “because he my people suffer I am, and cannot a proper sense of their own worth, So when Moses asks, “Who are who they are. excludes himself from the collec- be other than, Moses the Jew. And a gracious and lightly worn superi- am I?” it is not just that he feels That is Jewish identity, then tive, he denies a fundamental if that imposes responsibilities on ority. They did not go to Eton or himself unworthy. He feels himself and now. www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2017 A11 Social.

Compound for Israeli PM, With Underground Command Center ‘Bunker’ for National Emergencies, Approved

BY RUTHIE BLUM Martin Luther King, Jr. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. The Jerusalem District Planning and Building Committee has approved a plan to erect a massive IDF Marks Martin Luther King compound to house the office and private residence of the prime minister, Israel’s Channel 10 reported on Tuesday. Day With Video of Soldiers According to the report, the compound will be built in the “government precinct” — known by Israelis as Kiryat Hamemshala — located in the Spreading Civil Rights Leader’s neighborhood of Givat Ram, where the Supreme Court is situated, and not far from the Knesset and one of the Hebrew University campuses. Message of Compassion The structure is expected to have between five and eight stories, and an area designated for official ceremonies. It will also include a huge underground “bunker,” to be used by the prime minister and repre- BY RACHEL FROMMER

In honor of Martin Luther King Day on Monday, the Israel Defense Forces produced a video clip reiterating the assassinated civil rights leader’s message of choosing compassion over hatred. In the clip, seven IDF soldiers, each in turn, says part of the following: “Dr Martin Luther King once said, ‘Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgement. Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?'” Though King never visited the Jewish state he once A view of what the new compound for the Israeli prime minister will look like when built. said in an interview: “The whole world must see that Photo: Channel 10. Israel must exist and has the right to exist, and is one of the great outposts of democracy in the world.” sentatives of the civil and defense establishment A street in Jerusalem’s German Colony neighbor- during times of national emergency. The cost of the hood is named after King. project is estimated at NIS 1 billion ($262.3 million). Today, the prime minister’s residence is located in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Rehavia. Its official name is Beit Aghion and was built in the late 1930s. In 2009, the Israeli government approved the Almog Project to combine the prime minister’s living quarters and office, but its estimated cost at the time Search Underway in Tel Aviv for — NIS 650 million (approximately $170 million) — sparked criticism for its alleged extravagance, and the plan was canceled. ‘Nice, Friendly’ Monkey Who Fled In 2014, the idea to move the Israeli leader’s home to the area of his office resurfaced and was approved. Safari Over ‘Friction’ With Fellow On Tuesday, the compound in question was Simian given the official green light.

around the safari without zookeepers being able to not make any sudden movements or loud noises, so as locate him. BY RUTHIE BLUM not to frighten the lost monkey. Horowitz said the whole staff was very concerned Connor’s caretakers at the safari said they believe Searches continued throughout Monday in the greater about Connor, who does not know how to manage in the escape was the result of years’ worth of friction Tel Aviv area for a small monkey who escaped from the an urban area with cars and throngs in the streets. between him and a fellow simian named Kimchi. safari in Ramat Gan, the Hebrew news site Walla reported. The Zoological Center Tel Aviv-Ramat Gan — “Recently, the tension between them increased,” safari Zookeepers said that though the 17-year-old familiarly known as the safari — houses the largest spokeswoman Sagit Horowitz told Walla, and recounted capuchin male — who goes by the name of Connor — is collection of wildlife in human care in the Middle that Connor — whom she described as “very nice and not dangerous, anyone who happens to see him should East. The 250-acre site has both a drive-through friendly” — jumped the fence two days ago and roamed “African safari” area and a modern outdoor zoo. www.algemeiner.com Attention Not-For-Profit Organizations

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