Debbie, I plant a few trees in Israel every year thru the JNF, sometimes to honor the dead. I hope my tree money isn’t being used for any of this narishkeit. H. and I also send pizza deliveries to IDF patrols. We think they well deserve a nice, kosher pizza.

A1: Sadly, that’s exactly where your tree money is going. There have been plenty of exposes about how JNF wastes money and doesn’t even plant the trees. But, now, they mostly waste the money on this stuff. Don’t give them a dime, whether they claim it will go to a tree or not. This is where it is going. As for the PizzaIDF, that’s a good cause. DS

A1 on January 30, 2012 at 7:16 pm

Moooooslims sure are lucky. I’ve never seen a group have so many foolish panderers. Behind closed doors they have to be laughing at the “infidel”. It’s so grotesque!

Skunky on January 30, 2012 at 7:32 pm

We are often our own worst enemies. That’s why some 80% of us voted for BHO and will likely do so again. Those of us who can see are exceedingly few. Almost nonexistent.

guesswho on January 30, 2012 at 10:21 pm

Debbie

Don’t worry – there is no way this will teach the Palis how to farm – they’ll continue to remain parasites on Israel, or anyone else. If this was military training however, you can bet that they’d have made good use of it.

In other words, had this been done for the North Koreans, or the Vietnamese, or Cubans, they’d actually have made good use of it, and made it come to fruition. The Muslims ain’t anywhere near as enterprising, so even teaching them how to do it won’t do squat. Otherwise, countries like Egypt, Pakistan and Malaysia would be economically booming.

Infidel on January 31, 2012 at 6:59 am

What is surprising is how little Arab countries contribute to Arabs in “Occupied Palestine”.

bobguzzardi on January 31, 2012 at 10:36 am

bobguzzardi

It’s not just the Palis. The Arabs of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Bahrein, Qatar, UAE, Libya and Algeria sit on so much of oil, that from all the cash they get, they could easily have spent it on making the entire Arab empire – all 22 or so countries in it – extremely prosperous.

In the Gulf, they have a major labor shortage, and have to import guest workers not only from Pakistan or Bangladesh, but also Infidels from countries like India & Philippines (although from India, the bulk of those who go there are Muslims). If they simply took in all the Palis, Lebanese Muslims, as well as millions of others from Egypt (to be fair, Col Gadaffi did do that w/ Egyptians), then they’d not need a non-Arab guest worker population @ all, whom they have to deprive of most rights in order to ensure that those countries remain Arab. They could have easily taken the entire Pali population as well as huge numbers of Arabs from Syria, Egypt, and they’d have had a fully homogeneous population in places like Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Doha and so on. I’m talking about just the unskilled workforce here, not the Western paid servants that they hire to manage the likes of Aramco, or design their refineries, or so on.

Anyway, all this is pretty tangential, since anybody who knows Islam knows that what drives them is not any sort of nationalism, but rather, the Judeophobic rants of the quran and sunnah. It’s in their texts that Jews are apes & rats, while Christians are pigs & dogs. They have that infamous hadith, which is in the Hamas charter, about the final hour when rocks & trees will tell Muslim armies that there’s a Jew hiding behind them. Essentially, the quran 2:190-193 pretty much sums up the mission statement of Muslims – to keep fighting non stop until ‘all religion is for allah’ i.e. until the entire world is either Muslim, or subservient to islam.

In short, these people are even more impossible to reason w/ than the Nazis were.

Infidel on January 31, 2012 at 10:53 am

Unfortunately, no good deed goes unpunished by the Arabs. When you look at what they’re doing to one another in Syria, can there be any doubt what their intentions are toward Jews?

In my view, here is the salient point of your column: “the international community will still hate Israel and the Jews no matter what.”

I’m not sure I know exactly who “the international community” is but that’s not too important. Here’s what’s important: these efforts do not stop the news media from holding Israel solely responsible for Arab suffering. While the JNF teaches Arabs how to farm in the desert with limited water resources, the news media and the BDS movement gripe that Israel “controls” the West Bank’s water supply.

For some strange reason, the IRS won’t allow American charities benefiting Jews to spend money on the other side of the green line. This has been a problem for many years. However, for yet another strange reason, charities benefiting Arabs can spend money in Gaza, Judea, Samaria and maintain their tax-deductible status. Forget about where that Arab money goes for a minute (if that’s possible). Isn’t this policy on the part of the IRS an act of government discrimination against Jews? Inquiring minds want to know!

There is NO Santa Claus on January 31, 2012 at 11:29 am

We are our own worst enemies.

Did the US teach Nazi Germany how to grow food and develop industry? (Okay, in the case of industry, IBM, Ford, and GM helped Germany).

Did we help Japan during WWII?

Did we help the British during the Revolutionary, and 1812 wars?

Did we help Mexico in the war of 1846?

Did the South help the Yankees during War Between the States?

No, only the Jews and the United States (in Iraq, Iran, China, Russia, the rest of the Arab world, and Afghanistan) help their enemies.

Jonathan E. Grant on January 31, 2012 at 11:30 am

NormanF correctly notes that JNF is “helping to build the planned Arab city of Rawabi” in the West Bank – and Israel is giving them land for access roads. JNF even kindly provided a few thousand trees for that new city. Where are JNF’s efforts to help those Jews forcibly evacuated from Gaza?

Interestingly, the Palestine Jewish Colonization Association purchased tens of thousands of dunams of land in SYRIA just beyond Israel’s Golan Heights purchased early in the 20th century (close to 100 sq km worth according to Guy Bechor who recently wrote about it) then turned it over to JNF, which retains legal title. Syria seized all that land (without compensation of course) and JNF is curiously quiet about its claims.

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-map-of-jewish-land-holdings-in.html?m=1

Raymond in DC on January 31, 2012 at 4:52 pm

While I generally believe in the carrot and stick approach in the lost art of diplomacy, you have to consider that diplomacy is taken as a sign of weakness that is to be exploited by Islamic excrementalists whose written purpose is solely is to shit on Israel until it disappears.
This is not a big deal to me. It shows the Jewish soul taking the high ground and when push comes to shove Israel can always close off trade totally with West Bank and Gaza companies. It does puzzle me that we do business with them in the first place. Does Egypt still buy Jaffa oranges? I believe there was a time that they did. Hearts and minds was never a good strategy whether in Vietnam,or Afghanistan, however it sold well at home, thats all.

Ron Wolf on January 31, 2012 at 8:40 pm