The Lubavitcher Rebbe - Phony as a $1

The Lubavitcher Rebbe handing out $1 bills to people always bothered me.

After seeing this video, it bothers me even more:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEenyyiQGGQ

Supposedly, he gave the $1 bills to people to encourage them to give tzeddakah (charity).

Are we to believe that those people never gave $1 worth of tzeddakah until he prompted them to?

And the only way that he could get them to give tzeddakah was by giving them $1 bills.

They wouldn't have done it at his request or as a result of him explaining the importance of tzeddakah. Of course not. He had to give them $1 bills to show them how to hand out a bill.

That wasn't very good education, because if they copied him like chimpanzees, as ChaBa"D Chassidim are wont to do, and gave out a $1 bill, just as he had given them, they would be back to where they started before he gave them the $1.

But we must assume they were taught to give out more than that by the Rebbe.

Certainly they wouldn't have given tzeddakah from their own desire to give tzeddakah, or as a result of reading the teachings of other Rabbis and their parents.

No, they had, absolutely had, to have a $1 bill handed to them in order to understand and do the mitzvah of tzeddakah. There simply is no other way to teach the mitzvah.

But wait, they didn't give those dollars that he gave them away. They kept them, because the Rebbe had given them to them and they wanted a holy memento from the Rebbe.

Trouble is, all those dollars have all-seeing eye in the pyramid emblazoned on them, which are ancient symbols of avodah zara – idol worhship.

And, if you describe a Jewish star around the pyramid on the dollar bill, the points point to the letters M A S O and, you guessed it, N, within the Latin expressions around the pyramid, including the one that says Novus Ordo Seclorum - New World Order.

Here is the symbol I am referring to:

http://www.geocities.com/endtimedeception/seal.htm

Notice that the name MASON only has five letters.

So, only five points on the Star of David can point to those letters.

A star with five points is a pentagram - a very Satanic symbol indeed.

And so, what happened is that the Rebbe insured by giving those $1 bills away that thousands of Jews would have a permanent symbol of the all-seeing eye in the pyramid with them at all times.

And let's not forget the "minhag" of pouring a drop of "the Rebbe's vodka" from a "farbrengin" into bottle after bottle of vodka to make it holy. L'Cha'im! L'Cha'im!

I wish to say unequivocally that the vast majority of the followers of ChaBa"D are completely innocent and trusted their Rebbe implicitly.

They were foolishly duped into a cult, but they did so innocently.

They were, and are, fools, but they are innocent.

From the very first time I read the Tanya I knew something was wrong with it, very wrong.

It is a sin to tell people they are spiritually relegated to be "beinoni'im".

No one has the right to put a lid on another's spiritual advancement or potential.

We must believe that everyone can be a Tzaddik. And we must project that belief to everyone.

Can there be a worse heresy than saying that a human being is Ein Sof b'guf – Ein Sof personified?

Can anyone deny that having pictures of him everywhere, including in synagogues, is not a Jewish practice?

I, for one, knew there was something wrong with the Rebbe cult from the beginning and during the one time I saw the Rebbe in person I felt bad energy emanating from him.

I knew that ChaBa"D is not kosher and, as is known, I left.

Judaism has been imbued with the worst of the worst avodah zarah.

Face this fact!

The Jewish people have been targeted in the worst way for Masonic mind muck.

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel
DoreenDotan@gmail.com

The Supreme Masonic Lodge of the State of Israel

The Supreme Court of the State of Israel:

http://freemasonrywatch.org/israeli_secrets_barrychamish.html

Illuminati Design And Symbolism In The Israeli Supreme Court Building

http://www.planetquo.com/Illuminati-Design-And-Symbolism-In-The-Israeli-Supreme-Court-Building

Rothschild The Israeli Supreme Court Building And The New World Order

http://www.gnosticliberationfront.com/rothschild__the_israeli_supreme.htm

Why ChaBa"D-Lubavitch so chummy with so many world leaders, whom we know to be deep "into it"?

http://www.gnosticliberationfront.com/jews_of_the_world.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17CRVGojwic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xc3MpzhAN8&feature=related

Check out pyramid at 24 seconds and the ceiling at 29 seconds into the next video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZhK5N3Axus&feature=related

Their claims that the Temple of Jerusalem is Masonic, the Grand Lodge in Tel Aviv and Bro Moses Montefiori:

http://www.geocities.com/fmisrael/gallery.html

OK. Now we know that it's deep in the state of Israel. Now we know this is not a Jewish state, but a Masonic state.

There's a limit to how much one can learn about this for learning sake before it starts to psych one out.

***What do we do about it?***

D2

There's a Masonic Lodge (they used to call them "Temples") in Tzfat! YIKES!

The following information appears on the Tzfat Yahoo group for English-speakers.

"Interestingly enough there is a FreeMason building in Sefat on the road just before the Red Mosque. It has a domed roof and ancient black and white stones. It seem to be very old and the claims are that there is a Sheiykh buried inside. How did they come upon such a valuable historical building for private use? Should it not be renovated and open to the public, etc.?
And not but not least {for the conspiracy freaks} it is built of black and white stones-something the Masons{supposedly} use in their temples."

and in a continuing post...

"From the direction of the Rimon Inn, two buildings before the mosque (The Red Mosque, or HaKhan HaAdom, as it is called today - my parentheses for clarification), is an old building with a protruding dome made of black and white stone.

If you look closely on the entrance door you will see it is designated for FreeMason meetings i.e., a lodge.

"The lodge used to be in an old stone building on Rehov Jerusalem where now sits the Bank Le'umi. It was taken down circa 1980 for the new bank. The bank used to be in the store which now sells ice cream. It seems banking, even in Sefat, is profitable. The then mayor Aaron Nehmeas gave the Masons the above said building .One could assume he was affiliated with them. I received this info today from Odded HaMeiri, former mayor of Sefat and longtime resident and brother in law of former mayor Zev Pearl..."

"Endgame": The Information Every Anarchist Needs

I've decided to post this here because some people make Aliyah in the vain hopes of getting away from some of the American sickness. This video, in addition to making you understand many painful truths, will make you understand just why that's a vain hope.

"Endgame" is an extremely important video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25yhygUkecE&feature=related

Agents planted in the Anarchist movement are telling people that this is "conspiracy theory". No, it's not. It's business as usual. As you'll hear in the video, it is GW Bush (or Busche, as his family originally spelled their name) himself who refers to this information as "conspiracy theories".

I've been thrown off Anarchy list after Anarchy list for exposing this information. Agents in the Anarchist movement don't want you aware of this.

Most Anarchists aren't aware that they have been co-opted and recuperated. The assumption is that Anarchy is so radical that it can't possibly have been pre-empted. Wrong. Long ago, a diluted, capitalist-sanctioned "Anarchy" was crafted and most go along with that line. There are very few real radicals in the Anarchist movement today.

AnCap is nothing but sold-out Anarchy.

I invite you to become a true Anarchist.

The information in "Endgame" is crucial to understanding how critically important the anti-capitalist forms of Anarchy are if Humankind is to escape the plan already set into motion.

They use the lame excuse that Alex Jones isn't an Anarchist. So, disregard whatever he says.

Only the stupid, and those with vested interests, aren't grateful for information this vitally important from wherever it comes.

This information is an explanation of just how important anti-capitalist forms of Anarchy are. Why?

Because this is what *any* ultra-rich, ultra-powerful elite will eventually arrive at simply because it is human nature that as we attain more and more wealth and power, we become inured. The ability to feel is gradually reduced as every want and desire is fulfilled.

Some want to kill of at least 5/6 of the Earth's population and enslave the rest and the really freaky among them want to destroy the planet entirely for a very simple reason: it's the only thing they haven't experienced yet. It's the only "kick" they haven't had. This is where "been there, done that" inevitably leads.

D2

The First Warning Sign Not To Do Business with a Concern

If you call a business and instead of answering with a modicum of professionalism they answer with a dull-sounding "can" (yes), let that be a warning. Things won't go uphill from there. The rest of the business interaction will be just as unprofessional, unrewarding (for you) and unpleasant.

We bought two heaters from the Barda Bros. store on Thursday, foolishly tempted by the fact that they charged 75 NIS for a heater, while Ganon asked for 80 NIS.

One of the heaters had a broken element.

So, my husband walked back in the cold after Ma'ariv that same night to replace it.

Evidently we bought the last two the store had. They didn't have any more in stock to replace it with when my husband got there.

They promised we'd get another on Sunday.

Sunday came and went, but they still didn't have it in stock.

They promised we'd get it today.

Today came and went and there still aren't any replacement heaters.

Maybe tomorrow, no promises.

Knowing he's wrong, he then tries to put the blame for the breakage on us. If he really thought we were responsible, he wouldn't have agreed to an exchange in the first place. The accusation really got my back up.

My experience is that Ganon, hear Bank HaPoalim is a reliable salesman. We've bought many items from him over the years and never had aggravation.

The five shekels less that Barda Bros. charged has more than been made up for with trips there to no avail, phone calls and, not least of all, aggravation.

Even if Ganon asks for 5 NIS more on an item, buy from him. He can be trusted and he tends to stay well-stocked.

D2

Privitization of Prisons in Israel

Oh, joy!

Feb 5, 2008 21:48 Updated Feb 5, 2008 23:24
Petitioners plead against prison privatizationBy DAN IZENBERG


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Fifty-four percent of the public opposes the privatization of prisons, while 23% favors the move, according to an independent public opinion survey, petitioners told the High Court of Justice on Tuesday.

A prisoner and a guard at Nachshon Prison.Photo: Ariel Jerozolimski
The petitioners - the Human Rights Section of the Ramat Gan Academic College of Law, retired prison warden Shlomo Tweezer and prisoner Yadin Machnes - presented the poll's findings before the court in a final brief before the court's ruling on prison privatization is due.
The petitioners are asking the court to overrule a Knesset law passed on March 31, 2004, which paved the way for the establishment of a privately built and administered prison.
On January 2, 2006, the government awarded the tender to Africa-Israel Investments, Ltd., owned by businessman Lev Leviev.
Leviev owns the controlling interest in the enterprise in a consortium including Manrav Engineering and the American company Emerald Correctional Management.
According to the tender, the consortium was to build an 800-prisoner facility near Beersheba and run it for a period of up to 25 years. The estimated cost of the facility was NIS 250 million, of which a grant of NIS 47m. was to be provided by the state. Afterwards, the consortium was slated to be paid a sum of money for each prisoner it held. The prison is already under construction.
On March 16, 2005, the law college and Tweezer petitioned the High Court, charging that the law permitting a private prison contradicted the Basic Law: Government and the Basic Law: Human Dignity and Freedom. They argued that the government was abdicating one of its core responsibilities by permitting a private prison and that by giving a private company the right to discipline and punish prisoners, it was violating inmates' basic rights.
The High Court decided to turn the case into a fundamental discussion of how far the state could go in privatizing services before it violated its constitutional obligation to govern the country.
In their final brief, the petitioners wrote that because no clear limit had been set to privatization of government services since the petition was filed, there had been a "spillover effect," whereby "the [transfer] of authorities of a governing nature had intensified and increased over the past two years."
Among the examples indicating the scope of the privatization trend, the petitioners cited the Finance Ministry's consideration of spending NIS 51m. to hire workers registered with private manpower companies for the Israel Police. There had also been an attempt to privatize the employment of police cadet instructors, the petitioners said.
The petitioners warned that if the trend of privatization continued, Israel could wind up following in the footsteps of the US which, it wrote, currently has 168,000 soldiers and 182,000 private employees deployed in the war in Iraq.

Tax Cuts Coming - Heads Up, Watch Out!

With sadness, I read a number of articles in the local papers about the tax cuts that the government will be "granting" to the residents of the northern part of Israel, including Tzfat.

Like typical Israelis, who can't read a political map or understand political consequences past their own noses, they're just delighted. With their typical Manishewitz whine, they state that they are "getting what is coming to them". They government, they say, isn't doing them any favors. They don't begin to grasp just how true that is.

They all think the tax "breaks" are great. Not one of them began to understand what this portends, but at least I can relate it to you English-speakers so that you may be forewarned. I would write it in Hebrew, but none of the local papers would print it.

What they don't understand, and must, is that governments do not lose revenues.

If they allow a tax cut, they make up for the loss BIG time.

When I saw the tax cut, I knew Israel is slated for another war.

War is the way all governments create quick cash. There are other ways too, but as they are officially illegal, we'll pretend they don't exist.

It's easy enough to make it look like the other side started the war. For instance, soldiers can be placed in compromising positions too close to borders and be kidnapped...Well, you know the rest of the story.

The Israelis, being Hebrew-speakers whose English, if they speak any at all, is certainly not good enough to do research in the language, are thus cut off from major sources of information (isolating Israelis linguistically is the *real* reason why Hebrew is the national language here, BTW, *not* "a renaissance of the holy tongue"), together with the fact that they have been trained to take orders, are the most politically ignorant people in the world, and thus the most vulnerable - are most politically ignorant people in the developed world and thus the most vulnerable.

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel
DoreenDotan@gmail.com

Hitler Used Rothschild's Typewriter to Write Mein Kampf

Yes, this is very relevant to Tzfat. Tzfat is one of the cities targeted for povertization by the plan the Rothschilds devised are continue to implement. Or hasn't anyone noticed that every time Tzfat tried to pick up her head, an invisible slap down comes from an invisible hand?

It's HIGH TIME we Jews roused ourselves out of the complacency and lethargy of our mythology, overcame the feeling of superiority that hating the "Goyim" affords and generally tore ourselves away from the Manishewitz whine and cheese party (why does shit always happen to *me*) and began to understand who our real, home-grown, enemies are.

Until you have the courage to face this truth, never say "Never Again!"

Caveat: I do not refer to these people as "Illuminati". That is part and parcel of the mythology they disseminate to make people feel inferior to them.



Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel
DoreenDotan@gmail.com

"Optional Privacy Waiver"???

This now appears on the US Embassy in Israel site:

You Are In: Home > Consular Affairs >

Registering your trip to israel

Why should I register with the Embassy?If you are traveling to the Israel, or if you live here, the U.S. Embassy recommends that you register with us. This is for your protection, so that in case of emergency, we can assist Americans in Israel easier. The Embassy also sends out emails informing Americans who are registered about special issues, such as emergency information, Travel Warnings, Public Announcements, voting information, and Consular Information Sheets. information and much more.

What is it?

To ensure registering is as easy as possible, the U.S. government has established an online registration form. IBRS, the Internet Based Registration Service, is a central Internet site offering an on- line Office on Management and Budget or (OMB)-approved form that includes an optional Privacy Act waiver. The site will allow both short- and long-term travelers abroad to provide their itinerary, residence, and emergency contact information.

How do I register?

Simply go to the following website and complete the form: https://travelregistration.state.gov and click "Register My Trip".

Why this redundant registration? We all have passports. They can find those of us who don't in two seconds flat.

Is encouraging us to waive our privacy what this is really all about?

I really hate to be pedantic, but isn't Israel, like the names of all countries, always spelled with a capital letter at the beginning of the name?

Finally, why, oh WHY, did AmeriKKKa go so radically off kilter that I assume ill will in everything they do and wonder what the ulterior motive is in every new policy?

I didn't used to feel that way. I never liked the hyper-Capitalism, but I never thought they were trying to divest us of every possible freedom surreptitiously - not until this "administration".

D2

DOREEN DOTAN SAYS: "THANK YOU TZFAT!" BEFORE THE WHOLE WORLD

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel
DoreenDotan@gmail.com

ROTHSCHILD PROGRAMME: WORLD DOMINATION

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel
DoreenDotan@gmail.com

שיטת הבנק הפדראלי האמריקני ובנק ישראל

The Hebrew version of "The Federal Reserve System and B ank Yisra'el" is now uploaded and can be found on the following URL:

http://tinyurl.com/2m9wlt

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel
DoreenDotan@gmail.com

Collateral Damage

As background to the question that I pose at the end of this post, I'd like to request the reader to consider that which I wrote in an essay entitled: "The Federal Reserve System and Bank Yisra'el", which is to be found on the following URL: http://www.geocities.com/dordot2001/FedBankYisrael.htm

Here are excerpts from the home pages of Rothschilds and J.P.Morgan Chase (which was formed in 2000 when Chase Manhattan Corporation, a Rockefeller enterprise, acquired J.P. Morgan & Co) banks.

The former says, inter alia:
"Rothschild has been at the centre of the world's financial markets for over 200 years. Today, it provides Investment Banking, Corporate Banking and Private Banking & Trust services to governments, corporations and individuals worldwide." Source: http://www.rothschild.com/

The latter says, inter alia:"
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $1.6 trillion and operations in more than 50 countries. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers, small business and commercial banking, financial transaction processing, asset management, and private equity. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase has its corporate headquarters in New York and its U.S. retail financial services and commercial banking headquarters in Chicago. Under its JPMorgan and Chase brands, the firm serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients." Source: http://tinyurl.com/235p9m

When people take loans from banks, they put up collateral. Now, I'm going to ask ya'll a simple question. What do governments, which have no money of their own, put up as collateral when they borrow from these banks?

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel
DoreenDotan@gmail.com

This is the link to the (tentatively) final version of "The Federal Reserve System and Bank Yisra'el":

http://tinyurl.com/2uwcbs

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel
DoreenDotan@gmail.com

The Federal Reserve System and Bank Yisra'el

If we are to understand the problems in the Middle East, as well as the trouble with the banking system in Israel, we must understand the Federal Reserve System of the US. Bank Yisra'el is fashioned after "the Fed".

During the Mandate, the British tipped the demographic balance in this area, insuring ongoing war between the Jews and the Arabs, and, in so doing, insuring the ongoing printing of money by the Fed at interest as well as ongoing production and sales of munitions.

This was done not only with the express agreement of the Rothschild dynasty, but at their behest. The British government would not so much as lift a finger without instructions from the Rothschilds and their cohorts.

This information is the duct tape of understanding our systems, our governments, the structure of our lives:
http://www.federal-reserve.net

There are two videos on this page:
http://tinyurl.com/9jypc

Although the one on the left is 42 minutes long, I recommend it highly.I do not agree with the conclusions of Ludwig Edler von Mises, or his students, most notably Murray Rothbard. These are the AnCaps par excellence. However, they most certainly are redoubtable economists and their analysis of the basic problems with the American system of Capitalism is unimpeachable.The information in that video and on this web page:http://federal-reserve.net/

and here:

The Secrets of the Federal Reserve Bank:

http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/fr5.htm

http://www.whale.to/b/mullins5.html

should be of deep concern to every decent Jew. It is in the involvement of the Rothschilds and the Warburgs in this dirty business that is the source of the world's belief that "the Jews" control the world's banking system.If you research the family histories of these families, you will see that their tentacles reach far and wide.In fact, Jews, while not the majority of the "players", are overrepresented in this system. There can be no sense of false protection in the fact that there are fabulously wealthy Jews who push the world's money buttons. They afford us no protection, quite the opposite is the fact. They care not a whit for our lives. We, the vast majority of Jews, bear the brunt of the ignominy they bring upon us all. If we are not to be loathed and disgraced, we must decry their actions and distance ourselves entirely from them.Do not allow the myth of Jewish solidarity to pull at your heartstrings. There was only one person from the Jewish banking families who died in a concentration camp. She was a convert and a married-in relative of the Rothschilds. It is not they who suffered and died. They were not only safe in their secured compounds and on their private islands, they made money hand over fist as 6 million of us died unspeakably horrific deaths.Not only did they leave the rest of the Jews to their fate, they profited from WWI as well as WWII, for it was they who printed the money that financed those wars.In checking the family backgrounds of the Rothschilds and the Warburgs, you will see that they had banking interests in every one of the countries that were involved in WWI and WWII. Indeed, WWI started the very year after the Federal Reserve Bank was founded.There were ties by marriage between the Rothschilds and the Montefiores as well.Indeed, rather than clinging to the myth of their "philanthropy" in establishing the Jewish state, the motives of the Rothschilds and the Montefiores must be examined dispassionately. What indeed was wrought in this country as a result of their "succor"? Why did they make this investment?

The source for the following excerpt is given:"According to William Guy Carr, in Pawns In The Game, the initial meeting of these ex officio planners took place in Mayer Amschel Bauer’s Goldsmith Shop in Frankfurt in 1773. Bauer, who adopted the name of "Rothschild" or Red Shield, from the red shield which he hung over his door to advertise his business (the red shield today is the official coat of arms of the City of Frankfurt), (See Cover) "was only thirty years of age when he invited twelve other wealthy and influential men to meet him in Frankfurt. His purpose was to convince them that if they agreed to pool their resources they could then finance and control the World Revolutionary Movement and use it as their Manual of Action to win ultimate control of the wealth, natural resources, and manpower of the entire world. This agreement reached, Mayer unfolded his revolutionary plan. The project would be backed by all the power that could be purchased with their pooled resources. By clever manipulation of their combined wealth it would be possible to create such adverse economic conditions that the masses would be reduced to a state bordering on starvation by unemployment... Their paid propagandists would arouse feelings of hatred and revenge against the ruling classes by exposing all real and alleged cases of extravagance, licentious conduct, injustice, oppression, and persecution. They would also invent infamies to bring into disrepute others who might, if left alone, interfere with their overall plans... Rothschild turned to a manuscript and proceeded to read a carefully prepared plan of action. 1. He argued that LAW was FORCE only in disguise. He reasoned it was logical to conclude ‘By the laws of nature right lies in force.’ 2. Political freedom is an idea, not a fact. In order to usurp political power all that was necessary was to preach ‘Liberalism’ so that the electorate, for the sake of an idea, would yield some of their power and prerogatives which the plotters could then gather into their own hands. 3. The speaker asserted that the Power of Gold had usurped the power of Liberal rulers.... He pointed out that it was immaterial to the success of his plan whether the established governments were destroyed by external or internal foes because the victor had to of necessity ask the aid of ‘Capital’ which ‘Is entirely in our hands’. 4. He argued that the use of any and all means to reach their final goal was justified on the grounds that the ruler who governed by the moral code was not a skilled politician because he left himself vulnerable and in an unstable position. 5. He asserted that ‘Our right lies in force. The word RIGHT is an abstract thought and proves nothing. I find a new RIGHT... to attack by the Right of the Strong, to reconstruct all existing institutions, and to become the sovereign Lord of all those who left to us the Rights to their powers by laying them down to us in their liberalism. 6. The power of our resources must remain invisible until the very moment when it has gained such strength that no cunning or force can undermine it. He went on to outline twenty-five points. Number 8 dealt with the use of alcoholic liquors, drugs, moral corruption, and all vice to systematically corrupt youth of all nations. 9. They had the right to seize property by any means, and without hesitation, if by doing so they secured submission and sovereignty. 10. We were the first to put the slogans Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity into the mouths of the masses, which set up a new aristocracy. The qualification for this aristocracy is WEALTH which is dependent on us. 11. Wars should be directed so that the nations engaged on both sides should be further in our debt. 12. Candidates for public office should be servile and obedient to our commands, so that they may readily be used. 13. Propaganda--their combined wealth would control all outlets of public information. 14. Panics and financial depressions would ultimately result in World Government, a new order of one world government."The Rothschild family has played a crucial role in international finance for two centuries, as Frederick Morton, in The Rothschilds writes:"For the last one hundred and fifty years the history of the House of Rothschild has been to an amazing extent the backstage history of Western Europe."38 (Preface)... Because of their success in making loans not to individuals, but to nations, they reaped huge profits, although as Morton writes, p. 36, "Someone once said that the wealth of Rothschild consists of the bankruptcy of nations."Source: http://www.whale.to/b/m_ch5.html

And this from the same source:

"John Pierpont Morgan [we know the Morgans bankrolled the Nazis, my parentheses] was born in 1837, during the first money panic in the United States. Significantly, it had been caused by the House of Rothschild, with whom Morgan was later to become associated.
In 1836, President Andrew Jackson, infuriated by the tactics of the bankers who were attempting to persuade him to renew the charter of the Second Bank of the United States, said, "You are a den of vipers. I intend to rout you out and by the Eternal God I will rout you out. If the people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning."

Although Nicholas Biddle was President of the Bank of the United States, it was well known that Baron James de Rothschild of Paris [whose son, Edmund, was the "beneficent philanthropist who set up the settlements in Israel, my parentheses] was the principal investor in this central bank. Although Jackson had vetoed the renewal of the charter of the Bank of the United States, he probably was unaware that a few months earlier, in 1835, the House of Rothschild had cemented a relationship with the United States Government by superseding the firm of Baring as financial agent of the Department of State on January 1, 1835."

Bank Yisra'el functions in this country as does "the Fed" in the US.

It behooves us to research just exactly what the "philanthropist" Baron Edmund de Rothschild set up here in his "beneficence".At least one Montefiore married into the Rothschild family as well. "Henriette ("Jette") (1791-1866) married Abraham Montefiore (1788-1824)" [Source: http://tinyurl.com/2bq86f].We know that during the Mandate the British tipped the demographic balance in this area, which led to the Jewish-Arab hatred that exists today.The British government would not have lifted a hand without the express approval of the Rothschild family.

We, the entire Jewish People, have borne the brunt of the hatred that the plan of these people rightly aroused.They saw to it that that would be the case.These are not bone of our bone, or flesh of our flesh. Let us cut the malignant growth out. Or, if we cannot do that, at least let us see to it that they are excommunicated as Jews and distance ourselves from them utterly.

Does what I am writing remind you of "The Protocols?" It is no wonder.

Although the vast majority of responses that I got to this post from Jews Left, Right and Center, religious and secular are supportive (surprisingly so!), two people on other lists said that what I'm writing sounds like the Protocols. Those people are products of a very sophisticated programme of deflection of guilt.

The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion was written to deflect the guilt of a handful of people onto the Jews as a whole. What is written there is true, but not about all of us - about THEM, about the Rothschilds, Montefoire, the Warburgs.

We Jews were taught that no willfully and maliciously Jew harms another Jew and we were taught that the fabulously wealthy Jews were, and are, our benefactors and protectors from a cruel, anti-Semitic world that were it not for their fabulous wealth would swallow us alive.

The Gentiles, for their part, were, as the programme of Rothschild clearly states, taught to hate the people that they were told were the ones influencing business and government.

Since there was a large layer of Jews in the upper and upper middle income brackets, the Gentiles thought it was they controlling the situation.

In fact, it was a handful of fabulously wealthy Jews and Gentiles who were behind the scenes, people so wealthy that even the multi-millionaires are weak in comparison to who were, and are, causing all of the problems.

To give you an idea of their wealth: The people who causes the collapse of most of the banks in the US and then created the Fed made 2.2 billion dollars at the time. In our terms, that is well over a *trillion* dollars.

We were told that the Rothschilds and Montefiore built the basis of this country out of their philanthropic love of their People. In fact, they laid the groundwork of the ongoing war with the Arabs as well as the economic distortions we see in this country.

They counted their money as 6 million of us died deaths so horrible that most people can't wrap their minds around it. And many of those who survived the war were brought to Israel in order to, upon the very day of their arrival, go to war with the Arabs, who had been transferred here during the Mandate.

Look at the Rotschild family - they had, and have, banking interests in every country that was a major player in WWI and WWII - on *both sides*.

The Rothschilds were associated with the Morgans. The J.P. Morgan was among those Americans involved with the Nazis. Look here:
http://www.ardmoreite.com/stories/122498/mon_nazis.shtml

Please read this:

"In the 1800's (latter years) the Chase Bank (Salmon Chase) was purchased by John D. Rockefeller Sr. with Rothschild's financing obtained through the New York banking firm Kuhn, Loeb & Co., which was controlled by Jacob Schiff. Jacob Schiff bought into Kuhn, Loeb & Co. with Rothschild backing. The Manhattan Company also came under Rothschild control through the efforts of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., and the Warburg (Max) banking group in Frankfort, Germany. In 1955, Rockefeller's Chase Bank merged with the Manhattan Company to become Chase Manhattan Bank. J. P. Morgan became a partner in Peabody, Morgan, and Company (London) and established a New York branch in 1895 named J.P. Morgan and Co. The Rothschilds were technically rivals with the Peabody/Morgan firm, but there were rumors that they had a secret alliance. In 2000, J. P. Morgan and Chase Manhattan merged to become J. P. Morgan Chase & Co. In 2005. J. P. Morgan Chase & Co. acquired Bank One to bring total assets to about 1.1 trillion. They are now seeking Washington Mutual and possibly one other banking firm. They are in network with the Rothschild banking dynasty and related associates."

Now reread this:

http://www.ardmoreite.com/stories/122498/mon_nazis.shtml

We've been sold a bill of goods and our blood and those of our loved ones has been, and is being, spilled over this. And it will continue until we see the truth and refuse to fight the wars that are making them richer and richer.

The Arabs have had a VERY heavy trip laid on them. Their hatred of us has been ignited and cultured by these same interests.

If you ask people from the old families in Israel they will all tell you the same thing: The Jews and the Arabs lived in peace, in mutually beneficial economic relations and in shared cultural exchange until the British came. The British did not raise a finger without the express instructions of the Rothschilds.

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel
DoreenDotan@gmail.com

THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK

This information may not seem immediately pertinent to this blog, but if the reader bears in mind that Baron Edmund de Rothschild was more than instrumental in founding Rosh Pina and that Rosh Pina and Tzfat are now involved in the economic venture known as TzaCha"R; it will become apparent why I post this here.

There are two videos on this page:

http://tinyurl.com/9jypc

Although the one on the left is 42 minutes long, I recommend it highly.

I do not agree with the conclusions of Ludwig Edler von Mises, or his students, most notably Murray Rothbard. These are the AnCaps par excellence. However, they most certainly are redoubtable economists and their analysis of the basic problems with the American system of Capitalism is unimpeachable.


The information in that video and on this web page:

http://federal-reserve.net/

should be of deep concern to every decent Jew. It is in the involvement of the Rothschilds and the Warburgs in this dirty business that is the source of the world's belief that "the Jews" control the world's banking system.

If you research the family histories of these families, you will see that their tentacles reach far and wide.

In fact, Jews, while not the majority of the "players", are overrepresented in this system.

There can be no sense of false protection in the fact that there are fabulously wealthy Jews who push the world's money buttons.

They afford us no protection, quite the opposite is the fact. They care not a whit for our lives. We, the vast majority of Jews, bear the brunt of the ignominy they bring upon us all.

If we are not to be loathed and disgraced, we must decry their actions and distance ourselves entirely from them.

Do not allow the myth of Jewish solidarity to pull at your heartstrings. There was only one person from the Jewish banking families who died in a concentration camp. She was a convert and a married-in relative of the Rothschilds. It is not they who sufferred and died. They were not only safe in their secured compounds and on their private islands, they made money hand over fist as 6 million of us died unspeakably horrific deaths.

Not only did they leave the rest of the Jews to their fate, they profited from WWI as well as WWII, for it was they who printed the money that financed those wars.

In checking the family backgrounds of the Rothschilds and the Warburgs, you will see that they had banking interests in every one of the countries that were involved in WWI and WWII. Indeed, WWI started the very year after the Federal Reserve Bank was founded.

There were ties by marriage between the Rothschilds and the Montifioris as well.

Indeed, rather than clinging to the myth of their "philanthropy" in establishing the Jewish state, the motives of the Rothschilds and the Montifioris must be examined dispassionately. What indeed was wrought in this country as a result of their "succor"? Why did they make this investment?

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel
DoreenDotan@gmail.com

HOW MINDLESS BUREAUCRATIC AUTOMATONS COST US MONEY

This is only a small, very small example, but it's telling:

My husband is now 67 years old.

Since he is living on the gov't Retirement Pension with a supplmental income (that's about 1900 NIS per month), he is entitled to a 100% discount on city tax.

We arranged that discount as soon as he became eligible. Once eligibility started immediately upon turning 65 for men. Now they make people wait a given number of months after their 65 birthday, depending upon when they were born. Whatever. Another way to rip us off.

Anyway, we received the bill that everyone receives at the beginning of the year that allows them to choose if they wish to pay the city tax for the year in one lump sum, which allows an insignificant discount or to pay it bimonthly. The discount assumes that the American dollar, the standard of Israeli payments, will rise in value over the period of the year, which it may very well not this year.

We have been given the choice, in writing, on a colorful, high-grade piece of paper that was issued by computer and sent to us by snail mail, to either pay:

1702.00 NIS
-17o2.oo NIS

or

283.70 NIS
-283.70 NIS

I'm feeling generous. I'll pay both! I'll even pay any multiple of the requested payment they like. I'll go so far as to pay any multiple of the two sums. It's all the same to me, but it's not all the same to you, dear taxpayer, who paid for this worthless and inane bill that was issued.

How many bills like this did we pay for when we were tax payers?

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel
DoreenDotan@gmail.com

A Day at the Shopping Mall

I'm not going to go into all of the details of what I experienced at the Big Shopping Center in Carmi'el.

Just take a friendly word of advice: *Never* go to a shopping mall when you're in a heightened state of awareness.

Trust me. Don't do it. I love you. That is why I'm saying this to you.

OK. OK. If you insist. Just one scene from a surrealistic day:

I went into an Aroma coffee shop (all of the stores in the mall are either large national or international chain stores). Just like every other store I'd been in, the behavior of the staff was regimented, stilted, formulaic and painstakingly crafted to create the "ambiance" that the place wants to project - and get the clientelle to fall in line with and act accordingly.

When the girl gave me my coffee at the coffee bar, I asked her: "Tell me, just between us girls, at the end of the day are you able to shed the persona and just be?"

In my naivete, I fully expected that she'd wink at me with a 'we both know this is hype' wink. But nooooo.

Instead she looked at me robotically and said: "Is there something wrong, Madame?" Though what she said was phrased as a question, it meant: "I know I've done everything according to the book, as I was trained. There can't possibly be anything wrong. You are not acting in accordance with the script. You're some kind of troublemaker. I hope we're not going to have to call security." (In addition to the staff wearing their cutesy costumes, there are security people crawling all over the place in these places.)

I looked at her and said: "Oh, no, no. Everything is just fine. Just fine. I'm OK. You're OK. This whole scene is perfectly OK."

I walked back to my table, gingerly, and as I drank the conveyer belt, every cup is absolutely perfect coffee; I watched the other customers all behaving as one should when one goes to a coffee shop - all exactly according to regulation.

I sat there and my brain screamed out: SCOTTY!!!

Luckily, a friend came along and gave me a lift to Tzfat.

Now, things weren't always this way in Israel. When I first arrived here my friends and I used to frequent a coffee shop. The third or fourth time we went there the proprietor was playing chess with a friend. We stood there and waited for him to serve us. After a few minutes he looked up and said: "Don't be strangers. You know where the expresso machine is. You've seen how it's done. Make yourselves coffee." At first we were stunned, but then we decided we liked it. We had great fun making the espresso.

Years after that, I went into a place for a quick schwarma here in Tzfat. There were two women behind the counter. I told one what I wanted with the schwarma and she prepared it for me. I said "thank you" and as I held a 20 NIS bill out to her she said: "I don't take money. I'm just a friend. She's the owner. Pay her."

Now, THAT is the way to conduct business.

There are still a few businesses like that in Israel, but they are getting rarer and rarer. Luckily, there are still many in Tzfat.

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel
DoreenDotan@gmail.com

Lights! Inaction! Camera!

While the city found the money to finance 24 state-of-the-art cameras and the computers needed to analyze the data, which is being collected and collated 24/7; the city gummint is turning off the lights at night claiming that the draconian measure of having us stay at home at night or risk falling in the treacherous streets of Tzfat in the darkness if we do have to go out, is for the sake of fiscal recovery.

Doesn't not turning the street lights off at night tacitly aid and abet thieves work under cloak of darkness?

But then, the theft justifies the cameras and computers that are used for surveillance of everyone in Tzfat.

And why is it that when I went out at 10:30 this morning, I saw that all of the street lights along the No. 6 bus line were on?

Doesn't it cost the same money to light the city in broad daylight as it does in the black of night?

Another passenger told me the lights were on yesterday during the day too.

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan
DoreenDotan@gmail.com

WITH OUR HOCUS POCUS, YOU'RE IN FOCUS. IT'S YOUR LUCKY DAY.
SMILE!....

http://www.imagehosting.com/show.php/1476557_cam.JPG.html

Our town has recently been equipped with not less than 24 state-of-the-art surveillance cameras, each of which can photograph minute detail within a very large range.

The images are received and anyalyzed by computers that are manned, sort of, 24/7.

It's interesting how there's always a wave of violent crime and vandalism just before these cameras are installed...

Oh, of course. The cameras are in response to the spontaneous spate of crime. Yah. That's it.

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel
DoreenDotan@gmail.com

עובדים סוציאליים: פעולות ומטרות

http://tinyurl.com/35ssyc

דורין אלן בל-דותן, צפת
DoreenDotan@gmail.com

A Critique of "Building the Future Society" by Rabbi Yehuda Leib HaLevi Ashlag

The essay, translated into English, is here: http://tinyurl.com/2pva4d

I'm afraid I was influenced by an article I had read *about* Rabbi Ashlag entitled
"דרך הקבלה אל הקומוניזם"
("Arriving at Communism by Way of the Kabbalah"), which can be found on this URL: http://tinyurl.com/3xeqxe.

It was impetuous of me to arrive at conclusions about Ashlag's political views based on what someone had written about him. It was only awhile later that I was led to the article "Building the Future Society" , which Ashlag had himself written. One can see that the translation into English is not very good, but Ashlag's basic ideas are expressed in the translation.

Ashlag's ideas are anything but Anarcho-Communistic as I had understood from the article "Arriving at Communism by Way of the Kabbalah" (in Hebrew). Either Ashlag never read the works of the Anarchists, or he did study them, but was not impressed by their writings. I suspect the former case because he does not cite the writings of the Anarchists, even to critique them.

At any rate, he put forth a programme of Altruistic Communism, as he claims. His Communism, for all its altruism, is Communism in the form in which Anarchism repudiates it – that is, statist.

His program of Communism is not only statist, it is further vitiated by the fact that some of the laws that he would effect are, to be blunt, off-the-wall. The requirement that one either be religious or, barring that, agree to having one's children receive religious education from the state can be chalked up to little more than his generally being freaked out on Kabbalah. This applies equally to his suggestions that only a chosen few be allowed to engage in spiritual matters, that those be the "leaders" of society and that a court determine if someone's request to serve society by devoting himself or herself wholly to spiritual matters, should be granted. His statement: "Hence, the nobler nation, namely the nation of Israel, must take upon itself to set an example to the world. It is so because we are better qualified than all other nations, not because we are more idealists than them, but because we have suffered more than all other nations. For that reason we are more prepared than they to seek advice to end tyranny from the land." Witnessing the administration of the Jewish state, we see that protracted suffering does not make for wise structuring of society or create an aversion to tyranny. It would be an horrendous universe that we live in were it so that only after horrific suffering could one become sensitive to suffering. We learn from Kropotkin, from Bakunin and from Tolstoy that one can hail from great privilege and be exquisitely sensitive to suffering. Neither can we use suffering as an excuse for the Jews, in toto, to be considered a somehow "nobler" vanguard. There have been many individual Jews who were made of rarified moral stuff. Among the Anarchists there are people like Goldman, Berkman, Landauer and Muhsam, to be sure. Certainly these suffered, but it was not their suffering that set them on the road to Anarchism. It was the result of their having been Anarchists, not the cause of their having been Anarchists. They became Anarchists because, though hailing from comfortable, middle-class backgrounds they were extremely sensitive individuals. There are also Jews like those who are running the Jewish State who are abominably immoral. These too cannot be discounted as being part and parcel of the Jewish People. We Jews have produced the very great, the disgustingly despicable and, overwhelmingly, the very average, unremarkable and undistinguished.

It is no wonder that Ashlag's sons and students taught and teach Kabbalah and downplay his socio-political-economic teaching. It is not surprising, having considered his programme, that rather than devoting themselves to the real task of building an altruistic society they busy themselves with the esoteric and arcane. Whatever Ashlag's contributions may have been to the understanding of the Kabbalah, and I do not doubt that they were noteworthy; however mighty were his efforts to bridge Heaven and earth, a momentous undertaking; he did not succeed in proposing even the merest sketch of a workable society.

Though there were some interesting ideas in the piece, as an Anarcho-Communist I found "Building the Future Society" to be an almost thoroughgoing disappointment.

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel
DoreenDotan@gmail.com

FURTHER TO THE SOCIAL WORKERS' CONVENTION IN TZFAT

There is a third local paper that is, now irregularly, published in Tzfat. It is called "Chasifa L'Tzafon", a cheeky play on words that literally means "Northern Exposure" and also intimates that they have a conscience. As the name of the paper suggests, they've got some spunk in them. "Chasifa L'Tzafon" is not another establishment-serving rag sheets, as are "Chadash B'Galil" (which used to be more radical, until honest and intrepid reporter Yoram Omer stopped working for them) and "Kol HaIr", which is owned by the HaMeiri dynasty – enough said about their purpose.

"Chasifa L'Tzafon" has been stepped on, not surprisingly, and is no longer issued weekly. They do, however, retain a web site, a link to which is provided below. The site is updated when they can.

I found the following report about the social workers convention on their site. You'll note at once that the tenor of their report is very different than that of the politically and socially obsequious "Chadashot B'Galil" and the HaMeiri sounding board "Kol HaIr", a passage from which I translated in " Alternative Suggestion for Battling Poverty with a Proven Track Record of Success".

The following is my translation of the report of the social workers' convention that appears on the web site of "Chasifa L'Tzafon":

"Social Workers Convened in Tzfat: "The Poverty Will Lead to Civil Insurrection"

A call to lead the struggle for the poor for fear of civil insurrection emerged from the convention of the welfare workers that took place in the Tzfat Academic College. An exposition of facts pointing to a worrying increase in distress among the weak strata (of society) comprised the central issue of the deliberation. Our correspondent, Shlomo Hadad, related that many social workers called for taking action for fear of a civil revolt that is liable to break out, which will be similar to that of the "Black Panthers" (a radical group inspired by the American Black Panthers hailing from the Oriental and North African Jewish communities who demanded socio-political-economic equality between their ethnic groups and those of the Jews hailing from Western countries, my parentheses) of the 1970s. "It behooves us to march at the head of the struggle despite the fact that we are fettered with regard to budgeting" declared those who those who arrived for the convention."

Source and original text: http://www.hashifa.com/

This article describes the motivations of the social workers far more courageously and accurately than did the articles that appeared in "Chadash B'Galil" and "Kol HaIr", which attempted to present the social workers' concern as being for the poor.

Here we see that their concern is, as I stated, not to eradicate the misery of the poor, but only to keep their distress from reaching the meltdown that desperation and having nothing more to lose brings.

There has been a spate of attacks on social workers of late. It is for that reason that they realize that the poor are at the breaking point. As I also stated, they are the government's first line of defense against the disadvantaged.

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel
DoreenDotan@gmail.com

An Argument for Anarcho-Communism

A friend of mine was shot a few months ago.

It was the opening day of a bazaar that he had opened. He owns a clothing store, but felt that the small town of Tzfat needed a bazaar, which is true. He borrowed 100,000 NIS to open the bazaar.

That day a young woman who had worked for him in his store came running to him. She told him that an ex-boyfriend was pursuing her and that he was nuts with jealousy. She was obviously scared.

My friend told the man that if he didn't leave the young woman alone he'd call the police.

As he turned the man shot him in the back - five times.

My friend lived. He's a big, healthy and burly man of about 40.

I walked past his store yesterday evening and saw that it was open. My first thought was that he was recovered to the point of being back in the store and I was delighted. I went in and found his sister in the store.

I inquired as to how my friend is doing. His sister told me that he is still in a wheelchair and undergoing intensive physical therapy after numerous operations. I asked what the prognosis is. She told me that the doctors won't commit to a prognosis.

She told me that my friend could have easily overcome the small, slight man who shot him, but he didn't try to use force. Instead he told the man he'd call the police, as a "good citizen" is supposed to do.

She told me that the man who shot him said in his defense in court that he was "insulted".

I told her that I thought it might be my friend when I saw the store open.

She explained that she is opening the store because the bank is making trouble for her brother. He owes them 100,000 NIS and they couldn't care less if he's in a wheelchair. They want their money.

At this point I was so enraged that my head began to swim.

I can see this whole story going down entirely differently were there not a state, so that my friend could have just jumped the guy before he got a chance to pull the gun and wouldn't have needed to warn him that he'd call the police.

My friend is in a wheelchair because he acted in accordance with the law.

He is now facing the prospect of the bank using the same state that he relied on to take care of a situation he could have handled now at the behest of the bank.

There is no reason why a man should go into debt in order to provide a public service, which is what the bazaar was intended to be. He was making enough money from his store, but he wanted to do better for this sleepy, out of the way town.

There is no reason why he should be being treated as a criminal by the state as he is trying to recover from being shot in the back five times.

I do not see how this scene would be any different under AnCap. There would still be a plutocracy. There would still be loans. There would still be police forces to back up repayment of the loans. There would be no more compassion under Anarcho-Capitalism.

The argument that Anarcho-Communists are anti-Capitalism and not anti-State is simply propaganda. It is not true. We understand that the state works at the behest of the rich and that there will always be some brute force that will be required to do that job so long as there is capital and the accumulation thereof.

Under Anarcho-Communism someone who thought the community would be benefited by a bazaar would come to a general meeting with the idea. Either he would find that the community did not agree, or they'd give him a big thanks and the go-ahead.

The community would provide the necessary materials to open the bazaar. No loans. No banks.

If some maniac were to come along, no one would have to waste time threatening him with the police. They'd just jump his ass and be done with it.

Refute my argument if you can.

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel
DoreenDotan@gmail.com

"THE CORRUPT BUSINESS OF CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES", by United States Senator running for re-election, Nancy Schaefer of Georgia

This article absolutely stunned me when I first read it posted on the Google group talk.politics.libertarian when I went there to post "Further to the Unholy Alliance Between Social Workers and State".

I was not stunned by the content, of which I am fully aware. It's the same horror story everywhere. I was stunned by the fact that the author of the article is a US Senator.

See: http://tinyurl.com/2c5a6z

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel
DoreenDotan@gmail.com

Further to the Unholy Alliance Between Social Workers and State

An article in the 30/11/07 edition of the local Tzfat, Israel newspaper קול
העיר ("Kol HaIr", meaning "Voice of the City") that opened full of hope and humanity ends on an ominous note.

There is a branch of Bar Ilan University here in Tzfat. It is not really on the academic level of the University, more like a small college, but they do offer BA's (no no BSc's or higher degrees are granted, neither is research conducted there).

Be that as it may, the opportunity for single parents, at least 90% of whom are women, to earn a BA is a very bright ray of hope for a population that is characterized by 25% being under the poverty line. No figures are given for the remaining 75%. Knowing the population as I do, I should say that about 50% are at the poverty level. The remainder are able to get help from the parents' families or enjoy other sources of income.

A new program has been instituted by one of the deacons at the college. It is an academic program geared for single parents. They are provided with a substantial scholarship as well as a living allowance. There are support services which are not the run-of-the-mill psycho-social services that make people feel one down in an uneven power relationship at best and "sick" at worst, but rather support services that encourage a positive self and family image and empower the parents. Tutoring is likewise made available to those who need it.

How beautiful! What promise!

Enter the gummint.

Before I go on, I should explain that single parents in Israel are entitled to a good deal of aid. They are entitled to basic equipment for the baby: Crib, carriage, disposable diapers, formula when they stop nursing, a 1/3 discount on public transportation and a rent subsidy.

In order to obtain those services they must turn to the Welfare authority, i.e., the social workers. Thus, they must submit to the assessment of the social workers as to whether or not they are "fit" parents. They must show up to the social workers' offices regularly, where they are quite obviously scrutinized.

The social workers are not satisfied with reports that they receive from our equivalent of La Leche. Oh, no. It is the social workers who determine if a parent is "fit" and a child "at risk". Of course, the social workers are all assumed to be ideal parents, who are in a position to determine the parenting skills of others. Statistically, it simply cannot be that all social workers are good parents, but never once have I heard of a social worker being investigated by child welfare officers.

Even the best parent is made to feel, um, uncomfortable by that ongoing scrutiny, which, they know full well, is not always well-intended or completely objective.

With all the aid they receive, as I have said and feel should reiterate, 25% of single parents are below the poverty line. Some 50% more are at the poverty line, according to my personal observations. They rest have parents who are in a position to help or have other sources of income.

It is every single parent's dream to get out from under the thumb of the welfare services.

A program like the one being offered by the Tzfat Regional College, an accredited institution of higher learning, is a tremendous boon and holds out great promise of economic independence as well as emancipation from the social workers and the welfare system.

It transpires that the government has passed a law which stipulates that any single parent enrolling in the program loses all his or her benefits.

Even given the fact that they receive a modest living allowance and a substantial scholarship, being a student in a college or university in Israel is far more expensive than in many countries. Students here are notoriously poor - I mean poor.

The parents who are dependent upon the aid simply cannot afford to forfeit it.

This keeps them in the thrall of the social workers and in the welfare loop.

There are 150,000 single parent households in Israel today. The percentages are growing every year as women decide that they do not need to accept the bonds and strictures of Jewish marriage (which only allows the men the right to grant divorce and makes a deserted wife unable to marry again) or to remain in miserable marriages "for the kids".

Clearly, there is a nefarious programme being implemented - a meticulously planned programme of povertization and perpetuation of dependence - and all that the misery of poverty leads to (there is no need to elaborate, the insightful will understand).

I have said before and I will say again unless I am shut up and away by the authorities, which is a very real possibility when one speaks the truth in the State of Israel, the social workers are the government's front line in its war on wealth, health and happiness.

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel
DoreenDotan@gmail.com

Alternative Suggestion for Battling Poverty with a Proven Track Record of Success

This article is in response to an article that appeared in the 23/11/07 issues of "Kol HaIr" and "Chadash B'Galil", the two largest local newspapers in Tzfat.

The article reports the conclusions of a convention of social workers that was held at the Tzfat College, which is a branch of Bar Ilan University.

The gist of their conclusions is summed up in the following quote, which I will herein translate:

"One of the principle conclusions that arose from the convention (is that) in spite of the devoted care of the social workers, who are positioned on the vanguard of the social battle, and the professional values that accompany their work, the (social) workers are occupied with preserving the existing policy and are not sufficiently involved in the practical processes of social and communal reform. It behooves the social workers, who work in the establishment's service, to change the situation and transfer (their efforts) to the level of change."

The following is my response to their statement:

Not possessed of the analytical abilities of those who studied mathematics; the real sciences or philosophy at university; the Social Workers, products as they are of the very least intellectually demanding and rigorous courses that colleges and universities have to offer, cannot be expected to perceive the inherent contradictions in the passage above.

One cannot receive one's salary from "the establishment", be in and at its service, as the vast majority of Social Workers are, and fight against it. One cannot be more moral than one's boss. One does not do battle with one's boss.

They are correct in describing themselves as being in "the vanguard", but not in the way that the establishment they work for has made them think. Rather than being given equitable salaries and being provided with work conditions in which they will be able to affect some good, they are given illusions about themselves. They are told that they are doing "holy work" and that they are among the most socially aware. They are, as anyone who has ever had the misfortune of needing their services knows painfully well, neither.

Think for a moment. Think about all of the scandals and corruption of the government that we hear about almost continuously. Think about the exposes in the press. Think about the scathing reports of the State Comptrollers. Think about the police investigations. Think about the many times that they have increased their salaries by many percentages, even as they raised the prices of staple food items.

Are we to believe that the social workers, in the employ of a government such as this are really working for the benefit of society at their behest? Is the government ruining society only to send out its employees to fix what they systematically destroy to their own ends? Is the government employing social workers to re-empower the populace while they invest so very much in de-empowering us? Not likely.

How then are the social workers in "the vanguard"? They are the government's first line of defense, and its cheapest one, against the desperate becoming radicalized revolutionaries. It is the social workers' job to keep the potentially explosive sectors of society on a low flame of rage. If the rage of those systematically impoverished and disempowered by the government does flare up, it is the job of the social workers to keep them frightened, confused, threatened and most of all helpless.

I understand that these are very difficult realizations to absorb. But if you will consider these matters, and I, unlike those in whose employ the social workers are, respect your intelligence enough to know you can understand these matters if you set your minds to them, you will apprehend matters that heretofore have confounded you.

There is great re-empowerment in understanding the truths about a far-reaching, deeply entrenched social phenomenon. But this is not enough to right the wrong. We must be able to proffer a better alternative. To this purpose I will turn presently.

A quiet revolution is well underway in the Kibbutz Movement.

Literally hundreds of small Urban Kibbutzim, or K'vutzot as some call themselves due their small size, are springing up all over the country - most of them in development towns and in distressed neighborhoods.

They are models of mutual sufficiency based on cooperation.

You'll read a bit about the Urban Kibbutzim and K'vutzot on the following links. The second was written by a member of one of those K'vutzot.

http://tinyurl.com/24rtkv

http://tinyurl.com/2zj6yu

They are small groups of people who not only pool their resources, live their lives according to direct democratic principles that they carry out in their regular meetings; they devote their lives to helping others in distress.

A number of them have developed innovative programs of education for people of all ages.

Kibbutz Mehanchim (Educators) help youth at risk in the Hadar neighborhood of Chaifa. See: http://tinyurl.com/2tgr9h Note that the article states that "the city (of Chaifa) called on 70 young people from all over the country, members of the Noar Haoved Vehalomed (Working and Learning Youth) youth movement, to establish an urban kibbutz to work with the neighborhood's at-risk youth. That means that they provided housing and initial services for the program to get underway.

Kibbutz Tamuz in Beit Shemesh (a rapidly developing town near Jerusalem) is the oldest of the Urban Kibbutzim. We visited Kibbutz Tammuz when it was about five years old. We were very impressed with the warmth and dedication of those young people. They had received a building from Amidar that was pretty run down and renovated it themselves. It is a pleasure to present an idea to you of how far they've gotten since and how much they contribut to Beit Shemesh: http://tinyurl.com/ypxxg2

And now we get down to takhlis. K'vutzat Re'ut is located in the housing project Gilo Aleph in Jerusalem. It is one of two urban Kibbutzim in Jerusalem. One of the Urban Kibbutzim in Jerusalem is entirely religious. It is called Reishit (The First).

The population of Kvutzat Re'ut is mixed - more and less religiously observant. They run a number of projects of neighborhood aid. Additionally, they have a beit midrash and a pre-army leadership training program (a mekhina). My son visited K'vutzat Re'ut when he was doing his pre-army leadership training course at Meitzar. Meitzar took their students to K'vutzat Re'ut because their program is so very good. : Please see their web site: http://www.reut.org.il/

There are people that are considered "Friends of Urban Kibbutzim". While they are not members themselves, they support the programs and learn and work with the K'vutzot for the betterment of the environs.

I believe that the model of K'vutzat Re'ut would be perfect for Tzfat. K'vutzat Re'ut is all about Jewish learning and mutual tolerance. It is a model of cooperation. They go beyond mere toleration of varying viewpoints. They incorporate them into one beautiful, and very productive mosaic.

I find it odd that Tzfat with all of its problems has not extended a hand to the youth movements to set up an urban K'vutzah here. The City of Chaifa did. Why not Tzfat? We certainly have as many problems as does the city of Chaifa per capita and goodness knows there are neighborhoods in this town that would benefit greatly from the input of a bunch of idealistic, energetic, educated youngsters.

I urge you to consider the information on the links I've provided.

I have been in touch with the Kibbutz Movement about beginning an Urban K'vutzah here in Tzfat.

I was told that they are aware of the problems in Tzfat as they have received reports from the youth movements here.

They know very well that Tzfat is in dire need of one of those programs. They would very much like to begin a K'vutzah here.

The problem seems to be funding.

We see, then, that there are many advantages to having Urban K'vuotzot and Kibbutzim in one's town.

They are not in the employ of the government, and so may act as independent moral agents.

They are themselves examples of independence and the attaining of a very respectable standard of living based on mutual aid.

Their approach to the communities that they take up residence is not patronizing and not one of superiority. They don't see the people that they worth in tandem with as those needing treatment. They work shoulder to shoulder and eye to eye with people and empower them to help themselves. This is an essential point. Dependence on a "vanguard" to do one's fighting, even if that were possible, and we have seen that it is not, can only lead to increasing dependence and weakness. Those whose dependence is cultivated and perpetuated by those who rule over them with a heavy hand and who are made to think of themselves as "weak" or "miserable", cannot ever help themselves. Only those who are shown and convinced of the power that resides within them when they work together on the basis of mutual aid are in the position to really improve their lives and the lives of others.

We should like to see Urban K'vutzot of some 25 members set up in all of the problematic neighborhoods in Tzfat. There is no doubt in my mind that they will prove to be a great boon to our deeply troubled town even as they have proven themselves in equally troubled towns and neighborhoods.

You probably won't be surprised that neither "Kol HaIr" nor "Chadash B'Galil" published the Hebrew version of the message below. It was, however, published on a number of fora, including YNet and was accepted very warmly and with understanding and sympathy by readers who responded to it. So, it having been suppressed in Tzfat was a bit of a joke.

Since Yoram left "Chadash B'Galil" it has been turned into nothing but another propaganda sheet for the Municipality and the families that are running this town (into the ground). Of course, "Kol HaIr" has never been anything but the House of HaMeiri version of reality sounding board.

I wonder why it is that "Chasifa L'Tzafon", the only newspaper that took the bull by the horns in this town is only coming out irregularly. There is a chance, if the religious establishments in this town would support "Chasifa L'Tzafon" more (many already do), the newspaper could be revived and there might be a newspaper that tells the truth about this city coming out every week and having a thriving site.

If you can read Hebrew, I suggest you read the article לימודים אקדמיים לאמהות חד-הוריות that appears in this weekend's edition of "Kol HaIr" on pg. 12. Pay strict attention to the last two paragraphs.

Shabbat Shalom,

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel
DoreenDotan@gmail.com

"ISSTA" - One of the Companies that Makes Workers Pay for their Errors

The day my son flew to the US, the woman who sold him his ticket called the house asking for him.

I told her he was en route to the States.

She told me that a mistake had occurred with the amount he was charged for the ticket and that he owed "Issta" another 150 NIS.

I asked her how that happened. She said she made an error.

I asked if they have anything in writing saying that he still owes them money. She answered in the negative. In fact, the receipt indicates that he paid in full.

I asked my son about it and he said that he thought a mistake occurred, but not to pay it as it was the ticketing clerk who made the mistake.

I called her back and said: "If you made a mistake and the receipt says my son paid in full, then you have no legal charge against him. Would you pay your local grocer if he one day said to you that you owe him 150 NIS but had no proof that you in fact owed the money? It's a bad precedent."

She answered: "I understand, but if you don't remit the money; I will have to pay the difference out of my pocket."

That pulled the worker solidarity strings of my heart as two memories came back to me. In the first, I was a 15-year-old worker in McDonald's, my first job. A quick change artist came to my counter and ripped me off. The rip off was deducted from my salary, as was the amount that my cash register was once *over*. Fast forward six years. I am working as a cocktail waitress at the Fountainbleu Hotel on Miami Beach once got bumped into by a customer as I was carrying a full tray of drinks that went all over the floor. *I* had to pay the full price of those drinks, which was considerably more than I made that night of eight hours on my feet.

I sent the check - which the company said should be made out to "Issta".

I also sent a letter to the main branch of "Issta" telling them that I am utterly disgusted with their policy of making workers pay for errors when they make so much money hand-over-fist.

Many of you will be in a Capitalist state of mind and will agree with the company policy. "Hey, you'll say, she made the mistake. She has to pay for it. Right?"

Wrong.

A simple clerk earns enough working for a company like "Issta" to live an upper middle class lifestyle after two hours of work per day on the average. All the rest goes into the company's pocket.

That's right. A full 75%, at least, of your work time is for the benefit of the company, not to your benefit. If your boss is a real SOB, even by Capitalist standards, and forces you to work overtime, without reimbursing you time-and-a-half, and some don't reimburse at all, that too goes to their advantage, obviously. When I worked in a "Telma" food factory*, the workers were forced to work overtime, *LOTS* of overtime, and still earned so little that they had to get an income supplement from National Insurance.

*(That's right; I've worked as a counter girl, waitress, factory worker and lowly clerk at about 50 low-class various jobs despite my fancy shmancy education, which, as Jim Croce said so very eloquently "prepared me for life in the Middle Ages", because my heart is with the workers and I wanted to know their lives first hand. I've done jobs that involved more "prestige" too, including teaching and conducting research, and found that, with one notable exception when I tutored at a boarding school for asthmatic youngsters with a prince of a General Manager and a dream staff, that those "respectable" jobs always involved the moral degradation of shutting up and covering up, which I could not conscience and also paid far below the worth of the workers.)

Take into account too that when a worker "reimburses" hir (hir is the accepted non-gender specific form of both his and her) boss for a mistake zie (zie is the gender non-specific form of both he and she) doesn't pay the net cost of the good or service, but the resale cost.

I realize that this abuse of workers is so very much the norm that it is taken as a given. As I wrote, I have been a victim of it. I also realize that it is the corporations that determine what people are generally made to think is right and wrong and they train people how to react emotionally to them via the mass media, but this practice is an abuse and must be stopped. People have the right to make honest mistakes. Don't the owners and bosses tell themselves they're only human when they make mistakes? Too bad they don't tell themselves they're only human when they relate to their workers and set company policy.

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel
DoreenDotan@gmail.com

ANARCHISM IN THE JEWISH AND MUSLIM TRADITIONS

http://tinyurl.com/2opoga

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel
DoreenDotan@gmail.com

AGGRESSIVE INFECTIONS CONTRACTED IN HOSPITAL

The 16/11/07 edition of "Kol HaIr" ("Voice of the City"), one of the local Tzfat newspapers, reported that in response to a nationwide, and in fact worldwide, outbreak of infections that are contracted in hospital, the Rivka Ziv Hospital will be undertaking heroic measures to prevent an outbreak of infections among the patients, even though hospitals in the periphery of the country have a much lower incidence than larger hospitals in the main towns.

The article claims that the worldwide average of patients in hospitals who contract infections is 9% (nine percent!).

As a result of the high overturn of hospitalized people, the bacteria grow easily and they become resistant to treatment by antibiotics.

The infections contracted can be very aggressive and sometimes fatal.

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel
DoreenDotan@gmail.com