GLIMPSES OF THE COMING WAR OF GOG AND MAGOG

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טו באדר, התשע''ג

25 February, 2013

Copyright © R. Kossover

מאת ראובן קןסובר, עורך וכתב 

This morning I received a couple of messages from P. David Blumenthal, a man who has developed a reputation as a solid analyst of trends in history, and with whom I tend to see almost eye-to-eye on many things

One message was a report submitted to the Obama administration in 2009 by a "U.S./MIDDLE EAST PROJECT", an outfit that listed General Brent Scowcroft (U.S. Armed Forces, retired) as "Chair, International Board", and Henry Siegman as its "President".  The report was signed by the following individuals: 

Zbigniew Brzezinski
Chuck Hagel
Lee H. Hamilton
Carla Hills
Nancy Kassebaum-Baker
Thomas R. Pickering
Brent Scowcroft
Theodore C. Sorensen
Paul A. Volcker
James D. Wolfensohn

Those of you who remember the unfortunate administration of James Earl Carter will recognize Zbigniew Brzezinski, the Polish born "National Security Adviser" who was supposed to be Carter's equivalent of Henry (Hainz) Kissinger.  Most of these names are "heavy hitters" in Washington, D.C., with lots of influence and power in that depraved city.  Those of you with a really good memory will recognize James Wolfensohn as the fellow who got Jews to pony up $100 million to buy the vegetable nurseries that Jews in Gush Qatif were forced to abandon by former prime minister Ariel Sharon in 2005.  These vegetable nurseries were made a "gift" to the PA Arabs of Gaza - who promptly looted them and made them worthless.  In addition, you will note that the second signatory on this report is former United States senator, Chuck Hagel.  We'll get back to that in just a bit.

When you read this report, you will see that it contains all kinds of allusions to an American-led Arab occupation force for Judea, Samaria and the Heights of Golan, with the idea of sending in thousands of American soldiers to occupy Judea and Samaria, the Arab neighborhoods if Jerusalem and probably the rest of the country as well.  I read this report as best as I could with all the things blocked out.  It has ALL the features I have worried about since making aliyah in 2001.  It includes the likelihood that I and my fellow residents in Ma'ale Levona will have to fight WELL ARMED American and Arab soldiers to maintain our homes here; and the likelihood that we will be besieged militarily. Every time I ride in a car or bus to or from Ma'ale Levona, I think about these issues.

It is evident that this plan, proposed originally for January/February of 2009, is in the process of being implemented now. One solution is not to waste time on "hasbará" - but instead, where possible, to invest time in obtaining a weapon, and going to target practice as often as feasible. As structures of society here and around the world crumble, WE WILL BE RESPONSIBLE MORE AND MORE FOR OUR OWN DEFENSE. The IDF will make valiant efforts, but as World War III spreads from Syria to here, as is likely, THE IDF'S OWN STRUCTURE WILL CRUMBLE UNDER THE WEIGHT OF 500 MISSILES DAILY FROM THE NORTH.

I'm not the only one with opinions on the subject, it seems.   Mark Langfan, writing in an op-ed in Arutz Sheva published on 23 February, raised the idea of a "death trap" in Judea and Samaria to be created at the hands of Chuck Hagel, that second signatory to the report I cited above.  Langfan's take was that American soldiers would be endangered by PA Arabs.  This is just some of what he had to say about all this:

"...Obama will do anything and everything to get Hagel confirmed because Obama knows Hagel, and only Hagel, hates Israel enough to sacrifice 1000's of US soldiers in body bags, and dumb enough to gladly blow 160 Billion US dollars, we don’t have, in order to grossly cripple, or perhaps even destroy Israel.  In 2007, Hagel saw Hamas takeover the Gaza Strip in 10 seconds flat. So in 2009, he knew the 60,000 U.S. troops he was recommending Obama send into the "West Bank"  would have been instantly trapped by Hamas, and subject to multiple Marine Beirut Barracks-type suicide blasts and kidnappings. But to compound Hagel’s rank stupidity, Hagel also wanted to put US troops on the Golan at the same time."

It's a good try at getting American sympathies - but personally, I think that the Hagel nomination is a done deal, and that at some point, the Republican opposition to it will melt like a snow-man in hot weather.  Why do I think this?

Well, the trouble with being a believer in the Tana"kh, is that you have to take it seriously.  And I do.  In the Book of Ezekiel, the Almighty tells Ezekiel, "'Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him, and say: 'Thus says the L-rd G-D: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal;....'" [Ezekiel 38:2-3]  

Protestant preachers of various varieties, not to mention the our own great sage, Vilna Ga'on, have all said that Gog is the leader of Russia.  The Vilna Ga'on wrote that he measured from Jerusalem going to points north.  When the Vilna Ga'on wrote, over two hundred years ago, all the land going from Jerusalem to points north, even beyond the North Pole to what is now Alaska, was Russia.  But in 1867, the Russian czar sold Alaska to the Americans for $7.2 million (what a deal!) and NOW the land going from Jerusalem to points north, in other words beyond the North Pole, is American.

So?

So, sending tens of thousands of American soldiers here to try and "enforce order" in some kind of "peace deal creating 'Palestine'" is well within the realm of possibility.  It is the reason we see Obama's name encoded in Ezekiel 38:2 starting with the last letter of the word "nasí" [נשיא].  The name that comes out by counting 7 letters and taking every SEVENTH letter is very very clear in the Hebrew - אובאמה - OBAMA.  Put differently, Obama, in my opinion, is Gog.  That's why his name is there - encoded in the Tana"kh for all of us to see.

That leaves a few uncomfortable questions.  If hasbará is a waste of time, and our best solution so far is to learn how to shoot straight, what about OUR government?  Wouldn't THEY do something to prevent this travesty?  If Netanyahu is willing to go for a "two state solution" (remember the Cairo speech?) and put Tzipi Livni in charge of "negotiating" with the terrorists of the PA, that should tell you what OUR government will do to protect us - absolutely nothing!!   So, my fellow Israelis, we are on our own with only our G-d to protect us!  When WE figure that out, accept that AND ACT ACCORDINGLY, we will see His Redemption!

If It's Too Early in the Morning, It Don't Matter How Interesting the Subject Is - I Still Fall Asleep

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Originally published as a Note on Facebook

ג באב, התשע''ב

22 July, 2012

Copyright © R. Kossover, 2012

Thirty three years ago, in the summer of 1979, I moved from Brooklyn with my ex to study law at a spanking brand new school in St. Paul, MN, Hamline University School of Law.  Classes started early, and my first class was "torts" which is a topic that has nothing to do with baking.  Torts have to do with damages from things that go wrong, or from things purposely done wrong - what is called in Jewish law, "neziqín". 

Anyway, first year law school is all about reading appeals decisions of judges and trying to isolate from the appeals decisions "rules of law", which are then applied first in law school exams, and later to the practice of law.   This is a basic ability that any American lawyer is expected to have.  So, torts was all about reading appeals decisions on things that went wrong - gun accidents that killed or injured people, car accidents that killed or injured people, etc., etc., and inferring from them first the "proximate cause", the cause most directly responsible for the tragic event, and then assessing responsibility according to rules of law found in these appeals decisions - which were not always clearly writen by the appellate judges.

It's the kind of thing that can put you to sleep real fast, and it often did, especially in a first period class.  The professor was aware of this, and he told us to buy a book on torts that had a very interesting item in it - the decision of an appeals court concerning the issues surrounding the ship the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, which carried taconite on the Great Lakes between Canada and the United States, which had sunk in a storm in Lake Superior in November, 1975.  This was an issue especially close to the kids in the class - mostly from Minnesota or Wisconsin, but it rang a bell with me because of Gordon Lightfoot's song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", which even parochial Brooklyn boys like me had heard on the radio.

The poor torts professor failed in keeping me awake in class - even though there was a spirited discussion about the insurance issues surrounding the sinkning, etc.  For me, everything other thanGordon Lightfoot's memorial to the 29 sailors who died on the SS Edmund Fizgerald was an etc. - one of the reasons I am not an attorney today.

THE OLYMPIG SONS OF DARKNESS - AND G-D'S POP QUIZ

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Originally published as a Note on Facebook

כ'ח בתמוז, התשע''ב

18 July, 2012

Copyright ©  R. Kossover, 2012

All over Facebook and other media we have been inundated with requests to honor the 11 slain athletes killed at the Summer Games in Munich in 1972.  And all we have been asking is ONE MINUTE OF SILENCE.  One minute, out of several hundred thousand.  One would think that human beings who presumably have a sense of common decency, would accede to such a thing with no difficulty at all.  But reality seems very different from common decency - the viciousness of barbaric sons of animals comes out when they smell money and the chance to humiliate the hated JOOS - and will allow nothing to stand in their way!!  A member of the International Olympig Committee apologized to the widow of one of the murdered, saying his hands were tied by the admission of 46 Muslim nations to the International Olympig Committee.  

And it got me to thinking.  Why should the admission of 46 Muslim nations get in the way of a minute of silence to honor 11 dead Israelis - killed 40 years ago?  And I realized that something bigger was going on here.  The devil is in the details, the saying goes, and here is the detail that really caught my eye - for I saw the horns of the devil sticking right out of it.  The Summer Games of 2012 begin on the Sabbath.  And ANY JEW  who wants to participate has to violate the Sabbath.  MY priorities are clear.  The Sabbath, a commandment in the Torah, comes before any pagan trash.  But for many Jews, this is not so clear, as they wallow in the culture of self-worship and materialism pushed by the Olympigs. They beg and plead for acceptance by this culture under any rubric of bullshit names, so as to escape what G-d said of the Children of Israel through the words of Bila'am: They shall dwell alone, a people reckoned separately from Mankind [b'midbár/Numbers 23:9 - in part].   But nota bene, the INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIG COMMITTEE refuses us this acceptance.   And in addition, it spits in our face - with its refusal to honor our athletes AND by KNOWINGLY VIOLATING OUR SABBATH to start their pagan games. So, the bottom line is this: 

THIS IS A DIVINE "POP QUIZ". We are being tested in a very clear way. "WILL WE CONTINUE TO PAY ATTENTION TO THESE SONS OF SHIT WHO WHO SPIT IN OUR FACES AND WHO WOULD FORCE JEWS TO VIOLATE THE SABBATH TO PARTICIPATE IN THEIR ORGY - OR WILL WE PAY ATTENTION TO THE G-D OF ISRAEL AND HIS COMMANDMENTS?"

A combination of events and the simple commandments in the Torah are coming together - and G-d is testing US - THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL.  One does not need a long-bearded rabbi spouting halakhá to know this; one does need committee after overpaid executive committee to know this; one simply has to be a believer in the Living G-d of Israel, and NOT BE BRAIN DEAD!

Those of you who believe in the Living G-d of Israel, and who are not brain-dead, will get the point damned fast - and PASS the test. As for the rest of you - well, it's not MY job to try to make you see what you will not see. Either you will die because you REFUSE to see Truth - or you will live, and have Truth revealed to you in a way of G-d's choosing. It's HIS universe, and HE runs it.

Shabbat Shalom from Samaria, ISRAEL.

WORLD WAR III AND A VISION FOR THE NEAR FUTURE

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Originally published as a Note on Facebook

טו בתמוז, התשע'ב

5 July, 2012

Copyright © R. Kossover, 2012

The boys at the Extinction Protocol can't get used to the idea that WWIII is here already. It started. The only question is how quickly will it spread and to where? I don't have the answer to that one, but a young woman whom I'll describe as the Holémet - the dreamer - has a clue. She has given permission to share that clue with you all.

I strongly suggest that you read this Note in conjunction with two previous Notes; LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE PAST 2012: Peeking beyond Zionism and its malcontents and THE HAMMER OF G-D.  The three form a single body of work.

Today, Rabbi Rachamim Pauli noted on his own page that the World Net Daily is carrying a piece about Donald Trump warning of an "October Surprise" - Trump: Obama will start Iran war to win election.  The rabbi asks us to focus on the Jewish holiday Hoshaná Rabá, which tradition says is the day G-d will execute judgement (annually) on the Children of Israel.  I would note that the Great Depression started the day before Hoshaná Rabá in the year 5690 (1929). 

In the meantime, enjoy peace while it lasts. Cherish these days, for they are the final days of an era. The "seeds of World War III" have sprouted.

The following is what The Holémet allowed me to share with you.  I sent this out as an email on 9 June of this year.  What follows is the text of the e-mail.

This is not really a vision but a description of a dream had by a young woman, whom I'll call the Holémet (Hebrew for "the dreamer").  I had a conversation on FB Chat with her on Thursday, 7 June.  Here are the key points.  

First, this is not a one time or two time dream.  The Holémet had this dream numerous times, with no  variations in it.  

Second, when the Holémet has had dreams of this nature, she has had them repeatedly for a period of time, and then they came to an end - and then the event dreamt of occurred.  In some instances the event occurred immediately.  But in many instances, it took at least a month.  In the case of Hurricane Katrina, the dreams stopped one month before.  

The Holémet wrote, 

"I saw Katrina four months before it came, and again several times - and then it stopped a month before it hit.  Is that a normal pattern?   What is normal?  I guess there is no normal."

Then later, she wrote,

"Well, [for] the Rabin one [there was] about two months pause; Katrina about a month; Japan, that melt down recently,  I did not know the location, only that it was in Asia - [for that] about 6 a month pause.  I saw the one in Italy recently with no pause, and told my sister about it.  [I have] many natural disaster ones [dreams] with about a month's pause, occasionally no pause."  

If you reflect, you will realize that the events in Japan, the earthquake, and the meltdown, are far more significant than say, an earthquake in the mid-Pacific, or Italy.  Clouds of radiation have been circling the planet due to the meltdowns at Fukushima. 

Thirdly, it is important to relate that 80% of the Holémet's dreams have come true.  Thus in looking at all this, the element of uncertainty is balanced by the repetition of the dream itself in exactly the same way.  

In the case of what I'll relate below, the Holémet has experienced this dream dozens of times.  Four months ago, they stopped - though in recalling it for me, she said she was shaking badly, it scared her so much.

This is her dream.  I've edited her writing to give it coherency, and remove the spelling errors.  But this is what the Holémet told me.

"These most recent dreams are so vivid and real.  I am not myself, but looking through the eyes of another -  in Jerusalem, an older woman with white on.  I feel the embers burn through the cloth on my arms and hear the screams and sirens, dogs barking.  Everything, just everything [has] the smell of ash and metal and hot air in my mouth.  It was at night during the attack though it was not hot at all outside, chilly, but not cold.

About, I don't know, a 1/2 mile from the Mount, standing in the south archway in front of me, a market to my right, I watched it [the missile] come in from the east going west.  The first one obliterated al-Aqsa, and the Dome [of Omar] literally exploded.  Everything on the top was wiped out.  I do not know what would cause that, but I sensed that they [the structures on the Temple mount] were not the target. The target was a government building, but the [missile] missed.  Anyway the follow up was [that] Iran was invaded by everybody.  The Arab nations were not happy with Iran.

Will it happen? I don't know.  Who has a weapon that can shear a man in half after lifting him off the ground?

But the [Temple] Mount was clean after that.  Well rubble, but clean!  One of the missiles clears everything to the Jaffa Gate with fire right up a road.  I went and looked at a map about a year ago, that clarified what I saw.  People are going to die.  This is a massive missile, not some little rocket.  

The sky above the [Temple] Mount is on fire.

Yes, [I had this dream] several dozen times.  It stopped suddenly about four months ago.  I do not know if something changed in the timeline to stop it, or if it is about to happen, but the war follows it.  I see these dreams as like snippets of time lines that I am given.  I did share it with Bibi [Netanyahu].  I sent it to one of his people.  But the people dying, Jews, Christians, Muslims, all sorts.  I could never have wishful thinking about [them dying], you know?  And then the war that follows it, [it is] just horrible - but Israel survives it.  Persia will fall, and Syria, too.  

Sorry I am shaking thinking about it."

There the narration the the Holémet ends.

I have never had a dream as vivid as that, though I did have a brief dream about nuclear war about 30 years ago.

Please think about what I've just related above.  If this dream stopped coming to the Holémet because something in the timeline caused it to stop, or if we are being given time to "clean up our act" by the Almighty, is not something I can say.  

If this dream is true, that is to say a vision of the future, then I suspect that it is a mere fragment of a whole series of other events that, were the Holémet to experience in dreams or visions, would overwhelm her. She sees these dreams as "snippets of timelines".

I'm guessing, and I have to emphasize that this is merely a guess on my part, that the amount of time between the cessation of the dreams and the event occurring is a message of some kind to the Holémet (and us) as to the ultimate import of the event in question.  In other words, there was a one month cessation before the onset of Hurricane Katrina - and a six month cessation before the onset of the disaster in Japan - I suspect that radiation clouds traveling around the earth are more important than the destruction of the "Big Easy".

There has already been a four month (as of now, July 2012, a five month) cessation from the time that the Holémet had this dream about Jerusalem last - and I suspect that the cleansing of the Temple Mount is of greater import than radiation clouds from the Fukushima disaster.  So, I suspect, and I must emphasize that I am telling you my analysis of all this, and not anything that the Holémet told me, that we have at least two months time before this event occurring - perhaps more, perhaps four months.  This brings us to October on the Christian calendar - and the beginning of the year 5773 on the Rabbinic calendar.

However, I may be wrong.  First, this merely may be a dream, and nothing more.  Second, even if it is a vision of the future, it may occur sooner - or later - than I'm guessing.  

THE HAMMER OF G-D

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Originally Published as a Note on Facebook

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27 May, 2012

Copyright © R. Kossover, 2012

We had the pleasure of being the meal guests today (Sunday, 27 May 2012 - Shavuót) of one of the most brilliant individuals I've ever known, a modest man who would never let me use his name in quoting his own brilliant work on the Calendar of Jubilees.

In introducing a d'var Torah, a commentary on Torah required at holiday meals, his wife told us of a dream her son had a decade ago, a dream that terrified him - and that his mother, like Jacob, our ancestor, has "kept in mind".

I'll describe the dream for you briefly.  In it, he saw two large TV screens.  On the left screen, he saw a blackened city with huge amounts of destruction and fallen buildings.  On the right screen, he saw a hand with a huge hammer splitting a mountain in half - and the two halves moved away from each other.

The next morning, after he said his prayers, the young man went to the rabbi who headed the yeshiva he was attending. The rabbi kind of equivocated, saying this was something for a wiser man to pursue.

Not long after, the students in the yeshiva were taken on a tour of Jerusalem and the areas surrounding it - and when he saw the Mount of Olives, he told his friends, "that's the mountain I saw in my dream."

The young man had never read the Book of Zechariah before - but in the last chapter of that Book, what the young man saw in his dream was described.  

"HASHEM will go out and wage war with those nations, as He waged war on the day of battle.  His feet will stand on that day on the Mount of Olives, which faces Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives will split open at its middle, forming a very wide valley; half the mountain will move to the north, and half to the south." [Zech.14:3-4]

Our hostess' point was that she believed that her son had dreamt of that day - the day that the Hammer of G-d would split the Mount of Olives - and that its approach was very very close.

Ruminations on the Destiny of the People of Israel, Part II

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I. Introduction

Today (10 July 2012) is less than three weeks away from the 9th day of the Rabbinic month Av, tish'á b'av, the fast day of remembrance of the destruction of the Temples of Solomon and of Herod - both of which occurred on this day of disaster.  It is fitting that I return to the subject of the Destiny of the People of Israel, a subject I considered first in early 2007. The original essay on the topic can be read here, and I strongly suggest you do read it before you continue reading what I write below. It lays out, if nothing else, important definitions that allow one to speak with clarity of the Children of Israel, a clarity that avoids confusion. Like my previous essay six years ago, this essay does not deal with "the 'Arab-Israeli crisis,' the 'Middle East crisis' or any other of the cataracts that stand in the way of free flow of thought, ideas, people and commerce in this part of the world. I’m not writing about peace, I’m not writing about war. I’m not writing about making peace or making war. Those issues are not for this article. I’m writing solely about the destiny of my people, עם ישראל, the People of Israel."

II. בני ישראל - The Children of Israel -Their Traces

It is worth noting that the People of Israel world-wide refer to themselves with just this term - "Children of Israel" (b'néi yisraél). The Pakhtun, or Pashtun, also use this term, though it is influenced by the Arabic they have learned along the way, and they call themselves "báni israíl".

The reason this is worth noting is that Jacob, renamed Israel in the Torah [b'reishít/GENESIS 35:10], was blessed with twelve sons given him by four wives [b'reishít/GENESIS 35:23-26]. In addition to the twelve sons, he adopted as sons the sons of Joseph (his favorite son), Ephráim and Menashé [b'reishít/GENESIS 48:5-6]. These then constitute the Tribes of Israel, as these were the patriarchs who produced tribes. The Torah and Jewish tradition do not generally refer to a "Tribe of Joseph", referring instead to the tribes of his two sons. But amongst the Pashtun, we see a large tribe called Yusufzai - the tribe of Joseph. The Pashtun are the descendants of those Israelites driven from the Land by the Assyrians 2,730 years ago. We see their path to their present homes in Central Asia in this video in Hindi featuring Dr. Navras Ja'at Aafreedi. While most of you reading this have only the vaguest notion of Hindi, the maps repeatedly showing the path of the Israelites driven from the Land make the point rather clearly. The reason I raise this issue is that in the Torah, Jacob gives Sh'khem to Joseph as a possession. [b'reishít/GENESIS 48:22]

Is it possible that the tribe the Pashtun call the Yusufzai came from the city of Sh'khem and its environs? That they called themselves by this name, rather than Ephraim or Menashe? This seems, to me at least, a possible explanation for the title appended to such a large tribe. In attempting to trace the tribes of Israel, the only tribe I have heard no mention made of at all of is issakhár. So, out of the twelve tribes we are able to see the lines of at least ten.

At the moment, a powerful Pashtun nationalism is spreading among the Pashtun, something one can see in videos on YouTube. A large stretch of territory has been renamed Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan in recognition of the Pashtun living in the north of the country. A tremendous resentment is brewing against the Taliban, the Americans and all foreigners who, in the eyes of the Pashtun, have brought nothing but death and destruction to Afghanistan and northern Pakistan. One can look at You Tube videos - or read the work of Professor Fazal ur-Rehman Afridi, who is now a journalist writing from Paris.

It appears to Jack Golbert, an Israeli law professor commenting on the near genocidal death faced by the Pashtun in their own land, that

a striking fact about all of the descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel is that they all are in places wracked by war and turmoil. The ground is fairly burning under their feet and they cannot remain where they are, where they have lived for much more than two thousand years. I am impelled to the conclusion that the time has come for their return to the House of Israel, the Torah of Israel and to our national homeland.

File that thought away. We'll come back to it later.

If you tote up the number of Pashtun and add it to the number of Jews in the world, you get a grand total of roughly 45 million souls, most of them Pashtun. Up until recently, that is how many Children of Israel I thought inhabited the planet.

I was wrong.

III. Check That Tote Board Again, Folks!

While communicating with Professor Afridi, I was requested to contact a gentleman named Remy Ilona from Igbo Israel Online, an organization in Nigeria. The name sounded familiar, and with a little research, I found out that the Igbo were already known to me as the Ibo. What I knew about the Igbo was that they were from southeastern Nigeria, many of them had been converted to Christianity by the British, were trained by the British as second level administrators there, and then when the Brits left in 1961, were stuck with the task of running Nigeria without the backup of British guns.

The familiar story happened to them as happens to any minority stuck with trying to rule. The majority - Hausa and Yoruba peoples of Nigeria - attacked the Igbo in pogroms (sounds awful familiar), and the Igbo fled most of the country to their homeland, which was then known as the Eastern Region. They declared independence for the region, naming it Biafra. A look at the map will tell you how successful that revolt was.

One of the first things I discovered from Mr. Ilona was that the white mainstream media never really reported on what was a genocide in Nigeria. The second significant thing I discovered from Mr. Ilona was that the "hopey changy Jesus salvation thing" (the Christianity the British shoved down their throats) wasn't working out for the Igbo - who have begun to return to their Israelite roots in a big way.

That's right. I didn't make a mistake typing. I wrote "Israelite roots".

Apparently for millennia, the Igbo have been keeping Israelite (or if your mind can't stretch that far, Jewish) customs. The big difference is that they have appeared to have lost all of their Hebrew, and, given that they have a four day week, do not have appeared to have kept the Sabbath in any way that a Jew would recognize it.

But when you look at the numbers, you have another 15 to 30 millions, living all over the world, but mostly in Nigeria.  There is an article in Wikipedia dealing with "Igbo Jews". According to this article, there are about 30,000 Igbo practicing Judaism in one form or another.  How accurate the article is per se is not all that important.  Christianity, the faith of the overwhelming number of Igbos, is based on a fellow who showed up about 2,000 years ago in Israel who was allegedly the messianic redeemer.  His claims and authority were rejected by Jews in what was then the Kingdom of Iudaea, a Roman puppet state, and he wound up nailed to a cross - the fate of hundreds of thousands of Jews under the rule of the Roman savages.

The point is that once messianic Redemption does occur, and it appears that it will occur relatively soon, Christianity will have outlived its usefulness.  So will Islam, for that matter.  Those people who are not Children of Israel, will take to obeying the Seven Commandments of Noah.  Those of us who are Children of Israel will be attempting to obey the Torah Moses gave us.  And one of the jobs of the messianic Redeemer will be to figure out just who is and who isn't a Child of Israel.  If we take the most generous estimate of the Igbo population, and assume that they are of one of our Tribes, we need to add another 30 millions to the 30 million Pashtuns and 15 million Jews.  

So now we are at 75 million souls.  And do note that the "Europeans" - the "white folk" among these 75 millions - are not the overwhelming majority at all.

IV. Shade Your Eyes From the Sun!

But there is more.  Here, however, it gets really tricky.

When we look at the Book of Ezekiel, we learn that the Hebrews living in Judea, the high priests especially, had become sun-worshipers [yehezkél/EZEKIEL 8:15-17].  When I spoke with a Pashtun woman about what religion the Pashtuns followed at first, she said that they too, were sun-worshippers.  So, we can come to the reasonable conclusion that our ancestors had departed the worship of the G-d of Israel, and at least some of them had become sun worshippers.

When you watch these You Tube videos - this one, this one and this one, you see the possibilities - though you also see serious errors in the perceptions of those who follow a religion that is based on, among other things, sun-worship - the Japanese.

I thought it worth following up, at least on You Tube, and found a series of seven videos dealing with this precise topic.  It is evident that the material from the videos highlighted in the previous paragraph were pulled from the seven videos linked to in this paragraph.  And, in watching it, I saw fewer distortions in perception.

The series of seven videos talks of 7,000 families, totaling up to about 190,000 people, who came to Japan along the Silk Road - this at a time when the total population of Japan was about 6 million people in all..  It displays similarities between Hebrew script and one of the ancient Japanese scripts, and quite a number of similarities between Hebrew words and Japanese words.  It talks of a "Gion Festival" where an ark, covered in gold, carried on two poles as was the ancient Ark of the Covenant, is hauled about for a month or so, .  claiming that this analogous to a "Zion Festival", supposedly from the days of King Solomon.

But these are not the real issues.  The real issues are "who are the Children of Israel in Japan?" and "how much of this is real?"   This is an issue for far wiser men than I.  What I can say is that if there are a significant number of Children of Israel amongst the Japanese, the image of Children of Israel being "your typical white man" will have been permanently erased.  If there are, say 20 million Children of Israel amongst the Japanese, then our numbers will have been increased to nearly 100 million people - and we will look like a cross-section of the entire world we will be expected to lead.  How this will sit with the types who think we should all look like pale wraiths clothed in black doesn't really bother me a whole lot.  They need their world-views shaken up badly.

V. Conclusion

In concluding this, I'm forced to return to a Biblical adage - "the people will starve for lack of vision".  The Jewish people lack for vision.  We don't lack intelligence or imagination.  If we did, we would not be the leaders of technology or science that we are, nor would we have survived against military enemies far stronger than we are.  We should have been defeated decades ago, suffering, if we were suffered to survive at all, in a backward morass of the Arab world, wounded indignity heaped upon indignity and going backwards on the planet, as our Arab neighbors are.

Why is Zionism Dying - Why Must it Die? Why is This Good for the People of Israel?

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י'ד באייר, התשע''ב

6 May, 2012

Copyright © R. Kossover, 2012

 Published Originally as a Note on Facebook

     I have often asserted that Zionism is a dying movement - that it needs to move out of the way for the next stage of the evolution of the Hebrew People, of the People of Israel - Full Redemption.  Full Redemption involves not merely the "coming of the messiah"; it involves the full re-uniting of the People of Israel, of all of its Tribes, here and in Afghanistan and Pakistan as well.  It involves an immense upheaval; Jews will need to take a hard look at who they are, and what they have asserted over the last century and a half since the development of the "Self Emancipation Movement" that evolved into Zionism in the late 1800's, when Jews in England learned of the term Calvinists had appended to the concept of "return to the Land" that they had discovered, while studying our Tana"kh some 350 years ago.  It is these Calvinist theologians who had invented the word "Zionism".  This fact is rarely mentioned, if mentioned at all by the big shots at the World Zionist Organization.  This fact is not part of the curriculum of Israel high schools.  This is not to say that return to the Land by the Children of Israel - whether you call them b'nei yisraél or báni israíl  (which is what our Pashtun Hebrew brethern call themselves) - is a Calvinist concept.  Only a fool would make that assertion.  This is to emphasize, however, that the name of this movement came from Calvinist theologians.  Let us give credit where credit is due.  In addition, our Pashtun brothers will have to take a very hard look at who they are.  Assumptions they have made for 14 centuries will need to be re-examined.

     Let us also be clear on this point.  Zionism has not been a "wrong" movement.  It has been a necessary movement, and it has been a stunning success.   It has been the vehicle that has brought about a re-assertion of Jewish sovereignty over the Land of Israel; and the blessing of Jacob (Israel) to Judah was that the sceptre would belong in the hand of Judah. The sceptre of rule is in the proper hands now - and it will remain in the proper hands, from now through eternity - unless the G-d of Israel, the Creator of the Universe, decides otherwise.  In addition to being the vehicle of the re-assertion of Jewish sovereignty over this Land, Zionism has been the vehicle for raising the standard of living of all who live here.  The creation of the Zionist Movement, the State of Israel, is the economic engine of the Middle East, and its successor state will be the economic leader of the world, guiding the tiqqún ha'olám (recovery of the planet) that is so terribly necessary, and which will finally begin to occur in the Days of Full Redemption.

     So why must Zionizm die?  And more to the point, why is this good for the People of Israel?

     To begin to comprehend why, we need to look at events that took place 11½ years ago in Northern Samaria, when at Rosh haShana 5761, during the year 2000, the IDF abandoned a school near the Tomb of Joseph south of Sh'khém, yeshivát od yoséf Hai, abandoning also a Druze soldier who died when terrorists attacked it.  The soldier was named Madhat Yussuf.  Rabbi Herling, z"l, hy"d, head of the kollél birkát yoséf, was also killed about then  - from the "Joseph Lookout Point".  

     Rav Yossi Baumol, of Ateret Kohanim, wrote about this in a shi'úr parshát hashavúa, a lesson on the weekly reading of the Torah, parshát vayigásh.  It is reproduced in full below.  However, let it be clear that the copyright belongs to 'Ateret Kohanim.  I have highlighted certain portions of this essay - for they are crucial in understanding why it is that Zionism is dying, and more importantly, why it must die.   

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"Ode Yosef Chai!" by Yossi Baumol

     In this week's Parsha, VaYigash, we read the moving story of there-unification of the Tribes of Israel, the "return" of Yosef to his family.Our Rabbis tell us "The Acts of our Fathers are a Sign for the Sons." The story of Yosef and what Yosef represents has a deepermeaning.

     Is it just a coincidence that the present conflict began with theRosh HaShana attack on Yeshivat Ode "Yosef" Chai at Kever "Yosef", that Madhat "Yusuf" was killed there, that Rabbi Herling the Head of the Kollel Birkat "Yosef" was killed at the "Yosef" Lookout Point?

     In both the writings of Rav Kook and the Vilna Gaon, "Yosef"represents the force of physical redemption. Just as Pessach precedes Shavuot, the future redemption is almost always described in theTanach in two stages - first the physical redemption of the land and the people and afterwards "A new heart and a new spirit" will infuse the people. In older sources these forces are referred to as Mashiach Ben Yosef and Mashiach ben David. This, by the way, is the reason the Sefardic/Chassidic order of "Ushpizin" on Succot puts Yosef immediately preceding David (Hoshana Raba).

     The Midrash indicates that Mashiach ben Yosef will be killed in Milchemet Gog U'magog and then Mashiach Ben David will take over. The Vilna Gaon claimed that this was not inevitable, that Mashiach BenYosef did not have to die, but rather his death might be replaced by a series of painful events and crises. The Gra taught his disciples tosay a special daily prayer for the welfare of Mashiach ben Yosef and also taught them that the suffering of Mashiach Ben Yosef could be mitigated by taking an active part in the physical redemption - in planting, settling, rebuilding Jerusalem, etc.

     The actual movement that took on Mashiach Ben Yosef's work ofphysical redemption is Zionism.  A century before the advent of Zionism, the Vilna Gaon pointed out that "Yosef" and "Zion" have the same Gematria - 156. This served to reveal many aspects of the redemption. For example, his disciples quoted his prediction that manyJews would not grant recognition to the validity of the physical redemption, as it says in the Torah that: "His brothers did not recognize Yosef".

     The argument as to whether Mashaich ben Yosef will die is the symbolic backdrop to the rift between the Chareidim and the Religious Zionists. The Religious Zionists believe that the Zionist movement or at least its political manifestation - the State of Israel - will evolve into the Messianic State. The Chareidim believe that there is no connection between the physical ingathering of Jews to Israel and the Messianic State.

     The truth is, though, that Zionism almost died - we call this phenomenon "Post-Zionism". The events of the recent weeks have pushed the most hard-bitten Post-Zionists into a corner - the rest of the nation seems to be shaking off the shackles of Post-Zionism.

     This is how both the advent of Post Zionism, as well as its demise, was predicted by Rav Kook in "Orot" over 70 years ago: "We have a tradition that a spiritual rebellion against Eretz Yisrael and Yisrael will take place during the initial stage of the nation's rebirth. The material bliss which will come to a part of the nation who think that they have achieved all their goals, will shrink the soul and will bring on a time lacking in motivation. The aspiration to lofty, holy ideals will cease, resulting in the descent and sinking of the spirit. This will be followed by a veritable whirlwind whichwill turn everything upside-down. Only then will it become apparent to all, beyond a doubt, that the source of Israel's strength is the Eternal Holy One, His Light, and His Torah."

     According to the Midrash, the original Yosef was released from prison on Rosh HaShana. This Rosh Hashana , Post Zionism was dealt a fatal blow and the Zionist Movement was dealt a reprieve. The burning of Kever Yosef is one of those painful crises which come in place of the death of Mashiach ben Yosef.

     "Yosef" still has a crucial role to play. Our Rabbis tell us that the passage: "And the House of Joseph will be a fire, and the house of Esau will be straw" means that the Guardian Angel of Esau can bedefeated only by Yosef. This too is the meaning of Yosef's blessing in Parshat "Zot HaBracha": "Bechor Shoro Hadar Lo, v'karnei re'em karnav bahem amim yenagach." - The symbol of Yosef - a bull - will gore the nations.  Let us take courage from the fact that Ode Yosef Chai - Am Yisrael Chai. May the painful passage from "Yosef" to"David" bring us a minimum of suffering and may we merit the re-uniting of "Etz Yosef V'Etz Yehuda.

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     It's worth taking a careful look at the highlighted portions.  The first highlighted paragraph explains the concept of messianism as it developed in the Jewish faith.  We have not one messiah, but two.  One brings about a physical redemption - people coming home, settling farms, cities, factories, etc.  The second brings about a spiritual redemption - another way of saying a change in human nature.  

     The next two paragraphs explain what Zionism really is - the "messiah, son of Joseph", the first messiah, the messiah of physical redemption.   During the decade of the 1990's those Israeli traitors who viewed Zionism as evil, the black hats of history, ruled here, pushing materialism and a false solution of "two states for two peoples", where  the heartland of the country, Judea and Samaria, would be torn out and handed to a terrorist régime, all with the backing and blessing of the United States of America and the European Union. These were the "Post-Zionists" referred to in Rav Baumol's essay.  We continue to see their evil influence today in groups like "Peace Now", "Yesh G'vul", ICAHD and other traitorous groups of Israelis who are supposed to take the fall when the government does evil in the Eyes of G-d, by destroying the Jewish settlement effort in the land.

     Were it not for the fact that the terrorists who hate us in this land always bring us back to their own hatred of us with their thirst for our blood, with murders, stabbings, and a bombardment of missiles, we should have handed over all sorts of strategic territory to an enemy that our régime - the Zionist Régime - erected in the first place.  But we cannot turn our eyes from the fact that it is the Zionist Régime doing evil.  THEY erected the Palestinian Authority; THEY evacuated South Lebanon in 2000; THEY refused to clamp down with an iron fist on Arafat's Initifada; THEY allowed the rape of the Church of the Sepulchre; THEY ruined the lives of 10,000 law-biding Israelis with the expulsion and destruction of Gush Qatif in 2005.  THEIR High Court of Injustice continues on this path of evil, and THEIR security and police enforce the evil deeds of this High Court of Injustice.  


     And it is WE who have had to face the consequences of their evil; over 1,500 Israelis killed in terror attacks, a war in the north in 2006, a war in Gaza in 2008, the continuing bombardment of our towns by the terrorists in Gaza, and now the sending of additional troops to the border.  WE face 200,000 enemy missiles that can destroy this nation due to the evil of the Zionist Régime.

     In the fraying moral fabric of this nation, WE see the predictions of Rav Kook, z"l, in his work, "Orot".  Let me repeat what Rav Baumol wrote above to drive the point home.    

     "We have a tradition that a spiritual rebellion against Eretz Yisrael and Yisrael will take place during the initial stage of the nation's rebirth. The material bliss which will come to a part of the nation who think that they have achieved all their goals, will shrink the soul and will bring on a time lacking in motivation. The aspiration to lofty, holy ideals will cease, resulting in the descent and sinking of the spirit. This will be followed by a veritable whirlwind whichwill turn everything upside-down. Only then will it become apparent to all, beyond a doubt, that the source of Israel's strength is the Eternal Holy One, His Light, and His Torah."

     While Rav Kook was not a prophet himself, in 1930, he quoted a tradition which foresaw the future with scary accuracy.

     Zionism has to die because it is involved with physicality - with what our sages call gashmiút - materialism.  Take a trip to Tel Aviv or turn on Israeli TV and you will get the point very very quickly.  Chasing money, status, sex and entertainment does not bring you any sense of spirituality at all.  Violating the Sabbath and advertising oneself for sex does not change your nature at all; and Redemption will be a change in human nature.  But in the Zionist State, gashmiút  - materialism - is what it's all about; it's all cool.  So, the gashmiút, the materialism of the Zionist State, only brings down the Jew spiritually, and brings him further from and not closer to Redemption.

     But there is more.

     Ezekiel, in Chapter 37 of the his Book in the Tana"kh presents two distinct visions.  The first vision is the vision of the bones brought to life.  This is the vision made famous in the Negro spiritual singing about how "the thighbone connected to the kneebone, the kneebone connected to..." etc.  One can see in this the Holocaust of the Nazis, and the rebirth of the Jewish entity in our Land with soldiers who had been concentration camp inmates only 3 years earlier, fighting in the National Military Organization, the haganá territorial defense force of the kibbutzím, the  plugát maHátz, the night fighters and shock troops trained by the late and blessed Orde Wingate, the Fighters' Organization of Yaír Stern, and later the successor to all of these, the Israel Defense Force - in short, an abbreviated view of Zionism and the rise of the State.  The second vision in this chapter of the Book of Ezekiel, which is yet to occur, and which is just beginning to occur now, is the vision of the stick (tree) with the name "Ephraim" written on it; and the stick (tree) with the name "Judah" written on it - and that G-d has Ezekiel bring the two sticks together to create ONE stick - with ISRAEL written on it.  This vision is the vision of the reunification of the all the Tribes under one king and one law.

     The trouble with being a believer is that you have to believe.  And I believe in the Prophecies of the Tana"kh.  This vision is the future.  There are many more Children of Israel than the 15 million Jews who inhabit the planet.  There are the 30 million Pashtuns as well.  To hold them all, the future Kingdom of Israel will have to much bigger than the territory stretching from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River.  And it will be.   

     And it is for this reason that all these assertions that "I'm a Zionist and proud of it" are ultimately self-defeating.  Jews have to look at who they are, and take a very hard look.  We are the descendants of the Southern Tribes of Israel.  Zionism is a club only Jews can join as full participants.  The Zionist State cannot fathom the idea that while all Jews are Hebrews, not all Hebrews are Jews.  And saying, "I'm a Zionist and proud of it" means leaving out our Pashtun brethren - who never were Jews - even when they were the northern Tribes of this nation almost 3 millennia ago - and never will be Jews.   But we are ALL Hebrews - ALL sons of ISRAEL - and ultimately this entire land - and more - will belong to the sons and daughters of  ISRAEL.  

     Will our Pashtun brethren remain Muslims?  I do not think so.  They are the Children of Joseph, and ultimately, they will return home.  They will return home first to the Pakhtunwalí, and then to the Torah.  And they will return home to fight the sons of Eisav - the Americans and the Europeans.  They, the Children of Joseph, have already gored the British, the Russians and the Americans in the land they now call home.  The bull of Yosef has already gored Eisav.  He will continue to gore Eisav.  The questions are -  "Will Judah recognize Joseph as his brother?" and "Will Joseph recognize Judah as his brother?"  I believe the answers to both questions are "yes".  Whether this happens before or after the messiah arrives is not for me to say.  But Zionism will have to die for this to happen.  And all the sons and daughters of Israel will need to look hard and long at each other with eyes of understanding to bring about the true unity of our nation.

The Bubbie of Ma’ale Levona and her Brownies

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י'ב באייר התשע''ב

4 May, 2012

Copyright © R. Kossover, 2012

 Published originally as a Note on Facebook

            Ma’ale Levona is a small village at the summit of Levona in Samaria off of Highway 60, a few kilometers west of Sinjel and Jiljiliya.

            When the Ernst family moved to Ma’ale Levona in August 2000, they didn’t realize what they were getting into.  They didn’t understand terms like "Green Line", Kav Tefer (the "Seam Line") or the nature of how Jews and non-Jews got along – or rather didn’t get along – with each other.  Truth is, Jews and non-Jews deemed to get along rather well - until the First Intifada over 20 years ago.  That's how it seems to veterans living here in the village.  

    I guess I forgot to mention.  We also live in Ma'ale Levona.  But we haven't lived here for 20 years or so.

            A day or two before Rosh Hashanah that year, Ariel Sharon took his “stroll” on the Temple Mount, an event used by the PA to spark off rock throwing incidents, shootings and bombings, - all of which became known as the Second Intifada.  On Rosh Hashanah, the village rabbi, Ya’ir Shahor, appeared on the bima in the synagogue in full uniform, complete with gun, to conduct prayers.  Our neighbor, who was not yet the Bubbie of Ma’ale Levona, was in total and absolute shock.

            A few days later, several squads of regular army soldiers appeared in the village – doing nightly patrol, sitting at the gate guarding, and surveying the neighboring non-Jewish villages, like Sharkiya al-Luban, and patrol roads that surround the village.  This was when Aviva Ernst called her baking skills into play, baking pan after pan of brownies for the soldiers, usually 8 or 9 pans daily and more on Fridays, for one is forbidden to bake on the Sabbath.

            According to Aviva, this went on for months and months, as Ma’ale Levona is in the midst of Gush Shilo, where many shootings and rock throwing incidents took place during the height of the Second Intifada.  Many residents were injured, some severely, from these incidents.  Her husband, Yitzhak, would go into Jerusalem and buy SOG brand multi-tools and pairs of army socks, which he would give as gifts to soldiers guarding the village.  He bought so many of these multi-tools that he eventually became known in Jerusalem as “Saba Sog”, - or “Grandpa SOG”.  Aviva, the baker of brownies, gradually became known as the Bubbie, the grandma, of Ma’ale Levona.  Doing guard duty became a pleasure because Aviva makes good brownies; she saw to it that those sitting in the guard’s shack on the road into the village were always supplied.  And thank G-d, there were no infiltrations of the village, which is hard to get into, the way it is located on the Summit of Levona. 

            Eventually, the Intifada subsided and bit by bit, the soldiers have been withdrawn, and Aviva’s brownies became gifts to neighbors, and Yitzhak’s multi-tools and army socks, gifts to new soldiers like my son.  But her brownies are still delicious, and now the Bubbie of Ma’ale Levona makes baby- blanket after baby-blanket for the many Jewish babies born around here and all over the world.  In fact, just yesterday, Saba Sog sent a couple off to London.  As for me, I'm waiting to be a grandpa myself one day - then the Bubbie of Ma'ale Levona can make a baby blanket for our grandkid...

The Possible Road to Peace in the Middle East

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Copyright © R. Kossover, 2010, 2012

Folks had bonfires on their minds in the middle of the month of Iyyar, 5770 (late April, 2010) on a warm night in Jerusalem.  Minds were on the approaching holiday of La”g b’Omer as the room filled up.  The late Dr. Asher Eder introduced the evening as the master of ceremonies.  His opening remards were to serve to introduce Lowell Gallin’s new book, Cracking the Qur'an Code: God’s Land, Torah and People Covenants with Israel in the Qur’an and Islamic Tradition.

In much the same fashion that the short story, The Sentinel, was the seminal work for the novel, 2001, this essay by Dr. Asher Eder, Peace is Possible Between Ishmael and Israel According to the Qur'an and the Tanakh, has been the seminal work that has helped bring forth Lowell Gallin's groundbreaking book, Cracking the Qur'an Code: God’s Land, Torah and People Covenants with Israel in the Qur’an and Islamic Tradition.

In his remarks, Dr. Eder pointed out how the Qur’an is deliberately misinterpreted to create conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims and read greetings from Sheikh Professor Abdulhadi Palazzi.  Then the author, Lowell Gallin, then began his lecture.  He described how a former Deputy-Attorney General of Israel, Nahum Rakover, introduced him to Sheikh Professor Palazzi, who has turned out to be the man whose appearance was foretold by Dr. Eder 40 years ago – a Muslim scholar who would arise who would state in plain Arabic and English that the “emperor had no clothes”; that Jew-hatred, Israel-hatred, holocaust denial and anti-Zionism was a lot of garbage.  And then he launched into his subject.

I managed to get an interview with Lowell Gallin, and the topics covered on that hot evening in April in that lecture are revealed to you in that interview which follows immediately below.

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What inspired this book?

There was no such book and I thought there should be such a book. The book is composed of essays - but the "reactor core" of the book are the Sacred Verses which are divided into five sections:

1. God's Land Covenant with Israel,
2. God's Torah Covenant with Israel,
3. God's People Covenant with Israel,
4. The Eternal Capital of the Israelite Kingdom of David and Solomon, and
5. The Tabernacle - references to the First, Second and Third Temples (Jerusalem is not mentioned in the Qur'an by name - it is not mentioned in the Torah by name, either).

Why should a Muslim be interested in a Jew explaining his book to him? Doesn't that seem arrogant?

The book is written in honor of and based on the teachings of Dr. Asher Eder of Jerusalem, and Sheikh Professor Abdulhadi Palazzi of Rome, Italy. I acted as a scribe or recording secretary to put their teachings in book form. Sheikh Palazzi recommended that we use the English translation of and commentary of the Qur'an by Professor Abdullah Yusuf Ali - his English translation and commentary on the Qur'an is the one most respected by Muslims world wide. Note that the 3rd Edition of Prof. Ali's Commentary was published in Lahore, India, in 1938. It is critical to use a modern version of this work that is absolutely faithful to this 1938 3rd Edition, not one corrupted by "Saudi" or Wahhabi publishing houses. The two "kosher" publishing houses today of this work [Ali, Abdullah Yusuf. The Holy Qur’an: Text, Translation and Commentary] are Goodword Books, New Delhi, India, (e-mail: info@goodwordbooks.com) and Tahrike Tarsile Qur’an, Inc. Elmhurst, New York, (e-mail: read@koranusa.org).

Why and how does one make this claim? What do you mean by "kosher" editions?

A. In the original commentary Prof. Ali used the word "God" whereas the "improved" Wahhabi versions use "Allah" - the "improvers," the Wahhabi, believe that Allah cannot be translated. This is just a way to identify the tampered translation.

B. In the original commentary, Prof. Ali had many positive comments about other religions, Hindus, Zoroastrians, as well as Jews and Christians. The "improved versions" remove all of these.

You say you merely are a scribe or recording secretary. Sheikh Palazzi has had a website where his own teachings are made very clear. Why this book, then?

This is the first book to give all qur'anic references to the five subjects I mentioned above. Professor Ali gives the majority opinions, and where applicable, he mentions minority commentators as well. You get from Professor Ali a "sense of the Muslim consensus". The book has a section on the work of Salah Choudhoury, a Bangladeshi journalist who is a Muslim Zionist, and a section on pro-Israel ethnic Turkic (Sunni Muslim majority) nations. It should be noted here that the Muslim world is not all anti-Israel, nor is it necessarily united in its politics, and we non-Muslims do not really comprehend it very well.

Somehow there is a disconnect here. Why is it that so many régimes, particularly Turkey, are so hostile to Jews and Israel if Muslims supposedly are not?

Muslims where? Albanian, Azerbaijani, and the Central Asian Turkic republics have strong diplomatic, economic and military relations with Israel. What about everybody else? The North African nations are not really Arabs. Ethnically, they are not Arabs at all. What about the Pakistani, the millions of Muslims in India? What about the Malaysians, the Indonesians, the rebels in the Philipines? What about the Arab nations and the Muslim "diaspora" in Europe and elsewhere? What function does the Jew-hatred, anti-Israel sentiment, and holocaust denial serve in these countries? It's really very simple.

The autocratic régimes, if you want to even call them that, can deflect the rage of their own people at the inablility of these régimes to provide anything. These societies are nightmares, they are living hell on earth. Their leaders say to themselves, "You cannot blame yourself, you cannot blame your elders, you cannot blame G-d." Some blame the Jews for the poverty. That's how these régimes survive. That's how the so-called "Palestinian" society survives. Their basic attitude is "someone else is always responsible for our mess".

Who funds all this? "Saudi" Arabia, Quwait, and the Gulf States are funding this world-wide. This is the "public" face of "Islam." What you are really seeing is the public face of Wahhabism pretending to be Islam.

What is Wahhabism? Why is it so bad?

Wahhabism is the tribal religious cult of the al-Saud tribe of Nejd in Arabia. Wahhabis believe that all NON-WAHHABIS are not really Muslims. ONLY Wahhabis are true Muslims. Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims, in Wahhabi eyes, are NOT Muslims. All non-Muslims are fair game for murder, rape, theft, and torture. They make videos of the "fair game." Like fourteen year old school girls, or Daniel Pearl who was beheaded. Al-Qaeda, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and the Taliban are all Wahhabi in theology and are funded from "Saudi" Arabia. Their oil money funds all these terror activities and wars.

The Wahhabi call themselves Salafi. Too many call them "jihadists", or "Islamo-fascists" or "Islamic fundamentalists." These names mean nothing and only mislead and cover up the true evil - the true people who are carrying on and inciting war between the Children of Abraham.

Thank you very much.

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In the end, this book, though written in English, is for Muslims to read.  They are the ones who study the Qur’an.  It is their holy book, and the bottom line, the argument of this book, is that the Qur’an guarantees the right of the Children of Israel to control all of the Land of Israel.  Having contributed to this book myself, I cannot write a review on it.  But the acid test is not how I, a Jew, might view this book, but how a Muslim might.  And Professor Fazal ur-Rehman Afridi, a Muslim from Pakistan, has written a review of this work at his site, The Balkanization of Pakistan.

The late Dr. Eder made a point about Islam about how Muslims view efforts at success.  According to Dr. Eder, who once considered converting to Islam, Muslims believe that they have an obligation to try three times with their best and strongest efforts to accomplish something.  Only after they have tried three times with their best efforts, and have failed, will they say that Allah meant for that endeavor not to succeed.  Then he explained how the Muslims attempted to conquer Europe twice – once in 782, when they were stopped by Charles Martel, and the second time in the late 1600’s when they were stopped by the Swedes.  The third attempt is taking place now.  If this book can help stop this effort, so much the better.  But that is not the main reason this book has been written.  The real intent of the book is to bring peace between the Children of Ismail, and the Children of Israel.

Publication of this at sites where Muslims read means that hundreds of millions of Muslims could be exposed to this article, and possibly be influenced to buy this book (from Lulu.com) and to come to view the Qur’an in a light that can bring peace to my war-torn region of the world, as well as possibly to their own.  At present, this region is on the edge of war, yet another war, one that will be brought about by evil men whose “messianic” vision will bring yet more death and destruction to this region. 

Apparently, the millions dead in the war between Iraq and Iran in the 1980’s were not enough; the thousands dead in the fighting in Yemen have not been enough.  The thousands dead in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq are not enough.  The millions wounded and crippled for life are not enough.  The homeless in refugee camps of the desperate throughout the Middle East are not enough.  It seems that to the Wahhabi terrorists across South Asia and the Middle East, and to the Shi’a madmen in Iran, more death, more injured, and more refugees are what the doctor ordered.

Speaking as a Jew and as an Israeli, I tell you that if this nation is attacked, and it may well be attacked, this nation will deal out death to its enemies. Our eyes will hold no pity, and there will be more dead, more wounded, more refugees whose lives have been ruined by the destruction of their homes, and possibly even worse destruction, destruction I would rather not name.

But a lot of this can be changed by a change of heart.  And Cracking the Qur’an Code provides an avenue for that change of heart.

So, I am appealing to my Muslim cousins reading this to take the effort to read Cracking the Qur’an Code to understand that yet one more time, the hand of peace is being offered; not the greasy palm of the bought off politician, but the dry hand of a man of peace who does not want to see his children forced to become men of war.  Time grows short, and opportunities to avert terrible evil grow fewer and fewer.  But a change of heart may enable wounded souls and hearts to heal and bring peace, that we might all sit, each one of us, under our own fig tree without fear and look towards tomorrow – a tomorrow of hope and prosperity.

Cracking the Qur'an Code: God's Land, Torah and People Covenants with Israel in the Qur'an and Islamic Tradition (Jerusalem: Root and Branch Association, Ltd., Print and E-Book Editions. Copyright © Lowell Gallin, 2009). On sale now at Lulu.com. Bulk order discounts and worldwide shipping are both available.