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.

LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE PAST 2012: Peeking beyond Zionism and its malcontents

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Originally published as a Note on Facebook, 14 February, 2012

Copyright © R. Kossover, 2012

The headlines seem to get scarier and scarier daily, with warships and air forces doing military exercises and nations threatening war.  Looking at these events, they only portend evil.  With over 200,000 missiles aimed at Israel; and her enemies arming to become stronger daily, I suspect that war in the not too distant future is inevitable, a view shared by many of my fellow Israelis.   I happen to believe that that the rabbinic year 5773 (which begins on 17 September, 2012) may well see the beginning of a war that will engulf the world. But I am not so arrogant as to call it prophecy. I have been wrong too many times, and to stick my head out like this and name a date tempts the fates, as they say.  Nevertheless, I will.

Those of you who want to understand where one looks for prophetic signs should watch the following You Tube video.  This video deals with “tetrads” or groups of four lunar eclipses.  Usually when they occur, one occurs in the spring and one in the autumn of two successive years.  Obviously, the two men talking of this in the video are Christians and put a Christian spin on this.  This Christian spin should be ignored.  But the data should not. 

What makes these particular tetrads so special is that they occur on the first day of two major feast days on the rabbinic calendar, Sukkot and Pessah.  This rarely happens.  In 5709-5710 (1949-50 on the Christian calendar), there was such a tetrad, and in 5727-5728, (1967-68 on the Christian calendar), there was also such a tetrad - the next one is for 5774-5775 (2014-15 on the Christian calendar).  Sukkot and Pessah are holidays that deal with the Divine Redemption of Israel.  Events occurring in 5708-09, and 5727, respectively, were major events dealing with the re-establishment of  Jewish (and eventually Hebrew) rule over Israel.  Based on past events, in my opinion, the events that are likely to occur in 5773 or 5774 will bring about a major furtherance in the establishment of OUR rule here in Israel and a shift in the way non-Hebrews view us.  I expect war to break out in a major way one year before this upcoming tetrad occurs - exactly as happened with the re-establishment of a Jewish entity in the Land of Israel.

There is more here about the likelihood of war in 5773 and 5774.  According to the people in this You Tube video, some of whom I know personally, "the big band comes on stage in 2012. The big events occur in 2013, possibly extending into 2014." (an approximate quote). This video deals with the Torah Code, known to some as the Bible Code, developed about 25 years ago by Drs. Eliyahu Rips and Doron Witztum, mathematicians from Israel. It doesn’t matter to me whether you believe this or not.  The point is that I believe this, and I base my view of the future on it.

In looking at future events beyond the near term of the next five or six years, I go by the Talmudic sages who predict that "ben David" (the messiah) will have arrived and COMPLETED HIS WORK by the year 5790 (2030 on the Christian calendar). What does this mean?  Amongst other things:

            a. Either a Temple will have been built or will be under construction on the Temple Mount. Implication: the major earthquake in Jerusalem and other events in the last two chapters of the Book of Zechariah and chapters 38 & 39 of Ezekiel (all read during Sukkot, by the way) will also have occurred. This means war on a major scale.

            b. Religions (including Judaism) will begin to undergo major changes, as G-d judges Mankind, and makes His Presence manifest. Implication: our Hebrew brothers, the Pashtuns, will begin the return home - both leaving Afghanistan-Pakistan, and Islam. Second implication: our "Palestinian" brothers will also begin to return home to Judaism, and the difficult healing process will begin in Israel.

           c. Water, which many predict will be a major cause of war in the near future, will become a primary issue in what we call "tiqqún 'olám" the repair of the earth, and instead of fighting, the world will turn to Israel, which is already emerging as a technological leader on the planet, for solutions.  The world is already dependent in great degree on Israeli technology, though in many cases, that technology has been bought up by foreigners.

This is why we need to look BEYOND Zionism, which gathered in many of the Jewish exiles, to Redemption, and to work towards the in-gathering and reunification of ALL of our brother Jews and Hebrews, world-wide, including the Pashtuns who live in Afghanistan and Pakistan and suffer a terrible war there, and including the so-called “Palestinians”, many of whose ancestors were forced to convert from Judaism to Islam, because of the Muslim occupation of our country.  Zionism was a stunning success in what it sought to do.  But having succeeded, inheritors of the Zionist Movement, the leaders of the State of Israel, have lost their vision.  We, THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL, must take the next steps in the development of our Destiny.  We will be led, either gently or rudely, by the Almighty.  Our human “leaders”, such as they are, will either follow their foreign paymasters in the States and Europe (into exile) -- or they will follow US, THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL – or they will be forced out of power by circumstances beyond their control and beyond my present vision and understanding.

THE WOLF OF DEBT WILL KILL THE PALESTINIAN STATE IN ITS INFANCY

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Copyright © R. Kossover, 2011

Running a country is a lot like running a household.  We earn our money and we pay our bills.  If we don’t earn money, and don’t pay our bills, we find ourselves in a heap of trouble.  That trouble usually comes in the form of a wolf, the Wolf of Debt.

Lots of people dance and sing about how “debt is not a problem” or how “debt is meaningless”.  These people are known as “financial leaders” and politicians. Both of these fine groups of people earn their money by spending ours.  When we overspend, or can’t make a living (or both), and the Wolf of Debt comes howling at our doors, the “financial leaders” and the politicians are nowhere to be seen.  They are not there to help us because they have already finished spending our money telling their lies, and don’t care about us.  And we’re broke and in an awful lot of trouble.  Tough luck!  Thems the breaks!

If their lies were that simple, most of us would have wised up to them a long, long time ago.  Most of us are not idiots.  Their lies are not that simple.  In America they come in the form of catchy phrases like “a thousand points of light”, “no child left behind”, and the latest disappointments, “hope and change” and “shovel-ready”.  They also come in the form of government accountants lying through their teeth and distorting numbers so that what applies to the average businessman and taxpayer does not apply to the government. 

But these guys are good.  Give them credit where credit is due.  Not only do they have the majority of the population scared, they have set up a controlled opposition, called “Occupy Wall Street”.  But no matter how much the neo-hippies of “Occupy Wall Street” take hits from the bong pipe, no matter how much they “occupy” and defecate on, no matter how much they waste the media’s time distracting everyone, the Wolf of Debt howls at more and more doors in America.  I know, because I have family who have been evicted from their homes. 

Here in the Middle East, these lies come in the form of mirages: “UN recognition”, “Social Security Resolutions”, all backing up that catchy phrase, “two states for two peoples”.  These all deal with an infant whom the Wolf of Debt will kill in its infancy, the “Palestinian State”, itself a mirage of lies. 

It is when we look at why will this happen that we begin to understand how the Wolf of Debt will kill other economies as well – we’re all interrelated, whether we like it or not.  <

The Background of Blood and Murder

First, a brief word or two about the Palestine Liberation Organization and its origins.

The man who founded it, Yassir Arafat, was trained by his uncle, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin el-Husseini.  El-Husseini was known for his hatred of Jews, and amongst his acts of shame was the massacre of Jews in Hebron in 1929, and running off to aid Hitler in 1939, attempting a coup d’état in Iraq, and when this failed, training a division of Muslim Bosnians in Europe to fight the Allies, but most importantly, to kill Jews.  In addition, it was this el-Husseini who persuaded Hitler to turn Auschwitz into a death camp for Jews and not to ship them off to Mandate Palestine to be killed later when the Nazis conquered the country.

His chief assistant, Mahmoud Abbas, was born in Tz’fat (Safed).  Arafat was the older of the two and born in Cairo, Egypt six years earlier, in October, 1929.   In addition to being trained by his uncle in the ways of fighting and killing Jews, Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas were both educated and trained by the then Soviet Union during the Cold War.  Arafat and Abbas started the el-Fatah organization in 1959.  They were essentially proxy KGB agents. Abbas’ supervising professor was KGB officer, Yevgeny Primakov.

Arafat’s uncle was busy helping Hitler kill Jews between 1939 and 1945; Abbas’ thesis for his doctorate was called, The Connection between the Nazis and the Leaders of the Zionist Movement 1933 - 1945, completed in 1982.  In 1984 it was published as a book in Arabic called The Other Side: the Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism (Arabic: al-Wajh al-Akhar: al-'Alaqat as-Sirriya bayna an-Naziya wa's-Sihyuniya).

In the doctoral thesis and book, Abbas describes the Nazi Holocaust as "the Zionist fantasy, the fantastic lie that six million Jews were killed."  So the murderer of Jews and the denier that the murder even took place worked together, a pair of deadly comedians who dealt out death while the Jew-haters of the world applauded and cheered.

El-Fatah, the terrorist organization of Arafat and his sidekick, Abbas, eventually set up an umbrella organization to include other terrorist organizations whose chief business it was to kill Jews.  This was the Palestine Liberation Organization, the infamous PLO.

Now, let’s look at the past 17 years since a “Palestinian Authority” was created by the “Oslo Accords” in 1994.  The native leadership that had arisen during the first intifada (rebellion) against Israel (1988-1992) was swept aside and the two outsiders, Arafat and Abbas were brought in from their exiles in Tunisia, along with a host of thugs and killers from the PLO, the Palestine Liberation Organization.  Having been massacred in Jordan in 1970 and driven out of Lebanon in 1982, these thugs and killers basked in the sunlight of their newfound freedom – and proceeded to start to antagonize the native leaders.  In the meantime, money came pouring to help the new “Arab” entity, the entity set up by the Oslo Accords, the “Palestinian Authority”, and a host of exiles returned here with the hope of building businesses in a soon-to-be-free country.

That’s not quite what happened.


Arafat taxed the new returnees in every way possible, erected a bureaucracy to make sure his friends from Tunisia would have jobs and easy money and stole every dime he could, no matter where it came from, stashing it away in foreign banks.  The American administration and European governments, sluiced through and through with hatred of “the evil occupiers”, the Israelis, closed a blind eye and did not look – or care.


By the time the murderer, terrorist and paedophile, Arafat, died of AIDS a decade later, his widow, Suha, was sitting on a stash of some $5 billion in Europe, while the Palestinian Authority could barely pay its bills.  Long before any fools from of this bankrupt government came to the UN seeking formal admittance, the Wolf of Debt was already howling at the doors of the “Arabs”.


In 2006, in the first elections since 1994, the “Palestinian Arabs” threw out the PLO and made Hamas the majority party in their Legislative Council, the so-called parliament of the “Palestinian Authority”. 


Before going further, we need to talk a bit about Hamas. 


Who are they?  What are they about?  Where did they come from? 


In the 1970’s and 1980’s, the Israelis, looking for a way to weaken the popularity of the Palestine Liberation Organization, worked with a man named Yassin to build a Muslim political party amongst the Arabs in Gaza and Judea and Samaria.  Israeli intelligence was warned not to follow this policy.  They were warned that they would deeply regret this in 20 or 30 years; but they didn’t want to listen and went ahead anyway.  Hamas set up social service networks for Gazans and residents of Judea and Samaria who were poor. They mixed with the aid constant preaching of the Wahhabi version of the Qur’an, taken from the ikhwan muslimun, the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt.  So, an entire generation of “Arabs” were raised on the idea of murdering Jews, even as they drank milk as children.


Hamas was seen as honest, when compared to the PLO, which stole money at every opportunity it got, and thus it was that the PLO was removed from power in 2006.


But the PLO was not willing to give up power, and backed by the Israeli politicians who had cut deals with it to make money, and by the United States, which controlled the PLO, “the empire struck back”, and after much bloodshed, the PLO now controls the “Arab” areas of Judea and Samaria, while Hamas runs a de-facto state in Gaza.

The Nasty Secret Behind the Background of Blood and Murder

There is a nasty secret behind all of this.  What makes these things really interesting is when we look at the DNA of the “Palestinian Arabs” and compare it to the DNA of Jews.  It turns out that the two DNA’s are nearly identical, and are very, very close. 


It turns out that when David ben-Gurion and Yitzhaq ben Tzvi, founders of many of the institutions that built Israel, first got here over a century ago, “Arabs” came to them saying they had Jewish blood in them.   Ben Gurion noted this in his diaries, but did not follow up on what he had been told.  But over 90 years later, an Israeli, Tsvi Misinai, who had made a fortune of money in the high tech business, did follow up on what the “Arabs” had told ben-Gurion.


His findings were as follows.  The majority of “Arabs” who live within Israel were once Jews. A smaller minority of them had been Samaritans.  Over time, they converted to Islam, largely under pressure from the rulers or under the lash of the jizya, the protection racket Muslims work on dhimmis (non-Muslims who believe in G-d) who live in Muslim domains.  And these so-called Arabs were known as must’arbin, a term for a Jew hiding as an Arab.


Let’s put this just a little differently.  The so-called “Palestinians” who want to deny there was ever a Hebrew state in the Land of Israel – were once Jews themselves!!  What a scam!!  One individual who comes to mind is a big shot in the “Palestinian Authority”, Saeb Erakat. According to his cousins, the Erakat family was once Jewish. Misinai, who runs something called the Engagement Movement, is trying to spread this news and awareness among our “Palestinian” neighbors, as well as among fellow Israelis.


Arabs, especially the sick heretics of the Wahhabi, who truly hate Jews, laugh up their sleeves while the “Jews hiding as Arabs” murder off the Jews who have remained loyal to the Covenant of Abraham.  Now we see why the Palestinian Authority is no more than a tissue of lies that only brings death and tears to the Children of Israel – the ones living in Ramallah and Jericho, as well as the ones who live in Ramat Gan and Jerusalem!

Lookin’ at the Money with Green Eyeshades

But being Jews, the guys who pay attention to the money, let’s see why the Wolf of Debt will kill off the “Palestinian State” in its infancy. 

The answer is not money; rather, it is the lack of money.

So, let’s have a look at some numbers, already.  According to the International Monetary Fund otherwise known as the IMF, we get these. 

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) a combination of all the purchasing, selling and buying in an entity or jurisdiction:

Israel: between $217-219 billion:

Purchasing power: $219 billion.

“Palestinian Authority” (PA) - Gaza and Judea and Samaria (the West Bank in the IMF report) combined: $1.87 billion

Please note that out of this money approximately $1.1 billion has been contributed to the PA in the past from Europe, America and Arab countries.  This means that the real GDP of the PA is, the real combination of purchasing, selling and buying is $1.87 billion MINUS $1.1 billion or – $.77 billion, which is  $770 million dollars!

Purchasing Power (according to the IMF report): $12.79 billion.

We’ll get back to these figures later.

Population:

Gaza and Judea and Samaria (West Bank in the IMF report):…. 4 million

Israel (behind the Green Line)……………………………….. 7.1 million

Labor Force:

Gaza and Judea and Samaria (West Bank in the IMF report):….694,000 - 17.35%

Israel …………………3.1 million - 44.7%

Unemployment:

Judea and Samaria (West Bank in the IMF report):16%   

Gaza: 33%

These figures are from the year 2009.

Israel: 5.87-6.7%

GDP less debt:

According to the latest IMF report obtainable, Israel is now ranked 29^th out of 196 countries.  This has changed to 24^th out of 196 countries.

Currency used:

Israel: New Israeli Shekel

Judea and Samaria (West Bank in the IMF report): New Israeli Shekel, Jordanian Dinar and US Dollar

Gaza: New Israeli Shekel, Egyptian Pound, and US Dollar

Let’s look at these numbers for just a minute: first at the GDP for the PA against its purchasing power.  If you look, you will see that there is a gap of over $11 billion between the GDP and the purchasing power.  What is that gap and why is it there?  That gap is what happens when crooks cook the books, which is what you see in the IMF report – crooks cooking the books so they can lie through their teeth, with Abbas as the chief chef!!  The purchasing power of a country should be its GDP!  The purchasing power of the PA is $770 million!

So, even these numbers from a bunch of big shots like the IMF can’t be relied on.  Their $2,000 suits try to hide nasty truths, like the rosy report they issued on the Islamic Republic of  Iran earlier this year which ignored the rampant prostitution and drug use in the country altogether.

With a GDP of $770 million, the new “Palestinian State” will not be able to afford to pay its bills.  This simple statement explains why the employees of the PA don’t get paid for some months – can you imagine any government worker in the States working for no pay at all?  I can’t!  This simple statement also explains why the PA is also constantly hustling for aid money from the Americans, the Europeans and any other sucker willing to toss money into the black hole of Ramallah!  As it stands, the PA is way behind on its water and electric bills (much of which is supplied by the “evil genocidal Israelis”), and there are running gun battles between Hamas and the PLO as to who gets the onerous task of paying people with money they don’t have.

This brings us to the second number that we need to pay serious attention to.  Let’s repeat the statement once more, so you can see it clearly. 

GDP less debt:

According to the latest IMF report obtainable, Israel is now ranked 29^th out of 196 countries.  This has changed to 24^th out of 196 countries. 

This number, even with cooked books, is the real number that measures an economy against the others in the world.  It’s the number that reveals whether an economy will fall apart or not under a severe financial crisis.

When I first saw this, I imagined that the United States was the number one economy, followed by China, Germany, etc.  I could not have been more wrong.

Let’s look at the rankings. These are from the IMF, from last year.  Israel is now 24^th on these rankings, but these are accurate enough for our purposes.

China           $     305,400,000,000
  
Germany         $     188,400,000,000
    
Japan           $     166,500,000,000
    
Russia          $      71,130,000,000
    
Switzerland     $      70,360,000,000
   
Saudi Arabia    $      70,100,000,000
    
Netherlands     $      60,090,000,000
    
Norway          $      53,460,000,000
    
Singapore       $      46,270,000,000
    
Kuwait          $      43,140,000,000
    
Taiwan          $      40,620,000,000
    
Korea, South    $      36,350,000,000
    
Malaysia        $      34,140,000,000
    
Sweden          $      28,740,000,000
    
Nigeria         $      21,850,000,000
    
Denmark         $      17,080,000,000
    
Libya           $      16,160,000,000
    
Iran            $      15,420,000,000
    
Azerbaijan      $      15,040,000,000
    
Qatar           $      15,040,000,000
    
Hong Kong       $      14,800,000,000
    
Venezuela       $      14,380,000,000
    
Algeria         $      12,740,000,000
    
Thailand        $      12,290,000,000
    
Austria         $       9,700,000,000
    
Philippines     $       9,510,000,000
    
Finland         $       7,561,000,000
    
Angola          $       7,202,000,000
    
Israel          $       6,699,000,000
  

Those are the top rankings down to Israel.  Note that they are all positive numbers.  This means that the countries that display them, like China or Israel, HAVE MONEY!

Now let’s look at the bottom rankings: 

174. Egypt         $      -4,435,000,000
    
175. Morocco       $      -4,625,000,000
    
176. Lebanon       $      -4,688,000,000
    
177. Mexico        $      -5,626,000,000
    
178. Romania       $      -7,093,000,000
    
179. Czech Rep.    $      -7,188,000,000
    
180. Belarus       $      -8,500,000,000
    
181. Colombia      $      -8,943,000,000
    
182. South Africa  $      -9,987,000,000
    
183. Vietnam       $     -12,220,000,000
    
184. Poland        $     -15,900,000,000
    
185. Greece        $     -19,890,000,000
    
186. Portugal      $     -22,610,000,000
    
187. Australia     $     -30,400,000,000
    
188. Brazil        $     -47,360,000,000
    
189. Turkey        $     -48,420,000,000
    
190. Canada        $     -48,500,000,000
    
191. India         $     -51,780,000,000
    
192. France        $     -54,400,000,000
    
193. United Kgdm.  $     -56,190,000,000
    
194. Spain         $     -63,650,000,000
    
195. Italy         $     -67,940,000,000
    
196. United States $    -470,200,000,000
 

All these negative numbers mean that the countries that display them are in the hole for the money.  These 23 countries, are the least likely to be able to withstand a severe financial crisis.  Unlike the countries listed at the top, THEY DO NOT HAVE MONEY!   They are broke!


Notice anything interesting?  First of all, there are the four of the five “PIIGS” at the bottom.  What do the PIIGS refer to?  No, they don’t refer to the snuffling barnyard animals that bacon and hams come from.  They are countries.  Which countries?  Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain.  Of the 23 nations listed above, only Ireland is absent – Erin go bragh!  The other four, which now can be abbreviated to PIGS, are pretty much on the table of the Wolf of Debt, all ready for slaughter.  Which one gets turned into pork chops first is more a matter of the throw of the dice than anything else, but most folks think the Greeks are first on the list.  They seem to have the most money problems, and most often.  But no matter.  The Wolf of Debt is smiling at all of them, with his jaws dripping, convinced he has a real nice meal ahead of him.  And do notice, that even when the Wolf of Debt is finished consuming all the PIGS on his cutting board, there is still the United States of America to feast on – a much much bigger meal than a measly souvlaki, or bowl of pasta è fagiole. 

The Bottom Line

But we’ve strayed just a bit from the real subject, haven’t we?  Let’s get back to the “poor ‘Palestinians’”.

The countries highlighted in bold, both at the top and at the bottom of this list, are the ones most likely to be tapped for contributions by our friends in the PA, who need money very badly just to survive.

With the American dollar cracking at the seams, and the euro in big trouble as the southern nations in the Eurozone slide towards default, how are the dollar or euro going to mean anything in terms of value?

The Wolf of Debt killing the United States economy and plaguing the European Union will gobble up the Palestinian Authority in no time, like a 10:00 snack!

The bottom line is that even with statehood status, the Palestinian Authority will be broke in no time, and the countries likely to contribute money to it will be broke from the collapse of their own currencies in the near future.  Nota bene, I have not even mentioned clan infighting, the real reason that prevents the PA from effectively functioning.  So, as we look, bit by bit, it comes clear that “two states for two peoples” is not a workable solution.  It is a mere mirage.  Then there is the fact that people who were once Jews are being manipulated into killing people who have remained Jews!  If it weren’t for all the blood that is being shed – and all the blood that is liable to be shed - this would be the slickest fraud in history! 

I wonder how many must die before this becomes clear to everyone?  How many must die before it becomes clear that one people – the Jewish people – have been artificially divided into warring factions against each other when they should be living in peace as one people? 

Peace can come to the region once the lies and the bullshit – and there is no other word for it – ceases.  But there must be truth and honesty – so that the pain, of which there is a great deal of, can be worked out, and a people can forgive each other the sins they have committed against each other.

Let's look again, at the imbalanced numbers between the State of Israel and the fake Palestinian Authority.  Is there any reason that so many people should be so poor in a land that has produced vaccines against cancer, a land that has one of the most advanced technological bases on the planet, a land that brings light to darkness?

I don’t think so.

And to be blunt, I think that one united Israel, a nation destined to be reckoned apart from Mankind, can put an end to the Wolf of Debt in the Middle East.  We can be a head, and the rest of the world, a tail, as we are meant to be in Torah.

Let’s seize our destiny and make this a land flowing with milk and honey, where each man sits under his own fig tree, unafraid, and where Justice flows like a mighty river!  Let freedom be proclaimed throughout the Land, and to all the inhabitants therein!

Credit and thanks goes to my friend and colleague, Paris David Blumenthal, for compiling the data on Yassir Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas, and the economic data upon which I have so heavily relied.

Acting Offensively to Carry Out a War of Self Defense

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Originally posted in Facebook as a Note on 19 August, 2011

Copyright © R. Kossover, 2011

Pninah Means Millson Mason wrote in a post on Facebook today (19 August, 2011)  "It is a command that when we return to the land, that we are to clear it of all the detestable things and all abominations.  [Ezekiel 11:17-21]. It is to be cleared of the evil, INCLUDING idolatry."

We have not done this, in spite of being over 60 years the sovereign rulers of the Land, and 44 years in control of all of it.  And now we are facing the consequences of our failures.

We are in the unfortunate position of having to go to war. We should have done the right thing a decade ago in strengthening southern Lebanon and tossing those treasonous women who wanted us to evacuate southern Lebanon into jail. But we did the opposite, and must now pay the consequence. And to compound the idiocy, we also pulled out of Gush Qatif. Therefore, what look like wars of aggression are really wars of self-defense.  And it's our own damned fault. We have no one to blame but ourselves - and the damned "peace" movement - for the need to go to war, and send our soldiers, our children,  in harm's way.

Our anger at the Gazan terrorists are leading many Israelis to demand a flattening of Gaza.  But that is our anger speaking - not good sense.  We must starve Gaza into submission because we have to save our ordnance and our air forces for the north - remember, nobody will re-supply us anymore.  We need to destroy our enemies in the north or face a missile assault that will destroy the infrastructure here altogether, and bring down the electric grid and water supply. Only offensive actions will keep our enemy from bringing down the grid and disrupting the water supply (and creating thousands of deaths from disease, starvation and bad sanitation).

Therefore,Tyre (and the rest of Shi'a controlled Lebanon) must be destroyed and Damascus must be made a rubble.  Ba'albek must be made a ruin.   Syria must be crippled - and lest Iran get in after attacking Kurdistan, we must attack Iran. For the Persians, we must use the nukes - partly to retard their nukes, and partly to weaken them so they can't fight.  We must nuke their bases, and nuke Teheran and Qom, the likely centers of command - and Qom especially so the Shi'a understand that Allah is on OUR side, not theirs.

We have to being willing to nuke Riyadh, as the Saudis have been the financial center of international terror, and have funded the Wahhabi hate movement that has turned Islam into a religion of war and active jihad to murder off the kuf'r, the infidel.  They too, must learn that Allah is on OUR side, for G-d is the G-d of Israel - AND WE ARE ISRAEL.  If the Wahhabi are willing to change their attitudes, which is highly unllikely - but not impossible, we can spare them.

This leaves four groups of possible enemies.

The first are the rebels we ourselves have enabled in our own stupidity, the "Palestinians".   We must try not to kill the "Palestinians" if we can avoid it, for the majority of them were once Jews, and were forced to convert to the religion of the Muslim occupier.  A door must be left open to them to live with us in peace, and hopefully return to the Jewish fold they were forced to leave.  If they refuse to live with us in peace, then we must be prepared to expel them from the Land, and force them across the Jordan.  But in any event, the terror regime we ourselves erected, the Palestinian Authority, we ourselves must destroy.  Otherwise there will be nothing but war with our neighbors. 

The second enemy is Egypt.  If Egypt, seeing all that we are doing, decides to go to war, or allow terrorists in the Sinai to go to war, they must be warned that if this continues, we will occupy the Sinai and annex it.  If they still refuse to heed our words, we must bomb the Aswan High Dam and destroy Egypt entirely with the flood-waters of Lake Nasser - for they will go to war over the Sinai.  And we may not be able to afford another war on a southern front.

The third likely enemy are the Turks.  It would be preferable to deal with the Turks after the Egyptians, just so that they understand what we are willing to do to them.   But we may not be left that luxury.  In any event, fighting the Turks  will engage our navy and air-forces fully, and they will not be an easy enemy to defeat, should we have to fight them.  We came close to war in 2010; the Turks had stationed troops in Turkish Cyprus to attack us when the Mavi Marmara was confronted.  It was, believe it or not, President Obama of the United States who stopped them.  Otherwise,we would have been at war with Turkey on 31 May, 2010.

The final enemy are the Americans and the Europeans.  And make no mistake about it.  The American government will be an enemy and the European Union will be an enemy.  And they will be far deadlier to deal with than the Arabs, Persians or Turks.  But we will have to deal with them.  And we may appear to lose.  There comes a time when a nation has to turn to its G-d and appeal to Him for salvation, and this will be that time.  This will be the time for the G-d of Israel to work His wonders, and in facing these seemingly formidable powers, we will need all the faith we can muster.  Help may come from entirely unexpected quarters, and for unexpected reasons.

We have finally come to the point I foresaw a decade ago, where our military force alone would not be emough to defeat our enemies, as it had seemed to be in decades past.  We will need the help of the Living G-d of Israel.  So, let's turn to Him first, in facing the stormy days ahead.  And then, having begged the Almighty to stand with us in this terrible day of need, let's all say a prayer for the kids we send to fight for us,  for ourselves, and for all the Children of Israel, the Children of the Southern Tribes, and the Children of the Northern Tribes..

Shabbat Shalom from Ma'ale Levona.

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News Analysis from Israel: Life Imitates Art - Talking Turkey About the Flotilla Fallout

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Originally published at Blogcritics Magazine on 7 June 2010
Copyright © R. Kossover, 2010

Part I - We Con the World

Life Imitating Art

Life has a funny way of imitating art. Caroline Glick, a prominent Israeli news commentator who produces "Tribal Update" as part of her "Latma TV" satires on YouTube, featured a "Captain Stabbing", the "Love Boat" captain of one of the "Free Gaza" flotilla ships from Turkey, as part of Tribal Update #53. In the scene, Captain Stabbing is being interviewed by the Tribal Update news anchors, and one of them calls attention to a long knife or machete in his hand. He drops the machete on a table and describes it as a cat, a different kind of cat from Turkey. Then he calls for one of the crew members to take the "cat" away.

This morning, an Arab was caught with a knife having a 25 cm blade at a checkpoint east of Ramallah. But life is usually less artful than art. The 25 centimeter knife was confiscated by the IDF, and the Arab who possessed it was taken in for questioning. Captain Stabbing, on the other hand was allowed to launch into a song, "We Con The World", with his crew on the ship. Tribal Update #53 has gotten 46,000 hits so far on You Tube (as of 12:00 on 7 June). But Ms. Glick edited the song as a stand-alone feature, and it has gone viral on You Tube, getting 1,310,000 hits (as of the same time of day on 7 June). A second stand-alone of the same song, also edited by Ms. Glick, has gotten some 110,000 hits. When the mass media lies through its teeth, other means of getting the truth out must be found.

The Lying Mass Media

And the mass media has been lying through its teeth, doing all it can to delegitimise this country and its efforts at self defense, puny as they are. This story, distributed by the Associated Press, is written in a way designed to inflame anti-Israel sentiment. When the AP puts out something, thousands of other media vehicles, members of the Associated Press, put it out as "news" as well. Then there is this story, a BBC whine about the murder of Hamas "operative", the terrorist, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. While the BBC manages to forget the British calling Israel "that shitty little country", they do manage to note that they were called "dogs" by an Israel member of the Knesset. When the left hates, they are petty and spiteful - and they never shut up. Perhaps it ought to have been Jews instead of Irishmen trying to blow up the BBC building a few years back. If anyone deserves a Jewish terror attack, the BBC certainly does. The problem is that if we Jews were to blow up all the anti-Jewish media out there, or hack it so it were crippled, there would be few newspapers or media sources at all. And, the mainstream media are just the tip of the iceberg. Then there are the lying anti-Israel bloggers who stain the blogosphere like pigeon feces on a statue.

Bil'am said of the Children of Israel: "For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, it is a people that shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations." [b'midbár/Numbers 23:9] This means, among other things, that the rest of mankind will lie about the Children of Israel. And they do. This too, is part of being alone. But the most important thing to do here is not to whine about the blathering media. The most important thing to do so as to understand what is going on is to talk Turkey.

Part II - Talking Turkey

What is going on with Turkey right now is that they are pretending to be the "heroes" of the "poor 'Palestinians'". Why? Why did the régime there abandon its strategic alliance with Israel to throw in its lot with the mad mullahs of Persia and the Wahhabi murderers backed by the United States (the PLO), and by the Egyptian Brotherhood (Hamas)? Why do such an idiotic thing? A little background is required.

Fall of an Empire to Founding a Modern Nation

Way back around 1908, there was a revolution in Turkey that effectively stripped the Sultan of his power, as a group very concerned with the tailspinning decline of the Ottoman Empire took over. This group was known as the Committee of Union and Progress. The original revolution did not stop this decline, as the Italians annexed Libya in 1911, and the Serbs, Montenegrins, Bulgarians and Greeks all ganged up on Turkey in 1912 and effectively drove the Turks out of Europe altogether. By 1913, a triumvirate of men had taken over Turkey who were known as the three pashas, and they attempted to rectify the situation in the country. Their policies were doomed to failure.

When the Great War broke out in 1914, and the Turks joined the Central Powers against the Entente Cordiale, as the Western Allies were originally known, the most successful fronts for the Turks were the Sinai and Gelibolu - Gallipoli. At Gelibolu, Australian and New Zealand soldiers fighting for the British Empire faced up against Mustafa Kemal, the Turkish commander - and were soundly defeated. After his victory over the ANZAC troops, he was sent to the Eastern front to deal with the Russians. And he defeated them as well, so that in 1917 when the Czar's régime fell, he was able to be sent to the problematic Syrian Front, to attempt to save the collapsing Turkish forces, who had been driven from Gaza and the Sinai by General Allenby. He fought at Megiddo, and managed an orderly withdrawal north through Syria to a line that became the armistice line.

When the Allied powers tried to slice up Anatolia the way they had sliced up the Middle East, and when the Greeks invaded Turkey, Mustafa Kemal had had enough. He was the leader of the Turkish soldiers who fought to preserve Anatolia as the Turkish homeland, and to stop European imperialists from oppressing Turks the way they were already oppressing Arabs.

In a series of sweeping reforms carried out over a number of years, the Sultanate was abolished, the Caliphate was abolished, the use of Arabic letters to write Turkish was abolished, the Ottoman legal system was replaced with the Swiss Civil Code, as Mustafa Kemal, who had renamed himself Kemal Attatürk, pushed his fellow Turks towards westernization. He wanted his fellow Turks to stop seeing themselves as subjected to a Khalif, or a Sultan, and to start seeing themselves as intelligent people who could reach into their traditions to improve and develop their nation.

It's worth noting a few lines from this tradition to understand some of the Turkish actions:

...by complete independence, we mean of course complete economic, financial, juridical, military, cultural independence and freedom in all matters. Being deprived of independence in any of these is equivalent to the nation and country being deprived of all its independence.

Gerd Nonneman, Analyzing Middle East foreign policies and the relationship with Europe, Published 2005, Routledge, p. 204-ISBN: 0714684279

The present leaders of Turkey are acting in manners that are antithetical to the secularizing Attatürk - but the nationalism they draw on is directly from Kemal Attatürk. This is the first point to keep in mind in analyzing events in Turkey today.

Fast Forwarding....

What we see in Turkey today is a movement to reverse the secularization of the country accomplished from the third to sixth decades of the 20th Century. The present régime, the AK, is the descendant of a number of political parties that have been pushing the re-Islamization of Turkey. They are allied with the Egyptian Brotherhood, which is a Wahhabi based organization, and they follow loosely the ideas set down by the Saudi thugdom. Therefore, they are also allied with Hamas. They see Turkey today as Egypt was 40 years ago - and their goal is to move it to the Saudi Arabia or Persia of today.

The AK party is opposed by the many of the country's generals and much of the military - which is strongly secular in the Kemal Attatürk tradition. The AK has done what it could to weaken the military, and to strengthen the police, which it controls. The Kemalist Europeanizing efforts were carried out at a time when much of Europe was under dictatorships, so the murderousness of the Turks towards the Armenians and their suppression of Kurdish culture within Turkey was not an issue while Attatürk was alive. But in the decades after he was dead, when the Europeans began to shed those dictatorships, the smellier aspects of Turkish "democracy" became more bothersome. As the Europeans became more foppish, dandified and politically correct, their willingness to have non-Christian Turks in their Christian European Union got smaller and smaller. And the Turks, who are sensitive to these snubs, voted in the AK as a result. Europeans, whose genocides and massacres make the Turks look like nothing worse than strict schoolmarms, forget their own sins and do not want to allow the Turks entry into their "civilized" European Union. So, a political party that turns its back on Europe, and embraces Muslims instead, had gained widespread sympathy in Turkey - for the time being, anyway.

And Now to the Present

Several experts have gone over the events of the last week or so and discovered that the Turkish involvement has little to do with "Palestinian" Arabs, for whom Turks have little use, and for all of the bluster and threats they have little to do with Israel either. They have to do with securing the position of the AK party in Turkey, as the government of Erdogan is in political trouble domestically. In essence, what the Erdogan régime has done is very clever. They have wrapped themselves in the Turkish flag, using Kemalist style nationalism to force the military to go along with a foolish campaign of foreign adventurism designed to take the average Turk's mind off of corruption and abuse of civil rights. According to Ephraim Inbar, of the Sadat Begin Center for Strategic Studies at Bar Ilan University, "Erdogan has decided to exacerbate his relations with Israel in order to gain public support."

Further analysis along these lines can be found from Barry Rubin, here, and speculation over what the deal is with Persia cozying up to Turkey can be found from Persia expert, Michael Ledeen here. Caroline Glick, writing in the Jerusalem Post, points out:

Since the radical Islamic AKP party took over Turkey in 2003, its leader, Prime Minister Recip Erdogan, has presided over the thorough brainwashing of the Turkish people. According to repeated polling data, the majority of Turks believe that Israel and America are demonic, murderous nations that kill innocent people for entertainment. Erdogan has cultivated anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism for two reasons. First, doing so enables him to divert his people's attention away from his government's economic failures. Stirred into frenzies of hatred, the Turks willingly rally behind their leader, who is saving them from the Jewish and Yankee beasts.

Then there is Erdogan's goal of reasserting Turkish regional dominance and reclaiming the lost power of the Ottomans as the leader of the Islamic world. His decision in 2006 to be the first world leader to host Hamas terror masters on an official visit after their victory in the Palestinian elections was a clear bid to win popularity for Turkey among the Arab masses.

Iran and Turkey understand that attacking the Jewish state is the fastest
route to the top of the Muslim world.

Ledeen's analysis also makes sense. If the Turks do go to war against Israel, HizbAllah could serve as a vital back-up, rather than having to bear the brunt for the the Persian war effort. Ledeen's comments are telling.

What about the Turks? Daniel Jackson thinks Erdogan is serious about using the flotilla incident as causus belli and that Turkey is preparing to go to war against Israel. I am no expert on Turkey, but I am prepared to consider the possibility that the Iranians have urged him to attack, and that they swear to Allah that they’ve got his back. It would be folly to believe the mullahs, who love to gull others into doing their dirty work, but Erdogan might be dreaming crazy dreams about being the great liberator, taking back the Holy Land, and reconstituting the Empire/Caliphate.

Such crazy dreams might well be the stuff over which war is fought in the next few weeks or months.

And we can never forget those "peace activists" from Gaza. This morning (7 June 2010), four of them, divers in wet suits, were seen by Israeli naval soldiers and shot dead, foiling a major attack via infiltration. The last time someone succeeded with such a stunt, 37 Israelis were killed.

A Road to Peace Between the Children of Abraham: Cracking the Qur'an Code by Lowell Gallin

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Originally published in Blogcritics Magazine, 28 April 2010
Copyright © R. Kossover, 2010

The news out of the Middle East these days is not very heartening or happy. Rumors are flying that there will be a war this summer or next. The mood here is dark and foreboding, with folks waiting for the other missile shoe to drop. There are stories like this one, detailing how Iran is getting hold of enriched uranium, or this story, detailing how the American head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff refuses to say that Americans won't shoot down IDF jets flying on a raid over Iran. With a "friend" like that, who needs enemies? The war rumors are backed up by a think tank predicting war, and previous experience has indicated that Israel is just not prepared for the kind of missile assault it suffered in 2006. In addition, there are the threats and counter-threats from Israel and Syria each warning that the other will be sent back to the Stone Age, or some other prehistoric era.

That's just on the overseas front. Domestically, we face the problem of one of the country's premier English speaking news outlets, Ha'aretz, committing espionage, hiding evidence, and harboring a fugitive from justice who has taken sensitive documents from a young woman in the IDF who stole them while serving as a soldier in the that military establishment. According to news reports, she was the product of left-wing anti-Israel professors. Then there is this story, detailing how "left wing" Israelis are working hard for the destruction of the country they call home, and how Ha'aretz is doing its damndest to defend them. And what of Ha'aretz itself? Well, according to Steven Plaut, that newspaper is partly owned by a German holding company, DuMont Schauberg, which made its money off of goods and property stolen from Jews during WWII. So now, instead of merely the "semi-official newspaper, Ha'aretz" we now have the "semi-official and Nazi-affiliated newspaper, Ha'aretz." Is this good news or bad news?

Finally, we have this nasty little tale on the real relationships between police and Arabs in these tense times, and what results when Arab terrorists are allowed to incite violence unchecked, which is pretty much the case these days in Israel.

In the face of all this, an Israeli could easily say of the Arabs, "as far as I am concerned, they can all die." That indeed was one comment I encountered recently from a friend of mine. There is much bitterness between Arabs and Jews over the conflict they have been herded into over the Land of Israel. But I assert that there is a road to peace between the Children of Abraham - and this road is definitely not the road to suicide and war pushed by the United States and its straw boss in the region, the thugdom of the ibn-Sauds. Only a very stupid or very intimidated Jew would take that path. And there are many very stupid and very many intimidated Jews in the world today, both here in Israel and overseas.

The first stone that was moved to building a road to real peace was an essay by Dr. Asher Eder written over 40 years ago in 1969, while the Israelis were still fighting a War of Attrition over the Suez with Egypt. In this essay, Peace is Possible Between Ishmael and Israel According to the Qur'an and the Tanakh, he described the verses in the Qur'an which grant the Children of Israel perpetual ownership over the Land of Israel. He gave a detailed breakdown so that any believing Muslim could see the truth drawn not from the Torah, our holy book, but the Qur'an, his own holy book.

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 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.

The primary market for this book is Muslims: the Qur'an is their holy book, and it is they who need to see the truth drawn out for them, rather than the hate literature of the Wahhabi heretics who have infested Islam and who make a mockery of it with their control of Makka and Medina. And Professor Fazal ur-Rehman Afridi, a Muslim from Pakistan, has written a review of this work at his site, The Balkanization of Pakistan. Let us have a peek at at just one paragraph.

When one finishes the book, he finds himself in present day world with Sheikh Abdul Hadi Palazzi, Dr. Asher Eder, Reuven Kossover, and Lowell Gallin, preaching peace and understanding between the Children of Ismail and Jacob. I would like to extend my thanks to Lowell Gallin for providing us with this great opportunity of traveling on a fascinating spiritual and historical journey through the objective prism of Qur’anic teachings.

This is the reason why I cannot write a review of this book. Having contributed to it and helped edit it, it would be incestuous of me to attempt one, to say the least.

But I did manage to get an interview with the author, Lowell Gallin. We sat in the empty waiting room of the closed blood lab of the Maccabi Health Clinic in Jerusalem on a Wednesday afternoon as I put a number of questions to my friend and colleague.

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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 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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The road to peace between the Children of Abraham will not be through a "two state solution." The goal of the Wahhabi based Hamas and PLO is to murder off all the Jews in Israel. So a "two state solution is nonsense. The resident Arabs in the Land of Israel understand this more and more daily, seeking instead, a one-state solution where they are full citizens of the nation. Why? Because they themselves see that the terror groups set over them as dictators by the Israeli government (no, that was not a mistake in my typing) cannot and will not provide a decent régime of decent life for the resident Arabs of the Land of Israel. What they will provide is the same nightmare society that Muslims have across Arabia and North Africa. Societies that are non-functional.

Cracking the Qur'an Code shows an entirely different route - the route of shared faith by two religions that finally understand that their holy books are in accord on the goal of establishing an Israelite entity in this country. If the members of both faiths can share that same vision - and implement it - that will be peace.

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.