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Saturday, February 29, 2020

COVID-19: The Big Picture


Justin Smith takes a look at the Coronavirus/COVID-19 simultaneously pointing out it is not as severe as the panic mongers would have you believe BUT also examines the bioweapon components of the virus’s existence. Meaning it could have been bad and it was manmade.

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COVID-19: The Big Picture
COVID-19: The Perfect Cover - Bad Things Happen

By Justin O. Smith
Sent  2/28/2020 3:19 PM

"There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death; and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it."  ~ Ecclesiastes 8:8

Our best times may have come and gone, and perhaps we may be at this low or amazing point in our lives, but we should all be like the wind, sun and rain and carry on life as usual in the face of the Coronavirus scare. For no matter how much we run to and fro gathering all the knowledge we can, surrounding this event, and no matter how long we stand on the river bank wondering how much time remains for us all, to take in the wonders of this amazing world of ours, it avails us nothing to run in a panicked fear at the first sound of a neighbor's cough or sniffle, and we can all rest assured that the times of our deaths are appointed and death is inevitable.

And sometimes, bad things beyond our control just happen.

I'm not saying this because of President Trump's assurances on Wednesday February 26th 2020 that "the risks to the American people remains very low", due to his administration's actions. I'm saying this as I note that this crisis is also one more way for those in power to manipulate us and take a little bit more freedom away.

So yes, we must stay vigilant and work towards a cure, but we must also keep our eyes on the Big Picture too.

As Leonardo DaVinci suggested to the people of his day: "Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else."

Currently, there are 60 known cases in the U.S, and 28 of those are in California alone, where the first known case of a community acquired case exists in a woman with no known contact with anyone who had the disease. California is currently monitoring 8,400 cases, while in Nassau County, New York, eighty-three people have been quarantined. 

To date, approximately 82,000 people have been infected globally and almost 2800 have died [Blog Editor: the statistics are fluid I suspect out of fear reporting. CNN has the numbers Justin utilized in preceding sentence dated 2/28/20. Business Insider – Australia dated 1/22/20 has higher numbers.], according to numerous credible sources, with some fluctuation in the death count due to the numerous  coronaviruses currently circulating along with regular influenza and other diseases with similar symptoms.

In January, the New York Times noted that most of the Coronavirus deaths were older men with previous poor health conditions: "Many had underlying conditions like cirrhosis of the liver, hypertension, diabetes and Parkinson's disease. Most spent more than a week in hospitals, with some undergoing treatment for a month or longer. But two died just four days after they were admitted."

"And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth."  ~ Revelation 6:8

In 1890, James Strong wrote The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. It notes that the Greek version of the Bible used the word "therion" for "beast" in Revelation, and Strong suggested the word was interpreted as "tiny, uncontrolled, poisonous beasts". This sounds quite a bit like bacteria and viruses.

This may be a serious event unfolding, but I do not believe it's the end of the world just over the horizon, or even the "pandemic" many are projecting it to be. And as such, do not listen to the harbingers of doom and gloom from the authoritarian Left and Democratic party, who are seeking all manner of government responses. No Free Born American needs to accept any quarantine or immunization against their will, when in far too many instances, vaccines themselves offer quite an array of detrimental health risks [JOS embedded link], with the cure sometimes incapacitating or even killing the patient; we must not be forced to consider any herd immunity or any other collectivist communist notions when we are making medical decisions for ourselves and our children.

Curiously, 'The Eyes of Darkness' by Dean Koontz, a 1981 work of fiction, predicts a Coronavirus outbreak and its origin, even naming it "Wuhan-400". Koontz has it being developed in some military labs in China and being acquired later by U.S. intelligence through a Chinese defector, with the U.S. military eventually successfully creating an antidote. 

One might have to wonder if some young aspiring biological weapons doctor read this all those years ago and said, "HhMmmm .... I think I can make this." Or did someone with great ability, financial backing and power behind the scenes see such a germ and the ensuing chaos as a great way to manipulate and control the large sections of the globe and its people? Is it a case of life imitating art? Whatever it is, coincidences of this level of detail are no coincidence in my mind. 

COVID-19 was identified clinically in Wuhan in December, and soon after, Dr. Li Wenliang gave warning of its dangerous effects, describing it as a type of "pneumonia", and he was dead by the end of January. One should find it incredibly suspicious that on October 18th 2019, approximately two months earlier, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, World Economic Forum, and Johns Hopkins University sponsored "Event 201", an exercise that predicted nearly the precise current COVID-19 event and a projected pandemic and all the associated social, military and economic consequences.

The ultimate goal of Event 201 was aimed at using power and pandemics to create a central economic authority to distribute resources to "counter the virus". This is just one more case of those who would be king never letting a good crisis go to waste. 

This information should move the Trump administration to take a hard look at any possible involvement of Johns Hopkins, Harvard, NYU, the CDC, and all those involved in making coronavirus vaccines, especially in light of President Trump's ongoing battle with Big Pharma/Big Biotech. It's worth noting that China's President Xi Jinping has been of some great help to President Trump in this matter too. This very well could have been espionage directed in retaliation from the Big Pharma folks and the Democratic Party authoritarian socialists that they support and back. 

On February 25th, Nancy Messonnier of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned America, "Disruption to everyday life might be severe."

Planned or not, many of President Trump's enemies, and the enemies of America too, are jumping on this and already calling it a "pandemic" in the making. These are mainly the globalists, such as Mohamed El-Erian -- an American Muslim, Obama associate and former deputy director of the International Monetary Fund, who would love to see this event crash our economy, as they already are blaming him for doing too little in the face of COVID-19's rapid spread, but our economy was already in decline; so, adding fuel to the fire, alarmists everywhere are claiming the disruptions to the global supply chain are going to be more far-reaching and greater than what they actually will be, or need be, as they hope to cause a crash and then intercede as the "saviors" of the people, who warned of its coming. 

The COVID-19 virus may well trigger an economic collapse, or a deep recession, if people keep panicking over it. But the narrative that it is the cause of all this economic chaos is an elaborate lie. The economy was crashing long before this virus ever manifested itself.

[Blog Editor: Global Economy already imperiled. Could COVID-19 be the tipping domino?

o   The white swan harbingers of global economic crisis are already here; By Nouriel Roubini; The Guardian; 2/19/20 02.00 EST Last modified 2/19/20 02.04 EST




On Outnumbered (Fox News) on February 28th, Dagen McDowell, Fox Business Network anchor, noted that she had been warning President Trump on claiming credit for the stock market's rise and high numbers, adding that if he claims it in good times, he owns it in bad times too. In many respects, President Trump has set himself up as a scapegoat, through his constant habit of claiming a direct correlation between his policies and the performance of the stock market. 

Already, reported by the Washington Times on February 26th, America has witnessed the release of a nationwide televised ad campaign on major cable networks, by Michael Bloomberg, New York City's former mayor, that is entitled "Pandemic" and accuses President Trump of being unprepared. It starts with news of Wall Street's massive selling spree that has just begun this week, as one hears the narrator say, "Health experts warn: The U.S. is under-prepared."

Best to worse case scenario has somewhere between 143 to 270 million Americans catching the virus. Ninety-seven to ninety-eight percent of the infected will have only mild to zero symptoms. Since no one really knows how far reaching or long this will proceed and what the final numbers will be, we can project that potentially two to three percent "MAY" die from this, due to severe reactions, which could result in approximately two to four million Americans dying from COVID-19. This is not to say that they will. [Blog Editor: I could not locate Justin’s stats but these stats might be of interest: The-Scientist.com and Off-Guardian.org]

If anyone is that worried, the National Academy of Sciences stated that several good coronavirus antibodies already exist, that can be purchased for approximately $358 for a quarter of a milligram. The only problem? You have to be a certified research lab to order them. 

I'm going out on a limb here, to suggest that in reality, America will probably not see even a few hundred deaths from this. So let's go about our everyday business and just be careful. Wash Your hands and face regularly, take plenty of vitamin C, drink a shot of bourbon in the mornings and evenings, drink three cups of essiac tea each day, and keep going to work each day, doing the best that You can. Keep shaking hands with one another and hugging and kissing one another, but for God's sake, quit acting like the Earth, Jupiter, Mars and Venus have all of a sudden jumped from orbit around the sun. 

One's chances of acquiring a severe and fatal case of this virus is actually so slim that we must not allow it to continue to disrupt our social order. 

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) is the closest thing to this new Coronavirus, technically referred to as SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19 [More detail at ScienceMag.org], that we've seen, and it too was first reported in China, as people overreacted and compared it to the Black Death. In fact, there were only a worldwide total of 8,098 cases, of which 774 died, and 650 of those deaths occurred in China and Hong Kong, while the United States experienced only 75 cases, without anyone dying; and, in contrast, about 80,000 Americans died of the flu in the winter of 2017, the highest number in forty years, according to Dr. Robert Redfield, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 

Some studies, such as the one conducted by Marc Lipsitch, a Harvard epidemiologist professor, suggest that forty to seventy percent of the world population are most likely going to contract this disease, due to the fact that it can lie dormant between 14 to 30 days with few or no symptoms. And of those who contract the virus, 97 to 98 percent will survive, from all indications taken from current rapidly fluctuating numbers; Lipsitch also states emphatically that not all the infected will develop any severe illness, since many will only have a mild case of the disease, or they may be completely asymptomatic.

If we consider that each month 1.47 million people die of heart disease, according to the American Heart Association, and 450 million people contract pneumonia each year with four million dying from it, across the globe, we should all be wondering why all the frenetic activity and hype around this COVID-19 event and who besides Big Pharma benefits the most from this. All the big companies are scrambling to get their share of the early billion dollar amount proposed for vaccine development, with more assured to follow, as House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R) suggested $4 billion to come in the fight, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D) proposing $8.5 billion for the overall fight against COVID-19.

One billion dollars should buy a whole heap of research and results, especially since so much work has already been done to fight coronaviruses of all types. But throwing buckets of money at the problem won't solve it. Only great minds actually seeking to find and deliver a cure will eventually deliver the sought after results. 

[Blog Editor: Big Pharma profiteering:




Several zinc based drugs have shown a remarkable rate of effectiveness against several strains of coronavirus, but for some reason these are now being largely ignored. There has also already been an antibody developed that works well and as a prophylaxis against MERs, but every "expert" is saying COVID-19 is more highly contagious than SARS or MERS either one, since it remains active on surfaces between nine to fourteen days. 

One plan involves binding antibodies to viral proteins, in order to stop the pathogen from readily infecting one's cells. There is a good bit of scientific hopefulness surrounding Compound CR3022, which reportedly binds and combines with antibodies that attack coronaviruses. However, why search for antibodies against coronavirus when the thymus gland, under our breast plate, already makes them? 

Glycyrrhizin, an antiviral, was another compound found to be most effective at inhibiting coronaviruses, as researchers search for a broad spectrum remedy, however, at least seven other strains of coronavirus are also in play and these RNA type corona viruses have a high mutation rate of up to a million times greater than their host cell, so vaccines will very nearly be obsolete as soon as they are made, when the virus itself is mutating all along. 

On February 10th 2020, Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz wrote a letter to [JOS embedded link] the White House for eyes at the Office of Science and Technology and the Department of Homeland Security, that detailed how COVID-19 was a manufactured biological weapon: "This discovery of weaponizing 2019 nCoV with HIV's attachment mechanism is compounded by the finding of evolutionary biologist Dr. James Lyons-Weiler of the Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge. Dr. Lyons showed the coronavirus' genetic sequence contains a unique "middle fragment" encoding for a SARS protein inserted to presumably increase respiratory distress using "pShuttle" technology used exclusively in labs, not nature

Accordingly, it is unreasonable to presume 2019 nCoV came from bats, snakes, or nature. Alternatively, we must presume this germ was manufactured as a bioweapon, and released for political gain (i.e., bioterrorism)."

In the Congressional Record for Tuesday, July 1st 1969, one will see Defense of Defense Appropriations for 1970, Subcommittee on Department of Defense Appropriations, and on page 129 of Part 5, Research, Development, and Evaluation,  "Synthetic Biological Agents", one finds that the AIDS-virus envelop gene now attached to COVID-19 was part of the synthetic germ we now call HIV.

Calling the release of the COVID-19 virus an "unintended event" and noting this had happened at biowar labs before, Francis Boyle, a biowarfare expert and author of the Biological Weapons Anti-terrorism Act of 1989, is in agreement, as he recently noted that four other recent scientific studies confirm COVID-19 is an engineered bioweapon, with elements added to make it resistant to human immune systems and easier to spread. Boyle documented the work that made the virus more easily spread was conducted at the University of North Carolina, while the HIV component was created in an Australian facility, and he further shows that Chinese scientists from the Wuhan BSL-4 biowarfare lab were present in both the UNC and Australian labs and participated in the research. And according to Boyle, the Chinese scientists returned to Wuhan, each with an essential part that led to the creation of COVID-19. 

Americans must stay vigilant in the coming months that will be most crucial to our future, as we recall that the economic and geopolitical situation has been in some flux and dire for years, and although the COVID-19 outbreak is a legitimate threat we must approach in a serious fashion, it is also a boon to a select group of global power players, who now have the perfect cover to move forward and attempt to facilitate the economic collapse of the United States, something they have been planning for quite a long time.

America is in good position to halt this crisis cold, if Her leaders exhibit some common sense, as opposed to knee-jerk reaction, since we already know a great deal about this virus and how to avoid catching it So, we can safely ignore the fear-mongers and the hysterical media's hysteria and numerous deceptions. And as we move further along in the various phases of this outbreak, we can all be cautious, but not to the point that it works to the benefit of America's enemies, as we utilize our greatest wisdom and refuse to be dragged down and made fearful. 

"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me."  ~ Psalms 23:4

By Justin O. Smith
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© Justin O. Smith


Thursday, February 27, 2020

A City like No Other - A Lesson in Life


[Blog Editor: Full Disclosure – I’m a Christian Zionist supporter of Israel’s Biblical Land Promise – JRH]

Ari Bussel shares a Jewish-American perspective that connects the Jewish community in Beverly Hills California and Israel. An interesting whether you are Jewish or not and have an interest in Israel’s existence.

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A City like No Other - A Lesson in Life
What Makes Beverly Hills Unique 

By Ari Bussel
Sent  2/27/2020 12:47 AM


When my siblings and I went to Beverly, we were taught that “there is Beverly Hills and the rest of the world.”  Let us see what else we learned right here in Beverly Hills:  Treat the other the way you want to be treated, and he who spreads his bread is bound one day in the future to find it.


The headline of the main local paper read “Two Presidents in Beverly Hills on One Historic Day.”  One president was here to fundraise, the other for a short stop on a long route.  Since I did not quite understand the true meaning of this “historic day,” I continued reading, flipping the pages to find and astonishing amount of “Israel."

In the previous administration, President Barack Obama was in Beverly Hills so many times, one lost count.  President Donald J Trump has not been here so frequently as his predecessor, but we knew each time he was here from the demonstrations against him.  Surprisingly, Beverly Hills Jews are apparently not all Democrats, and some would pay tens and hundreds of thousands of Dollars for a photo-op or to spent breakfast, lunch or dinner with the President of the USA.

On the same day, Israeli President Rivlin was here too.  Los Angeles was the first stop, followed by Pacific Islands on a long trip to Australia (still ongoing).  In Los Angeles, the President was honored by the Beverly Hills City Council and given the Key to the City and at UCLA by the Nazarian Center for Israel Studies.  Apparently, super-rich Iranians were able to reach the President who previously rejected an invitation by the local Jewish Iranian American community for a mega event in his and Israel's honor.  Money does the trick, and even a president flies in to be honored.

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, center, accepted a key to the city from Beverly Hills Mayor John Mirisch (photo courtesy of the city of Beverly Hills – Photo appeared in Park Labrea News Beverly Press)

President Rivlin’s previous visit to Los Angeles was most hastily arranged, after the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America refused to have Prime Minister Netanyahu speak to it.  

President Rivlin then (11/13/2017) emphasized: “We are all one people, and Israel is dear to all of us.”  On the Western Wall, the President said:  “The symbol of unity, the Wall of our Tears and Joy, has become a symbol of division and disagreement.  I hope that in the future we can return to the table together, and reach an understanding on this important issue.”

And he laid the following need for cooperation:  “These are the tasks before us; the fight against anti-Semitism, preserving Jewish identity, safeguarding the security of Israel.  We must continue to pass these duties to our children and grandchildren, from one generation to the next.”

The deep rift regarding prayer at the Western Wall still continues.  Neither the Prime Minister’s absence nor the President’s substitute speech helped.

Unlike New York, Los Angeles is far away from Israel.  Thus, the total number of times an Israeli president has been here since the formation of the modern state is de minimis.  When Israel’s ninth president, Shimon Peres of blessed memory, came to Los Angeles, the preparations took some two years.  The President met numerous groups, including a mega event at the Beverly Hilton and another at Dream Works.  It was most apt, for President Peres was respected by the entire world as a “Dreamer” (visionary, in the most positive sense of the word).  The entire region was energized.

Like his successor who would refuse to meet with the Iranian Jewish community, President Peres refused to meet with the Christian community, and declined an invitation to a mega event (the President’s requirement at that time was for at least 2,000 people to attend an event; the proposed event was for 5,000).  For each, his own priorities and preferences.

So here came President Rivlin, and like his previous visit, it was limited to those who are either super-rich or most connected.  Strange, since President Rivlin is viewed as the people’s president, loved and adored by Israelis for being “one of them.”  A once-in-a-lifetime treat that should be shared and open to the public at large, not only to a select few ended as a photo caption in one paper and a front page headline in another.

Israel and the Beverly Hills Courier

The coverage of the President’s visit would be a picture on p.2 of the other local paper a week after the visit and an entire issue immediately following the visit dedicated to Israel by the Beverly Hills Courier.  How strange life turns out to be.  Let me tell you why.

The BH Courier and the City of BH were always dismissed as insignificant by the Israeli diplomatic mission to the West Coast.  There were other newspapers (e.g. the Los Angeles Times), there were more important cities (e.g. Los Angeles).  So much so, that until the arrival of Consul General David Siegel [Jewish Journal-2011, Communications 2025 profile-2012 & GovServ.org-2019], the BH Courier was not even on the press list of the Israeli Consulate General.

The publisher of the Courier at that time, Clif Smith [Blog Editor: I didn’t do a deep search but found it interesting WikiZero’s report on Clif Smith’s publishing style as Conservative as if that was a bad thing.], wanted to meet with top Israeli visitors and hear from them.  His paper and the community are ardent supporters of Israel, and it would have been appropriate that the main local paper be paid the respect and be afforded the professional courtesy it deserved.  But for the staff at the Consulate, a local throw-away paper and a city of 34,000 were … nothing.  Luckily, we in Beverly Hills stand very well on our own.  We do good without expectation or anticipation of thanks.  And we continue our unabashed support of the only homeland for the Jewish people around the world no-matter-what!

Came a real diplomat and changed the culture and attitude at the Consulate.  After a pitch was made to include also the local - seemingly insignificant and unimportant - publications, Mr. Smith was invited for President Peres visit and a relationship started that is bearing fruit to this very day.

Similarly, slowly it was discovered that Beverly Hills is a unique city in the entire world in terms of Israel.  What makes the City so unique?  Its majority Jewish population?  The number of synagogues within its boundaries?  The large proportion of Iranians who call the City home (about 1/3 the entire City population)?  The leadership, at all elected entities - City Council, School Board, Treasurer - that is usually Jewish?

Beverly Hills and Israel

We can go back generations of BH City Councils and meet amazing people who have supported Israel in numerous ways.  Previously, mega donors to Israel call BH their home, and there is not a university, hospital or museum in Israel where their names cannot be found at the very top of the donors lists.

Then came to the City a philanthropist businesswoman, who does not even reside within the City proper, and turned the City into the strongest pro-Israel fort to be found anywhere in the USA.  Gina Raphael [Algemeiner author profileJNF Interview] has utilized her connections in the City, her own money and her leadership style to do good.  She brought symposiums about water and cyber security to the City.  She marked 9/11 jointly with Israel, time and time again.  She brought the Director General of the Prime Minister’s Office (i.e. the Chief Executive of Israel) to celebrate Israel on Israel’s Independence Day (the one day he should have been in Israel).  She regularly brings the different elements of the community together (i.e. Ashkenazi and Sephardi, competing Rabbis, …).  Gina serves as an example for women in business, women in leadership and women of philanthropy and for parents who would do everything to have children, and she is a bulldozer when it comes to Jewish life and the Jewish people.

In short, Gina Raphael managed to change the landscape like a loving, most capable gardener tending to a garden.  A magnificent and most tender work of creation.  This happened at the same time that CG David Siegel was here and changed the attitude toward public diplomacy, that started with working with the press and treating each and every one as if they are the entire world (rather than dismissing those not useful at the very moment or not rich or not important enough as rugs on which to wipe one’s feet, possibly to be used in the future if and when convenient).  It was a new world order.

Since then, Israel’s situation continued to deteriorate and the hatred toward Israel continued to intensify.  Ancient anti-Semitism rose again, this time around disguised as “permissible criticism of Israel.”  The United States has seen some horrific anti-Semitic attacks on synagogues.  Hate crimes against Jews rose in numbers and intensity.  The BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanction) movement has spread and managed to poison innocent minds with lies and propaganda.  

[Blog Editor: The BDS Movement is a grievous embodiment of Antisemitic Jew-Hatred as is demonstrated by facts  rather than lying propaganda:







Israel is compared to evil, and anything bad that happens to Jews is not punishment enough.  Companies like Air BnB and leading figures in the entertainment world like Natalie Portman take action against Israel, for talk has now morphed into action, and even local Jews of the younger generation now support organizations that harm Israel under the guise of “human rights."  

And then, there is Beverly Hills, an oasis of safety and sanity, a city where the great divide - between Democrats and Republicans, Netanyahu’s supporters and detractors, Reform and Orthodox Jews - has not managed to blindside those at the helm (“every elected member in the City is Jewish,” as Dr. Julian Gold likes to say).

A City like no other

Time and again, the Council stands up to fight anti-Semitism, to support Israel, to allow a safe haven for the Jews and to remember those who perished in the Holocaust.  Why do they do it?  Likely because any student of history knows that what starts with the Jews never ends with the Jews; that if we do not know our own history, we are bound to repeat it; and if we do not stand up and speak (and act), there will be no one left to stand up for us when the time comes.  Simple lessons; all practiced in Beverly Hills.

Nothing happens in vacuum, and the world has not come into being today.  The support for Israel has been a cornerstone of Beverly Hills for the past seven decades.  Giants like Guilford Glazer z”l [Blog Editor: For non-Jews who are unaware, when you see z”l after a person’s name, they are deceased (See CoffeeShopRabbi.com for some info)], Nate Shapell z”l, Max Well z”l, Larry Field z”l and others - many who survived the Holocaust.  Philanthropists like Paul and Herta Amir, Virginia and Frank Maas and Dick Ziman.  Past Mayors like Max Salter, MaraLee Goldman and Mark Egerman.  Journalists like Norma Zager, the former editor in chief of the Courier.  Local leaders like Sue Brucker (“How can we make Israelis understand we - Reform Jews - are Jews too?!?”).  Rabbis like Rabbi Laura Geller, Rabbi Yossi Cunin and Rabbi Kalman Topp (a Reform and two Orthodox; a woman and two men).  City Staff like Mahdi Aluzri and Pamela Mottice-Muller (an Iraqi and a Christian).  Religious leaders like senior pastor Dave Worth (of the BH Presbyterian Church).  In short - a community, Beverly Hills like no other.

It would not have happened without a push and a shove and a determination by a diplomat one rarely encounters in one’s life time, and a local mother-businesswomen-leader who focuses on doing good and away from nonsense, on substance than form.  But more importantly, the lesson to be learned is to never belittle the individual, or in this case, a tiny city, seemingly insignificant, or a local paper, equally “inconsequential.”  When you treat the “widower, orphaned and foreigner among us” as equal, as deserving and worthy, God repays, most handsomely.  Pay attention in life, for that is what God wants from us.  A dear lesson to learn indeed.  And if we ignore the other, we may end up finding ourselves … on our own.
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© Ari Bussel

Ari Bussel is Vice President of Operations at Saybrex International, a privately held family business specializing in the distribution of fine wines and spirits. He is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the company and has held various positions in the company since 1993.

Prior to joining Saybrex, Mr. Bussel served as First Lieutenant in the Center for Systems Analysis at General Headquarters of the Israel Defense Forces, where he led the implementation of the Logistics War Doctrine in the Computerized Wargame Program.

Mr. Bussel is involved in a variety of philanthropic and civic activities. Mr. Bussel completed the Team Beverly Hills Leadership Program and served on the Environmental Sustainability Topic Committee of the City of Beverly Hills. He was a member of the Steering Committees of former Beverly Hills Mayor MeraLee Goldman and the current Beverly Hills City Treasurer, the Hon. Eliot Finkel. Mr. Bussel also completed and participated in the Community Emergency Response Training Program of the City of Beverly Hills as well as the Crisis Response Team of the Maple Counseling Center.

Mr. Bussel was among the founding members and served on the boards of Gen. Shimon Erem’s Israel Christian Nexus, the Western Region of Friends of Israel Firefighters and the Israel Institute for Alternative Energy Advancement. He completed the Salvin Leadership Program of the Anti-Defamation League.

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Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Lessons From Palestinian Rule Over Bethlehem


The facts on Muslim rule over Christians (many if not most of Arab descent) where pseudo-Palestinians have governed are disturbing. It would make a Leftist Multiculturalist proud because the facts include the horrors of depopulation.

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Lessons From Palestinian Rule Over Bethlehem

January 28, 2020

The minaret of a Muslim mosque at Bethlehem's Manger Square is reflected in a gold crucifix during the 2002 Christmas Eve procession outside the Church of the Nativity. (Photo by David Silverman/Getty Images)

What is so special about Bethlehem?

For Jews, the town’s holiness stems from its description as the burial place of Rachel, Jacob’s beloved wife (Genesis 35:19). Later on, the story of Ruth largely revolves around Bethlehem as the childhood home of King David and the place where he was anointed as king (Samuel I 16:1-13). Jewish tradition teaches that the Messiah will come from Bethlehem (Micha 5:2-5).

Christian tradition teaches that Bethlehem was the birthplace of Jesus (Matthew 2:1–12, Luke 2:4–20, and John 7:42). The Church of the Nativity was built by Constantine the Great in the 4th century CE over a cave believed to be the very spot where Jesus was born.

Bethlehem Now and Then

Sadly, this holy city has also become a city of contention.

The 1947 United Nations Partition Plan proposed placing Bethlehem, which is just six miles southwest of Jerusalem, under UN control as part of the Jerusalem international zone. During the War of Independence in 1948 which broke out after the Arab countries rejected the partition plan, the Arab Legion took control of Bethlehem. During these 19 years the Christian population declined from in the thousands.

Israel took control over the city in June 1967 during the Six Day War. The Christian residents asked Israel to annex the city and make it an official part of Israel but Israel rejected the idea, holding out for the possibility of it returning to Arab hands in the context of a peace agreement.


From 1967 until 1995 Bethlehem thrived. Christians came on pilgrimages to the Church of the Nativity in the millions and Jewish worshippers flocked to the revered Tomb of Rachel. Local vendors, restaurants, and hotels experienced great success as people from all faiths felt free to visit and walk the city streets.

But then in 1995, Israeli negotiations with the Palestinian leadership led to the Oslo II Accords in which Israel agreed to hand over civilian and security control to six cities – Jericho, Tulkarem, Nablus, Qalqilya, and Bethlehem.

Bethlehem’s longtime Christian mayor, Elias Frej, begged Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin not to give the city which has a majority Christian population over to the Palestinian Authority. He was afraid what Muslim rule would do to the Christians living there. But Israel, seeking a breakthrough in its relationship with the Palestinians, handed Bethlehem over to Palestinian rule on December 21, 1995.


This led to a period of horrific unrest in and around the holy city. Palestinian snipers began shooting at Jewish visitors to Rachel’s Tomb and even killed IDF soldiers who were protecting those worshippers. At times, the holy site which was fortified with concrete walls and roofs, had to be closed because of the threats from Palestinian terrorists.  At other times visitors could only travel to the holy site in armored vehicles.

Aside from the attacks against Rachel’s Tomb, Bethlehem became a home base for terrorist cells and the launching pad for terror attacks against Israeli citizens. Its proximity to Jerusalem made the capital vulnerable. A few examples:

·       Dec. 5, 2001: Palestinian terrorist Daoud Ali Ahmed Saad was sent by the Islamic Jihad base in Bethlehem to blow himself up in the heart of downtown Jerusalem. He did so, seriously injuring five civilians.

·       Feb. 18, 2002: Palestinian terrorist Yasser Said Moussa Uda was sent by a Fatah/Tanzim terror group in Bethlehem to blow himself up next to a roadblock on a highway outside Jerusalem. He killed an Israeli police officer and seriously injured two civilians.

·       March 2, 2002: Sent by a Fatah/Tanzim terror cell in the Bethlehem district, Muhammad Ahmed Abd El-Rahman Derameh was transported to Jerusalem where he blew himself up next to worshippers leaving a Jerusalem synagogue. He was driven there by Ashraf Hajajara who also lived in the Bethlehem district.

·       March 17, 2002: Sent by an Islamic Jihad terror cell in Bethlehem, Akram Ishak Abdullah Nabatiti blew himself up at a major Jerusalem junction, seriously injuring 25 people.

·       March 29, 2002: Palestinian terrorist Ayat Mohammed Latfi al-Akhras from the Bethlehem district blew herself up in a main Jerusalem supermarket, killing two civilians and injuring 22.

·       March 31, 2002: Fatah operatives in Bethlehem prepared a bomb in a backpack and sent a 16-year-old boy to Jerusalem. The boy  blew himself up next to a health clinic, injuring six civilians.

Thus, Bethlehem became a base for Palestinian attacks against Israelis in Jerusalem. The mounting  casualties forced the Israel Defense Forces to enter the city repeatedly to search and arrest the terrorists. Israeli forces also worked to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure in the city. Not only were numerous suicide bombings thwarted, security forces also uncovered mortars and infrastructure for the production of rockets.


Israel also had no choice but to construct the security barrier which envelops Bethlehem, giving it the feeling of a city under siege. These measures sharply reduced the number of successful terror attacks, but with a Hamas terror cell strongly entrenched in Bethlehem, attempts continue.

Christians and their holy sites suffered terribly from the fighting, especially the Church of the Nativity during a month-long siege. On April 2, during the IDF’s Operation Defensive Shield of 2002, Israeli forces moved to arrest a number of Palestinian fugitives in the city. Fifty fled to the church compound where they held 200 monks hostage. After 38 days, the siege ended peacefully with the Palestinian fugitives agreeing to go into exile, some to Gaza and others to Europe. Israeli security forces found 40 explosives left behind in the church compound, a number of which were booby trapped.

Bethlehem’s Declining Christians

Aside from the challenges created by the security conflict, Christians see how radical Muslims persecute Christians throughout the Middle East and see that this has been happening since the Palestinian Authority was given control of the city. Examples of Palestinian Muslims intimidating their Christian neighbors include:

·       Land theft either by force or by forged documents, with little to no recourse in the PA justice system.

·       Muslim men harassing Christian women verbally or sexually.

·       Christian businesses forced to pay protection money.

·       Discrimination against Christians in job opportunities.

·       Churches being broken into, looted or vandalized.

·       Muslims who convert to Christianity face ostracism, assaults, even murder.

·       Kidnapping and forced conversion of Christians.


All of this has led to a significant decline in the Christian population in Bethlehem.


Whereas Christians used to make up a majority of Bethlehem’s residents, today, after 25 years of Palestinian control over the city, Christians make up only 20% of its population. (A similar occurrence took place in Gaza where 5,000 Christians lived in 2005 when Israel pulled out. After 14 years of Hamas rule,  only 1,000 Christians remain, and churches are often demolished.)

The situation in now Palestinian controlled Bethlehem stands in stark contrast to Israeli controlled Jerusalem, just six miles to the north. In Jerusalem the Christian population can practice their faith freely and securely. The Jerusalem municipality even provides free Christmas trees to Christian residents.

In fact, Israel is the only country in the Middle East in which the native Christian population increased since 1948. By the end of 2019, Israel’s Christian population stood at 177,000, having grown 1.5 percent according to the Central Bureau of Statistics.

The lesson is clear. Christians thrive with total religious freedom in Israeli-controlled areas, and suffer when Israel yields control to radical Palestinian forces.

Featured image: Rachel’s Tomb via Wikimedia Commons; Church of the Nativity CC BY-SA Dan; Shepherd’s Field CC BY-NC fabcom;
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