The 37th Zionist General Council of the World Zionist Organization met in Jerusalem in the beginning of November.
World Likud delegates from around the world, including many Federation heads and other activists, took part in this important gathering. The meeting was especially significant in terms of strengthening relations between the State of Israel and Jewish communities in the Diaspora.
On August 5th, 2013, the France chapter of the Likud held a special tour of Maarat HaMachpela (the Tomb of the Patriarchs) and the Jewish Quarter of Hebron.
The tour was organized and led by Mr. Jack Kupfer , a member of the board of the World Zionist Organization and the chair of the Friends of the World Likud.
Over 500 members of France’s Jewish community joined the tour and they were visibly moved by their visit to Maarat HaMachpela and the flags parade that took place in the ancient streets of Hebron.
Yaakov Hagoel, head of the World Zionist Organization’s Department for Countering Anti-Semitism greeted the enthusiastic crowd and encouraged them to increase aliya to Israel from France.
In his remarks, Jack Kupfer noted that the presence of hundreds of Jews in France is the best possible answer to the policy of boycott and delegitimization enacted by the European Union against the communities.
We are honored to invite you to a special event celebrating ninety years of the Betar World Zionist Youth Movement and 100 years since the birth of Menachem Begin.
The event will take place on Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Shuni Amphitheatre, Jabotinsky Park, Binyamina
Program:
18:30 – Gathering (tour of the Shuni Museum and special exhibits about the movement).
20:00 – Ceremony commencement
We look forward to seeing you.
With greetings of Tel Hai
Tamar Tanenbaum
Secretary General, Betar Israel
By Dr. Gerardo Stuczynski , Uruguay
Doctor in Law and Social Sciences; Former President of the Latin American Zionist Confederation, currently serving as Secretary General and member of the Extended World Zionist Executive.
70 years ago, in 1943, the majority of the around half a million Jews that lived in the Warsaw Ghetto had been deported to the extermination camp of Treblinka to be executed. A handful of 750 brave Jews decided to rise up in arms against the Nazis. The battle was so unequal that they had no possibility of success. The rebellion was crushed and the ghetto destroyed. But this uprising was the first and the most important and it symbolizes the Jewish heroism, dignity and resistance to Nazism.
Several events have been held to honor these heroes. The heroic role played by the Z.O.B. (Zydowska Organizacja Bodjwa), the “Organization of Jewish Fighters”, led by the brave Mordejai Anilevich is remembered. This organization was made up by leftist Zionist parties, the Zionist Center and the Bund, and was founded in July 1942.
In general, the Z.Z.W. (Zidowsky Zwizaek Wojksow), the “Jewish Military Organization” founded by the Zionist movement Betar, and other branches of the Revisionist party of Jabotinsky are mentioned. Read more…
Dr. Gerardo Stuczynski
By Dr. Gerardo Stuczynski
According to the Gregorian calendar on 14th May we will commemorate a new anniversary of the creation of the State of Israel. The Palestinians call that same day the “Nakba”, that is to say “the catastrophe”.
The War for Independence in May 1948, which meant emancipation for the Jews, was the origin of the refugees’ drama for the Palestinians, one of the core points of the conflict.The Arab countries did not accept the United Nations Partition Plan and declared an extermination war. According to Israeli historiography, the aggressors urgeשד שd the Arab population that resided there to leave the territories, promising that they would be able to come back soon, when their victorious armies had achieved their objective of driving the Jews into the sea.
Over Hanukah the World Likud held its traditional holiday gathering. We were honored to host the Chief Rabbi of Modiin David lau who lit the Hanukah candles. The highlight of the evening was singer Shuli Natan who brought tears to the crowd’s eyes when she sang Naomi Shemer’s famous “Jerusalem of Gold.”
During operation Piller of Defense, members of Likud Uruguay organized a mass rally to show their support for Israel. Thousands of supporters from the Uruguayan Jewish communities, including academia and prominent public figures also participated in the rally. The demonstration received acclamation and was broadcasted live on one of the most important “Montevideo” TV stations in Uruguay.
Supporting Israel
Uruguay Support Rally
The 36th session of the Zionist Organization’s Executive Committee was recently held in June and took place in Jerusalem. World Likud Representatives from Israel and abroad joined the Session, which was dedicated to “Empowering women in the Zionist Movement.” The Session also included discussions on immigration encouragement, the growing de-legitimization of Israel, and leadership development within the Zionist Movement.
The Executive Committee is an integral part of the Zionist Movement and works to strengthen the ties of its representatives located around the world.
Jerusalem Post reviews Chairman’s MK Danny Danon’s new book Israel: The Will to Prevail
“Israel would be going to elections next Tuesday had Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu not formed a short-lived national-unity government in a political deal that in private conversation he admits was a mistake.
The absence of elections in Israel has enabled there to be more focus on an election that could potentially be more fateful for the future of the Jewish state: The American presidential contest between US President Barack Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney.
Netanyahu’s associates believe he has succeeded in walking a fine line and staying out of American politics.
Others think his warm welcome for Romney last month went too far.
But another Likud politician makes no effort to hide where his political allegiance lies in the US election: The man who has been called “the Republican representative in the Knesset,” MK Danny Danon.
Danon did not attend this week’s Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida.
But he will be going to the US next week to advance his agenda against Obama and a new book he wrote in English that is very critical of the president.
Called Israel: The Will to Prevail, the book has a message about the need for Jerusalem to make its own decisions that is very timely, thanks to the international debate over the handling of the effort to prevent Iran’s nuclearization. Danon also uses the book to advance his solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict of three states, none of them Palestinian.”
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By Uriel Heilman – 29/7/2012 - www.jta.org
If there’s one thing Danny Danon doesn’t do, it’s shy away from controversy.
Danon, a deputy speaker of the Israeli Knesset and chairman of World Likud, has come under fire for describing African migrants in Israel as a “national plague,” for hosting controversial U.S. TV personality Glenn Beck at the Knesset and for demanding government investigations of left-wing NGOs.
Though Danon is in his first term in the Knesset, his profile is rising quickly on the Israeli political scene — perhaps more than anything else because of his unapologetically nationalist vision for Israel’s future.
He wants Israel to annex all the Jewish-occupied and uninhabited land in the West Bank. He wants Palestinians living on the remainder of the West Bank to become part of Jordan, Egypt to take control of the Gaza Strip and the international community to reject the establishment of a Palestinian state on the west bank of the Jordan River (it’s fine by him if the Palestinians take over the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan on the east bank). Danon does not believe in land for peace or the two-state solution.
Danon outlines his blueprint for Israel’s future in a book due out in September, “Israel: The Will to Prevail,” though the book focuses more on history than the details of the blueprint.
“I’m working very hard to present a different approach for the peace process,” Danon told JTA in a recent interview in his Knesset office. “Our goal should be to annex the maximum land with the minimum Arab population,” he said of the West Bank. “We should speak about our rights and not apologize for it. We have biblical rights, historical rights, rights according to international law. We also have common-sense rights: We won the war.”
While his ideas might seem far-fetched and antiquated — a throwback to notions that haven’t been discussed with much seriousness since the pre-Oslo era — Danon believes Israelis are warming to them.
“We live in the Middle East; everything is dynamic here. With time it can be feasible,” he said. “I don’t accept that my views are on the fringe. I do believe one day they will be accepted.”
Danon’s detractors fear this is becoming true – in Israel, at least.
“Ostensibly, one could even ignore the existence of this Likud backbencher, but little Danny Danon will be big, the sugar of the Israeli right,” Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy, a left-wing critic, wrote last summer. “So it’s better to pay attention to him now rather than later.”
Levy’s column compared Danon to Joe McCarthy for backing legislation targeting left-wing nongovernmental organizations and for initiating a bill to dismiss Israeli-Arab Knesset member Hanin Zuabi for participating in a flotilla aimed at breaking Israel’s naval blockade of the Gaza Strip.
