Topic: Is anyone following the Israel & Palestine Situation. - page 28. (Read 42653 times)

Look everyone, its really tense in here and I just want to say its a really complex situation. The truth is, both sides have some what of point in terms of a claim. The Arabs have been in Israel for 1500 years, Americans have only been in their home for just over 200, so its not like anyone is saying their claim is entirely invalid, but let me make this clear, THERE NEVER WAS AND NEVER HAS BEEN A PALESTINIAN STATE IN THE PAST! 

The truth is it was the Jews who gave up 85% of the state which European powers had given them in exchange for peace. Jews were actually the first people to ever recognize the Palestinians as an  group of people in need of their own identity. No Palestinian state had ever existed before and they were not even recognized as individuals by other Arab states, they were Jordanians.

All Israel has ever wanted, is for Palestinians to recognize ISRAELS RIGHT to exist as a country and live at peace with them.

I really feel bad when I see Palestinians suffering and I would love to see peace, but the current leaders of Gaza are still openly calling for the death of all of Israels inhabitants. I quote from a Hamas TV kids show "We don't hate them because they occupy our land we hate them because they are Jews"
how can you make peace with some one who will kill you, and is openly bragging about how thy will kill you?

and that's my whole point here this is complicated, but one side has proven its willingness to negotiate.

Israel has proven in the past it will trade land for peace, it gave back the entire Sinai dessert to Egypt in exchange for peace and it gave back part of Jordan as well.

The sad truth is, and it kills me to say it cause i don't hate anyone, the reason for no Palestinian states and all the Palestinian suffering, is because they hate Jews and they don't want peace, they want the death of Israel and all her inhabitants. If the Palestinians would stop attacking, they would have a state with in 15 years.

They have been offered a state 10 times, and all they have ever had to do is accept Israels existence.
some guy Bob posted a video up above some where you should definitely all watch.

I do believe there can be a peace here one day, just 30 years ago Egypt and Jordan were Israels biggest enemies and now there is peace between them. This just comes down to mutual acceptance.

Stand with Israel!

go fuck your unholy goy wife you fake jew...
you proved your a worthless hypocrite who cant even stick to his own faith...
he only preaches long live isreael cause he learned it in school...
he has no real education and cant even abay the rules of his own religion...
call him out on it and watch him run and hide....

Now we know who this guy bob really is....
a POSER, a hispter a fraud..
his own people would disown him and his catholic children and his goy wife...
We are really going to take isreal advice form someone who isnt really a jew just a poser???

idiot isnt even a jew acting like he is, just cause your mum has a hooked nose and you steal from goy dosnt make you a real jew...

rock on!!!!





Works of Karl Marx 1844
On The Jewish Question

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question/

STFU Goy! I could care less what you think or what someone wrote so long ago. I'll bring up my kids Jewish/Catholic and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

The Torah states that the children of such marriages would be lost to Judaism (Deut. 7:3-4)

"GOY" or "GOYIM" means CATTLE/UNCLEAN and refers to all non-Jews.
A real jew can never marry a GOY your wife is a GOY your a fake jew that uses his fake faith for a excuse to murder cause his mum has black hair and a hook nose....
gtfo really get a life

I know what Goy and Goym are dumbnut. Its not prevalent here hence why I ignored it.

what the fuck you dont even understand what it means to be jew, most jews have 0 jewish in them DNA wise.....
I can tell you have no real understanding for all my statments about goy ang goym you are ignoring....
Your wife is  goym?? thats a paradox and to a real jew that makes no sense, you are simply a try hard...
i pitty you and im done with the conversation here stop sending me your nonsense if you want to learn you have been given many chances,
 i put you down to being a troll or trying to play devils advocate simple as that.....
you cant be this uneducated but so radical it makes no sense.... Good day sir

Shes Canadian, her mother was born here, she's Norwegian. Her Father was born in Canada but is German.

She has no Jew in her beside me!




How about you take 10 minutes and learn the history!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZY8m0cm1oY

You're welcome.

EDIT: I would never marry a Jewish chick, they all remind me of my mom and how can I make love to someone while having that in my head.

SHIKSA all the way for me!

thing is she isnt...
being a German Jew makes her a isralite not a german...
cmon you know this... otherwise you cant marry her she is a goym....
if you are a jew you cant belong to any other nation you know this, i know this... but we keep it secret.

Lmao, really? My wife is German!

cause i went back and reread it and seen that comment about the "force us to kill your children bullshit" and reminded me what mentality we are dealing with....
but yes i wish we could all just get along but you jews will not accept anyone who isnt jew.... its the basis of your "supremacist religion".
So in reality we all cant get along... thanks to your core belies...

Here is one for the Amaricants:


can i ask bob where you circumcised by the mouth of your rabbie?? Heads up thats know to cause herpies.... 

What happened to cant we all get along?

How come you deleted the post?

I think your missing the point of my quotes and resort to logical fallacy's to try and grasp at straws on a sinking ship....
fuck off you embarrassing murderous troll...

"We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace."

King Abdullah II
King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

"Israel is surrounded by a raging sea, parts of which are not willing to accept us as a partner with equal rights among the nations. The reality we live in presents us with profound challenges, the need to effectively use all of our resources, and the need to prepare for any development, near or far. The IDF will protect the security and the future of the state. The IDF will provide the response when the order is given."

Ehud Barak,
Minister of Defense to Israel

"We can forgive the Arabs for killing our childern. We cannont forgive them for forcing us to kill their children… We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their childern more that they hate us."

Golda Meir,
Former Israeli Prime Minister


This is why we are better then the Palestinians


"We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem."

Yasser Arafat,
Former Chairman of the Palestine Liberation

"Oh, Allah, destroy the Jews and their supporters and the Americans and their supporters. Oh, Allah, count them one by one, and kill them all, without leaving a single one."

Sheik Ahamd Bahr,
deputy speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council

"No thoughtful man can deny the fact that the Jews are, beyond any question, the most formidable and most remarkable race which has appeared in the world."

Winston Churchill,
U.K. Prime Minister

Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat, 348
That the Jewish nation is the only nation selected by God, while all the remaining ones are contemptible and hateful.
 
That all property of other nations belongs to the Jewish nation, which consequently is entitled to seize upon it without any scruples. An orthodox Jew is not bound to observe principles of morality towards people of other tribes. He may act contrary to morality, if profitable to himself or to Jews in general.
 
A Jew may rob a Goy, he may cheat him over a bill, which should not be perceived by him, otherwise the name of God would become dishonoured.
 
Choshen Ha'mishpat 425:50
Kill the Goyim by any means possible.
 
Yalkut 245c
Everyone who sheds the blood of the impious [non-Jews] is as acceptable to God as he who offers a sacrifice to God.
 

I'm not sure on what basis you assert that that land was yours before anyone else's. Care to explain? And what of the Palestinian population that lives there?

Still, I don't even think the land is the most important aspect here to Palestinians. Perhaps it's cited as such by extremists, but not to the population in general, as far as I can tell; their human rights seem to be the most important thing to them - not surprising. In this context, let's not forget that Israel has stated their intention to keep the population on the occupied territories (Gaza in particular) on a level just slightly above to that of an humanitarian crisis, as was leaked by Wikileaks, and later officially acknowledged.

Now, I don't really agree with Hamas' violent tactics, but in what meaningful sense is Israel defending itself by oppressing Palestinians? Don't you think this only serves to further radicalize the population, and increase the threat over time? It seems to me that dealing with this first would be the best way for Israel to defend itself, instead of furthering the conflict.

i love how this guy just keeps proving the points without realizing it.....

and here is another red herring for you bob....
you asked you received... obviously you are playing devils advocate your not this silly in real life??



FACT:
Judaism came first, then Christianity, then Islam, but is NOT the first form of monotheism.
 
FACT:
"GOY" or "GOYIM" means CATTLE/UNCLEAN and refers to all non-Jews.
 
FACT:
The Jews don't have a devil or Satan as their "bad guy." Their "bad guy" is ALL NON-JEWS!!!
 

Sanhedrin 58b
R. Hanina said: If a heathen smites a Jew, he is worthy of death; for it is written, And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian. [Ex. 2:12] R. Hanina also said: He who smites an Israelite on the jaw, is as though he had thus assaulted the Divine Presence; for it is written, one who smiteth man [i.e. an Israelite] attacketh the Holy One.
 
Tosefta, Aboda Zara, VIII, 5
If a goy killed a goy or a Jew he is responsible, but if a Jew killed a goy he is not responsible.
 
Libbre David 37
To communicate anything to a Goy about our religious relations would be equal to the killing of all Jews, for if the Goyim knew what we teach about them, they would kill us openly.
 
Szaaloth-Utszabot, The Book of Jore Dia 17
A Jew should and must make a false oath when the Goyim asks if our books contain anything against them.
 
Tosefta, Tractate Erubin VIII
On the house of the Goy [Goy means unclean, and is the disparaging term for a non-Jew] one looks as on the fold of cattle.
 
Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 156
When a Jew has a Gentile in his clutches, another Jew may go to the same Gentile, lend him money and in turn deceive him, so that the Gentile shall be ruined. For the property of a Gentile, according to our law, belongs to no one, and the first Jew that passes has full right to seize it.
 
Choschen Hamm 388, 15
If it can be proven that someone has given the money of Israelites to the Goyim, a way must be found after prudent consideration to wipe him off the face of the earth.
 
Zohar, Vayshlah 177b
Happy will be the lost of Israel, whom the Holy One, blessed be He, has chosen from amongst the Goyim, of whom the Scriptures say: "Their work is but vanity, it is an illusion at which we must laugh; they will all perish when God visits them in His wrath." At the moment when the Holy One, blessed be He, will exterminate all the Goyim of the world, Israel alone will subsist, even as it is written: "The Lord alone will appear great on that day!...
 
Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat, 348
That the Jewish nation is the only nation selected by God, while all the remaining ones are contemptible and hateful.
 
That all property of other nations belongs to the Jewish nation, which consequently is entitled to seize upon it without any scruples. An orthodox Jew is not bound to observe principles of morality towards people of other tribes. He may act contrary to morality, if profitable to himself or to Jews in general.
 
A Jew may rob a Goy, he may cheat him over a bill, which should not be perceived by him, otherwise the name of God would become dishonoured.
 
Choshen Ha'mishpat 425:50
Kill the Goyim by any means possible.
 
Yalkut 245c
Everyone who sheds the blood of the impious [non-Jews] is as acceptable to God as he who offers a sacrifice to God.
 
Zohar, Shemoth
Extermination of the Christians is a necessary sacrifice.
 
Soferim 15, Rule 10
Tob shebbe goyyim harog - Even the best of the Goyim (Gentiles) should be killed.
 
Hilkkoth Akum X1
Do not save Goyim in danger of death.
Show no mercy to the Goyim.
 
Schulchan Aruch, Johre Deah, 122
A Jew is forbidden to drink from a glass of wine which a Gentile has touched, because the touch has made the wine unclean.
 
Menachoth 43b-44a
It was taught: R. Judah used to say, A man is bound to say the following three blessings daily: "[Blessed art thou...] who hast not made me a heathen," ".... who hast not made me a woman"; and "... who hast not made me a brutish man." R. Aha b. Jacob once overhead his son saying "[Blessed art thou...] who hast not made me a brutish man," whereupon he said to him, "And this too!" Said the other, "Then what blessing should I say instead?" [He replied,]...h who hast not made me a slave." And is not that the same as a woman? - a slave is more contemptible.
 
Avodah Zarah 36b
[The daughters of the heathens] should be considered as in the state of niddah [separation?] from their cradle...
 
Avodah Zarah 36b-37a
They decreed in connection with a heathen child that it should cause defilement by seminal emission so that an Israelite child should not become accustomed to commit pederasty with him.... It is therefore to be concluded that a heathen girl [communicates defilement] from the age of three years and one day, for inasmuch as she is then capable of the sexual act she likewise defiles by a flux. This is obvious!
 
Sanhedrin 55b
R. Joseph said: Come and hear! A maiden aged three years and a day may be acquired in marriage by coition [intercourse], and if her deceased husband's brother cohabits with her, she becomes his. The penalty of adultery may be incurred through her; [if a niddah] she defiles him who has connection with her, so that he in turn defiles that upon which he lies, as a garment which has lain upon [a person afflicted with gonorrhoea].
 
Sanhedrin 54b
Rab said: Pederasty with a child below nine years of age is not deemed as pederasty with a child above that. Samuel said: Pederasty with a child below three years is not treated as with a child above that. 24 (24) I.e., Rab makes nine years the minimum; but if one committed sodomy with a child of lesser age, no guilt is incurred. Samuel makes three the minimum.
 
Kethuboth 11b
Raba said. It means this: When a grown-up man has intercourse with a little girl it is nothing, for when the girl is less than this [three years old], it is as if one puts the finger into the eye; but when a small boy has intercourse with a grown-up woman he makes her as ‘a girl who is injured by a piece of wood.’...
 
Avodah Zarah 22a-b
Why then should we not leave female animals alone with female heathens? -- Said Mar 'Ukba b. Hama: Because heathens frequent their neighbours' wives, and should one by chance not find her in, and find the cattle there, he might use it immorally. You may also say that even if he should find her in he might use the animal, as a Master has said: Heathens prefer the cattle of Israelites to their own wives, for R. Johanan said: When the serpent came unto Eve he infused filthy lust into her.
 
Mas. K'rithoth 6b
[This passage refers to anointing with oil. "Heathens," i.e., Gentiles, are not "adam" or man but are equated with cattle]
 
He who pours the oil of anointing over cattle or vessels is not guilty; if over heathens or the dead, he is not guilty. The law relating to cattle and vessels is right, for it is written: Upon the flesh of man [adam] shall it not be poured; and cattle and vessels are not man. Also with regard to the dead, [it is plausible] that he is exempt, since after death one is called corpse and not man. But why is one exempt in the case of heathens; are they not in the category of adam?—No, it is written: And ye my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are adam [man]: Ye are called adam but heathens are not called ‘adam. But is it not written: And the persons [adam] were sixteen thousand? -- Because it is used in opposition to cattle. But is it not written: And should I not have pity on Nineveh [that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons [adam]?--This too is used in opposition to cattle.
 
Mas. Yevamoth 61b
[Again non-Jews are referred to as "cattle."]
 
An objection was raised: And the persons were sixteen thousand!--This is due to [the mention of] cattle. Wherein are more than six-score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right and their left hand!--This is due [to the mention of] cattle.
 
Zohar, Shemoth, Toldoth Noah, Lekh-Lekha
All Israelites will have a part in the future world... The Goyim, at the end of the world will be handed over to the angel Duma and sent down to hell.
 
Midrasch Talpioth, p. 225-L
Jehovah created the non-Jew in human form so that the Jew would not have to be served by beasts. The non-Jew is consequently an animal in human form, and condemned to serve the Jew day and night.
 
Schulchan Oruch, Orach Chaim 14, 20, 32, 33, 39
Everything a Jew needs for his church ritual no goy is permitted to manufacture, but only a Jew, because this must be manufactured by human beings and the Jew is not permitted to consider the goyim as human beings.
 
Hadarine, 20, B; Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 348
A Jew may do to a non-Jewess what he can do. He may treat her as he treats a piece of meat.
 
Gad. Shas. 2:2
A Jew may violate but not marry a non-Jewish girl.
 
Pereferkowicz, Talmud t.v., p. 11
A boy-goy after nine years and one day old, and a girl after three years and one day old, are considered filthy.

How about you ask any of these jews if they think Israel is a myth.

2. Ben Bernanke
The chairman of the US Federal Reserve.

In announcing his second term until 2014, President Obama said Bernanke’s background, temperament, courage and creativity helped prevent another Great Depression. Time named him person of the year last year. Bernanke, 56, wrote his doctoral thesis at MIT in 1979 on “Long-term commitments, dynamic optimization, and the business cycle” and his thesis adviser was none other than Stanley Fischer, the current governor of the Bank of Israel.

3. Rahm Emanuel
White House chief of staff.

Emanuel is believed by some critics to be a key player in Barack Obama’s more critical stance on Israel – an adviser with the expertise to strongly influence the president. He is believed by others to be a crucial bulwark, limiting Washington-Jerusalem frictions.

His father, an Israeli doctor, caused a stir by telling Ma’ariv after his appointment by President Obama: “Obviously, he’ll influence the president to be pro-Israel. Why wouldn’t he? What is he, an Arab?” Known as a tough guy, Emanuel flew to Israel as a volunteer during the first Iraq war and is said to be the model for Josh Lyman on the popular TV series, “The West Wing.”

4. Sergey Brin
Founder of Google

Together with Larry Page, whose maternal grandmother was Jewish, the Russian-born Brin founded Google, the world’s largest Internet company, and they are often referred to as the “Google Guys.” Brin, 36, and Page, 37, met at Stanford, where they suspended their doctoral studies to start up Google in a rented garage.

The Economist calls Brin an “Enlightenment Man” who believes that “knowledge is always good, and certainly always better than ignorance” and in  the Google mantra, “Don’t be evil!” (Board chairman Eric Schmidt famously quipped that “Evil is whatever Sergey says is evil.”) The duo have visited Israel several times, once for the 80th birthday of Shimon Peres.

5. Shai Agassi
Founder of Better Place

Agassi, 42, has become a pioneer in alternative energy under the auspices of the company he founded in 2007.

After being endorsed by the Israeli government in 2008, Better Place has negotiated contracts on electric cars with more than two dozen countries. The Israeli entrepeneur was named by Time as the world’s most influential businessman in 2003 and one of its 100 most influential people last year.

6. Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Head of the International Monetary Fund

Strauss-Kahn, 61, was professor of economics at the University of Paris, where he obtained his doctorate, and became a member of parliament for the Socialist Party in 1986. He was chosen as managing director of the International Monetary Fund in 2007 and is expected to run for president of France in 2012.

The IMF played a key role in the recent European decision to pass a trillion-dollar plan to aid Greece.

7. Shimon Peres
President of Israel

Peres, who is 86, arguably wields more power and prestige than any of his predecessors. After a career marked by controversy and confrontation, in which he gained the reputation of being a serial loser, Peres has finally emerged as a consensus figure admired not only by the outside world but by the majority of Israelis too.

He maintains a more than correct relationship with the prime minister, who appreciates the international credibility and access offered by the Nobel peace laureate, even as he asserts a greater Palestinian willingness for compromise than Binyamin Netanyahu believes exists.

Peres responds:
“I would like to discover ways to enter the New Age while being Jewish and modern at the same time. Traveling is not such a big deal today, and I imagine that many of the Jewish people who do not live in Israel can develop a way of life which they can share in two places. I would like to see a Jewish lifestyle which on the one hand is as old as the Ten Commandments and on the other is as modern as nanotechnology.”

8. David Axelrod
Senior White House Adviser
Barack Obama’s top political adviser helps the president craft and communicate his policy, and calmed tempers during the latest spat between the US and Israel.

Before entering the White House, Axelrod, 55, was a political writer for the Chicago Tribune and founded AKP&D Message and Media. He managed Obama’s presidential campaigns in 2004 and 2008.

In an Israel Independence Day address in Washington this year, Axelrod said: “Let’s not confuse the occasional dispute over policy with the fundamental relationship that has guided our two nations for so long and will continue to guide our two nations.”

Axelrod responds:
“My father was a Jewish immigrant who fled the pogroms and came to America in search of freedom and opportunity. I carry the memory of my family's miraculous journey with me every day.”

9. Alan Dershowitz
Law professor, Israel advocate

Dershowitz, 71, is an internationally respected jurist who has served as an attorney in several high-profile cases, including that of OJ Simpson. At 28, he became the youngest law professor in Harvard’s history. Married to a psychologist from Israel, Dershowitz has become famous for his eloquent advocacy for Israel and commentary on the Middle East conflict.

Dershowitz responds:
My career has generally been reactive to where I think the great crises of human rights are, and the unfair attacks. So in the 60s I was very active in the civil rights movement. I went down south. I spent my time defending lots of African Americans and other discriminated-against groups. Then in the late 60s and 70s I was very active in the anti-war, ant-Vietnam movement, defending lots of people who were prosecuted for their views on Vietnam – the Pentagon Papers case, the Chicago Seven case, those cases. In the mid-70s, I turned my attention to Soviet dissidents and Soviet Jews, because they were the ones who were mostly in need. And then when the world started to really turn against Israel, and particularly when the hard left started to turn so heavily against Israel, it was perfectly consistent with my career and my commitment to human rights to turn to Israel. The case against Israel has increased both in the court of public opinion and real courts. So I suspect I will be spending more and more time in Israel.

10. Elena Kagan
US Supreme Court nominee

Kagan, 50, is the first woman to be solicitor general of the US, and has just been named as Barack Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court, where she would become the third woman and third Jew to sit on the court. Kagan, a liberal Democrat, was formerly the dean of the prestigious Harvard Law School and a professor at the University of Chicago, as well as serving as associate White House counsel under Bill Clinton.

A Democrat and supporter of Obama, she is capable of swinging the court to the left, while making key judicial decisions on the freedom of religion and choice.

11.  Alan Solow
Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations

Solow, 55, is a charismatic Jewish leader, top Chicago lawyer and friend of President Barack Obama.

Tablet Magazine calls him “the Go-Between” – the putative spokesman for American Jewry played a key role in resolving the recent crisis between the US and Israel.

Solow responds:
“This recognition by he Jerusalem Post in reality reflects the critical role played by the Conference, especially during a time period when we have seen transitions in the leadership of both the United States and Israel. Our goal as always, whether working publicly or in private (and we do both), is to promote the strongest possible relationship between two democratic allies. We have also been extremely active in raising public awareness and urging swift action to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons capability. To the extent that my work has made a contribution to these efforts, I am delighted. In my capacity as Conference Chair, I often interact with senior American and Israeli officials, and I have had the opportunity to meet with President Obama and advocate directly to him. I am pleased to report that our access to government officials in the United States and Israel is excellent.

It is certainly humbling to be included in such outstanding company. Moving forward, we will work relentlessly to make certain that a clear Jewish voice is heard where policy is made and implemented.”

12. Ehud Barak
Defense Minister

Barak, 68, in his second term, has proved to be an adept diplomat and master strategist. He is involved not only in safeguarding Israel from its enemies, including Iran, but in the diplomatic process with the Palestinians and Arab states as well. He is arguably the most senior Israeli minister with whom the Obama administration is most comfortable, being perceived as relatively dovish, capable, worldly and calm.

13. Irwin Cotler
Canadian MP, human rights activist

Cotler, 70, is a member of the Canadian Parliament for the Liberal Party and a former justice minister and attorney general. He was previously a professor of law at McGill University and the director of its Human Rights Program, becoming an expert in international and human rights law.

A staunch defender of Israel from a human rights vantage point, and a very frequent visitor here, he is widely credited with having influenced Canada’s current supportive stance on the Jewish state.

14. Michael Bloomberg
Mayor of New York

Bloomberg, 68, founder of the Bloomberg media company, successfully campaigned to change the law and win a third term as mayor last year. As mayor, he is currently having to deal with an apparent renewal of terrorism in the city. Listed by Forbes as the eighth richest person in the US, Bloomberg declines to receive a city salary, accepting remuneration of $1 annually for his services.

15. Bernard Kouchner
Foreign Minister, France

Although he is currently serving in a right-wing government, the French foreign minister was previously considered a center-left politician. Kouchner, 70, was a co-founder of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders).

At the forefront of the international struggle against Iran’s nuclear program, he once stated that while France was committed to a diplomatic resolution and that no military action was planned, an Iranian nuclear weapon would pose “a real danger for the whole world.”

16. Gabi Ashkenazi
IDF Chief of General Staff

The 56-year-old IDF chief is credited with restoring pride in the military and has a good relationship with his US counterpart, Michael Mullen, who awarded him the prestigious Legion of Merit.

He emphasized a quiet back-to-basics approach in the IDF that saw it fight far more effectively in Operation Cast Lead against Hamas in 2008-9 than it had in the Second Lebanon War against Hizbullah in 2006.

17. Stanley Fischer
Bank of Israel Governor

The 66-year-old Bank of Israel governor, who began a second five-year term this year, is credited with stabilizing Israel’s economy during the international financial crisis. He has also maintained a relationship
with his former protégé, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, that has helped enable Palestinian economic growth of some 10 percent in the
West Bank over the past year.

18. Avigdor Lieberman
Foreign Minister

The Soviet-born foreign minister, 51, is a key player in Middle East peace negotiations. As the founder and leader of the Israel Beiteinu Party, he believes that all Israeli citizens should have to sign a loyalty oath.

He is currently being investigated by police for alleged corruption, but has a huge political following, especially among FSU immigrants and on the Right.

19.  Sheldon Adelson
Entrepreneur and philanthropist

The wealthy American casino king, 76, is a big supporter of the Republican Party and Israel, and has been a key philanthropic funder behind Yad Vashem, Birthright and other causes. The owner of Israel’s biggest free daily, Yisrael Hayom, which, while derided by critics of the prime minister as a “Bibiton” – a slavishly pro-Netanyahu publication – has diversified and revolutionized the Hebrew tabloid market.

20. Dorit Beinisch
Supreme Court President

Beinisch, 68, is the first woman to serve as president of the Supreme Court. In her judicial rulings, Beinisch has focused on combating government corruption and ensuring that state institutions and security services follow the law. In a landmark ruling ten years ago, she said corporal punishment by parents is “forbidden,” because it infringes on the child’s rights and harms his dignity as a human being.

21. Natan Sharansky
Jewish Agency Chairman

As chairman of the Jewish Agency, the 62-year-old former prisoner of Zion now heads the largest Jewish NGO in the world. After trying his hand in politics, forming the Israel Ba’aliya political party and serving as a cabinet minister, Sharansky is currently spearheading a campaign to reform the Jewish Agency and focus on Jewish identity. He is also introducing a plan to hand out Jewish Nobel prizes.

22. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
US Supreme Court Justice

Bader Ginsburg, 67, is the first Jewish woman to be a jusice of the US Supreme Court, and the second woman. An associate justice, she is considered part of the liberal wing of the court. In her previous career as a law professor, she became an outspoken advocate for women’s rights.  In a 2009 New York Times interview, in which she said regarding abortion that “the basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.”

23.  Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook Founder

The 26-year-old American entrepreneur who five years ago co-founded the massively popular social networking site, Facebook with three other Harvard students, one of whom, Dustin Moskovitz was also Jewish.  Three years ago, Microsoft (whose CEO, Steve Ballmer, is also Jewish) bought a 1.6% stake to Microsoft Corp. for $240 million. A film about Facebook is due to be released this year.

24. Moshe Kantor
EJC President

The president of the European Jewish Congress, Kantor this month opened the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry at Tel Aviv University. The center will study existing legislation on anti-Semitism in Europe and draft an “ideal law” for combating the growing phenomenon.

Kantor responds:
“I am honored to be in a position where I can advocate for European Jewish interests and the State of Israel amongst senior political, religious and influential figures in Europe and beyond. This is a testament to the re-ascendancy of European Jewry on the Diaspora world stage. It is my firm belief that the influence and significance of European Jewry will only continue to rise, as will its role of support for the state, people and government of Israel in a continent where understanding of the challenges that Israel faces is sometimes lacking. Also, because of our history, I am convinced that Jews need to play a more prominent role in achieving greater tolerance in Europe. As the President of the European Jewish Congress and Chairman of the European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation, an organization of elder European statesmen, I assist in preparing practical recommendations for governments and international organisations to improve interreligious and interethnic relations on the continent.”

25. Michael Steinhardt
Investor and philanthropist

The 59-year-old New York investor is a big political donor in the US, giving to both the Democrats and Republicans. Steinhardt, who owns a home in Jerusalem, is better known here for sponsoring the Birthright Israel program together with Charles Bronfman.

Steinhardt responds:
I am honored, and I hope in the coming years I can merit this honor. I have devoted so much of my life, especially over the last 15 years, to the Jewish future and I think I’m stuck with that preoccupation for the foreseeable future.

26. Mortimer Zuckerman
Publisher

Zuckerman, 72, a former chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, is the owner of the New York Daily News and U.S. News & World Report and co-founder of Boston Properties. He is a strong supporter of Israel and Jewish causes.

27. Ronald Lauder
WJC President

President of the World Jewish Congress and son of Esthee Lauder, the 66-year-old Lauder, is a wealthy businessman who is a strong support of the Republican Party in the US and the Likud in Israel. In the past, he has mediated contacts between Prime Minister Netanyahu and Syrian President Assad. Last month published an open letter to President Obama urging the administration to "end our public feud with Israel."

28. Larry Ellison
Oracle founder

The 65-year-old magnate who founded and is CEO of the world’s second largest software company, Oracle, is listed by The Marker as the world’s richest Jew, and by Forbes as the sixth richest person in the world.

On a visit to Israel three years ago, he praised the country’s intellectual talent and hi-tech achievements, and related how excited he had been to watch Israeli jets fly over Auschwitz – signalling that the Holocaust would never happen again.

29. Ruth Arnon
Biochemist

Prof. Arnon, currently the Paul Ehrlich Professor of Immunology at the Weizmann Institute of Science and vice president of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, is a veteran biochemist and codeveloper of the multiple sclerosis drug, Copaxone. It is one of the few medications invented in Israel, and is manufactured and sold by Teva, the world’s largest generic medicine company.

30. Elie Wiesel
Writer

Wiesel, now 81, is the world’s most famous living Holocaust survivor, having written 57 books and won a Nobel Prize. In April, Wiesel took out full-page ads in US newspapers defending the Jewish rights to Jerusalem, and later dined with President Obama in an attempt to defuse the tension they caused.

31. Steven Spielberg
Filmmaker

America’s most famous film maker, who is now 63, has won three Academy awards, including the epic Schindler’s List about how German businessman Oskar Schindler saved over 1,000 Jews during the Second World War. He has also established a historically important Holocaust film and video archive.

32. Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Chief Rabbi, UK

The chief rabbi of the British Commonwealth was knighted in 2005, and is well respected in the UK as an articulate leader and spokesman of the Jewish community. He has also written several best-selling books, one of which – The Dignity of Difference – was awarded the Grawemeyer Award for Religion.

33. Jeff Zucker
CEO of NBC Universal

President and CEO of NBC Universal, the premier television network in the US for the past three years. New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd wrote that in Hollywood “there has been a single topic of discussion: How does Jeff Zucker keep rising and rising while the fortunes of NBC keep falling and falling?” Many of Hollywood’s honchos are Jewish, including executives from CBS, Walt Disney, Warner Brothers, News Corp., Sony Pictures Chairman and CBS, whose CEO, Leslie Moonves is a great-nephew of David Ben-Gurion.

34. Joseph Lieberman
US Senator

The Connecticut senator still commands respect in Washington as a straight shooter and an ardent supporter of Israel. Despite backing John McCain in the 2008 elections, Lieberman maintained his chairmanship of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, apparently with the support of President Obama.

35. Eric Cantor
US Congressman

The Virginia representative is currently serving as Republican whip, and is the only Jewish Republican in Congress. An ardent backer of Israel, he has co-sponsored legislation to cut off all US taxpayer aid to the Palestinian Authority unless it stops unauthorized excavations on the Temple Mount.

36. Lee Rosenberg
President of AIPAC

Rosenberg, 53, is a leading Chicago venture capitalist with long-standing ties to Barack Obama. A jazz veteran and venture capitalist, he this year became president of the most influential pro-Israel lobby, AIPAC.

The Chicago Tribune reported that Rosenberg, according to more than a dozen friends, is a master at building relationships with powerful people.

Rosenberg accompanied Barack Obama during his trip to Israel before becoming president and helped him during his presidential campaign, but didn’t refrain from reprimanding the US for its treatment of Israel during the recent dispute over east Jerusalem housing.

37. Richard Goldstone
International jurist

Goldstone, an internationally renowned jurist and former South African judge, created a storm of protest in the Jewish world after his report last year as head of the UN Human Rights Council mission on the Gaza conflict in which he charged Israel (and Hamas) with alleged war crimes.

This year, he again became the subject of controversy after Yediot Aharonot  published a report showing that, as an appellate judge in apartheid South Africa, he sanctioned death sentences against 28 black men.

Today, Goldstone is a board member of several NGOs that promote justice and human rights, including Human Rights Watch, and is a trustee of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

38. Thomas Friedman
Columnist

Friedman is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and  journalist whose column in The New York Times has a huge readership.

In a column this year in the midst of the US-Israel spat over east Jerusalem housing, he wrote that while “President Barack Obama was 100 percent right to call out Israel on its settlement expansion... he also needs his own clear strategy to exploit the opportunities inherent in this moment.”

39. Haim Saban
Media magnate

The Israeli American media mogul is one of the largest donors to the Democratic Party, supporting Hillary Clinton in the last election. He is also a staunch backer of Israel, telling The New York Times once: “I’m a one-issue guy and my issue is Israel.”

40. Jeremy Ben-Ami
J Street Executive Director

Ben-Ami is executive director of J Street, a left-wing pro-Israel lobby group in the US which endorses and raises money for federal candidates. After initially being shunned by the government, Ben-Ami recently had a reconciliatory meeting with Ambassador Michael Oren and brought a large delegation to Israel that met President Peres and other leaders.

41. Shari Arison
Bank of Hapoalim owner

The owner of Bank Hapoalim is Israel’s wealthiest citizen and listed by Forbes as the richest woman in the Middle East. Last year, she sponsored a “Good Deeds Day” which inspired Israelis to volunteer to perform mitzvot across the country.

42.  Simone Veil
French politician

Veil, 83, is a Holocaust survivor who became a respected French lawyer and politician. She previously served as president of the European Parliament and was inducted into the Academie Francaise this year.

43. Irving Moskowitz
US tycoon, settler supporter

The Florida-based tycoon is considered the leading supporter of Jewish construction in east Jerusalem and hands out a prize for Zionism to settler leaders.

44. Gill Marcus
Bank Governor, South Africa

The former ANC activist now serves as governor of the South African Reserve Bank - the first woman to hold the position.

45. Bernard-Henri Lévy
Philosopher

A French philosopher and one of the leaders of the Nouvelle Philosophie movement who said that Jews ought to provide a unique moral voice in the world.

46. Bob Dylan
Musician

The veteran singer was cited by the Pulitzer Prize jury for his profound impact on popular music and American culture, “marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power.” Several of his songs have become anthems for the human rights movement, including “Blowin’ in the wind.”

He made Michael Shapiro’s list in The Jewish 100: A ranking of the Most Influential Jews of all Time.

Dylan has performed five times in Israel, but contrary to press reports, will not be coming here during his European tour this summer.


47. Roman Abramovitch
Investor, Chelsea FC owner

The Russian oligarch who now lives in London and owns the private investment company, Millhouse LLC, got a big boost this year with Chelsea, the English soccer club he owns, winning the Premier League.

48. Sacha Baron Cohen
Comedian

The British actor who played three crazy journalists, Ali G, Borat (left) and Brüno, has created an international controversy over his comic characters – and become a household name around the globe.

In the much-touted Simpsons’ tour of Israel episode recently aired on television, Baron Cohen plays Jacob, an angry tour guide. When Marge accused him of being pushy, Jacob retorts: “Try living next to Syria... and see how laid back you are!”

49. Lucian Freud
Artist

The grandson of Sigmund and brother of Clement, Lucian lives in London and is arguably the most famous and influential living Jewish painter. Freud has painted a series of famous portraits, including those of fellow artists and Queen Elizabeth II.

Two years ago, his portrait, Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, was sold by  Christie's for $33.6 million, setting a world record for sale value of a painting by a living artist.

50. Omri Casspi
Basketball player

The first Israeli to play in the NBA, the tall basketball player has emerged as a star for the Sacramento Kings and one of the greatest Jewish sportsmen in history. In January, he set a new career record with 24 points against the Phoenix Suns. Last year, he won fourth place in the FIBA Europe Young Men’s Player of the Year and was named Jerusalem Post sportsman of the year, and this year played in the NBA All-Star Weekend. Soft-spoken and well-mannered, he is liked and respected in the NBA and serves as a goodwill ambassador for Israel abroad.

Just a few influential people who happen to be Jewish.