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THE SIX DAY WAR - DAY TWO - JUNE 6

June 6: Mass Desertion in the Desert

IAF planes and pilots had now been involved in almost constant battle for twenty-four hours. The pilots were weary, and the aircraft low on ammunition and fuel. Inexplicably, the enemy did not take advantage of this weakness. Though in control of extensive forces in the Sinai Desert, and certainly capable of mounting a ferocious counterattack, Egyptian leaders were reduced to giving incoherent and disorganized instructions to their troops.

Israeli troops pressed on in the Sinai front. After capturing the Egyptian eastern outpost Abu-Ageila the day earlier, they now approached the heavily defended Kusseima outpost. As the Israelis drew near, they heard massive explosions. When they arrived they saw that the Egyptians, for no apparent reason, had destroyed their equipment and abandoned the base! As the day continued, it became clear that the Egyptians were hastily abandoning many of their outposts, some with all their supplies left behind.

Today’s Highlights:

Israel seizes Gaza, Kalkiliya and Ramallah.

“Ammunition Hill” in East Jerusalem, the mountainous area of north-west Jerusalem, and the fortress at Latrun, all fall into Israeli hands. Jerusalem is now encircled by Israeli forces.

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THE SIX DAY WAR - DAY ONE - JUNE 5

June 5: War Begins

By 7:30 a.m., two hundred Israeli Air Force (IAF) planes were in the air heading towards Egyptian air bases. Though flying very low so as not to be detected by scores of Arab radar sites, a Jordanian radar facility detected an unusually large number of aircraft heading towards the sea. The officer on duty immediately sent a message, "Inab," the code-word for war, to Jordan military headquarters in Amman. The message was encoded and passed on to Egypt’s defense minister in Cairo. Miraculously, however, the Egyptian coding frequencies had been changed the previous day, and the Jordanians were not updated. That morning, with the element of surprise in their favor, the IAF obliterated six Egyptian airfields--two in Egypt proper and four in the Sinai Desert--destroying 204 Egyptian planes, half of their air force. Though Egypt had sufficient anti-aircraft ammunition to destroy all the attacking Israeli planes, miraculously, no order was given for these missiles to be launched. The Israelis accomplished their mission with practically no resistance.

The total air superiority achieved on the first day of the war drastically reduced the enemies' combat abilities.

Today’s Highlights:
Israeli air strikes destroy two thirds of the Syrian Air Force, more than 300 Egyptian aircraft, and most of Royal Jordanian Air Force.

IDF completes the capture of Rafah and El-Arish.

The “Government House” in Jerusalem is captured from the Jordanians.
Jewish History: Six Day War

Nem as paredes confesso by Silvestre Fonseca

THE DELTA FORCE

The Delta Force is a 1986 action film starring Chuck Norris and Lee Marvin as leaders of an elite squad of special forces troops based on the real life U.S. Army Delta Force unit. It was directed by Menahem Golan and featured Martin Balsam, Joey Bishop, Robert Vaughn, Steve James, Robert Forster, Shelley Winters, and George Kennedy. The film was produced in Israel.
The Delta Force was Lee Marvin's last film.

Plot synopsis

A group of Lebanese terrorists hijack American Travelways Boeing 707 (ATW) Flight 282 that is on a flight from Athens, Greece to Rome, Italy and then to New York City.

Taking all passengers and crew hostage, the group, the pro-Khomeini New World Revolutionary Organization, led by Abdul Rifi (Robert Forster), forces pilot Roger Campbell (Bo Svenson) to fly the plane to Beirut, Lebanon, where they make demands to the United States government that, if not met, will result in the death of the hostages.

As a compromise, the terrorists release the women and children passengers. The remaining hostages are transported to a militant controlled area of Beirut. Using a sympathetic Greek Orthodox Priest, Israeli Army Intelligence prepares an operation to free the hostages.

The U.S. quickly responds by sending in Delta Force, an elite counter-terrorism unit led by Major Scott McCoy (Chuck Norris) and Colonel Nick Alexander (Lee Marvin), to rescue the hostages.

Successfully infiltrating the terrorist compound, they kill the terrorists, rescue the hostages, and flee to the safety of Israel on the ATW jetliner, before returning to the U.S on a C-130 transport plane.

Filming locations

The movie was filmed entirely in Israel, making use of Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus's newly opened GG Israel Studios facility in Jerusalem. The Beirut, Tel-Aviv and Athens airport sequences in the film were filmed at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel-Aviv. In some sequences, Hebrew lettering and Israeli Police emblems are visible on some of the supposed Lebanese airport barriers.

The military aircraft (notably the Hercules C-130) used in the film was on loan from the Israeli Air Force. The lease arrangement was similar to that used for Iron Eagle.

Historical connections

The hijacked flight in the movie bears many resemblances with the real-life hijack of TWA Flight 847 in 1985:

The route is Cairo-Athens-Rome.

In the film, the flight's final destination is New York. However, Flight 847's final destination was London.

Two terrorists took over the flight, the third one being arrested in Athens.

The flight was diverted to Beirut and Algiers.

The lead flight attendant (played in the movie by Hanna Schygulla) was of German descent and was asked by a hijacker to single out the Jewish passengers on board.

Upon landing, one of the hostages, a United States Navy diver, was shot.

The fictional airline in the movie, ATW (American Travelways), is an anagram of TWA (Trans World Airlines).

The hostage rescue operation was inspired by Operation Entebbe, which was conducted by Israeli commandos in 1976. It was the subject of another movie by Menahem Golan, Mivtsa Yonatan (released in English as Operation Thunderbolt), in 1977.

The beginning of the film replicated Operation Eagle Claw, the aborted attempt to rescue American hostages held at the U.S. Embassy in Iran in 1980. The movie inaccurately displays the cause of the aborting of the mission. In the film a helicopter appears to be smoking and then suddenly explodes — possibly the result of a crash landing — upon which the Delta Force choose to evacuate the area. The reality was that two of the helicopters failed to turn up at Desert One, while one of the six helicopters that made it had a mechanical failure. It was at this point that the CO of Delta Force chose to scrub the mission and return the following night. During this phase a collision occurred between one of the RH-53D choppers and a C-130 being used as an on-the-ground refuelling station for the helicopters, killing 5 Air Force personnel and 3 Marines.

External links

The Delta Force at the Internet Movie Database

MONSIEUR KLEIN

Monsieur Klein (Mr. Klein) is a French 1976 film directed by Joseph Losey, with Alain Delon starring in the title role.

Synopsis

It is 1942, the war is in full swing and France is occupied by the Nazis. To Robert Klein, however, these events are of little concern. As an art dealer, he makes a nice profit off the situation of the Jews, who are selling their possessions in a hurry to leave the country. He holds no political affinities and chooses to remain indifferent. All this changes when one day, a Jewish newspaper is accidentally delivered to his address, and Klein discovers there is another Robert Klein residing in Paris, a Jew sought by the police. When the other Klein cannot be found, authorities grow suspicious and the art dealer is forced to offer proof of his French heritage. Before long he's entangled in a quest to track down his elusive namesake and find out what happened.

Symbolism and allusions

Although Losey integrates historical elements (such as the Rafle du Vel'd'Hiv) into the film, it is more than a reconstruction of the life and status of the Jews under the Vichy regime.

The relationship of the film with the works of the writer Franz Kafka has often been noted: the link with The Metamorphosis, telling of the brutal and sudden transformation of a man into a cockroach, with The Castle, which describes a search for one's own identity by way of getting to know "the other", or with The Trial, which sees an accused man become an outlaw of society.

Awards

The film was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival but lost to Taxi Driver. However, Monsieur Klein did win the César Award for Best Film while Losey won the César Award for Best Director. Alexandre Trauner won the César Award for Best Production Design, and in addition the film was nominated for Césars in four other categories.

THE LAST STAGE

The Last Stage (Pl. Ostatni etap) was a 1947 Polish feature film directed and co-written by Wanda Jakubowska, depicting her experiences in the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. The film was one of the earliest cinematic efforts to describe the Holocaust, and it is still quoted extensively by succeeding directors, including Steven Spielberg in Schindler's List.
The film is generally considered a reliable document for a number of reasons, not least because Jakubowska herself was imprisoned in the camp and because it was shot on location, before most of the camp was destroyed or converted into a memorial. Critics argue, however, that the director introduced a cinematic language to her work, adding elements of questionable accuracy. For example, the trains with deportees are shown arriving at night, while most of the trains arrived during the day. While having them arrive at night sets the mood of the film, it does not accurately reflect most of the deportations.

Nevertheless, The Last Stage is an important film in that it paved the way for most other film and television depictions of the concentration camps and the Holocaust.

External links

The Last Stage at the Internet Movie Database

JAKOB THE LIAR

Jakob the Liar is a 1999 black comedy film directed by Peter Kassovitz and starring Robin Williams, Alan Arkin, Liev Schreiber, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, and Bob Balaban.
The movie is set in 1944 in a ghetto in Poland, in the times of the Holocaust. The movie is based on the book by Jurek Becker about World War II Jewish Ghetto life. It's also a remake of the German DEFA film from 1975.

Plot

In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being falsely accused of being out after curfew. While waiting for the German Kommandant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ghetto, the shopkeeper shares his information with a friend and then rumors fly that there is a secret radio within the ghetto. Jakob uses the chance to spread hope throughout the ghetto by continuing to tell favorable tales of information from "his secret radio." Jakob, however, has a real secret in that he is hiding a young Jewish girl who escaped from a camp transport train. These lies keep hope and humor alive among the ghetto inhabitants. The Germans learn of the mythical radio, however, and begin a search for the resistance hero who dares operate it.

See also

List of Holocaust films

External links

Jakob the Liar at the Internet Movie Database
Jakob the Liar at Rotten Tomatoes

THE DEVIL'S ARITHMETIC

The Devil's Arithmetic is a historical novel written by Jane Yolen in 1988. This book tells the story of a Jewish girl, Hannah, as she experiences the horrors of going back in time to be sent to live in a Nazi Concentration Camp. She also learns that it is very important to treasure Jewish traditions. She did not respect them earlier in the book but then at the end knows of their importance.

Hannah was chosen to do the symbolic welcoming of Prophet Elijah and opened the apartment door. In an instant, when she opens the door, she was transferred back to Poland in 1942, or, in the Jewish calendar, 5702, as Chaya Abramowicz, a 13-year-old teenager living in a small village with her "Aunt" Gitl and "Uncle" Shmuel. Chaya lost her parents and was very sick but managed to stay alive. Shmuel is about to be married to his fiancé Fayge. Before leaving for Fayge's village, Viosk, Hannah meets 3 other young woman from her village, one with a breathing problem because of spring pollen, named Rachel. When Shmuel, Fayge, and the members of both their villages arrive at the synagogue in Fayge's village, they are halted by Nazis at the entrance and taken to a train station.

There they find the belongings of the family members of theirs that were already at the synagogue. They are then forced into stuffy cattle cars, and travel for four days to the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. On arrival and exit of the boxcars, it is discovered that Rachel, an infant and an elderly woman died during the trip from malnutrition and the terrible conditions of the boxcars. They are then shaven bald to get rid of any lice, have numbers tattooed on their arms, and are forced to choose from an assortment of ragged clothes to wear during their imprisonment.

At their first meal, Hannah meets Rivka, a ten year old girl who understands much about the camp and methods of survival. Only she and her brother Wolfe are alive out of a family of eight. Everyone was given jobs, and they had a choice to either do the jobs well, or become chosen for cremation (execution) by the commandant of the camp. Normally those chosen, were the young, elderly and those injured beyond repair. Hannah followed Rivka, who lived everyday as it was, and she remained alive for a period of time.

Gitl, Hannah,and several others including Yitzchak, try to escape at one point. Gitl and Hannah hear gunshots and run back to their barracks. Shmuel and several others are caught by the soldiers. Just as Shmuel is about to be executed, along with the others, Fayge leaps forward. She loves him so much that she would rather die than live without him. This is where Hannah first sees Wolfe, a Musselman, someone who has just given up the fight to survive, he is also what they call a Kommando, which is a Jew who carries bodies to the crematoria. Wolfe is one of the Jews who must take the bodies to the ovens in the crematoria. He carries Fayge's body with tenderness, and care.

A few days later Hannah's friends, Shifre, Esther, and Rivka were chosen to make up a full load of those chosen to be executed. Hannah traded places with Rivka and sacrificed herself, because she knew she would have another life in the future, while Rivka only had one. As she walked through the door into an oven to be executed by being cremated (burned), Hannah realized that she was staring at the door back in New York, at her grandparents' house. She afterwards talked with her Aunt Eva about her experience and realized that her Aunt Eva was Rivka, and her Grandpa Will was Wolfe, but they had changed their names and moved to America after being liberated by Allied forces.Hannah learns that Gitl lived but made it out weighing only 73 pounds and never marries Yitzchak. Now Hannah will never forget because she understands, finally, the meaning of Passover. Afterwards Aunt Eva spends time with Hannah and talks about the horror the Nazis caused. They also talk about Aunt Eva's Number (her tattoo) J18202. The J stands for Jew. The 1 because she is alone. 8 because there was eight people in her family. 2 because that's all that was left, Rivka and Wolfe, who believes himself to be a 0. And finally, 2 because they will be reunited someday. Hannah learns the significance of Jewish holidays and traditions, and the true meaning of a hero.

Characters in "The Devil's Arithmetic"

1942, Poland
''Chaya Abramowicz'' – (the girl whom Hannah becomes)
Rivkah- her friend whom Chaya sacrifices her life for; later changes her name to Eva and is actually Hannahs present-day aunt who is a survivor of the Holocaust

Awards and nominations

The Devil's Arithmetic received the National Jewish Book Award [1].`

Film, TV or theatrical adaptations

It was made into a TV movie starring Kirsten Dunst and Brittany Murphy in 1999 [2].

UPRISING

Uprising is a 2001 war/drama television movie about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The film was directed by Jon Avnet and written by Jon Avnet and Paul Brickman. It was filmed in multiple locations, including Bratislava, Slovakia and Innsbruck, Tirol, Austria.
[edit] Plot
Polish Jews imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto rise up against the German army in 1943.
Tagline: They did the one thing the Nazis never expected. They fought back.

Cast

Leelee Sobieski as Tosia Altman
Hank Azaria as Mordechaj Anielewicz
David Schwimmer as Yitzhak "Antek" Zuckerman
Jon Voight as Maj. Gen. Jürgen Stroop
Donald Sutherland as Adam Czerniaków
Stephen Moyer as Simcha "Kazik" Rotem
Sadie Frost as Zivia Lubetkin
Radha Mitchell as Mira Fuchrer
Mili Avital as Devorah Baron
Eric Lively as Arie Wilner
Alexandra Holden as Frania Beatus
John Ales as Marek Edelman
Andy Nyman as Calel Wasser
Nora Brickman as Clara Linder
Jesper Christensen as Gen. Friedrich Krüger
Cary Elwes as Dr. Fritz Hippler
Palle Granditsky as Dr. Janusz Korczak

Details

The film is in both color and black and white.
The filming locations included Bratislava, Slovakia and Innsbruck, Austria

See also

Mila 18
List of Holocaust films

YOM YERUSHALAYIM (LINKS)

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LET US NEVER FORGET...

“Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again.”

(Berthold Brecht :The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui )

YOM YERUSHALAYIM

The Pianist (cuts_by_H.P.)

NORTH AMERICAN T-6 G HARVARD - MODELS AND MODELLING (6)

CONVERTING A 75mm SAMURAI - MODELS AND MODELLING (5)

S.A.S. - 1 VIGNETTE PLUS 1 DIORAMA - MODELS AND MODELLING (4)

IDF M113 FITTER CONVERSION - MODELS AND MODELLING (3)

TWO IDF M-113 MODELS AND DIORAMA - MODELS AND MODELLING (2)

MODELS AND MODELLING (1)

Some of the models I've made along the years

PEARLS OF WISDOM (3) (TALMUD QUOTES)

Rabbi Simlai said, "Six hundred and thirteen commandments were given toMoses, 365 negative commandments, answering to the number of the days ofthe year, and 248 positive commandments, answering to the number of aman's members. Then David came and reduced them to eleven [Psalm 15].Then came Isaiah, and reduced them to six [Isaiah 63.15]. Then cameMicah, and reduced them to three [Micah 6.8]. Then Isaiah came again, andreduced them to two, as it is said, 'Keep ye judgment and dorighteousness.' Then came Amos, and reduced them to one, as it is said,'Seek me and live.' Or one may say, then came Habakkuk [2.4], and reducedthem to one, as it is said, 'The righteous shall live by his faith.'"

Makkot 23b-24a

Him who humbles himself, God exalts; him who exalts himself, God humbles;from him who searches for greatness, greatness flies; him who flies fromgreatness, greatness searches out: with him who is importunate withcircumstances, circumstance is importunate; by him who gives way tocircumstance, circumstance stands.

Erubin 13b

Happy are the righteous! Not only do they acquire merit, but they bestowmerit upon their children and children's children to the end of allgenerations, for Aaron had several sons who deserved to be burned likeNadab and Abihu, but the merit of their father helped them. Woe unto thewicked! Not alone that they render themselves guilty, but they bestowguilt upon their children and children's children unto the end of allgenerations. Many sons did Canaan have, who were worthy to be ordainedlike Tabi, the slave of Rabbi Gamaliel, but the guilt of their ancestorcaused them [to lose their chance].

Yoma 87a

And you shall love the Lord"--namely, you shall make the Lord beloved.

Yoma 86

Greater is he who acts from love than he who acts from fear.

Sota 31a

PSALM 91 (Pearls of Wisdom (2)

Chapter 91

This psalm inspires the hearts of the people to seek shelter under the wings of the Divine Presence. It also speaks of the four seasons of the year, and their respective ministering powers, instructing those who safeguard their souls to avoid them.

1. You who dwells in the shelter of the Most High, who abides in the shadow of the Omnipotent: 2. I say of the Lord who is my refuge and my stronghold, my God in whom I trust,

3. that He will save you from the ensnaring trap, from the destructive pestilence.

4. He will cover you with His pinions and you will find refuge under His wings; His truth is a shield and an armor.

5. You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day;

6. the pestilence that prowls in the darkness, nor the destruction that ravages at noon.

7. A thousand may fall at your [left] side, and ten thousand at your right, but it shall not reach you.

8. You need only look with your eyes, and you will see the retribution of the wicked.

9. Because you [have said,] "The Lord is my shelter," and you have made the Most High your haven,

10. no evil will befall you, no plague will come near your tent.

11. For He will instruct His angels in your behalf, to guard you in all your ways.

12. They will carry you in their hands, lest you injure your foot upon a rock.

13. You will tread upon the lion and the viper; you will trample upon the young lion and the serpent.

14. Because he desires Me, I will deliver him; I will fortify him, for he knows My Name.

15. When he calls on Me, I will answer him; I am with him in distress. I will deliver him and honor him.

16. I will satiate him with long life, and show him My deliverance.

Ofra Haza - The Prince of Egypt film clip - Deliver us

Ofra Haza Yerushalaim Shel Zahav (Jerusalem of Gold) subbed

YERUSHALAIM SHEL ZAHAV

Avir harim zalul kayayin
Ve-rei'ah oranim
Nissa be-ru'ah ha'arbayim
Im kol pa'amonim


U-ve-tardemat ilan va-even
Shvuyah ba-halomah
Ha-ir asher badad yoshevet
U-ve-libbah homah


Yerushalayim shel zahav
Ve-shel nehoshet ve-shel or
Ha-lo le-khol shirayikh
Ani kinnor.


Eikhah yavshu borot ha-mayim
Kikkar ha-shuk reikah
Ve-ein poked et Har ha-Bayit
Ba-ir ha-attikah


U-va-me'arot asher ba-selah
Meyallelot ruhot
Ve-ein yored el Yam ha-Melah
Be-derekh Yeriho

Yerushalayim shel zahav
Ve-shel nehoshet ve-shel or
Ha-lo le-khol shirayikh
Ani kinnor.

Akh be-vo'i ha-yom la-shir lakh
Ve-lakh likshor ketarim
Katonti mi-ze'ir bana'ikh
U-me-aharon ha-meshorerim


Ki shemekh zorev et ha-sefatayim
Ke-neshikat saraf
Im eshkakhekh Yerushalayim
Asher kullah zahav


Yerushalayim shel zahav
Ve-shel nehoshet ve-shel or
Ha-lo le-khol shirayikh
Ani kinnor.


Hazarnu el borot ha-mayim
La-shuk ve-la-kikkar
Shofar kore be-Har ha-Bayit
Ba-ir ha-attikah


U-va-me'arot asher ba-selah
Alfey shemashot zorhot
Nashuv nered el Yam ha-Melah
Be-derekh Yeriho


Yerushalayim shel zahav
Ve-shel nehoshet ve-shel or
Ha-lo le-khol shirayikh
Ani kinnor.


Jerusalem Of Gold


The moutain air is clear as wine
And the scent of pines
Is carried on the breeze of twilight
With the sound of bells.

And in the slumber of tree and stone
Captured in her dream
the city that sits solitary
And in its midst is a wall.

Rafrain
Jerusalem of gold,and of bonze,and of light
behold I am a violin for all your songs.

How the cisterns have dried
The market-place is empty
And no one frequents the Temple Mount
In the Old City.
And in the caves in the moutain
Winds are howling
And no one descends to the Dead Sea
By way of Jericho.

Rafrain
Jerusalem of gold,and of bronze,and of light
Behold I am a violin for all your songs.
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But as I come to sing to you today,
And to adorn crowns to you(i.e.to tell your praise)
I am the smallest of the youngest of your children
(i.e.the least worthy of doing so)
And of the last poet(i.e.of all the poets born).
For your name scorches the lips
Like the kiss of a seraph
if I forget thee,Jerusalem
Which is all gold...

Rafrain
Jerusalem of gold,and of bronze,and of light
Behold I am a violin for all your songs.

We have returned to the cisterns
To the market and to the market-place
A ram's horn(shofar)calls out(i.e.is being heard)on the Temple Mount
In the Old City
And in the caves in the moutain
Thousands of suns shine-
We will once again descend to the Dead Sea
By way of Jericho!

Rafrain
Jerusalem of gold,and of bronze,and of light
Behold I am a violin for all your songs.

Exodus - Trailer (1960)

Patton Speech - George C. Scott as General George S. Patton