Israel Channel 2 program on Anti-Semitism (must watch)

Wednesday, April 10, 2013 at 6:52PM Gilad Atzmon

 

Israel defines itself as the Jewish State, its tanks are decorated with Jewish symbols, it commits crimes against humanity in the name of the Jewish people, and yet, Israeli TV can't understand why people out there express some anger towards Israel. Zionism or Jews. I can't make up my mind whether this is tragic or just sad -time is overdue for Israel and Jews to self-reflect.
The TV program fails to define what 'anti Semitism' is. It also fails to suggest since when Jews are Semites.

In spite of being an Israeli (Hebrew) TV program, many of the segments are in English.

Interestingly enough, just a year ago, Ethnic Cleanser enthusiast Alan Dershowitz crowned me as the 'biggest danger to the Jewish people.' This time I am not mentioned at all. I guess that our Zionist, AZZ and their Palestinian Sabbath Goyim grasped by now that the Anti Semite/Racist label is not going to work with me. I easily survived the smear. They will soon try something new. I can see them working hard.



  

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What Christians Don’t Know About Israel

By Grace Halsell

Note:  This article was written in 1998 by the late Grace Halsell.  Sadly it remains relevant today.

April 10, 2013 "Information Clearing House" -   American Jews sympathetic to Israel dominate key positions in all areas of our government where decisions are made regarding the Middle East. This being the case, is there any hope of ever changing U.S. policy? American Presidents as well as most members of Congress support Israel -- and they know why. U.S. Jews sympathetic to Israel donate lavishly to their campaign coffers.

The answer to achieving an even-handed Middle East policy might lie elsewhere -- among those who support Israel but don't really know why. This group is the vast majority of Americans. They are well-meaning, fair-minded Christians who feel bonded to Israel -- and Zionism -- often from atavistic feelings, in some cases dating from childhood.

I am one of those. I grew up listening to stories of a mystical, allegorical, spiritual Israel. This was before a modern political entity with the same name appeared on our maps. I attended Sunday School and watched an instructor draw down window- type shades to show maps of the Holy Land. I imbibed stories of a Good and Chosen people who fought against their Bad "unChosen” enemies.

In my early 20s, I began traveling the world, earning my living as a writer. I came to the subject of the Middle East rather late in my career. I was sadly lacking in knowledge regarding the area. About all I knew was what I had learned in Sunday School.

And typical of many U.S. Christians, I somehow considered a modern state created in 1948 as a homeland for Jews persecuted under the Nazis as a replica of the spiritual, mystical Israel I heard about as a child. When in 1979 I initially went to Jerusalem, I planned to write about the three great monotheistic religions and leave out politics. “Not write about politics?” scoffed one Palestinian, smoking a waterpipe in the Old Walled City. “We eat politics, morning, noon and night!”

As I would learn, the politics is about land, and the co-claimants to that land: the indigenous Palestinians who have lived there for 2,000 years and the Jews who started arriving in large numbers after the Second World War. By living among Israeli Jews as well as Palestinian Christians and Muslims, I saw, heard, smelled, experienced the police state tactics Israelis use against Palestinians.

My research led to a book entitled Journey to Jerusalem. My journey not only was enlightening to me as regards Israel, but also I came to a deeper, and sadder, understanding of my own country. I say sadder understanding because I began to see that, in Middle East politics, we the people are not making the decisions, but rather that supporters of Israel are doing so. And typical of most Americans, I tended to think the U.S. media was “free” to print news impartially.

'It shouldn't be published. It's anti-Israel.'

In the late 1970s, when I first went to Jerusalem, I was unaware that editors could and would classify "news" depending on who was doing what to whom. On my initial visit to Israel-Palestine, I had interviewed dozens of young Palestinian men. About one in four related stories of torture.

Israeli police had come in the night, dragged them from their beds and placed hoods over their heads. Then in jails the Israelis had kept them in isolation, besieged them with loud, incessant noises, hung them upside down and had sadistically mutilated their genitals. I had not read such stories in the U.S. media. Wasn't it news? Obviously, I naively thought, U.S. editors simply didn't know it was happening.

On a trip to Washington, DC, I hand-delivered a letter to Frank Mankiewicz, then head of the public radio station WETA. I explained I had taped interviews with Palestinians who had been brutally tortured. And I'd make them available to him. I got no reply. I made several phone calls. Eventually I was put through to a public relations person, a Ms. Cohen, who said my letter had been lost. I wrote again. In time I began to realize what I hadn't known: had it been Jews who were strung up and tortured, it would be news. But interviews with tortured Arabs were “lost" at WETA.

The process of getting my book Journey to Jerusalem published also was a learning experience. Bill Griffin, who signed a contract with me on behalf of MacMillan Publishing Company, was a former Roman Catholic priest. He assured me that no one other than himself would edit the book. As I researched the book, making several trips to Israel and Palestine, I met frequently with Griffin, showing him sample chapters. “Terrific,” he said of my material.

The day the book was scheduled to be published, I went to visit MacMillan's. Checking in at a reception desk, I spotted Griffin across a room, cleaning out his desk. His secretary Margie came to greet me. In tears, she whispered for me to meet her in the ladies room. When we were alone, she confided, "He's been fired.” She indicated it was because he had signed a contract for a book that was sympathetic to Palestinians. Griffin, she said, had no time to see me.

Later, I met with another MacMillan official, William Curry. “I was told to take your manuscript to the Israeli Embassy, to let them read it for mistakes,” he told me. “They were not pleased. They asked me, “You are not going to publish this book, are you?” I asked, "Were there mistakes?” “Not mistakes as such. But it shouldn't be published. It's anti-Israel.”

Somehow, despite obstacles to prevent it, the presses had started rolling. After its publication in 1980, I was invited to speak in a number of churches. Christians generally reacted with disbelief. Back then, there was little or no coverage of Israeli land confiscation, demolition of Palestinian homes, wan ton arrests and torture of Palestinian civilians.

The Same Question

Speaking of these injustices, I invariably heard the same question, “How come I didn't know this?" Or someone might ask, "But I haven't read about that in my newspaper.” To these church audiences, I related my own learning experience, that of seeing hordes of U.S. correspondents covering a relatively tiny state. I pointed out that I had not seen so many reporters in world capitals such as Beijing, Moscow, London, Tokyo, Paris. Why, I asked, did a small state with a 1980 population of only four million warrant more reporters than China, with a billion people?

I also linked this query with my findings that The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post -- and most of our nation's print media - are owned and/or controlled by Jews supportive of Israel. It was for this reason, I deduced, that they sent so many reporters to cover Israel -- and to do so largely from the Israeli point of view.

My learning experiences also included coming to realize how easily I could lose a Jewish friend if I criticized the Jewish state. I could with impunity criticize France, England, Russia, even the United States. And any aspect of life in America. But not the Jewish state. I lost more Jewish friends than one after the publication of Journey to Jerusalem -- all sad losses for me and one, perhaps, saddest of all.

In the 1960s and 1970s, before going to the Middle East, I had written about the plight of blacks in a book entitled Soul Sister, and the plight of American Indians in a book entitled Bessie Yellowhair, and the problems endured by undocumented workers crossing from Mexico in The Illegals. These books had come to the attention of the “mother” of The New York Times, Mrs. Arthur Hays Sulzberger.

Her father had started the newspaper, then her husband ran it, and in the years that I knew her, her son was the publisher. She invited me to her fashionable apartment on Fifth Avenue for lunches and dinner parties. And, on many occasions, I was a weekend guest at her Greenwich, Conn., home.

She was liberal-minded and praised my efforts to speak for the underdog, even going so far in one letter to say, “You are the most remarkable woman I ever knew.” I had little concept that from being buoyed so high I could be dropped so suddenly when I discovered -- from her point of view -- the “wrong” underdog.

As it happened, I was a weekend guest in her spacious Connecticut home when she read bound galleys of Journey to Jerusalem. As I was leaving, she handed the galleys back with a saddened look: “My dear, have you forgotten the Holocaust?” She felt that what happened in Nazi Germany to Jews several decades earlier should silence any criticism of the Jewish state. She could focus on a holocaust of Jews while negating a modern day holocaust of Palestinians.

I realized, quite painfully, that our friendship was ending. Iphigene Sulzberger had not only invited me to her home to meet her famous friends but, also at her suggestion, The Times had requested articles. I wrote op-ed articles on various subjects including American blacks, American Indians as well as undocumented workers. Since Mrs. Sulzberger and other Jewish officials at the Times highly praised my efforts to help these groups of oppressed peoples, the dichotomy became apparent: most “liberal” U.S. Jews stand on the side of all poor and oppressed peoples save one -- the Palestinians.

How handily these liberal Jewish opinion-molders tend to diminish the Palestinians, to make them invisible, or to categorize them all as “terrorists.”

Interestingly, Iphigene Sulzberger had talked to me a great deal about her father, Adolph S. Ochs. She told me that he was not one of the early Zionists. He had not favored the creation of a Jewish state.

Yet, increasingly, American Jews have fallen victim to Zionism, a nationalistic movement that passes for many as a religion. While the ethical instructions of all great religions -- including the teachings of Moses, Muhammad and Christ -- stress that all human beings are equal, militant Zionists take the position that the killing of a non-Jew does not count.

Over five decades now, Zionists have killed Palestinians with impunity. And in the 1996 shelling of a U.N. base in Qana, Lebanon, the Israelis killed more than 100 civilians sheltered there. As an Israeli journalist, Arieh Shavit, explains of the massacre, “We believe with absolute certitude that right now, with the White House in our hands, the Senate in our hands and The New York Times in our hands, the lives of others do not count the same way as our own.”

Israelis today, explains the anti-Zionist Jew Israel Shahak, “are not basing their religion on the ethics of justice. They do not accept the Old Testament as it is written. Rather, religious Jews turn to the Talmud. For them, the Talmudic Jewish laws become “the Bible.” And the Talmud teaches that a Jew can kill a non-Jew with impunity.

In the teachings of Christ, there was a break from such Talmudic teachings. He sought to heal the wounded, to comfort the downtrodden.

The danger, of course, for U.S. Christians is that having made an icon of Israel, we fall into a trap of condoning whatever Israel does -- even wanton murder -- as orchestrated by God.

Yet, I am not alone in suggesting that the churches in the United States represent the last major organized support for Palestinian rights. This imperative is due in part to our historic links to the Land of Christ and in part to the moral issues involved with having our tax dollars fund Israeli-government-approved violations of human rights.

While Israel and its dedicated U.S. Jewish supporters know they have the president and most of Congress in their hands, they worry about grassroots America -- the well-meaning Christians who care for justice. Thus far, most Christians were unaware of what it was they didn't know about Israel. They were indoctrinated by U.S. supporters of Israel in their own country and when they traveled to the Land of Christ most all did so under Israeli sponsorship. That being the case, it was unlikely a Christian ever met a Palestinian or learned what caused the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

This is gradually changing, however. And this change disturbs the Israelis. As an example, delegates attending a Christian Sabeel conference in Bethlehem earlier this year said they were harassed by Israeli security at the Tel Aviv airport.

“They asked us,” said one delegate, “Why did you use a Palestinian travel agency? Why didn't you use an Israeli agency?” The interrogation was so extensive and hostile that Sabeel leaders called a special session to brief the delegates on how to handle the harassment. Obviously, said one delegate, “The Israelis have a policy to discourage us from visiting the Holy Land except under their sponsorship. They don't want Christians to start learning all they have never known about Israel.”

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'Demise of Christianity in Palestine'

'Demise of Christianity in Palestine'

'Demise of Christianity in Palestine'

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Obama and Palestine’s Forgotten Past

Mugs with pictures of U.S. President Barack Obama wearing a keffiyeh, displayed in a souvenir shop in Gaza City, on 9 November 2010. (Photo: AP -Adel Hana)

 

By: Keith W. Whitelam

Published Monday, April 1, 2013

 

In George Orwell’s 1984, the Party had the power to reach into the past and decide whether or not a particular event had ever happened. The Party slogan declared that “who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.” President Obama’s recent visit made it abundantly clear that Israel has a stranglehold over the past, the present, and the future.

In the three days of his official visit to Israel, Obama made a series of speeches, visited the grave of Theodor Herzl, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Holocaust Museum. This carefully orchestrated tour tied together past, present, and future.

From the moment he stepped off Air Force One, President Peres and Prime Minister Netanyahu drove home the message that this is “our historic homeland” and that Jerusalem is “our ancient capital.” There were frequent references to Israel’s biblical heritage, with Peres proclaiming that Obama would “see the hills and mountains where our prophets preached. Where the soul of the Jewish people was born. Where the State of Israel was created.” The skilfully crafted rhetoric effortlessly connects the ancient past to Israel’s present and its claims to sovereignty over the land and Jerusalem.

One of the key sites that Obama visited was the Shrine of the Book housing the Dead Sea Scrolls. The visit’s significance was made clear in Netahyahu’s opening remarks: “You will see the ancient Dead Sea Scrolls, the world's oldest text of the Bible, written in Hebrew here 2,000 years ago, scrolls that bear witness to the timeless bond between the Jewish people and the Land of Israel.” Obama was being presented with what Netanyahu wanted him to believe are the title deeds to the land.

If the Shrine of the Book presented the title deeds, then Obama’s visit to the Holocaust Museum showed that the control of the past guarantees the future. The theme here was the threat to the survival of the Jewish people. It was used to justify US military support for Israel and its use of force. In the words of Peres: “You support us as we rebuild our ancient homeland and as we defend our land. From Holocaust to redemption.”

Obama was keen to reciprocate and reinforce the message of his hosts that Israel’s roots are set firmly in the biblical past. He talked of walking on “the historic homeland of the Jewish people,” and that “the founding of the Jewish State of Israel was a rebirth, a redemption unlike any in history.” Like Peres, his use of the word “redemption” ties past and present together. It echoes George W. Bush’s remarks at the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel that “what followed was more than the establishment of a new country. It was the redemption of an ancient promise given to Abraham and Moses and David – a homeland for the chosen people of Eretz Yisrael.” Obama reinforced the connection between past and present with the phrases “a nation of museums and patents” and “timeless holy sites and ground-breaking innovation.”

Given this was the run up to Passover, Obama used the theme of biblical exodus to link Israel’s origins and future with those of the US. This powerful story of liberation from slavery and persecution, immigration and the gift of a promised land, provides a foundation narrative for both nations. Yet the exodus story is also a tragic tale of dispossession of an indigenous population slaughtered and driven from its land.

In keeping with the failure to mention this side of the story, Obama’s fleeting visit to Ramallah and Bethlehem ignored Palestine’s past. President Abbas spoke of “a people proud of their history, heritage, culture, and symbols” continuing “the path of their ancestors, extending since the ancient times over this land – their land.” But unlike his visit to Israel, Obama did not reciprocate or reinforce this message. Strikingly, he did not mention Palestine’s past nor did he visit any major archaeological sites, such as Jericho. His brief visit to Bethlehem was designed to appeal to an American Christian audience rather than suggest that Palestine had roots in the past.

Although Obama referred to “a viable and contiguous Palestinian state as the homeland of the Palestinian people,” the term “historic” was conspicuously absent. The Palestinians were made to appear as though they have only shallow roots set in modern soil. Three millennia of history are ignored as though they have no connection to its modern inhabitants. If Palestine has no control of the past, then it has no control of the future.

Israel’s territorial claims are underpinned by its appeal to a biblical past; powerful images that resonate with an American audience that funds the military and economic aid so vital to Israel's control and occupation. This foundation narrative has been undermined by historians in recent years who have questioned the biblical account of events.

Yet a coherent history of Palestine stretching from the ancient past, including the biblical periods, to the present has not yet emerged to challenge the powerful images used so effectively by Peres, Netanyahu, and Obama. The cultural struggle for a history of Palestine that ties these centuries to the present is crucial in the struggle for self-determination.

Palestine is denied a present because there is no political will on behalf of Obama or successive American governments to force Israel to negotiate meaningfully; there was no mention of the 1967 borders or illegal settlements. As long as the past belongs to Israel, Palestine has no future.

Keith W. Whitelam is Emeritus Professor and former head of the Department of Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of Rhythms of Time: Reconnecting Palestine's Past and The Invention of Ancient Israel: The Silencing of Palestinian History.

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I'm an Israeli Soldier (must watch)

Tuesday, March 26, 2013 at 12:06PM Gilad Atzmon

 

Israel popular culture provides us with a perfect insight into Israeli collective morbidity. This is what Israeli consume culturally, this is how they interpret the meaning of their Jewish identity. This is the true reality of the Jewish state..

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“The Jewish State”—What It Really Means and Why the Rest of the World Should be Terrified

“The Jewish State”—What It Really Means and Why the Rest of the World Should be Terrified at the mere mention of it

2012 Mark Glenn

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…On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abraham, saying “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river Euphrates”… Genesis, 15:18

God spoke unto us saying, ‘Go to the hill-country and all the places nigh thereunto… in the Arabah, the hill-country and in the Lowland… in the South and by the sea-shore, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates…Go in therefore and possess the land which the Lord swore unto your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, unto them and to their seed after them… Deuteronomy 1:6–8

Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours, from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river Euphrates, even unto the hinder sea shall be your border…Deuteronomy 11:24

…From the wilderness, and this Lebanon, even unto the great river, the Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border…Joshua 1:4

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It’s amazing, just how easily it rolls off the tongue, in heated or even casual conversation…

‘Well, GOD gave them that land, and if we do anything to get in God’s face, He’s gonna get in OURS, and when He does, it ain’t gonna be pretty…’

…As if things weren’t ugly enough already…

This little religious ditty is the ‘science’ that Jewish interests (and their intellectually-comatose Christian-Zionist lackeys) have used now for close to a century in rationalizing the irrational and in defending the indefensible.

Mass murder, despoilment, displacement, the dehumanization of millions of innocent people in the Middle East and the total meltdown of all order–political, economic, military, social, et al–everywhere else, but as far as Israel and her supporters are concerned, these are just irrelevant details distracting us from the ‘real truth’ of the matter, which is—

…what ‘God’ wants…

Anyone doubting this is the case need do no more than check in at the front desk of the Jewish mainstream media on any given day where, like some gypsy fortune teller looking into a magic Kristol ball, there is always some vizier claiming to have hacked into God’s hard drive reminding the world in some fashion ‘how bad the weather’s gonna get’ if the Jews don’t get ‘that land’.

In their narration, there he sits, ‘Yahweh’, the Jewish God…fair-skinned, blue-eyed, white-haired…tic, tic, ticking away like a time bomb, just waiting for the right moment, and then–

BOOM!!!

–goes ‘biblical’, and in the process dishes out a healthy dose of holy hell against an insubordinate non-Jewish world for having ignored His plans concerning a certain Middle East real estate venture.

Now, do the long-bearded, curly-locked, black-hat-wearing, barely-literate ‘scientists’ presenting such a thesis use any form of measurable, visible, empirical data in ‘proving’ such a theory? Do they dust for fingerprints, take a sampling of carpet fibers, put bloodhounds on the trail or in any way collect even the minutest shred of ‘evidence’ for such a thesis that the rational mind can grasp?

Perish such insolent and heretical thoughts. In this case rather, the dope-dealers trafficking in this pure, uncut Kristol Meth mythology known as Judaism simply open up their Old Testament scrolls (which they themselves wrote) and recite a laundry list of bad things that (they say) happened to all sorts of people (s) who ‘got in the way’ of them getting their grubby paws on ‘that land’, including the 31 villages of yesteryear that (again, they say) were ‘wiped off the map’ by the ‘world’s most moral army’ under the IDF generalship of biblical luminaries such as Abraham, Moses, Joshua et al.

Yes, in 2012, a time and place where (we thought) we’d put away the ‘prevailing wisdom’ of the Dark Ages…A place where rational thought and an at least semi-sane science have brought the blessings of modern medicine, rapid transit, deep sea and space exploration, the study of subatomic particles and about a million other things making today’s existence virtually indistinguishable from that of a mere century ago…

And yet THIS—self-worshipping, narcissistic, black magic Judaic mythology—is what’s used in explaining, supporting and justifying the religiously-inspired madness that’s led not only to the creation, support and suckling of the Jewish state, but as well to all the apocalyptic wars serving as the life support system for this sickly, stillborn, given-to-fits-of-madness l’enfant horrible known as ‘Israel’.

However, as bad as all this is already, the REAL problem (aside from the fact that a gang of well-funded, well-organized religious fundamentalist headcases has managed to reorganize world affairs to the detriment of everyone besides them) is that the present hurricane of biblically-inspired violence is only in its early stages, much to the unbeknownst of most players involved, minus of course the organized Jewish interests directing it all…

That’s right folks, as heated as things certainly are, nevertheless no one should be loosening their collars for a little relief just yet, because the fact of the matter is–things are just getting warmed up…

Yes, hard to imagine, since after all what we’re talking about here is 20 years of non-stop war between the Christian and Islamic worlds, beginning first with George H.W. Bush’s invasion/destruction of Iraq and then continuing through 3 subsequent presidential administrations…Trillions of dollars spent and several tens of millions of lives destroyed either by death, disease or ruination.

In such a scenario therefore it’s hard to imagine it getting much worse, until one begins to understand the goals and aims of those who engineered this ‘splendid little war’ and just how far they plan on taking it, a script that when boiled down to its irreducible minimum makes clear to all the fact that we ain’t seen nothing yet…

As the old saying goes concerning a fool and his money being ‘soon parted,’ truer words have never been spoken when it comes to the West and its all-too-willing role as both surrogate mother and midwife in birthing upon civilized society Rosemary’s Baby, heretofore known simply as the Jewish state. The misery index suffered by today’s great, great grandchildren of yesterday’s Romans in willfully forfeiting their national treasure—the gold, silver, and red—in fighting the various wars for the soon-to-be-declared Jewish Empire truly is a Greek tragedy of the non-Greek variety. In allowing should-be mental patients such as Perle, Wolfowitz, Feith, Abrams, Lieberman and Netanyahu (madmen whose minds have been pickled to the gills on the religious science fiction liquor known as Old Testamentism) to put her on a course of permanent war with the Islamic world, the West—by having laid down with the Zionist mad dog–has now woken up with the all-too-predictable maladies associated with having been bitten by its disease-carrying fleas.

And if America and her Western drag-alongs such as England, France et al think things are tough now in terms of economy, demographics and the domestic pressures these wars for Pax Judaica are bringing them, let them understand then that these are but the first birth pangs of what is sure to be a long and painful labor and delivery. After all, what we are talking about here is expanding Israel’s borders several hundred miles to the east and several hundred miles to the south and in the process killing and/or displacing as many as 300 million non-Jews in order to bring about this thing that has never before existed—

Eretz Israel…

Oh, did they forget to mention that in all the propagandizing they’ve done when discussing ‘poor little Israel’ and the Christian West’s responsibility in protecting the ‘apple of God’s eye’? Did they forget (fail) to mention that Israel’s real agenda here is not some eensy, weensy, teensy slice of land the size of Rhode Island but rather a behemoth 4 times the size of Texas?

Lest we forget–

…On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abraham, saying “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river Euphrates”… Genesis, 15:18

Can’t argue much with that, now can we? After, all, it comes right out of the very first of the Jewish ‘holy’ books and more or less sets the stage for the rest of the narrative. ‘God’ has spoken and has laid down the law.

And lest some (made understandably nervous by such ‘frank’ discussions about what ‘biblical’ Israel REALLY encompasses) attempt to deflect and derail such a discussion by saying the aforementioned passage from Genesis is but one small utterance taken out of context, consider then that it is repeated over,

and over,

and over,

and over,

AND OVER AGAIN

–throughout the ENTIRETY of the Jewish Old Testament.

Yes, that’s right folks, from the Nile to the Euphrates, just as ‘God’ promised/ordered…Roughly 1,000,000 square miles of land encompassing ALL of historic Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, parts of northern Saudi Arabia, eastern Egypt, eastern Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Djbouti, part of Somalia and half of Uganda all the way to Lake Victoria.

WOW…Talk about your ‘hidden clauses’ and ‘fine print’. What originally sounded like a deal ‘too good to pass up’ has instead turned out to be ‘an offer you can’t refuse’. Not just a pound of flesh in Shylockian shyster legalese, but indeed human suffering that is—even after utilizing all the mechanisms of modern math and science at our disposal—incalculable in its magnitude.

So, the long and short of it is that despite the very well-orchestrated propaganda campaign portraying the entire Zionist venture as some harmless ‘retirement investment’ where a handful of honest, unpretentious individuals want to buy up a few meager shares of this corporate stock known as the Middle East (and all its resources) with the butter & egg money they have stashed away over time, the truth of the matter is that this has been—FROM THE BEGINNING–a hostile takeover of the entire enterprise, where the 300 million other shareholders who have owned the class A stock in this piece of real estate for thousands of years have had their investment stolen from them at the point of a gun.

Do we understand a little better now why there is this thing known as ‘Arab terrorism?’ Do we now have a better grasp of ‘Islamic extremism?’ Simple cause and effect and a case of ‘What shall ye sow, also shall ye reap’.

And now, with the advent of the ‘war on terrorism’, what we are seeing is the final putsch for total control of the company. What’s more is that the organized Jewish interests responsible for bringing it all about are willing to see it done down to the last American, Brit, Frenchman, Italian, etc, etc, etc, for that famously Judaic principle summed up thus—

An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth…

Why?  Because as these organized Jewish interests see it, the aforementioned Americans, Brits, Frenchmen, Italians, etc, etc, etc are the great, great grandchildren of the same Romans of yesteryear who violated that idea of Eretz Israel when the military legions under the generalship of Titus destroyed it all in 70 AD, and in exactly the fashion as Jesus Christ described, not ‘one stone being left upon another’.

So, since—as the Jews believe—that ‘the sins of the father’ fall upon the heads of the sons, likewise therefore, it is the job of the Europeans today to fund and rebuild this thing that their forefathers destroyed almost 2,000 years ago.

Absent all that however is the fact that she—Israel—can’t do it alone. Again, we are talking about 300 million + Arabs and their 1 billion + cousins scattered throughout the world in places such as North Africa, Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, Bangladesh, Turkey, and–last but certainly not least—

Iran…

Yes….Iran. Why, the Euphrates river comes almost right smack dab up to her western borders…Whaddya know?

Fairly easy to see then why Iran might turn out to be a fly in the ointment in all of this.

Iran, despite being neither Arab nor Sunni, nevertheless achieved what no other country in the region has—a real revolution and real independence. No foreign (western) assistance in the form of money or weaponry. Beholden to no one. Sovereign. Stabile. Strong.

And with such a country (Iran) like this in the region at a time when Israel must keep those living within the aforementioned 1,000,000 square miles of the soon-to-be-declared ‘Jewish state’ disoriented and confused so as to make possible the business of scrubbing the land clean of non-Jewish squatters, such a situation is clearly unacceptable, and for easy-to-understand reasons.

Why, Iran–Beholden to no one Iran…Sovereign Iran….Stabile Iran…Strong Iran–might wind up becoming a role model for those 300 million Arabs…She might start tutoring them on what they need to do in achieving what she did in 1979. Next thing you know, the Arabs, rather than being disoriented and ‘scurrying around like drugged cockroaches’ (as former Mossed capo Rafael Eitan once quipped) are getting their Ps and Qs together. They are organized. They are reading off the same page and functioning like a well-tuned political machine. As a result, they begin electing leaders who put Arab interests 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd…They then begin kicking Western influences out, at which point they begin courting other powers such as Russia or China, and next thing ya know—

BOOM!!!

The thousands-of-years-old dream of Eretz Israel vanishes before it even materializes as it did in 70 AD, revealing the entire codified-in-the-Torah Jewish narrative and its dreams of territorial conquest of the entire Middle East and acquisition of its natural resources as nothing more than the mere rantings of madmen hearing voices in their heads.

And it is due entirely to all this that organized Jewish interests make sure NEVER to discuss ‘Eretz Israel’ as it is described in the bible. This is why—through their control over the leadership of Western Christian churches–that the ‘fine print’ and ‘hidden clauses’ concerning the REAL Jewish state are NEVER discussed and instead, the narrative centers around ‘poor, defenseless LITTLE Israel’…Cute little Israel…Apple of God’s eye Israel…

The day that these same Christian societies come to understand that they have signed onto a 1,000-year war in destabilizing dozens of countries containing over a billion righteously-angry people, and at the same time start doing the math on what it has cost ALREADY, these same Christian societies will then tear up such a contract and lynch those responsible for consigning them and their life, liberty and pursuit of happiness towards the furtherance of these ‘hidden clauses’.

Clearly, as current events are proving to be the case on a daily basis, no other people in any time period of recorded history have been able to do so much damage so efficiently and with nothing more than a little ink, some papyrus and a dash of black magic they call ‘hasbara’. Waving this self-composed narrative in the face of the world like some eons-old lottery ticket acquired from that great Seven-Eleven in the sky, complete with winning numbers on it that never expire, it—the religious literature of the Jews—is now proving to be the most dangerous WMD ever employed against mortal, civilized man. With this document (and the magic incantations contained therein) each individual member of the cast becomes a shareholder in its destructive powers, similar to radioactive particles whose ingathering results in critical mass and the inevitable thermonuclear reaction.

While indeed it is in its early stages–this thermonuclear reaction known as the ingathering of Jewish power–let those with the ability to do so (principally the West where the preponderance of political, economic and military power resides) pull the plug on this Fukashima type disaster before it reaches the point of no return.

The alternative to such is that if (when) such a point of no return is reached, it would eerily resemble the fulfillment of dire warnings left by the One man remembered these last 2,000 years for His opposition to the radioactive nature of Jewish power, and who described this apocalyptic condition simply as one where ‘no flesh would survive’.

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Hezbollah: Obama Stances Prove Rightfulness of Resistance Path

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Hezbollah condemned on Friday the stances announced by US President Brarack Obama during his visit to the Zionist entity, stressing that this position proves the rightfulness of the resistance path. “Obama’s visit to the occupied Palestinian territories… assures the continuous and full American commitment to support the Zionist entity and its offensive and criminal policies, especially regarding the right of Palestine, its people and the people of the region,” Hezbollah said in a statement released by it Media Relations office. “It was clear, according to Obama’s remarks, that the US President doesn’t respect the Islamic and the Arab governments, as he turns away from the simplest and legitimate rights of the Palestinian people.” “He (Obama) also goes further in voicing full commitment to the Zionist project in the Palestine, through imposing conditions on Arabs to accept the enemy’s entity as a pure Jewish state in the region”, the statement added. Hezbollah slammed the US President, saying he “speaks like an employee of the Zionist entity (Israel) and not the highest-ranking official in the administration of the independent state that is the United States. “And the speech of Obama would not be consummated except if the US leader attacks the resistance through urging the world to brand Hezbollah a terrorist organization”. The party said it was not surprised by Obama’s speech “which got to be repetition to the orchestra of the hostile and boring stances of the US”. However, Hezbollah denounced the US stances “which are adopting the Zionist projects, something that makes Washington an accomplice in the crimes committed by the Israeli enemy.” “All these stances assure again that betting on negotiations and compromises is fruitless, therefore the rightfulness of the resistance choice becomes deep-rooted,” the statement concluded.

Source: Hezbollah Media Relations 22-03-2013 - 16:01 Last updated 22-03-2013 - 16:01

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Pose a Threat to Israel's Security! Plant a Tree in Rachel's Memory!

By Richard Edmondson
 

Today, March 16, 2013, marks the tenth anniversary of the death of Rachel Corrie. One wonders: what can be said about her or her tragic death that hasn’t been said before? Well, how about that planting a tree in her memory poses a threat to Israel’s security? Really? you might ask. Indeed, this is what a group of Palestinians found out the other day.
It seems that Palestinians from the West Bank village of Asira al-Qiblya, in recognition of the approaching anniversary of Rachel’s death, set about planting some olive trees in her honor. This took place just a few days ago, on Tuesday, March 12. Despite the fact that the trees were being planted on land actually owned by one of the Palestinians, the act was deemed objectionable, threatening, etc., and not only by Israeli soldiers, but by settlers from a nearby settlement as well. Apparently trees, in some cases, are now viewed as an existential threat to the state of Israel.

Israeli soldiers immediately went into attack mode, and masked settlers from the settlement of Yizhar (One wonders where they get these names. Are they referred to as “Yizharites”?) began pouring into the area as well. A report on the incident is found here, and includes the following:

 Farmers attacked by Israel army and settlers, preventing them from planting olive trees in memory of Rachel Corrie

By Lisa Marchant

Farmers peacefully planting olive trees in the land of Asira al Qiblya were today disrupted by Israeli soldiers who halted the planting. The presence of Palestinians on their own land also attracted the attention of illegal settlers from the nearby settlement of Yizhar, leading to them attacking Palestinians farmers and volunteers, throwing and catapulting stones. The army moved immediately to protect the attackers, shooting tear gas and rubber bullets at Palestinians.

The olive trees were being planted in the vicinity of an Israeli military tower, recently built on a hill above Asira al Qiblya. Because of this, soldiers hassled farmers throughout the day, with an escalation of hostility mid-morning, when around 20 soldiers approached and demanded that farmers should stop planting trees and leave the land, despite the fact that the Palestinian owner of the land notified them that he wished to continue farming. The commander advised that the village should contact the Israeli district coordination office (DCO) to request permission – if permission was granted, he intimated, then the farmers would be allowed to access their land unhindered.

However, the villagers of Asira al Qiblya know this not to be the case. Just last week, access was requested and granted for three days through the DCO – despite this, a shepherd grazing his herd on the land during this “permitted time” was ordered to leave the land and was severely beaten by soldiers. It is clear that the outcome for villagers is the same whether permission is granted by Israel or not.

After a long confrontation with soldiers, farmers moved further down the hill to continue planting in an area arbitrarily deemed acceptable by the Israeli commander. At this point, around twenty masked settlers from Yizhar arrived and proceeded to attack the farmers from their vantage point higher up the hill – throwing stones by hand and with slingshots. Yizhar settlement is widely considered one of the most violent settlements in the West Bank, and all villages in its vicinity face regular attacks.

Yizharites descend down the mountain to thwart the tree-planting

 
Palestinian youths moved to fend off the settler attack, but the Israeli army intervened on behalf of the attackers, shooting tear gas and rubber bullets at the villagers of Asira, until both the Palestinian villagers and settlers left the area. No injuries or arrests were reported.

At the end of the day only around ten olive trees had been planted due to interruptions from the army and settlers – farmers were also not optimistic that the young trees would be allowed to remain on their land and suspected that either the army or settlers would destroy them. However, they refuse to relinquish access to their land despite these setbacks and will continue planting trees in the area.

The olive trees planted today were donated by the International Solidarity Movement to replace Palestinian trees destroyed by Israeli forces and settlers during previous years – a common occurrence throughout the year. They were planted in memory of ISM activist Rachel Corrie as the tenth anniversary of her death approaches. She was crushed to death with an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza in 2003 whilst protesting non-violently in solidarity with the Palestinian people.

Note that the army “intervened on behalf of the attackers.” This is typical behavior on the part of the Israeli army. The Yizharites could have set off a small nuclear device, and doubtless it would have been interpreted as an act of aggression on the part of the tree-planters. I’m often struck by what seems to be a bottomless well of courage exhibited by some Palestinians in resisting their occupiers, and invariably wonder whether, should the ground ever become slightly more leveled, the latter could come close to exhibiting the same. Or put another way, would the gangsterish, masked Yizharites be so keen on throwing rocks at people if they didn’t have the Israeli army to protect them?

But let’s get back to Rachel Corrie and the threat to Israel’s security posed by planting trees in her name. For indeed, there may actually be such a threat. A bright, young idealistic girl goes to Palestine and gives her life in the cause of freedom—this is what people often will inevitably think of when they think of Rachel. But at the same time, so much more goes through their minds even than that.

On March 16, 2003, Corrie was in Gaza, along with other ISMers, non-violently defending a Palestinian family and trying to prevent the demolition of their home. When the bulldozer approached, young Rachel, wearing a fluorescent orange vest and speaking through a bullhorn, stood in its way and shouted for the driver to stop. But as we all know, he didn’t stop. Instead, he ran over her.

No criminal charges ever were filed against the Israeli soldier operating the bulldozer, and for seven years, the Corrie family fought a legal battle in the Israeli courts, trying to win some measure of justice in a civil suit. Their legal efforts came to an end on August 28 last year, when the Haifa District Court ruled against them. The judge in the case, Oded Gershon, asserted that “the accident was caused by the deceased”—this of course despite testimony from eyewitnesses that the running-over of Rachel had been no accident, much less that the “accident” had been caused by the activist herself.

And so all of this, like a stirring of some tall grass, is what passes through people’s minds when the name Rachel Corrie is spoken. In response to the judicial action, Cindy Corrie, Rachel’s mother, issued a statement to the media, calling it a “bad day for humanity.” It was a true and accurate statement, made all the more so by the enormous power wielded by Israeli lobbies in Western countries, for such-like as these have been responsible for unleashing quite a number of “bad days for humanity”—in Iraq, Libya, Syria, and perhaps soon Iran as well. And this too hitches itself to the name Rachel Corrie.

Following the court verdict, the cartoonist, Carlos Latuff, issued the following cartoon…

And like the statement by Cindy Corrie, it also speaks volumes. Volumes because the death of Rachel Corrie, and the heinous ruling by Judge Oded Gershon, are small but significant parts of the history of Israel’s growing and irreversible “delegitimizing.” One cannot escape certain things in life, and this seems to be the one thing from which Israel cannot escape. “Delegitimization,” in fact, has become the one thing Israel’s leaders and supporters fear, perhaps more so than anything else. And if planting a tree in Rachel’s memory furthers this process along, and thereby represents a threat to the Jewish state’s security, then I say let’s go out and plant trees. Lots of them!

I would also like to pose a theory here—that the soldiers and the Yizharites were acting out of gut fear when they attacked the tree planters. They are afraid that the love Rachel Corrie showed the Palestinians in particular, and oppressed people in general, will grow into a mighty oak tree whose branches will spread throughout the world, a gurgling brook whose life-giving waters will cool and neutralize the debilitating fevers of greed and deception. And there is good reason for their fear.

“A notable aspect of Rachel Corrie’s legacy is the sheer volume of art her life and sacrificed evoked,” one commenter observed recently. “Between March 19^th 2003 and April 24^th 2004, I collected over 160 poems written in the young woman’s honor, and posted on the web, in the English language.”

Thus, the Israeli soldiers who attacked the Palestinians planting trees in Rachel’s memory were not merely afraid—they were terrified. They were terrified the day will come that mountain chains will be named “The Rachel Corrie Mountains,” that parks, schools, roads and hospitals will bear her name as well, that lovers will one day walk through such places as “Rachel Corrie Cove,” holding hands, perhaps sharing a kiss.

Rachel Corrie picked a flower, placed it in a vase, and it grew into Palestine—this too they fear—the Rachel Corrie call of the wild, the ringing of the Rachel Corrie freedom bells, and, perhaps most of all, the Rachel Corrie moon rising in the hearts of poet, visionaries, for whom the idea of “world peace” is a warm zephyr in the soft, fragrant night.

So please, go out and plant some trees today!


Following are a couple of videos that seem especially apropos on this tenth anniversary. The first features Alice Walker reading Rachel, while in the second Rachel’s parents, Craig and Cindy Corrie, comment on the tenth anniversary of their daughter’s death.




See also:

Rachel Corrie and Daniel Pearl—A Curious Comparison

No Right To Exist: The Corrie Verdict and the Jewish State’s Belligerence

 

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There Is No Business Like Shoa Business

By Gilad Atzmon

Yesterday, the Independent reported  “Astonishing new research shows Nazi camp network targeting Jews was twice as big as previously thought.”

But The Independent was quick and kind enough to give us an insight into the  implications of this new Shoa affair. “The team behind the research, based at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, told The Independent that they believe the evidence could also be crucial to survivors trying to bring cases for compensation against Germany and other countries for time spent in camps whose existence was hitherto obscure or undocumented.”

Legendary (and very perceptive) Israeli diplomat Abba Eban had already sussed it out in the 1950s when he told us that: “There’s no business like Shoa business”

For years, I’ve been opposing European Holocaust denial laws. Among other things, I believe that those laws are designed primarily to maintain the primacy of Jewish suffering and divert attention from the sins of Zionism and Israel. But now I realise that I could have been wrong. As the Holocaust Industry runs out of steam, some Jewish institutions are engaged in sustaining the Holocaust as the mother and father of all genocides and, as we read above, they certainly know how to convert suffering into shekels. So now I grasp that Holocaust Denial Laws, may actually have been passed to save the Goyim from the inevitable inflation of future demands for further compensation such as reported above.

For now, I would advise the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC to adopt a more universal approach and, rather than focusing solely on the suffering of Jews,  to look into the suffering inflicted on Palestinians by the Jewish State because, as far as we can see, the whole of Palestine is now an open air prison.

Oh, and while they’re at it, The Holocaust Memorial Museum can also look into the role Jewish lobbies are playing in the destruction Palestinine – a crime taking place before our very eyes.

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BDS , Israel plead Apartheid

by Daniel Mabsout,

The BDS and the state of Israel seem to be coordinating quite well with each other in order to promote the Apartheid state that will give Israel the legal status it needs to continue to exist as a recognized legitimate state after it has been denied legitimacy . The NGO called BDS (Boycott Divest and sanction) is working hand in hand with Israelis in order to prove that Israel is an Apartheid state- according to the South African model- that requires anti Apartheid policies like Boycott and the rest. Our own understanding is that Israel should be boycotted as a whole and not only her policies, and should be shunned and denounced for what it is : an advanced military base for colonialist powers created by the colonialist west under the label of religion in order to partition and weaken Arab countries and keep them under western hegemony . Therefore Israel should be exposed as usurping expansionist genocidal criminal state responsible of assaulting ,chasing , humiliating , incarcerating and abusing and exterminating the original population.

After losing two consecutive wars at the hands of Hizbullah , Israel - whose existence has been under threat and who fears for its continuity - is trying to acquire the legal status of an Apartheid state and trying to hide its genocidal reality behind a fake racism in order to be more presentable and less offensive . Israel is helped in this by BDS and EI and other so called pro Palestinian NGOs that coordinate with Israeli NGOs for this purpose. In order to cater to this status, and in conformity with its Apartheid aspirations Israel has already declared itself a Jewish state to appear in its new religious racist garbs . This declaration of the Jewish state - that caters for racism so much desired by the Zionist usurpers- was followed - recently - by a decision to segregate buses for Palestinians that they will use at the exclusion of Zionist settlers . Israel has inaugurated two lines of these buses consecrated to Palestinians hoping by this that it will strengthen its position as an Apartheid state whereby - instead of evacuating the usurped land and returning the land to its original inhabitants - Israel will work on reducing the so called segregationist policies, some of which she has just started implementing . A good deal no doubt Israel is offering : give me legality and recognition and instead of being genocidal I am ready to become racist ! Thank you Israel.! And Thank you BDS !


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BDS Promoting Israel's Cause

By Daniel Mabsout



The using of anti racist policies and projecting these policies on the Palestinian/Israeli struggle on behalf of BDS is very misleading and misplaced and is not called for and comes to cater to the taste of the western establishment rather than promote Palestinians’ rights . They should not have exposed themselves and Palestinians to these accusations that are alien and unrelated to the Palestinian condition . The Israelis did not occupy Palestine and chased out Palestinians because Palestinians hate Jews or are racists , nor did they do that because Jews hate Palestinians .The Palestinians are victims of Israelis and of Israel racist policies . The Palestinians want to retrieve their land and houses and are not interested in the race of the occupier . These anti racial claims of BDS have no place in the Palestinian struggle and shed a light – rather - on BDS Israeli involvements and adopting Israel racist policies in justifying what it does to Arabs and Palestinians by using the anti racist argument. This is extremely dangerous on behalf of BDS and sheds a light on its true identity. The Arabs are in a state of self defense against Israel . If Israel happens to be a Jewish Zionist State , this does not mean that Arabs are racist and should not be construed because it is irrelevant and a totally uncalled for issue .

This is extremely clumsy on behalf of BDS and an Israeli stand by Excellence. This would involve the Palestinians in a cause that is not theirs . If a thief comes and robs you , you don’t dwell over his race or religion , you are concerned with what has been taken from you, and so the judge will not try the thief according to his color but in relation to the act of theft . Palestine has been usurped and stolen . What difference does it make if the thief is from this or that color or this or that religion? It makes no difference . especially if the thief is accused of theft alone. The BDS operated a very serious dangerous shift by dwelling on Israel’s racist policies and promoting Israel as a racist state substituting one struggle for another struggle and depriving Palestinians of their real cause and linking them to activities and functions that are not theirs . For This reason also the sectarian alignment of BDS is now showing , it is also to impose another cause, this time religious, on the real cause which is that of a nation and a people.

Stressing the religious aspect of the Palestinian problem and covering the Palestinian suffering with a religious color is tying it to religious issues that are irrelevant to the Palestinian cause and therefore altering the features of the Palestinian struggle to turn it into a religious issue between religions whereby Israel would appear as a religious racist state that is shunning people of other religions their rights . This religious racist label of the struggle has been strengthened by the declaration made by Israel that describes it as a Jewish state endorsing thus the role of a racist state and by the sectarian religious alignment of Hamas regarding world policies , This religious attribute is alien to the Palestinian struggle that is not religious even if religions are part of it and it serves Israel that has everything to gain from turning the struggle into a religious one . This is liable to liquidate the Palestinian cause by turning it into something else.

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Adel Samara: .What is wrong with Atzmon calling Zionism as the Jewish version of Nazism?

A few days ago someone asked me about Gilad Atzmon and non-Zionist Jews in general. Although the question of non-Zionist Jews is a complicated one, however, one might offer some points to differentiate a Zionist from a non-Zionist. These points do not apply to Jews only, rather to all.

Any person, party, regime that recognizes the Zionist Ashkenazi Regime (ZAR) is a Zionist, whether he is Jew, Palestinian, Arab or from other place or nationality.

Non-Zionist is a person who believes in all forms of struggle, including military struggle, for the liberation of Palestine and the realization of Palestinians’ Right of Return to their homes and properties.

Non-Zionist is a person who considers the Palestinian Nakba of 1948 as an ongoing Holocaust of the Palestinian people.

BUT any revolutionary is the person who believes in a socialist solution for Palestine as part of a socialist Arab Homeland, in which Jews -- whose overwhelming majority settled Palestine in the course of the Zionist colonialist project -- will be treated as any other cultural/religious group.

I agree that a socialist solution is still too far, it is a vision, but it is the sole real solution. Although I have followed some Atzmon’s work and activities, but I can not say that I am fully aware of his position on the Arab-Israeli conflict.

I had the opportunity of watching an interview with him by Press TV[1], and I also read a statement published few months prior to that interview and was issued by some Palestinian writers and activists entitled “Granting No Quarter: A Call for the Disavowal of the Racism and Anti-Semitism of Gilad Atzmon”.[2]

That statement would have been reasonable if it were published before the Zionist Ashkenazi Regime (ZAR) declared its demand to create a pure “The Jewish State”. If Jews meant a “nation” then there is no such thing.

The Zionist settlers in Palestine came from nearly 100 countries and nations. If the “Jewish state” meant the state of those who believe in Judaism, that means that we are talking about politicization of Judaism, Jewishness, then Gilad is right in his criticism to Jewishness as an ideology. He clearly differentiates between Judaism and Jewishness.

The question that would logically follow:

Why would some Palestinians object to that?

Jewishness is political Judaism.

The same of what I call قوى الدين الإسلامي السياسي/المسيَّس the Forces of Politicized Islamic Religion (FPIR) some call it Political Islam, but it is also present in all religions: neo-conservatism is politicized Christianity and Jewishness is the same as well.

Even if we disagree with Atzmon whether Zionism applies to the Diaspora or that it is no more applicable today, and whether he is post-Zionist or not…etc, we can assume that that it is his own opinion or interpretation or what we call in Arabic Ijtihad.

Why criticizing Atzmon? What is all this fuss about?

Leave it for Zionists to fight him?

Why would Palestinians volunteer that fast!

If this ZAR is apartheid, it is relatively right in the occupied part of Palestine 1948.

In South Africa, there is no expulsion, i.e. Refugee question.

I wonder why would not these Palestinian writers and activists protest against the iconization of Noam Chomsky when he bluntly refuses any form of one state solution because it, in his view, will harm the Jews!

The Holocaust was executed in a short period of time, intensive one, but our Holocaust is a long and extended one.

One final comment on the statement of the Palestinian writers and activists:

What is wrong with Atzmon calling Zionism as the Jewish version of Nazism?

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