| Arabs love Haaretz article saying Jews should go back into exilenoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 03 Jun 04:45 AM Earlier this week, Haaretz published | | Earlier this week, Haaretz published an op-ed by B. Michael which I still cannot tell if it is parody or not. Excerpts: I'm a proud exilic Jew. I'm an internationalist and a cosmopolitan. I'm also devoid of any relationship to my geographic birthplace, and "land" to me is just the dirt in which food grows and people are buried. It doesn't have a single milligram of sanctity, and it isn't worth even a single drop of blood.
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In our own day, we've learned that we owe our survival to being geographically dispersed rather than geographically concentrated. To diversity rather than unity. To communities rather than a state. We're really terrible at being a "nation." We very quickly become as stupid, violent and greedy as most of the other nations of the world, and within a short time we brought destruction and exile on ourselves. Only there, in exile, do we regain the sense we lost and resume being a people that survives. Apparently, being a majority doesn't suit us – ruling, running an army and a state. We're good at being a minority. Even a little persecution suits us. It brings out the best in us. And now, we're once again playing at being a "nation." Ostensibly, that's our eternal answer to the Holocaust that befell us. But in reality, it's the continuation of the Holocaust. Not, heaven forbid, the burning of...Read More |
From Ian: What if Israel treated America as America treats Israel? Israel enjoys a special relationship with the United States that dates back to its founding. That relationship, however, is sometimes a double-edged sword. Most of the time, it works to Israel's benefit. Still, the U.S. State Department, which opposed the creation of Israel, often treats Israel differently than any other democratic government by singling it out for criticism. If Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) behaved the same way towards the United States, news reports might sound something like this:
The MFA spokesperson said the Government of Israel expresses its condolences to the families of the massacre victims at the school in Uvalde, Texas. She also noted that the rate of gun deaths in Israel is about two per 100,000 residents compared to 12 per 100,000 in the United States, and the number of firearms per 100 Israelis is less than seven compared to more than 120 in the United States. "In Israel, most Israeli men and women serve in the military, so they have been trained in the proper use of firearms," she added. "Still, they cannot get permits for weapons until they are 21. Those without military training must wait until they are 27. Even then, applicants for licenses must typically work in security-related fields or live in a dangerous area." The spokesperson suggested the United States could...Read More |
As President Biden prepares for his upcoming trip to Israel, the question of his promise to reopen the US Consulate in Jerusalem to serve the Palestinian population is coming up again.Last year, Israeli officials suggested that while opening it up in Jerusalem is an affront to the Israeli claim to Jerusalem, they have no problem if the US opens it up in the de facto capital of the Palestinian Authority of Ramallah. Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman of Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas rejected the idea, saying, "We will only accept a U.S. consulate in Jerusalem, the capital of the Palestinian state." But consulates aren't opened in capitals. They are opened in other important cities. Capitals usually host embassies, not consulates. Meaning that if the Palestinian Authority insists that Jerusalem is their capital, they should insist that a US consulate be opened in Ramallah or Nablus or Hebron, and that eventually - in their hope - an embassy would be opened in Jerusalem. As usual with Palestinians, facts are not a factor. Everything is about symbolism. Many of their "red lines" are symbolic and have nothing to do with their ostensible demand for a Palestinian state. Jerusalem isn't even mentioned in the PLO charter of 1968 - they created that demand to take Jerusalem...Read More |
Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory. Check out their Facebook page. Isfahan, Islamic Republic of Iran, June 2 - Online activists with skill in compromising the security of internet-connected remote computers celebrated a milestone today in the ongoing campaign to undo the Zionist project, now that they have succeeded in taking down the interface that a Kiryat Motzkin-based small laundry business uses to advertise its services, location, hours, and contact details. The team of Iranian hackers exchanged high-fives and virtual congratulations upon crashing the website of Levi Dry Cleaning, run by local resident and second-generation proprietor Yehoshua Levi and his wife Nitza. Temporary neutralization of the enterprise's site marks one more important step in the generations-long effort to eliminate Jewish sovereignty on land that Islam once dominated; the existence of Israel represents a never-ending source of shame for those who associate Islamic superiority with everything good in the world. As soon as anyone notices the site not functioning, they will realize the enormity of Iran's capacity to penetrate Israel's cybernetworks. Experts differ on when, if ever, the breach will gain the proprietors' attention. "Most of the online interface with customers takes place via WhatsApp and the business's Facebook Page," argued...Read More |
From Ian: Israel, Saudi Arabia agree: Security arrangements in Straits of Tiran for flyover rights Israel is set to agree to new security arrangements allowing Egypt to transfer control of two islands in the Straits of Tiran to Saudi Arabia, which US President Joe Biden is expected to announce on his trip to the region at the end of the month. There is currently a multinational force on the islands of Tiran and Sanafir, which Saudi Arabia does not want present once they control the islands. Under a soon-to-be-announced deal, Israel will agree to have the forces stationed on what will remain Egyptian soil, several kilometers away. In return, Saudi Arabia will allow Israeli airlines to fly over its airspace. Currently, only Israeli flights to the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain can fly over Saudi Arabia, as well as Air India flights to and from Israel. Background
The multinational force has patrolled the islands, strategically located at the opening of the Red Sea and the only shipping route to Eilat, since Israel and Egypt signed a peace treaty in 1979. That condition came about because former Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser blocked the Straits of Tiran in the lead-up to the 1967 Six Day War. Saudi Arabia had originally given Egypt control of the islands in the 1950s, and Egypt agreed to return them in recent years. Israel also agreed, in principle, in 2016, but alternate security arrangements were not...Read More |
In January, The New York Times wrote a story about a new documentary about the discovery and preservation of a remarkable color home movie. Glenn Kurtz found the film reel in a corner of his parents' closet in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., in 2009. It was in a dented aluminum canister. Florida's heat and humidity had nearly solidified the celluloid into a mass "like a hockey puck," Kurtz said. But someone had transferred part of it onto VHS tape in the 1980s, so Kurtz could see what it contained: a home movie titled "Our Trip to Holland, Belgium, Poland, Switzerland, France and England, 1938." The 16-millimeter film, made by his grandfather, David Kurtz, on the eve of World War II, showed the Alps, quaint Dutch villages and three minutes of footage of a vibrant Jewish community in a Polish town. Old men in yarmulkes, skinny boys in caps, girls with long braids. Smiling and joking. People pour through the large doors of a synagogue. There's some shoving in a cafe and then, that's it. The footage ends abruptly. Kurtz, nevertheless, understood the value of the material as evidence of Jewish life in Poland just before the Holocaust. It would take him nearly a year to figure it out, but he discovered that the footage depicted Nasielsk, his grandfather's birthplace, a town about 30 miles northwest of Warsaw that some 3,000 Jews called home before the war. Fewer than 100 would survive...Read More |
The ADL tweeted this image from Jewish Voice for Peace's social media: Yes, this is a literal blood libel, accusing Jews of drinking Palestinian blood.
It doesn't get more antisemitic than this.
Actually, maybe it does. At least one of the corpses wears a striped uniform that evokes Holocaust victims.
The Jews in the cartoon aren't just killing Palestinians for no reason - they are celebrating murdering people to steal their land.
Many of the comments to the ADL tweet double down on the antisemitism, or say that the ADL is distracting from supposed Israeli crimes. One even claims the blood libel was true.
When "anti-Zionists" excuse antisemitism, it tells you all you need to know about "anti-Zionists." * * * * * * Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Or order from your favorite bookseller, using ISBN 9798985708424. Read all about it here! ...Read More |
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