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Post by jdredd on Jul 22, 2014 14:21:23 GMT -5
Well, I have decided that in all probability, Judaism has a future but Israel does not.
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Post by jdredd on Aug 4, 2014 23:10:58 GMT -5
www.economist.com/news/briefing/21610312-pummelling-gaza-has-cost-israel-sympathy-not-just-europe-also-among-americans?spc=scode&spv=xm&ah=9d7f7ab945510a56fa6d37c30b6f1709"Clearly, Europe’s antipathy towards Israel is more than just loud protest. Many Israelis think they can no longer count on public opinion in Europe—and, to a much lesser extent, America—and that where popular sentiment leads, democratic politicians will sooner or later follow. They see the rising number and vehemence of demonstrations against Israel’s wars, and as a result fear “delegitimisation”: the turning of Israel into a pariah state, outside polite international society. A global poll in and about several countries, conducted for the BBC long before the latest strife in Gaza, reported that negative views of Israel’s influence in the world outweighed positive ones by more than two to one (see chart 1). In aggregate, Americans saw Israel favourably; Europeans did not. But plenty of Americans worry about Israel’s reputation. Barack Obama has fretted about his country’s “limited” ability to manage the “international fallout” were a Palestinian state no longer within reach. Delegitimisation, says Einat Wilf, a former Israeli parliamentarian and one of the authors of a three-year, as-yet-unpublished study of the topic at the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI) in Jerusalem, is becoming “a strategic threat” I've said it before and I'll say it again...the sooner Judaism jettisons Zionism the better off it will be. In the meanwhile, if you criticize Israel you are "anti-semitic".
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Post by jdredd on Nov 18, 2014 21:52:16 GMT -5
www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-30107446"Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to win a "battle for Jerusalem" after a deadly attack on a synagogue. Two Palestinians killed four rabbis in West Jerusalem before being shot dead. A policeman later died of his wounds. Mr Netanyahu vowed to "settle the score with every terrorist" saying that those "who want to uproot us from our state and capital... will not succeed". Jerusalem has seen weeks of unrest, partly fuelled by tension over a disputed holy site. Tuesday's attack was the deadliest in Jerusalem for six years. There were about 25 worshippers in the synagogue at the time and at least seven people were also seriously wounded. Mr Netanyahu ordered the homes of the attackers to be destroyed, saying: "We are in a battle over Jerusalem, our eternal capital." I think it says a lot that 66 years after the state of Israel was imposed on the Middle East by the UN that the PM of Israel has to say "We are in a battle over Jerusalem". And that is his solution? Destroying the homes of the attackers?
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Post by jdredd on Nov 26, 2014 14:40:29 GMT -5
www.latimes.com/local/great-reads/la-me-c1-rabbi-beerman-20141126-story.html#page=1"Racked by pain, the 93-year-old rabbi walked shakily to the lectern to give his sermon on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year. Then his spine straightened. His gaze grew firm. "Another Yom Kippur," he said. "Another 500 children of Gaza killed by the Israel Defense Forces, with callous disregard for their lives." Tension rippled through the Jewish congregants seated hip to hip inside one of Los Angeles' most prominent synagogues. Rabbi Leonard Beerman criticized the militant group Hamas for launching thousands of rockets into Israel, sparking fear and havoc. But in a calm yet insistent voice, he saved most of his ire for his own people. Where among American Jews were the critics of Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip this summer?" Jewish people like Rabbi Beerman is why Judaism has a future while Zionism does not.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 24, 2015 22:42:07 GMT -5
www.economist.com/news/leaders/21644152-europe-has-obligation-protect-its-jews-return-jew-hatred?spc=scode&spv=xm&ah=9d7f7ab945510a56fa6d37c30b6f1709"The dilemma for European governments is to defend free speech while curbing anti-Semitic hate-speech, particularly when uttered by Muslim minorities that feel themselves to be victims of Islamophobia, often with good cause. A measured public discourse about Israel would help. There are fuzzy but real boundaries between anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism and rightful criticism of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. Jews collectively are not responsible for the actions of Israel; legitimate censure of Israeli occupation policies should not extend to delegitimising Israel as a refuge for Jews. Likewise, it would be wise to distinguish between the faith practised by most Muslims and the jihadist justification of barbarity." Every year the Palestinian body count mounts, and will possibly be added by Iranian body counts if Bibi has his way. It is irrational for the Zionists to expect no backlash against Jews. Just like all Muslims will be paying the price for the antics of ISIS.
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Post by jdredd on May 20, 2016 15:30:02 GMT -5
www.aljazeera.com/indepth/interactive/2015/05/ethnic-cleansing-palestine-150514130231067.html"To create the state of Israel, Zionist forces attacked major Palestinian cities and destroyed more than 530 Palestinian villages. In 1948, approximately 13,000 Palestinians were killed and more than 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes, becoming refugees. This was the climax of Zionist ethnic cleansing. Today, Palestinian refugees and their descendants number more than seven million. Many still languish in refugee camps in neighbouring Arab countries, waiting to return to their homeland." Here is a different perspective on the history of Israel.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 18, 2016 14:30:58 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2016/10/19/opinion/anti-semitic-anti-zionism.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-right-region®ion=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region"Corbyn has rejected the cross-party report, saying it’s biased. Last month he called anti-Semitism “an evil” that must never be permitted “to fester in our society again.” He’s expressed regret for his embrace of Hamas and Hezbollah. Nobody believes him. The Labour leader hates the West and by extension Israel as a colonial power (not in the West Bank, where the settler movement makes the charge justifiable, but in its entirety) so much that he cannot see when this hatred merges into anti-Semitism. “He’s in denial,” as Rachel Sylvester of The Times of London told me. His ideology leads to a position that Johnson expresses well: “That which the demonological Jew once was, demonological Israel now is.” Parry Mitchell, a Jewish peer, quit the Labour Party in disgust this summer, and put the issue this way to me: “How can I, a Jew and a Zionist, remain in a party where the leadership is so clearly hostile to Israel (even to its very existence) and which also flirts with anti-Semitism.” British and American politics have reached a new low that presents the greatest postwar challenge to the Atlantic alliance and the civilization it has sustained." The Zionists continue to keep the ties between Zionism and Judaism strong. But as I concluded a while back, I think Judaism has a future while Zionism does not.
As for the "Atlantic alliance", whether you think it is a good thing or not (Really? The Atlantic alliance has "sustained civilization"? Oh, I think if Russian tanks had rolled into Paris, which I doubt the Russians ever had any intention of doing, civilization would have survived), it's old. And old alliances fall apart. How much longer will Americans want to invest their hard-earned income supporting a far right trending Europe?
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Post by jdredd on Dec 26, 2016 14:02:31 GMT -5
So Bibi has his panties all twisted up because the US did not veto a pro-Palestinian rights measure in the UN. Well, I'm sure he's looking forward to the Trump Reich. Seems to me Trump, Putin, and Netanyahu are birds of a feather.
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Post by Turk on Dec 28, 2016 12:46:37 GMT -5
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Post by jdredd on Dec 28, 2016 22:47:53 GMT -5
I can't disagree with much of what he is saying (how can you disagree with cute Jewish and Palestinians children playing peacefully?), but I still believe the sad fact that Israel has no future. The question still on my mind is how much damage Israel will do Judaism before Israel is extinguished.
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Post by jdredd on Aug 31, 2017 13:40:51 GMT -5
www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/07/palestinian-students-prepare-settler-attacks-170703110238625.html"Israel's Yitzhar settlement was established in the area in 1983, and like the rest of Israel's settlements in the occupied West Bank, it is considered illegal under international law. Yitzhar's approximately 1,300 residents are infamous for their frequent attacks on neighbouring Palestinian villages.Palestinians residing in the villages of Asira al-Qibliya, Madama, Burin, Huwwara, Einbus and Urif have had hundreds of their olive trees burned by settlers from Yitzhar, while more than 700 hectares of the villages' lands are inaccessible to Palestinian residents due to the routine settler violence, according to the United Nations. Fawzi Mahmoud Shihada, the former head of Urif's village council, told Al Jazeera that the attacks started when Yitzhar expanded towards the eastern part of the village, completely taking over the adjacent Salmen al-Parsi Mountain. "The settlers constantly look down on us from the mountain. It makes it easier for them to come down and attack us," Fawzi said." The Zionists will reap what they sow.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 12, 2017 22:17:28 GMT -5
Reading about Isreal approving more settlements in the occupied West Bank, I really did not feel concerned. Netanyahu does not bother me because I know Israel is doomed. So maybe Trump should not bother me either.
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Post by jdredd on Nov 1, 2017 1:14:26 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2017/10/31/world/middleeast/israel-rivlin-netanyahu-democracy.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0"JERUSALEM — Arabs, peace activists and Israel’s left wing have long challenged as undemocratic the right-wing government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But now that criticism is being leveled by former security officials and members of the right-wing establishment itself, including veterans of Mr. Netanyahu’s own political party and his Justice Department. They say that the government’s efforts to control the news media, curtail the authority of the Supreme Court and undermine once-hallowed institutions like the military threaten the future of Israeli democracy. Their warnings have thrown Israel into an impassioned debate over what kind of country it is becoming, and if its democracy — now in its 70th year — can survive. A former chief of Shin Bet, the Israeli domestic security service, wrote in a newspaper column on Monday that if “ the ethical and moral rot that leads us” continues, “this incredible Zionist enterprise will expire.”
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Post by jdredd on Dec 6, 2017 1:58:06 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2017/12/05/world/middleeast/american-embassy-israel-trump-move.html?&hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news"WASHINGTON — President Trump plans to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and move the American Embassy there, upending nearly seven decades of American foreign policy and potentially destroying his efforts to broker peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Mr. Trump’s decision, a high-risk foray into the thicket of the Middle East, was driven not by diplomatic calculations but by a campaign promise. He appealed to evangelicals and ardently pro-Israel American Jews in 2016 by vowing to move the embassy, and advisers said on Tuesday he was determined to make good on his word. But the president, faced with a deadline of this past Monday to make that decision, still plans to sign a national security waiver to keep the embassy in Tel Aviv for an additional six months, even as he set in motion a plan to move it to Jerusalem. Officials said the process would take several years. More significantly, Mr. Trump is to announce his formal recognition of Jerusalem as the Israeli capital in a formal speech at the White House on Wednesday, when he will become the first American president to take that step since the founding of Israel in 1948." Go for it, Trumpty. It isn't going to save Israel.
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Post by jdredd on Dec 21, 2017 20:56:31 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2017/12/21/world/middleeast/trump-jerusalem-united-nations.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0"UNITED NATIONS — A lopsided majority of United Nations members rebuked the United States on Thursday, denouncing its decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and ignoring President Trump’s threats to retaliate by cutting aid to countries voting against it. In a collective act of defiance toward Washington, the United Nations General Assembly voted 128 to 9, with 35 abstentions, for a resolution demanding that the United States rescind its Dec. 6 declaration on Jerusalem, the contested holy city. The resolution is nonbinding and therefore largely symbolic, but the vote indicated the extent to which the Trump administration’s departure from a 50-year international consensus on Jerusalem’s status has unsettled world politics and contributed to America’s diplomatic isolation. Major allies like Britain, France, Germany and Japan voted for the resolution, though some allies, like Australia and Canada, abstained." Gosh, Israel continues to gain the world's goodwill by sticking it to the Palestinians. But why should they care? They have America backing them no matter what they do. For now.
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