Doc's Talk: Antisemitism‏

Friday, August 23, 2013

Antisemitism‏

Definition: antisemitism, also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism is prejudice, hatred of, or discrimination against Jews for reasons connected to their Jewish heritage. A person who holds such positions is called an "antisemite". Antisemitism is considered by most scientists to be a form of racism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism

The literal meaning of the term is "against the Semites," i.e., hatred of all members of the Semitic race, which includes, among others, Jews and Arabs. According to the Bible, the Semites are the descendants of Shem, the son of Noah. In practice, the term antisemitism is used to indicate hatred of Jews only, and is never used to refer to hatred of other Semitic peoples. Throughout history the causes for antisemitism are many, and they are: religious hatred, hatred against the socio-economic, hatred based on cultural background and racial hatred. Throughout history it has been customary to divide antisemitism, to traditional and modern antisemitism, when modern antisemitism was built as another floor above that traditional one.

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Antisemitism

Nurit Greenger

After the Holocaust, antisemitism is a word the entire world should have been afraid of, but it is not; and such behavior should have disgusted every person in the world, but it does not.

Antisemitism is an incurable emotional and psychological disease, spread worldwide among non-Jews and even among Jews of all sort.

In light of what is happening in the world these days in general, and in Egypt in particular, I wrote in my previous article that the world needs reprogramming for peace to prevail. - http://newsblaze.com/story/20130820154102nurg.nb/topstory.html

And what did I mean by that?

Who reprogrammed Nazi Germany, the fascist Italy and Spain, the antisemitic Netherlands, Croatia and Ukraine, and in fact most of Europe? No one! Maybe because nobody reprogrammed the Europeans, the neo-Nazis have remained neo-Nazis, the racists remained racists, who, today, are rising, blooming and spreading throughout Europe, in Greece, France, Austria, Hungary - where they already dominate - the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, and where not? To this ancient European hatred system was added a new element in Europe, the Islamo-Nazis; haters of Jews from the times of Muhammad, the creator of the Muslim religion, throughout 1,400 years of this religion's history, who were brought to Europe by the European establishments and are now adding fuel to the hatred of Jews that exists in Europe for many centuries.

Anywhere in the world where Jews lived, through the centuries of their exile, their numbers have been reduced to zero, or their numbers continues to decline rapidly. After the apartheid regime in South Africa was canceled, the same people who suffered racial discrimination, today are operating along resentment, hypocrisy and boycott against Israel, the behavior of which they have suffered from and fought to abolish. And the numbers of the Jewish community in South Africa are on the decline. Just a few days ago two Jewish families, with many children, were brought, by a covert operation, from Yemen to safety, to the State of Israel. And in Yemen only about 100 Jews remained and their live are in danger. Soon the remaining Jews of Ethiopia will be brought to Israel and the last Jewish school there has already been closed forever. Arab countries have long been Judenrein - clean of Jews; Europe of the 1940s killed most of the Jews of Europe and the number of Jews who remained living on the "enlightened" continent narrows quickly. And those who still remain there know, if the situation becomes unbearable, the doors are always open for them in Israel. And that is what we see today in France, Jews there are securing a home in Israel. The shelter named Israel will protect every Jew.

Even in the United States and Canada antisemitism is on the rise, especially on university campuses, sentiments of hatred of Jews driven by Islam influence on the higher education system. And let us not forget the Left leaning academia that tends to be anti-Israel, and being anti-Israel means having antisemism sentiments for a collective group or Jews, all gathered in their homeland.

I will not forget to mention here the Arab-Palestinians, Israel's "peace partner" of the last twenty years, that have consistently raised generations who do not believe in Israel's right to exist and want to destroy the Jewish state. They live with the idea of their right to be allowed to return to their great-grandparents homes in Haifa, Jaffa, and Tel-Aviv, homes their ancestors ran away from in 1948, during Israel's Independence war.

Only today the Arab-Palestinians have come out with one other genocidal statement: Fatah: "Without blood Palestine will not return". Fatah's Facebook page promotes armed violence for kids. Female suicide bombers are "stars who sparkled in the sky" - http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=9570

And then there are the anti-Semites Jews, and on that I can only say, G-d please watch over us.

Racism, antisemitism and bigotry is embedded deeply in the fabric of the Israeli Arab and the Arab-Palestinian societies in Israel. But the government of Israel prefers to deal with this mounting problem by hiding the facts, sweeping the problems under the carpet and not having an effective solution.

Let us take Israel's democracy and freedom of religion and the Temple Mount case. Why is it that Jews cannot pray on Temple mount freely, in fact even go visit there freely, any time they want but Moslems are allowed to do what they want on the grounds there even use it as a soccer field? I will leave this question wide open because, in my opinion, giving the key to Temple Mount was the greatest mistake Israel ever made. It has created a situation that if Israel takes the key back, as it should, the country will go into chaos that may end up to be like today's Egypt. Not allowing Jews to practice their religion on Temple Mount is the ultimate of hypocrisy and bigotry. Democracy?

My worst peeve is with the anti-Semites, self hating Jews and they exist in Israel as well as in the Diaspora. As our wise parents, who spoke Yiddish, used to say: a bad Jew is worse than the worst non Jew.

שלעכט איד איז ערגער ווי די ערגסטע גויאַ

In an article in the Jewish Press we read, 'The Washington, DC JCC is staging viciously anti-Israel plays, funded by the Greater Washington Federation' - http://www.jewishpress.com/news/dc-jcc-continues-pattern-of-promoting-viciously-anti-israel-plays/2013/08/22/

The noose of antisemitism is tightening around the Jews again. France Jews, one of the largest Jewish communities in Europe are leaving France in greater numbers than ever before.

Today, every Jew in the world has the back and backing and safe harbor called the State of Israel. The question we can all discuss is, have we entered the period of the prophets' prophecies? Are we seeing G-d's prophecies coming alive and will the nation if Israel learn from its ancient past to survive in its promised land?

And this is how the Prophets shouted in the streets of the kingdom of Israel:

Ezekiel, Chapter 36 – 24: For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land. 25: Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

Jeremiah' Chapter 29 – 14I will be found by you, declares G-d, and will bring you back from captivity and I will gather you from all the nations and all places to where I have banished you, declares G-d, and I will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile.

Micah, Chapter 2 - Deliverance Promised – 12 I will surely gather all of you, Jacob; I will surely bring together the remnant of Israel. Together I will put them like sheep in a pen, like a herd in its pasture; the place will throng with people. 13The One who breaks open the way will go up before them; they will break through the gate and go out. Their King will pass through before them, and G-d at their head.

Welcomed the one who brings forth the words in the name of the one who said them.

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The IDF’s Minorities in Numbers and Pictures

In honor of IDF Diversity Week, we present diversity through numbers and pictures. Each year, more and more Muslims, Christians, Druze, Bedouin and immigrants from around the world take on the responsibility of defending Israel.

MUSLIMS:

Muslim Arab Israelis are not required to draft in the IDF, but there are many who volunteer. In 2013, there were over 200 Muslims serving in the IDF and over 300 in the reserves.

Bedouins:

Bedouins are nomadic Muslims who were in Israel when modern borders were set in place and are now considered Israeli citizens. They are not required to draft but a growing number choose to enlist. In 2012, there were over 1,400 Bedouin Muslim soldiers doing regular IDF service and almost 1,500 in the reserves.

Read more:http://www.idfblog.com/2014/02/27/truth-idf-numbers-pictures/#more-34027

Are you aware that in 2013, Middle class taxes go up-significantly?

In January of next year, the federal income tax rate for middle-class taxpayers is scheduled to rise from 25 percent to 28 percent, and the payroll tax is scheduled to rise from 13.3 percent to 15.3 percent… This drives the marginal tax rate based on the aforementioned three taxes to 48.12 percent. Add in state and local property, corporate, excise, and other state and local taxes, and the percentage of each additional dollar that is taxed hovers around 50 percent… When half of each additional dollar earned is taxed away, taxpayers experience a disincentive to start businesses or expand existing ones. This leads to fewer jobs being created.

Why is HAMAS Inside Tampa Schools?

Clare Lopez

Kelly Miliziano, who teaches history classes at Steinbrenner High School in the Tampa, Florida area apparently thinks it’s perfectly OK to invite a senior official of a HAMAS-affiliated organization into her classroom to discuss Islam with her students. According to local media reports, not only has this been going on for years, but in spite of the civil and criminal proceedings that could result from such reckless negligence, the Hillsborough County school superintendent, Mary Ellen Elia, and the chairman of the school board, Candy Olson, also expressed approval for students under their responsibility to be exposed repeatedly to guest speaker, Hassan Shibly, who is the Executive Director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in the Tampa area.
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Did You Know... Ignoring the Call to Islam will Bring Jihad

‘Conquest through Da’wa [proselytizing] that is what we hope for. We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America! Not through sword but through Da’wa.’
-- Yousef al-Qaradawi , Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader The Arabic word ‘Da’wa’ means the “call to Islam.” But do not think that Da’wa is the same thing as an invitation to an optional holiday event. The classical Islamic doctrine of jihad mandates that enemies must be given the opportunity to convert to Islam or pay the jizya tax before it is permissible to attack them.
Clare M. Lopez

Who is being discriminated-facts tell the truth

Religious bias

Hate crimes motivated by religious bias accounted for 1,409 offenses reported by law enforcement. A breakdown of the bias motivation of religious-bias offenses showed:

65.4 percent were anti-Jewish.
13.2 percent were anti-Islamic.
9.5 percent were anti-other religion, i.e., those not specified.
4.3 percent were anti-Catholic.
3.8 percent were anti-multiple religions, group.
3.3 percent were anti-Protestant.
0.5 percent were anti-Atheism/Agnosticism/etc.

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2010/narratives/hate-crime-2010-incidents-and-offenses.

On March 31, 1977, the Dutch newspaper Trouw published an interview

with PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein. Here's what he said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism.

For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

In March 1977, Zahir Muhsein, a PLO executive, said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct Palestinian people to oppose Zionism."

"For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

The Arab Apartheid

Ben-Dror Yemini
In 1948, the Arab countries refused to accept the UN partition proposal and they launched a war of annihilation against the State of Israel which had barely been established. All precedents in this matter showed that the party that starts the war - and with a declaration of annihilation, yet - pays a price for it. Between 550,000 and 710,000 Arabs fled because of the war and a larger number of 850,000 Jews were expelled or fled from Arab countries (the "Jewish nakba").
Population exchanges and expulsions were the norm at that time, occurring in dozens of other conflict points and affecting about 52 million people. In all the population exchange precedents that occurred during or at the end of an armed conflict, there was no return of refugees to the previous region, which had turned into a new national state.
Only the Arab states acted completely differently from the rest of the world. Instead of assimilating the refugees, they crushed them despite the fact that they were their coreligionists and members of the Arab nation - instituting a regime of apartheid. So the "nakba" was not caused by the actual dispossession, which had also been experienced by tens of millions of others. The "nakba" is the story of the apartheid, oppression, abuse and denial of rights suffered by the Arab refugees at the hands of the Arab countries. (Maariv)

International Law and Military Operations in Practice - Col. Richard Kemp

"Islamist fighting groups study the international laws of armed conflict carefully and they understand it well. They know that a British or Israeli commander and his men are bound by international law and the rules of engagement that flow from it. They then do their utmost to exploit what they view as one of their enemy's main weaknesses. Their very modus operandi is built on the correct assumption that Western armies will normally abide by the rules, while these insurgents employ a deliberate policy of operating consistently outside international law. "

Lost Historical Moments

What Rabin’s last Knesset speech really said:repudiation of a Palestinian state

Rabin ruled out a fully sovereign Palestinian state :

“We view the permanent solution in the framework of State of Israel which will include most of the area of the Land of Israel as it was under the rule of the British Mandate, and alongside it a Palestinian entity which will be a home to most of the Palestinian residents living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. We would like this to be an entity which is less than a state, and which will independently run the lives of the Palestinians under its authority.”

Rabin ruled out a total withdrawal from Judea and Samaria and thus a return to the pre-June 1967 borders :

“The borders of the State of Israel, during the permanent solution, will be beyond the lines which existed before the Six Day War. We will not return to the 4 June 1967 lines.”

Rabin ruled out withdrawing form the Jordan Valley:

“The security border of the State of Israel will be located in the Jordan Valley, in the broadest meaning of that term.”

Rabin ruled out uprooting settlement blocs, like the Gush Katif bloc in Gaza (which was subsequently uprooted by former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon):

“The establishment of blocs of settlements in Judea and Samaria, like the one in Gush Katif.

AND

Rabin ruled out removing any settlement before coming to a full peace agreement with the Palestinians:

“I want to remind you: we committed ourselves, that is, we came to an agreement, and committed ourselves before the Knesset, not to uproot a single settlement in the framework of the interim agreement, and not to hinder building for natural growth.”

Rabin insisted on Israel retaining full security control of the borders with Egypt and Jordan, contrary to Israel’s relinquishment of the Philadelphia Corridor on the border with Egypt:

“The responsibility for external security along the borders with Egypt and Jordan, as well as control over the airspace above all of the territories and Gaza Strip maritime zone, remains in our hands.”

Correcting Oslo Myths-Part 2

3) Kuttab laments that the post-1993 Oslo process resulted in a Palestinian Authority "whose ministers and legislators are not guaranteed passage between Gaza and the West Bank ...."

Before free passage or other perquisites, PA leaders were obligated, among other things, to eliminate the terrorist infrastructure in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, end anti-Israeli, antisemitic incitement in schools, mosques, and communications media, and resolve all outstanding issues through peaceful negotiations. They met none of these commitments, sometimes bolstering terrorism and greatly increasing incitement.

4) Kuttab complains that under Oslo the PA got "lightly armed police ---- but no real sovereignty over the land or contiguity between our communities in Gaza and the West Bank."

Oslo agreements repeatedly were revised, regardless of Palestinian non-compliance, until the authorized number of police grew from 8,000 to 40,000. Though they were to be the only armed forces in the territories, Israeli estimates early in the second intifada put the number of gunmen - police, "security services," terrorists, and armed gangs - at 85,000. Their armament reportedly included not only heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, but also anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles.

Sovereignty was to be negotiated in the envisioned 1998 "final status" talks - after a five-year period of confidence-building. Palestinian leadership chronically undermined the process. Palestinian terrorism made the 1993 - 1998 Oslo period more deadly for Israelis than the 15 years preceding it.

The United States doesn't have contiguity between the lower 48 states and Alaska and Hawaii; territorial contiguity between the West Bank and Gaza Strip - that is, through the 20 miles of Israeli territory between them - was never promised and would destroy Israeli contiguity.

5) "Palestinians have been made to endure hundreds of checkpoints in the West Bank, an eight-foot wall deep in our territories, and tight Israeli control over borders."

The security barrier is not "deep in Palestinian territories," but rather encompasses less than 8 percent of Judea and Samaria, and is mostly a fence, rarely a wall; the land in question is not "our [Palestinian] territories" but disputed territory to which, according to the authors of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, Jews as well as Arabs have claims; and there are no international borders, only the 1949 armistice lines with Jordan. Under 242, borders remain to be negotiated. As for checkpoints - like the security barrier and "tight Israeli control" - Palestinian Arabs precipitated these measures themselves. No terrorism and there would be no fence or tight Israeli control and few checkpoints - like before the first intifada.

Correcting Some Oslo Myths

1) In Oslo "Israeli, Palestinian and other world leaders promised that ... Palestinian sovereignty would be solidified."

No, they didn't. The 1993 Declaration of Principles and subsequent Oslo agreements outlined a process by which final status negotiations about the West Bank and Gaza Strip would be reached. The process required an end to anti-Israel terrorism and incitement and a commitment to peaceful negotiations. The PA, Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and other terrorist groups, sabotaged the process from the start.

2) "The reality is that, in defiance of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, which states that it is inadmissible to occupy land by force, Palestinian territories are still under foreign military occupation."
Wrong again. Resolution 242 (1967) does note "the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war." It also affirms the right of every state in the area "to live in peace with secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force." There were no "Palestinian territories." Jordan occupied the West Bank, Egypt controlled Gaza. Israel did not have "secure and recognized boundaries," so retention of some of those territories was possible under 242. Israel is not a "foreign" military occupier in the West Bank but, pending final negotiations, the lawful military administrator as a result of a successful war of self-defense.

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