by Jack Kelly, To The Point News
Starvation has claimed the lives of 128 people – 18 of them children or babies – in the Palestinian refugee camp since the conflict began. But the Yarmouk camp is in Syria, where images of atrocities go viral only whenmisrepresented as coming from Gaza, so the world has paid little attention to their suffering.”My Twitter and Facebook feeds would have me believe that the only noteworthy military conflict in the world today is that between Israel and Hamas,” said Jonathan Messing of the Stanford Business School.
“Either many of you care about war only when it involves a Jew holding a gun, or you are woefully unaware of what else is going on in the world,” Mr. Messing said. At the time he wrote, about 170,000 had died in ongoing violence in Syria; 600 in Gaza.
“It must be so awkward having to check whether the dead child is from Gaza or Syria before deciding whether to be morally outraged,” tweeted Marc Lynch, director of the Institute for Middle East Studies at George Washington University.
The sequence of events triggered by the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers reminds Clarice Feldman that “Providence isn’t just a city in Rhode Island.”
“Had thugs not brutally murdered three young men in Israel, the Israelis would not have stepped up efforts to find those responsible,” she said. “Had the Israelis not done so Hamas would not have begun the rocket barrage.”
“Had the rocket barrage not occurred… the Israelis would not have entered Gaza…would not have found the tunnel system…nor learned of the long- planned Hamas effort to send thousands of their troops deep into lightly guarded Israeli communities on the holiest of days, Rosh Hashanah, to murder thousands,” Ms. Feldman said.
The elaborate tunnel system was dug in part by child labor, according to a 2012 paper in the Journal of Palestine Studies. Each of the 31 tunnels discovered so far cost about $1 million to build.
“At least 160 children have been killed in the tunnels,” the author says he was told by Hamas officials. “Much as in Victorian coal mines, they are prized for their nimble bodies.”
Per capita national income in Gaza is a meager $2,900, 172nd in the world – but ordinary people have to live on less than $3 a day. Hamas leaders Musa Abu Marzook and Khaled Mashaal are billionaires, their top lieutenants millionaires.
Gazans live in abject poverty chiefly because most of what Hamas leaders don’t stuff into their pockets is spent to attack Israel. Destroying the Jewish state and murdering all the Jews in it is just an intermediate goal, said the son of Hamas founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef.
The ultimate goal is building a worldwide Islamic state upon the “rubble of every other civilization,” Mosab Hassan Yousef told CNN July 24.
HAMAS (the Arabic acronym for “Islamic Resistance Movement”) was founded in 1987, with initial funding from Saddam Hussein. Hamas is an affiliate of the Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan Muslimin) founded in 1928, which received much of its initial support from Adolf Hitler.
According to Mosab Yousef, Hamas teaches children that an Islamic state can’t be built without shedding innocent blood. Many civilians die because Hamas clusters them around its rockets and the entrances to its tunnels.
Israel builds shelters to protect its people. Hamas digs tunnels to protect its weapons. Hamas kills Israeli civilians. Israeli soldiers die protecting Palestinian civilians. Yet House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, describes Hamas as a “humanitarian organization.”
There are only about 13 million Jews in the world. They’ve been productive citizens wherever they’ve lived since Rome drove them from their homeland in 70 A.D. It’s hard to find in history an ethnic group less threatening, or more persecuted. Israelis want only to live in peace in their tiny portion (about 0.2 percent) of the Middle East, just 23 percent of what Jews were promised for a homeland.
When Clarice Feldman spoke of Providence, I imagine she was referring to the Bible’s description of the Jews as “God’s Chosen People.”
The utter moral depravity of support for Hamas inclines me to believe hatred of the Jews is Satanic. God didn’t choose this “stiff-necked people” through which to tell His story because He admired their qualities, the Bible makes clear. But because He chose them, Jews acquired the eternal enmity of God’s foremost adversary, and of those in Satan’s thrall.
Jack Kelly is a former Marine and Green Beret and a former deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force in the Reagan administration. He is national security writer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
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| Thursday, 31 July 2014http://www.tothepointnews.com/ |
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“How, as a socialist, can you not be an anti-Semite?” Adolf Hitler asked his party members in 1920. No one thought it an odd question. Anti-Semitism was at that time widely understood to be part of the broader revolutionary movement against markets, property and capital.The man who coined the term “socialism,” the nineteenth-century French revolutionary Pierre Leroux, had told his comrades: “When we speak of the Jews, we mean the Jewish spirit – the spirit of profit, of lucre, of gain, of speculation; in a word, the banker’s spirit.”The man who popularized the term “anti-Semitism” had taken a similar line. Wilhelm Marr, a radical nineteenth-century German Leftist, may not have been the first person to use the word, but he certainly – and approvingly – brought it to a wide audience: “Anti-Semitism is a Socialist movement,” he pronounced, “only nobler and purer in form than Social Democracy”.It’s a measure of the modern Left’s cultural dominance that simply to recite these quotations is jarring. On the centenary of the Dreyfus Affair in 1998, the then French prime minister, Lionel Jospin, casually asserted that “the Left was for Dreyfus and the Right was against him” – an extraordinary distortion. |
While some brave radicals did indeed campaign for the wronged Jewish army officer, many socialist papers and politicians were fiercely anti-Dreyfusard, complaining that “rich Jews” were rigging the justice system against ordinary workers.
The leading anti-Drefusard and most popular Jew-hater in France, Edouard Drumont, whose book La France Juive (Jewish France) was a runaway best-seller, was a rabid revolutionary socialist and anti-capitalist.
As the French socialist – later communist – deputy, Pierre Myrens, put it in 1911, “The Yid (‘Youtre’) is an Israelite by religion, a Jew by race and, what is more, a capitalist!” This strain of French Leftism was enthusiastically taken up in Ba’athist Syria and, even more, in Algeria, with consequences that we still see around us.
That we have largely edited such facts from our collective memory says a great deal about the assumptions of modern politics. In the puerile formula that seems to dictate our definitions, Left-wing means compassionate and Right-wing means nasty so, since anti-Semitism is nasty, it must be of the Right.
Such reasoning is not confined to self-righteous seventeen-year-olds; it has, bizarrely, taken over a large chunk of our public discourse.
It’s true, of course, that there have always been Jewish socialists. But – and this can be hard to understand nowadays, perhaps especially for gentiles – several of them were, in effect, anti-Semitic.
Not untypical was Karl Marx himself, whose 1844 essay “On the Jewish Question” has, again, been tidied away from popular recollection.
The grandson of two rabbis, he disliked all religions, but reserved a vehemence for Judaism that we never find in his writings on Christianity – about which he could be rather sentimental, though he deplored its corruption by the “Jewish spirit”. In 1844, the odious cadger wrote:
Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew – not the Sabbath Jew but the everyday Jew.
Let us not look for the secret of the Jew in his religion, but let us look for the secret of his religion in the real Jew.
What is the secular basis of Judaism? Practical need, self-
interest. What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money. Very well then! Emancipation from huckstering and money, consequently from practical, real Judaism, would be the self-emancipation of our time.
The essence of Judaism and the root of the Jewish soul is expediency and self-interest; the God of Israel is Mammon, who expresses himself in the lust for money. Judaism is the embodiment of anti-social attitudes.
A few apologists have tried to argue that their patriarch meant only wealthy Jewish financiers, not Jews in general, but their excuses don’t stack up. Listen to how Marx and Engels wrote of Poland’s Jews, then the poorest and most oppressed in Europe: “The Polish Jew-Usurer cheats, gives short weights, clips coins, engages in common swindling”.
Marx’s dislike of Judaism did not remain confined to his turgid books. It found expression in the anti-Semitic campaigns of the Soviet Comecon regimes:
The purges of Jews by Poland’s Communists, the show trials in Czechoslovakia and Hungary of “Israeli spies” and Stalin’s “Doctors’ Plot”, which accused Jewish physicians of conspiring to assassinate the Communist leadership, and which was intended as a prelude to the mass deportation of Soviet Jews to Siberia (fortunately, the old monster died first, and Khrushchev dropped the policy).
In all these cases, “Zionist” was used as an unsubtle code-word for “Jew”. It’s hardly surprising that, hearing the ideological heirs of the Communist Party who are the apologists for Palestinian terrorists denouncing Zionism, many Jews detect a subtext.
These days, though, it’s not always subtext. Read this chilling article from a Chavist newspaper in Venezuela. Consider the pro-Nazi slogans chanted by the crowds around Europe as they attack Jewish shops. Ponder this shaming statement that the Yad Vashem holocaust memorial organization has felt driven to put out. This isn’t about Israel now, if ever it was. It’s about something altogether older and uglier.
Our political opinions often reflect our character traits. If you’re a generous and optimistic person, if you take pleasure in the success of others, you’re likely to be cheered by the story of the Jewish people, their success against the odds, their disproportionate intellectual contribution to mankind. Far from decrying commercial and financial accomplishments, you recognize them as a source of happiness for everyone.
If, on the other hand, you are determined to see every exchange as a form of exploitation, every success as someone else’s defeat, every trade as a swindle, then the same promptings will make you anti-Israel and anti-Semitic. It’s a tragic condition, a form of existential envy, and it goes back, according to the Book of Esther, at least 2,500 years. Esther 5:11-13:
And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.
Haman said moreover, Yea, Esther the queen did let no man come in with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and tomorrow am I invited unto her also with the king.
Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.
Daniel Hannan is a Member of the European Parliament, representing South East England for the Conservative Party. He is the author of Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World.
Max Said:
Sweetie pie, just what I always thought, you to movie star for your edumacating. Thankfully I am have returned to learn yawl some.
yamit82 Said:
O really Yamit82, what total BS, I go on vacation for a few days and you go ” nuts”. I am back now ready to take you on, heads up.
Max Said:
Ant that makes you happy, tickles me plumb to death !!!!!! You and dweller have been more attentive lately, if negatively, I go to when the nectar is, even sour nectar draws me.
Max Said:
Say what Boy, when the last time yawl been to the South, if ever.
NormanF Said:
Jews are clannish, so what, Texans are clannish too.
http://www.magic-city-news.com/Michael_Devolin/Israel_A_Necessary_State18719.shtml
Jon Voight is a Noachide.
@NormanF
Oh, so now you’re Jewish. Could have fooled me; what with all your denigration of Israel’s Jews and portraying them as being weak-kneed, silly me, I thought you were a simple-minded non-Jew and antisemite. But now you tell me you’re Jewish. Why the secrecy? You denigrate your fellow Jews as being cowards and yet you haven’t the balls to come out and say straight up that you’re Jewish. You’re the complete opposite of Yamit.
“The most secular assimilated Jew in Israel is more Jewish than the most pious ritually observant Frum Jew in the Galut.”
This is my opinion also, Yamit. I don’t know if this is according to Torah, but it is my opinion. I met a Jewish kid in Toronto who at 17 left the comfort of his Toronto home and his parents and moved to Israel to join the IDF. When I met him (at a JDL event, which he came out to), he was on leave during his basic training. To me, that is being Jewish, not by wearing a kippa but by living in the land of Israel. What did Rabbi Avraham Cohen say? “We are a people of deed, not creed.”
Some good news at least from Hollywood:
It’s on CNN web news
One really hilarious quote or a stunning admission of total ignorance and a lack of sincerity while begin duped into ethnic prejudice:
“not really an expert on the situation” … in other words an airhead like most of the MSM that signs letters of Jew Hatred without knowing anything at all just what sounds like “good propaganda”.
@ AbbaGuutuu:
Christianity has a history of Jew-hatred but the New Testament does not dehumanize Jews, describe as them as accursed animals, condemn them to hell or make them out for death as Islam does. Muslims have a blood-thirstiness to Jews you don’t find in Christianity. The virulence of Islamic anti-Semitism has to be seen to be believed.
honeybee Said:
I AM surprised.
Not only am I on the list , I come before Yamit.
Ted, three of my comments (all similar) are in moderation. Two of them should be deleted. When I could not see the comment posted I made several attempts.
yamit82 Said:
Root causes fro Muslims hatred of Jews, Christians and others
“Islamic Supremacy
The belief in Islam’s supremacy originated from the Qur’an [2]. Here is a sampling of verses from the Qur’an stating that Islam and Muslims are superior to all other religions and people, and that everyone must be forced to accept Islam.
• Surah 3:110 – Ye are the best of peoples, evolved for mankind, enjoining what is right, forbidding what is wrong, and believing in Allah. If only the People of the Book [Christians and Jews] had faith, it were best for them: among them are some who have faith, but most of them are perverted transgressors.
• Surah 98:6 – Verily, those who disbelieve (in the religion of Islâm, the Qur’ân and Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him)) from among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians) and Al-Mushrikûn will abide in the Fire of Hell.They are the worst of creatures.
• Surah 98:7 – Verily, those who believe [in the Oneness of Allâh, and in His Messenger Muhammad (Peace be upon him)) including all obligations ordered by Islâm] and do righteous good deeds, they are the best of creatures.
• Surah 3:85 – If anyone desires a religion other than Islam, it will never be accepted.
• Surah 9:5 – Kill non-Muslims wherever you find them. Ambush, seize, and capture them. If they convert to Islam and pray and contribute to the cause of Islam, let them go.
• Surah 48:16 – Non-Muslims must convert to Islam or they will be killed.
The following verses from the Qur’an are specifically aimed at Jews. Since Jews were the first religious group to refuse conversion – the first Muslim failure – the rage against them is intense.
• Surah 5:60 …Those (Jews) who incurred the Curse of Allah and His Wrath, those He transformed into monkeys and swine, those who worshipped false deities.
• Surah 2:61 Abasement and humiliation were brought down upon them, [the Jews] and they became deserving of Allah’s wrath; this was so because they disbelieved in the communications of Allah and killed the prophets unjustly; this was so because they disobeyed and exceeded the limits.
• Surah 2:65-66 We said to the Jews who transgressed in the matter of the Sabbath: “Be ye apes, despised and rejected.”
• Surah 2:96 And verily, you will find them (the Jews) the greediest of mankind for life and (even greedier) than those who ascribe partners to Allah…
• Surah 4:161 Jews will suffer a painful chastisement because they lend money.
• Surah 5:12-13 Allah made a covenant with the children of Israel , ..But on account of their breaking their covenant We cursed them and made their hearts hard;… and you shall always discover treachery in them excepting a few of them;
• Surah 5:70 Jews called some of the messengers of God liars and some they slew.
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According to Islamic Sharia and Koranic teachings—Jews have no right to live in this Earth of Allah! Christians, and all other un-believers (Hindus and idolaters) are less human than Muslims and their rights are less than the rights of Muslims. This is the very reason why pure Muslims (al-Qaeda jihadis, Mullahs, Imams) earnestly believe that it is the most sacred duty of the Muslims to correct, convert, or kill all non-Muslims/infidels to purify this earth, which belongs only to Allah.
I have no idea how Muhammed can be called ‘merciful’ and Islam can be called the ‘religion of peace.’ Hopefully, my former experiences within the Muslim world will arm people of good will with the necessary truths to fight this growing evil. Jews in particular must free themselves from the delusion that Islam is not a threat to them. They are a central target of Islamic annihilation. It is my heartfelt desire that militant Islam be stopped in its quest for global domination and that Jews and other non-Muslims can live in safety.
Read more at: http://www.islam-watch.org/authors/79-mirza/859-why-muslims-hate-jews-to-the-bones.html
@ yamit82:
Nowadays, the Christians of the Middle East, who hate the Jews, are being wiped out by the Islamists. What the West nurtured and supported to contain Israel has been turned against them. Israel is not only the only victim of blind Western intervention on behalf of its enemies.
@ NormanF:
The most secular assimilated Jew in Israel is more Jewish than the most pious ritually observant Frum Jew in the Galut.
NormanF Said:
I see the Holocaust as a modern version of the Hebrew slave generation in the desert after the Exodus…. Just as Assyria was the instrument of punishment “O Assyria, the rod of my anger,” Isa 10:5
(Isaiah 14:24
The LORD Almighty has sworn, “Surely, as I have planned, so it will be, and as I have purposed, so it will happen.)
NormanF Said:
I disagree. It’s the christians who feed the Islamists from food to guns. “The British formed the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1920s in Egypt under Hasan al Bana and later a Saudi branch. Initially this tool was to be used against the Jews and for stirring the regional pot generally. Now the MB is within the highest echelons of the American government.”
@ M Devolin:
Don’t laugh! I lost my grandparents in the Holocaust and my late father of blessed memory was a good Jew. He would not be surprised the world hasn’t really changed.
@ yamit82:
Its the truth – the world has long wanted to rid itself of the Jews’ reminder that G-d is the Only Source of Truth And Justice. The smallest people on earth today remain both literally and figuratively under attack.
@ yamit82:
Jews have judged for who they are. In Israel, they’re outwardly assimilated and appear like non-Jews around them but they’re still as hated as ever. Their groveling before America and the world brings them no real relief.
@ yamit82:
The death of Christianity is unleashing virulent forces. Secularism cannot fill the void created by the crisis of faith in the West. Islam can do that and unfortunately as we have seen – its far more dangerous to the Jews than the Christians ever were.
“.. Do you now appreciate the depth of our National Socialist Movement? Can there be anything greater and more all comprehending? Those who see in National Socialism nothing more than a political movement know scarcely anything of it. It is more even than religion; it is the will to create mankind anew.”
– Rauschning,Hitler Speaks
@ Max:
“Providence has ordained that I should be the greatest liberator of humanity. I am freeing man from the restraints of an intelligence that has taken charge, from the dirty and degrading self-mortification of a false vision called conscience and morality, and from the demands of a freedom and independence which only a very few can bear.”
– Rauschning, Hitler Speaks, p. 222
“The Ten Commandments have lost their validity. Conscience is a Jewish invention, it is a blemish like circumcision.”
– Rauschning, Hitler Speaks, p. 220
@ Max:
“Providence has ordained that I should be the greatest liberator of humanity. I am freeing man from the restraints of an intelligence that has taken charge, from the dirty and degrading self-mortification of a false vision called conscience and morality, and from the demands of a freedom and independence which only a very few can bear.”
– Rauschning, Hitler Speaks, p. 222
“The Ten Commandments have lost their validity. Conscience is a Jewish invention, it is a blemish like circumcision.”
– Rauschning, Hitler Speaks, p. 220
“.. Do you now appreciate the depth of our National Socialist Movement? Can there be anything greater and more all comprehending? Those who see in National Socialism nothing more than a political movement know scarcely anything of it. It is more even than religion; it is the will to create mankind anew.”
– Rauschning,Hitler Speaks
NormanF Said:
Chicken or egg???
You cite symptoms not causes.
@ NormanF:
It isn’t the secularists who hate Israel it’s Mostly christians and muslims. Most of the secularists who hate Jews got their hate from both christianity and Islam and their and their extended influences. Hindus don’t hate Jews and Buddhists don’t hate Jews. The Chinese, Indian Hindus and Japanese don’t hate Jews. More than 2/3 of the words population don’t hate Jews only those societies dominated and influenced by two religions who claim to have replaced the Jews and their unique status of being chosen by G-d.
I wonder why that is so??
And here is NormanF waxing eloquent about anti-Jewish hatred. Hilarious. “Wonders never cease.”
@ dweller:
@ Max:
@ yamit82:
@ NormanF:
@ AbbaGuutuu:
Gentlemen: Yawl gonna have to do with out sugar for a time as TX is carrin me off. Hint: http://youtu.be/eOB4VdlkzO4
@ Max:
Don’t forget the hooked noses, the swarthy faces and those dangerous black clothes worn by observant Jews. Every one fears the devil – being personified by the Jew. Joshua Trachtenberg wrote about it in the 1940s.
@ Max:
Secularism ironically enough, has made it easier to hate Jews because they’re a reminder of what every one wants to forget. After all, who needs Jews when G-d is dead? It isn’t so much a reflection upon the Jews as it says a great deal more about those who hate them.
The way the author presents it, it does sound pretty Satanic.
Well if there isn’t a Satan it’s easy to invent one for the Jew Haters.
You sure it’s not those funny hats to blame?
yamit82 Said:
You set too much store in that. Not so many people care about even their own G_D . I mean look at all the religious black haters of America’s deep South, now and previously. It’s not anyone’s G_D they hate – they don’t even pay attention to the teachings of their own G_D .
@ yamit82:
Exactly. Its hatred of G-d and Judaism. This is the root of the hatred of the Jews. Hitler cursed the Jews for introducing conscience and morality to the world. And every one who hates Jews has resented the notion that values exist that are higher than us and we have no choice but to observe them. Universal morality, as represented in the Bible, has been the most threatening thing mankind has had to come to terms with and for their role in that, to this very day and age, the Jews have not been forgiven.
To hate the Jews is to hate the G-d of the Jews. This emerges clearly from the psalmist’s loud lament to Heaven, out of the depths of the misery of the Jewish people:
The greatest enemies suddenly become friends when they unite against Israel, this has been a consistent phenomenon throughout our history. “They form an alliance against You.” The battle is between the G-d of Israel and other gods of this world. That is what the hatred for Israel is ultimately all about.
[Israel] is a designated sign of G-d in the world. No other people on earth has been so persecuted and destroyed, and nearly annihilated, and still remains a recognizable people. No matter how often Israel has tried to assimilate and join the surrounding nations in the world, it has never succeeded. If Israel herself did not always want to be distinct, her enemies made sure that she was. For centuries when they lived in strange surroundings, often barely aware of their own Jewishness, those around them knew exactly who was a Jew and who was not.
“They form an alliance against You,” the psalmist says. Hatred of Israel is hatred of the G-d of Israel.
In whatever way Jew hatred is ideologically clothed, it is ultimately hatred of the Jewish G-d. It is hatred of the Creator of Heaven and earth. It is hatred of the people He has chosen in order to reveal His will in the world through them.
The Jews as the world’s mirror.
@ NormanF:
Perhaps the impoverished ones are resented for not living up to the stereotype?
@ AbbaGuutuu:
It does not explain why poor Jews are hated because there is nothing about them to envy. When we take into account all the conventional explanations offered for the existence of anti-Semitism and eliminate them – they all conceal the fact Jews are ultimately hated for one reason alone: they’re Jews. It follows that as long as Jews exist upon this earth, anti-Semitism will always be a fact of life.
Jews have always been suspected of being clannish, refusing to assimilate and showing contempt for other people’s values. The rise of Israel has not attenuated anti-Semitism. Israel’s Jews are accused of being stiff-necked, racist and cruel. The context of Jew hatred has changed but the feeling Jews are an unwelcome intrusion on mankind’s tranquility remains as virulent as ever. What the Gaza War has revealed opposition is not expressed in terms of opposition to what Israel is doing there; instead, its manifested in ugly outbursts of hate directed at Jews on the assumption that they bear a collective guilt for Israel’s actions. The world’s longest hatred goes on.
This article explains the root causes of antisemitism, which is part of the ideology of the left.