If they were Zionazis there wouldn't be one ****ing Palestinian alive now
probably.....Iran, Syria would be smoldering in cinders and
radioactivity.......
Unfortunately, Israelis are far, far too humane....hopefully that will
change.
I don't suggesting ****ing with them....they will never be defeated by
Islamic Totalitarianism--nor will the other 15+ world nations experiencing
Islamic atrocities today......
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>> A chapter taken from When Victims Rule: A Critique of
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>> Last update - 01:18 15/06/2007
>> The twilight zone / 'Now you are paralyzed, as we
>> promised'
>> By Gideon Levy
>>
>> "We have to make you do a little s****ts," the ****n Bet
>> interrogator said, launching four successive days of
>> questioning accompanied by brutal physical torture.
>> The result: Luwaii Ashqar can no longer stand on his
>> feet. He sits in his wheelchair, dressed in a
>> fa****onable quasi-military suit, super-elegant, new
>> Caterpillar-brand shoes on his paralyzed feet.
>>
>> "I love this color," he says about his uniform. "It's
>> the color of the soldiers who came to arrest me for
>> the interrogation that did all this to me."
>>
>> His smile is captivating, his Hebrew rich and
>> incisive. He is a young man whose world fell apart. He
>> entered prison sound of body and mind and emerged a
>> broken man. For four days and four nights nonstop, he
>> says, he was interrogated and subjected to torture of
>> the most brutal kind. The result is the person we see
>> before us in the wheelchair, in the elegant home high
>> in the village of Saida, north of Tul Karm, which was
>> placed at his disposal by a friend after he was
>> released from Israeli prison a month ago.
>>
>> Was there a judgment by the High Court of Justice?
>> There was. It banned precisely the types of torture he
>> underwent: the "banana posture," the "shabah" (body
>> stretching with hands tied to a chair), "invisible"
>> blows and the "frog posture" (being forced to stand
>> for hours on the toes in a crouching position) - all
>> the way to a vicious kick to his chest that bent his
>> body backward while he was tied to a chair with his
>> arms and legs, and which was the probable cause of the
>> partial paralysis of his legs.
>>
>> Throwing up with the vomit entering his nostrils,
>> losing consciousness and being given only saltwater to
>> drink, relieving himself in his pants, not sleeping or
>> resting - all of that for four consecutive days and
>> nights.
>>
>> What does the interrogator Maimon tell his children
>> when he goes home? What do Eldad and Sagiv tell their
>> wives about their daily labors before they turn in?
>> That they tortured another helpless prisoner until
>> they turned him into a cripple? That they beat this
>> charming young man brutally and that at the end of the
>> interrogation he was tried for only marginal offenses?
>> And where is the Supreme Court, which in 1999
>> prohibited precisely the chain of torture that Luwaii
>> Sati Ashqar, 30, who was married three years ago,
>> underwent in the Kishon detention facility?
>>
>> Ashqar is not alone. The Public Committee Against
>> Torture in Israel has just issued a new re****t
>> containing the testimonies of nine torture victims
>> (English version: http://www.stoptorture.org.il/eng/
>> ). As the authors of the shocking re****t say, the
>> testimonies "paint a dismal picture in which can be
>> discerned various categories of secret-keeping
>> collaborators, who, in keeping silent, protect the
>> [****n Bet] system of torture." ...
>>
>> On the wall is a picture, a fine drawing of a kneeling
>> prisoner, his head between his knees. The caption: "I
>> am in the darkness of the prison, living on your
>> memory. I am far from you, lying in my bed, my spirit
>> cruising your land all night. God will release all the
>> prisoners, the strong will triumph."
>>
>> Ashqar is sitting in his wheelchair, his left leg
>> completely enclosed in a cast, his right leg shaking
>> nonstop. When he tries to get up and lean on his
>> crutches, he threatens to topple over. "I was married
>> in 2004, and I started to work in aluminum in the
>> village to provide for my new household. On April 22,
>> 2005, at 2:30 A.M., the soldiers came and started to
>> throw grenades and to shout for everyone in the house
>> to go outside. They blindfolded me with whatever they
>> use and handcuffed me. I was taken in a jeep to prison
>> and I was examined by an army doctor. He looked over
>> my body - no operations, doesn't take medication, no
>> illnesses. Again I was taken in a military jeep, this
>> time to Kishon. 'Yehuda, incoming,' the warder said
>> and transferred me to the interrogation office. They
>> opened my eyes: Good morning. An excellent morning.
>> One of the interrogators, Maimon, told me: I am
>> responsible for your file. What file? The one you were
>> arrested for. This is the major, and this tall guy is
>> the colonel, this is Sagiv and this is Eldad. Eight
>> interrogators.
>>
>> "They said: We have no time, it will soon be our
>> Passover and you have to finish everything in a short
>> time. Finish what? You have to tell us what you have.
>> I don't have anything to tell you. I begged. They
>> said: We know all that nonsense. We are talking about
>> security. Plans for terrorist attacks at Passover. I
>> said: I don't understand what you are talking about.
>> They said: The suicide bomber was at your place. What
>> suicide bomber?
>>
>> "After two hours of talking they said to me: If you
>> don't give everything you have, we will have to take
>> it by a different way. What is the different way? Did
>> you hear of a military interrogation? You might leave
>> here with your body battered or crippled. I was taken
>> to a military interrogation. Here you pray to God that
>> you will die, they said, but we won't give you that.
>> We will let you die only after you spill out what we
>> are looking for. He gave me a prison uniform and I
>> told him that if I was going to die, I preferred my
>> own clothes.
>>
>> "They sat me down on a square chair without a back,
>> which was attached to the floor and had sharp metal
>> ends [sticking up]. My legs were tied to the legs of
>> the chair with metal cuffs and my hands were tied
>> behind my back with metal cuffs. One interrogator sat
>> behind me and the other in front of me. The
>> interrogator opposite me said: We have to give you a
>> little s****ts, so you will be able to hold out in the
>> military interrogation. The s****ts was that they
>> pushed me backward by the chest, a backward
>> somersault, and I would hold myself so my bones would
>> not break. After a minute or two I would automatically
>> fall on the floor, but the interrogator behind me
>> would put his foot on my chest and press, and the
>> interrogator in front would grab my hands and pull and
>> pull behind the chair. They kept on like that until I
>> don't know what happened to me, heat in every part of
>> my body, puking everything I had in my stomach and it
>> would go into my nostrils. I would wake up when they
>> poured water on my face. When I woke up, we went back
>> to the same situation. It went on like this 15-20
>> times an hour.
>>
>> "After that they made me crouch on my toes, not
>> letting me lean on the back of my foot. I was in that
>> position for 40-50 minutes, maybe an hour - that was
>> my estimate - until I felt my soles swelling and they
>> turned blue and there was tremendous pain. After that,
>> stand up, and they tied my hands and pressed as hard
>> as they could on the metal handcuffs until the metal
>> dug into my hand. Here are the signs, you can still
>> see them. Because of the pressure, the key of the
>> handcuffs didn't always work and they would bring huge
>> metal scissors, like they use in construction, and
>> tear off the handcuffs and then bring new ones, to go
>> on. The color of my hands changed to blue, and when
>> they opened [the handcuffs] my hands shook. The
>> interrogator stood on the table and pulled me with a
>> chain of handcuffs. When I fell, they pulled me by the
>> hair.
>>
>> "I would cry, beg, shout, and they came back to me
>> with words, that it was impossible to stop, only after
>> you start talking about what we want. I said to them:
>> Tell me what you want. Tell me I am responsible for
>> the attack on the Pentagon, I am ready to confess to
>> everything, just tell me what. I want to end this
>> death."
>>
>> "There were always four interrogators and two rotated
>> every four hours, day and night. The new ones would
>> tell me they were stronger than the ones before, that
>> the ones before were a joke, we are the strong ones.
>> And that was true. The new ones tied me and started to
>> beat me all over my body. One interrogator pressed
>> hard on my testicles and on my feet with his shoes.
>> When they slapped me and I tried to pull back, the
>> major would say: What are you doing? If you move back,
>> I will break your nose, and if you move forward I will
>> rip off your ear. Be strong and take it s****tingly,
>> because you are a soldier and a fighter. They broke
>> this tooth."
>>
>> Ashqar suddenly stops talking. He turns pale and his
>> face is covered with beads of perspiration. His
>> father, Sati, quickly wipes his face with a damp
>> cloth. "Every time I try to remember I get dizzy, even
>> when I am alone." Quiet descends in the room. It will
>> take Ashqar another few minutes to pull himself
>> together.
>>
>> "I was taken into detention on Friday morning, and
>> that was the last light of day I saw before the
>> interrogation. I came out for the first time on Monday
>> night or before dawn on Tuesday morning. On those long
>> days I sat in a chair and did not even go to the
>> toilet. So you won't kill yourself, they said. I
>> urinated in my clothes, and a terrible stench started.
>> For four days I didn't eat anything. They told me: If
>> we give you something to eat, something will happen to
>> your stomach and your intestines. Maybe they will
>> explode under the pressure of the food when we push
>> you backward. You will drink only half a cup of
>> saltwater. That is what they gave me every time after
>> they bent me and I vomited. Why with salt? I asked.
>> Give me without salt. No, so nothing will happen in
>> your stomach and intestines. I would drink it and
>> vomit.
>>
>> "On Monday evening, they told me that five witnesses
>> had testified that Luwaii had trans****ted a wanted
>> man. I told them that there was a famous wanted man
>> named Luwaii Sadi, but my name is Luwaii Sati, and
>> maybe they had mixed us up. He said to me: Are you
>> saying the ****n Bet is that stupid? We know exactly
>> what we're doing, and it is all correct. I said: Put
>> me on trial for whatever you want. He said: Ya'allah,
>> s****ts again. He pushes me backward in the chair. I
>> will help you become a story in Palestinian history.
>> He is talking to me and my head is down below. He
>> pushes strongly with his leg and presses on my chest.
>> I felt something like an explosion in my body. Like
>> something broke. After that I don't know what
>> happened. I woke up and they were pouring water on my
>> face. Again they pushed me backward and again I
>> fainted.
>>
>> "He said to me: Stand on your feet. I felt that my
>> legs were cold, like pins and needles in the legs. I
>> said: I can't. He said: Now you are paralyzed. I said:
>> I guess I am. He said: That is what we promised you
>> and that is what you want."
>>
>>
>> "I discovered I had a wound in the back and it was
>> bleeding - because of the sharp chair - and one of my
>> bones was protruding. Because of the blood and because
>> of the urine of four days there was such a stench that
>> the interrogator could not come close to me. He said:
>> Why do you stink like that? I told him: That is your
>> perfume. A warder took me to the shower and threw me
>> on the floor and said to me: Ya'allah, you have two
>> minutes to shower. I looked at the faucet up above and
>> I could not reach it. I pulled down my pants and the
>> underpants stayed in place. I tried to pull them down
>> - I could do it in front but behind it was stuck to my
>> back. The two minutes went by and the warder started
>> to pound on the door. Time's up. I told him: Give me
>> another two minutes, I can't reach the faucet. He came
>> in and asked: What do you have on your back? I said: I
>> don't know.
>>
>> "He called the interrogator and said: Come and see the
>> prisoner. The interrogator came and asked: What do you
>> have, Luwaii? I said: I don't know what I have on my
>> back, I can't pull the underpants down and I can't
>> reach the faucet. He said: Ya'allah, we will go up and
>> finish the story and take you to the doctor.
>>
>> "Two warders took me in a Prisons Service vehicle to
>> Rambam [Medical Center in Haifa]. In emergency, my
>> hands and feet were tied and a Russian doctor asked
>> me: What hurts you? I told him: My whole body hurts
>> from the interrogation. The Druze warder said: Shut
>> up. The doctor turned me on the side and stuck a
>> finger into my ass. I asked him: What are you doing?
>> He said: I am checking whether you have hemorrhoids.
>> Why didn't you ask me first? I am a professional, he
>> said. I said: What about the wound on the back? He put
>> ointment there and dressed it. After 10 minutes I was
>> taken back to interrogation. Again I was tied to the
>> square chair. The bandage fell off and the wound
>> started to bleed again. After that, they stopped the
>> military interrogation."
>>
>>
>> He was interrogated for another two months, but
>> without physical torture. He was told that his wife
>> had been arrested because of him - a complete
>> fabrication - and he was given a lie detector test
>> ("the falsehoods machine," in his Hebrew). For two
>> weeks he was placed in a cell with stool pigeons. In
>> the end, he was indicted on only two counts, in
>> Prosecution File 2157/05: assisting a wanted person to
>> hide and using a forged do***ent. No ticking and no
>> bomb. Ashqar was sentenced to 26 months in prison and
>> was released a month ago. In the meantime, his younger
>> brother, Osaimar, disappeared. Soldiers came to the
>> house looking for him, but he was not there. His
>> family has not seen him since: He told them that he
>> was not willing to undergo what Luwaii did.
>>
>> Luwaii is now looking for a way to get medical
>> treatment in Israel or abroad, after his physician
>> told him that he would not be able to get
>> rehabilitation in the West Bank. His lawyer told him
>> that the ****n Bet will almost certainly prevent him
>> from going anywhere.
>>
>> ---
>>
>> This is the response received by Haaretz from the ****n
>> Bet:
>>
>> Luwaii Ashqar was arrested in April 2005, after
>> serious suspicions were raised against him concerning
>> his involvement in terrorism, including possession of
>> weapons and assistance to wanted individuals - terror
>> activists from Islamic Jihad.
>>
>> One of the suspicions was that he had provided
>> accommodation, ahead of a terrorist act, for Sirhan
>> Sarhan, the perpetrator of the attack in Kibbutz
>> Metzer, who murdered Revital Ohayon and her two
>> children, Noam and Matan, of blessed memory.
>>
>> The suspect was tried and convicted in a plea bargain,
>> and sentenced to 14 months in prison and another 14
>> months in prison stemming from a pending conditional
>> sentence, so that all told he was sentenced to 26
>> months in prison. In addition, he received a 28-month
>> suspended sentence.
>>
>> His interrogation was carried out according to the
>> rules and directives, with constant review of the
>> interrogation process.
>>
>> During the interrogation, the above-named put forward
>> medical complaints, which were examined and treated by
>> the appropriate medical authorities, including an
>> examination he underwent in hospital.
>>
>> It should be noted that during the interrogation he
>> did not cite medical complaints of the same
>> seriousness as those mentioned in the query.
>>
>> Complaints relating to his interrogation, from, among
>> other sources, the Committee Against Torture and the
>> Red Cross, were referred to the State Prosecutor's
>> Office for examination, which ordered an examination
>> by the Ombudsman of Interogees' Complaints.
>>
>> The examination of the complaints did not turn up any
>> excesses in the interrogation, and in the wake of
>> this, the official in charge of the OIC in the State
>> Prosecutor's Office decided to close the examination
>> file.
>>
>> http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/871239.html
>>
>
>> Chapter 11
>> THE JEWISH COSMOLOGY OF VICTIMHOOD (Part 1)
>>
>> "I have frequently had hotheaded romantics assume that our family fled
>> Russia to escape persecution. They seem to think that the only way we
>> got out was by jumping from ice flow to ice floe across the Dnieper
>> River, with bloodhoods and the entire Red Army in hot pursuit. No such
>> thing. We were not persecuted and we left in a quite legal manner with
>> no more trouble than one would expect from any bureaucracy, including
>> our own. If that's disappointing, so be it." Isaac Asimov, I. Asimov.
>> A Memoir. 1994, p. 19
>>
>> Ask any non-Jewish American what his or her personal link is to the
>> Roman era, the Dark Ages, the Middle Ages, and other epics of human
>> history and he will tell you: nothing. He knows nothing about it. And
>> he doesn't care. For such a late twentieth century American to reflect
>> on his own roots back to, say, medievalism, is to look with the ****d
>> eye for Mars: it is a vague dot, reputed by others to exist, in the
>> remotest distance. Indistinct. Unfathomable. Something eternally
>> elusive, lost forever.
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> yeah and that explains alot about united states citizens' insanity.
>
>> Few Americans can trace their family history more than a few
>> generations, if that. Throughout anyone's own ancestral lineage,
>> however, going back deeply into time, there obviously exists their own
>> share of participants -- as both perpetrators and victims -- in great
>> and minor wars, massacres, invasions, famines, epidemics, and other
>> disasters of every kind. Presuming five procreative generations per
>> century, exponentially, any human being alive today can theoretically
>> claim direct genetic lineage to over a thousand ancestors back to
>> 1800, over 37,000 people to 1700, over a million back to the year
>> 1600, and over a staggering billion human beings back to 1400 (thirty
>> generations). Whatever the mathematically realistic number, (and
>> Jewish history claims 4,000 years) the deeper we go back into history,
>> the more we must consider the veritable Milky Way of humanity that
>> preceded us in direct ancestral lineage; people of every imaginable
>> sort, and they all knew well the melancholic chords of human
>> suffering, sometimes subtly, sometimes brutally. Every single one of
>> them.
>>
>> Today's Americans of French, British, Italian or other European
>> descent find themselves today lumped together in the generic "white"
>> American community. Their respective ancestries are stirred together,
>> gone. Their European origins mean little to them; they are homogenized
>> in the New World, their identities now expressed -- for better or
>> worse -- in the icons of George Wa****ngton, Abraham Lincoln, Billy the
>> Kid, Babe Ruth, the hallowed Constitution, even McDonald's hamburgers,
>> or other superficial national icons that ancestrally have nothing
>> directly to do with them.
>
> i once had a chat with two americans in an online game. they explained
> to me that "america" is much scarier than we foreigners realize. To sum
> it up they said it is like a horror movie hidden under disneyland.
>
>> The typical American's alienation, disinterest, and lack of connection
>> to distant history is not characteristic of modern Jews. On the
>> contrary. A stone thrown in spite through a Jewish window in Italy in
>> the fourteenth century is a stone thrown into Jewish hearts today. The
>> actions against Jews by desperate thugs in Poland in the eighteenth
>> century are dumped on Gentile doorsteps in our time by Jews who are
>> still grieving, still embittered, still seeking redress. And when we
>> turn, in more recent history, to the bestial deeds of Adolf Hitler to
>> conquer the world, we find that Jews have pulled tightly in a circle
>> to proclaim that everything sinister in the whole world malevolently
>> labors against them, and them only.
>>
>> Ultimately, it is a central article of modern Jewish faith --
>> reflecting both secular and religious attitudes, formed and hardened
>> over the ages -- that to be Jewish is to be always maltreated for
>> innocence by others. Or, perhaps more correctly to Jewish eyes, as
>> part of this innocence, being Jewish is to be a victim for the crime
>> of being superior to their persecutors. This claim to superiority was
>> originally religiously based, as God's "Chosen People" of Old
>> Testament tradition. And this Jewish preoccupation -- as being victims
>> of their self-presumed superiority -- has been passed down,
>> religiously, over the ages (traditionally epitomized in Jewish
>> pilgrimage to Jerusalem's Wailing Wall to bemoan their communal fate,
>> manifest also in the likes of the volume Sefer Yosifon, anonymously
>> compiled in the tenth century as a litany of Jewish complaints and
>> miseries). In the aftermath of Hitler's atrocities against Jews during
>> World War II, this world-view has come to define, more tightly than
>> any other aspect of Jewish tradition -- and now highly politicized --
>> modern Jewish self-identity.
>>
>> But is this true? From the evidence we have already seen, are Jews
>> correctly depicted as history's consummate, incomparable, and innocent
>> victims? Have Jews pre-eminently and collectively suffered more than
>> all other human beings, "victims of centuries of persecution and
>> bigotry?" [UROFSKY, M., 1978, p. 378] And for no reason?
>>
>> Here's a typical view of the Eastern European Jewish past, by Judith
>> Arcana, who discusses the roots of Jewish American poet Grace Paley's
>> family to the Jews of Russia: "One of Isaac's brothers, Russya, was
>> killed in a workers demonstration in 1905 ... In the wake of that
>> death, probably spurred by the retaliatory wave of pogroms, the family
>> decided to leave Russia. Knowing the unpredictability of royal whim,
>> Natasha Gutseit, Isaac's widowed mother, sent the young couple to
>> America before the czar could change his mind and snatch them back
>> again." [ARCANA, J., 1993, p. 10] Here Arcana, who omits the relevance
>> of Jewish socialist agitation in Russia as a factor in their
>> "persecution" [Elsewhere she notes that even both Paley's parents were
>> socialists, enemies of the Tsarist regime -- p. 9], speculates that
>> the Russian czar would have interest in "snatching" Jews back to
>> Russia.
>>
>> In the American context, "one commonly finds a sentence like this in
>> many [Jewish] books or articles," says Joshua Rothenberg, "... 'Jews
>> came to the shores of this country from the ghettos of the shtetlekh
>> [Eastern European Jewish villages] as a result of the pogroms.' Each
>> phrase in this sentence is untrue or oversimplified to the point of
>> untruth. There were no ghettos in 19th century Eastern Europe (except
>> in the metaphysical sense) ... And the pogroms were not the principal
>> reason for emigration: pro****tionately more Jews came to the United
>> States from Austrian-ruled Galicia -- where there were no pogroms --
>> than from Tsarist Russia." [ROTHENBERG, p. 3]
>>
>> "It has been discovered," says Henry Feingold, "that religious
>> persecution, even its physical manifestations of pogroms, rarely
>> furnishes sufficient impetus for Jews to uproot themselves. Moreover,
>> it cannot account for the thousands of Jews who chose to leave areas
>> relatively free of religious persecution ... [FEINGOLD, p. 60] ...
>> Historians have taken a closer look at the early acculturation process
>> and have discovered that the highly touted ability of the Jewish
>> family to withstand the stresses of transplantation have been
>> overstated. New studies on Jewish vice and crime and criminality and
>> the discovery of a relatively high divorce and desertion rate among
>> immigrant Jews present a picture of a community paying a dear price
>> for establi****ng itself." [FEINGOLD, p. 61]
>>
>> "The lachrymorose recollection of the shtetl, which are still with
>> us," says Daniel Bell, "fail to recall its narrowness of mind, its
>> cruelty, especially to schoolchildren (to whom a whole series of
>> memoirs, such as Solomon Ben Maimon's, testify), and its invidious
>> stratification." [BELL, Reflections, p. 318] Little remembered is this
>> oppression of Jews by Jews. "Prior to World War I," adds Rothenburg,
>> "the Kehilah [Jewish governing bodies] were ruled, in most cases, by
>> an oligarchy of the rich and the [Jewish] clergy. Their excesses,
>> especially in the area of indirect taxation (kosher meat, etc.) and
>> the silencing of the protesting voices of the poor, are well-known and
>> do***ented. The Kehilahs remained a source of bitter complaint for the
>> majority of the Jewish population, which had no say in the conduct of
>> their own community affairs." [ROTHENBURG, p. 5]
>>
>> continued
>>
>
http://newsfromthewest.blogspot.com/2007/09/chapter-11-jewish-cosmology-of.html
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>
> continuing:
>
> ...American Jews today hold dear many nostalgic "Fiddler on the Roof"-
> type myths about their Eastern European ancestors. As, however, Jewish
> author Ivan Kalmar notes
>
> "A stalwart Jewish peasant, with a native wit and a naive religiosity,
> ever sturdy in the face of unending adversity, he is the epitome of
> Jewish nostalgia ... The Fiddler is so much part of the way we
> think of our Jewish background ... The Fiddler image has some
> basis in reality, but it is also very much part of a nostalgic
> reconstruction of our past, an example of what anthropologists
> call 'invention of tradition' ... Jewish authors [like Sholem
> Aleichem, creator of Fiddler on the Roof] tried to create
> stereotypes of the Jews that would identity them with less
> wealthy groups who were looked at more favourably by the
> greater society. Sholom Aleichem's Tevye [hero of Fiddler
> on the Roof] is very much a Ukrainian peasant. To counter
> the idea of the Jew as a 'parasite,' Sholom Aleichem presents
> Tevye as a dairy farmer, who sells not the Gentile peasant's
> products but his own. North American Jews have
> enthusiastically accepted the validity of Sholom Aleichem's
> Tevye as a metaphor for the Eastern European Jew of old ...
> Where finally Tevye finally shows unique character, he
> turns out to be a modern Jew. Where he is being a 'typical,'
> folksy, traditional East European Jew, he resembles the
> romanticized Ukrainian peasant ... Of course, there were
> in reality Jewish peasants like Tevye, but compared to the
> Slavs, the percentage of Jews who farmed was miniscule."
> [KALMER, I., quoted by PRYTULAK, L., UKRAINIAN
> ARCHIVES]
>
> "Having ... turned their backs on Poland," notes Jewish scholar Victor
> Seidler about modern Jewish perceptions of Eastern European heritage,
> "it can be difficult for the second generation [of Jews in America] to
> recognize just how Polish their parents were. Things we learned to think
> of as 'Jewish' turn out to be Polish." [SEIDLER, V.J., 2000, p. 74]
> "Indeed," notes George Mosse, "when the first German-Jewish painter,
> Mortiz Oppenheim, painted scenes from the ghetto shortly after
> emancipation, it was transformed, as we have seen, into a community
> permeated with German middle-class values." [MOSSE, G., 1985, p. 80]
>
> Jewish author Howard Jacobson notes Jewish historic myth-making at an
> exhibition of photographs of Eastern European Jews at the University of
> Judaism in Los Angeles. Particularly troubling to him was the depiction
> of the stereotypically "studious Jew":
>
> "Something is wrong with this exhibition. Something is wrong with
> the way we modern Jews idealize a past we wouldn't touch with a
> barge-pole if it were offered us again ... Why is Jewish study always
> made to look so soulful in these sorts of photographs, so unrelieved,
> so unvarious, so ****ing miserable and desolating? What is it about
> Jewish books that make absorption in them such an invariably
> heart-rendering business? What a sell! How have the Jews done it,
> how have we persuaded ourselves, but gentiles as well, that anguish
> and lamentation and self-abnegation and bodilessness and pathos
> attach inalterably and exclusively to our studies? You don't see
> [St. Thomas] Aquinas looking into a book like that." [JACOBSON, H.,
> 1995, p. 192-193]
>
> The distinguished Jewish historian, Salo Baron, of Columbia University,
> whose twelve-volume Social and Religious History of the Jews is the most
> extensive Jewish history by a single author in existence, argued a view
> that, post-Holocaust, has been swept to the wayside by modern Jewish
> discourse. His view was that Jewish suffering in the European Middle
> Ages, and throughout history, has been exaggerated. That is, that the
> Jews of Europe, as a group, in comparison to their Christian neighbors,
> actually had a better life in the Middle Ages, to the 20th century. For
> all the claims of massacres and pogroms, according to surviving
> do***ents, the Jewish population actually grew more rapidly than the
> Gentiles around them. [LIBERLES, p. 42] This accelerated in later
> centuries. "The two and a half centuries from 1660 to 1914," says Baron,
> "the Jewish population grew numerically some fifteen times ... while
> mankind at-large increased by only 250 per cent, Europe by 350 per cent
> ..." [BARON, H and J.H., p. 50] This thesis, addressing later years, is
> sup****ted by a non-Jewish scholar of the Ukraine, Orest Subtleny:
>
> "Throughout the nineteenth century, especially in its latter part, the
> Jews experienced a tremendous population rise. Between 1820 and
> 1880, while the general population of the [Russian] empire rose by
> 87%, the number of Jews increased by 150%. On the Right Bank,
> this rise was even more dramatic: between 1844 and 1913 the number
> of its inhabitants rose by 265% while the Jewish population increased
> by 844%! Religious sanctions of large families, less exposure to
> famines, war, and epidemics, and a low mortality rate because of
> communal self-help and the availability of doctors largely accounted
> for this extraordinary increase." [SUBTLENY, p. 276]
>
> Salo Baron argued that his people, the Jews, were so privileged,
> relative to non-Jews throughout the European Middle Ages, that with the
> coming of the Enlightenment era "emancipation" and "equality" amounted
> to "a net loss [to Jews] in status and lifestyle." [SCHORSCH, p. 383]
> Elsewhere, he wrote that "it is likely ... that even the average
> medieval Jew, compared to his average Christian contem****ary ... was the
> less unhappy and destitute creature -- less unhappy and destitute not
> only by his own consciousness, but even if measured by such objective
> criteria as standards of living, cultural amenities, and protection
> against individual starvation and disease." [LINDEMANN, Esau's, p. 11]
>
> "Throughout the Middle Ages," notes David Biale, "the Jews enjoyed
> considerable influence in many of the lands in which they lived ... In
> addition to their interest Court politics, these Jews participated in
> political life in defense of Jewish interests." [BIALE, POWER p. 69]
> "The situation of the Jews in the first half of the Middle Ages," says
> Abram Leon, "was ... extremely favorable. The Jews were considered as
> being a part of the upper cl***** in society and their juridicial
> position was not perceptibly different from that of the nobility."
> [LEON, p. 128] "At least some of the Jewish dress of the Middle Ages,"
> adds Biale, "such as the Jewish hat, originated out of choice rather
> than compulsion ... The yellow patch [worn by Jews] ... was not
> originally intended as an instrument for segregating and humiliating the
> Jews ... but to proclaim publicly that its wearer enjoyed official
> protection." [BIALE, POWER, p. 67]
>
> One of the privileges Jews enjoyed throughout Europe until relatively
> modern history was that they didn't have to serve in the local military
> organizations. "During the continuous wars of the sixteenth,
> seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries," wrote Baron, " ... the Jews were
> neutral and suffered few losses. If they had been combatants they might
> have lost more than in all the pogroms." [LIBERLES, p. 42] Yet Medieval
> Jews were allowed the extremely significant privilege of carrying
> weapons, a privilege equal to knights and one to which all commoners
> (the overwhelming majority of the population) were forbidden. [GOLDBERG,
> p. 123] Baron also noted that, while there were certainly Jews who
> suffered poverty, the surrounding Christian population was worse off.
> And if the Jewish ghettos were, as widely claimed, abject holes of
> enforced degradation, "is it not remarkable that the most typical Ghetto
> in the world, the Frankfurt Judengasse, produced in the pre-Emancipation
> period the greatest banking house in history?" [LIBERLES p. 45]
>
> "The Jews," says Israel Shahak,
>
> "in spite of all the persecution to which they were subjected, formed
> an integral part of the privileged cl***** ... Jewish historiography,
> especially in English, is misleading on this point inasmuch as it tends
> to focus on Jewish poverty and anti-Jewish discrimination ... The
> poorest Jewish craftsman, peddlar, landlord's steward, or petty cleric
> was immeasurably better off than a serf [most of the non-Jewish
> population]. This was especially true in those European countries
> where serfdom persisted until the nineteenth century, whether in a
> partial or extreme form: Prussia, Austria (including Hungary), Poland,
> and the Polan lands taken by Russia. And it is not without significance
> that, prior to the beginning of the great Jewish migration of modern
> times (around 1889), a large majority of all Jews were living in those
> areas and that their most im****tant social function there was to
> mediate the oppression of peasants on behalf of the nobility and
> the Crown." [SHAHAK, p. 52-53]
>
> Jews in Eastern Europe understood the people around them as,
> categorically, persecutors. And "the Jews saw their persecutors as an
> inferior race," noted World Zionist Organization President Nahum
> Goldmann, "Most of my [physician] grandfather's patients [in Lithuania]
> were peasants. Every Jew felt ten or a hundred times the superior of
> these lowly tillers of the soil; he was cultured, learned Hebrew, knew
> the Bible, studied the Talmud -- in other words he knew that he stood
> head and shoulders above these illiterates." [GOLDMANN, 1978, p. 13]
>
> "It would never have occurred to us," said one Jewish immigrant to the
> United States, "that the Gentile world [in Eastern Europe] was happier
> ... On the contrary, we considered our world happier and finer." "We
> thought they were unfortunate," says another, "We were above them, this
> was the feeling [towards peasants]." [MORAWSKA, p. 17] In the face of
> the commonly cherished belief among modern Jews that their brethren of
> Eastern Europe were terribly and uniformly impoverished, it is a fact
> that Jews were doing so well (relative to the non-Jews around them) that
> non-Jewish servants in Jewish households were common.
>
> Apart from racist folk tales, Zborowski and Herzog note that most Jewish
> children in Eastern Europe learned fragments of the surrounding non-
> Jewish culture via the Gentile servants in their homes. "These
> impressions [of non-Jewish life]," the scholars write, "[were] available
> not only to the children of the rich, for [Jewish] women of modest
> cir***stances who worked in a store or at the market often had the help
> of a [non-Jewish] peasant girl in the house." [ZBOROWSKI, p. 155]
> "[Jewish life] was certainly better than the life of the Russian
> peasant," remarks Howard Sachar. [SACHAR, p. 215]
>
> "We were luckier than most of our fellow-Jews in being able to afford
> 'servants,' if that is the real name for them," declares Chaim Weizmann,
> an immigrant from the "Pale" of Russia, an agitator for how bad Jews had
> it in his place of birth, and the first president of modern Israel, "...
> [My second servant] who outlived the first and was with us for something
> like thirty-five years, was a lovable peasant by the name of Yakim ...
> He had learned to sing, after a fa****on, the Jewish national anthem,
> Hatikvah; and in moments of enthusiasm would cry out: 'Come, little
> ones, let us sing Tikvah!'" [WEIZMAN, C., 1949, p. 22]
>
> Elsewhere, Weizman adds:
>
> "The teachers and governing authorities of the schools within the Pale
> [an area of Russia] were typical Russian officials, and as such, not
> free from corruption. So the rich Jew would use his gold to pave the way
> for his boy to enter the school ... There were occasions when a rich Jew
> would hire ten non-Jewish candidates (at times rather oddly selected) to
> sit for the entrance examination at the local school, and thus make room
> for one Jewish pupil -- needless to say his own son or a protege."
> [WEIZMAN, C., 1949, p. 31]
>
> "Even when the Jewish common people were known to be desperately poor,"
> adds Albert Lindemann, "as in Austrian Galicia or parts of the Jewish
> Pale of Settlement in tsarist Russia, their overall per capita wealth
> still seems to have been greater than that of non-Jews, mostly peasants,
> among whom they lived." [LINDEMANN, Esau's, p. 21] "On the whole," says
> sociologist Stephen Steinberg, "Eastern European Jews [prior to
> immigration to America in the late nineteenth century] were
> unquestionably poor, though decidedly better off than the surrounding
> peasant population." [STEINBERG, p. 97]
>
> What, one wonders, is to be read between this relativity of being
> "poor?" How poor could Jews have really been if they were "decidedly
> better off" than the non-Jewish peasants (who were most of the Eastern
> European population), even hiring Polish servants for their homes?
>
> Another part of Jewish popular mythology is that the Jews were forced
> against their will into ghettos in Europe. The widely-believed
> accusation that Jews were forcibly segregated, particularly into
> ghettos, is a distortion of historical fact. In the Middle Ages most
> Christian towns themselves had walls, gates, and locks for protection
> from outsiders. The enclosed Jewish ghetto was, in origin, a Jewish
> construction, conceived for both protection and self-segregation from
> the taint of non-Jewish ways.
>
> "In the thirteenth century," writes Max Weinrich, "segregated living
> quarters for Jews were made compulsory. The fact of the matter is that
> separate Jewish streets had existed all along ... If the Jews lived
> together long before segregated living quarters were imposed upon them,
> then their segregation must have been voluntary. It was. Living apart,
> no matter how bizarre it may appear in the light of present day concepts
> and attitudes, was part of the 'privileges' accorded to the Jews in
> conforming with their own wishes." [WEINRICH, p. 105]
>
> As president Nachum Goldmann of the World Zionist Organization notes:
>
> "It is wrong to say that the goyim forced the Jews to separate
> themselves
> themselves from other societies. When the Christians defined the
> ghetto limits, Jews lived there already." [GOLDMANN, N., 1978, p. 66]
>
> For centuries Jews isolated themselves from their surrounding non-Jewish
> neighbors except, of course, for the necessities of commerce. "Had the
> Jews not possessed a deep-rooted conviction of the truth of their
> religion," says Jacob Katz, "and had they not actively sought to
> maintain their separate identity, the tendencies inherent in medieval
> conditions would inevitably have ended by breaking down the social
> barrier erected by Jewish ritual." [KATZ, Ex, p. 40] "In Orthodox
> Judaism," wrote anthropologist Maurice Fishberg in 1911, "a Jew must not
> eat at the same table with a Gentile, nor any food prepared by the
> latter; must not eat or drink from dishes, with spoons, forks, knives,
> etc. which have been used by a Gentile; must not drink wine with the
> container of which has been touched by a Christian, Mohammadan, or
> heathen ... I know Jews to feel nauseated and even vomit when told that
> the food they have consumed was not kosher. ... It was the intense
> tribal spirit engendered by his religion which kept the Jew from
> intimate contact with the Gentiles, more than the laws promulgated by
> Christian states for the purpose." [FISHBERG, p. 536]
>
> "We [Jews] formed the ghetto ourselves," wrote the Zionist leader
> Vladamir Zabotinsky, " ... voluntarily, for the same reason for which
> Europeans in Shanghai established their separate quarter, to be able to
> live their own way." [KORBANSKI, p. 8] "The Ghetto was rather a
> privilege than a disability," notes J. O. Hertzler, "and sometimes was
> claimed by the Jews as a right when its demolition was threatened."
> [HERTZLER, p. 73] Boas Evron cites the work of fellow Israeli scholar,
> Yehezkel Kaufmann, in noting that
>
> "the popular assumption that external anti-Jewish pressures forced
> group identify and exclusivity on the Jews is unconvincing, since
> historical evidence shows that Jewish exclusivity and aloofness
> preceded outside hostility and were thus its cause, not its result ...
> Jewish communities were always borne by host societies ... They
> never shared in political, military, administrative, or technological
> responsibilities." [EVRON, p. 53]
>
> In articles in 1928 and 1932, Cecil Roth, one of the foremost Jewish
> scholars of his day, set out to debunk the Jewish myths of incessant
> persecution by non-Jews through the ages. "In the first place," wrote
> Roth, ".... the Jew has always tended to regard as a martyr all persons
> who died at Gentile hands ... even if he died in a drunken brawl ... All
> those [Jews] who met a violent end, no matter under what cir***stances,
> were included under the head of martyrs in the Jewish popular
> consciousness and recollection." [ROTH, Most, p. 136-137]
>
> This martyr tradition and schema has even been outrageously used, quite
> the same, with the identical religious base, in Orthodox Jewish
> messianic political quarters in our own day. Baruch Goldberg, the
> American-born Orthodox Israeli doctor who murdered 29 Arabs with an
> automatic weapon this decade as they prayed in a Hebron mosque, and who
> was subsequently beaten to death, was proclaimed by some Jews to be
> kadosh. (This word is commonly translated as meaning "holy;" it also has
> connotations meaning "separate" or "apart.") "A Jew who is killed
> because he is a Jew," wrote Dov Leor (a rabbi for the messianic Gush
> Emunim organization) about Goldberg's violent death, "must certainly be
> called ... a holy martyr ... without investigating their previous
> conduct." [LEOR, p. 61] "Baruch Goldstein was the greatest Jew alive,"
> declared a Jerusalem teacher, Samuel Hacohen, "not in one way, but in
> every way ... There are no innocent Arabs here, and thank God that one
> Jewish hero reminded us that it had become almost legal to kill Jews in
> the street. He is the only one who could do it, the only one who was 100
> percent perfect. He was no crazy ... Killing isn't nice, but sometimes
> it is very necessary." Rabbi Yaacov Perin also announced at Goldberg's
> funeral that "One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail."
> [BROWNFELD, A., 3-99, p. 85]
>
> A 1908 pamphlet, notes Cecil Roth, was widely circulated in the Jewish
> community under the title, Jews Hanged or Burned Alive in Rome....
> Because They Refused to Change Their Faith. Of the hanged Jews listed,
> all but one were in fact executed for specific crimes, a harshness
> rendered no differently to any other people of past eras. "This
> instance," says Roth, "... is symptomatic of the attitude which Jewish
> historiography has consistently adopted. Any popular attack or any
> governmental persecution in which Jews were victims is set down outright
> as an expression of anti-Semitic sentiment."
>
> In another example, in 1278, on charges of money clipping [skimming gold
> or silver content from coinage], 267 Jews were hanged in London. This
> punishment was not merited out to Jews as Jews, but to those who were
> dispro****tiontely "in possession of the greater amount of ready money."
> Those who ac***ulated money in the Jewish money-lending and usury era
> happened to be overwhelmingly Jews, but also included a lesser number of
> Christian goldsmiths and such who were similarly arrested and executed.
> "What seems at first blush," says Roth, "[to be] an act of sheer
> persecution appears in a closer examination one of primitively sharp
> justice." [ROTH, p. 137]
>
> In the early years of Christianity, in Alexandria (of today's Egypt),
> attacks upon Jews rendered in Jewish historical consciousness as acts of
> anti-Semitism were really what Roth says today would be called "an
> interracial riot." [ROTH, p. 138]
>
> Roth underscored the precarious existence of all peoples' lives in the
> Middle Ages:
>
> "The modern reader frequently fails to realize that, generally speaking,
> life in the Middle Ages was not secure. For every section of the
> population the probabilities of meeting a violent death were high, even
> in times of comparative peace. Country people were continually subject
> to the onslaught of bandits or of lawless barons, as well as the
> marchings and counter marchings of armed forces. [Even] city dwellers
> ... [ran] the risk of sack and wholesale murder. The whole of medieval,
> and a great part of modern, history is studded with instance of the
> sort:
> the devastation of Attila, the Scourge of God; the ravaging of the Vexin
> by William the Conqueror; the sack of a score of German cities during
> the Thirty Years War. There were frequently cases when only a minority
> of the population survived, the vast majority being piteously massacred.
> These events and their like should be borne in mind when one considers
> the vicissitudes of any particular racial or religious minority. The
> scarlet
> of Jewish persecution does not stand out on a ground of virginal white.
> [ROTH, p. 138]
>
> In medieval Poland, says Bernard Weinyrb, "In an epoch and a country
> where most of the time people were in danger of attacks by Tatars and
> Turks, of wars, soldiers, and robber gangs on the roads, insecurity
> became the normal way of life for people who had never known anything
> different." [WEINRYB, p. 159]
>
> The miseries caused by the sack of Rome in 1527, Christian crusades
> against Muslim-controlled Jerusalem in 1096, Leon in 1197, Malaga in
> 1487, Naples in 1494, Padua in 1509, Tunis in 1535, or "a hundred other
> occasions" were at least equivalent tragedies to Jewish descriptions of
> "Jewish martyrdom." [ROTH, p. 138]
>
> "It is probably the fact," says Roth, "that in the course of the
> medieval wars and disorders, the Jews normally suffered more than any
> other section of the population. This was not necessarily, however,
> because they were Jews, but simply because they belonged to the more
> opulent class ... on the capture of a town (by an army), the first
> objective of the assailants would naturally be the streets of the
> goldsmiths and the street of the Jews." [ROTH, p. 139]
>
> Likewise, Jews -- perceived as affluent and exploitive outsiders to
> native populaces --suffered the same way at the hands of mobs as did
> Italian traders in London in 1439 and 1455, and at the "Hansa
> Steelyard" in 1494. Jews were also subject to random "acts of rapine,"
> like any Christian -- or other community -- of the Middle Ages, as
> happened in the Jewish part of Asolo, in northern Italy, in 1547.
> Perpetrators in that case were punished by the central government.
>
> While Jews were sometimes required to wear special badges of
> identification in the European Middle Ages, it was a norm of
> discrimination for the era. Muslims also had to wear such marks of
> "outsider" distinction in Christian societies. Conversely, in the Muslim
> world, Christian communities were also faced with such laws and
> legislation of discrimination, sometimes even in clothing. And of course
> Jewish law itself has various nomenclature and attendant rules for
> treatment of various categories of non-Jews as second-class, or worse,
> people. (Even in modern Israel, Arabs are discriminatorily noted as such
> on national identity cards).
>
> "Some current histories," said Roth in 1932, "appear to assume the Jews
> were sole victims of the Spanish Inquisition ... Strictly, this is so
> far from the truth that a precisian might retort that [the Jews] never
> came under the [Inquisition's] scope, save in exceptional cases, since
> the activities were essentially confined to [Christian] apostates and
> renegades." [ROTH, p. 141] Those "Jews" who risked trouble were those
> among the Marranos/Conversos, who disingenuously represented themselves
> as Christians and were thereby subject to the same scrutinization for
> religious conformance as that directed upon any other Christian. Widely
> targeted were Christian heretics, not the Judaic faith. As M. Hirsh
> Goldberg notes,
>
> "Contrary to popular belief, Jews who openly remained Jews were
> not tortured or killed as part of the inquisition proceedings. The
> Inquisition was specifically authorized by the Church to root out
> heresy among Catholics, so only heretical Christians and Jewish
> converts to Christianity accused of secretly reverting to Judaism
> were prosecuted." [GOLDBERG, M. H., 1979, p. 16] "[T]he Holy Inquistion
> in ****tugal," notes Arnold Wiznitzer, "did not persecute Jews who never
> had been Catholics. Only persons of Jewish origin who had been born
> Catholic, or those, born Jews and baptised later, who had deserted
> Catholicism openly or secretly were subject to the Inquisition since
> they were considered as being apostates." [WIZNITZER, A., 1957, p. 64]
> "The Inquistion," notes Joachim Prinz, "is considered one of the many
> traumatic experiences of Jewish history, and as such, it is always
> spoken of with dread. But, of course, the Inquistion had no power over
> Jews at all. It was established for the purpose of dealing with
> Christians who had deviated from their faith. The Marranos who were
> called into account for their secret practices appeared not as Jews but
> as allegedly heretical Chrisitans ... No unconverted Jews were ever
> called to the tribunals." [PRINZ, J., 1973, p. 44]
>
> "Living under the Inquisition," adds Goldberg in another volume,
>
> "caused Jews to make some curious adjustments, as can be seen
> in the family of Manoel Pereira Coutinho, who had five daughters --
> all nuns in a convent in Lisbon -- while in Hamburg his sons were
> living openly as Jews." [GOLDBERG, M. H., 1976, p. 109]
>
> "All Jews know about the Inquisition," wrote David Goldstein, a Jewish
> apostate, "but of Jewish [-perpetrated] injustices they know hardly
> anything." [GOLDSTEIN, p. 117] "The name of Torquemada," wrote Jewish
> author John Cournos in 1937, "the loathsome Grand Inquisitor, was a
> byword among us children, as it was in other Jewish households."
> [GOLDSTEIN, p. 117] This view that the Inquisition somehow centered on
> Jews still remains widespread in the community today, as proclaimed in a
> 1990 issue of the American Jewish Congress magazine devoted to the
> subject of Jewish identity. Ignoring the Christian target groups of the
> heresy trials, Zvi Bekarman remarked that "The Inquisition is brought to
> us as one more proof of the suffering of the Jews." [BEKERMAN, p. 14]
>
> Despite all the Jewish lamenting of pogroms and massacres upon their
> ancestors, the Catholic-Protestant massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day in
> the 1500's was as spectacularly horrible as any Jewish medieval
> misfortune to that time. Nor, adds Roth, "was persecution of the Jews in
> its acutest form [ever] systematic." (The later World War II Holocaust
> scenario, which of course was systematic, will be addressed later at
> length in its own chapter).
>
> Jews were often blamed for the epidemic of the Plague and the Black
> Death that swept Europe in the Middle Ages (while Jewish communities
> were relatively free from the disease, [HERTZLER, p. 95] but such causal
> connection to medieval minds was not to the detriment of Jews only. Non-
> Jews were also accused of, and murdered for, causing the Plague in
> Palermo in 1526, in Germany in 1530, 1545, and 1574, at Casale Monferrat
> in 1536, and other places throughout Europe. In Breslau, in 1349 sixty
> Jews were executed for having caused a town fire, "but," says Roth,
> "when one recalls that 300 years afterwards the Great Fire of London was
> [blamed upon] the Papists, one realizes that the Jews had no monopoly on
> unjust accusations." [ROTH, p. 144]
>
> Jewish communities themselves had irrational superstitions to scapegoat
> others and to explain disease and other misfortunes. Says Zborowski and
> Herzog:
>
> "If an epidemic strikes the shtetl, prayers are, of course, offered up.
> Other steps consist chiefly in marrying off two orphans or cripples,
> so that God will be mollified by the good deeds of the wor****ppers...
> Whenever there was an epidemic in the shtetl they used to blame it
> on peoples' sins. They tried to find the guilty ones and expose them
> to the public ... Another method for getting rid of an epidemic was
> to get two orphans if possible and to marry them off on the cemetery
> ..." [ZBOROWSKI, p. 224]
>
> Throughout Europe, "it was.... dangerous to be an old woman in the
> sixteenth and seventeenth centuries"' when witch hunts put 100,000
> unfortunates on trial for sorcery in Germany alone. [ROTH, p. 145] Some
> 30,000 such victims are reputed to have been burned alive or torn to
> pieces in England, and over a two hundred year period in Scotland, an
> average of two hundred "witches" were burned at the stake each year.
> Throughout Europe gypsies were s****adically singled out for persecution
> and blame, and various Christians and other non-Jews from time to time
> were executed for the charge of cannibalism.
>
> Lest modern Jews feel too smug in the brutal superstitions of the
> ancient Gentiles, the Talmud itself notes an instance when eighty Jewish
> women were hung at one time at the instigation of a fellow Jew, "Simeon
> the Son of Shetach," in Ashkelon for the crime of being witches.
> [HARRIS, p. 174] When coming across a witch, the Talmud recommends that
> the passerby "should mutter thus, 'May a potsherd of boiling dung be
> stuffed in your mouths, you ugly witches!'" [HARRIS, p.189] Some rabbis
> even opined that a witch may be either male or female, but "most women
> are witches." [HARRIS, p. 190] Even "the best among women," said Rabbi
> ****mon ben Yochai, "is a witch." [HARRIS, p. 191]
>
> The Talmud also details the various manners of stoning, strangling or
> beheading Jewish "blasphemers and idolaters." Such criminals were also
> buried up to their knees in manure, and their mouths forced open by
> strangling. Molten lead could then be poured "into his bowels." [HARRIS,
> p. 170]
>
> The persistence of the Jewish mythology of unique persecution, says
> Roth, has much to do with their longevity and communal dispersal
> throughout Europe and the world. The persecution of the Albigensians of
> France, for instance, is known by hardly anyone today because their
> destruction was singularly localized, they were completely wiped out,
> and there is no one interested in heralding their suffering. Likewise
> the Waldenses of France, and various others. "The Jews," notes Roth,
> "are an inseparable element in the history of every country in Europe
> ... and thus have an advantage, as it were, of a superior publicity
> service; and no historian, even a Gentile, could fail to be impressed by
> this insistent, pathetic, unique record." [ROTH, p. 147]
>
> Roth goes to the essence of the Jewish mythos of communal agony:
>
> "In the classical period ... with its holocausts and heroes, the lot of
> the Jewish people was much the same as that of the ancient Britons,
> the Iberians, and the Gauls; and the leaders of those peoples' struggles
> for freedom deserve to be remembered as much as the Jewish martyrs
> who are commemorated each year on the ninth of Ab. But this is far
> from the case. Generally, they are forgotten, save by a few industrious
> antiquarians; and they have no place today in the proud memories of
> any people. The reason is very plain. The races for which they fought
> are long since dead. The Jews are still alive." [ROTH, p. 147]
>
> These insightful observations were written by Roth in 1932. The rise of
> German fascism and its institutionalized inhumanity was still only
> rising. Yet we can see here in Roth's unusually honest overview of
> Jewish history the broader, foundational context for current Jewish
> thinking about themselves to this day. Of course the so-called Holocaust
> of World War II has completely solidified the traditional view of the
> persecution of Jewry and obliterated Roth's broadly realistic brand of
> Jewish historiography.
>
> To a now militant Jewish polemic, their community's European experience
> in World War II merely confirms the Jewish mythos of unique and eternal
> victimization and martrydom. It is monolithic, irrefutable, immutable,
> and immoveable: Jews argue they were uniquely "singled out." There will
> be a great deal more about the Holocaust and its part in Jewish identity
> in its own chapter. For immediate purposes, it is enough here to
> recognize the historical context for modern Jewry's fundamental self-
> conception: that of humankind's foremost -- and superlative -- victims,
> passed along as part of religious faith century after century, reified
> in Jewish cosmology at every turn.
>
> Roth's early 1930's view, in the context of rising Nazi fascism and
> worry about anti-Semitism spreading in America, has been completely
> muted in our own day, and Jewish apologetics about Jewish identity and
> history began rising in direct pro****tion to the gravity of the growing
> German threat. By 1941, a Jewish author, Oscar Janowsky, reviewed -- in
> the same Jewish journal that earlier published Roth's critiques of the
> Jewish victimization cosmology -- two new books that championed Jewish
> history. Each book was authored by well-respected Jewish scholars. One
> of them was Cecil Roth. Janowsky's title for his article was
> "Apologetics for Our Time." In the context of German Nazism, even Roth
> was swallowed by the demands for Jewish positive image-making against
> all and any self-critical Jewish commentary. "Both authors," wrote
> Janowsky, "would readily concede that the purpose [of these books] was
> not to write 'history' of the accepted variety. Our age requires
> apologetics, and this sad need has been filled by the authors."
> [JANOWSKY, p. 225] This "sad need" was so great that a 1951 volume
> entitled The Hebrew Impact on Western Civilization even stated bluntly
> in its very first sentence: "This book is a book of propaganda." [RUNES,
> D., p. vii]
>
> In 1947, Milton Steinberg wrote a volume, Basic Judaism, explaining the
> faith for both Jews and "those many non-Jews who happen to be curious
> about Judaism." [STEINBERG, p. viii] Here Steinberg's apologetic, in
> doing his part to engender a positive Jewish public image (like so many
> others to our own day), was grossly untrue: "Judaism is totally unaware
> of race. Though the Tradition loves to trace the House of Israel to the
> Patriarchs, blood descent is no factor in its calculations." [STEINBERG,
> M., p. 99]
>
> With World War II and the disaster that befell humanity -- and the Jews
> within it -- looming soon over Europe, this apologetic methodology (as
> well as a resultant Jewish militancy) about Jewish history has continued
> in a rarely interrupted straight line to the present day. (Examine, for
> example, the gu****ngly laudatory content of the popular 1999 bestseller
> by a non-Jewish author: The Gifts of the Jews). In fact, the mythology
> of perpetual Jewish victimhood was well along as an exploitable tool by
> American Jews and Zionists as a political devise at the beginning of the
> Twentieth Century, where Jewish woe centered upon anti-Jewish riots and
> attacks in Eastern Europe, particularly in Russia. "Some of the
> atrocities [against Jews] initially re****ted," writes Albert Lindemann,
> "were exaggerated or simply did not occur, and some Jews made false
> claims in the hope of getting relief money from Western Europe and
> America." [LINDEMANN, p. 154]
>
> Many of the exaggerations were also created to enhance Zionist
> propaganda to garner sympathy and sup****t for a Jewish state in Israel.
> An im****tant target of Zionist propaganda and historical exaggeration
> was American Jews. "You have to speak to American Jews in
> superlatives," remarked Nachum Goldmann, for many years the president of
> both the World Zionist Organization and World Jewish Congress, "Cool,
> balanced, analysis makes no impression on them, and exaggeration is
> almost indispensable." [GROSE, p. 162] Elsewhere, in 1978 he noted that
> his Zionist group alone had spent "millions of dollars on propaganda."
> [GOLDMANN, N., 1978, p. 63]
>
> A pioneer strategist in the use of the accusation of anti-Semitism as a
> propaganda device was Theodore Herzl, a Viennese journalist and
> playwright, the man most credited for the successful promotion of the
> Jewish "return to Israel" Zionist ideology. Herzl "understood the true
> nature of propaganda," notes former Israeli diplomat, Moshe Leshem," of
> the emotional appeal." "In truth ... noise amounts to a great deal,"
> Herzl noted in his diary, "A sustained noise is in itself a noteworthy
> fact, world history is nothing but noise." [LESHEM, p. 85]
>
> Among the most re****ted Russian anti-Jewish pogrom sites at the turn of
> the century was Ki****nev. (This incident led to the creation of the
> Jewish lobbying agency, the American Jewish Committee in 1903). [HALKIN,
> p. 54] Chaim Weitzmann, another Zionist activist and the first President
> of the state of Israel, wrote to a member of the wealthy Jewish
> Rothschild family (instrumental in funding early Jewish settlements in
> pre-Israel Palestine):
>
> "Eleven years ago ... I happened to be in the cursed town of Ki****nev
> ... In a group of about 100 Jews we defended the Jewish quarter with
> revolvers in our hand, defended women and girls ... We slept in the
> cemetery -- the only safe place and we saw 80 corpses brought in,
> mutilated dead...?
>
> "Thus Weizmann," says Albert Lindemann, "re****ts that he personally saw
> eighty mutilated corpses in a single place, when the death toll for the
> entire city was later generally recognized to be forty-five. But there
> is another problem with the account he provides. It is pure fantasy.
> Weizmann was in Warsaw at the time." [LINDEMANN, p. 164]
>
> The long -- and continuing -- Jewish defamation of Poles and Poland, as
> part of a broad Zionist propaganda policy and secular Jewish
> victimization theology, has been going on for a long time. For all
> western Jewry's complaints about massive Polish violence against Polish
> Jewry, in 1919 Hugh Gibson, the United states minister to Warsaw, wrote
> that, "It is ridiculous as we are told about every incident where the
> Jew gets the worst of it and a great many incidents that never happened
> at all. These yarns are exclusively of foreign manufacture for anti-
> Polish purposes." Two prominent and powerful American Zionists -- Louis
> Brandeis and Felix Frankfurter (both United States Supreme Court
> justices) -- confronted Gibson to complain about his dispatches to
> Wa****ngton. "They complained that my re****ts on the Jewish question had
> gone round the world and undone their work [in proclaiming enormous
> violent Polish anti-Semitism]," said Gibson,
>
> "... They finally said that I had stated that the stories of excesses
> against
> the Jews were exaggerated, to which I replied that they certainly were
> and I should think any Jew would be glad to know it ... [They] seemed
> to be interested in agitation for its own sake rather than in learning
> the
> situation ... Their efforts were concentrated on an attempt to bully me
> into accepting the mixture of information and misinformation which
> they have adopted as the basis of their propaganda ... Felix handed
> me a scarcely veiled threat that the Jews would try to prevent my
> confirmation by the Senate [then pending] ... They made it clear to
> me that they do not care to have any diagnosis made that is not based
> entirely on Jewish statements as to conditions and events and doesn't
> accept them at face value. If they are not ready to go into the question
> honestly I don't see how they can hope to accomplish anything for their
> people... [American Jews have embarked upon] a conscienceless and
> cold-blooded plan to make the condition of the Jews in Poland so bad
> they must turn to Zionism for relief." [GROSE, p. 94-95]
>
> In 1923 the United States Vice Consul to Warsaw, Monroe Kline, added
> that "It is true that the Pole hates the Jew ... The Jew in business
> oppresses the Pole to a far greater extent than does the Pole oppress
> the Jew in a political way." [GROSE, p. 95]
>
> More recently, Leonard Fein notes Jewish fears of assimilation that
> could erase them as a people, and the emotional cloud that informs
> Jewish perception of the facts of history:
>
> "Deep down -- and sometimes not so very deep -- we [Jews] still
> believe that we depended on the pogroms and persecutions to
> keep us a people, and that we have not the fibre to withstand
> the lures of a genuine open society. It is seduction, not rape,
> that we fear the most, and nowhere is the seducer more blatant,
> less devious, than here in America." [in SILBERMAN, p. 165]
>
> The Jewish limited historical memory (and corresponding embracement of
> legend) and its singular focus on its martyrological tradition has also
> been systematically exploited to buttress Zionist reasoning for the
> necessity of the modern state of Israel: a home for Jews from worldwide
> anti-Semitic persecution. The lengths some Jews will go to enforce --
> and create -- the martyrological/persecution tradition for political
> purposes was noted by Wilbur Crane Eveland, a former CIA agent stationed
> in Iraq in the early years after the foundation (1948) of today's
> Israel. A few months before his arrival to that country in 1950, a bomb
> went off "outside a Passover gathering," underscoring Arab hostility to
> Jews and encouraging 10,000 to move to the new Israeli state. Eveland
> wrote that
>
> "Just after I arrived in Baghdad, an Israeli citizen had been recognized
> in the city's largest department store: his interrogation led to the
> discovery of fifteen arms caches brought into Iraq by an underground
> Zionist movement. In attempts to ****tray the Iraqis as anti-American
> and to terrorize the Jews, the Zionists planted bombs in the United
> States Information Service Library and in synagogues. Soon
> leaflets began to appear urging Jews to flee to Israel ... Although
> the Iraqi police later provided our embassy with evidence to show that
> the synagogue and library bombings, as well as the anti-Jewish and anti-
> American leaflet campaigns, had been the work of an underground
> Zionist organization, most of the world believed re****ts that Arab
> terrorism had motivated the flight of the Iraqi Jews whom the
> Zionists had 'rescued' really just in order to increase Israel's Jewish
> population." [FEURLICHT, p. 231]
>
> Aware from personal experience about the facts in such matters, in 1998,
> an Iraqi-born Jew and former Zionist activist, Naeim Giladi, wrote that
> he wanted "to tell the American people, and especially American Jews,
> that Jews from Islamic lands did not emigrate willingly to Israel; that
> to force them to leave, Jews killed Jews." [GILADI, p. 1]
>
> In 1975 Jewish CBS re****ter Mike Wallace journeyed to another Arab
> nation, Syria, to do a 60 Minutes program on the country. Years later,
> he noted his own biases (about alleged Syrian anti-Semitism) that were
> destroyed when he actually went to Damascus:
>
> "[Before I went to Syria] I had a strong impression of what life was
> like for [Jews] there. From Jewish friends in America, I had heard
> the same stories over and over again: The Jews in Syria were confined
> to ghettos and were constant victims of persecution. A tight curfew was
> imposed on them and they were not allowed to have telephones or
> drives automobiles. Nor were they permitted to wor****p in synagogues
> of study in their traditional language, Hebrew. In short, the Syrian
> Jews
> were forced to live as prisoners within their own country." [WALLACE/
> GATES, 1984, p. 282]
>
> All this, as Wallace soon learned upon visiting Syria, was complete
> nonsense. Jews owned cars; Jews had cl***** in Hebrew. Although the
> Jewish community was under close surveillance by the Assad regime,
> Wallace is careful to note that so was everyone in that police state.
> The CBS re****ter interviewed a variety of Jews in the Arab country.
> Speaking to a Jewish teacher, Wallace notes his surprise to her response
> about the myths he had heard about Syrian anti-Semitism :
>
> "Then I mentioned all the stories I had heard about how badly the
> Jews were treated in Syria, and when I asked her where she thought
> they came from, she replied in an almost malevolent tone: 'I think
> that it's Zionist propaganda.'" [WALLACE, M., 1984, pl. 285]
>
> Cecil Roth, in his overviews of Jewish history with its attendant
> polemics and apologetics (let alone some of the fraudulent escapades of
> modern Zionism), argued that the continued suppression of an honest
> evaluation of the Jewish past could come back to haunt them:
>
> "By suppression we play into the hand of the anti-Semite, who may one
> day make capital out of the innocent humanity we have chosen to
> ignore. But, above all, by repression we are faithless to the most
> sacred
> charge of history, which is the pursuit of truth." [ROTH, p. 423]
>
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> http://www.consortiumnews.com/
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> http://www.conspiracee.com
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>> By Gideon Levy
>
>
>
> By Gideon Levy
>
> At 6 A.M. the shepherd girl wakes up, grabs a bite to eat,
> readies the sheep and heads for the pasture, together with her
grandmother
> and her cousin. Two hours from Tel Aviv, 2,000 years from Tel Aviv,
there
> are two tents in the middle of nowhere, made out of old bags of plaster,
a
> family of horses, a make****ft sheep pen and a water tank. Every morning
> the
> three shepherds - the grandmother, Fadiya Anami, 60, the cousin, Salama
> Anami, 12, and Hanan Anami, also 12 - take the sheep out to the pasture,
> which is near the tent. Salama and Hanan no longer go to school in the
> unrecognized Bedouin village of the Abu Krinat tribe in the Dimona area,
> which is far from the pasture.
>
> Last Wednesday the three shepherds set out as usual. In the
> winter months they take their animals farther north and west, near
Kibbutz
> Tze'elim and the adjacent army training base, where the grass is
greener.
> They say they have permission from the Agriculture Ministry. They pitch
> tents and remain until summer, when the grass withers. A man from the
> tribe
> brings supplies. They spend their days and nights between the pasture
and
> the tent, without electricity or running water - without anything. A
> grandmother and two granddaughters, with a few herding dogs watching
over
> them and the flock of 120 sheep.
>
> Last Wednesday began like any other day. The sheep fed on the
> grass, now abundant, and the three shepherds sat a few hundred meters
from
> each other. The field of blooming squill was crowded with flocks herded
by
> Bedouin.
>
>
>
>
> Advertisement
>
> On the ridge opposite stood, as usual, a row of camels. We
saw
> them last Sunday when we visited the site with Abed Anami, Hanan's uncle
> and
> Salama's father. Abed Anami, 38, comes occasionally to visit his mother,
> daughter and niece. His brother, Yusuf, Hanan's father, also comes
> occasionally, as he did last Wednesday. As Yusuf made his way to the
tents
> that day, a neighbor who passed him on the road flashed his lights, and
> called out: "Your daughter Hanan was wounded in the head."
>
> The road to Tze'elim is littered with yellow warning signs
> mounted on concrete cubes - "Danger, firing zone" - in three languages,
> along with the terrifying image of a skull. But on the descent from the
> road
> after the Basor wadi there are no signs, only a warning to bicycle
riders
> coming from the north about the road.
>
> We followed the blue Subaru until it suddenly stopped. Abed
> emerged from the car, followed by "the old woman," as he called her, his
> mother, Fadiya, covered from head to toe. We followed her until she
> abruptly
> lay down on a mound of sand. Here, she said, in a whisper, Hanan fell.
>
> It was about 3 P.M. last Wednesday, when Salama suddenly
> noticed
> small objects falling on the sand and kicking up little clouds of dust.
> Salama told her father later that she had no idea what they were; she
had
> never seen a volley of live bullets. A few minutes later she saw her
> cousin
> Hanan slump to the ground, a hole in her head. In a panic she left
> everything and ran to the tent camp, about three kilometers away, to
> summon
> help.
>
> In the meantime, other shepherds rushed to the wounded girl.
> She
> was unconscious. They put her into a van and drove quickly to the main
> road.
> Someone had called an ambulance, which picked up Hanan on the road.
Yusuf
> reached the ambulance while the medics were still treating his daughter.
> She
> was seriously hurt. Yusuf says she looked "almost dead."
>
> Fadiya sits on the mound of earth, which is strewn with sheep
> droppings, and is silent. A vulture circles overhead. Over the hill is
the
> Tze'elim army base, hidden from view. Between the main road and the
earth
> mound we couldn't find even one firing zone warning sign - either from
the
> direction of the road or near the tents. All we saw was a van of the
> "Green
> Patrol" of the Israel Land Authority. Abed says that since the tragedy,
> the
> Green Patrol has been warning shepherds not to approach the firing area.
> Nevertheless, shepherds were there with their flocks on Sunday.
>
> Under a spring-like sun, we followed the Subaru to Fadiya's
two
> tents. The lambs bleat in their pen, the dogs bark at the strangers and
> the
> horses - mother, father, foal - are doing their thing. Suddenly a flock
of
> sheep appears, their full udders swinging to and fro, as is the bell
hung
> on
> the neck of one of them. The sheep make a mad rush for the pen; each
knows
> its offspring. The lambs rush to suckle. Only the noise of an Israel Air
> Force plane overhead drowns out this desert cacophony, an earsplitting
> chorus of sheep and agitated dogs.
>
> On the way back, we pass the orchards of Kibbutz Tze'elim -
> green, dense, cultivated, with a sophisticated irrigation system. "I
blame
> the Israel Defense Forces for not warning us," says Abed.
>
> Her swollen eyes shut, a kerchief on her head, her skin
> pockmarked with white spots - a beautiful girl who lies in the
> neurosurgical
> ward of Soroka Medical Center in Be'er Sheva, her parents by her side.
> Only
> now, four days after the incident, did Yusuf Anami let his wife, Maryam,
> visit their daughter. Before entering the room he cautioned her to be
> strong. The kerchief covers a scar that splits Hanan's skull, which is
> held
> together by metal pins. The couple have eight children; Hanan is the
> firstborn.
>
> Yusuf quotes eyewitnesses as saying that a great many bullets
> were fired that day into the pasture area.
>
> The IDF Spokesman's Unit issued the following response:
"Within
> the framework of staff work that was done in regard to the firing zones,
> all
> the zones in Israel were mapped and it was decided which can be entered
> and
> which cannot. The Bedouin tribe to which the citizen belongs knows that
> entry to this zone is forbidden. Additionally, a few months ago,
following
> a
> deliberate incursion into this zone, the Green Patrol removed the
Bedouin
> from the area by force. Metal signs in three languages (English, Arabic
> and
> Hebrew), stating that entry is forbidden, have been placed at the
entrance
> to the zone."
>
> Not a word of regret. Nor did the IDF think to send a
> representative to visit the girl its soldiers wounded. A Bedouin
activist,
> who asked not to be identified for fear of being harmed told us this
week:
> "It is not by chance that no one from the army has come to visit her and
> sup****t the family. Wouldn't a soldier who was wounded by accident be
> visited? There was a mistake, and the IDF says the girl is to blame -
> let's
> say - but not to visit her? That attests to a policy of abandonment.
They
> are abandoning the Bedouin. Everything here is deliberate. If the girl
had
> been in an educational framework, none of this would have happened. She
> dropped out of school and no one cares."
>
> It's not hard to guess what would happen if a girl from
nearby
> Kibbutz Tze'elim had been wounded by friendly fire. Says the father of
> "the
> citizen," as the IDF calls the girl: "No one told us not to go out with
> the
> sheep. There is no sign there. You didn't see any sign, so how could the
> girl have seen one?" Again, an examination by Haaretz this week found
not
> one IDF warning sign.
>
> Yusuf has not budged from his daughter's bed. Now both
parents
> are in the room, staring at their sleeping daughter. When she arrived,
her
> chances of survival were "less than 1 percent," says Dr. Vladimir
Merkin,
> the neurosurgeon who operated on her. "The situation was critical,
judging
> by all the parameters. Statistically, her prospects of making it were
even
> worse. If a bullet p***** one of the midlines of the skull, the chances
> are
> 1 percent, and in her the bullet passed two lines, meaning less than 1
> percent."
>
> The bullet entered Hanan's head from the direction of the ear
> and stopped at the frontal lobe, where is will probably remain for all
> time.
> Nevertheless, a miracle occurred and Hanan began to recover.
>
> "To our surprise, she is conscious, and after two days she
> started to talk, even though the bullet passed through the part of the
> brain
> that is responsible for speech. She has a weakness on the right side of
> her
> body, but not paralysis," says the doctor, "and that is very surprising.
> Her
> eye was damaged, but it's too early to say for certain. The cognitive
> functions may have been damaged, but it is too early to say for
certain."
>
>
>
>
> AND THEY COMPLAINED ABOUT LONDONS LORD MAYOR??? ISLAMISTS, NAZIS???
> Everyone please go here =
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK2xKURltqE&search=israelis%20
>
> Yes and you have no quarrel with the US?
> They dont have to, they use their army to shoot, run over and mistreat
> physically and ***ually helpless children. What can a Palestinian do
when
> the mighty money contributing yanks cannot protect their citizens.
>
> http://www.thenausea.com/elements/thenotforgotten/rachel/index.html
> http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/16/rafah.death/
> http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/79400p-72974c.html
> One guy gets 10 years, the other gets a raise and promotion??
>
> http://electronicintifada.net/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/7/1248
>
>
>
>
>
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/01AA7ECA-7018-447B-A10D-9E4139D4788A.htm
> _
> American and Australian shot by Israelis
> Chris McGreal talks to the relatives of three British and American
> victims
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1066817,00.html
> http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/16/rafah.death/
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1066817,00.html
> http://www.rachelcorrie.org/
>
> http://www.thenausea.com/elements/thenotforgotten/rachel/index.html
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,916299,00.html
> http://www.omjp.org/rachelphotos.html
>
>
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8853425952359751341&q=Palestinian+people
> http://mindprod.com/politics/israel.html
> http://www.nogw.com/israeliatrocities.html
> http://www.palestinefacts.org/index.php
> http://www.palestinechronicle.com/story-2003112917164320.htm
> http://thirdworldtraveler.com/Israel/IsraelsTortureBan.html
> http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m25048&l=i&size=1&hd=0
> http://www.wa****ngton-re****t.org/backissues/0197/9701007.htm
>
> .net,
>> which also describes many exchanges from Jews about this whole ordeal.
>> No doubt, it has caused a big scandal among them, with one of their
>> own re****tedly acknowledging such grisly crimes.
>> AND THEY COMPLAINED ABOUT LONDONS LORD MAYOR???
> Everyone please go here =
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK2xKURltqE&search=israelis%20
>
>
>
>
> Christian homes being knocked down???
> The new homes were built by a group of limited income Palestinian
> Christian
> families who banded together as the Arab Orthodox Housing Project to
build
> a
> new life. They obtained a 99-year lease from their Church, the Greek
> Orthodox Church, 22 years ago and then began the agonizing process of
> organizing and saving enough money to start construction.
>
> "We were renters for 40 years," Dalal Awad, a mother of five told me.
"We
> saved for 22 years and built this home with our neighbors. It cost
> $42,000.
> We built it with our hearts, our own labor. Now the Israelis want to
kill
> our dream."
> http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2003/05/1607911.php
>
>
> (Wanderer, Oct. 12, 1989, p. 7; National Review, March 16, 1992, p.
S-5).
>
> Israeli soldiers can beat up a priest on the West Bank, then shoot up
his
> church during Mass, and only the Catholic press takes note...If
> Christians
> had done such a thing to a synagogue, anywhere, it would have been
> front-page news, everywhere. (Wanderer, Oct. 12, 1989, p. 7; National
> Review, March 16, 1992, p. S-5).
>
> Farmers harassed and shot in israel
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3757004.stm
> http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=53042
>
>
> Zionist settler deliberately hits and kills Palestinian old man
> http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/am/publish/article_3293.shtml
> http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/am/publish/article_3396.shtml
> http://judicial-inc.biz/School_shooting.htm
>
> AND THEY COMPLAINED ABOUT LONDONS LORD MAYOR???
> Everyone please go here =
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK2xKURltqE&search=israelis%20
>
>
>
>
>
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.nationalism.white/msg/20deae4bed
> c378ab?q=&rnum=1
>
>
>
> Marlon Brando.
>
>
http://www.theunjustmedia.com/ben%20stein%20on%20jewish%20media%20control.htm
> WARNING To People in Austria; Belgium; France; Germany;
> Israel; Spain and Switzerland. You can be fined, imprisoned or both
> for
> discussing the topics set forth in this article.
>
>
> The Jews declared war against Germany
> On March 24, 1933, the Jewish World Congress, then under the leader****p
of
> Chaim Weizman, declared war on Germany on behalf of the Jews of the
world.
> http://www.corax.org/revisionism/misc/encampment.html
>
> Like the yanks who rounded up all Japs and Germans?
>
> Immediately after Japan declared war on the United States of America,
the
> order was issued to round up all Americans of Japanese ancestry and
> imprison
> them in large camps.
> http://www.corax.org/revisionism/misc/encampment.html
>
>
>
>
>
> CPT Hebron Chronology
> February 1995 - September 2003
> February-March 1995
> Wendy Lehman and Kathleen Kern go on a fact finding tour of the West
Bank,
> Gaza and Israel, talking to Palestinians, Israelis and internationals
who
> are working for human rights and for peace. They make several trips down
> to
> Hebron. After they talk to the Public Relations Director of the Hebron
> municipality about CPT's work in Haiti, she tells them that such a team
is
> exactly what Hebron needs.
http://www.cpt.org/hebron/HebChronology.htm
>
>
>
> http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/talmud.htm
>
>
>
> http://www.iahushua.com/JQ/talmud.html
> http://www3.stormfront.org/jewish/talmud.html
>
> I would point out that stormfront is the only critical of the Talmud.
>
> Like the holocaust no non jew cared enough to really study the matter
> till
> we found our freedoms encroached and our lives threatened by the Talmud
> driven jews.
>
> http://stormfront.org/jewish/talmud.html
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talmud
>
> http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/talmud_&_mishna.html
>
> http://www.juancole.com/labels/Iraq%20War.html
>
> NOAM CHOMSKY ON 'WHAT IF IRAN HAD INVADED MEXICO?'
> (http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=182214)
> Shorter Wa****ngton Post:
>
(http://www.wa****ngtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/05/AR200704050
> 2263.html?hpid%3Dtopnews&sub=AR) Feith and Cheney were just making it
all
> up
> as they went, and lied us into a quagmire of a horrible war.
>
> Cheney repeated on Thursday on Rush Limbaugh his ridiculous assertion
that
> Saddam Hussein was running Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as an al-Qaeda agent in
> Baghdad.
>
> Someone should please tell Cheney that his own government captured
> do***ents
> in Iraq that show that Saddam's security forces were a)
>
>
(http://www.juancole.com/2006/03/saddam-was-trying-to-capture-zarqawi.html)
>
> AFRAID OF AL-QAEDA AND ZARQAWI AND B) WERE TRYING TO CAPTURE HIM ONCE
THEY
> HEARD HE WAS IN IRAQ. THE PDF LINK IN MY POSTING ON THIS SHOWS THE APB
> IRAQ
> PUT OUT FOR Zarqawi and the wanted poster.
>
> I don't know why this information hasn't percolated up to Cheney or why
> the
> US press doesn't call him on his ridiculous assertions that are
> contradicted
> by clear do***entary evidence in USG hands.
>
> A returning US naval reservist reveals how bad the situation is in Iraq.
>
> (http://www.juancole.com/labels/Iraq%20War.html)
>
> http://www.bellinghamherald.com/255/story/53094.html
>
>
>
> Money quotes:
> ' "If you're going to walk around over there, I'd strongly suggest
> investing
> in Kevlar (body armor)," Christensen said. "There are definitely warmer
> spots of American compassion, but things are still very . touchy."
>
> Christensen said his team was discouraged from interacting with Iraqi
> citizens, because it was difficult to tell friend from foe.
>
> "There would be 10- or 11- year-old kids that would give us a 'thumbs
up'
> when we drove by them, and then throw grenades under our truck after we
> passed," he said.
>
> But Christensen said the worst violence was saved for Iraqi groups that
> assisted in the American reconstruction of the country, such as the
Iraqi
> Security Forces.
>
> "If there is one group of people that they hate more than us, it's the
> Iraqi
> Army," he said. "If they catch wind that one of our convoys is working
> with
> the Iraqi Army, they'll fight to the death. You take a few minutes for
> yourself before you (leave the base) on missions like that." '
>
>
>
>
>
> NEWS YOU WON'T FIND ON CNN
>
>
>
> http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12642.htm
>
> George Galloway: Israel is a Terrorist State
> http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=508
>
> Israeli Terrorism In Pictures
> http://informationclearinghouse.info/article14273.ht
>
>
>
>
>
> http://www.masada2000.org/list-TUVWXYZ.html
>
>
>
> THE ZIONIST PROTECTION RACKET.
>
> http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=3940
>
>
>
> He escaped and fled to Israel only to discover that the anti Semitism
and
> bombings had been engineered by his fellow Zionists to dupe Iraqi Jews
> into
> going to Israel. An ancient community was deprived of its wealth and
> reduced
> to second-class citizen status in Israel, replacing Palestinian labor.
See
> my "Zionists Double Crossed Iraqi Jews"
>
>
> http://www.savethemales.ca/000889.html
>
> http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=3940
>
> http://www.lastsuperpower.net/docs/nzc6backgroundtocollaboration
>
>
> In a letter to the conference host, UNESCO Director-General Koichiro
> Matsuura, the protesters said the Wiesenthal center, "under the
deceitful
> cover of the struggle against anti-Semitism, is on the contrary
> encouraging intolerance and racism in our societies."
>
> Jon and David Kimche
> http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v13/v13n4p29_Weber.html
> The SS was particularly enthusiastic in its sup****t for Zionism. An
> internal June 1934 SS position paper urged active and wide-ranging
> sup****t
> for Zionism by the government and the Party as the best way to
encourage
> emigration of Germany's Jews to Palestine.
>
> The Jewish Agency delegation headed by Golda Meir (Meirson) ignored a
> German
> offer to allow Jews to emigrate to other countries for $250 a head, and
> the
> other Jewish groups made no effort to influence the United States and
> the
> 32 other countries attending the conference to allow immigration of
> German
> and Austrian Jews.
>
>
http://www.jews-for-allah.org/Jews-not-for-Judaism/Jews-who-helped-nazis-hitler.htm
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2MouGCB8bg
>
>
>
>
>
> Reviewed by Sara Powell
> It's no secret that Zionism embraced political expediency to advance
> the cause of carving Eretz-Israel from the land of its native
> inhabitants. In his 1983 book, Zionism in the Age of the Dictators,
> Lenni Brenner shows that 20th century Zionists observed shockingly
few
> limits to that expediency. Not surprisingly, the book received
little
> coverage in the American media.
>
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1569802351/103-1175775-5239804?v=glance&n=2
> 83155
> http://www.counterpunch.org/brenner05252005.html
> http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2002/12/1553622.php
> http://www.marxists.de/middleast/brenner/index.htm
>
> Now, in 51 Do***ents, Brenner has compiled a wide variety of
letters,
> statements, articles, and judgements?some of which appeared in his
> earlier book?by a broad array of activists and authors, that
> do***ents
> Zionist
> cooperration with the Nazis.
>
> On the face of it, the notion seems absurd. However, Brenner
> presents the case?made in many Zionists? own words?that the Nazi
> agenda of expelling the Jews from Germany fit nicely with the
Zionist
> PLAN FOR ENTICING THOSE JEWS INTO SETTLING IN PALESTINE AND CREATING
A
> NEW JEWISH NATION.
>
> In addition to introductory and concluding chapters, the book is
> organized into five sections which lead the reader through early,
> pre-Zionist do***ents; pre-Holocaust ideological factions; the
> Holocaust era itself; and a chapter on the Stern Gang and the Nazis.
>
> Readers should note that a few do***ents are not indicative of
> collaboration in and of themselves, but provide the background to
> others written in response.
>
> These latter do indicate levels of collaboration between Zionists
and
> fascists, both the Nazis in Germany, and those in Mussolini's Italy.
> Brenner's brief explanatory notes at the beginning of each do***ent
> are helpful, as are the glossary and index.
>
> 51 Do***ents assumes a certain knowledge of Zionist history, and
> requires a close reading and some deconstructive efforts on the part
> of the reader. Those willing to commit the time and effort, however,
> are rewarded with some stunning revelations. The reason some
Zionists
> eschewed the boycott against Hitler?s Germany, for instance, is that
>
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-060706mideast,1,7895295.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
>
> they had a financial deal?Ha'avara?with Germany allowing Jews to
> exchange their wealth for goods to be ex****ted to Palestine at less
of
> a loss, as an incentive to emigrate. Those wondering why Zionists
> today are so organized and experienced in their public relations
> efforts discover that these battles have been fought before.
Moreover,
> the section on Nazi and Zionist understandings of 'nationality'
versus
> citizen****p reveals how German and Israeli practices are based on
the
> same concept.
>
> 51 Do***ents also sheds a whole new light on the term Holocaust
> guilt, frequently understood to mean Western, non-Jewish guilt for
> not acting against the Holocaust earlier. However, these do***ents
> make it clear that Holocaust guilt began with those Zionists who
made
> the undoubtedly difficult, but politically expedient choice to place
> Eretz-Israel at the top of their priorities, above the lives of
their
> threatened European brethren.
>
> From a Zionist Executive Meeting speech by Yitzhak Gruenbaum on Feb.
> 18, 1943:
>
> And when some asked me: Can't you give money from Keren Ha Yesod
> (Palestine Foundation Fund) to save Jews in the Dias****a? I said:
> ?No! And again I say no....And, because of these things, people
> called me an anti-Semite, and concluded that I'm guilty, for the
fact
> that we don't give ourselves completely to rescue actions.(p. 211)
>
>
>
>
>
> http://thirdworldtraveler.com/Israel/IsraelsTortureBan.html
>
> Israel is the only state in modern times that made it legal.
>
>
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2347953151064740545&q=Palestine&hl=en
>
>
>
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2MouGCB8bg
>
>
>
> Israel Judge Promotes Her Court As a Model
> http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/weather/6797129.htm
>
>
>
>
>
> Strike Breaking
>
> STRIKE BREAKING (AS RE****TED BY NYT AND OTHER AMERICAN PAPERS)
>
>
>
> THE JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT HIRSH GOODMAN - they have not received
> any
> terrorist training, nor are they members of a terrorist organization.
> Rather
> they are
> members of that Palestinian generation that grew up knowing nothing but
> occupation
>
>
>
>
> With anger, hatred, and sheer ferocity, thousands of youngsters hurled
> rocks
> at their Israeli occupiers, undaunted by the gunfire that greeted them.
> This
> was more than civil unrest. ...It was the beginning of a civil rebellion
-
> Dan Fisher, Los Angeles Times, December 20, 1987.
> On that day, - wrote John Kifner in The New York Times, - the vast army
of
> Arab laborers who wait on tables, pick vegetables, haul garbage, lay
brick
> and perform virtually all Israel's menial work, stayed home.: John
Kifner,
> New York Times, December 22, 1987.
>
>
>
> The Israeli response to the uprising was brutal. Defense Minister
Yitzhak
> Rabin ordered the use of tanks, armored vehicles and automatic rifles
> against an unarmed population.
>
> The San Francisco Examiner cited Rabin as openly advocating
assassination.
> "They can shoot to hit leaders of disorder," Rabin said in defense of
the
> army's practice of using marksmen with high-powered .22-caliber rifles
to
> shoot indiscriminately at Palestinian youth. - San Francisco Examiner,
> December 23, 1987.
>
> Rabin ordered house-to-house searches, first for young men and later for
> anyone of whom an example might be made. By December 27, over 2,500
> Palestinians were seized, many of them as young as twelve; by the end of
> January the number reached 4,000 and was rising. The "militants "were
> marked for de****tation. Israeli high-security jails and detention
centers
> were overflowing. Mass trials of Palestinians were underway.
>
> The act of brutality which most inflamed the Palestinian population was
> the
> army seizure of the wounded from hospital beds. This practice, standard
> procedure throughout the invasion of Lebanon in 1982, made ****fa
Hospital
> in
> Gaza a center of resistance. Great crowds amassed to defend the wounded,
> whom, they rightfully feared, would never be seen again.
>
> No fear of Jews standing up against cruelty and sadism as the Christians
> DID
> again and again.
> The Testimony of a Rescuer
>
> http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/people/rescuer.htm
>
> http://www.auschwitz.dk/docu/Default.htm
>
> http://www.auschwitz.dk/Denmark.htm
>
>
http://www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/people/r/ftp.py?people/r/roberts.jeff/1996/roberts.1096
>
> http://www.resistance.com/Hayward/hay2.html
>
>
http://www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/people/r/ftp.py?people/r/roberts.jeff/1996/roberts.1096
>
>
>
>
>
> REMEMBER THIS IS AN UNARMED POPULATION UNDER OCCUPATION. -
> http://www.mafhoum.com/press2/74P51.htm
>
> A mother of a Palestinian man shot three times in the head by Israeli
> soldiers was asked if she would let her remaining sons join the
> demonstrations. " As long as I am alive, "she responded, "I am going to
> teach the young people to fight ... I don't care whatever happens, as
long
> as we get our land." - John Kifner, New York Times, December 21, 1987.
>
> "They entered the house like animals, shouting," the 22-year old student
> at
> Bir Zeit University said. "They took us from the house, kicking us in
the
> head, beating us, all the soldiers with their rifle butts."Two others,
he
> said, beat his hands with lengths of two-by-fours, breaking the bones.
>
> The first priority is to use force, might, beatings. [This] is
considered
> more effective than detention ... [because] he may then resume stoning
> soldiers. But if troops break his hand, he won't be able to throw
> stones. -
> New York Times, January 21, 1988.
>
>
>
> AGAINST AN UNARMED CIVILIAN POPULATION.
>
>
>
> No matter which house one calls, the anguished accounts of family
members
> wounded or arrested pour forth. Convoys of buses cruise the streets of
> Nablus followed by vans of the Mossad, Israel's secret police. Army
units
> go
> from house to house pulling youths from their beds at 3 a.m. As the
buses
> fill, the soldiers beat the youths viciously around the head, ****ns,
groin
> and back. Shrieks fill the air.
>
> AGAINST AN UNARMED CIVILIAN POPULATION.
>
>
>
> By April 1988 over 150 Palestinians had died. The Israeli government had
> admitted to the arrest of 2,000 people, bringing the acknowledged total
to
> 4,000. The real figure was far higher.
>
> Sources in the West Bank and Gaza established that the number detained
by
> the weekend of March 27 had exceeded 13,000. Bassam Shaka'a, deposed
Mayor
> of Nablus, placed the total held solely in a hastily constructed
> barbed-wire
> encampment at Dhariyah at 10,000.
>
>
>
> In the Balata camp outside Nablus, and in the Casbah - the old quarter -
> l, 000 people were arrested in a period of 48 hours. The discovery of
> people
> in ditches in the fields - shot in the back or with their heads caved in
-
> has been re****ted from villages throughout the West Bank and Gaza
>
> TWO OF THE CHILDREN, AGES 9 AND 11 , WERE TAKEN BY THE SOLDIERS IN THEIR
> night clothes, frog-marched in the streets and beaten as they were
forced
> by
> the jeering soldiers to clear debris.
>
>
>
> NEW YORK TIMES
>
> Fleets of helicopters fly over Nablus at night dropping a dense, green
> toxic
> gas over the city. The smell pervades every house. Armed units fire
> canisters of the substance into houses at random. Doctors at Ittihad
> Hospital re****ted several deaths and severe lung injuries from this
as-yet
> unidentified asphyxiating chemical, totally distinct from tear gas.
>
> Among the victims was the grandmother of the Da'as family and the
> 100-year-old father of noted Nablus attorney Mohammad Irshaid. Soldiers
> had
> entered the house at 2 a.m., sma****ng furniture and firing a canister of
> the
> dreaded green gas while preventing the family from leaving.
>
>
>
>
> Simultaneously, the Israeli army targeted the hospitals. Army trucks
> rammed
> ambulances and blocked them from reaching the homes of those overcome by
> the
> gas. Soldiers entered the Ittihad Hospital in Nablus numerous times,
> arresting the wounded and those waiting to give blood to family members.
> EVEN THE OPERATING THEATRE WAS INVADED WHILE SURGEONS WERE OPERATING ON
> PATIENTS.
>
> DOCTORS WERE BEATEN AND EQUIPMENT SMASHED. FAMILY MEMBERS WERE PREVENTED
> FROM ENTERING THE HOSPITAL AND THE CARS OF DOCTORS AND NURSES WERE
> DESTROYED
> BY SOLDIERS.
>
> Meanwhile, all of Nablus was paralysed by a total strike. All the
streets
> in
> every quarter of the city were without open shops or business activity.
As
> gas permeated the city, cries and chants filled the night.
>
> Gas canisters recovered by Bassam Shaka'a, Yousef al-Masri [chief of
> Ittihad
> Hospital] and American author Alfred Lilienthal bear the markings "560
cs.
> Federal Lab. Saltsburg, Pa. USA MK2 1988." Biochemists are studying
their
> properties as casualties mount.
>
> JOHN KIFNER re****ted on April 4 that "Hundreds of refugees were treated
in
> United Nations clinics for gas inhalation." On April 15, Kifner wrote,
> "...gas has been thrown inside homes, clinics and schools where the
> effects
> are particularly severe."
>
>
>
>
>
> This is still going on today, just cleverly concealed with active
> participation of western democracies governments, western democracies
> religious institions and western democracies media.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Apparently only the ungodly unreligious students find their conscience
so
> stirred that they have gone to the oppressed citizens aid with the
> following
> results.
>
>
>
> http://jewwatch.com/jew-leaders-stalin.html
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> "Heinrich" <Heinrich@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:5err2mF3a1cedU1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>
>
http://desertpeace.blogspot.com/2007/06/peace-loving-israeli-occupation.html
>>
>> Here is a new sample of the "peace loving Israeli occupation".
>>
>> The following video testimonies produced and published |
