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Aviroce
Jan 19, 2012, 10:06:50 PM1/19/12
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MORTAL COMBAT IMPERIAL AND ZIONIST STYLE
By Aviroce
Heat moves from high potential to a low potential. I am not sure
there is a low potential. Would the United States in one strike
disable Iran's aresenal? If USA cannot do that and 90% it cannot,
then Iran can manage some strikes on the armada as well as American
bases in Iraq and on the Arabian Peninsula and of course Israel. It
would be an all-out war. Imagine the highest building in the world
collapsing like the twin towers in New York. I don't know where Iran
would hit it. Imagine Kuwait and Qatar and UAE and Bahrain and Saudi
Arabia being hit. I know all will get mad. Let us wait and see how
mad each will get and whether this madness will reap good fruits for
any or all. I do not believe Iran will sit while the "frats" beat its
behind. It will get funnier to see how either side attempts to
destroy the other. Let the rattle snakes open their final combat.
Aviroce
By Aviroce
Heat moves from high potential to a low potential. I am not sure
there is a low potential. Would the United States in one strike
disable Iran's aresenal? If USA cannot do that and 90% it cannot,
then Iran can manage some strikes on the armada as well as American
bases in Iraq and on the Arabian Peninsula and of course Israel. It
would be an all-out war. Imagine the highest building in the world
collapsing like the twin towers in New York. I don't know where Iran
would hit it. Imagine Kuwait and Qatar and UAE and Bahrain and Saudi
Arabia being hit. I know all will get mad. Let us wait and see how
mad each will get and whether this madness will reap good fruits for
any or all. I do not believe Iran will sit while the "frats" beat its
behind. It will get funnier to see how either side attempts to
destroy the other. Let the rattle snakes open their final combat.
Aviroce
Aviroce
Jan 19, 2012, 10:11:42 PM1/19/12
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Aviroce
Jan 21, 2012, 2:26:55 AM1/21/12
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THE RATTLE SNAKES ARE TUNING DOWN THEIR RHETORIC OF WAR AND
CONFRONTATION. IN FACT, USA IS THINKING OF STRIKING A DEAL OF
COOPERATION WITH IRAN PUSHING JEW AMBITION INTO THE DUST.
CONFRONTATION. IN FACT, USA IS THINKING OF STRIKING A DEAL OF
COOPERATION WITH IRAN PUSHING JEW AMBITION INTO THE DUST.
Aviroce
Jan 21, 2012, 2:30:09 AM1/21/12
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USA IS THINKING OF STRIKING A DEAL WITH IRAN PUSHING JEW AGENDA INTO
THE DUST. JUST MUST WITHDRAW FROM PALESTINIAN LAND OF 1967 PER UN
RESOLUTION 242 AND ABOLISH APARTHEID AND LET PALESTINIANS BACK TO
THEIR HOMES WITH COMPENSATION. MEANWHILE IRAN SHOULD NEVER LOWER ITS
GUARD AS THE RATTLE SNAKES ARE ONTO IT.
THE DUST. JUST MUST WITHDRAW FROM PALESTINIAN LAND OF 1967 PER UN
RESOLUTION 242 AND ABOLISH APARTHEID AND LET PALESTINIANS BACK TO
THEIR HOMES WITH COMPENSATION. MEANWHILE IRAN SHOULD NEVER LOWER ITS
GUARD AS THE RATTLE SNAKES ARE ONTO IT.
Nusrat, Rowayton, Connecticut
Jan 21, 2012, 10:51:43 AM1/21/12
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On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 23:26:55 -0800 (PST), Aviroce
<dudar...@gmail.com> wrote:
This rant is caused by too much buttlifting and hitting your head on
the hard floor.
Besides, it is pure figment of your shit-filled, I mean Koranic
thinking.
<dudar...@gmail.com> wrote:
This rant is caused by too much buttlifting and hitting your head on
the hard floor.
Besides, it is pure figment of your shit-filled, I mean Koranic
thinking.
Aviroce
Jan 21, 2012, 11:06:08 AM1/21/12
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MORTAL COMBAT IMPERIAL AND ZIONIST STYLE
By Aviroce
Heat moves from high potential to a low potential. I am not sure
there is a low potential. Would the United States in one strike
disable Iran's aresenal? If USA cannot do that and 90% it cannot,
then Iran can manage some strikes on the armada as well as American
bases in Iraq and on the Arabian Peninsula and of course Israel. It
would be an all-out war. Imagine the highest building in the world
collapsing like the twin towers in New York. I don't know where Iran
would hit it. Imagine Kuwait and Qatar and UAE and Bahrain and Saudi
Arabia being hit. I know all will get mad. Let us wait and see how
mad each will get and whether this madness will reap good fruits for
any or all. I do not believe Iran will sit while the "frats" beat
its
behind. It will get funnier to see how either side attempt to
By Aviroce
Heat moves from high potential to a low potential. I am not sure
there is a low potential. Would the United States in one strike
disable Iran's aresenal? If USA cannot do that and 90% it cannot,
then Iran can manage some strikes on the armada as well as American
bases in Iraq and on the Arabian Peninsula and of course Israel. It
would be an all-out war. Imagine the highest building in the world
collapsing like the twin towers in New York. I don't know where Iran
would hit it. Imagine Kuwait and Qatar and UAE and Bahrain and Saudi
Arabia being hit. I know all will get mad. Let us wait and see how
mad each will get and whether this madness will reap good fruits for
any or all. I do not believe Iran will sit while the "frats" beat
its
Student
Jan 21, 2012, 11:28:09 AM1/21/12
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Considering the fate of Sadam and Mubarak the Zionists would be well advised not to bank on
continuing bankrolling of Israel by the bankrupt USA and Europe.
The days of the DNA racist dastardly ethnic cleansing narscissitic human engineering experiment
called Israel is are limited.
20 YEARS MAX!
Student
continuing bankrolling of Israel by the bankrupt USA and Europe.
The days of the DNA racist dastardly ethnic cleansing narscissitic human engineering experiment
called Israel is are limited.
20 YEARS MAX!
Student
Aviroce
Jan 22, 2012, 10:34:41 PM1/22/12
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Koran is a state of the union address in some cases and in others it
is the constitution of the societies involved. To tell you the truth,
the Koran is a Great Book for the centuries to come as it prescribes
the best and most equitable and most educated and most respectable
system in the world. Even USA lagged behind. Imagine what is written
in the Koran about interest found its way to solving American
depression. What is written about equality of men, found its way in
America only as of 1965. The Koran is a book of the milliniums and
holds as the best constitution for any country as it understands
humanity and the best way it can develop. No wonder humanity has
endorsed Islam because it gives them freedom.
Look at the filth in the Talmud. Imagine fornicating with your three
year olds and sucking circumcized penises. Imagine wanting to kill
all gentiles. Imagine believing that all non-Jews are beasts and non-
human. Enjoy your filth but don't sell it to people. It stinks like
rotten eggs.
On Jan 21, 7:51 am, "Nusrat, Rowayton, Connecticut"
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is the constitution of the societies involved. To tell you the truth,
the Koran is a Great Book for the centuries to come as it prescribes
the best and most equitable and most educated and most respectable
system in the world. Even USA lagged behind. Imagine what is written
in the Koran about interest found its way to solving American
depression. What is written about equality of men, found its way in
America only as of 1965. The Koran is a book of the milliniums and
holds as the best constitution for any country as it understands
humanity and the best way it can develop. No wonder humanity has
endorsed Islam because it gives them freedom.
Look at the filth in the Talmud. Imagine fornicating with your three
year olds and sucking circumcized penises. Imagine wanting to kill
all gentiles. Imagine believing that all non-Jews are beasts and non-
human. Enjoy your filth but don't sell it to people. It stinks like
rotten eggs.
On Jan 21, 7:51 am, "Nusrat, Rowayton, Connecticut"
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Aviroce
Jan 22, 2012, 10:40:49 PM1/22/12
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My son showed me what ancient Egptian priest wrote about Jews. They
were nomads and nonpersons. They refused to endorse Egyptian religion
and Egyptian life style that the Egyptian priest calls as superior.
ISRAEL HAS BEEN A FIGMENT OF IMAGINATION NOW REALIZED AS A COLONY OF
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND BEFORE AS A COLONY OF ROME AND BEFORE
THAT AS SLAVES OF BABYLONE AND BEFORE THAT AS MERE NOMADS. They are
non-entity only existing within an Empire. Jews left alone will blow
up like blow-fish surfacing from the deep ocean floor.
were nomads and nonpersons. They refused to endorse Egyptian religion
and Egyptian life style that the Egyptian priest calls as superior.
ISRAEL HAS BEEN A FIGMENT OF IMAGINATION NOW REALIZED AS A COLONY OF
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND BEFORE AS A COLONY OF ROME AND BEFORE
THAT AS SLAVES OF BABYLONE AND BEFORE THAT AS MERE NOMADS. They are
non-entity only existing within an Empire. Jews left alone will blow
up like blow-fish surfacing from the deep ocean floor.
jwshe...@satx.rr.com
Jan 23, 2012, 12:47:00 AM1/23/12
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http://www.bible.ca/islam/islam-kills-not-peaceful.htm
Islam Does Not Mean Peace
Muslims are not real studious and tend to reject scholarship in favour
of their own version of things. In other words, they invent stuff when
it suits them. Take the definition of the word Islam. In the USA, I
have heard Muslims actually say the word "Islam" means peace, trying
to put a kinder gentler wrapping paper on their horrible religion. As
you can see from the authorities below, the lexicon definition of
"Islam" is submit. After which one will experience peace. Notice the
cause and effect in this quote: First you submit in Islam... then
second, after submitting, you will experience peace: "And a Muslim ...
is 'one who submits' or surrenders to the will of God, thereby
attaining peace of mind and soul." (The Joy of Sects, Peter
Occhigrosso, 1996, p394-397) Problem is if you blindly swallow the
mythical and fictitious claims of Islam as true, and never rock the
boat, you will experience peace. But for the intelligent who reject
Islam because they are not prepared to ignore the universal testimony
of every history book in the world, Islam means war, persecution and
death.
Contrary to Muslim rhetoric that claims Islam means peace, the truth
is that the word Islam does not mean peace, but "Submission" as this
authority verifies: "The term Islam in the lexicon of the Arabs means
'Submission' to God." (Islam, Beliefs And Observances, Caesar E.
Farah, p2-7, 26-35)
Islam still bears the stigma in the West of a religion of violent
fanatics, bent on conversion at all costs. Yet the Arabic word Islam
means "submission" or "surrender," as in surrender to God; it also
derives from salam, the Arabic word for "peace." Both meanings are
present in the actual experience of Islam. And a Muslim (the spelling
preferred to Moslem) is "one who submits" or surrenders to the will of
God, thereby attaining peace of mind and soul. (The Joy of Sects,
Peter Occhigrosso, 1996, p394-397)
Muhammad called his new religion "Islam," a word which means
submission, that is, submission to the will of Allah, the Lord. One
who accepts Islam and makes such submission is a Muslim. Such a person
is termed a mu'min (believer), and one who does not accept Islam is a
kafir (unbeliever). To live in submission to Allah and in obedience to
the teaching of the Prophet a Muslim, a Muslim must follow a rule
formulated for him as a good Muslim. Such a rule is provided in the
Shariah which is in the first instance on the Qur'an, in the second
instance on the Hadith, the Traditions, in the third instance on
Ijma', the consensus of the community, and in the fourth instance on
qiyas, the application of analogical reasoning to the other three
sources for the deduction of new rules. Obviously, the Prophet's
intention was that the community should be a single community and the
Shari'a its common rule of life. (Islam: Muhammad and His Religion,
Arthur Jeffery, 1958, p xi-xiv)
Islam Does Not Mean Peace
Muslims are not real studious and tend to reject scholarship in favour
of their own version of things. In other words, they invent stuff when
it suits them. Take the definition of the word Islam. In the USA, I
have heard Muslims actually say the word "Islam" means peace, trying
to put a kinder gentler wrapping paper on their horrible religion. As
you can see from the authorities below, the lexicon definition of
"Islam" is submit. After which one will experience peace. Notice the
cause and effect in this quote: First you submit in Islam... then
second, after submitting, you will experience peace: "And a Muslim ...
is 'one who submits' or surrenders to the will of God, thereby
attaining peace of mind and soul." (The Joy of Sects, Peter
Occhigrosso, 1996, p394-397) Problem is if you blindly swallow the
mythical and fictitious claims of Islam as true, and never rock the
boat, you will experience peace. But for the intelligent who reject
Islam because they are not prepared to ignore the universal testimony
of every history book in the world, Islam means war, persecution and
death.
Contrary to Muslim rhetoric that claims Islam means peace, the truth
is that the word Islam does not mean peace, but "Submission" as this
authority verifies: "The term Islam in the lexicon of the Arabs means
'Submission' to God." (Islam, Beliefs And Observances, Caesar E.
Farah, p2-7, 26-35)
Islam still bears the stigma in the West of a religion of violent
fanatics, bent on conversion at all costs. Yet the Arabic word Islam
means "submission" or "surrender," as in surrender to God; it also
derives from salam, the Arabic word for "peace." Both meanings are
present in the actual experience of Islam. And a Muslim (the spelling
preferred to Moslem) is "one who submits" or surrenders to the will of
God, thereby attaining peace of mind and soul. (The Joy of Sects,
Peter Occhigrosso, 1996, p394-397)
Muhammad called his new religion "Islam," a word which means
submission, that is, submission to the will of Allah, the Lord. One
who accepts Islam and makes such submission is a Muslim. Such a person
is termed a mu'min (believer), and one who does not accept Islam is a
kafir (unbeliever). To live in submission to Allah and in obedience to
the teaching of the Prophet a Muslim, a Muslim must follow a rule
formulated for him as a good Muslim. Such a rule is provided in the
Shariah which is in the first instance on the Qur'an, in the second
instance on the Hadith, the Traditions, in the third instance on
Ijma', the consensus of the community, and in the fourth instance on
qiyas, the application of analogical reasoning to the other three
sources for the deduction of new rules. Obviously, the Prophet's
intention was that the community should be a single community and the
Shari'a its common rule of life. (Islam: Muhammad and His Religion,
Arthur Jeffery, 1958, p xi-xiv)
Nusrat, Rowayton, Connecticut
Jan 24, 2012, 3:08:05 AM1/24/12
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On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 11:28:09 -0500, Student <stu...@yahoo.com> wrote:
You are claiming the cut throat Muslims are better than the Jews or
the Christians.
Ever heard of a Jew or a Christian immigrating to a Muslim country?
No but the cut throats love to come and settle in the Non Muslim
countries.
Student of what, the Koranic shit?
You are claiming the cut throat Muslims are better than the Jews or
the Christians.
Ever heard of a Jew or a Christian immigrating to a Muslim country?
No but the cut throats love to come and settle in the Non Muslim
countries.
Nusrat, Rowayton, Connecticut
Jan 24, 2012, 3:12:00 AM1/24/12
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On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:34:41 -0800 (PST), Aviroce
<dudar...@gmail.com> wrote:
I guess the superiority of Islam can be gauge by the simple fact that
all Islamic countries are owned controlled and run by butchers.
<dudar...@gmail.com> wrote:
I guess the superiority of Islam can be gauge by the simple fact that
all Islamic countries are owned controlled and run by butchers.
Aviroce
Jan 25, 2012, 2:50:19 AM1/25/12
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Jews not immigrated legally and illegally to Palestine, but also
attempted to annihilate the Palestinian people to have more Jews come
in. Palestine belongs to the Palestinians and not the Jews. The Jews
are evil perpetrators and criminals.
On Jan 24, 12:08 am, "Nusrat, Rowayton, Connecticut"
<rizvi...@optonline.net> wrote:
attempted to annihilate the Palestinian people to have more Jews come
in. Palestine belongs to the Palestinians and not the Jews. The Jews
are evil perpetrators and criminals.
On Jan 24, 12:08 am, "Nusrat, Rowayton, Connecticut"
<rizvi...@optonline.net> wrote:
Aviroce
Jan 25, 2012, 2:48:00 AM1/25/12
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Islam does not mean peace, Islam means surrender to the laws of
society to have peace and harmony. It also means mutual respect
between individual and society. It also means no trespassing as
trespassing is punished by society. To say Islam is Peace is
nonsense. Islam mandates tranquility with respect of members of
society and each individual. If you kill a Muslim, you must be
punished and that is what you are afraid of. I don't blame you for
being afraid of Muslims because you have trespassed on them. You
really need punishment but unfortunately you got more advanced
technology to kill more Muslims and more Palestinians and more Arabs.
What goes around comes around at the most inopportune time.
society to have peace and harmony. It also means mutual respect
between individual and society. It also means no trespassing as
trespassing is punished by society. To say Islam is Peace is
nonsense. Islam mandates tranquility with respect of members of
society and each individual. If you kill a Muslim, you must be
punished and that is what you are afraid of. I don't blame you for
being afraid of Muslims because you have trespassed on them. You
really need punishment but unfortunately you got more advanced
technology to kill more Muslims and more Palestinians and more Arabs.
What goes around comes around at the most inopportune time.
Aviroce
Jan 25, 2012, 2:54:51 AM1/25/12
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You remind me of several episodes of the Twilight Zone. I use these
episodes as social experiments. You pit one Muslim against another,
of course they should know who the enemy is, but survival takes
precedence so that everyone is an enemy in some cases. Sad. Sad.
Read "Black Man's Burden" to remove the dimness on your eyes and mind.
On Jan 24, 12:12 am, "Nusrat, Rowayton, Connecticut"
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episodes as social experiments. You pit one Muslim against another,
of course they should know who the enemy is, but survival takes
precedence so that everyone is an enemy in some cases. Sad. Sad.
Read "Black Man's Burden" to remove the dimness on your eyes and mind.
On Jan 24, 12:12 am, "Nusrat, Rowayton, Connecticut"
Nusrat, Rowayton, Connecticut
Jan 26, 2012, 3:51:31 AM1/26/12
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On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:50:19 -0800 (PST), Aviroce
<dudar...@gmail.com> wrote:
Lot more Palestinians were killed by other Arabs without you ever
noticing it. Butchers like Assad and former King Hussain of Jordan
also did he share of eliminating Palestinians from their countries,
but of course you being a good Arab can not criticize other Arab only
Jews.
Small wonder World thinks of Arabs and Islam both worse than shit.
<dudar...@gmail.com> wrote:
Lot more Palestinians were killed by other Arabs without you ever
noticing it. Butchers like Assad and former King Hussain of Jordan
also did he share of eliminating Palestinians from their countries,
but of course you being a good Arab can not criticize other Arab only
Jews.
Small wonder World thinks of Arabs and Islam both worse than shit.
Aviroce
Jan 28, 2012, 1:19:40 AM1/28/12
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I hope you can understand your logic. Simply stated as an argument
(logic argument):
1. Arabs kill more Arabs and Palestinians.
2. Israel kills more Palestinians
Therefore, It is OK for Israel to kill more Palestinians.
I must remind you Palestinians are not wildebeasts crossing the river
for wild animals to kill them and eat them No one has any right to
kill Palestinians. Israel is especially blamed and condemned for
stealing Palestinian land after either killing them, deporting them
from their native homes, terrorizing them, dehumanizing them just to
steal their land and resources.,
On Jan 26, 12:51 am, "Nusrat, Rowayton, Connecticut"
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(logic argument):
1. Arabs kill more Arabs and Palestinians.
2. Israel kills more Palestinians
Therefore, It is OK for Israel to kill more Palestinians.
I must remind you Palestinians are not wildebeasts crossing the river
for wild animals to kill them and eat them No one has any right to
kill Palestinians. Israel is especially blamed and condemned for
stealing Palestinian land after either killing them, deporting them
from their native homes, terrorizing them, dehumanizing them just to
steal their land and resources.,
On Jan 26, 12:51 am, "Nusrat, Rowayton, Connecticut"
jwshe...@satx.rr.com
Jan 28, 2012, 12:53:57 PM1/28/12
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http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~jkatz/crime.html
"Palestinians" killing "Palestinians"
Palestine Royal Commission Report said "toleration by the Government
of subversive [terrorist] activities, more especially those of the
Mufti of Jerusalem,"1 included not only terrorism of Jews but also of
moderate Arabs and those effendis engaged in a power struggle with the
Islamic leadership. As the Palestine Royal Commission Report had
observed, with uncharacteristic indignation in 1937,
... intimidation at the point of a revolver has become a not
infrequent feature of Arab politics. Attacks by Arabs on Jews,
unhappily, are no new thing. The novelty in the present situation is
attacks by Arabs-on Arabs. For an Arab to be suspected of a lukewarm
adherence to the nationalist cause is to invite a visit from a body of
"gunmen." Such a visit was paid to the editor of one of the Arabic
newspapers last August shortly after he had published articles in
favour of calling off the strike." Similar visits were paid during our
stay in Palestine to wealthy Arab landowners or businessmen who were
believed to have made inadequate contributions to the fund which the
Arab Higher Committee were raising to compensate Arabs for damage
suffered during the "disturbances." Nor do the "gunmen" stop at
intimidation. It is not known who murdered the Arab Acting Mayor of
Hebron last August, but no one doubts that he lost his life because he
had dared to differ from the "extremist" policy of the Higher
Committee. The attempt to murder the Arab Mayor of Haifa, which took
place a few days after we left Palestine, is also, we are told,
regarded as political. It is not surprising that a number of Arabs
have asked for Government protection.2
The Associated Press ran this story, "Palestinians Face Internal
Violence" on March 16, 2002
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) -- One was strung up by his heels in the
middle of a downtown traffic circle. The battered body of another was
dragged through the streets before assailants tried to hang the corpse
from a rooftop overlooking the traditional site of Jesus' birth. Two
more were snatched off a West Bank road, driven to a deserted
slaughterhouse and riddled with bullets.
Palestinians accused of collaborating with Israel have frequently been
targeted by fellow Palestinians during nearly 18 months of bitter
fighting with Israel, but in recent days, the pace of these vigilante-
style killings has picked up sharply. Seven suspected collaborators
have been slain by Palestinian gunmen in the past week alone, compared
to about two dozen until then.
The killings echo a grim pattern established during the first
Palestinian uprising against Israel, which lasted from 1987 to 1993.
In those years, more than 800 suspected collaborators were slain by
fellow Palestinians -- about one-third of the total Palestinian deaths
in that intefadeh3.
Assisted Suicide Martyrs
An even more disturbing trend is that there is increasing evidence
that "Palestinians" are killing "Palestinians" not only for
collaboration with Israel (which could mean as little as buying and
selling an Israeli product), but also for bumping up the numbers of
"martyrs" for the "Palestinian" cause.
When the current Intifada started, after Ariel Sharon's visit to the
Temple Mount, a handful of Palestinian rioters were "shot in the back"
as they were throwing stones at the Israeli Police. The Israeli
Police never gave the order to use live ammunition. If the rioters
backs were towards the Temple Mount compound, from what direction did
the shots come? Jibril Rajoub, head of PA Preventive Security had led
the Israeli government to believe that there would be no reaction to
Likud MK Arik Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount as long as Sharon did
not attempt to enter the mosque itself. Yet exactly the opposite
happened. (see How PA Violence was planned )
Using forensic evidence to try and trace the source of the bullets
themselves would be complicated by the fact that the Israeli
Government authorized the transfer of thousands of guns to the
Palestinians, for use by the Palestinian Police force. “We have no
problems with weaponry since we have enough guns that were given to us
by Israel,” stated Abed el-Qader, Senior Tanzim Leader on March 8,
2001.
The film clip of the shooting of Al Dura, the 12 year old palestinian
boy, shown worldwide clearly shows firing coming from someone who
stood next to the Palestinian camera man Talal Abu Rahma (see Who
killed Muhammad al-Dura? )
A BBC was killed by Hisbollah mortar fire, as the Israeli troops were
retreating from Lebanon, was blamed on Israel.
The Christian German doctor from Beit Jalla who was asked to leave his
house at 11:30 at night by Palestinian Paramedics, only to be gunned
down 50 yards from his front door with bullet holes riddling the wall
behind him that could not have come from an Israeli helicopter.
As far back as 1936, the Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Mufti of
Jerusalem's "systematic extermination" caused the murder or flight
from the country of any Arab suspected of less than total loyalty to
the rebels: mayor, affiliated official, sheikh, village mukhtar
(headman), rival Arab notable, and even prominent Muslim religious
figures-all were victims. In larger part he took his queue from
similar German SS actions. (see Muftism and Nazism: World War II
Collaboration Documents )
The mayor of Hebron, Nasr el Din Nasr, murdered August 4, 1936, was a
close ally of the Mufti's chief opponent, Ragheb Bey Nashashibi; the
wife and daughter of the mayor of Bethlehem were wounded July 1937;
the mayor Nablus, Suleiman Bey Toukan, who publicly warned the
government of chaos if terrorism was not squelched, fled after
attempted assassination in December of 1937. No fewer than eleven
mukhtars were slain, along with family members, between February of
1937 and November of 1938.
Feb. 1937 Mukhtar of Arab Birket Caesarea
Sept. 1937 Balad Esh Sheikh
Dec. 1937 Shahmata
April 1938 Migdal. He was a Christian Arab. His wife was also
murdered.
April 1938 Mafaleen
Aug. 1938 Ejn Razal
Aug. 1938 Beth Mahsir
Sept. 1938 Wife and three sons of the Mukhtar of Deir Es Sheikh.
Mukhtar was absent at the time.
Oct. 1938 Mukhtar of Ard-el-Yehud, near Haifa. He was a Christian
Arab.
Oct. 1938 Beth Hema
Nov. 1938 Akaba Quarter, Nablus
"During the same period, attempts were made on the life of the Mukhtar
of Lifta
village (July 1937), and the Mukhtar of Seir (October, 1938)"; cited
in Arab v. Arab, pamphlet, Wadsworth and Co., Rydal Press, Keighley,
England, 1939, p. 13; also see Palestine, October 6, 1937, vol. XII,
no. 40, for list of Arab "notables" "murdered between April and
September, 1937."
Muslim religious leaders murdered or wounded included the following:
March 1938 Sheikh Yunis el Husseini, head of El Aqsa Mosque
administration, was wounded.
July 1938 Sheikh Ali Nur el Khatib, of El Aqsa Mosque, was murdered.
Dec. 1938 Sheikh Dauoud Ansari, Imam of El Aqsa Mosque, was killed
(after fourth attempt).
Other Sheikhs who were murdered then by Arab terrorists included:
July 1938 Sheikh Nusbi Abdul Rahim, Counsel to the Moslem Religious
Court, murdered at Acre.
July 1938 Sheikh Abdul el Badawi, murdered at Acre.
Nov. 1938 Sheikh El Namouri, murdered at Hebron
A similar list of "moderate" Arabs, including Anwar Sadat, etc. who
have been exterminated recently by the Militant Palestinian Groups-the
modem "Muftism"--could be compiled today.
What most outsiders don't realize is that the "Palestinians" are not
really a single ethnic group. Samuel Herbert, the first British High
Commissioner for Palestine said in 1921, "Four-fifths of the whole
population are Moslems. A small proportion of these are Bedouin Arabs;
the remainder, although they speak Arabic and are termed Arabs, are
largely of mixed race." They are a collection of immigrants from
Syria, Iraq, Egypt and the East and West Banks of the Jordan river.
Containing Suni, Shiite, Kurd Moslems as well as small numbers of
Christians. Palestine, until 1967, was never thought of as separate
state, but rather refereed to part of Southern Syria, although it was
at times part of Syrian and Egyptian conquests.
1. Palestine Royal Commission Report, p. 366.
2. Ibid., p. 135.
3. IDF statistics report the actual numbers to be between 1000-1200.
Summary Executions
ICEJ NEWS SERVICE FROM JERUSALEM
WEDNESDAY, 17 JANUARY 2001
News and comment on Middle East affairs, compiled by journalists at
the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, publishers of the
monthly Middle East Digest.
PALESTINIAN AREAS DESCENDING INTO CHAOS
In a sign of spiraling mistrust and lawlessness in Palestinian areas
over the past week, two Palestinians were summarily executed for
alleged collaboration with Israel, three more were secretly murdered
by militants, another two have been sentenced to death, and at least
five others have been arrested as suspected informers. And in Gaza on
Wednesday, the head of Palestinian TV was shot dead by masked gunmen
in an unexplained hit.
The director of the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation was killed
today when three masked men, armed with weapons equipped with
silencers, opened fire on him at close range as he left the Gaza Beach
hotel in Gaza City. Hisham Miki, 54, died 15 minutes after the attack.
He had headed "Palestine Television" since its founding in 1994 and
was a close associate of PLO chief Yasser Arafat.
While the mysterious incident is still under investigation, the
Palestinian Authority issued a statement saying he was "gunned down by
bullets of treason and betrayal," a suggestion the shooters had ties
with Israel. But some Palestinian sources indicated it may have been
linked to charges the TV director was involved in corruption with PA
officials. Then again, another Palestinian source offered a third
theory, saying Islamic extremists may have targeted him for his
extensive business dealings with Israelis.
The PA has declared war on suspected Palestinian informers assisting
Israel in its campaign to "eliminate" key leaders of armed militias
and terrorist cells. At noon on Saturday, PA firing squads executed
two men convicted of collaborating with Israel in recent hits on
Palestinian operatives. Hours later, a court in Bethlehem convicted
two more accused collaborators to death and two more to life in prison
at hard labor.
In addition, three corpses of Arab men have been found in the last
three days, victims of armed Palestinian militants. On Monday, the
body of Muhammed Haled was found near Nablus, shot at the entrance to
his home.
Palestinian sources said Haled was shot by three masked men on
suspicion of collaboration.
On Tuesday, the bullet-riddled body of 40-year-old Mourshed Rafiq
Suliman, a resident of a PA-ruled village near Jenin, was found by
Israeli police. ISRAEL RADIO reported that he too was killed on
suspicion of collaborating with Israel. Palestinian sources said
masked men dragged the man from his home late Monday night.
And on Wednesday, a Palestinian was found shot to death in a car in
the vicinity El Bireh, near Ramallah, ISRAEL RADIO reported. The man
appears to be the latest victim in a wave of Palestinian attacks on
Palestinians.
The body of a fourth man was found by PA forces this morning near the
Jewish settlement of Netzarim in Gaza. The man had been shot in the
head under circumstances that are still unclear.
Much like in the first intifada from 1987 to 1993, Arab on Arab
violence seems to be running rampant, as law and order breaks down and
local militias rule the street. As many as 1,000 Palestinians were
murdered by other Palestinians during the earlier uprising. While most
were charged with "collaborating" with Israel, many of the killings
were actually committed to settle scores in clan feuds and money
disputes.
By many accounts, the spree of murders left more Arabs dead at the
hands of fellow Arabs than from Israeli forces. This pattern follows
the PLO's
record over the decades of killing far more Arabs than Jews in its
bloody campaign for Palestinian statehood.
The recent spate of murders are not the first hits on suspected
collaborators during the renewed intifada. On December 17, for
example, an Arab man who had served in the Israeli police years ago
and was forced to flee to the Israeli town of Ariel was ambushed by
Palestinians during a visit to his home village nearby. He was falsely
drawn there by promises to his family that a "sulha" (a traditional
Arab reconciliation dinner) was being arranged.
The current situation has deteriorated to the point that any
Palestinian associated with Israelis has come under increased
suspicion and hostility. Even Palestinian workers have been stoned in
recent days when lining up at the Erez crossing point on the way to
jobs inside Israel.
Fatah officials in Jerusalem said four more Palestinians turned
themselves in to the PA as part of an "amnesty" program. Also on
Tuesday, Palestinian Preventive Security forces reported that they
arrested a cell of five "collaborators" in Hebron. The group members
are accused of having passed information to Israel that helped lead to
the assassination of Hamas activists in the city. Palestinian sources
told ARMY RADIO that the five members will go on trial at the Court
for National Security, where they face possible execution.
Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti said the PA should be in charge of
dealing with collaborators, but added that if the PA does not take the
necessary action, Fatah would instead.
ICEJ NEWS SERVICE
Editor: David Parsons
Famed Refusenik Issues a Call To Save a Palestinian from Palestinians
By Eli Lake Staff Reporter
WASHINGTON - A Palestinian Authority police officer accused of helping
Israel with counterterrorism is facing death at the hands of a firing
line unless a last-minute appeal to President Bush can save him.
The cause of the police officer, Imad Sa'ad, is being championed by a
woman who became famous as a political prisoner in the Soviet Union
before she moved to Israel in 1987, Ida Nudel. It comes as Secretary
of State Rice this weekend arrived in Israel for another round of
diplomacy aimed at creating an independent Palestinian Arab state
before the end of the Bush presidency.
The case raises questions about the intentions of Prime Minister
Abbas's Fatah government in the West Bank. Mr. Sa'ad, a former member
of the Palestinian Authority's national security forces, is accused of
providing the Israel Defense Forces with the whereabouts of four
accused Palestinian terrorists Mr. Abbas's regime was unwilling to
hand over to the Israelis. In a court in Hebron he was convicted of
being a collaborator. But cooperation between Israel and the
Palestinian Authority on counterterrorism is a precondition under
agreements for the relinquishment of land for a Palestinian Arab
state. What's more, the sentence against Mr. Sa'ad was meted out by a
judge from Fatah, which is Mr. Abbas's Palestinian faction and the one
that Ms. Rice hopes her diplomacy will strengthen against Hamas, the
Iranian-backed terrorists who now control Gaza.
"Sa'ad's crime was simply reporting to Israeli authorities on the
whereabouts of four fugitive Palestinian gunmen that the PA was
unwilling to arrest," the director of the Israel Law Center, Nitsana
Darshan-Leitner, writes in a letter that will be sent to Mr. Bush
today. "Fortunately, the security services were able to utilize the
information and take out the terrorists before they could unleash any
further attacks on Israeli civilians. This operation saved the lives
of scores of Israelis and other innocent victims. It is no different
than the recent preventive American
army attack on Al Qaeda terrorists in Somalia. However, for assisting
in this operation, Sa'ad was arrested and sentenced to death by a
Palestinian firing squad."
Ms. Darshan-Leitner asks for President Bush to suspend $200 million in
security assistance promised to Mr. Abbas and the Palestinian
Authority until Mr. Sa'ad's sentence is overturned. She has also sent
out similar appeals to the European Union and the Vatican.
"President Bush, these so called 'collaborators' are Israel's front
line in the war on Palestinian terror," she wrote. "They have assisted
the Israel Defense Forces in thwarting thousands of suicide bombings
and have saved many thousands of innocent lives. They must not be
abandoned by democratic nations, such as the United States, which are
combating terrorism worldwide."
The fate of Palestinian Arabs who have cooperated with Israel has been
a thorny issue in the last 15 years of negotiations that began with
the Oslo agreements in 1993. Israeli authorities have at times had to
evacuate their former sources and have also pledged at one point
openly in the Oslo years to refrain from recruiting new sources in the
West Bank and Gaza. Nonetheless, the conviction and at times execution
of these so-called collaborators by Palestinian Arab courts has been a
semi-regular occurrence for Israel's peace partner, particularly after
negotiations fell apart in September 2000 and Yasser Arafat called for
a second Palestinian uprising.
Ms. Nudel has devoted much energy to saving Palestinian Arab so-called
collaborators from execution. Ms. Darshan-Leitner, who is working with
Ms. Nudel on this case, said that often the trials of the so-called
collaborators are brief and the suspects are not allowed to be
represented by an attorney. Another problem has been that those
suspected of collaboration are often targeted by Palestinian
terrorists, and thus far the Palestinian Authority has done next to
nothing to investigate their murders, according to Ms. Darshan-
Leitner.
At times, however, the advocacy of Ms. Nudel and the Israel Law Center
has succeeded in obtaining the stay of scheduled executions.
Secretary Rice in Ramallah yesterday praised Mr. Abbas, and
particularly his leadership of the security services. "It takes some
time to deal with the effects of the Intifada, but a lot of it has to
do with responsible actions by the Palestinian government and the
Palestinian Authority which are really now in place," she said. "And
because of that, I think you are going to see improvements on the West
Bank."
In an interview, Ms. Darshan-Leitner said that she first appealed to
Prime Minister Olmert to bring up the status of her client in the
current negotiations. On April 29, she urged him in a letter to do
everything he could to secure the release of Mr. Sa'ad. The letter
included the demand, on behalf of Ms. Nudel, "that Israel employ its
considerable military capability to launch a rescue operation to
extract the prisoner from his cell."
New York Sun, May 5, 2008
This page was produced by Joseph E. Katz
Middle Eastern Political and Religious History Analyst
Brooklyn, New York
"Palestinians" killing "Palestinians"
Palestine Royal Commission Report said "toleration by the Government
of subversive [terrorist] activities, more especially those of the
Mufti of Jerusalem,"1 included not only terrorism of Jews but also of
moderate Arabs and those effendis engaged in a power struggle with the
Islamic leadership. As the Palestine Royal Commission Report had
observed, with uncharacteristic indignation in 1937,
... intimidation at the point of a revolver has become a not
infrequent feature of Arab politics. Attacks by Arabs on Jews,
unhappily, are no new thing. The novelty in the present situation is
attacks by Arabs-on Arabs. For an Arab to be suspected of a lukewarm
adherence to the nationalist cause is to invite a visit from a body of
"gunmen." Such a visit was paid to the editor of one of the Arabic
newspapers last August shortly after he had published articles in
favour of calling off the strike." Similar visits were paid during our
stay in Palestine to wealthy Arab landowners or businessmen who were
believed to have made inadequate contributions to the fund which the
Arab Higher Committee were raising to compensate Arabs for damage
suffered during the "disturbances." Nor do the "gunmen" stop at
intimidation. It is not known who murdered the Arab Acting Mayor of
Hebron last August, but no one doubts that he lost his life because he
had dared to differ from the "extremist" policy of the Higher
Committee. The attempt to murder the Arab Mayor of Haifa, which took
place a few days after we left Palestine, is also, we are told,
regarded as political. It is not surprising that a number of Arabs
have asked for Government protection.2
The Associated Press ran this story, "Palestinians Face Internal
Violence" on March 16, 2002
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) -- One was strung up by his heels in the
middle of a downtown traffic circle. The battered body of another was
dragged through the streets before assailants tried to hang the corpse
from a rooftop overlooking the traditional site of Jesus' birth. Two
more were snatched off a West Bank road, driven to a deserted
slaughterhouse and riddled with bullets.
Palestinians accused of collaborating with Israel have frequently been
targeted by fellow Palestinians during nearly 18 months of bitter
fighting with Israel, but in recent days, the pace of these vigilante-
style killings has picked up sharply. Seven suspected collaborators
have been slain by Palestinian gunmen in the past week alone, compared
to about two dozen until then.
The killings echo a grim pattern established during the first
Palestinian uprising against Israel, which lasted from 1987 to 1993.
In those years, more than 800 suspected collaborators were slain by
fellow Palestinians -- about one-third of the total Palestinian deaths
in that intefadeh3.
Assisted Suicide Martyrs
An even more disturbing trend is that there is increasing evidence
that "Palestinians" are killing "Palestinians" not only for
collaboration with Israel (which could mean as little as buying and
selling an Israeli product), but also for bumping up the numbers of
"martyrs" for the "Palestinian" cause.
When the current Intifada started, after Ariel Sharon's visit to the
Temple Mount, a handful of Palestinian rioters were "shot in the back"
as they were throwing stones at the Israeli Police. The Israeli
Police never gave the order to use live ammunition. If the rioters
backs were towards the Temple Mount compound, from what direction did
the shots come? Jibril Rajoub, head of PA Preventive Security had led
the Israeli government to believe that there would be no reaction to
Likud MK Arik Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount as long as Sharon did
not attempt to enter the mosque itself. Yet exactly the opposite
happened. (see How PA Violence was planned )
Using forensic evidence to try and trace the source of the bullets
themselves would be complicated by the fact that the Israeli
Government authorized the transfer of thousands of guns to the
Palestinians, for use by the Palestinian Police force. “We have no
problems with weaponry since we have enough guns that were given to us
by Israel,” stated Abed el-Qader, Senior Tanzim Leader on March 8,
2001.
The film clip of the shooting of Al Dura, the 12 year old palestinian
boy, shown worldwide clearly shows firing coming from someone who
stood next to the Palestinian camera man Talal Abu Rahma (see Who
killed Muhammad al-Dura? )
A BBC was killed by Hisbollah mortar fire, as the Israeli troops were
retreating from Lebanon, was blamed on Israel.
The Christian German doctor from Beit Jalla who was asked to leave his
house at 11:30 at night by Palestinian Paramedics, only to be gunned
down 50 yards from his front door with bullet holes riddling the wall
behind him that could not have come from an Israeli helicopter.
As far back as 1936, the Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Mufti of
Jerusalem's "systematic extermination" caused the murder or flight
from the country of any Arab suspected of less than total loyalty to
the rebels: mayor, affiliated official, sheikh, village mukhtar
(headman), rival Arab notable, and even prominent Muslim religious
figures-all were victims. In larger part he took his queue from
similar German SS actions. (see Muftism and Nazism: World War II
Collaboration Documents )
The mayor of Hebron, Nasr el Din Nasr, murdered August 4, 1936, was a
close ally of the Mufti's chief opponent, Ragheb Bey Nashashibi; the
wife and daughter of the mayor of Bethlehem were wounded July 1937;
the mayor Nablus, Suleiman Bey Toukan, who publicly warned the
government of chaos if terrorism was not squelched, fled after
attempted assassination in December of 1937. No fewer than eleven
mukhtars were slain, along with family members, between February of
1937 and November of 1938.
Feb. 1937 Mukhtar of Arab Birket Caesarea
Sept. 1937 Balad Esh Sheikh
Dec. 1937 Shahmata
April 1938 Migdal. He was a Christian Arab. His wife was also
murdered.
April 1938 Mafaleen
Aug. 1938 Ejn Razal
Aug. 1938 Beth Mahsir
Sept. 1938 Wife and three sons of the Mukhtar of Deir Es Sheikh.
Mukhtar was absent at the time.
Oct. 1938 Mukhtar of Ard-el-Yehud, near Haifa. He was a Christian
Arab.
Oct. 1938 Beth Hema
Nov. 1938 Akaba Quarter, Nablus
"During the same period, attempts were made on the life of the Mukhtar
of Lifta
village (July 1937), and the Mukhtar of Seir (October, 1938)"; cited
in Arab v. Arab, pamphlet, Wadsworth and Co., Rydal Press, Keighley,
England, 1939, p. 13; also see Palestine, October 6, 1937, vol. XII,
no. 40, for list of Arab "notables" "murdered between April and
September, 1937."
Muslim religious leaders murdered or wounded included the following:
March 1938 Sheikh Yunis el Husseini, head of El Aqsa Mosque
administration, was wounded.
July 1938 Sheikh Ali Nur el Khatib, of El Aqsa Mosque, was murdered.
Dec. 1938 Sheikh Dauoud Ansari, Imam of El Aqsa Mosque, was killed
(after fourth attempt).
Other Sheikhs who were murdered then by Arab terrorists included:
July 1938 Sheikh Nusbi Abdul Rahim, Counsel to the Moslem Religious
Court, murdered at Acre.
July 1938 Sheikh Abdul el Badawi, murdered at Acre.
Nov. 1938 Sheikh El Namouri, murdered at Hebron
A similar list of "moderate" Arabs, including Anwar Sadat, etc. who
have been exterminated recently by the Militant Palestinian Groups-the
modem "Muftism"--could be compiled today.
What most outsiders don't realize is that the "Palestinians" are not
really a single ethnic group. Samuel Herbert, the first British High
Commissioner for Palestine said in 1921, "Four-fifths of the whole
population are Moslems. A small proportion of these are Bedouin Arabs;
the remainder, although they speak Arabic and are termed Arabs, are
largely of mixed race." They are a collection of immigrants from
Syria, Iraq, Egypt and the East and West Banks of the Jordan river.
Containing Suni, Shiite, Kurd Moslems as well as small numbers of
Christians. Palestine, until 1967, was never thought of as separate
state, but rather refereed to part of Southern Syria, although it was
at times part of Syrian and Egyptian conquests.
1. Palestine Royal Commission Report, p. 366.
2. Ibid., p. 135.
3. IDF statistics report the actual numbers to be between 1000-1200.
Summary Executions
ICEJ NEWS SERVICE FROM JERUSALEM
WEDNESDAY, 17 JANUARY 2001
News and comment on Middle East affairs, compiled by journalists at
the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, publishers of the
monthly Middle East Digest.
PALESTINIAN AREAS DESCENDING INTO CHAOS
In a sign of spiraling mistrust and lawlessness in Palestinian areas
over the past week, two Palestinians were summarily executed for
alleged collaboration with Israel, three more were secretly murdered
by militants, another two have been sentenced to death, and at least
five others have been arrested as suspected informers. And in Gaza on
Wednesday, the head of Palestinian TV was shot dead by masked gunmen
in an unexplained hit.
The director of the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation was killed
today when three masked men, armed with weapons equipped with
silencers, opened fire on him at close range as he left the Gaza Beach
hotel in Gaza City. Hisham Miki, 54, died 15 minutes after the attack.
He had headed "Palestine Television" since its founding in 1994 and
was a close associate of PLO chief Yasser Arafat.
While the mysterious incident is still under investigation, the
Palestinian Authority issued a statement saying he was "gunned down by
bullets of treason and betrayal," a suggestion the shooters had ties
with Israel. But some Palestinian sources indicated it may have been
linked to charges the TV director was involved in corruption with PA
officials. Then again, another Palestinian source offered a third
theory, saying Islamic extremists may have targeted him for his
extensive business dealings with Israelis.
The PA has declared war on suspected Palestinian informers assisting
Israel in its campaign to "eliminate" key leaders of armed militias
and terrorist cells. At noon on Saturday, PA firing squads executed
two men convicted of collaborating with Israel in recent hits on
Palestinian operatives. Hours later, a court in Bethlehem convicted
two more accused collaborators to death and two more to life in prison
at hard labor.
In addition, three corpses of Arab men have been found in the last
three days, victims of armed Palestinian militants. On Monday, the
body of Muhammed Haled was found near Nablus, shot at the entrance to
his home.
Palestinian sources said Haled was shot by three masked men on
suspicion of collaboration.
On Tuesday, the bullet-riddled body of 40-year-old Mourshed Rafiq
Suliman, a resident of a PA-ruled village near Jenin, was found by
Israeli police. ISRAEL RADIO reported that he too was killed on
suspicion of collaborating with Israel. Palestinian sources said
masked men dragged the man from his home late Monday night.
And on Wednesday, a Palestinian was found shot to death in a car in
the vicinity El Bireh, near Ramallah, ISRAEL RADIO reported. The man
appears to be the latest victim in a wave of Palestinian attacks on
Palestinians.
The body of a fourth man was found by PA forces this morning near the
Jewish settlement of Netzarim in Gaza. The man had been shot in the
head under circumstances that are still unclear.
Much like in the first intifada from 1987 to 1993, Arab on Arab
violence seems to be running rampant, as law and order breaks down and
local militias rule the street. As many as 1,000 Palestinians were
murdered by other Palestinians during the earlier uprising. While most
were charged with "collaborating" with Israel, many of the killings
were actually committed to settle scores in clan feuds and money
disputes.
By many accounts, the spree of murders left more Arabs dead at the
hands of fellow Arabs than from Israeli forces. This pattern follows
the PLO's
record over the decades of killing far more Arabs than Jews in its
bloody campaign for Palestinian statehood.
The recent spate of murders are not the first hits on suspected
collaborators during the renewed intifada. On December 17, for
example, an Arab man who had served in the Israeli police years ago
and was forced to flee to the Israeli town of Ariel was ambushed by
Palestinians during a visit to his home village nearby. He was falsely
drawn there by promises to his family that a "sulha" (a traditional
Arab reconciliation dinner) was being arranged.
The current situation has deteriorated to the point that any
Palestinian associated with Israelis has come under increased
suspicion and hostility. Even Palestinian workers have been stoned in
recent days when lining up at the Erez crossing point on the way to
jobs inside Israel.
Fatah officials in Jerusalem said four more Palestinians turned
themselves in to the PA as part of an "amnesty" program. Also on
Tuesday, Palestinian Preventive Security forces reported that they
arrested a cell of five "collaborators" in Hebron. The group members
are accused of having passed information to Israel that helped lead to
the assassination of Hamas activists in the city. Palestinian sources
told ARMY RADIO that the five members will go on trial at the Court
for National Security, where they face possible execution.
Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti said the PA should be in charge of
dealing with collaborators, but added that if the PA does not take the
necessary action, Fatah would instead.
ICEJ NEWS SERVICE
Editor: David Parsons
Famed Refusenik Issues a Call To Save a Palestinian from Palestinians
By Eli Lake Staff Reporter
WASHINGTON - A Palestinian Authority police officer accused of helping
Israel with counterterrorism is facing death at the hands of a firing
line unless a last-minute appeal to President Bush can save him.
The cause of the police officer, Imad Sa'ad, is being championed by a
woman who became famous as a political prisoner in the Soviet Union
before she moved to Israel in 1987, Ida Nudel. It comes as Secretary
of State Rice this weekend arrived in Israel for another round of
diplomacy aimed at creating an independent Palestinian Arab state
before the end of the Bush presidency.
The case raises questions about the intentions of Prime Minister
Abbas's Fatah government in the West Bank. Mr. Sa'ad, a former member
of the Palestinian Authority's national security forces, is accused of
providing the Israel Defense Forces with the whereabouts of four
accused Palestinian terrorists Mr. Abbas's regime was unwilling to
hand over to the Israelis. In a court in Hebron he was convicted of
being a collaborator. But cooperation between Israel and the
Palestinian Authority on counterterrorism is a precondition under
agreements for the relinquishment of land for a Palestinian Arab
state. What's more, the sentence against Mr. Sa'ad was meted out by a
judge from Fatah, which is Mr. Abbas's Palestinian faction and the one
that Ms. Rice hopes her diplomacy will strengthen against Hamas, the
Iranian-backed terrorists who now control Gaza.
"Sa'ad's crime was simply reporting to Israeli authorities on the
whereabouts of four fugitive Palestinian gunmen that the PA was
unwilling to arrest," the director of the Israel Law Center, Nitsana
Darshan-Leitner, writes in a letter that will be sent to Mr. Bush
today. "Fortunately, the security services were able to utilize the
information and take out the terrorists before they could unleash any
further attacks on Israeli civilians. This operation saved the lives
of scores of Israelis and other innocent victims. It is no different
than the recent preventive American
army attack on Al Qaeda terrorists in Somalia. However, for assisting
in this operation, Sa'ad was arrested and sentenced to death by a
Palestinian firing squad."
Ms. Darshan-Leitner asks for President Bush to suspend $200 million in
security assistance promised to Mr. Abbas and the Palestinian
Authority until Mr. Sa'ad's sentence is overturned. She has also sent
out similar appeals to the European Union and the Vatican.
"President Bush, these so called 'collaborators' are Israel's front
line in the war on Palestinian terror," she wrote. "They have assisted
the Israel Defense Forces in thwarting thousands of suicide bombings
and have saved many thousands of innocent lives. They must not be
abandoned by democratic nations, such as the United States, which are
combating terrorism worldwide."
The fate of Palestinian Arabs who have cooperated with Israel has been
a thorny issue in the last 15 years of negotiations that began with
the Oslo agreements in 1993. Israeli authorities have at times had to
evacuate their former sources and have also pledged at one point
openly in the Oslo years to refrain from recruiting new sources in the
West Bank and Gaza. Nonetheless, the conviction and at times execution
of these so-called collaborators by Palestinian Arab courts has been a
semi-regular occurrence for Israel's peace partner, particularly after
negotiations fell apart in September 2000 and Yasser Arafat called for
a second Palestinian uprising.
Ms. Nudel has devoted much energy to saving Palestinian Arab so-called
collaborators from execution. Ms. Darshan-Leitner, who is working with
Ms. Nudel on this case, said that often the trials of the so-called
collaborators are brief and the suspects are not allowed to be
represented by an attorney. Another problem has been that those
suspected of collaboration are often targeted by Palestinian
terrorists, and thus far the Palestinian Authority has done next to
nothing to investigate their murders, according to Ms. Darshan-
Leitner.
At times, however, the advocacy of Ms. Nudel and the Israel Law Center
has succeeded in obtaining the stay of scheduled executions.
Secretary Rice in Ramallah yesterday praised Mr. Abbas, and
particularly his leadership of the security services. "It takes some
time to deal with the effects of the Intifada, but a lot of it has to
do with responsible actions by the Palestinian government and the
Palestinian Authority which are really now in place," she said. "And
because of that, I think you are going to see improvements on the West
Bank."
In an interview, Ms. Darshan-Leitner said that she first appealed to
Prime Minister Olmert to bring up the status of her client in the
current negotiations. On April 29, she urged him in a letter to do
everything he could to secure the release of Mr. Sa'ad. The letter
included the demand, on behalf of Ms. Nudel, "that Israel employ its
considerable military capability to launch a rescue operation to
extract the prisoner from his cell."
New York Sun, May 5, 2008
This page was produced by Joseph E. Katz
Middle Eastern Political and Religious History Analyst
Brooklyn, New York
Aviroce
Jan 29, 2012, 12:44:04 AM1/29/12
to
There are Palestinian traitors. Of course. These traitors should be
killed. They plan to kill more Palestinians. A traitor loses his
citizenship when he betrays it. So Palestinians are really kill new-
Jews.
> officials. Then again, another ...
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killed. They plan to kill more Palestinians. A traitor loses his
citizenship when he betrays it. So Palestinians are really kill new-
Jews.
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Aviroce
Jan 29, 2012, 12:40:29 AM1/29/12
to
Yes. And Jews killing Jews. And Christians killing Christians.
Israelis killing Israelis. Americans killing Americans. There are
evil Palestinians, evil Jews, evil Americans, evil Indians, evil
Chinese, evil in every race, color, ethnic origin and more. Your
essay is void. It says Palestinians should not be humans so Jews can
kill them.
Divide and conquer. How to divide is very important. How to
instigate division is very important. Could humans be divided? Yes.
Read "the Art of War" by Tsun Tzue. This old book tells you about
people. So drama of that on the Twilight Zone in many episodes as
social experimentation. Finally, Jews conspired to other Jews on a
large scale and conspired to kill their countrymen in Germany. They
received some punishment.
> officials. Then again, another ...
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Israelis killing Israelis. Americans killing Americans. There are
evil Palestinians, evil Jews, evil Americans, evil Indians, evil
Chinese, evil in every race, color, ethnic origin and more. Your
essay is void. It says Palestinians should not be humans so Jews can
kill them.
Divide and conquer. How to divide is very important. How to
instigate division is very important. Could humans be divided? Yes.
Read "the Art of War" by Tsun Tzue. This old book tells you about
people. So drama of that on the Twilight Zone in many episodes as
social experimentation. Finally, Jews conspired to other Jews on a
large scale and conspired to kill their countrymen in Germany. They
received some punishment.
>
> read more »
TheZ
Jan 29, 2012, 10:01:41 AM1/29/12
to
Is it possible to have citizenship in a fictional country? Obviously this
Arab thinks so.
"Aviroce" <dudar...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Arab thinks so.
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The Farhud:
Roots of the Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust [Paperback]
Edwin Black (Author)
penetrating, pivotal and insightful, February 7, 2011
By Gary Selikow (Great Kush) - This review is from: The Farhud: Roots
of the Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust (Paperback)
A penetrating, pivotal and insightful look into the Islamic-Nazi
alliance of World War II, the bloody pogrom of Jews by Arab mobs in
Baghdad in June, 1941, the background to these events and the
relevance of oil , ideology and Islam to these events.
Islam had a long history of hatred and subjugation of the Jews, known
as dhimnitude. The Jews in Islamic countries were reduced ton the
status of humiliated and subjugated second class citizens, with a
variety of laws to ensure this.
Dhimnis were barred from building any structure higher than a Muslims,
could not ride horses but only donkeys without saddles, could not
build any new houses of worship or repair existing ones and were
forbidden from making any noises that would attract attention to their
worship or burial of their dead.
They had to wear distinctive clothes to identify them, Jews had to
wear yellow, and the mandatory yellow patch which was forced upon the
Jews by the Nazis had it's origins in Baghdad, and not in Medieval
Europe as commonly believed.
The idea of Jews in the Middle East being sovereign in an independent
state, and not subjugated to Muslim rule and humiliated under Dhimni
status is what was intolerable to the Arabs and the roots of the
violent Arab rejection of the state of Israel, and before that of
migration of Jews into the Land of Israel. This was anathema to the
demand for Arab supremacy and dhimnitude
"Certainly the Palestinian population was accustomed to the many
migrants from the far reaches of the Ottoman Empire and especially the
extended Middle East who settled in the land. But the local Arab
community harbored a special resentment, at one level or another, for
all these new Jewish neighbours. They were after all Jews and as such
second class citizens beneath the Syrian Muslims, Lebanese Muslims,
Egyptian Muslims, and Turks who freely came and went from Palestine".
From 1920 attacks against Jews spread like wildfire in the Land of
Israel, instigated by Haj Amin al husseini, the bloodthirsty Jew-hater
and'Mufti of Jerusalem'.
The bloody 1929 pogroms and massacres of Jews that spread throughout
the Land of Israel in 1929 were sparked in September, 1928, by Jews at
the Western wall contravening the dhimni laws by erecting benches to
sit on at the wall, and partitions to separate men from women. Jews
were first massacred in Jerusalem and then the horrific massacres by
Arabs of Jews took place of the ancient Jewish community of Hebron.
"House to house they went bursting into every room looking for hiding
Jews. Religious scrolls or books were burned or torn to shreds. The
defenceless Jews were variously beheaded, castrated, their breasts and
fingers sliced off, and in some cases their eyes plucked from their
sockets. Infants and adults, men and women , it mattered not. The
carnage went on for hours, with the Arab policemen standing down.
Blood ran in streamlets down the narrow stone staircases outisde the
buildings.hose by house, room by room the savagery was repeated".
This was followed by the Arab pogroms against Jews of 1936, the Arab-
Nazi Alliance and the spread of the Holocaust to Iraq where Jews were
massacred horrifically in Baghdad by pro-Nazi Arab mobs. an event
which the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has refused to
acknowledge, either for reasons of refusing to recongnize the equality
of Sephardi Jews to Ashkenazim, or a politically correct determination
not to blacken the names of the Arabs or create an association of the
Arab radicals with the Nazis.
The book go's onto to highlight the traditional Islamic Jew-hatred
found a willing ally in Nazi Germany, with the instrumental role
played by Husseini, who met with Hitler, worked closely with Eichmann,
and wrote letters top Axis governments preventing the transportations
of thousands of Jewish children from bulgaria and Hungary to safety in
the Holy Land, instead diverting them to the death camps at Auschwitz
where they were murdered.
Iraq gained independence in 1932. Nazi infiltration followed within a
year. The Christian owned daily al Aram-al-Arabi (The Arab World)
published daily extracts from the Arabic edition of Meim Kampf. with
it's venomous anti-Jewish propagnda.
In 1935, as German influence strengthened , a pro-Nazi society, al
Muthana was set up in Basra and Mosul lead by a well-known Jew-hater
Dr Saib Shawkat, director of the Royal hospital in Baghdad, whose
brother Sami Shawkat, a fellow medical doctor, founded the Futuwa
youth brigades , which distributed anti-Jewish and anti-British
leaflets.
Hilter's ambassador to Baghdad Fritz Grobba played the lead role in
Iraq in disseminating anti-Jewish and anti-Zionist propagnda, his
provocations were covered in newspapers of the day from Palestine to
Great Britain. He claimed that 85% of commerce in Iraq was in Jewish
hands and that Jews were not true Iraqis but a foul species apart.
Dozens of Iraqi Jews were killed in attacks by pro-Nazi Iraqis. In a
report to Berlin on June 6, 1939, Grobba wired a report to Berline
labelled SECRET in which he railed that 'The Jews are the source of
propaganda against the Italians and Germans in Iraq" Grobba threatened
a bloody massacre of Jews in Iraq "If the Jews continue to make it
difficult for Iraq with their deeds, a day will come when the anger of
the masses erupt, and the result will be: a massacre of Jews. When an
oriental people's feelings erupt, all restraint disappears: The want
to see blood"
The central event referred to in the book is the Farhud, the senseless
orgy of violence on June 1-2, on the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, in
which the Arab-Nazis murdered, raped and pillaged the Jewish community
that had lived there for 2,600 years. The riots occurred in a power
vacuum following the collapse of the pro-Nazi government of Rashid Ali
while the city was in a state of instability. Before British and
Transjordanian forces intervened, over 600 Jews had been killed and
thousands injured. Looting of Jewish property took place and thousands
of Jewish homes were destroyed.
As the author recounts eyewitness testimonies : "Infants were vicously
bashed to death against the pavement and were thrown lifeless into the
Tigris. Jewish women-
hundreds of them-were mercilessly and openly raped in front of their
husbands, in front of their parents, in front of their children, in
front of wild Muslim mobs. If the women was pregnant, sometimes she
was first raped, and then sliced open to destroy the unborn baby; only
then was she killed. Men who defended their women and children were
killed and their homes plundered. Commonly after murdering the
defenseless Jewish men and women with hatchets, axes, and swords, the
chanting throngs hacked the inanimate bodies to pieces thus further
defiling the infidels and -temporarily-sating the mob's blood lust".
The original plans for the 1941 anti-Jewish terror on June 1, were
intended to mimic Nazi extermination camps in Europe. Lists of Jews
were compiled using the familiar approach the Nazis and their allies
had employed in Europe.
It is important to realize that the Farhud was a mass movement, not
the actions of a gang or a few errant officers.
By 1951, 110,000 Jews - 80% of Iraqi Jewry - had emigrated from the
country, most to Israel. The Farhud has been called the "forgotten
pogrom of the Holocaust" and "the beginning of the end of the Jewish
community of Iraq", a community that had existed for 2,600 years.
One denominator characterized the Nazi-Arab confluence , the joint
Arab and Nazi-Arab conviction that the Jews constituted a menace by
their very existence, and had to be exterminated.
The book covers the SS and Wehrmacht units of Bosnian Muslims that
worked with the bloodthirsty and sadistic Croatian Ustasha in killing
millions of Serbs, Jews and Gypsies in Yugoslavia.
And then the spreading of the Holocaust to North Africa, where Arabs
sponsored by the Nazis brutally annihilated thousands of north African
Jews. The Arab-Nazi collaboration puts the lie to the Islamic claim
that the Arabs had nothing to do with the Holocaust and therefore
should not suffer the indignity of tolerating a Jewish entity in their
midst.
The author also in the last chapter describes the continuation of the
Arab support for Nazi ideology after the Holocaust, and the refuge
given to Egypt by Nazi war criminals, including Aribert Heim, Alfred
Zingler and Johan Von Leers, who helped to build the Nazi propaganda,
intelligence and military machine against Israel.
This is required reading to understand the roots of Arab hatred for
Israel and Jews, in an age where the Jews of the Middle East are
threatened with another Holocaust today, and the ideologies of the
mufti, the Farhud and the Arab-Nazi alliance are the ideologies that
drive Hamas, Hezbollah, the Islamic Brotherhood, Al Qaeda and the
Khamenei-Ahmadinejad regime in Iran.
http://www.amazon.com/Farhud-Roots-Arab-Nazi-Alliance-Holocaust/dp/0914153145
Roots of the Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust [Paperback]
Edwin Black (Author)
penetrating, pivotal and insightful, February 7, 2011
By Gary Selikow (Great Kush) - This review is from: The Farhud: Roots
of the Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust (Paperback)
A penetrating, pivotal and insightful look into the Islamic-Nazi
alliance of World War II, the bloody pogrom of Jews by Arab mobs in
Baghdad in June, 1941, the background to these events and the
relevance of oil , ideology and Islam to these events.
Islam had a long history of hatred and subjugation of the Jews, known
as dhimnitude. The Jews in Islamic countries were reduced ton the
status of humiliated and subjugated second class citizens, with a
variety of laws to ensure this.
Dhimnis were barred from building any structure higher than a Muslims,
could not ride horses but only donkeys without saddles, could not
build any new houses of worship or repair existing ones and were
forbidden from making any noises that would attract attention to their
worship or burial of their dead.
They had to wear distinctive clothes to identify them, Jews had to
wear yellow, and the mandatory yellow patch which was forced upon the
Jews by the Nazis had it's origins in Baghdad, and not in Medieval
Europe as commonly believed.
The idea of Jews in the Middle East being sovereign in an independent
state, and not subjugated to Muslim rule and humiliated under Dhimni
status is what was intolerable to the Arabs and the roots of the
violent Arab rejection of the state of Israel, and before that of
migration of Jews into the Land of Israel. This was anathema to the
demand for Arab supremacy and dhimnitude
"Certainly the Palestinian population was accustomed to the many
migrants from the far reaches of the Ottoman Empire and especially the
extended Middle East who settled in the land. But the local Arab
community harbored a special resentment, at one level or another, for
all these new Jewish neighbours. They were after all Jews and as such
second class citizens beneath the Syrian Muslims, Lebanese Muslims,
Egyptian Muslims, and Turks who freely came and went from Palestine".
From 1920 attacks against Jews spread like wildfire in the Land of
Israel, instigated by Haj Amin al husseini, the bloodthirsty Jew-hater
and'Mufti of Jerusalem'.
The bloody 1929 pogroms and massacres of Jews that spread throughout
the Land of Israel in 1929 were sparked in September, 1928, by Jews at
the Western wall contravening the dhimni laws by erecting benches to
sit on at the wall, and partitions to separate men from women. Jews
were first massacred in Jerusalem and then the horrific massacres by
Arabs of Jews took place of the ancient Jewish community of Hebron.
"House to house they went bursting into every room looking for hiding
Jews. Religious scrolls or books were burned or torn to shreds. The
defenceless Jews were variously beheaded, castrated, their breasts and
fingers sliced off, and in some cases their eyes plucked from their
sockets. Infants and adults, men and women , it mattered not. The
carnage went on for hours, with the Arab policemen standing down.
Blood ran in streamlets down the narrow stone staircases outisde the
buildings.hose by house, room by room the savagery was repeated".
This was followed by the Arab pogroms against Jews of 1936, the Arab-
Nazi Alliance and the spread of the Holocaust to Iraq where Jews were
massacred horrifically in Baghdad by pro-Nazi Arab mobs. an event
which the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has refused to
acknowledge, either for reasons of refusing to recongnize the equality
of Sephardi Jews to Ashkenazim, or a politically correct determination
not to blacken the names of the Arabs or create an association of the
Arab radicals with the Nazis.
The book go's onto to highlight the traditional Islamic Jew-hatred
found a willing ally in Nazi Germany, with the instrumental role
played by Husseini, who met with Hitler, worked closely with Eichmann,
and wrote letters top Axis governments preventing the transportations
of thousands of Jewish children from bulgaria and Hungary to safety in
the Holy Land, instead diverting them to the death camps at Auschwitz
where they were murdered.
Iraq gained independence in 1932. Nazi infiltration followed within a
year. The Christian owned daily al Aram-al-Arabi (The Arab World)
published daily extracts from the Arabic edition of Meim Kampf. with
it's venomous anti-Jewish propagnda.
In 1935, as German influence strengthened , a pro-Nazi society, al
Muthana was set up in Basra and Mosul lead by a well-known Jew-hater
Dr Saib Shawkat, director of the Royal hospital in Baghdad, whose
brother Sami Shawkat, a fellow medical doctor, founded the Futuwa
youth brigades , which distributed anti-Jewish and anti-British
leaflets.
Hilter's ambassador to Baghdad Fritz Grobba played the lead role in
Iraq in disseminating anti-Jewish and anti-Zionist propagnda, his
provocations were covered in newspapers of the day from Palestine to
Great Britain. He claimed that 85% of commerce in Iraq was in Jewish
hands and that Jews were not true Iraqis but a foul species apart.
Dozens of Iraqi Jews were killed in attacks by pro-Nazi Iraqis. In a
report to Berlin on June 6, 1939, Grobba wired a report to Berline
labelled SECRET in which he railed that 'The Jews are the source of
propaganda against the Italians and Germans in Iraq" Grobba threatened
a bloody massacre of Jews in Iraq "If the Jews continue to make it
difficult for Iraq with their deeds, a day will come when the anger of
the masses erupt, and the result will be: a massacre of Jews. When an
oriental people's feelings erupt, all restraint disappears: The want
to see blood"
The central event referred to in the book is the Farhud, the senseless
orgy of violence on June 1-2, on the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, in
which the Arab-Nazis murdered, raped and pillaged the Jewish community
that had lived there for 2,600 years. The riots occurred in a power
vacuum following the collapse of the pro-Nazi government of Rashid Ali
while the city was in a state of instability. Before British and
Transjordanian forces intervened, over 600 Jews had been killed and
thousands injured. Looting of Jewish property took place and thousands
of Jewish homes were destroyed.
As the author recounts eyewitness testimonies : "Infants were vicously
bashed to death against the pavement and were thrown lifeless into the
Tigris. Jewish women-
hundreds of them-were mercilessly and openly raped in front of their
husbands, in front of their parents, in front of their children, in
front of wild Muslim mobs. If the women was pregnant, sometimes she
was first raped, and then sliced open to destroy the unborn baby; only
then was she killed. Men who defended their women and children were
killed and their homes plundered. Commonly after murdering the
defenseless Jewish men and women with hatchets, axes, and swords, the
chanting throngs hacked the inanimate bodies to pieces thus further
defiling the infidels and -temporarily-sating the mob's blood lust".
The original plans for the 1941 anti-Jewish terror on June 1, were
intended to mimic Nazi extermination camps in Europe. Lists of Jews
were compiled using the familiar approach the Nazis and their allies
had employed in Europe.
It is important to realize that the Farhud was a mass movement, not
the actions of a gang or a few errant officers.
By 1951, 110,000 Jews - 80% of Iraqi Jewry - had emigrated from the
country, most to Israel. The Farhud has been called the "forgotten
pogrom of the Holocaust" and "the beginning of the end of the Jewish
community of Iraq", a community that had existed for 2,600 years.
One denominator characterized the Nazi-Arab confluence , the joint
Arab and Nazi-Arab conviction that the Jews constituted a menace by
their very existence, and had to be exterminated.
The book covers the SS and Wehrmacht units of Bosnian Muslims that
worked with the bloodthirsty and sadistic Croatian Ustasha in killing
millions of Serbs, Jews and Gypsies in Yugoslavia.
And then the spreading of the Holocaust to North Africa, where Arabs
sponsored by the Nazis brutally annihilated thousands of north African
Jews. The Arab-Nazi collaboration puts the lie to the Islamic claim
that the Arabs had nothing to do with the Holocaust and therefore
should not suffer the indignity of tolerating a Jewish entity in their
midst.
The author also in the last chapter describes the continuation of the
Arab support for Nazi ideology after the Holocaust, and the refuge
given to Egypt by Nazi war criminals, including Aribert Heim, Alfred
Zingler and Johan Von Leers, who helped to build the Nazi propaganda,
intelligence and military machine against Israel.
This is required reading to understand the roots of Arab hatred for
Israel and Jews, in an age where the Jews of the Middle East are
threatened with another Holocaust today, and the ideologies of the
mufti, the Farhud and the Arab-Nazi alliance are the ideologies that
drive Hamas, Hezbollah, the Islamic Brotherhood, Al Qaeda and the
Khamenei-Ahmadinejad regime in Iran.
http://www.amazon.com/Farhud-Roots-Arab-Nazi-Alliance-Holocaust/dp/0914153145
Aviroce
Feb 1, 2012, 2:05:49 AM2/1/12
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One Palestinian wrote an essay that she is not "homeless" and that she
is a Palestinian and her home is Palestine. Now you are dehumanizing
her by saying that Palestine and Palestinians are ficticious. She
argued that her home was bulldozed by Jews yet the stones of her home
are still there and she will be rebuilding it. Obviously, she is a
very strong woman and very inspiring.
Hey boy. Palestine exists by Axiom. Palestinians exist by Axiom.
There is no such thing as ficticious Palestine and ficticious
Palestinians. Palestine and the Palestinians are there because they
are there. The fact you are abusing the Palestinians and holding them
as slaves for Jews and dehumanizing them and stealing their homes does
not mean they are not Palestinians and does not mean Palestine does
not exist. By the way do you know what does it mean to exist in terms
of states? Palestinians have filed their application to get the
political existence you seem to ignore. Jews are shivering with fear
to face the Palestinian people who will also be going back to their
homes where Israel is.
Some delegations of these Palestinians have been to Israel for fact
finding. Palestinians are demanding the abolition of Apartheid in
Israel so that they can come back to their homes and enjoy their land
and eventually efface Israel from existence. They are coming for you,
boy. Pack your bags and hit the road to Germany, Russia, USA, Poland,
Hungary, Austria, England, France,.....
On Jan 29, 7:01 am, "TheZ" <T...@nospam.com> wrote:
> Is it possible to have citizenship in a fictional country? Obviously this
> Arab thinks so.
>
> "Aviroce" <dudaras...@gmail.com> wrote in message
> ...
>
> read more »- Hide quoted text -
is a Palestinian and her home is Palestine. Now you are dehumanizing
her by saying that Palestine and Palestinians are ficticious. She
argued that her home was bulldozed by Jews yet the stones of her home
are still there and she will be rebuilding it. Obviously, she is a
very strong woman and very inspiring.
Hey boy. Palestine exists by Axiom. Palestinians exist by Axiom.
There is no such thing as ficticious Palestine and ficticious
Palestinians. Palestine and the Palestinians are there because they
are there. The fact you are abusing the Palestinians and holding them
as slaves for Jews and dehumanizing them and stealing their homes does
not mean they are not Palestinians and does not mean Palestine does
not exist. By the way do you know what does it mean to exist in terms
of states? Palestinians have filed their application to get the
political existence you seem to ignore. Jews are shivering with fear
to face the Palestinian people who will also be going back to their
homes where Israel is.
Some delegations of these Palestinians have been to Israel for fact
finding. Palestinians are demanding the abolition of Apartheid in
Israel so that they can come back to their homes and enjoy their land
and eventually efface Israel from existence. They are coming for you,
boy. Pack your bags and hit the road to Germany, Russia, USA, Poland,
Hungary, Austria, England, France,.....
On Jan 29, 7:01 am, "TheZ" <T...@nospam.com> wrote:
> Is it possible to have citizenship in a fictional country? Obviously this
> Arab thinks so.
>
>
> read more »- Hide quoted text -
Aviroce
Feb 1, 2012, 2:15:40 AM2/1/12
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Which holocaust are you talking about? The 1919 Holocaust or the 1948
Holocaust? When one realizes there was no real holocaust in 1919 and
the same in 1948, one then can realize the propaganda that Jews used
to gain statehood at the expense of the Palestinian people.
Jews in Germany were Germans. Jews in Austria were Austrians. These
Jews had full hegemony over the German and Austrian societies to the
point where other ethnic groups within the societies involved had no
say or opportunity in their own land. Jews were the GateKeepers. The
Socialist Party went around the Jews and refranshised the
disenfranchised population to the dismay of Jews. That when Jews
conspired to destroy Germany and that is when Hitler treated them as
traitors. Hitlers might had been responsible for killing few Jews.
But he really never had the chance to punish the traitors of Germany.
When Jews betray USA, I am sure the American people would circumscribe
them and kill them. Americans can be barbaric. Remember the slaves?
Remember the Native Americans? Remember the Japanese? Jews will have
their day some day.
> http://www.amazon.com/Farhud-Roots-Arab-Nazi-Alliance-Holocaust/dp/09...
Holocaust? When one realizes there was no real holocaust in 1919 and
the same in 1948, one then can realize the propaganda that Jews used
to gain statehood at the expense of the Palestinian people.
Jews in Germany were Germans. Jews in Austria were Austrians. These
Jews had full hegemony over the German and Austrian societies to the
point where other ethnic groups within the societies involved had no
say or opportunity in their own land. Jews were the GateKeepers. The
Socialist Party went around the Jews and refranshised the
disenfranchised population to the dismay of Jews. That when Jews
conspired to destroy Germany and that is when Hitler treated them as
traitors. Hitlers might had been responsible for killing few Jews.
But he really never had the chance to punish the traitors of Germany.
When Jews betray USA, I am sure the American people would circumscribe
them and kill them. Americans can be barbaric. Remember the slaves?
Remember the Native Americans? Remember the Japanese? Jews will have
their day some day.
jwshe...@satx.rr.com
Feb 1, 2012, 11:53:19 AM2/1/12
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Lying in Islam
By Abdullah Al Araby
Like most religions, Islam in general, forbids lying. The Quran says,
"Truly Allah guides not one who transgresses and lies." Surah 40:28.
In the Hadith, Mohammed was also quoted as saying, "Be honest because
honesty leads to goodness, and goodness leads to Paradise. Beware of
falsehood because it leads to immorality, and immorality leads to
Hell."
However, unlike most religions, within Islam there are certain
provisions under which lying is not simply tolerated, but actually
encouraged. The book "The spirit of Islam," by the Muslim scholar,
Afif A. Tabbarah was written to promote Islam. On page 247, Tabbarah
stated: "Lying is not always bad, to be sure; there are times when
telling a lie is more profitable and better for the general welfare,
and for the settlement of conciliation among people, than telling the
truth. To this effect, the Prophet says: 'He is not a false person who
(through lies) settles conciliation among people, supports good or
says what is good."
In exploring this puzzling duplicity within Islam, we will examine
first some examples from recent and ancient Islamic history. These
examples demonstrate that lying is a common policy amongst Islamic
clerics and statesmen.
In June of 1967 Egypt was defeated by Israel and lost the Sinai
Peninsula during the "Six Day War." Subsequently, Egypt's primary
focus became to regain the lost territory. President Nasser, and then,
President Sadat, adopted the motto: "No voice should rise over the
voice of The Battle." The soldiers that had been drafted in 1967 were
kept in service and remained on high alert in the expectation that at
any day "the battle" would ensue. Nonetheless, years pasted and
Egypt's people became disgruntle with the political hype and the "no
peace, and no war" status. In 1972 Sadat proclaimed with finality that
it was to be the year for the long anticipated battle. Throughout the
year he swore, "I swear to you by my honor that this year will not
pass by, before we launch The Battle." People believed him because he
was staking his reputation and honor through an oath. To everyone's
amazement the year passed without a single shot being fired. As a
result many, inside and outside Egypt, began to dismiss him as a "hot
air bluff". This opinion was confirmed in the following year of 1973.
He made no further mention of his oath about the battle. Many of the
draftees were released and numerous officers were given vacation
furloughs. Then without warning, in October of 1973, he launched the
attack and what was known as the Yom Kippur war began.
As a military commander, Sadat was expected to use the element of
surprise to trick the enemy. As a devout Muslim, Sadat was not the
least bit concerned about his un-kept oath. He understood that the
history and teachings of Islam would exempt him from spiritual
accountability if he used lies as a foundation for a strategic
military maneuver.
This point is proven by many incidences in the life of Mohammed. He
often lied and instructed his followers to do the same. He
rationalized that the prospect of success in missions to extend
Islam's influence overrode Allah's initial prohibitions against lying.
A good example of sanctioned lying is the account of the assassination
of Kaab Ibn al-Ashrf, a member of the Jewish tribe, Banu al-Nudair. It
had been reported that Kaab had shown support for the Quraishites in
their battle against Mohammed. This was compounded by another report
that infuriated Mohammed. It was alleged that Kaab had recited amorous
poetry to Muslim women. Mohammed asked for volunteers to rid him of
Kaab Ibn al-Ashraf. As Mohammed put it, Kaab had "Harmed Allah and His
Apostle." At that time Kaab Ibn al-Ashraf, and his tribe were strong,
so it was not easy for a stranger to infiltrate and execute the task.
A Muslim man by the name of Ibn Muslima, volunteered for the murderous
project on the condition that Mohammed would allow him to lie. With
Mohammed's consent, Ibn Muslima, went to Kaab and told him fabricated
stories that reflected discontent about Mohammed's leadership. When he
had gained Kaab's trust he lured him away from his house one night and
murdered him in a remote area under the cover of darkness.
A similar example can be found in the story of killing Shaaban Ibn
Khalid al-Hazly. It was rumored that Shaaban was gathering an army to
wage war on Mohammed. Mohammed retaliated by ordering Abdullah Ibn
Anis to kill Shaaban. Again, the would-be killer asked the prophet's
permission to lie. Mohammed agreed and then ordered the killer to lie
by stating that he was a member of the Khazaa clan. When Shaaban saw
Abdullah coming, he asked him, "From what tribe are you?" Abdullah
answered, "From Khazaa." He then added, "I have heard that you are
gathering an army to fight Mohammed and I came to join you." Abdullah
started walking with Shaaban telling him how Mohammed came to them
with the heretical teachings of Islam, and complained how Mohammed
badmouthed the Arab patriarchs and ruined the Arab's hopes. They
continued in conversation until they arrived at Shaaban's tent.
Shaaban's companions departed and Shaaban invited Abdullah to come
inside and rest. Abdullah sat there until the atmosphere was quiet and
he sensed that everyone was asleep. Abdullah severed Shaaban's head
and carried it to Mohammed as a trophy. When Mohammed sighted
Abdullah, he jubilantly shouted, "Your face has been triumphant
(Aflaha al- wajho)." Abdullah returned the greeting by saying, "It is
your face, Apostle of Allah, who has been triumphant. (Aflaha wajhoka,
ye rasoul Allah)."
Provisions for lying in Islam
Most Muslims are familiar with the principles of Islam that will
justify lying in situations where they sense the need to do so. Among
these are:
War is deception.
The necessities justify the forbidden.
If faced by two evils, choose the lesser of the two.
These principles are derived from passages found in the Quran and the
Hadith.
In the Quran, Allah, allegedly, says:
" Allah will not call you to account for what is futile in your oaths,
but He will call you to account for your deliberate oaths: for
expiation, feed ten indigent persons, on a scale of the average for
the food of your families; or clothe them; or give a slave his
freedom. If that is beyond your means, fast for three days. That is
the expiation for the oaths ye have sworn. But keep to your oaths.
Thus doth Allah make clear to you His signs, that ye may be grateful."
Surah 5:89
"Allah will not call you to account for thoughtlessness (vain) in your
oaths, but for the intention in your hearts; and He is Oft-forgiving,
Most Forbearing." Surah 2:225
"Any one who, after accepting faith in Allah, utters Unbelief, except
under compulsion, his heart remaining firm in Faith - but such as open
their breast to Unbelief, on them is Wrath from Allah, and theirs will
be a dreadful Penalty." Surah 16: 106
The noted Islamic commentator, Al-Tabary explained Surah 16:106 as a
verse that had been revealed to Mohammed after he learned that Ammar
Ibn Yasser was forced to deny his faith in Mohammed when kidnapped by
the Banu Moghera tribe. Mohammed consoled Ammar by telling him, "If
they turned, you turn." (Meaning: if they again capture you, you are
allowed to deny me again.)
These and similar passages from the Quran clearly reveal that Muslims'
unintentional lies are forgivable and that even their intentional lies
can be absolved by performing extra duties. It is also clear that if
forced to do so, Muslims can lie while under oath and can even falsely
deny faith in Allah, as long as they maintain the profession of faith
in their hearts.
In the Hadith, Mohammed, emphasizes the same concept.
From "Ehiaa Oloum al-Din," by the famous Islamic scholar al-Ghazali,
Vol. 3: PP.284-287:
One of Mohammed's daughters, Umm Kalthoum, testified that she had
never heard the Apostle of Allah condone lying, except in these three
situations:
For reconciliation among people.
In war.
Amongst spouses, to keep peace in the family.
One passage from the Hadith quotes Mohammed as saying: "The sons of
Adam are accountable for all lies except those uttered to help bring
reconciliation between Muslims."
Another says, "Aba Kahl, reconcile among people."(Meaning: even
through lying.)
The following quote demonstrates the broadness of situations in which
the prophet permitted lying. "The sons of Adam are accountable for all
lies with these exceptions: During war because war is deception, to
reconcile among two quarreling men, and for a man to appease his
wife."
The principle of Al-Takeyya
The Arabic word, "Takeyya", means "to prevent," or guard against. The
principle of Al Takeyya conveys the understanding that Muslims are
permitted to lie as a preventive measure against anticipated harm to
one's self or fellow Muslims. This principle gives Muslims the liberty
to lie under circumstances that they perceive as life threatening.
They can even deny the faith, if they do not mean it in their hearts.
Al-Takeyya is based on the following Quranic verse:
"Let not the believers Take for friends or helpers Unbelievers rather
than believers: if any do that, in nothing will there be help from
Allah: except by way of precaution (prevention), that ye may Guard
yourselves from them (prevent them from harming you.) But Allah
cautions you (To remember) Himself; for the final goal is to Allah."
Surah 3: 28
According to this verse a Muslim can pretend to befriend infidels (in
violation of the teachings of Islam) and display adherence with their
unbelief to prevent them from harming him.
Under the concept of Takeyya and short of killing another human being,
if under the threat of force, it is legitimate for Muslims to act
contrary to their faith. The following actions are acceptable:
Drink wine, abandon prayers, and skip fasting during Ramadan.
Renounce belief in Allah.
Kneel in homage to a deity other than Allah.
Utter insincere oaths.
The implications of the principle of Al-Takeyya
Unfortunately, when dealing with Muslims, one must keep in mind that
Muslims can communicate something with apparent sincerity, when in
reality they may have just the opposite agenda in their hearts.
Bluntly stated, Islam permits Muslims to lie anytime that they
perceive that their own well-being, or that of Islam, is threatened.
In the sphere of international politics, the question is: Can Muslim
countries be trusted to keep their end of the agreements that they
sign with non-Muslim nations? It is a known Islamic practice, that
when Muslims are weak they can agree with most anything. Once they
become strong, then they negate what they formerly vowed.
The principle of sanctioning lying for the cause of Islam bears grave
implications in matters relating to the spread of the religion of
Islam in the West. Muslim activists employ deceptive tactics in their
attempts to polish Islam's image and make it more attractive to
prospective converts. They carefully try to avoid, obscure, and omit
mentioning any of the negative Islamic texts and teachings.
An example of Islamic deception is that Muslim activists always quote
the passages of the Quran from the early part of Mohammed's ministry
while living in Mecca. These texts are peaceful and exemplify
tolerance towards those that are not followers of Islam. All the
while, they are fully aware that most of these passages were abrogated
(cancelled and replaced) by passages that came after he migrated to
Medina. The replacement verses reflect prejudice, intolerance, and
endorse violence upon unbelievers
In conclusion, it is imperative to understand, that Muslim leaders can
use this loop-hole in their religion, to absolve them from any
permanent commitment. It is also important to know that what Muslim
activists say to spread Islam may not always be the whole truth. When
dealing with Muslims, what they say is not the issue. The real issue
is, what they actually mean in their hearts.
For information or comments, write to Feed...@IslamReview.com
http://www.islamreview.com/articles/lying.shtml
By Abdullah Al Araby
Like most religions, Islam in general, forbids lying. The Quran says,
"Truly Allah guides not one who transgresses and lies." Surah 40:28.
In the Hadith, Mohammed was also quoted as saying, "Be honest because
honesty leads to goodness, and goodness leads to Paradise. Beware of
falsehood because it leads to immorality, and immorality leads to
Hell."
However, unlike most religions, within Islam there are certain
provisions under which lying is not simply tolerated, but actually
encouraged. The book "The spirit of Islam," by the Muslim scholar,
Afif A. Tabbarah was written to promote Islam. On page 247, Tabbarah
stated: "Lying is not always bad, to be sure; there are times when
telling a lie is more profitable and better for the general welfare,
and for the settlement of conciliation among people, than telling the
truth. To this effect, the Prophet says: 'He is not a false person who
(through lies) settles conciliation among people, supports good or
says what is good."
In exploring this puzzling duplicity within Islam, we will examine
first some examples from recent and ancient Islamic history. These
examples demonstrate that lying is a common policy amongst Islamic
clerics and statesmen.
In June of 1967 Egypt was defeated by Israel and lost the Sinai
Peninsula during the "Six Day War." Subsequently, Egypt's primary
focus became to regain the lost territory. President Nasser, and then,
President Sadat, adopted the motto: "No voice should rise over the
voice of The Battle." The soldiers that had been drafted in 1967 were
kept in service and remained on high alert in the expectation that at
any day "the battle" would ensue. Nonetheless, years pasted and
Egypt's people became disgruntle with the political hype and the "no
peace, and no war" status. In 1972 Sadat proclaimed with finality that
it was to be the year for the long anticipated battle. Throughout the
year he swore, "I swear to you by my honor that this year will not
pass by, before we launch The Battle." People believed him because he
was staking his reputation and honor through an oath. To everyone's
amazement the year passed without a single shot being fired. As a
result many, inside and outside Egypt, began to dismiss him as a "hot
air bluff". This opinion was confirmed in the following year of 1973.
He made no further mention of his oath about the battle. Many of the
draftees were released and numerous officers were given vacation
furloughs. Then without warning, in October of 1973, he launched the
attack and what was known as the Yom Kippur war began.
As a military commander, Sadat was expected to use the element of
surprise to trick the enemy. As a devout Muslim, Sadat was not the
least bit concerned about his un-kept oath. He understood that the
history and teachings of Islam would exempt him from spiritual
accountability if he used lies as a foundation for a strategic
military maneuver.
This point is proven by many incidences in the life of Mohammed. He
often lied and instructed his followers to do the same. He
rationalized that the prospect of success in missions to extend
Islam's influence overrode Allah's initial prohibitions against lying.
A good example of sanctioned lying is the account of the assassination
of Kaab Ibn al-Ashrf, a member of the Jewish tribe, Banu al-Nudair. It
had been reported that Kaab had shown support for the Quraishites in
their battle against Mohammed. This was compounded by another report
that infuriated Mohammed. It was alleged that Kaab had recited amorous
poetry to Muslim women. Mohammed asked for volunteers to rid him of
Kaab Ibn al-Ashraf. As Mohammed put it, Kaab had "Harmed Allah and His
Apostle." At that time Kaab Ibn al-Ashraf, and his tribe were strong,
so it was not easy for a stranger to infiltrate and execute the task.
A Muslim man by the name of Ibn Muslima, volunteered for the murderous
project on the condition that Mohammed would allow him to lie. With
Mohammed's consent, Ibn Muslima, went to Kaab and told him fabricated
stories that reflected discontent about Mohammed's leadership. When he
had gained Kaab's trust he lured him away from his house one night and
murdered him in a remote area under the cover of darkness.
A similar example can be found in the story of killing Shaaban Ibn
Khalid al-Hazly. It was rumored that Shaaban was gathering an army to
wage war on Mohammed. Mohammed retaliated by ordering Abdullah Ibn
Anis to kill Shaaban. Again, the would-be killer asked the prophet's
permission to lie. Mohammed agreed and then ordered the killer to lie
by stating that he was a member of the Khazaa clan. When Shaaban saw
Abdullah coming, he asked him, "From what tribe are you?" Abdullah
answered, "From Khazaa." He then added, "I have heard that you are
gathering an army to fight Mohammed and I came to join you." Abdullah
started walking with Shaaban telling him how Mohammed came to them
with the heretical teachings of Islam, and complained how Mohammed
badmouthed the Arab patriarchs and ruined the Arab's hopes. They
continued in conversation until they arrived at Shaaban's tent.
Shaaban's companions departed and Shaaban invited Abdullah to come
inside and rest. Abdullah sat there until the atmosphere was quiet and
he sensed that everyone was asleep. Abdullah severed Shaaban's head
and carried it to Mohammed as a trophy. When Mohammed sighted
Abdullah, he jubilantly shouted, "Your face has been triumphant
(Aflaha al- wajho)." Abdullah returned the greeting by saying, "It is
your face, Apostle of Allah, who has been triumphant. (Aflaha wajhoka,
ye rasoul Allah)."
Provisions for lying in Islam
Most Muslims are familiar with the principles of Islam that will
justify lying in situations where they sense the need to do so. Among
these are:
War is deception.
The necessities justify the forbidden.
If faced by two evils, choose the lesser of the two.
These principles are derived from passages found in the Quran and the
Hadith.
In the Quran, Allah, allegedly, says:
" Allah will not call you to account for what is futile in your oaths,
but He will call you to account for your deliberate oaths: for
expiation, feed ten indigent persons, on a scale of the average for
the food of your families; or clothe them; or give a slave his
freedom. If that is beyond your means, fast for three days. That is
the expiation for the oaths ye have sworn. But keep to your oaths.
Thus doth Allah make clear to you His signs, that ye may be grateful."
Surah 5:89
"Allah will not call you to account for thoughtlessness (vain) in your
oaths, but for the intention in your hearts; and He is Oft-forgiving,
Most Forbearing." Surah 2:225
"Any one who, after accepting faith in Allah, utters Unbelief, except
under compulsion, his heart remaining firm in Faith - but such as open
their breast to Unbelief, on them is Wrath from Allah, and theirs will
be a dreadful Penalty." Surah 16: 106
The noted Islamic commentator, Al-Tabary explained Surah 16:106 as a
verse that had been revealed to Mohammed after he learned that Ammar
Ibn Yasser was forced to deny his faith in Mohammed when kidnapped by
the Banu Moghera tribe. Mohammed consoled Ammar by telling him, "If
they turned, you turn." (Meaning: if they again capture you, you are
allowed to deny me again.)
These and similar passages from the Quran clearly reveal that Muslims'
unintentional lies are forgivable and that even their intentional lies
can be absolved by performing extra duties. It is also clear that if
forced to do so, Muslims can lie while under oath and can even falsely
deny faith in Allah, as long as they maintain the profession of faith
in their hearts.
In the Hadith, Mohammed, emphasizes the same concept.
From "Ehiaa Oloum al-Din," by the famous Islamic scholar al-Ghazali,
Vol. 3: PP.284-287:
One of Mohammed's daughters, Umm Kalthoum, testified that she had
never heard the Apostle of Allah condone lying, except in these three
situations:
For reconciliation among people.
In war.
Amongst spouses, to keep peace in the family.
One passage from the Hadith quotes Mohammed as saying: "The sons of
Adam are accountable for all lies except those uttered to help bring
reconciliation between Muslims."
Another says, "Aba Kahl, reconcile among people."(Meaning: even
through lying.)
The following quote demonstrates the broadness of situations in which
the prophet permitted lying. "The sons of Adam are accountable for all
lies with these exceptions: During war because war is deception, to
reconcile among two quarreling men, and for a man to appease his
wife."
The principle of Al-Takeyya
The Arabic word, "Takeyya", means "to prevent," or guard against. The
principle of Al Takeyya conveys the understanding that Muslims are
permitted to lie as a preventive measure against anticipated harm to
one's self or fellow Muslims. This principle gives Muslims the liberty
to lie under circumstances that they perceive as life threatening.
They can even deny the faith, if they do not mean it in their hearts.
Al-Takeyya is based on the following Quranic verse:
"Let not the believers Take for friends or helpers Unbelievers rather
than believers: if any do that, in nothing will there be help from
Allah: except by way of precaution (prevention), that ye may Guard
yourselves from them (prevent them from harming you.) But Allah
cautions you (To remember) Himself; for the final goal is to Allah."
Surah 3: 28
According to this verse a Muslim can pretend to befriend infidels (in
violation of the teachings of Islam) and display adherence with their
unbelief to prevent them from harming him.
Under the concept of Takeyya and short of killing another human being,
if under the threat of force, it is legitimate for Muslims to act
contrary to their faith. The following actions are acceptable:
Drink wine, abandon prayers, and skip fasting during Ramadan.
Renounce belief in Allah.
Kneel in homage to a deity other than Allah.
Utter insincere oaths.
The implications of the principle of Al-Takeyya
Unfortunately, when dealing with Muslims, one must keep in mind that
Muslims can communicate something with apparent sincerity, when in
reality they may have just the opposite agenda in their hearts.
Bluntly stated, Islam permits Muslims to lie anytime that they
perceive that their own well-being, or that of Islam, is threatened.
In the sphere of international politics, the question is: Can Muslim
countries be trusted to keep their end of the agreements that they
sign with non-Muslim nations? It is a known Islamic practice, that
when Muslims are weak they can agree with most anything. Once they
become strong, then they negate what they formerly vowed.
The principle of sanctioning lying for the cause of Islam bears grave
implications in matters relating to the spread of the religion of
Islam in the West. Muslim activists employ deceptive tactics in their
attempts to polish Islam's image and make it more attractive to
prospective converts. They carefully try to avoid, obscure, and omit
mentioning any of the negative Islamic texts and teachings.
An example of Islamic deception is that Muslim activists always quote
the passages of the Quran from the early part of Mohammed's ministry
while living in Mecca. These texts are peaceful and exemplify
tolerance towards those that are not followers of Islam. All the
while, they are fully aware that most of these passages were abrogated
(cancelled and replaced) by passages that came after he migrated to
Medina. The replacement verses reflect prejudice, intolerance, and
endorse violence upon unbelievers
In conclusion, it is imperative to understand, that Muslim leaders can
use this loop-hole in their religion, to absolve them from any
permanent commitment. It is also important to know that what Muslim
activists say to spread Islam may not always be the whole truth. When
dealing with Muslims, what they say is not the issue. The real issue
is, what they actually mean in their hearts.
For information or comments, write to Feed...@IslamReview.com
http://www.islamreview.com/articles/lying.shtml
Aviroce
Feb 4, 2012, 6:06:23 PM2/4/12
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You have prepared a new Koran for Muslims. How could you?
Lies is inherent in both Jew ideology and Jew operations. Look at
Herzle's book of "Protocols of the Learned Leaders of Zion" an intense
book based on deception and lies to achieve the Kingdom of Zion where
non-Jews are considered non-human. The same applies to the Babylonian
Talmud and Torahs where humanity is to be enslaved and many to be
slaughtered as Jews are the super race much like Nazism. There are
many articles on these issues and you need to erase them from all
people's files so that only the Zionist file would be the word of
HaShem, Jew idol of Evil.
> contrary to their faith. The following actions are acceptable: ...
>
> read more »
Lies is inherent in both Jew ideology and Jew operations. Look at
Herzle's book of "Protocols of the Learned Leaders of Zion" an intense
book based on deception and lies to achieve the Kingdom of Zion where
non-Jews are considered non-human. The same applies to the Babylonian
Talmud and Torahs where humanity is to be enslaved and many to be
slaughtered as Jews are the super race much like Nazism. There are
many articles on these issues and you need to erase them from all
people's files so that only the Zionist file would be the word of
HaShem, Jew idol of Evil.
>
> read more »
jwshe...@satx.rr.com
Feb 5, 2012, 12:47:28 AM2/5/12
to
Jihadwatch
U.S.: 37 Indonesian Christians to be deported despite fears of
persecution
There appears to be a state of official denial of how conditions for
religious minorities in Indonesia have deteriorated, even just in the
past 10 years. Officially, Indonesia is still modern, moderate, and
tolerant, and that's that. Everything is fine on paper, so everything
must be fine in reality. "37 Indonesian Christians to Be Deported From
US This Month," from Antara, February 3:
A group of Indonesian Christians to be deported from the United States
despite voicing fears of religious persecution at home are scheduled
to return on Feb. 29, the Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
That group of 37 will be joined by 58 more in November, Foreign
Ministry spokesman Michael Tene said.
The 95 Indonesians, who spent the last 20 years in Garrison City, New
Hampshire, are joining at least 70 more of their countrymen living in
New Jersey who received similar notices from US immigration
authorities.
They had all been petitioning US officials for a bill that would allow
them to reapply for asylum after missing a key cut-off date.
Tene on Friday urged the citizens to abide by US laws.
“These are our citizens who have entered the US and their stay permits
have expired. Therefore, we appeal to them to abide by the existing
rules,” he said.
Tene also said that their fears of being persecuted at home were not a
valid reason for the Indonesians to seek asylum in the United States.
“Their reasons are not true because no one is threatening their
religious freedom in Indonesia.”
He said the state guarantees religious freedom in Indonesia, and that
cases of religious persecution were isolated incidents.
“There has never been a conscious or systematic effort to suppress
minority groups. All kinds of groups and religions are allowed to
exist in Indonesia,” he said.
There has indeed been a systematic effort to suppress the Ahmadis, and
the government has turned a blind eye to persecution of Christians by
thugs like the Islamic Defenders Front and local governments like that
of Bogor. For that matter, there is a major difference between
"allowed to exist" and genuine freedom of religion.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/02/us-37-indonesian-christians-to-be-deported-despite-fears-of-persecution.html
http://www.jihadwatch.org/
U.S.: 37 Indonesian Christians to be deported despite fears of
persecution
There appears to be a state of official denial of how conditions for
religious minorities in Indonesia have deteriorated, even just in the
past 10 years. Officially, Indonesia is still modern, moderate, and
tolerant, and that's that. Everything is fine on paper, so everything
must be fine in reality. "37 Indonesian Christians to Be Deported From
US This Month," from Antara, February 3:
A group of Indonesian Christians to be deported from the United States
despite voicing fears of religious persecution at home are scheduled
to return on Feb. 29, the Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
That group of 37 will be joined by 58 more in November, Foreign
Ministry spokesman Michael Tene said.
The 95 Indonesians, who spent the last 20 years in Garrison City, New
Hampshire, are joining at least 70 more of their countrymen living in
New Jersey who received similar notices from US immigration
authorities.
They had all been petitioning US officials for a bill that would allow
them to reapply for asylum after missing a key cut-off date.
Tene on Friday urged the citizens to abide by US laws.
“These are our citizens who have entered the US and their stay permits
have expired. Therefore, we appeal to them to abide by the existing
rules,” he said.
Tene also said that their fears of being persecuted at home were not a
valid reason for the Indonesians to seek asylum in the United States.
“Their reasons are not true because no one is threatening their
religious freedom in Indonesia.”
He said the state guarantees religious freedom in Indonesia, and that
cases of religious persecution were isolated incidents.
“There has never been a conscious or systematic effort to suppress
minority groups. All kinds of groups and religions are allowed to
exist in Indonesia,” he said.
There has indeed been a systematic effort to suppress the Ahmadis, and
the government has turned a blind eye to persecution of Christians by
thugs like the Islamic Defenders Front and local governments like that
of Bogor. For that matter, there is a major difference between
"allowed to exist" and genuine freedom of religion.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/02/us-37-indonesian-christians-to-be-deported-despite-fears-of-persecution.html
http://www.jihadwatch.org/
Aviroce
Feb 5, 2012, 1:20:24 AM2/5/12
to
"Kike Online: Ilan Ramon" <lost_jew_in_sp...@yahoo.com> posted the
following articles about the Talmud:
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Jewish Talmudic Doctrine: Non-Jews are Not Humans
The Talmud specifically defines all who are not Jews as non-human
animals,
and specifically dehumanizes Gentiles as not being descendants of
Adam. We
will now list some of the Talmud passages which relate to this topic.
Menahoth 43b-44a. A Jewish man is obligated to say the following
prayer
every day: Thank you God for not making me a Gentile, a woman or a
slave.
Kehuboth 6b. [Now] does it not mean that if he had yet no intercourse
[with
his wife] he may have intercourse [with her] even on Sabbath? Said
Raba: No,
except Sabbath. Said Abaye to him: But it says, `until the night
following
the Sabbath [one gives her] four nights'? Only, said Raba, when he
already
had intercourse [with her]. If [it were, as you say,] after he
already
had
intercourse, what does he let us hear? He lets us hear that it is
allowed to
have intercourse on Sabbath, as that [statement] of Samuel [teaches],
for
Samuel said: One may enter into a narrow opening on Sabbath, although
he
causes pebbles to break loose.
Uses of Oil of Annointing. Our Rabbis have taught: He who pours the
oil of
anointing over cattle or vessels is not guilty; if over gentiles
[Hebrew:
goyim] or the dead, he is not guilty. The law relating to cattle and
vessels
is right, for it is written: "Upon the flesh of man [Hebrew: adam]
shall it
not be poured [Exodus 30:32]"; and cattle and vessels are not man
[adam].
Also with regard to the dead, [it is plausible] that he is exempt,
since
after death one is called corpse and not a man [adam]. But why is one
exempt
in the case of gentiles [goyim]; are they not in the category of man
[adam]?--No, it is written: "And ye my sheep, the sheep of my
pasture,
are
man [adam] [Ezekiel 34:31]": Ye are called man [adam] but gentiles
[goyim]
are not called man [adam]. (Ed. but by implication, Cain),
In the above passage, the Rabbis are discussing the Mosaic law which
forbids
applying holy oil to men. In the discussion, the Rabbis state that it
is not
a sin to apply the holy oil to gentiles, since gentiles are not human
beings
(literally, Adam, and are by implication, Cain).
Yebamoth 61a: It was taught: And so did R. Simeon ben Yohai state
[61a] that
the graves of gentiles [goyim] do not impart levitical uncleanness by
an
ohel [standing or bending over a grave], for it is said, "And ye my
sheep
the sheep of my pasture, are men [adam]" [Ezekiel 34:31]; you are
called men
[adam] but the idolaters are not called men [adam].
The Mosaic law states that touching a human corpse or grave imparts
uncleanness to those who touch it. But the Talmud here teaches that
if
a Jew
touches the grave of a gentile, it does not make him unclean, since
gentiles
are not human (literally, Adam).
Baba Mezia 114b: Said he [Rabbah] to him: Art thou not a priest: why
then
dost thou stand in a cemetery? - He replied: Has the Master not
studied the
laws of purity? For it has been taught: R. Simeon ben Yohai said: The
graves
of gentiles [goyim] do not defile, for it is written, "And ye my
flock, the
flock of my pastures, are men [adam]" [Ezekiel 34:31]; only ye are
designated men [Adam].
A Jewish priest was standing in a graveyard. When asked why he was
standing
there in apparent violation of the Mosaic law, he replied that it was
permissible, since the law only prohibits Jews from coming into
contact with
the graves of humans [adam], and he was standing in a gentile
graveyard.
Since the so-called Scriptural proof text (Ezekiel 34:31) repeatedly
cited
in the above three Talmud passages in reality does not prove that
only
Jews
are human, it is self-evident that the Talmudic sages who asserted
the
preceding absurdities about Gentiles were already anti-Gentile
racists
or
ideologues who, in desperate search of some proof of their position,
distorted an Old Testament passage in order to justify their bigotry.
Their
ideology came first, their "proof" second.
Berakoth 58a R. Shila administered lashes to a man who had
intercourse
with
an Egyptian woman. The man went and informed against him to the
Government,
saying: There is a man among the Jews who passes judgment without the
permission of the Government. An official was sent to [summon] him.
When he
came he was asked: Why did you flog that man? He replied: Because he
had
intercourse with a she-ass.
They said to him: Have you witnesses? He replied: I have. Elijah
thereupon
came in the form of a man and gave evidence. They said to him: If
that
is
the case he ought to be put to death! He replied: Since we have been
exiled
from our land, we have no authority to put to death; do with him what
you
please.
While they were considering his case, R. Shila exclaimed, "Thine, Oh
Lord,
is the greatness and the power" [1 Chronicles 29:11] What are you
saying?
they asked him. He replied: What I am saying is this: Blessed is the
All-Merciful who has made the earthly royalty on the model of the
heavenly,
and has invested you with dominion, and made you lovers of justice.
They said to him: Are you so solicitous for the honor of the
Government?
They handed him a staff and said to him: You may act as judge. When
he
went
out that man said to him: Does the All-Merciful perform miracles for
liars?
He replied: Wretch! Are they not called asses? For it is written:
"Whose
flesh is as the flesh of asses" [Ezekiel 23:20]. He noticed that the
man was
about to inform them that he had called them asses. He said: This man
is a
persecutor, and the Torah has said: If a man comes to kill you, rise
early
and kill him first. So he struck him with the staff and killed him.
He
then
said: Since a miracle has been wrought for me through this verse, I
will
expound it."
Our apologies for subjecting our readers to the preceding lengthy
Talmudic
drivel, but it is best to include all of it to demonstrate its
depravity.
In addition to having Elijah float down from heaven to deceive the
Gentile
court, the Talmud teaches that Gentiles are in reality animals, hence
Rabbi
Shila (and Elijah) did not really lie at all. It also teaches that
anyone
(even a Jewish man) who reveals this Talmud truth about non-Jews
deserves
execution, since revealing it makes Gentiles angry and causes
persecution of
the Jews.
We can only rejoice that the majority of Jews today do not follow
such
heinous teachings; only a few openly espouse the Talmud as divinely
inspired, although unfortunately these few are sometimes to be found
in
influential leadership positions.
(Parenthetically, the above Scripture proof-text cited by the rabbis,
does
not prove that Gentiles are not human, being animals. The passage
from
Ezekiel in the Bible only says that some Egyptians had large sex
organs and
copious emissions. This does not in any way prove or even connote
that
the
Egyptians being referred to in the Bible were considered animals).
Having sufficiently proven our point from the Talmud, namely that the
Talmud
teaches that Gentiles are not human [Hebrew: Adam], and are really
animals,
we will list a few other passages which expound on the Ezekiel 23:20
"proof
text", allowing our readers to research them on their own: Arakin
19b,
Berakoth 25b, Niddah 45a, Shabbath 150a, Yebamoth 98a.
The original text of Sanhedrin 37a applies God's approval only to the
saving
of Jewish lives. This is demonstrable by referring to Jewish books
such as
the Hesronot Ha-shas.
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Genocide Advocated by The Talmud
Minor Tractates. Soferim 15, Rule 10. This is the saying of Rabbi
Simon ben
Yohai: Tob shebe goyyim harog ("Even the best of the Gentiles should
all be
killed").
This passage is not from the Soncino edition but is from the original
Hebrew
of the Babylonian Talmud as quoted by the 1907 Jewish Encyclopedia,
published by Funk and Wagnalls and compiled by Isidore Singer, under
the
entry, "Gentile," (p. 617).
This original Talmud passage has been concealed in translation. The
Jewish
Encyclopedia states that, "...in the various versions the reading has
been
altered, 'The best among the Egyptians' being generally substituted."
In the
Soncino version: "the best of the heathens" (Minor Tractates, Soferim
41a-b].
Israelis annually take part in a national pilgrimage to the grave of
Simon
ben Yohai, to honor this rabbi who advocated the extermination of
non-
Jews.
(Jewish Press of June 9, 1989, p. 56B).
On Purim, Feb. 25, 1994, Israeli army officer Baruch Goldstein, an
orthodox
Khazar from Brooklyn, massacred 40 Palestinian civilians, including
children, while they knelt in prayer in a mosque. Goldstein was a
disciple
of the late Rabbi Kahane who has stated that his view of Arabs as
"dogs" is
"from the Talmud." (Cf. CBS 60 Minutes, "Kahane").
Univ. of Jerusalem Prof. Ehud Sprinzak described Kahane and
Goldstein's
philosophy: "They believe it's God's will that they commit violence
against
'goyim,' a Hebrew term for non-Jews." (NY Daily News, Feb. 26, 1994,
p. 5).
Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg declared, "We have to recognize that Jewish
blood and
the blood of a goy are not the same thing." (NY Times, June 6, 1989,
p.
5).
Rabbi Yaacov Perrin says, "One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish
fingernail." (NY Daily News, Feb. 28, 1994, p.6).
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A Great Rabbi Deceives A Woman
Kallah 51a (Soncino Minor Tractates). Teaches that God approves of
rabbis
who lie: "The elders were once sitting in the gate when two young
lads
passed by; one covered his head and the other uncovered his head. Of
him who
uncovered his head Rabbi Eliezer remarked that he is a bastard. Rabbi
Joshua
remarked that he is the son of a niddah (a child conceived during a
woman's
menstrual period). Rabbi Akiba said that he is both a bastard and a
son of a
niddah.
"They said, 'What induced you to contradict the opinion of your
colleagues?'
He replied, "I will prove it concerning him." He went to the lad's
mother
and found her sitting in the market selling beans. "He said to her,
'My
daughter, if you will answer the question I will put to you, I will
bring
you to the world to come.' (eternal life). She said to him, 'Swear it
to
me.'
Rabbi Akiba, taking the oath with his lips but annulling it in his
heart,
said to her, 'What is the status of your son?' She replied, 'When I
entered
the bridal chamber I was niddah (menstruating) and my husband kept
away from
me; but my best man had intercourse with me and this son was born to
me.'
Consequently the child was both a bastard and the son of a niddah.
It was declared, '..Blessed be the God of Israel Who Revealed His
Secret to
Rabbi Akiba..."
In addition to the theme that God rewards clever liars, the preceding
discussion is actually about Christ (the lad who 'uncovered his
head'). The
reference to the lad's mother is of course to the mother of Jesus,
Blessed
Mary (called Miriam and sometimes, Miriam the hairdresser, in
Talmud).
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Deception and Dissimulation
The response of the orthodox rabbis to documentation regarding the
racism
and hatred in the Talmud is simply to brazenly lie, in keeping with
the
Talmud's Baba Kamma 113a which states that Jews may use lies
("subterfuges")
to circumvent a Gentile. The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a powerful,
multi-million dollar rabbinical propaganda center dispatched Rabbi
Daniel
Landes in 1995 to deny that the Talmud dehumanizes non-Jews. "This is
utter
rot," he said. His proof? Why, his word, of course.
We however, in this writing, have furnished the reader with
documentation
direct from the original Talmudic texts, as well as from the writings
of the
Jews' own "greatest" Talmud authority, Moses Maimonides.
In 1994, Rabbi Tzvi Marx, director of Applied Education at the Shalom
Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, made a remarkable admission
concerning
how
Jews in the past have issued two sets of texts: the authentic
Talmudic
texts
and commentaries with which they instruct their own youth in the
Talmud
schools (kollels) and "censured and amended" versions which they
disseminate
to the gullible goyim (non-Jews) for public consumption.
Rabbi Marx states that in the version of Maimonides' teachings
published for
public consumption, Maimonides is made to say that whoever kills a
human
being transgresses the law.
But, Rabbi Marx points out "... that this only reflects the censured
and
amended printed text, whereas the original manuscripts have it only
as
"whoever kills an Israelite." ("Tikkun: A Bi-Monthly Jewish
Critique,"
May-June, 1994).
The Jewish book, "Hesronot Ha-shas" (i.e. "that which is removed from
the
Talmud," cf. William Popper, "The Censorship of Hebrew Books," p.
59),
is
important in this regard.
"Hesronot Ha-shas" was reprinted in 1989 by Sinai Publishing of Tel-
Aviv.
Hesronot Ha-shas is valuable because it lists some of the original
Talmud
texts that were later changed or omitted, with the resulting
falsified
texts
nowadays being cited for Gentile consumption as authentic.
Popper (pp. 58-59), states: "It was not always that long passages ...
were
censored ... but often single words alone were omitted; ... Often, in
these
cases, another method of correction was used in place of omission -
substitution."
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, the translator of the most recent English
version of
the Babylonian Talmud, says, "Indeed, almost every passage dealing
with
non-Jews must be suspected of having undergone some change." (Talmud
Reference Guide, by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, Random House, New York,
1989, p.
50).
For example, the translators of the English Soncino version of the
Talmud
sometimes translate the Hebrew word goyim (Gentiles) under any number
of
terms such as "heathen, Cuthean, Egyptian, idolater" etc. But these
are
actually references to Gentiles (all non-Jews). In footnote 5 of the
Soncino
edition Talmud it is stated: "Cuthean (Samaritan) was here
substituted
for
the original goy ..." Christians are sometimes referred to by the
code
word
Min or Minim.
It is the standard disinformation practice of the Pharisees to deny
the
existence of the racist Talmudic passages we have cited, in order to
claim
that such passages are the "fabrications of 'anti-Semites'."
In 1994, the 80 year old Dowager Lady Jane Birdwood was arrested and
prosecuted in a criminal court in London, England for the "crime" of
publishing in her pamphlet, "The Longest Hatred," the truthful
statement
that the Talmud contains anti-Gentile and anti-Christian passages.
In the course of her trial, which was ignored by the U.S. media, a
rabbi was
called as a prosecution witness. The rabbi proceeded to flatly deny
that the
Talmud contained anti-Gentile and anti-Christ passages and on the
basis of
the rabbi's "prestige," the old woman was convicted and sentenced to
three
months in jail and fined the equivalent of $1,000.
We have here provided the reader with authentic documentary passages
from
the Talmud proving that the Talmud constitutes Jewish supremacist
hate
literature. Hebrew University Professor Israel Shahak, in his
monumental
1994 work, Jewish History, Jewish Religion (Pluto Press), has also
confirmed
the hate and racism contained in the Talmud.
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Aviroce
Feb 5, 2012, 1:32:36 PM2/5/12
to
Sabri Jeryis was deported from his country of birth, Plestine/Israel
because he wrote "Israel, a colonial settler." How about the freedom
of speech? How about Miss Corrie, American activist siding with the
Palestinian issues, being BULLDOZED BY ISRAEL LITERALLY AND
PHYSICALLY?!! How about that boy? Your deception and propaganda has
come to its final end. Look for the deceived somewhere else.
> http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/02/us-37-indonesian-christians-to-be-d...
>
> http://www.jihadwatch.org/
because he wrote "Israel, a colonial settler." How about the freedom
of speech? How about Miss Corrie, American activist siding with the
Palestinian issues, being BULLDOZED BY ISRAEL LITERALLY AND
PHYSICALLY?!! How about that boy? Your deception and propaganda has
come to its final end. Look for the deceived somewhere else.
>
> http://www.jihadwatch.org/
jwshe...@satx.rr.com
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Dare To Inquire: "The Bloody Borders of Islam"
by Bruce Kodish
Political scientist Samuel Huntington has made some interesting
comments on the current state of international politics in which he
trys to explain the disproportionate world-wide involvement of Muslims
in violence and terrorism, what he calls the "bloody borders of
Islam."
Huntington has noted that:
"While groups from all religions have engaged in various forms of
violence and terrorism, the figures make it clear that in the past
decade Muslims have been involved in far more of these activities than
people of other religions. One of the things that attracted a lot of
attention in The Clash of Civilizations was my use of the phrase "the
bloody borders of Islam." But if you look around the Muslim world you
see that in the 1990s Muslims were fighting non-Muslims in Bosnia,
Kosovo, Macedonia, Chechnya, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Kashmir,
Indonesia, the Philippines, the Middle East, Sudan, Nigeria, and other
places. Muslims have been fighting one another also. The International
Institute for Strategic Studies surveyed the armed conflicts going on
in the world in 2000, and its figures show that twenty-three of the
thirty-two conflicts under way involved Muslims.
Why is this?"
For Huntington's complete comments, read Religion, Culture, and
International Conflict After September 11
http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v256/__show_article/_a000256-000091.htm
by Bruce Kodish
Political scientist Samuel Huntington has made some interesting
comments on the current state of international politics in which he
trys to explain the disproportionate world-wide involvement of Muslims
in violence and terrorism, what he calls the "bloody borders of
Islam."
Huntington has noted that:
"While groups from all religions have engaged in various forms of
violence and terrorism, the figures make it clear that in the past
decade Muslims have been involved in far more of these activities than
people of other religions. One of the things that attracted a lot of
attention in The Clash of Civilizations was my use of the phrase "the
bloody borders of Islam." But if you look around the Muslim world you
see that in the 1990s Muslims were fighting non-Muslims in Bosnia,
Kosovo, Macedonia, Chechnya, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Kashmir,
Indonesia, the Philippines, the Middle East, Sudan, Nigeria, and other
places. Muslims have been fighting one another also. The International
Institute for Strategic Studies surveyed the armed conflicts going on
in the world in 2000, and its figures show that twenty-three of the
thirty-two conflicts under way involved Muslims.
Why is this?"
For Huntington's complete comments, read Religion, Culture, and
International Conflict After September 11
http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v256/__show_article/_a000256-000091.htm
Aviroce
Feb 6, 2012, 11:37:57 PM2/6/12
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GAZA CHILD MASSACRE PHOTOS ISRAEL = BABY KILLERS!
On a Single Typical Day in the GAZA CONCENTRATION CAMPS
http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-genocide-palestinian-gaza-november122006.htm
Women, Children and Young Men Killed By Israeli Zionist Thugs...
The Israeli Holocaust Against the Palestinians
http://www.revisionisthistory.org/cgi-bin/store/agora.cgi?p_id=125
> http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v256/__show_article/_a000256-00...
On a Single Typical Day in the GAZA CONCENTRATION CAMPS
http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-genocide-palestinian-gaza-november122006.htm
Women, Children and Young Men Killed By Israeli Zionist Thugs...
The Israeli Holocaust Against the Palestinians
http://www.revisionisthistory.org/cgi-bin/store/agora.cgi?p_id=125
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The Global War on Christians in the Muslim World
From one end of the muslim world to the other, Christians are being
murdered for their faith.
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The Drudge Report
http://www.drudgereport.com/
February 6, 2012
We hear so often about Muslims as victims of abuse in the West and
combatants in the Arab Spring's fight against tyranny. But, in fact, a
wholly different kind of war is underway-an unrecognized battle
costing thousands of lives. Christians are being killed in the Islamic
world because of their religion. It is a rising genocide that ought to
provoke global alarm.
The portrayal of Muslims as victims or heroes is at best partially
accurate. In recent years the violent oppression of Christian
minorities has become the norm in Muslim-majority nations stretching
from West Africa and the Middle East to South Asia and Oceania. In
some countries it is governments and their agents that have burned
churches and imprisoned parishioners. In others, rebel groups and
vigilantes have taken matters into their own hands, murdering
Christians and driving them from regions where their roots go back
centuries.
The media's reticence on the subject no doubt has several sources. One
may be fear of provoking additional violence. Another is most likely
the influence of lobbying groups such as the Organization of Islamic
Cooperation-a kind of United Nations of Islam centered in Saudi Arabia-
and the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Over the past decade,
these and similar groups have been remarkably successful in persuading
leading public figures and journalists in the West to think of each
and every example of perceived anti-Muslim discrimination as an
expression of a systematic and sinister derangement called
"Islamophobia"-a term that is meant to elicit the same moral
disapproval as xenophobia or homophobia.
But a fair-minded assessment of recent events and trends leads to the
conclusion that the scale and severity of Islamophobia pales in
comparison with the bloody Christophobia currently coursing through
Muslim-majority nations from one end of the globe to the other. The
conspiracy of silence surrounding this violent expression of religious
intolerance has to stop. Nothing less than the fate of Christianity-
and ultimately of all religious minorities-in the Islamic world is at
stake. Egypt Coptic Christians
At least 24 Coptic Christians were killed in Cairo during clashes with
the Egyptian Army on Oct. 9., Thomas Hartwell / Redux
From blasphemy laws to brutal murders to bombings to mutilations and
the burning of holy sites, Christians in so many nations live in fear.
In Nigeria many have suffered all of these forms of persecution. The
nation has the largest Christian minority (40 percent) in proportion
to its population (160 million) of any majority-Muslim country. For
years, Muslims and Christians in Nigeria have lived on the edge of
civil war. Islamist radicals provoke much if not most of the tension.
The newest such organization is an outfit that calls itself Boko
Haram, which means "Western education is sacrilege." Its aim is to
establish Sharia in Nigeria. To this end it has stated that it will
kill all Christians in the country.
In the month of January 2012 alone, Boko Haram was responsible for 54
deaths. In 2011 its members killed at least 510 people and burned down
or destroyed more than 350 churches in 10 northern states. They use
guns, gasoline bombs, and even machetes, shouting "Allahu akbar" ("God
is great") while launching attacks on unsuspecting citizens. They have
attacked churches, a Christmas Day gathering (killing 42 Catholics),
beer parlors, a town hall, beauty salons, and banks. They have so far
focused on killing Christian clerics, politicians, students,
policemen, and soldiers, as well as Muslim clerics who condemn their
mayhem. While they started out by using crude methods like hit-and-run
assassinations from the back of motorbikes in 2009, the latest AP
reports indicate that the group's recent attacks show a new level of
potency and sophistication.
The Christophobia that has plagued Sudan for years takes a very
different form. The authoritarian government of the Sunni Muslim north
of the country has for decades tormented Christian and animist
minorities in the south. What has often been described as a civil war
is in practice the Sudanese government's sustained persecution of
religious minorities.
This persecution culminated in the infamous genocide in Darfur that
began in 2003. Even though Sudan's Muslim president, Omar al-Bashir,
has been indicted by the International Criminal Court in The Hague,
which charged him with three counts of genocide, and despite the
euphoria that greeted the semi-independence he grant-ed to South Sudan
in July of last year, the violence has not ended. In South Kordofan,
Christians are still subject-ed to aerial bombardment, targeted
killings, the kidnap-ping of children, and other atrocities. Reports
from the United Nations indicate that between 53,000 and 75,000
innocent civilians have been displaced from their resi-dences and that
houses and buildings have been looted and destroyed.
Both kinds of persecution-undertaken by extragovernmental groups as
well as by agents of the state-have come together in Egypt in the
aftermath of the Arab Spring. On Oct. 9 of last year in the Maspero
area of Cairo, Coptic Christians (who make up roughly 11 percent of
Egypt's population of 81 million) marched in protest against a wave of
attacks by Islamists-including church burnings, rapes, mutilations,
and murders-that followed the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak's
dictatorship. During the protest, Egyptian security forces drove their
trucks into the crowd and fired on protesters, crushing and killing at
least 24 and wounding more than 300 people. By the end of the year
more than 200,000 Copts had fled their homes in anticipation of more
attacks. With Islamists poised to gain much greater power in the wake
of recent elections, their fears appear to be justified.
Egypt is not the only Arab country that seems bent on wiping out its
Christian minority. Since 2003 more than 900 Iraqi Christians (most of
them Assyrians) have been killed by terrorist violence in Baghdad
alone, and 70 churches have been burned, according to the Assyrian
International News Agency (AINA). Thousands of Iraqi Christians have
fled as a result of violence directed specifically at them, reducing
the number of Christians in the country to fewer than half a million
from just over a million before 2003. AINA understandably describes
this as an "incipient genocide or ethnic cleansing of Assyrians in
Iraq."
The 2.8 million Christians who live in Pakistan make up only about 1.6
percent of the population of more than 170 million. As members of such
a tiny minority, they live in perpetual fear not only of Islamist
terrorists but also of Pakistan's draconian blasphemy laws. There is,
for example, the notorious case of a Christian woman who was sentenced
to death for allegedly insulting the Prophet Muhammad. When
international pressure persuaded Punjab Gov. Salman Taseer to explore
ways of freeing her, he was killed by his bodyguard. The bodyguard was
then celebrated by prominent Muslim clerics as a hero-and though he
was sentenced to death late last year, the judge who imposed the
sentence now lives in hiding, fearing for his life.
Such cases are not unusual in Pakistan. The nation's blasphemy laws
are routinely used by criminals and intolerant Pakistani Muslims to
bully religious minorities. Simply to declare belief in the Christian
Trinity is considered blasphemous, since it contradicts mainstream
Muslim theological doctrines. When a Christian group is suspected of
transgressing the blasphemy laws, the consequences can be brutal. Just
ask the members of the Christian aid group World Vision. Its offices
were attacked in the spring of 2010 by 10 gunmen armed with grenades,
leaving six people dead and four wounded. A militant Muslim group
claimed responsibility for the attack on the grounds that World Vision
was working to subvert Islam. (In fact, it was helping the survivors
of a major earthquake.)
EGYPTIAN COPTIC CHRISTIANS
At least 13 people were killed and 140 injured on March 8, 2011, when
participants in a large Christian demonstration in a Cairo slum were
attacked by residents of a surrounding neighborhood., Mohamed Omar /
EPA-Landov
Not even Indonesia-often touted as the world's most tolerant,
democratic, and modern majority-Muslim nation-has been immune to the
fevers of Christophobia. According to data compiled by the Christian
Post, the number of violent incidents committed against religious
minorities (and at 7 percent of the population, Christians are the
country's largest minority) increased by nearly 40 percent, from 198
to 276, between 2010 and 2011.
The litany of suffering could be extended. In Iran dozens of
Christians have been arrested and jailed for daring to worship outside
of the officially sanctioned church system. Saudi Arabia, meanwhile,
deserves to be placed in a category of its own. Despite the fact that
more than a million Christians live in the country as foreign workers,
churches and even private acts of Christian prayer are banned; to
enforce these totalitarian restrictions, the religious police
regularly raid the homes of Christians and bring them up on charges of
blasphemy in courts where their testimony carries less legal weight
than a Muslim's. Even in Ethiopia, where Christians make up a majority
of the population, church burnings by members of the Muslim minority
have become a problem.
It should be clear from this catalog of atrocities that anti-Christian
violence is a major and underreported problem. No, the violence isn't
centrally planned or coordinated by some international Islamist
agency. In that sense the global war on Christians isn't a traditional
war at all. It is, rather, a spontaneous expression of anti-Christian
animus by Muslims that transcends cultures, regions, and ethnicities.
As Nina Shea, director of the Hudson Institute's Center for Religious
Freedom, pointed out in an interview with Newsweek, Christian
minorities in many majority-Muslim nations have "lost the protection
of their societies." This is especially so in countries with growing
radical Islamist (Salafist) movements.
In those nations, vigilantes often feel they can act with impunity-and
government inaction often proves them right. The old idea of the
Ottoman Turks-that non-Muslims in Muslim societies deserve protection
(albeit as second-class citizens)-has all but vanished from wide
swaths of the Islamic world, and increasingly the result is bloodshed
and oppression.
So let us please get our priorities straight. Yes, Western governments
should protect Muslim minorities from intolerance. And of course we
should ensure that they can worship, live, and work freely and without
fear. It is the protection of the freedom of conscience and speech
that distinguishes free societies from unfree ones. But we also need
to keep perspective about the scale and severity of intolerance.
Cartoons, films, and writings are one thing; knives, guns, and
grenades are something else entirely.
As for what the West can do to help religious minorities in Muslim-
majority societies, my answer is that it needs to begin using the
billions of dollars in aid it gives to the offending countries as
leverage. Then there is trade and investment. Besides diplomatic
pressure, these aid and trade relationships can and should be made
conditional on the protection of the freedom of conscience and worship
for all citizens.
Instead of falling for overblown tales of Western Islamophobia, let's
take a real stand against the Christophobia infecting the Muslim
world. Tolerance is for everyone-except the intolerant.
END
http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=15538
From one end of the muslim world to the other, Christians are being
murdered for their faith.
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The Drudge Report
http://www.drudgereport.com/
February 6, 2012
We hear so often about Muslims as victims of abuse in the West and
combatants in the Arab Spring's fight against tyranny. But, in fact, a
wholly different kind of war is underway-an unrecognized battle
costing thousands of lives. Christians are being killed in the Islamic
world because of their religion. It is a rising genocide that ought to
provoke global alarm.
The portrayal of Muslims as victims or heroes is at best partially
accurate. In recent years the violent oppression of Christian
minorities has become the norm in Muslim-majority nations stretching
from West Africa and the Middle East to South Asia and Oceania. In
some countries it is governments and their agents that have burned
churches and imprisoned parishioners. In others, rebel groups and
vigilantes have taken matters into their own hands, murdering
Christians and driving them from regions where their roots go back
centuries.
The media's reticence on the subject no doubt has several sources. One
may be fear of provoking additional violence. Another is most likely
the influence of lobbying groups such as the Organization of Islamic
Cooperation-a kind of United Nations of Islam centered in Saudi Arabia-
and the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Over the past decade,
these and similar groups have been remarkably successful in persuading
leading public figures and journalists in the West to think of each
and every example of perceived anti-Muslim discrimination as an
expression of a systematic and sinister derangement called
"Islamophobia"-a term that is meant to elicit the same moral
disapproval as xenophobia or homophobia.
But a fair-minded assessment of recent events and trends leads to the
conclusion that the scale and severity of Islamophobia pales in
comparison with the bloody Christophobia currently coursing through
Muslim-majority nations from one end of the globe to the other. The
conspiracy of silence surrounding this violent expression of religious
intolerance has to stop. Nothing less than the fate of Christianity-
and ultimately of all religious minorities-in the Islamic world is at
stake. Egypt Coptic Christians
At least 24 Coptic Christians were killed in Cairo during clashes with
the Egyptian Army on Oct. 9., Thomas Hartwell / Redux
From blasphemy laws to brutal murders to bombings to mutilations and
the burning of holy sites, Christians in so many nations live in fear.
In Nigeria many have suffered all of these forms of persecution. The
nation has the largest Christian minority (40 percent) in proportion
to its population (160 million) of any majority-Muslim country. For
years, Muslims and Christians in Nigeria have lived on the edge of
civil war. Islamist radicals provoke much if not most of the tension.
The newest such organization is an outfit that calls itself Boko
Haram, which means "Western education is sacrilege." Its aim is to
establish Sharia in Nigeria. To this end it has stated that it will
kill all Christians in the country.
In the month of January 2012 alone, Boko Haram was responsible for 54
deaths. In 2011 its members killed at least 510 people and burned down
or destroyed more than 350 churches in 10 northern states. They use
guns, gasoline bombs, and even machetes, shouting "Allahu akbar" ("God
is great") while launching attacks on unsuspecting citizens. They have
attacked churches, a Christmas Day gathering (killing 42 Catholics),
beer parlors, a town hall, beauty salons, and banks. They have so far
focused on killing Christian clerics, politicians, students,
policemen, and soldiers, as well as Muslim clerics who condemn their
mayhem. While they started out by using crude methods like hit-and-run
assassinations from the back of motorbikes in 2009, the latest AP
reports indicate that the group's recent attacks show a new level of
potency and sophistication.
The Christophobia that has plagued Sudan for years takes a very
different form. The authoritarian government of the Sunni Muslim north
of the country has for decades tormented Christian and animist
minorities in the south. What has often been described as a civil war
is in practice the Sudanese government's sustained persecution of
religious minorities.
This persecution culminated in the infamous genocide in Darfur that
began in 2003. Even though Sudan's Muslim president, Omar al-Bashir,
has been indicted by the International Criminal Court in The Hague,
which charged him with three counts of genocide, and despite the
euphoria that greeted the semi-independence he grant-ed to South Sudan
in July of last year, the violence has not ended. In South Kordofan,
Christians are still subject-ed to aerial bombardment, targeted
killings, the kidnap-ping of children, and other atrocities. Reports
from the United Nations indicate that between 53,000 and 75,000
innocent civilians have been displaced from their resi-dences and that
houses and buildings have been looted and destroyed.
Both kinds of persecution-undertaken by extragovernmental groups as
well as by agents of the state-have come together in Egypt in the
aftermath of the Arab Spring. On Oct. 9 of last year in the Maspero
area of Cairo, Coptic Christians (who make up roughly 11 percent of
Egypt's population of 81 million) marched in protest against a wave of
attacks by Islamists-including church burnings, rapes, mutilations,
and murders-that followed the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak's
dictatorship. During the protest, Egyptian security forces drove their
trucks into the crowd and fired on protesters, crushing and killing at
least 24 and wounding more than 300 people. By the end of the year
more than 200,000 Copts had fled their homes in anticipation of more
attacks. With Islamists poised to gain much greater power in the wake
of recent elections, their fears appear to be justified.
Egypt is not the only Arab country that seems bent on wiping out its
Christian minority. Since 2003 more than 900 Iraqi Christians (most of
them Assyrians) have been killed by terrorist violence in Baghdad
alone, and 70 churches have been burned, according to the Assyrian
International News Agency (AINA). Thousands of Iraqi Christians have
fled as a result of violence directed specifically at them, reducing
the number of Christians in the country to fewer than half a million
from just over a million before 2003. AINA understandably describes
this as an "incipient genocide or ethnic cleansing of Assyrians in
Iraq."
The 2.8 million Christians who live in Pakistan make up only about 1.6
percent of the population of more than 170 million. As members of such
a tiny minority, they live in perpetual fear not only of Islamist
terrorists but also of Pakistan's draconian blasphemy laws. There is,
for example, the notorious case of a Christian woman who was sentenced
to death for allegedly insulting the Prophet Muhammad. When
international pressure persuaded Punjab Gov. Salman Taseer to explore
ways of freeing her, he was killed by his bodyguard. The bodyguard was
then celebrated by prominent Muslim clerics as a hero-and though he
was sentenced to death late last year, the judge who imposed the
sentence now lives in hiding, fearing for his life.
Such cases are not unusual in Pakistan. The nation's blasphemy laws
are routinely used by criminals and intolerant Pakistani Muslims to
bully religious minorities. Simply to declare belief in the Christian
Trinity is considered blasphemous, since it contradicts mainstream
Muslim theological doctrines. When a Christian group is suspected of
transgressing the blasphemy laws, the consequences can be brutal. Just
ask the members of the Christian aid group World Vision. Its offices
were attacked in the spring of 2010 by 10 gunmen armed with grenades,
leaving six people dead and four wounded. A militant Muslim group
claimed responsibility for the attack on the grounds that World Vision
was working to subvert Islam. (In fact, it was helping the survivors
of a major earthquake.)
EGYPTIAN COPTIC CHRISTIANS
At least 13 people were killed and 140 injured on March 8, 2011, when
participants in a large Christian demonstration in a Cairo slum were
attacked by residents of a surrounding neighborhood., Mohamed Omar /
EPA-Landov
Not even Indonesia-often touted as the world's most tolerant,
democratic, and modern majority-Muslim nation-has been immune to the
fevers of Christophobia. According to data compiled by the Christian
Post, the number of violent incidents committed against religious
minorities (and at 7 percent of the population, Christians are the
country's largest minority) increased by nearly 40 percent, from 198
to 276, between 2010 and 2011.
The litany of suffering could be extended. In Iran dozens of
Christians have been arrested and jailed for daring to worship outside
of the officially sanctioned church system. Saudi Arabia, meanwhile,
deserves to be placed in a category of its own. Despite the fact that
more than a million Christians live in the country as foreign workers,
churches and even private acts of Christian prayer are banned; to
enforce these totalitarian restrictions, the religious police
regularly raid the homes of Christians and bring them up on charges of
blasphemy in courts where their testimony carries less legal weight
than a Muslim's. Even in Ethiopia, where Christians make up a majority
of the population, church burnings by members of the Muslim minority
have become a problem.
It should be clear from this catalog of atrocities that anti-Christian
violence is a major and underreported problem. No, the violence isn't
centrally planned or coordinated by some international Islamist
agency. In that sense the global war on Christians isn't a traditional
war at all. It is, rather, a spontaneous expression of anti-Christian
animus by Muslims that transcends cultures, regions, and ethnicities.
As Nina Shea, director of the Hudson Institute's Center for Religious
Freedom, pointed out in an interview with Newsweek, Christian
minorities in many majority-Muslim nations have "lost the protection
of their societies." This is especially so in countries with growing
radical Islamist (Salafist) movements.
In those nations, vigilantes often feel they can act with impunity-and
government inaction often proves them right. The old idea of the
Ottoman Turks-that non-Muslims in Muslim societies deserve protection
(albeit as second-class citizens)-has all but vanished from wide
swaths of the Islamic world, and increasingly the result is bloodshed
and oppression.
So let us please get our priorities straight. Yes, Western governments
should protect Muslim minorities from intolerance. And of course we
should ensure that they can worship, live, and work freely and without
fear. It is the protection of the freedom of conscience and speech
that distinguishes free societies from unfree ones. But we also need
to keep perspective about the scale and severity of intolerance.
Cartoons, films, and writings are one thing; knives, guns, and
grenades are something else entirely.
As for what the West can do to help religious minorities in Muslim-
majority societies, my answer is that it needs to begin using the
billions of dollars in aid it gives to the offending countries as
leverage. Then there is trade and investment. Besides diplomatic
pressure, these aid and trade relationships can and should be made
conditional on the protection of the freedom of conscience and worship
for all citizens.
Instead of falling for overblown tales of Western Islamophobia, let's
take a real stand against the Christophobia infecting the Muslim
world. Tolerance is for everyone-except the intolerant.
END
http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=15538
plainolamerican
Feb 7, 2012, 5:55:42 PM2/7/12
to
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and xian against xian
divide and conquer is their MO
they have put the US into bankruptcy for their shit hole religious
state and laughed at American soldier deaths
some don't forget
Aviroce
Feb 9, 2012, 12:37:35 AM2/9/12
to
B. Cramer (B.H. Cramer" <ben_alw...@beltingyids.com>) posted:
"The General Assembly, [***] Determines that
Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination."-
UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION NUMBER 3379
REVOKED UNDER ZIONIST PRESSURE BY RESOLUTION NUMBER 4686
http://www.jewishracism.com/quotes.htm
Friday, 9/12/2008
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"The way I see it, the fact of the Jews' racial peculiarity will
necessarily
influence their social relations with non-Jews. The conclusions
which-
in my
opinion-the Jews should draw is to become more aware of their
peculiarity in
their social way of life and to recognize their own cultural
contributions.
First of all, they would have to show a certain noble reservedness
and
not
be so eager to mix socially-of which others want little or nothing.
On
the
other hand, anti-Semitism in Germany also has consequences that, from
a
Jewish point of view, should be welcomed. I believe German Jewry owes
its
continued existence to anti-Semitism."-Albert Einstein, A. Engel
translator,
"How I became a Zionist", The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein,
Volume 7,
Document 57, Princeton University Press, (2002), pp. 234-235, at 235.
"Anti-Semitism will be a psychological phenomenon as long as Jews
come
in
contact with non-Jews-what harm can there be in that? Perhaps it is
due to
anti-Semitism that we survive as a race: at least that is what I
believe."-Albert Einstein, English translation by A. Engel, The
Collected
Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 7, Document 37, Princeton
University
Press, (2002), p. 159.
"What would you say, for example, if I did not deny there are good
aspects
of anti-Semitism? I say that anti-Semitism will educate the Jews. In
fifty
years, if we still have the same social order, it will have brought
forth a
fine and presentable generation of Jews, endowed with a delicate,
extremely
sensitive feeling for honor and the like."-Theodor Herzl, as quoted
by
Amos
Elon, Herzl, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, (1975), pp.
114-115.
________________________________________
"[T]here may be some truth in that if the Arabs have some complaints
about
my policy towards Israel, they have to realize that the Jews in the
U.
S.
control the entire information and propaganda machine, the large
newspapers,
the motion pictures, radio and television, and the big companies, and
there
is a force that we have to take into consideration."-Richard Milhous
Nixon,
Thirty-Seventh President of the United States of America, as quoted
by
Leonard Dinnerstein, Antisemitism in America, Oxford University
Press,
New
York, (1994), pp. 232-233. Dinnerstein cites: "Clipping of Fikri
Abbaza,
interview with Richard Nixon, Al-Mussawar, July 12, 1974, folder
'Jewish
Matters, 1969-1974,' box 5, Leonard Garment mss., LC."
________________________________________
"Yet despite the lack of Jewish worship and observance, and my
family's
total assimilation into everything American and secular, we were
thoroughly
Jewish. Our perspective was Jewish, as was our very essence. The
world
was
split into two distinct halves: Jews and gentiles. Jews were always
sought
in business or social dealings over gentiles. A common expression
used
by
Jews to describe a slow, dense person was-and still is-'He's got a
goyisher
kop,' which literally means 'He's got a gentile head' but
figuratively
means
'slow-witted.' First question when I came home and boasted of making
a
new
friend always was 'Is he Jewish?' 'God forbid!' (my father's
expression) if
I should ever go out with a gentile girl, and 'Oy vey!' (which
literally
means 'Oh pain!') if I ever got serious with her. All my parents'
friends
were Jews. They all shared the same role models: Sandy Koufax,
Bernard
Baruch, Bess Meyerson, Sam Levinson, Hank Greenberg, Arthur Goldberg,
Golda
Meir, Albert Einstein-these were people to be admired. And that poet
with
the beard, Allen Ginsberg, so smart, but the faygeleh (homosexual)
business,
such a waste!"-S. G. Bloom, Postville: A Clash of Cultures in
Heartland
America, Harcourt, Inc., New York, (2000), pp. 63-64.
________________________________________
"Joseph's appointment in Egypt was good for the Jews. The Jews of
Persia
were saved thanks to Esther's influence with the king. When a very
powerful
emperor is elected by the majority of the people, we must cooperate
with
him[.]"-Vyacheslav Moshe Kantor, as quoted by Amiram Barkat, "Putin
ally is
frontrunner to head European Jewish Congress", HAARETZ.com,
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/873804.html, (21 June 2007).
"The [European Jewish Congress] has a very important role in the
struggle
against Iran. We are not Israel's ambassadors, but we can pressure
our
governments and explain the danger[.]"-President of the Austrian
Jewish
Community Ariel Muzicant, as quoted by Amiram Barkat, "Putin ally is
frontrunner to head European Jewish Congress", HAARETZ.com,
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/873804.html, (21 June 2007).
________________________________________
"Regarding a timeline ... we decided that the end of 2007 will be the
point
of assessing the effectiveness of the sanctions and the amount of
influence
they are having on the Iranians. [***] I never said there is no
military
option, and the military option is included in all the options that
are on
the table, but at this time it's right to use the path of sanctions,
and to
intensify them."-Transportation Minister of Israel Shaul Mofaz as
quoted by
"News Agencies", "Mofaz: All options, including military one, on the
table
regarding Iran", HAARETZ.com,
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/868786.html, (9 June 2007).
"I think we've got to be prepared to take aggressive military action
against
the Iranians to stop them from killing Americans in Iraq. And to me,
that
would include a strike into, over the border into Iran, where we have
good
evidence that they have a base at which they are training these
people
coming back into Iraq to kill our soldiers. [***] If they don't play
by the
rules, we've got to use our force, and to me that would include
taking
military action to stop them from doing what they're doing."-United
States
Senator Joseph Lieberman, in an interview with Bob Schieffer on Face
the
Nation on 10 June 2007, "Lieberman: Bomb Iran If It Doesn't Stop",
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/06/10/ftn/main2908476.shtml.
________________________________________
"It's been conclusively proven Iran is not going to be talked out of
its
nuclear programme. So to stop them from doing it, we have to
massively
increase the pressure. If we can't get enough other countries to come
along
with us to do that, then we've got to go with regime change by
bolstering
opposition groups and the like, because that's the circumstance most
likely
for an Iranian government to decide that it's safer not to pursue
nuclear
weapons than to continue to do so. And if all else fails, if the
choice is
between a nuclear-capable Iran and the use of force, then I think we
need to
look at the use of force. [***] If the choice is them continuing
[towards a
nuclear bomb] or the use of force, I think you're at a Hitler
marching
into
the Rhineland point. If you don't stop it then, the future is in his
hands,
not in your hands, just as the future decisions on their nuclear
programme
would be in Iran's hands, not ours."-Former United States Ambassador
to the
United Nations John Bolton, as quoted by Toby Harnden, "We must
attack
Iran
before it gets the bomb ", Telegraph.co.uk,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/05/16/wbolt...,
(17 May 2007).
________________________________________
"With two carrier strike groups in the Gulf, we're sending clear
messages to
friends and adversaries alike. We'll keep the sea lanes open. [. . .]
We'll
stand with others to prevent Iran from gaining nuclear weapons and
dominating this region[.]"-United States Vice President Dick Cheney,
as
quoted by Graham Bowley, "On Carrier in Gulf, Cheney Issues Warning
to
Iran", The New York Times www.nytimes.com,
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/world/middleeast/11cnd-cheney.html?hp,
(11
May 2007); and Tom Raum, "Cheney Warns Iran Sea Lanes Must Be Open",
The
Associated Press, www.washingtonpost.com,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/11/AR200...,
(11 May 2007).
________________________________________
"The American president will not abandon the military option and I
believe
that we do not want him to do so[.]"-United States Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice, as quoted by Reuters News Agency, "Bush won't give
up
military option on Iran: Rice", www.reuters.com,
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL086231320070508, (8 May
2007).
________________________________________
"Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism. We all know that. Iran
continues
their efforts to build nuclear weapons. Iran is now exporting lethal
IED's
and jihadists and suicide bombers into Iraq killing American
soldiers.
The
Iranians encouraged Hezbullah to attack Israel from Lebanon recently.
Iran
poses one of the greatest threats to the world, to the security of
the
world, and in the Middle East. I believe the Iranians have got, we
have got
to bring greater pressures, diplomatic, economic, political, join
with
our
European allies. We still fear greatly the effect of a cut off of oil
on,
from, into Europe. We have to work together. If the Russians and the
Chinese
are not helpful to us, then we had better figure out a way to put
additional
pressures encouraging democracy and freedom within Iraq, which is a
very
cultured socie. . . within Iran, which is a very cultured society. At
the
end of the day, we cannot allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons.
[. . .] My
greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon, and give it
to
a
terrorist organization, and there is a real threat of them doing
that.
The
trip wire [for a U. S. strike at Iran] is, that if they acquire these
weapons, and their, our intelligence tells us, that this is a real
threat to
the state of Israel, to other states in the region. But I want to
emphasize,
Chris, there's lots of additional efforts that can be made and must
be
made
before we consider that option. There's lots of things we can do.
That
is
the ultimately final option and I don't think we need to exercise it
at this
time."-U. S. Senator and Presidential candidate John McCain,
Republican
Presidential Candidate Debates,
http://video.msn.com/v/us/msnbc.htm?f=00&g=&p=hotvideo_m_debate_rep&t...
"If there is a threat to the existence of Israel, which is by the way
I
think a potential threat to the existence of the United States, then
you
have to come to that, the aid of Israel."-U. S. Congressman and
Presidential
candidate Tom Tancredo, Republican Presidential Candidate Debates,
http://video.msn.com/v/us/msnbc.htm?f=00&g=&p=hotvideo_m_debate_rep&t...
"It really depends on what our intelligence says. I mean the reality
is the
use of military force against Iran would be very dangerous. It would
be very
provocative. The only thing worse would be Iran being a nuclear
power."-U.
S. Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani, Republican Presidential
Candidate
Debates,
http://video.msn.com/v/us/msnbc.htm?f=00&g=&p=hotvideo_m_debate_rep&t...
"Right now Iran is moving equipment into Iraq that is being used to
kill
Americans. Iran has crossed the line. The United States has absolute
license
at this point to take whatever actions are necessary to stop those
deadly
instruments from being moved across the line being used in
explosives,
roadside bombs inside Iraq. And, lastly, you know we should not get
to
the
edge of the cliff on this enrichment of uranium and plutonium to be
used for
a nuclear weapon in Iran. The United States needs to move very
quickly."-U.
S. Congressman and Presidential candidate Duncan Hunter, Republican
Presidential Candidate Debates,
http://video.msn.com/v/us/msnbc.htm?f=00&g=&p=hotvideo_m_debate_rep&t...
________________________________________
"If we do have to take offensive military action against Iran, it
would be
far better if the rest of the world saw it as a position of last
resort, not
first resort, because the effect and consequences will be global."-
United
States Senator, and Presidential Candidate, Hillary Rodham Clinton,
as
quoted by Hilary Leila Krieger, "Clinton: US might have to confront
Iran",
The Jerusalem Post, www.jpost.com,
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1177514487245&pagename=JPo...,
(26 April 2007).
________________________________________
"If it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for
this war
with Iraq, we would not be doing this[.] The leaders of the Jewish
community
are influential enough that they could change the direction of where
this is
going, and I think they should."-Congressman Jim Moran, as quoted by
Ted
Barrett, "Lawmaker under fire for saying Jews support Iraq war: Moran
apologizes; White House blasts comments", www.CNN.com,
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/03/11/moran.jews/, (12 March
2003).
________________________________________
"Another diplomatic source said that the resolution was partly a
result of
Israel's activity around the world."-Ronny Sofer, "J'lem sources
pleased
with UN resolution increasing", Ynetnews www.ynetnews.com,
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3380541,00.html, (24 March
2007).
________________________________________
"'I believe that ultimately the only real prospect of getting Iran to
give
up nuclear weapons is to change the regime,' Bolton told reporters
after an
off-the-record speech to the Hudson Institute, a nonpartisan policy
research
organization. How should this be done? 'By the force of the Iranian
people
themselves,' Bolton replied. 'But if the alternative is a nuclear
Iran, as
unpleasant as the use of military force would be, I think the
prospect
of a
nuclear Iran is worse.'"-Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press Writer,
quoting
former US Ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, "Bolton: Iran Won't Give
Up
Nuke Ambition", Associated Press, Guardian Unlimited www.guardian.co.uk,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6496892,00.html, (21
March
2007).
________________________________________
"Former ambassador to the UN John Bolton told the BBC that before any
ceasefire Washington wanted Israel to eliminate Hezbollah's military
capability."-"Bolton admits Lebanon truce block", BBC NEWS,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6479377.stm, (22 March 2007).
________________________________________
"Chirac asked that Israel act to topple the Assad regime, and
promised
in
return to block any moves against Israel within the United Nations or
European Union."-Ezra HaLevi, "France Urged Israel to Invade Syria
During
War", Arutz Sheva www.IsraelNationalNews.com,
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/121878, (19 March
2007).
"I know this will annoy many of your readers. . . But the anger is
over the
fact that Israel did not fight against the Syrians. Instead of Israel
fighting against Hizbullah, many parts of the American administration
believe that Israel should have fought against the real enemy, which
is
Syria and not Hizbullah."-Meyrav Wurmser, as quoted by Yitzhak
Benhorin in,
"Neocons: We expected Israel to attack Syria",
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3340750,00.html, (16
December
2006).
________________________________________
"Officials said Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other members of the
leadership had
decided to strip from a major military spending bill a requirement
for
Bush
to gain approval from Congress before moving against Iran.
Conservative
Democrats as well as lawmakers concerned about the possible impact on
Israel
had argued for the change in strategy."- David Espo and Matthew Lee,
Associated Press Writers, "Dems abandon war authority provision",
Associated
Press, YAHOO! NEWS http://news.yahoo.com,
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070313/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_iraq;_ylt=A0WTc...,
(13 March 2007).
________________________________________
"Israeli Knesset member Effie Eitam has a reputation as a hawk, but
on
the
question of Iran and its nuclear program, he believes he speaks for
the
country's mainstream strategic thinkers. Diplomatic and political
manoeuvres
to rein in the Islamic state are feckless and doomed to fail, leaving
Israel, with or without the co-operation of the United States, no
alternative but to use military force to put an end to the nuclear
threat,
he says. 'Israel is preparing and will definitely take action,' Eitam
predicted. [***] Eitam told The CJN that Israel may have to act alone
against Iran within 'a window' to two to three years, but he
suggested
Israel would move before Bush leaves Office."-Paul Lungen, "Israeli
MK
predicts attack on Iran", The Canadian Jewish News www.cjnews.com,
http://www.cjnews.com/viewarticle.asp?id=11329, (8 March 2007).
________________________________________
"The Israeli Regime while remaining outside the relevant
international
instruments continues quantitative and qualitative development of its
nuclear weapons, without any concern, international pressure or
monitoring.
Those who are pushing Security Council to take punitive measures
against the
peaceful nuclear program of the Islamic Republic of Iran, continue to
hinder
any action by the Security Council against Israeli regime to force it
to
abide by the NPT regime. Doing so, they have given wide latitude to
this
regime and even encourage it to develop freely the clandestine and
prohibited possession of nuclear weapons. [***] While Iran has been
providing the Agency with access to all its nuclear material and
facilities
pursuant to its NPT Safeguards Agreement and the Agency is able to
verify
the non-diversion of declared nuclear material in Iran (as reflected
in
paragraphs 26-27 of the report), few countries have been making daily
threat
of resort to attack Iranian fully safeguarded peaceful nuclear
facilities
uttered at their highest levels, in clear violation of Article 2 (4)
of the
UN Charter. The Islamic republic of Iran has already documented these
unlawful and dangerous threats by sending official letters to the UN
Secretary General and the Director General of the IAEA. And while
overwhelming majority of the international community has been calling
for a
peaceful negotiated solution and Iran has announced its readiness for
such a
solution, the United States and Israel which both have a high record
of
vertical and horizontal proliferation activities are continuing to
make
threats against Iran's full-scope safeguarded facilities."-Ali Asqar
Soltanieh, Permanent Representative to the International Atomic
Energy
Agency Board of Governors from Iran, in an address to the IAEA Board
of
Governors on 7 March 2007, "Full Text of Speech Delivered by Iran's
Envoy to
IAEA", Fars News Agency www.farsnews.com,
http://www.farsnews.com/English/newstext.php?nn=8512160500, (7 March
2007).
"All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the
threat
or use of force against the territorial integrity or political
independence
of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes
of
the
United Nations."-Charter of the United Nations, Chapter 1, Article 2,
Paragraph 4.
________________________________________
"I believe that either regime change in Iran or, as a last resort,
military
action is the only thing that will stop the Iranians from getting
nuclear
weapons[.]"-John Bolton, Former American Envoy to the United Nations,
as
quoted by Janine Zacharia and Bill Varner, "Bolton Says U.S. Should
Seek
'Regime Change' in Iran", Bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com,
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a.m.58sr9RqM&refe...,
(1 March 2007).
________________________________________
"Ahmadinejad is the pusher of all the Muslim world toward fanaticism
and
extremism. In his case, he should be made to disappear from the
arena.
He
has said he wants to become a shahid, a martyr, so I think he should
get his
wish and be sent to heaven[.]"-Meir Amit, Former Director of Mossad,
as
quoted by Aaron Klein, "Former Mossad chief: Assassinate Ahmadinejad.
Iranian president 'says he wants to die a martyr so he should be sent
to
heaven'", WorldNetDaily www.wnd.com,
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54244, (14 February
2007).
"It is time for Israel or the US to bomb Iran now. Not next week,
next
month, or next summer, but now. As quickly and as hard and as
painfully as
possible. [***] So like it or not, time is of the essence, and there
is not
a moment to lose. The US or Israel should bomb Iran now, before it
proves
too late."-Michael Freund, "Right on!: Stop the atomic ayatollahs",
The
Jerusalem Post www.jpost.com,
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1170359851111&pagename=JPo...,
(13 February 2007).
"'The only chance to convince Iran to dismantle without using brute
force is
if you choose a big enough stick and you wave it wildly enough,'
Steinitz
told The Jerusalem Post. The Likud MK added that the goal was to
'wave, in
order to not to use it.'
'At this moment, Iran thinks that Israel is weak politically, so it
would be
better if the United States were to issue the threats,' said
Steinitz.
'There is one leader of the world and it is not miniscule Israel.
Iran
is a
global threat they are developing a nuclear project to become not
just
a
regional player but a global Player.'"-Sheera Claire Frenkel quoting
Knesset
Member Yuval Steinitz, "Steinitz: US must stop Iran from arming", The
Jerusalem Post www.jpost.com,
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1170359851884&pagename=JPo...,
(14 February 2007).
Did Tzipi Livni, Foreign Affairs Minister and Vice Prime Minister of
Israel,
call for the elimination of the nation of Iran?
"The global Holocaust denial led by Iran is a political move meant to
de-legitimize Israel, and it is unacceptable that a country that
denies the
Holocaust is accepted by the world as part of the international
community[.]"-Tzipi Livni, Foreign Affairs Minister and Vice Prime
Minister
of Israel, as quoted in Lilach Shoval, "Anti-Semitism very much
alive,
says
Livni", www.ynetnews.com,
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3363734,00.html, (11
February
2007).
"ISRAEL has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran's uranium
enrichment
facilities with tactical nuclear weapons.
Two Israeli air force squadrons are training to blow up an Iranian
facility
using low-yield nuclear 'bunker-busters', according to several
Israeli
military sources."-Uzi Mahnaimi and Sarah Baxter, "Revealed: Israel
plans
nuclear strike on Iran", The Sunday Times www.timesonline.co.uk, (7
January
2007).
"SPIEGEL: You said recently that Israel might have to stand alone and
therefore must be ready to deal unilaterally with the Iran problem.
Lieberman: That is the worst-case scenario. The differences in
opinion
between Russia and Western Europe, between Europe and the U.S.,
between the
U.S. and the United Nations have destabilized the global political
system.
We have to take into account that the international community may not
do
anything and that Israel may have to act alone."-"SPIEGEL INTERVIEW
WITH
AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN" conducted by Christian Neef and Christoph Schult,
quoting
Avigdor Lieberman, Minister of Strategic Affairs and Deputy Prime
Minister
of Israel, Der Spiegel, SPIEGEL ONLINE, www.spiegel.de,
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,465769,00.html,
(12
February 2007).
"We must turn to Hillary Clinton and other potential presidential
candidates
in the Democratic Party so that they publicly support immediate
action
by
Bush against Iran. We should also approach European countries so that
they
support American actions in Iran, so that Bush will not be isolated
in
the
international arena again. We must clandestinely cooperate with Saudi
Arabia
so that it also persuades the US to strike Iran."-Brigadier General
(Res.)
Oded Tira, Former IDF Chief Artillery Officer, "What to do with
Iran?",
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3346275,00.html, (30
December
2006).
"'Once you say that Iran is like Nazi Germany and that it is willing
to use
its nuclear weapons to destroy Israel regardless of the destruction
it
would
bring to their own country, you are really arguing that there is no
alternative but for Israel and the United States to attack first,'
said M.J.
Rosenberg, director of policy analysis for the Israel Policy Forum."-
James
D. Besser, "Leading Hawk Warns Of Hysteria Over Iran: Suggestion that
war is
only option misguided, JINSA official says", The Jewish Week
www.thejewishweek.com,
http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=13644, (9
February
2007).
"We must cry Gevalt before the entire world[. . . .] In 1938, Hitler
didn't
say he wanted to destroy [the Jews]; Ahmadinejad is saying clearly
that this
is his intention, and we aren't even shouting. At least call it a
crime
against humanity. We must make the world see that the issue here is a
program for genocide."- Likud chair MK Benjamin Netanyahu, Ninth
Prime
Minister of Israel, as quoted in Mazal Mualem, "Netanyahu wants Iran
president tried for genocide", www.haaretz.com,
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/800838.html, (15 December 2006).
"The Jews of North African origin are strongly attached to Israel,
don't
hide their ethnic affiliation and don't fear a charge of 'dual
loyalty' to
both France and Israel. The young generation doesn't bow to the old
French
Jewish model of being French first and Jewish later, and aren't
embarrassed
about showing a 'communitarian' preference for a particular political
candidate."-JTA, "French Jews Favor Conservative", The Jewish Week,
www.thejewishweek.com,
http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=13926, (20
April
2007).
"Active Canadian Jews, I have observed, live with a completely
different
dynamic. They're proud of their Canadian citizenship, but don't have
a
deep
sense of Canadian national identity. Their national identity is
ebulliently
Jewish, belonging to the Jewish nation."-Gary Wexler, "US Jews can
learn
from the Canadian community", The Jerusalem Post www.jpost.com,
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1173879238105&pagename=JPo...,
(3 April 2007).
"SUBSIDIZING THE REFUGEE CAMPS
Senator GORE. Mr. Secretary, I realize that we do not have power, as
Senator
Symington has punctuated, to give instructions and directions there.
There is one problem, it seems to me, about which we can have a say,
and
that is continued subsidization of this refugee camp. I went there
ten
years
ago and found it an impossible situation in which they have continued
all
the while to feed and clothe, support those people, and there are
some
200,000 more than when they went into the camp. So surely we can have
something to say about no longer continuing to subsidize this.
Secretary RUSK. Well, that constitutes some pressure on the Arabs. It
does
not constitute any pressure on Israel.
Senator GORE. Well, Israel has taken over some of them, in the Gaza
Strip
and also in Jordan. They are now claiming sovereignty. So it seems to
me it
might be a pressure on both.
Secretary RUSK. Well, I do think that the refugee matter should be
raised
and looked at wholly anew in connection with a settlement of this
present
situation.
Senator GORE. The point I am trying to make is this is one subject on
which
we can have a say, and that is how long we are going to continue to
pay a
very heavy cost of these refugees if they are not dispersed into the
countryside.
Secretary RUSK. Well, I do not want to underestimate influence in
this
situation, but I just want to point out that it is not necessarily
decisive
when you are talking with countries about what they consider the life
and
death issues for them.
TAX EXEMPTIONS FOR DONATIONS TO ISRAEL
Senator HICKENLOOPER. Do we not give tax forgiveness for moneys
contributed
to Israel, which is rather unusual? We could stop that.
Secretary RUSK. I believe contributions to the UJA are tax exempt,
yes.
The CHAIRMAN. That is right.
The only country. Do you think you have the votes in the Senate to
revoke
that?
Senator CASE. Are you in favor yourself?
Senator HICKENLOOPER. I think we ought to treat all nations alike.
Senator CASE. That is correct. But are you in favor of it?
Senator HICKENLOOPER. As long as we do not give it to other nations,
I
do
not--
The CHAIRMAN. The trouble is they think they have control of the
Senate and
they can do as they please.
Senator SYMINGTON. What was that?
The CHAIRMAN. I said they know they have control of the Senate
politically,
and therefore whatever the Secretary tells them, they can laugh at
him. They
say, 'Yes, but you don't control the Senate.''
Senator SYMINGTON. They were very anxious to get every Senator they
could to
come out and say we ought to act unilaterally, and they got two,
three.
The CHAIRMAN. They know when the chips are down you can no more
reverse this
tax exemption than you can fly. You could not pass a bill through the
Senate.
Senator HICKENLOOPER. I do not think you could.
The CHAIRMAN. Changing that tax exemption contribution to the UJA. I
would
bet you ten to one you could not begin to pass a bill You do not
believe
they could under any circumstances.
Senator SYMINGTON. A bill to do what?
The CHAIRMAN. To revoke the tax exemption of gifts to the UJA. That
is
one
of their major sources of income. You yourself have pointed out the
money
they paid for the French arms they got from the U.S.
Senator SYMINGTON. Each year the money we give annually for this is
less
than 1 percent of the cost of Vietnam.
The CHAIRMAN. I agree with that.
Senator HICKENLOOPER. There you go.
U.S. CONTRIBUTIONS PAY THE ISRAELI ARMS
The CHAIRMAN. But you know very well, you said yourself, that the
arms
they
buy from France are largely paid for by contributions that come from
this
country.
Senator SYMINGTON. Because we would not sell it to them, so instead
of
selling them the arms--
Senator GORE. Has the President recommended that this be repealed?
The CHAIRMAN. No, he has not. I do not wish to make the point except
the
Secretary is quite correct when he says his leverage on Israel is
very
limited because of the political situation.
Senator HICKENLOOPER. I am sorry I brought it up.
Secretary RUSK. I did not say it.
The CHAIRMAN. If you did not say it, you do not disagree with it
anyway.
Secretary RUSK. I think it should be pointed out though on this tax
exempt
matter that there are many other organizations, institutions, that
would
fall into the same principle, private foundations in their
expenditures
abroad, churches, the voluntary agencies; there are very large sums
of
money
going to foreign countries that are tax exempt in this country as the
origin.
Senator HICKENLOOPER. I do not think it is analogous.
Senator GORE. It is tax deductible; you said tax exempt.
Secretary RUSK. Except the organizations are exempt. Contributions to
them
are tax deductible.
Senator COOPER. I suggest-it is possible after this that Israel may
ask that
this be removed as a sign of showing they are not absolutely
dependent
on
the U.S."-"BRIEFING ON THE MIDDLE EAST SITUATION, Friday, June 9,
1967, U.S.
SENATE, COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS, Washington, DC.", Executive
Sessions
of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Together with Joint
Sessions
with
the Senate Armed Services Committee (Historical Series), Volume XIX,
Ninetieth Congress, First Session, U.S. Government Printing Office,
Washington, D. C., (1967/2006), pp. 705-728, at 710-712.
________________________________________
"History has shown that progress is possible only if the United
States
of
America assumes its historic role as honest broker between Israel and
Palestine[.] We cannot be peacemakers if American government leaders
are
seen as knee-jerk supporters of every action or policy of whatever
Israeli
government happens to be in power at the time."-Jimmy Carter, Thirty-
Ninth
President of the United States of America, as quoted by Paul Kita,
"Awards
Ceremony Offers Carter Prize, Platform for His Opinions", info Zine
www.infozine.com,
http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/22062/, (6
April
2007).
"The American friends of Israel who demand such subservience are in
many
cases sincere and well-intentioned people. I know them. But on this
crucial
issue, they are tragically mistaken. Their demands subvert America's
ability
to bring to Israel what she most desperately needs and wants -- peace
and
security within recognized borders."-Jimmy Carter, Thirty-Ninth
President of
the United States of America, as quoted in, "US cannot be Mideast
peacemaker
as "knee-jerk" supporter of all Israeli", Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)
www.kuna.net.kw,
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=...,
(4 April 2007).
________________________________________
"It's almost politically suicidal in the United States for a member
of
the
Congress who wants to seek reelection to take any stand that might be
interpreted as anti-policy of the conservative Israeli government,
which is
equated, as I've seen it myself, as anti-Semitism."-Jimmy Carter,
Thirty-Ninth President of the United States of America, in an
interview on,
"This week with George Stephanopoulos," ABC, as quoted by Yitzhak
Benhorin,
"Balanced stand on ME is political suicide, says Carter", www.ynetnews.com,
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3369679,00.html, (26
February
2007).
________________________________________
"The Islamic Republic of Iran seeks good neighborly relations with
all
the
surrounding states, and it desires establishment of sustainable
peace,
friendship and tranquility in the region, particularly in the Persian
Gulf."-Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Mostafa Mohammad
Najjar,
as quoted in "Iran Seeks Peace, Stability in Persian Gulf", Fars News
Agency
www.farsnews.ir, http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8511220267,
(11
February 2007).
"That Iran is willing to threaten Israel is wrong[. . . .] We pose no
threat
and if we are conducting nuclear research and development we are no
threat
to Israel. We have no intention of aggression against any country.
[. . .]
Today we announce to you that the political will of Iran is aimed at
the
negotiated settlement of the case and we don't want to aggravate the
situation in our region[. . . .] We know that this issue can be
settled in a
constructive dialogue and we welcome that."-Ali Larijani, Iranian
Secretary
of the Supreme National Security Council and Chief Iranian Nuclear
Negotiator, as quoted in Associated Press, "Iran negotiator: Nuclear
program
'no threat to Israel'",
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/02/11/iran.israel.ap/, (11
February
2007).
"Repeatedly and frankly we have announced that in Iran's national
security
doctrine there is no room for atomic and chemical weapons as we
consider
them against Islamic laws. Iran's Supreme Leader (Ayatollah Seyyed
Ali
Khamenei) in this connection had issued a decree that mass
destruction
weapons are prohibited by the Muslim religion. [. . .] Therefore we
support
the idea of a Middle East free from weapons of mass destruction[.]"-
Ali
Larijani, Iranian Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council
and
Chief Iranian Nuclear Negotiator, as quoted in "'No room for WMDs in
Iran's
national security doctrine,' says Larijani", Islamic Republic News
Agency,
http://www2.irna.com/en/news/view/line-203/0702111128162815.htm, (11
February 2007).
"We are committed not to launch aggression on any country and defend
ourselves in the face of any aggression."-Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
President of
Iran, as quoted in "IR calls for promotion of peace", Islamic
Republic
of
Iran Broadcasting www.iribnews.ir,
http://www.iribnews.ir/Full_en.asp?news_id=231222&n=22, (11 February
2007).
________________________________________
"We are witnessing an almost uncontained hyper use of force in
international
relations . . . the United States has overstepped its national
borders
in
every way[. . . .] The legitimate use of force can only be done by
the
United Nations, which cannot be replaced by EU or NATO[. . . .] The
unilateral illegal action has not resolved any problem. [. . .] [N]
obody
feels secure anymore[. . . .] We should not corner Iran into a
hostile
environment[.]"-Vladimir Putin, Second President of the Russian
Federation,
as quoted in Mu Xuequan, Editor, "Russia differences with West
obvious
at
Munich conference", China View www.chinaview.cn,
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-02/10/content_5724866.htm, (10
February 2007).
________________________________________
"1 Why are the nations in an uproar? And why do the peoples mutter in
vain?
2 The kings of the earth stand up, and the rulers take counsel
together,
against the LORD, and against His anointed: 3 'Let us break their
bands
asunder, and cast away their cords from us.' 4 He that sitteth in
heaven
laugheth, the Lord hath them in derision. 5 Then will He speak unto
them in
His wrath, and affright them in His sore displeasure: 6 'Truly it is
I
that
have established My king upon Zion, My holy mountain.' 7 I will tell
of the
decree: the LORD said unto me: 'Thou art My son, this day have I
begotten
thee. 8 Ask of Me, and I will give the nations for thine inheritance,
and
the ends of the earth for thy possession. 9 Thou shalt break them
with
a rod
of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.' 10
Now
therefore, O ye kings, be wise; be admonished, ye judges of the
earth.
11
Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. 12 Do homage in
purity, lest He be angry, and ye perish in the way, when suddenly His
wrath
is kindled. Happy are all they that take refuge in Him."-The Jewish
book of
Psalm 2 [version of the Jewish Publication Society]"
________________________________________
Charter of the United Nations
Chapter 1, Article 1, Paragraphs 1 & 2:
"1. To maintain international peace and security, and to that end: to
take
effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of
threats to
the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other
breaches
of the peace, and to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity
with
the principles of justice and international law, adjustment or
settlement of
international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of
the
peace;
2. To develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for
the
principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, and to
take
other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace;"
Chapter 1, Article 2, Paragraph 4:
"All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the
threat
or use of force against the territorial integrity or political
independence
of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes
of
the
United Nations."
Chapter 6, Article 33, Paragraphs 1 & 2:
"1. The parties to any dispute, the continuance of which is likely to
endanger the maintenance of international peace and security, shall,
first
of all, seek a solution by negotiation, enquiry, mediation,
conciliation,
arbitration, judicial settlement, resort to regional agencies or
arrangements, or other peaceful means of their own choice.
2. The Security Council shall, when it deems necessary, call upon the
parties to settle their dispute by such means."
The North Atlantic Treaty
"The Parties undertake, as set forth in the Charter of the United
Nations,
to settle any international dispute in which they may be involved by
peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security
and
justice are not endangered, and to refrain in their international
relations
from the threat or use of force in any manner inconsistent with the
purposes
of the United Nations."
Principles of the Nuremberg Tribunal, 1950
"Principle Vl
The crimes hereinafter set out are punishable as crimes under;
international
law:
a. Crimes against peace:
i. Planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression
or a
war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances;
ii.Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the
accomplishment
of
any of the acts mentioned under (I)."
"To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an
international
crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from
other
war
crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the
whole."-Robert H. Jackson at the Nuremberg Tribunal, quoted in Curtis
Doebbler, "A Farce of Law: The Trial of Saddam Hussein", Jurist:
Legal
News
& Research,
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forumy/2006/04/farce-of-law-trial-of-sadda...,
(24 April 2006).
________________________________________
"More than a decade after Saddam Hussein agreed to give up weapons of
mass
destruction, Iraq has stepped up its quest for nuclear weapons and
has
embarked on a worldwide hunt for materials to make an atomic bomb,
Bush
administration officials said today. [***] Hard-liners are alarmed
that
American intelligence underestimated the pace and scale of Iraq's
nuclear
program before Baghdad's defeat in the gulf war. Conscious of this
lapse in
the past, they argue that Washington dare not wait until analysts
have
found
hard evidence that Mr. Hussein has acquired a nuclear weapon. The
first sign
of a 'smoking gun,' they argue, may be a mushroom Cloud."-Michael R.
Gordon
and Judith Miller, "Threats and Responses: The Iraqis; U.S. Says
Hussein
Intensifies Quest for A-Bomb Parts", The New York Times, (8 September
2002 /
Late Edition - Final), p. 1.
________________________________________
"It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to
them and
annihilate them. They are evil and damnable[.] [***] The Lord shall
return
the Arabs' deeds on their own heads, waste their seed and exterminate
them,
devastate them and vanish them from this world[.]"-Rabbi Ovadia
Yosef,
as
quoted in BBC News, "Rabbi calls for annihilation of Arabs",
www.news.bbc.co.uk,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1270038.stm, (10 April
2001).
"And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt
smite
them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with
them,
nor
shew mercy unto them:"-The Jewish book of Deuteronomy 7:2.
________________________________________
"'U.S. policy must be clear and unequivocal: We cannot, we should
not,
we
must not permit Iran to build or acquire nuclear weapons,' the
Democrat told
a crowd of Israel supporters. 'In dealing with this threat ... no
option can
be taken off the table.' Clinton spoke at a Manhattan dinner held by
the
largest pro-Israel lobbying group in the U.S., the American Israel
Public
Affairs Committee."-The Associated Press, quoting United States
Senator
Hillary Clinton, "Sen. Clinton: We must not permit Iran to acquire
nuclear
weapons", www.haaretz.com,http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/821284.html,
(2 February 2007).
________________________________________
"With American-Iranian tensions mounting, Democratic presidential
contenders
are facing a daunting political challenge: how to speak out against
Tehran's
pursuit of nuclear weapons in a way that appeals to pro-Israel
supporters
without alienating the party's overwhelmingly anti-war rank and
file."-Jennifer Siegel, "Crisis Over Iran Poses Political Headaches
For
Democratic Presidential Hopefuls", The Jewish Daily Forward,
http://www.forward.com/articles/crisis-over-iran-poses-political-head...,
(2 February 2007).
"While Jewish communal leaders focus most of their current lobbying
efforts
on pressing the United States to take a tough line against Iran and
its
nuclear program, some are privately voicing fears that they will be
accused
of driving America into a war with the regime in Tehran."-Forward
Staff,
"Groups Fear Public Backlash Over Iran", The Jewish Daily Forward,
http://www.forward.com/articles/groups-fear-public-backlash-over-iran/,
(2
February 2007).
________________________________________
"If Iran escalates its military action in Iraq to the detriment of
our
troops and/or innocent Iraqi people, we will respond firmly. We - it
makes
common sense for the commander-in-chief to say to our troops and the
Iraqi
people and the Iraqi government that we will help you defend yourself
from
people that want to sow discord and harm. And so we will do what it
takes to
protect our troops.
One of the things that is very important in discussing Iran is not to
mix
issues. Our relationship with Iran is based upon a lot of different
issues.
One is what is happening in Iraq. Another is their ambitions to have
a
nuclear weapon. And we're dealing with this issue diplomatically, and
I
think this can be solved diplomatically. And the message that we are
working
to send to the Iranian regime and the Iranian people is that you will
become
increasingly isolated if you continue to pursue a nuclear weapon.
The message to the Iranian people is that your government is going to
cause
you deprivation. In other words, you've got a chance to really
flourish
again as a great tradition. However, if your government continues to
insist
upon a nuclear weapon, there will be lost opportunity for the Iranian
people. They won't be able to realize their full potential.
The Iranian people have got to know that this government and the
United
States bears no hostility to them. We're just deeply concerned about
a
government that is insisting upon having a nuclear weapon, and at the
same
time, rewriting history - the history of the past, and regards, for
example,
the Holocaust. It troubles a lot of people in this world, and I'll
continue
to work with, you know, friends and allies to send a clear message."-
George
W. Bush, Forty-Third President of the United State of America, "Full
Transcript: NPR Interview with President Bush", www.npr.org,
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7065633, (29
January
2007).
________________________________________
"Twelve years ago, Saddam Hussein faced the prospect of being the
last
casualty in a war he had started and lost. To spare himself, he
agreed
to
disarm of all weapons of mass destruction. For the next 12 years, he
systematically violated that agreement. He pursued chemical,
biological, and
nuclear weapons, even while inspectors were in his country. Nothing
to
date
has restrained him from his pursuit of these weapons - not economic
sanctions, not isolation from the civilized world, not even cruise
missile
strikes on his military facilities.
Almost three months ago, the United Nations Security Council gave
Saddam
Hussein his final chance to disarm. He has shown instead utter
contempt for
the United Nations, and for the opinion of the world. The 108 U.N.
inspectors were sent to conduct - were not sent to conduct a
scavenger
hunt
for hidden materials across a country the size of California. The job
of the
inspectors is to verify that Iraq's regime is disarming. It is up to
Iraq to
show exactly where it is hiding its banned weapons, lay those weapons
out
for the world to see, and destroy them as directed. Nothing like this
has
happened.
The United Nations concluded in 1999 that Saddam Hussein had
biological
weapons sufficient to produce over 25,000 liters of anthrax - enough
doses
to kill several million people. He hasn't accounted for that
material.
He's
given no evidence that he has destroyed it.
The United Nations concluded that Saddam Hussein had materials
sufficient to
produce more than 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin - enough to
subject
millions of people to death by respiratory failure. He hadn't
accounted for
that material. He's given no evidence that he has destroyed it.
Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the
materials to
produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent. In
such
quantities, these chemical agents could also kill untold thousands.
He's not
accounted for these materials. He has given no evidence that he has
destroyed them.
U.S. intelligence indicates that Saddam Hussein had upwards of 30,000
munitions capable of delivering chemical agents. Inspectors recently
turned
up 16 of them - despite Iraq's recent declaration denying their
existence.
Saddam Hussein has not accounted for the remaining 29,984 of these
prohibited munitions. He's given no evidence that he has destroyed
them.
From three Iraqi defectors we know that Iraq, in the late 1990s, had
several
mobile biological weapons labs. These are designed to produce germ
warfare
agents, and can be moved from place to a place to evade inspectors.
Saddam
Hussein has not disclosed these facilities. He's given no evidence
that he
has destroyed them.
The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed in the 1990s that
Saddam
Hussein had an advanced nuclear weapons development program, had a
design
for a nuclear weapon and was working on five different methods of
enriching
uranium for a bomb. The British government has learned that Saddam
Hussein
recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. Our
intelligence sources tell us that he has attempted to purchase high-
strength
aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production. Saddam
Hussein
has
not credibly explained these activities. He clearly has much to hide.
The dictator of Iraq is not disarming. To the contrary; he is
deceiving.
From intelligence sources we know, for instance, that thousands of
Iraqi
security personnel are at work hiding documents and materials from
the
U.N.
inspectors, sanitizing inspection sites and monitoring the inspectors
themselves. Iraqi officials accompany the inspectors in order to
intimidate
witnesses.
Iraq is blocking U-2 surveillance flights requested by the United
Nations.
Iraqi intelligence officers are posing as the scientists inspectors
are
supposed to interview. Real scientists have been coached by Iraqi
officials
on what to say. Intelligence sources indicate that Saddam Hussein has
ordered that scientists who cooperate with U.N. inspectors in
disarming Iraq
will be killed, along with their families.
Year after year, Saddam Hussein has gone to elaborate lengths, spent
enormous sums, taken great risks to build and keep weapons of mass
destruction. But why? The only possible explanation, the only
possible
use
he could have for those weapons, is to dominate, intimidate, or
attack.
With nuclear arms or a full arsenal of chemical and biological
weapons,
Saddam Hussein could resume his ambitions of conquest in the Middle
East and
create deadly havoc in that region. And this Congress and the America
people
must recognize another threat. Evidence from intelligence sources,
secret
communications, and statements by people now in custody reveal that
Saddam
Hussein aids and protects terrorists, including members of al Qaeda.
Secretly, and without fingerprints, he could provide one of his
hidden
weapons to terrorists, or help them develop their own.
Before September the 11th, many in the world believed that Saddam
Hussein
could be contained. But chemical agents, lethal viruses and shadowy
terrorist networks are not easily contained. Imagine those 19
hijackers with
other weapons and other plans - this time armed by Saddam Hussein. It
would
take one vial, one canister, one crate slipped into this country to
bring a
day of horror like none we have ever known. We will do everything in
our
power to make sure that that day never comes. (Applause.)
Some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent. Since
when have
terrorists and tyrants announced their intentions, politely putting
us
on
notice before they strike? If this threat is permitted to fully and
suddenly
emerge, all actions, all words, and all recriminations would come too
late.
Trusting in the sanity and restraint of Saddam Hussein is not a
strategy,
and it is not an option. (Applause.)
The dictator who is assembling the world's most dangerous weapons has
already used them on whole villages - leaving thousands of his own
citizens
dead, blind, or disfigured. Iraqi refugees tell us how forced
confessions
are obtained - by torturing children while their parents are made to
watch.
International human rights groups have catalogued other methods used
in the
torture chambers of Iraq: electric shock, burning with hot irons,
dripping
acid on the skin, mutilation with electric drills, cutting out
tongues, and
rape. If this is not evil, then evil has no meaning. (Applause.)
And tonight I have a message for the brave and oppressed people of
Iraq:
Your enemy is not surrounding your country - your enemy is ruling
your
country. (Applause.) And the day he and his regime are removed from
power
will be the day of your liberation. (Applause.)
The world has waited 12 years for Iraq to disarm. America will not
accept a
serious and mounting threat to our country, and our friends and our
allies.
The United States will ask the U.N. Security Council to convene on
February
the 5th to consider the facts of Iraq's ongoing defiance of the
world.
Secretary of State Powell will present information and intelligence
about
Iraqi's legal - Iraq's illegal weapons programs, its attempt to hide
those
weapons from inspectors, and its links to terrorist groups.
We will consult. But let there be no misunderstanding: If Saddam
Hussein
does not fully disarm, for the safety of our people and for the peace
of the
world, we will lead a coalition to disarm him. (Applause.)
Tonight I have a message for the men and women who will keep the
peace,
members of the American Armed Forces: Many of you are assembling in
or
near
the Middle East, and some crucial hours may lay ahead. In those
hours,
the
success of our cause will depend on you. Your training has prepared
you.
Your honor will guide you. You believe in America, and America
believes in
you. (Applause.)
Sending Americans into battle is the most profound decision a
President can
make. The technologies of war have changed; the risks and suffering
of
war
have not. For the brave Americans who bear the risk, no victory is
free from
sorrow. This nation fights reluctantly, because we know the cost and
we
dread the days of mourning that always come.
We seek peace. We strive for peace. And sometimes peace must be
defended. A
future lived at the mercy of terrible threats is no peace at all. If
war is
forced upon us, we will fight in a just cause and by just means -
sparing,
in every way we can, the innocent. And if war is forced upon us, we
will
fight with the full force and might of the United States military -
and we
will prevail. (Applause.)
And as we and our coalition partners are doing in Afghanistan, we
will
bring
to the Iraqi people food and medicines and supplies - and freedom.
(Applause.)
Many challenges, abroad and at home, have arrived in a single season.
In two
years, America has gone from a sense of invulnerability to an
awareness of
peril; from bitter division in small matters to calm unity in great
causes.
And we go forward with confidence, because this call of history has
come to
the right country.
Americans are a resolute people who have risen to every test of our
time.
Adversity has revealed the character of our country, to the world and
to
ourselves. America is a strong nation, and honorable in the use of
our
strength. We exercise power without conquest, and we sacrifice for
the
liberty of strangers.
Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of
every
person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not
America's
gift to the world, it is God's gift to humanity. (Applause.)
We Americans have faith in ourselves, but not in ourselves alone. We
do not
know - we do not claim to know all the ways of Providence, yet we can
trust
in them, placing our confidence in the loving God behind all of life,
and
all of history.
May He guide us now. And may God continue to bless the United States
of
America. (Applause.)"-George W. Bush, Forty-Third President of the
United
State of America, "State of the Union Address", (28 January 2003).
________________________________________
"'The State of Israel will not allow the world to avoid a
confrontation with
a country calling for the destruction of Israel,' Prime Minister Ehud
Olmert
said Sunday during the weekly cabinet meeting. [***] 'Anti-Semintism
is the
gentiles' problem, not the Jews', it is the gentiles' disease, not
ours. As
long as there is anti-Semitism in the world, the world will be sick,'
Vice
Premier Shimon Peres said."-Ynetnews, www.ynetnews.com, "World can't
avoid
confrontation with Iran, PM says",
http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/10486.htm, (28 January
2007).
________________________________________
"More important still, during all that period and to the present
time,
it
was not possible freely to report or discuss a third vital matter:
Zionist
Nationalism. In this case the freedom of the press has become a
fallacy
during the past two decades. Newspaper-writers have become less and
less
free to express any criticism, or report any fact unfavourable to
this
new
ambition of the Twentieth Century. When I eventually went to America
I
found
that this ban, for such it is in practice, prevailed even more
rigidly
there
than in my own country.
Today an awakening is supposed to have occurred in the matter of
Communism.
During the most fateful and decisive years of the Second War, when
the
things were being done which obviously set the stage for a third one,
it was
in fact almost impossible for any independent writer to publish any
reasonable criticism, supported by no matter what evidence, about
Soviet
Communism and its intentions. Now, when the damage is done, Communism
is
much attacked, but even so the mass of Communist writers who were
planted in
the American and British press during those years has by no means
been
displaced; and the attentive newspaper-reader in either country may
see for
himself how the most specious Communist sophistries are daily
injected
into
the editorial arguments and the news-columns of newspapers professing
the
most respectable principles.
In the matter of Zionist Nationalism, which I hold to be allied in
its
roots
to Soviet Communism, the ban is much more severe. In my own adult
lifetime
as a journalist, now covering thirty years, I have seen this secret
ban grow
from nothing into something approaching a law of lese majeste at some
absolute court of the dark past. In daily usage, no American or
British
newspaper, apparently, now dares to print a line of news or comment
unfavourable to the Zionist ambition; and under this thrall matters
are
reported favourably or non-committally, if they are reported at all,
which
if they occurred elsewhere would be denounced with the most piteous
cries of
outraged morality. The inference to me is plain: the Zionist
Nationalists
are powerful enough to govern governments in the great countries of
the
remaining West!
I believe Zionist Nationalism to be a political movement organized in
all
countries, which aims to bring all Jews under its thrall just as
Communism
enslaved the Russians and National Socialism the Germans. I hold it
to
be as
dangerous as both of those, and when I recall the results that came
of
the
subtle suppression of information in the cases of Stalinism and
Hitlerism, I
judge that the consequences of this even more rigorous suppression
will not
be less grave.
I think it a cardinal error to identify 'Jews' with Zionist
Nationalism,
'Russians' with Communism, or 'Germans' with National Socialism. I
saw
the
enslavement of Germans and Russians and know different. I believe
that
the
astonishingly powerful attempt to prevent any discussion of Zionist
Nationalism by dismissing it as the expression of an aversion to
Jews,
as
Jews, is merely meant to stop any public discussion of its objects,
which
seem to me to be as dangerous to Jew as to Gentile. Of the three
groups
which have appeared, like stormy petrels, to presage the tempests of
our
century, the Zionist Nationalists appear to me the most powerful.
National
Socialism, I think, was but a stooge or stalking horse for the
pursuit
of
Communist aims. Communism is genuinely tigerish, and was strong
enough
to
infest governments everywhere and distort the policies which were
pursued
behind the screen of military operations; but, if forced into a
corner
by
the rising unease of their peoples, Western politicians are prepared
in the
last resort to turn against it.
But Zionist Nationalism! . . . That is a different matter. Today
American
Presidents and British Prime Ministers, and all their colleagues,
watch it
as anxiously as Muslim priests watch for the crescent moon on the eve
of
Ramadan, and bow to it as the faithful prostrating themselves in the
mosque
at Mecca. The thing was but a word unknown to the masses forty years
ago;
today Western politicians hardly dare take the seals of office
without
first, or immediately afterwards, making public obeisance towards
this
strange new ambition."-Douglas Reed, Somewhere South of Suez, Devin-
Adir, U.
S. A., (1951), pp. 8-10.
________________________________________
"'Death to Arabs' was just one of the hateful messages left by Jewish
settlers on Muslim graves after a destructive rampage on a cemetery
and
village near Nablus Tuesday."-Ronny Shaked, "Settlers defile
Palestinian
graves under IDF watch: Jewish settlers desecrate graves, wreak havoc
in
Palestinian village", www.ynetnews.com,
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3356741,00.html, (25
January
2007).
________________________________________
VIDEO: Now Playing: Gov. Romney Concludes Remarks on Iran Threat
"Israeli billionaire and media mogul Haim Saban is at the top of the
list of
donors to political campaigns in the US."-Itamar Eichner, "Israeli
billionaire Saban biggest donor to US politicians", www.ynetnews.com,
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3355786,00.html, (23
January
2007).
"Republican US presidential aspirant Mitt Romney summed up the
sentiment of
four US presidential hopefuls who addressed the Seventh Annual
Herzliya
Conference over the last two days by saying, 'Iran must be stopped,
Iran can
be stopped, and Iran will be Stopped.' [***] Another Republican
hopeful,
Sen. John McCain, said the US should 'intensify' its military support
for
Israel to ensure that the country maintained it strategic edge over
those
who were bent on destroying it, such as Iran. [***] Democratic
presidential
hopeful Sen. John Edwards, meanwhile, said by video conference that
stopping
Iran from developing nuclear weapons 'is the greatest challenge of
our
generation.'"-Herb Keinon and Tovah Lazaroff, "US politicians rip
Iran
in
Herzliya", The Jerusalem Post,
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?c=JPArticle&cid=1167467797900&...,
(23 January 2007).
"New York's junior senator, Hillary Rodham Clinton, is expected to
snare the
lion's share of the Jewish community's substantial political
donations
in
the race for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination."-E. J.
Kessler,
"Hillary the Favorite in Race for Jewish Donations", The Jewish Daily
Forward,
http://www.forward.com/articles/hillary-the-favorite-in-race-for-jewi...,
(23 January 2007).
"The Israeli people are facing the threat of a nuclear Holocaust,
former US
Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich warned the
Herzliya
Conference held by the Institute for Policy and Strategy at IDC
Herzliya on
Tuesday afternoon. Meanwhile, he said, the United States could lose a
few
million people or a number of cities to a terrorist attack with
weapons of
mass destruction."-Yaakov Lappin, "Israel faces nuclear Holocaust
warns
Gingrich", www.ynetnews.com,
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3356103,00.html, (23
January
2007).
"Former Massachusetts governor and GOP presidential contender Mitt
Romney
laid out a five-point plan for preventing Iran from going nuclear at
the
Herzliya Conference in Israel today."-Campaign Confidential, "Iran
Hawk:
Mitt Romney", The Jewish Daily Forward,
http://www.forward.com/blogs/campaign-confidential/iran-hawk-mitt-rom...,
(23 January 2007).
________________________________________
"John Edwards[. . .] sounded Joe Lieberman-like on Iran[. . . .]"-
Jennifer
Siegel, "Iran Hawk: John Edwards", The Jewish Daily Forward,
http://www.forward.com/blogs/campaign-confidential/iran-hawk-john-edw...,
(23 January 2007).
________________________________________
"Extolling the ideals of socialist thinker Karl Marx, Chavez defended
his
government's effort to establish a socialist model and rejected US
concerns
over a measure to grant him broad lawmaking powers, saying: 'Go to
hell,
gringos! Go home!' [***] The National Assembly, controlled by the
president's political allies, is expected to give final approval this
week
to what it calls the 'enabling law,' which would grant Chavez
authority to
pass a series of laws by decree during an 18-month period."-
Associated
Press, "Chavez tells US to 'go to hell' in talk-show", The Jerusalem
Post,
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1167467784737&pagename=JPo...,
(22 January 2007). See also: "Enabling Act" or Ermaechtigungsgesetz
for a
comparison to Adolf Hitler.
________________________________________
"[. . .]First of all, I would have no peace treaty with Syria. That's
number
one. If Syria really wants peace, if they want peace, see number one,
they
have to give up land. They have to give up everything up to Damascus.
I
don't want this Damascus, it's a smelly, stinky place. That I don't
need.
It's one big toilet. But up to Damascus, I'll take. And Syria has to
behave
itself, and has to kill out all the terrorists and Hezbullah. It's
never
gonna happen, but in order for anyone to have peace with Israel they
have to
give up land. And if Syria will kill terrorists, and give up land, so
then
we'll promise peace with Syria, and we won't smash their heads in.
How
does
that sound? We won't smash the heads of the diaper heads, we won't
smash the
pamper heads, we won't smash the huggies heads. That's what I
say. . .
That's my peace. [. . .]"- Tovia Singer on Israel National Radio,
http://www.israelnationalradio.com/Asx/tovias-tu-2.asx,
http://www.israelnationalradio.com/#tovia, (16 January 2007 / Hour
2).
________________________________________
"The main umbrella group of American Jewish organizations is set to
visit
Dubai and Abu Dhabi next month in a sign of the growing concern among
Sunni
regimes over Iran's nuclear and regional ambitions. The trip, by a
delegation from the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish
Organizations to the main power centers of the United Arab Emirates,
is
notable because the Sunni-majority UAE does not have formal
diplomatic
ties
with Israel."-Marc Perelman, "Groups Head to Emirates, as Worries
Grow
Over
Iran", The Jewish Daily Forward,
http://www.forward.com/articles/groups-head-to-emirates-as-worries-gr...,
(19 January 2007).
________________________________________
"A group of rabbis have issued a halachic opinion implying that OC
Central
Command Maj.-Gen. Yair Naveh deserves to be killed. The rabbis, all
connected with a movement to resurrect the Sanhedrin, the ancient
Jewish
governing body, said in their halachic ruling this week that Naveh
was
guilty of being a moser, a Hebrew word that can be roughly translated
as an
informant or traitor."-Matthew Wagner, "Rabbis: Naveh deserves to be
killed", The Jerusalem Post,
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?c=JPArticle&cid=1167467765105&...,
(18 January 2007).
"Two additional halachic laws are of special importance both
generally
and
specifically when related to the Rabin assassination. These two laws,
employed since talmudic times to kill Jews, were invoked by the
assassin,
Yigal Amir, as his justification for killing Prime Minister Rabin and
are
still emphasized by Jews who approved or have barely condemned that
assassination. These are the 'law of the pursuer' (din rodef) and the
'law
of the informer' (din moser).[Notation: 'Moser,' the Hebrew word for
informer, is a terrible insult for Jews, similar to the word
'collaborator'
for Palestinians.] The first law commands every Jew to kill or to
wound
severely any Jew who is perceived as intending to kill another Jew.
According to halachic commentaries, it is not necessary to see such a
person
pursuing a Jewish victim. It is enough if rabbinic authorities, or
even
competent scholars, announce that the law of the pursuer applies to
such a
person. The second law commands every Jew to kill or wound severely
any Jew
who, without a decision of a competent rabbinical authority, has
informed
non-Jews, especially non-Jewish authorities, about Jewish affairs or
who has
given them information about Jewish property or who has delivered
Jewish
persons or property to their rule or authority. Competent religious
authorities are empowered to do, and at times have done, those things
forbidden to other Jews in the second law. During the long period of
incitement preceding the Rabin assassination, many Haredi and
messianic
writers applied these laws to Rabin and other Israeli leaders. The
religious
insiders based themselves on later developments in Halacha that came
to
include other categories of Jews who were defined as 'those to whom
the law
of the pursuer' applied. Every Jew had a religious duty to kill those
Jews
who were so included. Historically, Jews in the diaspora followed
this
law
whenever possible, until at least the advent of the modern state. In
the
Tsarist Empire Jews followed this law until well into the nineteenth
century."-I. Shahak and N. Mezvinsky, Jewish Fundamentalism in
Israel,
Pluto
Press, London, (1999), pp. 137-138.
________________________________________
"Over the last couple of weeks, I have talked with people familiar
with the
meetings four U.S. senators recently had in the Middle East. One of
them
asked me a question: Can you guess which two meetings were the most
similar?
I tried and failed, so he gave me the answer: 'The meeting with
[King]
Abdullah [of Saudi Arabia] was the Bedouin version of the meeting
with
[Israeli opposition leader] Benjamin Netanyahu.' Netanyahu is the
most
vocal
alarmist on Iran, and in the meetings he has with U.S. visitors, he
tends to
repeat the analogy he uses in public. It's not about Vietnam, and
it's
not
about Cambodia. 'This is 1938,' he says. 'Iran is Germany, and it is
about
to arm itself with nuclear weapons.' The Saudi monarch, I wrote in
Ha'aretz,
'for whom the Nazi analogy is not his natural domain, expressed
exactly the
same fear, but in somewhat different words.'"-Shmuel Rosner, "Did We
Just
Declare War on Iran?", www.slate.com, http://www.slate.com/id/2157489/,
(12
January 2007).
"We must turn to Hillary Clinton and other potential presidential
candidates
in the Democratic Party so that they publicly support immediate
action
by
Bush against Iran. We should also approach European countries so that
they
support American actions in Iran, so that Bush will not be isolated
in
the
international arena again. We must clandestinely cooperate with Saudi
Arabia
so that it also persuades the US to strike Iran."-Brigadier General
(Res.)
Oded Tira, Former IDF Chief Artillery Officer, "What to do with
Iran?", (30
December 2006), http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3346275,00.html
________________________________________
"The many controversial issues concerning Palestine and the path to
peace
for Israel are intensely debated among Israelis and throughout other
nations - but not in the United States. For the last 30 years, I have
witnessed and experienced the severe restraints on any free and
balanced
discussion of the facts. This reluctance to criticize any policies of
the
Israeli government is because of the extraordinary lobbying efforts
of
the
American-Israel Political Action Committee and the absence of any
significant contrary voices. It would be almost politically suicidal
for
members of Congress to espouse a balanced position between Israel and
Palestine, to suggest that Israel comply with international law or to
speak
in defense of justice or human rights for Palestinians."-Jimmy
Carter,
Thirty-Ninth President of the United States of America, "Speaking
frankly
about Israel and Palestine", www.latimes.com,
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-oe-carter8dec08,...,
(8 December 2006).
________________________________________
"Israel Beiteinu is a racist party which is a danger to the state of
Israel,
Defense Minister Amir Peretz said during the Labor faction meeting on
Monday. 'The decision to appoint Ghaleb Majadle as minister is
causing
people to say things that are way out of proportion,' Peretz said.
'If
there
is a danger to the state of Israel, it is the danger [presented by] a
racist
party like Israel Beiteinu.'"-Gil Hoffman and JPOST Staff, "Amir
Peretz
calls Israel Beiteinu a 'racist party'", The Jerusalem Post ,
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1167467737898&pagename=JPo...,
(15 January 2007).
"A few hours after U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice came to
Israel
on another diplomatic mission, she hastened to meet with Strategic
Threats
Minister Avigdor Lieberman. Rice met Lieberman two days after the
chairwoman
of his Yisrael Beiteinu faction, MK Esterina Tartman, made crudely
racist
statements against the appointment (which has meanwhile been
postponed) of
MK Raleb Majadele as the first Arab minister in the country's
history.
[***]
Rice's meeting with Lieberman was like giving a stamp of approval to
the
racist positions he and his party have adopted. It is not clear why
the
secretary of state saw a need to hold this meeting, which is not part
of the
standard protocol for her visits to Israel. Her meeting with
Lieberman
thus
constituted a kind of American recognition of his status and his
stances."-Haaretz Editorial, "Down with racism", www.haaretz.com,
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/813380.html, (15 January 2007?).
"Israeli media reported that hardline deputy prime minister, Avigdor
Lieberman, told Rice that the Israeli Army will have to re-enter the
Gaza
Strip at some point, and that 30,000 U.N. troops are needed to secure
the
chaotic Palestinian territory on Israel's southern flank. Lieberman
has in
the past said Israel should assassinate Hamas' leadership, ignore the
moderate Palestinian president and walk away from international peace
efforts. His ideas do not necessarily carry weight, but Rice defended
the
decision to meet with him."-Anne Gearan, "Rice Says She Registers
Mideast
Demands", The Associated Press/WashingtonPost.com,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/14/AR200...,
(14 January 2007).
________________________________________
"The most important thing, and especially if you're a Gentile
listening to
my voice, if you're not Jewish, the most important thing for the
nations to
do is to bless Israel. The most important thing is to bless Israel.
That's
all a Gentile should be thinking about from the morning till night
is,
'How
do I bless Israel? How do I stand by Zion?' It's the most important
thing.
And the most dangerous, the worst thing in the world, is to curse
Israel-the
worst thing. Every Gentile has to think every second of, 'What can I
do to
strengthen Zion? What can I do to pray for Jerusalem? What can I do
to
stand
by the nation of Israel?'"- Tovia Singer, "Can you Hear the Footsteps
of the
Messiah?", Israel National Radio,
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=119335, (10 January
2007).
"I'm at the point of saying that Bush is going to do everything he
can,
essentially, to taunt Ahmadinejad into attacking us."-Dr. Jerome
Corsi,
author of Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb and
American
Politicians, in an interview with Tovia Singer on Israel National
Radio,
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=119335, (10 January
2007).
________________________________________
"Acting on the good advice of Senator Joe Lieberman and other key
members of
Congress, we will form a new, bipartisan working group that will help
us
come together across party lines to win the war on terror. This group
will
meet regularly with me and my administration; it will help strengthen
our
relationship with Congress. We can begin by working together to
increase the
size of the active Army and Marine Corps, so that America has the
Armed
Forces we need for the 21st century."- George W. Bush, Forty-Third
President
of the United States of America, "Text of President Bush's address on
Wednesday, as prepared by the White House",
http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_4987452, (10 January 2007).
________________________________________
"No one denies that the Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives,
in
power from 1995 until 2006, was overwhelmingly pro-Israel. But with
Democratic wins in both houses, the 110th Congress removes from power
several maverick Republicans who wanted the United States to be more
critical of Israel, and boosts to leadership lawmakers who are not
just
Israel-friendly but intimately acquainted with the U.S. Jewish
community."-Ron Kampeas, "Division of congressional posts seems to
favor
Jewish issues",
http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=17466&intcategory...,
(10 January 2007).
________________________________________
"The thing that makes us strong and secure. is that we here in Israel
are
only the spearhead of a great people spread all over the world, and
one day
they will come home where they really belong, to the State of Israel
[.]
[***] Birthright, if you want, is what Israel is all about. Israel is
a
Jewish state[.] [***] [Jews] have a birthright to come and live here.
[***]
[T]here is only one place in the world which is ours. [***] [W]e are
one
people, belong to each other, and that we love each other. [***] When
it
does happen, and you feel you are ready, we are waiting for you. And
when
you decide to come here, we will hug you, kiss you. we want nothing
more
than to have you, the future of the Jewish people, to come here,
where
they
belong[.]"-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, as quoted by Yaakov
Lappin,"Olmert: Israel spearhead for all Jews",
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3349787,00.html, (8 January
2007).
________________________________________
"Most Americans would reject outright any effort by one of our allies
to
limit fair debate, discussion, and dialogue here in the United States
about
the nature of American relations with any given state. And yet
America
as a
whole remains mute to the interference by the Israeli Lobby into any
meaningful discussion of American-Israeli relations. The end result
is
that
Israel and the Israeli Lobby are herding America down the path toward
war
with Iran, and most Americans remain ignorant and/or indifferent to
this
fact. The proof is in the pudding; even as the world debates and
discusses
the June 2006 incentives package offered to Iran, Israel has already
proclaimed its opposition to any such negotiated settlement, and
AIPAC
has
initiated a full-fledged lobbying campaign targeted at the U.S.
Congress to
keep America on track toward conflict with Iran. No one in the world
wants
such a confrontation, only Israel. Let there be no doubt: if there is
an
American war with Iran, it is a war that was made in Israel and
nowhere
else."-Scott Ritter, Target Iran: The Truth About the White House's
Plans
for Regime Change, Nation Books, New York, (2006), p. 211.
________________________________________
"It has been taught: R. Jose12 said: Three commandments were given to
Israel
when they entered the land; [i] to appoint a king; [ii] to cut off
the
seed
of Amalek; [iii] and to build themselves the chosen house [i.e. the
Temple]
and I do not know which of them has priority. But, when it is said:
The hand
upon the throne of the Lord, the Lord will have war with Amalek from
generation to generation,13 we must infer that they had first to set
up a
king, for 'throne' implies a king, as it is written, Then Solomon sat
on the
throne of the Lord as king.14 Yet I still do not know which [of the
other
two] comes first, the building of the chosen Temple or the cutting
off
of
the seed of Amalek. Hence, when it is written, And when He giveth you
rest
from all your enemies round about etc., and then [Scripture
proceeds],
Then
it shall come to pass that the place which the Lord your God shall
choose,15
it is to be inferred that the extermination of Amalek is first. And
so
it is
written of David, And it came to pass when the king dwelt in his
house, and
the Lord had given him rest from his enemies round about, and the
passage
continues; that the king said unto Nathan the Prophet: See now, I
dwell in a
house of cedars etc."-I. Epstein, Editor, "Sanhedrin 20b", The
Babylonian
Talmud, Volume 27, The Soncino Press, London, (1935), pp. 107-111, at
109.
________________________________________
"So they went nearer and they heard him saying: 'Crown, crown, two
sons are
kept outside, and there will be no peace or rest until the bird is
thrown
down in Caesarea.' R. Jose wept and said: 'Verily the Galuth is drawn
out,
and therefore the birds of heaven will not depart until the dominion
of the
idolatrous nations is removed from the earth, which will not be till
the day
when God will bring the world to judgement.'"-H. Sperling and M.
Simon,
Editors, The Zohar, Volume 2, The Soncino Press, New York, (1933), p.
311.
________________________________________
"We must turn to Hillary Clinton and other potential presidential
candidates
in the Democratic Party so that they publicly support immediate
action
by
Bush against Iran. We should also approach European countries so that
they
support American actions in Iran, so that Bush will not be isolated
in
the
international arena again. We must clandestinely cooperate with Saudi
Arabia
so that it also persuades the US to strike Iran."-Brigadier General
(Res.)
Oded Tira, Former IDF Chief Artillery Officer, "What to do with
Iran?", (30
December 2006), http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3346275,00.html
"* First, Israel should appoint a roving ambassador tasked with
responsibility for maintaining relations with Christians in America.
This
should not be just an honorary title, nor should it go to one of the
usual
organizational fund-raisers or foreign service hacks. Instead, the
government should appoint a person of faith, one who can communicate
with
evangelicals in terms they both understand and appreciate.
* Second, Israel should reach out to Christian leaders and their
communities, and initiate the establishment of 'prayer battalions' in
churches across the United States. Like rapid-deployment forces used
by the
military, these battalions could be mobilized at a moment's notice to
pray
for specific issues, such as the return of Israel's missing soldiers
or the
threat posed by Iran's nuclear ambitions."-Michael Freund, Served as
Deputy
Director of Communications in Israel's Prime Minister's Office under
former
premier Binyamin Netanyahu, "Right On!: In praise of Christian
Zionists",
(21 December 2006),
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1164881944891&pagename=JPo...
________________________________________
"The conclusions from Dayan's words are clear: This State has no
international obligations, no economic problems, the question of
peace
is
nonexistent. . . . It must calculate its steps narrow-mindedly and
live on
its sword. It must see the sword as the main, if not the only,
instrument
with which to keep its morale high and to retain its moral tension.
Toward
this end it may, no-it must-invent dangers, and to do this it must
adopt the
method of provocation-and-revenge. . . . And above all-let us hope
for
a new
war with the Arab countries, so that we may finally get rid of our
troubles
and acquire our space. (Such a slip of the tongue: Ben Gurion himself
said
that it would be worth while to pay an Arab a million pounds to start
a
war.) (26 May 1955, 1021)"-Excerpt from a 26 May 1955 entry in Moshe
Sheratt's personal diary as quoted in L. Rokach, Israel's Sacred
Terrorism,
Third Edition, AAUG Press, Belmont Massachusetts, p. 41.
________________________________________
"In 1937, 5.7 percent of the Party were Jews yet they formed a
majority in
the government. Lenin himself (who was partly Jewish by ancestry)
said
that
if the Commissar was Jewish, the deputy should be Russian: Stalin
followed
this rule. [***] Many Jewish Bolsheviks used Russian pseudonyms. As
early as
1936, Stalin ordered Mekhlis at Pravda to use these pseudonyms: 'No
need to
excite Hitler!'"- Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stalin: The Court of the
Red
Star,
Vintage Books, New York, (2003), pp. 305-306.
________________________________________
"In the Great Jalkut Rubeni, in the Parasha Bereshith, [Footnote:
Fol.
10.
Col. 1.] we have the following Passage, 'The Skin and the Flesh is
the
Coat
of a Man. The Spirit within is the Man. But the Idolaters (meaning
all
the
Nations but the Jewish) are not call'd Men, because their Souls have
their
Origin from the Unclean Spirit. But the Souls of the Israelites are
derived
from the Holy Spirit.' And a little farther on in the same Treatise,
it is
said, [Footnote: Fol. 10. Col. 2.] 'An Israelite is called a Man,
because
his Soul cometh from the Supreme Man. But an Idolater, whose Soul
cometh
from the Unclean Spirit, is call'd a Swine. If so, then is an
Idolater
the
Body and Soul of a Swine.' In another Part of the said Treatise,
entitled
Shaar olam hattobu [Footnote: Fol. 23. Col. 4.], there is a Passage
running
thus: 'The Wicked are stiled the Dead in their Life-Time, because
they
have
not a Holy Soul from the Foundation, which is called Him that liveth
for
ever. But they have the Soul from Kelifa (i. e. the Shell) by which
is
meant
the Devil) who is call'd Death, and the Shadow of Death: And through
the
Sparklings of the same they live.'"-Johann Andreas Eisenmenger, The
Traditions of the Jews, Contained in the Talmud and other Mystical
Writings,
Volume 1, J. Robinson, London, (1748), pp. 254-255.
________________________________________
"We Zionists wish to urge self-help on the people; thereby no
exaggerated
and unsound hopes will be awakened. On this ground, also, publicity
in
dealing with this point is of the highest value. [***] The confidence
of the
State, which is necessary for a settlement of large masses of Jews,
can only
be gained by publicity and by loyal action."-Theodor Herzl, "The
Zionist
Congress: Full Report of the Proceedings", The Jewish Chronicle, (3
September 1897), pp. 10-15, at 11.
"I hear, for ex., that your accomplishments are being used to make
propaganda, with the 'Jewish Newton, who is simultaneously an ardent
Zionist' (I personally haven't read this yet, but only heard it
mentioned).
[***] But I cannot go along with the propagandistic fuss with its
inevitable
untruths, precisely because Judaism is at stake and because I feel
myself so
thoroughly a Jew."-Letter from Paul Ehrenfest to Albert Einstein of 9
December 1919, English translation by A. Hentschel, The Collected
Papers of
Albert Einstein, Volume 9, Document 203, Princeton University Press,
(2004),
pp. 173-175, at 174.
________________________________________
"In 1983 AIPAC distributed to students and faculty around the country
a
ten-page questionnaire on political activism on their campuses. Its
instructions include: 'Please name any individual faculty who assist
anti-Israel groups. How is this assistance offered? What are the
propaganda
themes . . . ?' The survey results form the body of the AIPAC College
Guide:
Exposing the Anti-Israel Campaign on Campus, published in April 1984.
While AIPAC claims to respect the right of all to free speech, number
eight
on its list of 10 suggested 'modes of response' to pro-Palestinian
events or
speakers on campus reads: 'Attempt to prevent.'"-Paul Findley, They
Dare to
Speak Out: People and Institutions Confront Israel's Lobby, Lawrence
Hill &
Company, Westport, Connecticut, (1985), p. 181.
________________________________________
"I don't understand your optimism,' Ben Gurion declared. 'Why should
the
Arabs make peace? If I was an Arab leader I would never make terms
with
Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country. Sure, God
promised it
to us, but what does that matter to them? Our God is not theirs. We
come
from Israel, it's true, but two thousand years ago, and what is that
to
them? There has been antisemitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but
was
that their fault? They only see one thing: we have come here and
stolen
their country. Why should they accept that? They may perhaps forget
in
one
or two generations' time, but for the moment there is no chance. So
it's
simple: we have to stay strong and maintain a powerful army. Our
whole
policy is there. Otherwise the Arabs will wipe us out.'"-David Ben-
Gurion,
as quoted in: N. Goldmann, The Jewish Paradox, Grosset & Dunlap, New
York,
(1978), p. 99.
________________________________________
"I know this will annoy many of your readers. . . But the anger is
over the
fact that Israel did not fight against the Syrians. Instead of Israel
fighting against Hizbullah, many parts of the American administration
believe that Israel should have fought against the real enemy, which
is
Syria and not Hizbullah."Meyrav Wurmser, as quoted by Yitzhak
Benhorin
in,
"Neocons: We expected Israel to attack Syria",
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3340750,00.html, (16
December
2006).
________________________________________
"21 And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was
barren:
and
the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. 22 And
the
children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so,
why
am I
thus? And she went to inquire of the LORD. 23 And the LORD said unto
her,
Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be
separated
from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other
people;
and the elder shall serve the younger. 24 And when her days to be
delivered
were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb. 25 And the
first
came
out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name
Esau. 26
And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's
heel;
and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old
when
she
bare them. 27 And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man
of the
field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents. 28 And Isaac
loved
Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob. 29
And
Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint: 30
And
Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage;
for I
am faint: therefore was his name called Edom. 31 And Jacob said, Sell
me
this day thy birthright. 32 And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point
to die:
and what profit shall this birthright do to me? 33 And Jacob said,
Swear to
me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto
Jacob.
34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat
and
drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his
birthright."-The Jewish book of Genesis 25:21-34.
________________________________________
"You and I both know the powerful influence of AIPAC, which is not
designed
to promote peace. I'm not criticizing them, they have a perfect right
to
lobby, but their purpose in life is to protect and defend the
policies
of
the Israeli government and to make sure those policies are approved
in
the
United States and in our Congress-and they're very effective at it. I
have
known a large number of Jewish organizations in this country [that]
have
expressed their approval for the book and are trying to promote
peace.
But
their voices are divided and they're relatively reluctant to speak
out
publicly. And any member of Congress who's looking to be re-elected
couldn't
possibly say that they would take a balanced position between Israel
and the
Palestinians, or that they would insist on Israel withdrawing to
international borders, or that they would dedicate themselves to
protect
human rights of Palestinians-it's very likely that they would not be
re-elected."-Jimmy Carter, Thirty Ninth President of the United
States
of
America, as quoted by Eleanor Clift, "Last Word: Jimmy Carter
Revisiting
'Apartheid'", Newsweek International, (25 December 2006 - 1 January
2007).
________________________________________
"Thus what was on offer was no more and no less than the
establishment
of a
fascist Jewish state in Palestine as an ally of German fascism!"-
Klaus
Polkehn, "The Secret Contacts: Zionism and Nazi Germany, 1933-1941",
Journal
of Palestine Studies, Volume 5, Number 3/4, (Spring-Summer, 1976),
pp.
54-82, at 79.
________________________________________
"The United States has made a massive commitment to the future of
Iraq
in
both blood and treasure. As of December 2006, nearly 2,900 Americans
have
lost their lives serving in Iraq. Another 21,000 Americans have been
wounded, many severely.
To date, the United States has spent roughly $400 billion on the Iraq
War,
and costs are running about $8 billion per month. In addition, the
United
States must expect significant "tail costs" to come. Caring for
veterans and
replacing lost equipment will run into the hundreds of billions of
dollars.
Estimates run as high as $2 trillion for the final cost of the U.S.
involvement in Iraq."-James A. Baker, et al.,The Iraq Study Group
Report,
Vintage Books, New York, (2006), p. 32.
________________________________________
"The conflict includes not only the Arabs in Judea, Samaria, and the
Gaza
Strip, but Israeli Arabs also[.] [***] The linkage between the
Palestinian
Authority and the Israeli Arab population - it will destroy us, it is
impossible. What is the logic of creating one and a half country for
one
people and a half country for the Jewish people? [***] It's not
racism
[***]
The test is loyalty, not their religion."-Avigdor Lieberman as quoted
by Ira
Stoll in "Israel's Lieberman Calls for Tougher Stance on Israeli
Arabs", The
New York Sun, (13 December 2006).
________________________________________
"Revolting as it is, it would be an interesting study in psychology
to
analyze the motives, other than fear and cowardice, that have
prompted
Jewish bankers to lend money to Germany as they are now doing. It is
in part
their money that is being used by the Hitler regime in its reckless,
wicked
campaign of propaganda to make the world anti-Semitic; with that
money
they
have invaded Great Britain, the United States and other countries
where they
have established newspapers, subsidized agents and otherwise are
spending
untold millions in spreading their infamous creed. The suggestion
that
they
use that money toward paying the honest debts they have repudiated is
answered only by contemptuous sneers and silence. Meantime the
infamous
campaign goes on unabated with ever increasing intensity to the
everlasting
disgrace of the Jewish bankers who are helping to finance it and of
the
weaklings who are doing nothing effective to check it."-Samuel
Untermeyer,
as quoted in: "Text of Untermyer's Address", The New York Times, (7
August
1933), p. 4.
________________________________________
"'Hitler will be forgotten in a few years, but he will have a
beautiful
monument in Palestine. You know', and here the biographer-historian
seemed
to assume the role of a patriarchal Jew-'the coming of the Nazis was
rather
a welcome thing. So many of our German Jews were hovering between two
coasts; so many of them were riding the treacherous current between
the
Scylla of assimilation and the Charybdis of a nodding acquaintance
with
Jewish things. Thousands who seemed to be completely lost to Judaism
were
brought back to the fold by Hitler, and for that I am personally very
grateful to him.'"-Meyer Steinglass quoting Emil Ludwig, "Emil Ludwig
before
the Judge", American Jewish Times, (April, 1936), p. 35; as quoted
in:
L.
Brenner, Zionism in the Age of the Dictators, Lawrence Hill Books,
Chicago,
(1983), p. 59.
________________________________________
"19:5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my
covenant,
then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for
all
the
earth is mine: 19:6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and
an
holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the
children of
Israel."-The Jewish book of Exodus 19:5-6.
"32:1 And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of
the
mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said
unto
him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this
Moses, the
man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is
become
of him. 32:2 And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings,
which
are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters,
and
bring them unto me. 32:3 And all the people brake off the golden
earrings
which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron. 32:4 And he
received
them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he
had
made
it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which
brought
thee up out of the land of Egypt. 32:5 And when Aaron saw it, he
built
an
altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is
a
feast
to the LORD. 32:6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered
burnt
offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to
eat
and
to drink, and rose up to play. 32:7 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go,
get
thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of
Egypt,
have corrupted themselves: 32:8 They have turned aside quickly out of
the
way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and
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"The General Assembly, [***] Determines that
Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination."-
UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION NUMBER 3379
REVOKED UNDER ZIONIST PRESSURE BY RESOLUTION NUMBER 4686
http://www.jewishracism.com/quotes.htm
Friday, 9/12/2008
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"The way I see it, the fact of the Jews' racial peculiarity will
necessarily
influence their social relations with non-Jews. The conclusions
which-
in my
opinion-the Jews should draw is to become more aware of their
peculiarity in
their social way of life and to recognize their own cultural
contributions.
First of all, they would have to show a certain noble reservedness
and
not
be so eager to mix socially-of which others want little or nothing.
On
the
other hand, anti-Semitism in Germany also has consequences that, from
a
Jewish point of view, should be welcomed. I believe German Jewry owes
its
continued existence to anti-Semitism."-Albert Einstein, A. Engel
translator,
"How I became a Zionist", The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein,
Volume 7,
Document 57, Princeton University Press, (2002), pp. 234-235, at 235.
"Anti-Semitism will be a psychological phenomenon as long as Jews
come
in
contact with non-Jews-what harm can there be in that? Perhaps it is
due to
anti-Semitism that we survive as a race: at least that is what I
believe."-Albert Einstein, English translation by A. Engel, The
Collected
Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 7, Document 37, Princeton
University
Press, (2002), p. 159.
"What would you say, for example, if I did not deny there are good
aspects
of anti-Semitism? I say that anti-Semitism will educate the Jews. In
fifty
years, if we still have the same social order, it will have brought
forth a
fine and presentable generation of Jews, endowed with a delicate,
extremely
sensitive feeling for honor and the like."-Theodor Herzl, as quoted
by
Amos
Elon, Herzl, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, (1975), pp.
114-115.
________________________________________
"[T]here may be some truth in that if the Arabs have some complaints
about
my policy towards Israel, they have to realize that the Jews in the
U.
S.
control the entire information and propaganda machine, the large
newspapers,
the motion pictures, radio and television, and the big companies, and
there
is a force that we have to take into consideration."-Richard Milhous
Nixon,
Thirty-Seventh President of the United States of America, as quoted
by
Leonard Dinnerstein, Antisemitism in America, Oxford University
Press,
New
York, (1994), pp. 232-233. Dinnerstein cites: "Clipping of Fikri
Abbaza,
interview with Richard Nixon, Al-Mussawar, July 12, 1974, folder
'Jewish
Matters, 1969-1974,' box 5, Leonard Garment mss., LC."
________________________________________
"Yet despite the lack of Jewish worship and observance, and my
family's
total assimilation into everything American and secular, we were
thoroughly
Jewish. Our perspective was Jewish, as was our very essence. The
world
was
split into two distinct halves: Jews and gentiles. Jews were always
sought
in business or social dealings over gentiles. A common expression
used
by
Jews to describe a slow, dense person was-and still is-'He's got a
goyisher
kop,' which literally means 'He's got a gentile head' but
figuratively
means
'slow-witted.' First question when I came home and boasted of making
a
new
friend always was 'Is he Jewish?' 'God forbid!' (my father's
expression) if
I should ever go out with a gentile girl, and 'Oy vey!' (which
literally
means 'Oh pain!') if I ever got serious with her. All my parents'
friends
were Jews. They all shared the same role models: Sandy Koufax,
Bernard
Baruch, Bess Meyerson, Sam Levinson, Hank Greenberg, Arthur Goldberg,
Golda
Meir, Albert Einstein-these were people to be admired. And that poet
with
the beard, Allen Ginsberg, so smart, but the faygeleh (homosexual)
business,
such a waste!"-S. G. Bloom, Postville: A Clash of Cultures in
Heartland
America, Harcourt, Inc., New York, (2000), pp. 63-64.
________________________________________
"Joseph's appointment in Egypt was good for the Jews. The Jews of
Persia
were saved thanks to Esther's influence with the king. When a very
powerful
emperor is elected by the majority of the people, we must cooperate
with
him[.]"-Vyacheslav Moshe Kantor, as quoted by Amiram Barkat, "Putin
ally is
frontrunner to head European Jewish Congress", HAARETZ.com,
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/873804.html, (21 June 2007).
"The [European Jewish Congress] has a very important role in the
struggle
against Iran. We are not Israel's ambassadors, but we can pressure
our
governments and explain the danger[.]"-President of the Austrian
Jewish
Community Ariel Muzicant, as quoted by Amiram Barkat, "Putin ally is
frontrunner to head European Jewish Congress", HAARETZ.com,
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/873804.html, (21 June 2007).
________________________________________
"Regarding a timeline ... we decided that the end of 2007 will be the
point
of assessing the effectiveness of the sanctions and the amount of
influence
they are having on the Iranians. [***] I never said there is no
military
option, and the military option is included in all the options that
are on
the table, but at this time it's right to use the path of sanctions,
and to
intensify them."-Transportation Minister of Israel Shaul Mofaz as
quoted by
"News Agencies", "Mofaz: All options, including military one, on the
table
regarding Iran", HAARETZ.com,
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/868786.html, (9 June 2007).
"I think we've got to be prepared to take aggressive military action
against
the Iranians to stop them from killing Americans in Iraq. And to me,
that
would include a strike into, over the border into Iran, where we have
good
evidence that they have a base at which they are training these
people
coming back into Iraq to kill our soldiers. [***] If they don't play
by the
rules, we've got to use our force, and to me that would include
taking
military action to stop them from doing what they're doing."-United
States
Senator Joseph Lieberman, in an interview with Bob Schieffer on Face
the
Nation on 10 June 2007, "Lieberman: Bomb Iran If It Doesn't Stop",
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/06/10/ftn/main2908476.shtml.
________________________________________
"It's been conclusively proven Iran is not going to be talked out of
its
nuclear programme. So to stop them from doing it, we have to
massively
increase the pressure. If we can't get enough other countries to come
along
with us to do that, then we've got to go with regime change by
bolstering
opposition groups and the like, because that's the circumstance most
likely
for an Iranian government to decide that it's safer not to pursue
nuclear
weapons than to continue to do so. And if all else fails, if the
choice is
between a nuclear-capable Iran and the use of force, then I think we
need to
look at the use of force. [***] If the choice is them continuing
[towards a
nuclear bomb] or the use of force, I think you're at a Hitler
marching
into
the Rhineland point. If you don't stop it then, the future is in his
hands,
not in your hands, just as the future decisions on their nuclear
programme
would be in Iran's hands, not ours."-Former United States Ambassador
to the
United Nations John Bolton, as quoted by Toby Harnden, "We must
attack
Iran
before it gets the bomb ", Telegraph.co.uk,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/05/16/wbolt...,
(17 May 2007).
________________________________________
"With two carrier strike groups in the Gulf, we're sending clear
messages to
friends and adversaries alike. We'll keep the sea lanes open. [. . .]
We'll
stand with others to prevent Iran from gaining nuclear weapons and
dominating this region[.]"-United States Vice President Dick Cheney,
as
quoted by Graham Bowley, "On Carrier in Gulf, Cheney Issues Warning
to
Iran", The New York Times www.nytimes.com,
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/world/middleeast/11cnd-cheney.html?hp,
(11
May 2007); and Tom Raum, "Cheney Warns Iran Sea Lanes Must Be Open",
The
Associated Press, www.washingtonpost.com,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/11/AR200...,
(11 May 2007).
________________________________________
"The American president will not abandon the military option and I
believe
that we do not want him to do so[.]"-United States Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice, as quoted by Reuters News Agency, "Bush won't give
up
military option on Iran: Rice", www.reuters.com,
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL086231320070508, (8 May
2007).
________________________________________
"Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism. We all know that. Iran
continues
their efforts to build nuclear weapons. Iran is now exporting lethal
IED's
and jihadists and suicide bombers into Iraq killing American
soldiers.
The
Iranians encouraged Hezbullah to attack Israel from Lebanon recently.
Iran
poses one of the greatest threats to the world, to the security of
the
world, and in the Middle East. I believe the Iranians have got, we
have got
to bring greater pressures, diplomatic, economic, political, join
with
our
European allies. We still fear greatly the effect of a cut off of oil
on,
from, into Europe. We have to work together. If the Russians and the
Chinese
are not helpful to us, then we had better figure out a way to put
additional
pressures encouraging democracy and freedom within Iraq, which is a
very
cultured socie. . . within Iran, which is a very cultured society. At
the
end of the day, we cannot allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons.
[. . .] My
greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon, and give it
to
a
terrorist organization, and there is a real threat of them doing
that.
The
trip wire [for a U. S. strike at Iran] is, that if they acquire these
weapons, and their, our intelligence tells us, that this is a real
threat to
the state of Israel, to other states in the region. But I want to
emphasize,
Chris, there's lots of additional efforts that can be made and must
be
made
before we consider that option. There's lots of things we can do.
That
is
the ultimately final option and I don't think we need to exercise it
at this
time."-U. S. Senator and Presidential candidate John McCain,
Republican
Presidential Candidate Debates,
http://video.msn.com/v/us/msnbc.htm?f=00&g=&p=hotvideo_m_debate_rep&t...
"If there is a threat to the existence of Israel, which is by the way
I
think a potential threat to the existence of the United States, then
you
have to come to that, the aid of Israel."-U. S. Congressman and
Presidential
candidate Tom Tancredo, Republican Presidential Candidate Debates,
http://video.msn.com/v/us/msnbc.htm?f=00&g=&p=hotvideo_m_debate_rep&t...
"It really depends on what our intelligence says. I mean the reality
is the
use of military force against Iran would be very dangerous. It would
be very
provocative. The only thing worse would be Iran being a nuclear
power."-U.
S. Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani, Republican Presidential
Candidate
Debates,
http://video.msn.com/v/us/msnbc.htm?f=00&g=&p=hotvideo_m_debate_rep&t...
"Right now Iran is moving equipment into Iraq that is being used to
kill
Americans. Iran has crossed the line. The United States has absolute
license
at this point to take whatever actions are necessary to stop those
deadly
instruments from being moved across the line being used in
explosives,
roadside bombs inside Iraq. And, lastly, you know we should not get
to
the
edge of the cliff on this enrichment of uranium and plutonium to be
used for
a nuclear weapon in Iran. The United States needs to move very
quickly."-U.
S. Congressman and Presidential candidate Duncan Hunter, Republican
Presidential Candidate Debates,
http://video.msn.com/v/us/msnbc.htm?f=00&g=&p=hotvideo_m_debate_rep&t...
________________________________________
"If we do have to take offensive military action against Iran, it
would be
far better if the rest of the world saw it as a position of last
resort, not
first resort, because the effect and consequences will be global."-
United
States Senator, and Presidential Candidate, Hillary Rodham Clinton,
as
quoted by Hilary Leila Krieger, "Clinton: US might have to confront
Iran",
The Jerusalem Post, www.jpost.com,
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1177514487245&pagename=JPo...,
(26 April 2007).
________________________________________
"If it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for
this war
with Iraq, we would not be doing this[.] The leaders of the Jewish
community
are influential enough that they could change the direction of where
this is
going, and I think they should."-Congressman Jim Moran, as quoted by
Ted
Barrett, "Lawmaker under fire for saying Jews support Iraq war: Moran
apologizes; White House blasts comments", www.CNN.com,
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/03/11/moran.jews/, (12 March
2003).
________________________________________
"Another diplomatic source said that the resolution was partly a
result of
Israel's activity around the world."-Ronny Sofer, "J'lem sources
pleased
with UN resolution increasing", Ynetnews www.ynetnews.com,
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3380541,00.html, (24 March
2007).
________________________________________
"'I believe that ultimately the only real prospect of getting Iran to
give
up nuclear weapons is to change the regime,' Bolton told reporters
after an
off-the-record speech to the Hudson Institute, a nonpartisan policy
research
organization. How should this be done? 'By the force of the Iranian
people
themselves,' Bolton replied. 'But if the alternative is a nuclear
Iran, as
unpleasant as the use of military force would be, I think the
prospect
of a
nuclear Iran is worse.'"-Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press Writer,
quoting
former US Ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, "Bolton: Iran Won't Give
Up
Nuke Ambition", Associated Press, Guardian Unlimited www.guardian.co.uk,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6496892,00.html, (21
March
2007).
________________________________________
"Former ambassador to the UN John Bolton told the BBC that before any
ceasefire Washington wanted Israel to eliminate Hezbollah's military
capability."-"Bolton admits Lebanon truce block", BBC NEWS,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6479377.stm, (22 March 2007).
________________________________________
"Chirac asked that Israel act to topple the Assad regime, and
promised
in
return to block any moves against Israel within the United Nations or
European Union."-Ezra HaLevi, "France Urged Israel to Invade Syria
During
War", Arutz Sheva www.IsraelNationalNews.com,
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/121878, (19 March
2007).
"I know this will annoy many of your readers. . . But the anger is
over the
fact that Israel did not fight against the Syrians. Instead of Israel
fighting against Hizbullah, many parts of the American administration
believe that Israel should have fought against the real enemy, which
is
Syria and not Hizbullah."-Meyrav Wurmser, as quoted by Yitzhak
Benhorin in,
"Neocons: We expected Israel to attack Syria",
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3340750,00.html, (16
December
2006).
________________________________________
"Officials said Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other members of the
leadership had
decided to strip from a major military spending bill a requirement
for
Bush
to gain approval from Congress before moving against Iran.
Conservative
Democrats as well as lawmakers concerned about the possible impact on
Israel
had argued for the change in strategy."- David Espo and Matthew Lee,
Associated Press Writers, "Dems abandon war authority provision",
Associated
Press, YAHOO! NEWS http://news.yahoo.com,
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070313/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_iraq;_ylt=A0WTc...,
(13 March 2007).
________________________________________
"Israeli Knesset member Effie Eitam has a reputation as a hawk, but
on
the
question of Iran and its nuclear program, he believes he speaks for
the
country's mainstream strategic thinkers. Diplomatic and political
manoeuvres
to rein in the Islamic state are feckless and doomed to fail, leaving
Israel, with or without the co-operation of the United States, no
alternative but to use military force to put an end to the nuclear
threat,
he says. 'Israel is preparing and will definitely take action,' Eitam
predicted. [***] Eitam told The CJN that Israel may have to act alone
against Iran within 'a window' to two to three years, but he
suggested
Israel would move before Bush leaves Office."-Paul Lungen, "Israeli
MK
predicts attack on Iran", The Canadian Jewish News www.cjnews.com,
http://www.cjnews.com/viewarticle.asp?id=11329, (8 March 2007).
________________________________________
"The Israeli Regime while remaining outside the relevant
international
instruments continues quantitative and qualitative development of its
nuclear weapons, without any concern, international pressure or
monitoring.
Those who are pushing Security Council to take punitive measures
against the
peaceful nuclear program of the Islamic Republic of Iran, continue to
hinder
any action by the Security Council against Israeli regime to force it
to
abide by the NPT regime. Doing so, they have given wide latitude to
this
regime and even encourage it to develop freely the clandestine and
prohibited possession of nuclear weapons. [***] While Iran has been
providing the Agency with access to all its nuclear material and
facilities
pursuant to its NPT Safeguards Agreement and the Agency is able to
verify
the non-diversion of declared nuclear material in Iran (as reflected
in
paragraphs 26-27 of the report), few countries have been making daily
threat
of resort to attack Iranian fully safeguarded peaceful nuclear
facilities
uttered at their highest levels, in clear violation of Article 2 (4)
of the
UN Charter. The Islamic republic of Iran has already documented these
unlawful and dangerous threats by sending official letters to the UN
Secretary General and the Director General of the IAEA. And while
overwhelming majority of the international community has been calling
for a
peaceful negotiated solution and Iran has announced its readiness for
such a
solution, the United States and Israel which both have a high record
of
vertical and horizontal proliferation activities are continuing to
make
threats against Iran's full-scope safeguarded facilities."-Ali Asqar
Soltanieh, Permanent Representative to the International Atomic
Energy
Agency Board of Governors from Iran, in an address to the IAEA Board
of
Governors on 7 March 2007, "Full Text of Speech Delivered by Iran's
Envoy to
IAEA", Fars News Agency www.farsnews.com,
http://www.farsnews.com/English/newstext.php?nn=8512160500, (7 March
2007).
"All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the
threat
or use of force against the territorial integrity or political
independence
of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes
of
the
United Nations."-Charter of the United Nations, Chapter 1, Article 2,
Paragraph 4.
________________________________________
"I believe that either regime change in Iran or, as a last resort,
military
action is the only thing that will stop the Iranians from getting
nuclear
weapons[.]"-John Bolton, Former American Envoy to the United Nations,
as
quoted by Janine Zacharia and Bill Varner, "Bolton Says U.S. Should
Seek
'Regime Change' in Iran", Bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com,
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a.m.58sr9RqM&refe...,
(1 March 2007).
________________________________________
"Ahmadinejad is the pusher of all the Muslim world toward fanaticism
and
extremism. In his case, he should be made to disappear from the
arena.
He
has said he wants to become a shahid, a martyr, so I think he should
get his
wish and be sent to heaven[.]"-Meir Amit, Former Director of Mossad,
as
quoted by Aaron Klein, "Former Mossad chief: Assassinate Ahmadinejad.
Iranian president 'says he wants to die a martyr so he should be sent
to
heaven'", WorldNetDaily www.wnd.com,
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54244, (14 February
2007).
"It is time for Israel or the US to bomb Iran now. Not next week,
next
month, or next summer, but now. As quickly and as hard and as
painfully as
possible. [***] So like it or not, time is of the essence, and there
is not
a moment to lose. The US or Israel should bomb Iran now, before it
proves
too late."-Michael Freund, "Right on!: Stop the atomic ayatollahs",
The
Jerusalem Post www.jpost.com,
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1170359851111&pagename=JPo...,
(13 February 2007).
"'The only chance to convince Iran to dismantle without using brute
force is
if you choose a big enough stick and you wave it wildly enough,'
Steinitz
told The Jerusalem Post. The Likud MK added that the goal was to
'wave, in
order to not to use it.'
'At this moment, Iran thinks that Israel is weak politically, so it
would be
better if the United States were to issue the threats,' said
Steinitz.
'There is one leader of the world and it is not miniscule Israel.
Iran
is a
global threat they are developing a nuclear project to become not
just
a
regional player but a global Player.'"-Sheera Claire Frenkel quoting
Knesset
Member Yuval Steinitz, "Steinitz: US must stop Iran from arming", The
Jerusalem Post www.jpost.com,
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1170359851884&pagename=JPo...,
(14 February 2007).
Did Tzipi Livni, Foreign Affairs Minister and Vice Prime Minister of
Israel,
call for the elimination of the nation of Iran?
"The global Holocaust denial led by Iran is a political move meant to
de-legitimize Israel, and it is unacceptable that a country that
denies the
Holocaust is accepted by the world as part of the international
community[.]"-Tzipi Livni, Foreign Affairs Minister and Vice Prime
Minister
of Israel, as quoted in Lilach Shoval, "Anti-Semitism very much
alive,
says
Livni", www.ynetnews.com,
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3363734,00.html, (11
February
2007).
"ISRAEL has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran's uranium
enrichment
facilities with tactical nuclear weapons.
Two Israeli air force squadrons are training to blow up an Iranian
facility
using low-yield nuclear 'bunker-busters', according to several
Israeli
military sources."-Uzi Mahnaimi and Sarah Baxter, "Revealed: Israel
plans
nuclear strike on Iran", The Sunday Times www.timesonline.co.uk, (7
January
2007).
"SPIEGEL: You said recently that Israel might have to stand alone and
therefore must be ready to deal unilaterally with the Iran problem.
Lieberman: That is the worst-case scenario. The differences in
opinion
between Russia and Western Europe, between Europe and the U.S.,
between the
U.S. and the United Nations have destabilized the global political
system.
We have to take into account that the international community may not
do
anything and that Israel may have to act alone."-"SPIEGEL INTERVIEW
WITH
AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN" conducted by Christian Neef and Christoph Schult,
quoting
Avigdor Lieberman, Minister of Strategic Affairs and Deputy Prime
Minister
of Israel, Der Spiegel, SPIEGEL ONLINE, www.spiegel.de,
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,465769,00.html,
(12
February 2007).
"We must turn to Hillary Clinton and other potential presidential
candidates
in the Democratic Party so that they publicly support immediate
action
by
Bush against Iran. We should also approach European countries so that
they
support American actions in Iran, so that Bush will not be isolated
in
the
international arena again. We must clandestinely cooperate with Saudi
Arabia
so that it also persuades the US to strike Iran."-Brigadier General
(Res.)
Oded Tira, Former IDF Chief Artillery Officer, "What to do with
Iran?",
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3346275,00.html, (30
December
2006).
"'Once you say that Iran is like Nazi Germany and that it is willing
to use
its nuclear weapons to destroy Israel regardless of the destruction
it
would
bring to their own country, you are really arguing that there is no
alternative but for Israel and the United States to attack first,'
said M.J.
Rosenberg, director of policy analysis for the Israel Policy Forum."-
James
D. Besser, "Leading Hawk Warns Of Hysteria Over Iran: Suggestion that
war is
only option misguided, JINSA official says", The Jewish Week
www.thejewishweek.com,
http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=13644, (9
February
2007).
"We must cry Gevalt before the entire world[. . . .] In 1938, Hitler
didn't
say he wanted to destroy [the Jews]; Ahmadinejad is saying clearly
that this
is his intention, and we aren't even shouting. At least call it a
crime
against humanity. We must make the world see that the issue here is a
program for genocide."- Likud chair MK Benjamin Netanyahu, Ninth
Prime
Minister of Israel, as quoted in Mazal Mualem, "Netanyahu wants Iran
president tried for genocide", www.haaretz.com,
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/800838.html, (15 December 2006).
"The Jews of North African origin are strongly attached to Israel,
don't
hide their ethnic affiliation and don't fear a charge of 'dual
loyalty' to
both France and Israel. The young generation doesn't bow to the old
French
Jewish model of being French first and Jewish later, and aren't
embarrassed
about showing a 'communitarian' preference for a particular political
candidate."-JTA, "French Jews Favor Conservative", The Jewish Week,
www.thejewishweek.com,
http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=13926, (20
April
2007).
"Active Canadian Jews, I have observed, live with a completely
different
dynamic. They're proud of their Canadian citizenship, but don't have
a
deep
sense of Canadian national identity. Their national identity is
ebulliently
Jewish, belonging to the Jewish nation."-Gary Wexler, "US Jews can
learn
from the Canadian community", The Jerusalem Post www.jpost.com,
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1173879238105&pagename=JPo...,
(3 April 2007).
"SUBSIDIZING THE REFUGEE CAMPS
Senator GORE. Mr. Secretary, I realize that we do not have power, as
Senator
Symington has punctuated, to give instructions and directions there.
There is one problem, it seems to me, about which we can have a say,
and
that is continued subsidization of this refugee camp. I went there
ten
years
ago and found it an impossible situation in which they have continued
all
the while to feed and clothe, support those people, and there are
some
200,000 more than when they went into the camp. So surely we can have
something to say about no longer continuing to subsidize this.
Secretary RUSK. Well, that constitutes some pressure on the Arabs. It
does
not constitute any pressure on Israel.
Senator GORE. Well, Israel has taken over some of them, in the Gaza
Strip
and also in Jordan. They are now claiming sovereignty. So it seems to
me it
might be a pressure on both.
Secretary RUSK. Well, I do think that the refugee matter should be
raised
and looked at wholly anew in connection with a settlement of this
present
situation.
Senator GORE. The point I am trying to make is this is one subject on
which
we can have a say, and that is how long we are going to continue to
pay a
very heavy cost of these refugees if they are not dispersed into the
countryside.
Secretary RUSK. Well, I do not want to underestimate influence in
this
situation, but I just want to point out that it is not necessarily
decisive
when you are talking with countries about what they consider the life
and
death issues for them.
TAX EXEMPTIONS FOR DONATIONS TO ISRAEL
Senator HICKENLOOPER. Do we not give tax forgiveness for moneys
contributed
to Israel, which is rather unusual? We could stop that.
Secretary RUSK. I believe contributions to the UJA are tax exempt,
yes.
The CHAIRMAN. That is right.
The only country. Do you think you have the votes in the Senate to
revoke
that?
Senator CASE. Are you in favor yourself?
Senator HICKENLOOPER. I think we ought to treat all nations alike.
Senator CASE. That is correct. But are you in favor of it?
Senator HICKENLOOPER. As long as we do not give it to other nations,
I
do
not--
The CHAIRMAN. The trouble is they think they have control of the
Senate and
they can do as they please.
Senator SYMINGTON. What was that?
The CHAIRMAN. I said they know they have control of the Senate
politically,
and therefore whatever the Secretary tells them, they can laugh at
him. They
say, 'Yes, but you don't control the Senate.''
Senator SYMINGTON. They were very anxious to get every Senator they
could to
come out and say we ought to act unilaterally, and they got two,
three.
The CHAIRMAN. They know when the chips are down you can no more
reverse this
tax exemption than you can fly. You could not pass a bill through the
Senate.
Senator HICKENLOOPER. I do not think you could.
The CHAIRMAN. Changing that tax exemption contribution to the UJA. I
would
bet you ten to one you could not begin to pass a bill You do not
believe
they could under any circumstances.
Senator SYMINGTON. A bill to do what?
The CHAIRMAN. To revoke the tax exemption of gifts to the UJA. That
is
one
of their major sources of income. You yourself have pointed out the
money
they paid for the French arms they got from the U.S.
Senator SYMINGTON. Each year the money we give annually for this is
less
than 1 percent of the cost of Vietnam.
The CHAIRMAN. I agree with that.
Senator HICKENLOOPER. There you go.
U.S. CONTRIBUTIONS PAY THE ISRAELI ARMS
The CHAIRMAN. But you know very well, you said yourself, that the
arms
they
buy from France are largely paid for by contributions that come from
this
country.
Senator SYMINGTON. Because we would not sell it to them, so instead
of
selling them the arms--
Senator GORE. Has the President recommended that this be repealed?
The CHAIRMAN. No, he has not. I do not wish to make the point except
the
Secretary is quite correct when he says his leverage on Israel is
very
limited because of the political situation.
Senator HICKENLOOPER. I am sorry I brought it up.
Secretary RUSK. I did not say it.
The CHAIRMAN. If you did not say it, you do not disagree with it
anyway.
Secretary RUSK. I think it should be pointed out though on this tax
exempt
matter that there are many other organizations, institutions, that
would
fall into the same principle, private foundations in their
expenditures
abroad, churches, the voluntary agencies; there are very large sums
of
money
going to foreign countries that are tax exempt in this country as the
origin.
Senator HICKENLOOPER. I do not think it is analogous.
Senator GORE. It is tax deductible; you said tax exempt.
Secretary RUSK. Except the organizations are exempt. Contributions to
them
are tax deductible.
Senator COOPER. I suggest-it is possible after this that Israel may
ask that
this be removed as a sign of showing they are not absolutely
dependent
on
the U.S."-"BRIEFING ON THE MIDDLE EAST SITUATION, Friday, June 9,
1967, U.S.
SENATE, COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS, Washington, DC.", Executive
Sessions
of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Together with Joint
Sessions
with
the Senate Armed Services Committee (Historical Series), Volume XIX,
Ninetieth Congress, First Session, U.S. Government Printing Office,
Washington, D. C., (1967/2006), pp. 705-728, at 710-712.
________________________________________
"History has shown that progress is possible only if the United
States
of
America assumes its historic role as honest broker between Israel and
Palestine[.] We cannot be peacemakers if American government leaders
are
seen as knee-jerk supporters of every action or policy of whatever
Israeli
government happens to be in power at the time."-Jimmy Carter, Thirty-
Ninth
President of the United States of America, as quoted by Paul Kita,
"Awards
Ceremony Offers Carter Prize, Platform for His Opinions", info Zine
www.infozine.com,
http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/22062/, (6
April
2007).
"The American friends of Israel who demand such subservience are in
many
cases sincere and well-intentioned people. I know them. But on this
crucial
issue, they are tragically mistaken. Their demands subvert America's
ability
to bring to Israel what she most desperately needs and wants -- peace
and
security within recognized borders."-Jimmy Carter, Thirty-Ninth
President of
the United States of America, as quoted in, "US cannot be Mideast
peacemaker
as "knee-jerk" supporter of all Israeli", Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)
www.kuna.net.kw,
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=...,
(4 April 2007).
________________________________________
"It's almost politically suicidal in the United States for a member
of
the
Congress who wants to seek reelection to take any stand that might be
interpreted as anti-policy of the conservative Israeli government,
which is
equated, as I've seen it myself, as anti-Semitism."-Jimmy Carter,
Thirty-Ninth President of the United States of America, in an
interview on,
"This week with George Stephanopoulos," ABC, as quoted by Yitzhak
Benhorin,
"Balanced stand on ME is political suicide, says Carter", www.ynetnews.com,
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3369679,00.html, (26
February
2007).
________________________________________
"The Islamic Republic of Iran seeks good neighborly relations with
all
the
surrounding states, and it desires establishment of sustainable
peace,
friendship and tranquility in the region, particularly in the Persian
Gulf."-Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Mostafa Mohammad
Najjar,
as quoted in "Iran Seeks Peace, Stability in Persian Gulf", Fars News
Agency
www.farsnews.ir, http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8511220267,
(11
February 2007).
"That Iran is willing to threaten Israel is wrong[. . . .] We pose no
threat
and if we are conducting nuclear research and development we are no
threat
to Israel. We have no intention of aggression against any country.
[. . .]
Today we announce to you that the political will of Iran is aimed at
the
negotiated settlement of the case and we don't want to aggravate the
situation in our region[. . . .] We know that this issue can be
settled in a
constructive dialogue and we welcome that."-Ali Larijani, Iranian
Secretary
of the Supreme National Security Council and Chief Iranian Nuclear
Negotiator, as quoted in Associated Press, "Iran negotiator: Nuclear
program
'no threat to Israel'",
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/02/11/iran.israel.ap/, (11
February
2007).
"Repeatedly and frankly we have announced that in Iran's national
security
doctrine there is no room for atomic and chemical weapons as we
consider
them against Islamic laws. Iran's Supreme Leader (Ayatollah Seyyed
Ali
Khamenei) in this connection had issued a decree that mass
destruction
weapons are prohibited by the Muslim religion. [. . .] Therefore we
support
the idea of a Middle East free from weapons of mass destruction[.]"-
Ali
Larijani, Iranian Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council
and
Chief Iranian Nuclear Negotiator, as quoted in "'No room for WMDs in
Iran's
national security doctrine,' says Larijani", Islamic Republic News
Agency,
http://www2.irna.com/en/news/view/line-203/0702111128162815.htm, (11
February 2007).
"We are committed not to launch aggression on any country and defend
ourselves in the face of any aggression."-Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
President of
Iran, as quoted in "IR calls for promotion of peace", Islamic
Republic
of
Iran Broadcasting www.iribnews.ir,
http://www.iribnews.ir/Full_en.asp?news_id=231222&n=22, (11 February
2007).
________________________________________
"We are witnessing an almost uncontained hyper use of force in
international
relations . . . the United States has overstepped its national
borders
in
every way[. . . .] The legitimate use of force can only be done by
the
United Nations, which cannot be replaced by EU or NATO[. . . .] The
unilateral illegal action has not resolved any problem. [. . .] [N]
obody
feels secure anymore[. . . .] We should not corner Iran into a
hostile
environment[.]"-Vladimir Putin, Second President of the Russian
Federation,
as quoted in Mu Xuequan, Editor, "Russia differences with West
obvious
at
Munich conference", China View www.chinaview.cn,
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-02/10/content_5724866.htm, (10
February 2007).
________________________________________
"1 Why are the nations in an uproar? And why do the peoples mutter in
vain?
2 The kings of the earth stand up, and the rulers take counsel
together,
against the LORD, and against His anointed: 3 'Let us break their
bands
asunder, and cast away their cords from us.' 4 He that sitteth in
heaven
laugheth, the Lord hath them in derision. 5 Then will He speak unto
them in
His wrath, and affright them in His sore displeasure: 6 'Truly it is
I
that
have established My king upon Zion, My holy mountain.' 7 I will tell
of the
decree: the LORD said unto me: 'Thou art My son, this day have I
begotten
thee. 8 Ask of Me, and I will give the nations for thine inheritance,
and
the ends of the earth for thy possession. 9 Thou shalt break them
with
a rod
of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.' 10
Now
therefore, O ye kings, be wise; be admonished, ye judges of the
earth.
11
Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. 12 Do homage in
purity, lest He be angry, and ye perish in the way, when suddenly His
wrath
is kindled. Happy are all they that take refuge in Him."-The Jewish
book of
Psalm 2 [version of the Jewish Publication Society]"
________________________________________
Charter of the United Nations
Chapter 1, Article 1, Paragraphs 1 & 2:
"1. To maintain international peace and security, and to that end: to
take
effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of
threats to
the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other
breaches
of the peace, and to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity
with
the principles of justice and international law, adjustment or
settlement of
international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of
the
peace;
2. To develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for
the
principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, and to
take
other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace;"
Chapter 1, Article 2, Paragraph 4:
"All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the
threat
or use of force against the territorial integrity or political
independence
of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes
of
the
United Nations."
Chapter 6, Article 33, Paragraphs 1 & 2:
"1. The parties to any dispute, the continuance of which is likely to
endanger the maintenance of international peace and security, shall,
first
of all, seek a solution by negotiation, enquiry, mediation,
conciliation,
arbitration, judicial settlement, resort to regional agencies or
arrangements, or other peaceful means of their own choice.
2. The Security Council shall, when it deems necessary, call upon the
parties to settle their dispute by such means."
The North Atlantic Treaty
"The Parties undertake, as set forth in the Charter of the United
Nations,
to settle any international dispute in which they may be involved by
peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security
and
justice are not endangered, and to refrain in their international
relations
from the threat or use of force in any manner inconsistent with the
purposes
of the United Nations."
Principles of the Nuremberg Tribunal, 1950
"Principle Vl
The crimes hereinafter set out are punishable as crimes under;
international
law:
a. Crimes against peace:
i. Planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression
or a
war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances;
ii.Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the
accomplishment
of
any of the acts mentioned under (I)."
"To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an
international
crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from
other
war
crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the
whole."-Robert H. Jackson at the Nuremberg Tribunal, quoted in Curtis
Doebbler, "A Farce of Law: The Trial of Saddam Hussein", Jurist:
Legal
News
& Research,
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forumy/2006/04/farce-of-law-trial-of-sadda...,
(24 April 2006).
________________________________________
"More than a decade after Saddam Hussein agreed to give up weapons of
mass
destruction, Iraq has stepped up its quest for nuclear weapons and
has
embarked on a worldwide hunt for materials to make an atomic bomb,
Bush
administration officials said today. [***] Hard-liners are alarmed
that
American intelligence underestimated the pace and scale of Iraq's
nuclear
program before Baghdad's defeat in the gulf war. Conscious of this
lapse in
the past, they argue that Washington dare not wait until analysts
have
found
hard evidence that Mr. Hussein has acquired a nuclear weapon. The
first sign
of a 'smoking gun,' they argue, may be a mushroom Cloud."-Michael R.
Gordon
and Judith Miller, "Threats and Responses: The Iraqis; U.S. Says
Hussein
Intensifies Quest for A-Bomb Parts", The New York Times, (8 September
2002 /
Late Edition - Final), p. 1.
________________________________________
"It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to
them and
annihilate them. They are evil and damnable[.] [***] The Lord shall
return
the Arabs' deeds on their own heads, waste their seed and exterminate
them,
devastate them and vanish them from this world[.]"-Rabbi Ovadia
Yosef,
as
quoted in BBC News, "Rabbi calls for annihilation of Arabs",
www.news.bbc.co.uk,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1270038.stm, (10 April
2001).
"And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt
smite
them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with
them,
nor
shew mercy unto them:"-The Jewish book of Deuteronomy 7:2.
________________________________________
"'U.S. policy must be clear and unequivocal: We cannot, we should
not,
we
must not permit Iran to build or acquire nuclear weapons,' the
Democrat told
a crowd of Israel supporters. 'In dealing with this threat ... no
option can
be taken off the table.' Clinton spoke at a Manhattan dinner held by
the
largest pro-Israel lobbying group in the U.S., the American Israel
Public
Affairs Committee."-The Associated Press, quoting United States
Senator
Hillary Clinton, "Sen. Clinton: We must not permit Iran to acquire
nuclear
weapons", www.haaretz.com,http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/821284.html,
(2 February 2007).
________________________________________
"With American-Iranian tensions mounting, Democratic presidential
contenders
are facing a daunting political challenge: how to speak out against
Tehran's
pursuit of nuclear weapons in a way that appeals to pro-Israel
supporters
without alienating the party's overwhelmingly anti-war rank and
file."-Jennifer Siegel, "Crisis Over Iran Poses Political Headaches
For
Democratic Presidential Hopefuls", The Jewish Daily Forward,
http://www.forward.com/articles/crisis-over-iran-poses-political-head...,
(2 February 2007).
"While Jewish communal leaders focus most of their current lobbying
efforts
on pressing the United States to take a tough line against Iran and
its
nuclear program, some are privately voicing fears that they will be
accused
of driving America into a war with the regime in Tehran."-Forward
Staff,
"Groups Fear Public Backlash Over Iran", The Jewish Daily Forward,
http://www.forward.com/articles/groups-fear-public-backlash-over-iran/,
(2
February 2007).
________________________________________
"If Iran escalates its military action in Iraq to the detriment of
our
troops and/or innocent Iraqi people, we will respond firmly. We - it
makes
common sense for the commander-in-chief to say to our troops and the
Iraqi
people and the Iraqi government that we will help you defend yourself
from
people that want to sow discord and harm. And so we will do what it
takes to
protect our troops.
One of the things that is very important in discussing Iran is not to
mix
issues. Our relationship with Iran is based upon a lot of different
issues.
One is what is happening in Iraq. Another is their ambitions to have
a
nuclear weapon. And we're dealing with this issue diplomatically, and
I
think this can be solved diplomatically. And the message that we are
working
to send to the Iranian regime and the Iranian people is that you will
become
increasingly isolated if you continue to pursue a nuclear weapon.
The message to the Iranian people is that your government is going to
cause
you deprivation. In other words, you've got a chance to really
flourish
again as a great tradition. However, if your government continues to
insist
upon a nuclear weapon, there will be lost opportunity for the Iranian
people. They won't be able to realize their full potential.
The Iranian people have got to know that this government and the
United
States bears no hostility to them. We're just deeply concerned about
a
government that is insisting upon having a nuclear weapon, and at the
same
time, rewriting history - the history of the past, and regards, for
example,
the Holocaust. It troubles a lot of people in this world, and I'll
continue
to work with, you know, friends and allies to send a clear message."-
George
W. Bush, Forty-Third President of the United State of America, "Full
Transcript: NPR Interview with President Bush", www.npr.org,
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7065633, (29
January
2007).
________________________________________
"Twelve years ago, Saddam Hussein faced the prospect of being the
last
casualty in a war he had started and lost. To spare himself, he
agreed
to
disarm of all weapons of mass destruction. For the next 12 years, he
systematically violated that agreement. He pursued chemical,
biological, and
nuclear weapons, even while inspectors were in his country. Nothing
to
date
has restrained him from his pursuit of these weapons - not economic
sanctions, not isolation from the civilized world, not even cruise
missile
strikes on his military facilities.
Almost three months ago, the United Nations Security Council gave
Saddam
Hussein his final chance to disarm. He has shown instead utter
contempt for
the United Nations, and for the opinion of the world. The 108 U.N.
inspectors were sent to conduct - were not sent to conduct a
scavenger
hunt
for hidden materials across a country the size of California. The job
of the
inspectors is to verify that Iraq's regime is disarming. It is up to
Iraq to
show exactly where it is hiding its banned weapons, lay those weapons
out
for the world to see, and destroy them as directed. Nothing like this
has
happened.
The United Nations concluded in 1999 that Saddam Hussein had
biological
weapons sufficient to produce over 25,000 liters of anthrax - enough
doses
to kill several million people. He hasn't accounted for that
material.
He's
given no evidence that he has destroyed it.
The United Nations concluded that Saddam Hussein had materials
sufficient to
produce more than 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin - enough to
subject
millions of people to death by respiratory failure. He hadn't
accounted for
that material. He's given no evidence that he has destroyed it.
Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the
materials to
produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent. In
such
quantities, these chemical agents could also kill untold thousands.
He's not
accounted for these materials. He has given no evidence that he has
destroyed them.
U.S. intelligence indicates that Saddam Hussein had upwards of 30,000
munitions capable of delivering chemical agents. Inspectors recently
turned
up 16 of them - despite Iraq's recent declaration denying their
existence.
Saddam Hussein has not accounted for the remaining 29,984 of these
prohibited munitions. He's given no evidence that he has destroyed
them.
From three Iraqi defectors we know that Iraq, in the late 1990s, had
several
mobile biological weapons labs. These are designed to produce germ
warfare
agents, and can be moved from place to a place to evade inspectors.
Saddam
Hussein has not disclosed these facilities. He's given no evidence
that he
has destroyed them.
The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed in the 1990s that
Saddam
Hussein had an advanced nuclear weapons development program, had a
design
for a nuclear weapon and was working on five different methods of
enriching
uranium for a bomb. The British government has learned that Saddam
Hussein
recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. Our
intelligence sources tell us that he has attempted to purchase high-
strength
aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production. Saddam
Hussein
has
not credibly explained these activities. He clearly has much to hide.
The dictator of Iraq is not disarming. To the contrary; he is
deceiving.
From intelligence sources we know, for instance, that thousands of
Iraqi
security personnel are at work hiding documents and materials from
the
U.N.
inspectors, sanitizing inspection sites and monitoring the inspectors
themselves. Iraqi officials accompany the inspectors in order to
intimidate
witnesses.
Iraq is blocking U-2 surveillance flights requested by the United
Nations.
Iraqi intelligence officers are posing as the scientists inspectors
are
supposed to interview. Real scientists have been coached by Iraqi
officials
on what to say. Intelligence sources indicate that Saddam Hussein has
ordered that scientists who cooperate with U.N. inspectors in
disarming Iraq
will be killed, along with their families.
Year after year, Saddam Hussein has gone to elaborate lengths, spent
enormous sums, taken great risks to build and keep weapons of mass
destruction. But why? The only possible explanation, the only
possible
use
he could have for those weapons, is to dominate, intimidate, or
attack.
With nuclear arms or a full arsenal of chemical and biological
weapons,
Saddam Hussein could resume his ambitions of conquest in the Middle
East and
create deadly havoc in that region. And this Congress and the America
people
must recognize another threat. Evidence from intelligence sources,
secret
communications, and statements by people now in custody reveal that
Saddam
Hussein aids and protects terrorists, including members of al Qaeda.
Secretly, and without fingerprints, he could provide one of his
hidden
weapons to terrorists, or help them develop their own.
Before September the 11th, many in the world believed that Saddam
Hussein
could be contained. But chemical agents, lethal viruses and shadowy
terrorist networks are not easily contained. Imagine those 19
hijackers with
other weapons and other plans - this time armed by Saddam Hussein. It
would
take one vial, one canister, one crate slipped into this country to
bring a
day of horror like none we have ever known. We will do everything in
our
power to make sure that that day never comes. (Applause.)
Some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent. Since
when have
terrorists and tyrants announced their intentions, politely putting
us
on
notice before they strike? If this threat is permitted to fully and
suddenly
emerge, all actions, all words, and all recriminations would come too
late.
Trusting in the sanity and restraint of Saddam Hussein is not a
strategy,
and it is not an option. (Applause.)
The dictator who is assembling the world's most dangerous weapons has
already used them on whole villages - leaving thousands of his own
citizens
dead, blind, or disfigured. Iraqi refugees tell us how forced
confessions
are obtained - by torturing children while their parents are made to
watch.
International human rights groups have catalogued other methods used
in the
torture chambers of Iraq: electric shock, burning with hot irons,
dripping
acid on the skin, mutilation with electric drills, cutting out
tongues, and
rape. If this is not evil, then evil has no meaning. (Applause.)
And tonight I have a message for the brave and oppressed people of
Iraq:
Your enemy is not surrounding your country - your enemy is ruling
your
country. (Applause.) And the day he and his regime are removed from
power
will be the day of your liberation. (Applause.)
The world has waited 12 years for Iraq to disarm. America will not
accept a
serious and mounting threat to our country, and our friends and our
allies.
The United States will ask the U.N. Security Council to convene on
February
the 5th to consider the facts of Iraq's ongoing defiance of the
world.
Secretary of State Powell will present information and intelligence
about
Iraqi's legal - Iraq's illegal weapons programs, its attempt to hide
those
weapons from inspectors, and its links to terrorist groups.
We will consult. But let there be no misunderstanding: If Saddam
Hussein
does not fully disarm, for the safety of our people and for the peace
of the
world, we will lead a coalition to disarm him. (Applause.)
Tonight I have a message for the men and women who will keep the
peace,
members of the American Armed Forces: Many of you are assembling in
or
near
the Middle East, and some crucial hours may lay ahead. In those
hours,
the
success of our cause will depend on you. Your training has prepared
you.
Your honor will guide you. You believe in America, and America
believes in
you. (Applause.)
Sending Americans into battle is the most profound decision a
President can
make. The technologies of war have changed; the risks and suffering
of
war
have not. For the brave Americans who bear the risk, no victory is
free from
sorrow. This nation fights reluctantly, because we know the cost and
we
dread the days of mourning that always come.
We seek peace. We strive for peace. And sometimes peace must be
defended. A
future lived at the mercy of terrible threats is no peace at all. If
war is
forced upon us, we will fight in a just cause and by just means -
sparing,
in every way we can, the innocent. And if war is forced upon us, we
will
fight with the full force and might of the United States military -
and we
will prevail. (Applause.)
And as we and our coalition partners are doing in Afghanistan, we
will
bring
to the Iraqi people food and medicines and supplies - and freedom.
(Applause.)
Many challenges, abroad and at home, have arrived in a single season.
In two
years, America has gone from a sense of invulnerability to an
awareness of
peril; from bitter division in small matters to calm unity in great
causes.
And we go forward with confidence, because this call of history has
come to
the right country.
Americans are a resolute people who have risen to every test of our
time.
Adversity has revealed the character of our country, to the world and
to
ourselves. America is a strong nation, and honorable in the use of
our
strength. We exercise power without conquest, and we sacrifice for
the
liberty of strangers.
Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of
every
person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not
America's
gift to the world, it is God's gift to humanity. (Applause.)
We Americans have faith in ourselves, but not in ourselves alone. We
do not
know - we do not claim to know all the ways of Providence, yet we can
trust
in them, placing our confidence in the loving God behind all of life,
and
all of history.
May He guide us now. And may God continue to bless the United States
of
America. (Applause.)"-George W. Bush, Forty-Third President of the
United
State of America, "State of the Union Address", (28 January 2003).
________________________________________
"'The State of Israel will not allow the world to avoid a
confrontation with
a country calling for the destruction of Israel,' Prime Minister Ehud
Olmert
said Sunday during the weekly cabinet meeting. [***] 'Anti-Semintism
is the
gentiles' problem, not the Jews', it is the gentiles' disease, not
ours. As
long as there is anti-Semitism in the world, the world will be sick,'
Vice
Premier Shimon Peres said."-Ynetnews, www.ynetnews.com, "World can't
avoid
confrontation with Iran, PM says",
http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/10486.htm, (28 January
2007).
________________________________________
"More important still, during all that period and to the present
time,
it
was not possible freely to report or discuss a third vital matter:
Zionist
Nationalism. In this case the freedom of the press has become a
fallacy
during the past two decades. Newspaper-writers have become less and
less
free to express any criticism, or report any fact unfavourable to
this
new
ambition of the Twentieth Century. When I eventually went to America
I
found
that this ban, for such it is in practice, prevailed even more
rigidly
there
than in my own country.
Today an awakening is supposed to have occurred in the matter of
Communism.
During the most fateful and decisive years of the Second War, when
the
things were being done which obviously set the stage for a third one,
it was
in fact almost impossible for any independent writer to publish any
reasonable criticism, supported by no matter what evidence, about
Soviet
Communism and its intentions. Now, when the damage is done, Communism
is
much attacked, but even so the mass of Communist writers who were
planted in
the American and British press during those years has by no means
been
displaced; and the attentive newspaper-reader in either country may
see for
himself how the most specious Communist sophistries are daily
injected
into
the editorial arguments and the news-columns of newspapers professing
the
most respectable principles.
In the matter of Zionist Nationalism, which I hold to be allied in
its
roots
to Soviet Communism, the ban is much more severe. In my own adult
lifetime
as a journalist, now covering thirty years, I have seen this secret
ban grow
from nothing into something approaching a law of lese majeste at some
absolute court of the dark past. In daily usage, no American or
British
newspaper, apparently, now dares to print a line of news or comment
unfavourable to the Zionist ambition; and under this thrall matters
are
reported favourably or non-committally, if they are reported at all,
which
if they occurred elsewhere would be denounced with the most piteous
cries of
outraged morality. The inference to me is plain: the Zionist
Nationalists
are powerful enough to govern governments in the great countries of
the
remaining West!
I believe Zionist Nationalism to be a political movement organized in
all
countries, which aims to bring all Jews under its thrall just as
Communism
enslaved the Russians and National Socialism the Germans. I hold it
to
be as
dangerous as both of those, and when I recall the results that came
of
the
subtle suppression of information in the cases of Stalinism and
Hitlerism, I
judge that the consequences of this even more rigorous suppression
will not
be less grave.
I think it a cardinal error to identify 'Jews' with Zionist
Nationalism,
'Russians' with Communism, or 'Germans' with National Socialism. I
saw
the
enslavement of Germans and Russians and know different. I believe
that
the
astonishingly powerful attempt to prevent any discussion of Zionist
Nationalism by dismissing it as the expression of an aversion to
Jews,
as
Jews, is merely meant to stop any public discussion of its objects,
which
seem to me to be as dangerous to Jew as to Gentile. Of the three
groups
which have appeared, like stormy petrels, to presage the tempests of
our
century, the Zionist Nationalists appear to me the most powerful.
National
Socialism, I think, was but a stooge or stalking horse for the
pursuit
of
Communist aims. Communism is genuinely tigerish, and was strong
enough
to
infest governments everywhere and distort the policies which were
pursued
behind the screen of military operations; but, if forced into a
corner
by
the rising unease of their peoples, Western politicians are prepared
in the
last resort to turn against it.
But Zionist Nationalism! . . . That is a different matter. Today
American
Presidents and British Prime Ministers, and all their colleagues,
watch it
as anxiously as Muslim priests watch for the crescent moon on the eve
of
Ramadan, and bow to it as the faithful prostrating themselves in the
mosque
at Mecca. The thing was but a word unknown to the masses forty years
ago;
today Western politicians hardly dare take the seals of office
without
first, or immediately afterwards, making public obeisance towards
this
strange new ambition."-Douglas Reed, Somewhere South of Suez, Devin-
Adir, U.
S. A., (1951), pp. 8-10.
________________________________________
"'Death to Arabs' was just one of the hateful messages left by Jewish
settlers on Muslim graves after a destructive rampage on a cemetery
and
village near Nablus Tuesday."-Ronny Shaked, "Settlers defile
Palestinian
graves under IDF watch: Jewish settlers desecrate graves, wreak havoc
in
Palestinian village", www.ynetnews.com,
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3356741,00.html, (25
January
2007).
________________________________________
VIDEO: Now Playing: Gov. Romney Concludes Remarks on Iran Threat
"Israeli billionaire and media mogul Haim Saban is at the top of the
list of
donors to political campaigns in the US."-Itamar Eichner, "Israeli
billionaire Saban biggest donor to US politicians", www.ynetnews.com,
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3355786,00.html, (23
January
2007).
"Republican US presidential aspirant Mitt Romney summed up the
sentiment of
four US presidential hopefuls who addressed the Seventh Annual
Herzliya
Conference over the last two days by saying, 'Iran must be stopped,
Iran can
be stopped, and Iran will be Stopped.' [***] Another Republican
hopeful,
Sen. John McCain, said the US should 'intensify' its military support
for
Israel to ensure that the country maintained it strategic edge over
those
who were bent on destroying it, such as Iran. [***] Democratic
presidential
hopeful Sen. John Edwards, meanwhile, said by video conference that
stopping
Iran from developing nuclear weapons 'is the greatest challenge of
our
generation.'"-Herb Keinon and Tovah Lazaroff, "US politicians rip
Iran
in
Herzliya", The Jerusalem Post,
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?c=JPArticle&cid=1167467797900&...,
(23 January 2007).
"New York's junior senator, Hillary Rodham Clinton, is expected to
snare the
lion's share of the Jewish community's substantial political
donations
in
the race for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination."-E. J.
Kessler,
"Hillary the Favorite in Race for Jewish Donations", The Jewish Daily
Forward,
http://www.forward.com/articles/hillary-the-favorite-in-race-for-jewi...,
(23 January 2007).
"The Israeli people are facing the threat of a nuclear Holocaust,
former US
Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich warned the
Herzliya
Conference held by the Institute for Policy and Strategy at IDC
Herzliya on
Tuesday afternoon. Meanwhile, he said, the United States could lose a
few
million people or a number of cities to a terrorist attack with
weapons of
mass destruction."-Yaakov Lappin, "Israel faces nuclear Holocaust
warns
Gingrich", www.ynetnews.com,
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3356103,00.html, (23
January
2007).
"Former Massachusetts governor and GOP presidential contender Mitt
Romney
laid out a five-point plan for preventing Iran from going nuclear at
the
Herzliya Conference in Israel today."-Campaign Confidential, "Iran
Hawk:
Mitt Romney", The Jewish Daily Forward,
http://www.forward.com/blogs/campaign-confidential/iran-hawk-mitt-rom...,
(23 January 2007).
________________________________________
"John Edwards[. . .] sounded Joe Lieberman-like on Iran[. . . .]"-
Jennifer
Siegel, "Iran Hawk: John Edwards", The Jewish Daily Forward,
http://www.forward.com/blogs/campaign-confidential/iran-hawk-john-edw...,
(23 January 2007).
________________________________________
"Extolling the ideals of socialist thinker Karl Marx, Chavez defended
his
government's effort to establish a socialist model and rejected US
concerns
over a measure to grant him broad lawmaking powers, saying: 'Go to
hell,
gringos! Go home!' [***] The National Assembly, controlled by the
president's political allies, is expected to give final approval this
week
to what it calls the 'enabling law,' which would grant Chavez
authority to
pass a series of laws by decree during an 18-month period."-
Associated
Press, "Chavez tells US to 'go to hell' in talk-show", The Jerusalem
Post,
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1167467784737&pagename=JPo...,
(22 January 2007). See also: "Enabling Act" or Ermaechtigungsgesetz
for a
comparison to Adolf Hitler.
________________________________________
"[. . .]First of all, I would have no peace treaty with Syria. That's
number
one. If Syria really wants peace, if they want peace, see number one,
they
have to give up land. They have to give up everything up to Damascus.
I
don't want this Damascus, it's a smelly, stinky place. That I don't
need.
It's one big toilet. But up to Damascus, I'll take. And Syria has to
behave
itself, and has to kill out all the terrorists and Hezbullah. It's
never
gonna happen, but in order for anyone to have peace with Israel they
have to
give up land. And if Syria will kill terrorists, and give up land, so
then
we'll promise peace with Syria, and we won't smash their heads in.
How
does
that sound? We won't smash the heads of the diaper heads, we won't
smash the
pamper heads, we won't smash the huggies heads. That's what I
say. . .
That's my peace. [. . .]"- Tovia Singer on Israel National Radio,
http://www.israelnationalradio.com/Asx/tovias-tu-2.asx,
http://www.israelnationalradio.com/#tovia, (16 January 2007 / Hour
2).
________________________________________
"The main umbrella group of American Jewish organizations is set to
visit
Dubai and Abu Dhabi next month in a sign of the growing concern among
Sunni
regimes over Iran's nuclear and regional ambitions. The trip, by a
delegation from the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish
Organizations to the main power centers of the United Arab Emirates,
is
notable because the Sunni-majority UAE does not have formal
diplomatic
ties
with Israel."-Marc Perelman, "Groups Head to Emirates, as Worries
Grow
Over
Iran", The Jewish Daily Forward,
http://www.forward.com/articles/groups-head-to-emirates-as-worries-gr...,
(19 January 2007).
________________________________________
"A group of rabbis have issued a halachic opinion implying that OC
Central
Command Maj.-Gen. Yair Naveh deserves to be killed. The rabbis, all
connected with a movement to resurrect the Sanhedrin, the ancient
Jewish
governing body, said in their halachic ruling this week that Naveh
was
guilty of being a moser, a Hebrew word that can be roughly translated
as an
informant or traitor."-Matthew Wagner, "Rabbis: Naveh deserves to be
killed", The Jerusalem Post,
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?c=JPArticle&cid=1167467765105&...,
(18 January 2007).
"Two additional halachic laws are of special importance both
generally
and
specifically when related to the Rabin assassination. These two laws,
employed since talmudic times to kill Jews, were invoked by the
assassin,
Yigal Amir, as his justification for killing Prime Minister Rabin and
are
still emphasized by Jews who approved or have barely condemned that
assassination. These are the 'law of the pursuer' (din rodef) and the
'law
of the informer' (din moser).[Notation: 'Moser,' the Hebrew word for
informer, is a terrible insult for Jews, similar to the word
'collaborator'
for Palestinians.] The first law commands every Jew to kill or to
wound
severely any Jew who is perceived as intending to kill another Jew.
According to halachic commentaries, it is not necessary to see such a
person
pursuing a Jewish victim. It is enough if rabbinic authorities, or
even
competent scholars, announce that the law of the pursuer applies to
such a
person. The second law commands every Jew to kill or wound severely
any Jew
who, without a decision of a competent rabbinical authority, has
informed
non-Jews, especially non-Jewish authorities, about Jewish affairs or
who has
given them information about Jewish property or who has delivered
Jewish
persons or property to their rule or authority. Competent religious
authorities are empowered to do, and at times have done, those things
forbidden to other Jews in the second law. During the long period of
incitement preceding the Rabin assassination, many Haredi and
messianic
writers applied these laws to Rabin and other Israeli leaders. The
religious
insiders based themselves on later developments in Halacha that came
to
include other categories of Jews who were defined as 'those to whom
the law
of the pursuer' applied. Every Jew had a religious duty to kill those
Jews
who were so included. Historically, Jews in the diaspora followed
this
law
whenever possible, until at least the advent of the modern state. In
the
Tsarist Empire Jews followed this law until well into the nineteenth
century."-I. Shahak and N. Mezvinsky, Jewish Fundamentalism in
Israel,
Pluto
Press, London, (1999), pp. 137-138.
________________________________________
"Over the last couple of weeks, I have talked with people familiar
with the
meetings four U.S. senators recently had in the Middle East. One of
them
asked me a question: Can you guess which two meetings were the most
similar?
I tried and failed, so he gave me the answer: 'The meeting with
[King]
Abdullah [of Saudi Arabia] was the Bedouin version of the meeting
with
[Israeli opposition leader] Benjamin Netanyahu.' Netanyahu is the
most
vocal
alarmist on Iran, and in the meetings he has with U.S. visitors, he
tends to
repeat the analogy he uses in public. It's not about Vietnam, and
it's
not
about Cambodia. 'This is 1938,' he says. 'Iran is Germany, and it is
about
to arm itself with nuclear weapons.' The Saudi monarch, I wrote in
Ha'aretz,
'for whom the Nazi analogy is not his natural domain, expressed
exactly the
same fear, but in somewhat different words.'"-Shmuel Rosner, "Did We
Just
Declare War on Iran?", www.slate.com, http://www.slate.com/id/2157489/,
(12
January 2007).
"We must turn to Hillary Clinton and other potential presidential
candidates
in the Democratic Party so that they publicly support immediate
action
by
Bush against Iran. We should also approach European countries so that
they
support American actions in Iran, so that Bush will not be isolated
in
the
international arena again. We must clandestinely cooperate with Saudi
Arabia
so that it also persuades the US to strike Iran."-Brigadier General
(Res.)
Oded Tira, Former IDF Chief Artillery Officer, "What to do with
Iran?", (30
December 2006), http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3346275,00.html
________________________________________
"The many controversial issues concerning Palestine and the path to
peace
for Israel are intensely debated among Israelis and throughout other
nations - but not in the United States. For the last 30 years, I have
witnessed and experienced the severe restraints on any free and
balanced
discussion of the facts. This reluctance to criticize any policies of
the
Israeli government is because of the extraordinary lobbying efforts
of
the
American-Israel Political Action Committee and the absence of any
significant contrary voices. It would be almost politically suicidal
for
members of Congress to espouse a balanced position between Israel and
Palestine, to suggest that Israel comply with international law or to
speak
in defense of justice or human rights for Palestinians."-Jimmy
Carter,
Thirty-Ninth President of the United States of America, "Speaking
frankly
about Israel and Palestine", www.latimes.com,
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-oe-carter8dec08,...,
(8 December 2006).
________________________________________
"Israel Beiteinu is a racist party which is a danger to the state of
Israel,
Defense Minister Amir Peretz said during the Labor faction meeting on
Monday. 'The decision to appoint Ghaleb Majadle as minister is
causing
people to say things that are way out of proportion,' Peretz said.
'If
there
is a danger to the state of Israel, it is the danger [presented by] a
racist
party like Israel Beiteinu.'"-Gil Hoffman and JPOST Staff, "Amir
Peretz
calls Israel Beiteinu a 'racist party'", The Jerusalem Post ,
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1167467737898&pagename=JPo...,
(15 January 2007).
"A few hours after U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice came to
Israel
on another diplomatic mission, she hastened to meet with Strategic
Threats
Minister Avigdor Lieberman. Rice met Lieberman two days after the
chairwoman
of his Yisrael Beiteinu faction, MK Esterina Tartman, made crudely
racist
statements against the appointment (which has meanwhile been
postponed) of
MK Raleb Majadele as the first Arab minister in the country's
history.
[***]
Rice's meeting with Lieberman was like giving a stamp of approval to
the
racist positions he and his party have adopted. It is not clear why
the
secretary of state saw a need to hold this meeting, which is not part
of the
standard protocol for her visits to Israel. Her meeting with
Lieberman
thus
constituted a kind of American recognition of his status and his
stances."-Haaretz Editorial, "Down with racism", www.haaretz.com,
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/813380.html, (15 January 2007?).
"Israeli media reported that hardline deputy prime minister, Avigdor
Lieberman, told Rice that the Israeli Army will have to re-enter the
Gaza
Strip at some point, and that 30,000 U.N. troops are needed to secure
the
chaotic Palestinian territory on Israel's southern flank. Lieberman
has in
the past said Israel should assassinate Hamas' leadership, ignore the
moderate Palestinian president and walk away from international peace
efforts. His ideas do not necessarily carry weight, but Rice defended
the
decision to meet with him."-Anne Gearan, "Rice Says She Registers
Mideast
Demands", The Associated Press/WashingtonPost.com,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/14/AR200...,
(14 January 2007).
________________________________________
"The most important thing, and especially if you're a Gentile
listening to
my voice, if you're not Jewish, the most important thing for the
nations to
do is to bless Israel. The most important thing is to bless Israel.
That's
all a Gentile should be thinking about from the morning till night
is,
'How
do I bless Israel? How do I stand by Zion?' It's the most important
thing.
And the most dangerous, the worst thing in the world, is to curse
Israel-the
worst thing. Every Gentile has to think every second of, 'What can I
do to
strengthen Zion? What can I do to pray for Jerusalem? What can I do
to
stand
by the nation of Israel?'"- Tovia Singer, "Can you Hear the Footsteps
of the
Messiah?", Israel National Radio,
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=119335, (10 January
2007).
"I'm at the point of saying that Bush is going to do everything he
can,
essentially, to taunt Ahmadinejad into attacking us."-Dr. Jerome
Corsi,
author of Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb and
American
Politicians, in an interview with Tovia Singer on Israel National
Radio,
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=119335, (10 January
2007).
________________________________________
"Acting on the good advice of Senator Joe Lieberman and other key
members of
Congress, we will form a new, bipartisan working group that will help
us
come together across party lines to win the war on terror. This group
will
meet regularly with me and my administration; it will help strengthen
our
relationship with Congress. We can begin by working together to
increase the
size of the active Army and Marine Corps, so that America has the
Armed
Forces we need for the 21st century."- George W. Bush, Forty-Third
President
of the United States of America, "Text of President Bush's address on
Wednesday, as prepared by the White House",
http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_4987452, (10 January 2007).
________________________________________
"No one denies that the Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives,
in
power from 1995 until 2006, was overwhelmingly pro-Israel. But with
Democratic wins in both houses, the 110th Congress removes from power
several maverick Republicans who wanted the United States to be more
critical of Israel, and boosts to leadership lawmakers who are not
just
Israel-friendly but intimately acquainted with the U.S. Jewish
community."-Ron Kampeas, "Division of congressional posts seems to
favor
Jewish issues",
http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=17466&intcategory...,
(10 January 2007).
________________________________________
"The thing that makes us strong and secure. is that we here in Israel
are
only the spearhead of a great people spread all over the world, and
one day
they will come home where they really belong, to the State of Israel
[.]
[***] Birthright, if you want, is what Israel is all about. Israel is
a
Jewish state[.] [***] [Jews] have a birthright to come and live here.
[***]
[T]here is only one place in the world which is ours. [***] [W]e are
one
people, belong to each other, and that we love each other. [***] When
it
does happen, and you feel you are ready, we are waiting for you. And
when
you decide to come here, we will hug you, kiss you. we want nothing
more
than to have you, the future of the Jewish people, to come here,
where
they
belong[.]"-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, as quoted by Yaakov
Lappin,"Olmert: Israel spearhead for all Jews",
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3349787,00.html, (8 January
2007).
________________________________________
"Most Americans would reject outright any effort by one of our allies
to
limit fair debate, discussion, and dialogue here in the United States
about
the nature of American relations with any given state. And yet
America
as a
whole remains mute to the interference by the Israeli Lobby into any
meaningful discussion of American-Israeli relations. The end result
is
that
Israel and the Israeli Lobby are herding America down the path toward
war
with Iran, and most Americans remain ignorant and/or indifferent to
this
fact. The proof is in the pudding; even as the world debates and
discusses
the June 2006 incentives package offered to Iran, Israel has already
proclaimed its opposition to any such negotiated settlement, and
AIPAC
has
initiated a full-fledged lobbying campaign targeted at the U.S.
Congress to
keep America on track toward conflict with Iran. No one in the world
wants
such a confrontation, only Israel. Let there be no doubt: if there is
an
American war with Iran, it is a war that was made in Israel and
nowhere
else."-Scott Ritter, Target Iran: The Truth About the White House's
Plans
for Regime Change, Nation Books, New York, (2006), p. 211.
________________________________________
"It has been taught: R. Jose12 said: Three commandments were given to
Israel
when they entered the land; [i] to appoint a king; [ii] to cut off
the
seed
of Amalek; [iii] and to build themselves the chosen house [i.e. the
Temple]
and I do not know which of them has priority. But, when it is said:
The hand
upon the throne of the Lord, the Lord will have war with Amalek from
generation to generation,13 we must infer that they had first to set
up a
king, for 'throne' implies a king, as it is written, Then Solomon sat
on the
throne of the Lord as king.14 Yet I still do not know which [of the
other
two] comes first, the building of the chosen Temple or the cutting
off
of
the seed of Amalek. Hence, when it is written, And when He giveth you
rest
from all your enemies round about etc., and then [Scripture
proceeds],
Then
it shall come to pass that the place which the Lord your God shall
choose,15
it is to be inferred that the extermination of Amalek is first. And
so
it is
written of David, And it came to pass when the king dwelt in his
house, and
the Lord had given him rest from his enemies round about, and the
passage
continues; that the king said unto Nathan the Prophet: See now, I
dwell in a
house of cedars etc."-I. Epstein, Editor, "Sanhedrin 20b", The
Babylonian
Talmud, Volume 27, The Soncino Press, London, (1935), pp. 107-111, at
109.
________________________________________
"So they went nearer and they heard him saying: 'Crown, crown, two
sons are
kept outside, and there will be no peace or rest until the bird is
thrown
down in Caesarea.' R. Jose wept and said: 'Verily the Galuth is drawn
out,
and therefore the birds of heaven will not depart until the dominion
of the
idolatrous nations is removed from the earth, which will not be till
the day
when God will bring the world to judgement.'"-H. Sperling and M.
Simon,
Editors, The Zohar, Volume 2, The Soncino Press, New York, (1933), p.
311.
________________________________________
"We must turn to Hillary Clinton and other potential presidential
candidates
in the Democratic Party so that they publicly support immediate
action
by
Bush against Iran. We should also approach European countries so that
they
support American actions in Iran, so that Bush will not be isolated
in
the
international arena again. We must clandestinely cooperate with Saudi
Arabia
so that it also persuades the US to strike Iran."-Brigadier General
(Res.)
Oded Tira, Former IDF Chief Artillery Officer, "What to do with
Iran?", (30
December 2006), http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3346275,00.html
"* First, Israel should appoint a roving ambassador tasked with
responsibility for maintaining relations with Christians in America.
This
should not be just an honorary title, nor should it go to one of the
usual
organizational fund-raisers or foreign service hacks. Instead, the
government should appoint a person of faith, one who can communicate
with
evangelicals in terms they both understand and appreciate.
* Second, Israel should reach out to Christian leaders and their
communities, and initiate the establishment of 'prayer battalions' in
churches across the United States. Like rapid-deployment forces used
by the
military, these battalions could be mobilized at a moment's notice to
pray
for specific issues, such as the return of Israel's missing soldiers
or the
threat posed by Iran's nuclear ambitions."-Michael Freund, Served as
Deputy
Director of Communications in Israel's Prime Minister's Office under
former
premier Binyamin Netanyahu, "Right On!: In praise of Christian
Zionists",
(21 December 2006),
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1164881944891&pagename=JPo...
________________________________________
"The conclusions from Dayan's words are clear: This State has no
international obligations, no economic problems, the question of
peace
is
nonexistent. . . . It must calculate its steps narrow-mindedly and
live on
its sword. It must see the sword as the main, if not the only,
instrument
with which to keep its morale high and to retain its moral tension.
Toward
this end it may, no-it must-invent dangers, and to do this it must
adopt the
method of provocation-and-revenge. . . . And above all-let us hope
for
a new
war with the Arab countries, so that we may finally get rid of our
troubles
and acquire our space. (Such a slip of the tongue: Ben Gurion himself
said
that it would be worth while to pay an Arab a million pounds to start
a
war.) (26 May 1955, 1021)"-Excerpt from a 26 May 1955 entry in Moshe
Sheratt's personal diary as quoted in L. Rokach, Israel's Sacred
Terrorism,
Third Edition, AAUG Press, Belmont Massachusetts, p. 41.
________________________________________
"In 1937, 5.7 percent of the Party were Jews yet they formed a
majority in
the government. Lenin himself (who was partly Jewish by ancestry)
said
that
if the Commissar was Jewish, the deputy should be Russian: Stalin
followed
this rule. [***] Many Jewish Bolsheviks used Russian pseudonyms. As
early as
1936, Stalin ordered Mekhlis at Pravda to use these pseudonyms: 'No
need to
excite Hitler!'"- Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stalin: The Court of the
Red
Star,
Vintage Books, New York, (2003), pp. 305-306.
________________________________________
"In the Great Jalkut Rubeni, in the Parasha Bereshith, [Footnote:
Fol.
10.
Col. 1.] we have the following Passage, 'The Skin and the Flesh is
the
Coat
of a Man. The Spirit within is the Man. But the Idolaters (meaning
all
the
Nations but the Jewish) are not call'd Men, because their Souls have
their
Origin from the Unclean Spirit. But the Souls of the Israelites are
derived
from the Holy Spirit.' And a little farther on in the same Treatise,
it is
said, [Footnote: Fol. 10. Col. 2.] 'An Israelite is called a Man,
because
his Soul cometh from the Supreme Man. But an Idolater, whose Soul
cometh
from the Unclean Spirit, is call'd a Swine. If so, then is an
Idolater
the
Body and Soul of a Swine.' In another Part of the said Treatise,
entitled
Shaar olam hattobu [Footnote: Fol. 23. Col. 4.], there is a Passage
running
thus: 'The Wicked are stiled the Dead in their Life-Time, because
they
have
not a Holy Soul from the Foundation, which is called Him that liveth
for
ever. But they have the Soul from Kelifa (i. e. the Shell) by which
is
meant
the Devil) who is call'd Death, and the Shadow of Death: And through
the
Sparklings of the same they live.'"-Johann Andreas Eisenmenger, The
Traditions of the Jews, Contained in the Talmud and other Mystical
Writings,
Volume 1, J. Robinson, London, (1748), pp. 254-255.
________________________________________
"We Zionists wish to urge self-help on the people; thereby no
exaggerated
and unsound hopes will be awakened. On this ground, also, publicity
in
dealing with this point is of the highest value. [***] The confidence
of the
State, which is necessary for a settlement of large masses of Jews,
can only
be gained by publicity and by loyal action."-Theodor Herzl, "The
Zionist
Congress: Full Report of the Proceedings", The Jewish Chronicle, (3
September 1897), pp. 10-15, at 11.
"I hear, for ex., that your accomplishments are being used to make
propaganda, with the 'Jewish Newton, who is simultaneously an ardent
Zionist' (I personally haven't read this yet, but only heard it
mentioned).
[***] But I cannot go along with the propagandistic fuss with its
inevitable
untruths, precisely because Judaism is at stake and because I feel
myself so
thoroughly a Jew."-Letter from Paul Ehrenfest to Albert Einstein of 9
December 1919, English translation by A. Hentschel, The Collected
Papers of
Albert Einstein, Volume 9, Document 203, Princeton University Press,
(2004),
pp. 173-175, at 174.
________________________________________
"In 1983 AIPAC distributed to students and faculty around the country
a
ten-page questionnaire on political activism on their campuses. Its
instructions include: 'Please name any individual faculty who assist
anti-Israel groups. How is this assistance offered? What are the
propaganda
themes . . . ?' The survey results form the body of the AIPAC College
Guide:
Exposing the Anti-Israel Campaign on Campus, published in April 1984.
While AIPAC claims to respect the right of all to free speech, number
eight
on its list of 10 suggested 'modes of response' to pro-Palestinian
events or
speakers on campus reads: 'Attempt to prevent.'"-Paul Findley, They
Dare to
Speak Out: People and Institutions Confront Israel's Lobby, Lawrence
Hill &
Company, Westport, Connecticut, (1985), p. 181.
________________________________________
"I don't understand your optimism,' Ben Gurion declared. 'Why should
the
Arabs make peace? If I was an Arab leader I would never make terms
with
Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country. Sure, God
promised it
to us, but what does that matter to them? Our God is not theirs. We
come
from Israel, it's true, but two thousand years ago, and what is that
to
them? There has been antisemitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but
was
that their fault? They only see one thing: we have come here and
stolen
their country. Why should they accept that? They may perhaps forget
in
one
or two generations' time, but for the moment there is no chance. So
it's
simple: we have to stay strong and maintain a powerful army. Our
whole
policy is there. Otherwise the Arabs will wipe us out.'"-David Ben-
Gurion,
as quoted in: N. Goldmann, The Jewish Paradox, Grosset & Dunlap, New
York,
(1978), p. 99.
________________________________________
"I know this will annoy many of your readers. . . But the anger is
over the
fact that Israel did not fight against the Syrians. Instead of Israel
fighting against Hizbullah, many parts of the American administration
believe that Israel should have fought against the real enemy, which
is
Syria and not Hizbullah."Meyrav Wurmser, as quoted by Yitzhak
Benhorin
in,
"Neocons: We expected Israel to attack Syria",
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3340750,00.html, (16
December
2006).
________________________________________
"21 And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was
barren:
and
the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. 22 And
the
children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so,
why
am I
thus? And she went to inquire of the LORD. 23 And the LORD said unto
her,
Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be
separated
from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other
people;
and the elder shall serve the younger. 24 And when her days to be
delivered
were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb. 25 And the
first
came
out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name
Esau. 26
And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's
heel;
and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old
when
she
bare them. 27 And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man
of the
field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents. 28 And Isaac
loved
Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob. 29
And
Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint: 30
And
Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage;
for I
am faint: therefore was his name called Edom. 31 And Jacob said, Sell
me
this day thy birthright. 32 And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point
to die:
and what profit shall this birthright do to me? 33 And Jacob said,
Swear to
me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto
Jacob.
34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat
and
drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his
birthright."-The Jewish book of Genesis 25:21-34.
________________________________________
"You and I both know the powerful influence of AIPAC, which is not
designed
to promote peace. I'm not criticizing them, they have a perfect right
to
lobby, but their purpose in life is to protect and defend the
policies
of
the Israeli government and to make sure those policies are approved
in
the
United States and in our Congress-and they're very effective at it. I
have
known a large number of Jewish organizations in this country [that]
have
expressed their approval for the book and are trying to promote
peace.
But
their voices are divided and they're relatively reluctant to speak
out
publicly. And any member of Congress who's looking to be re-elected
couldn't
possibly say that they would take a balanced position between Israel
and the
Palestinians, or that they would insist on Israel withdrawing to
international borders, or that they would dedicate themselves to
protect
human rights of Palestinians-it's very likely that they would not be
re-elected."-Jimmy Carter, Thirty Ninth President of the United
States
of
America, as quoted by Eleanor Clift, "Last Word: Jimmy Carter
Revisiting
'Apartheid'", Newsweek International, (25 December 2006 - 1 January
2007).
________________________________________
"Thus what was on offer was no more and no less than the
establishment
of a
fascist Jewish state in Palestine as an ally of German fascism!"-
Klaus
Polkehn, "The Secret Contacts: Zionism and Nazi Germany, 1933-1941",
Journal
of Palestine Studies, Volume 5, Number 3/4, (Spring-Summer, 1976),
pp.
54-82, at 79.
________________________________________
"The United States has made a massive commitment to the future of
Iraq
in
both blood and treasure. As of December 2006, nearly 2,900 Americans
have
lost their lives serving in Iraq. Another 21,000 Americans have been
wounded, many severely.
To date, the United States has spent roughly $400 billion on the Iraq
War,
and costs are running about $8 billion per month. In addition, the
United
States must expect significant "tail costs" to come. Caring for
veterans and
replacing lost equipment will run into the hundreds of billions of
dollars.
Estimates run as high as $2 trillion for the final cost of the U.S.
involvement in Iraq."-James A. Baker, et al.,The Iraq Study Group
Report,
Vintage Books, New York, (2006), p. 32.
________________________________________
"The conflict includes not only the Arabs in Judea, Samaria, and the
Gaza
Strip, but Israeli Arabs also[.] [***] The linkage between the
Palestinian
Authority and the Israeli Arab population - it will destroy us, it is
impossible. What is the logic of creating one and a half country for
one
people and a half country for the Jewish people? [***] It's not
racism
[***]
The test is loyalty, not their religion."-Avigdor Lieberman as quoted
by Ira
Stoll in "Israel's Lieberman Calls for Tougher Stance on Israeli
Arabs", The
New York Sun, (13 December 2006).
________________________________________
"Revolting as it is, it would be an interesting study in psychology
to
analyze the motives, other than fear and cowardice, that have
prompted
Jewish bankers to lend money to Germany as they are now doing. It is
in part
their money that is being used by the Hitler regime in its reckless,
wicked
campaign of propaganda to make the world anti-Semitic; with that
money
they
have invaded Great Britain, the United States and other countries
where they
have established newspapers, subsidized agents and otherwise are
spending
untold millions in spreading their infamous creed. The suggestion
that
they
use that money toward paying the honest debts they have repudiated is
answered only by contemptuous sneers and silence. Meantime the
infamous
campaign goes on unabated with ever increasing intensity to the
everlasting
disgrace of the Jewish bankers who are helping to finance it and of
the
weaklings who are doing nothing effective to check it."-Samuel
Untermeyer,
as quoted in: "Text of Untermyer's Address", The New York Times, (7
August
1933), p. 4.
________________________________________
"'Hitler will be forgotten in a few years, but he will have a
beautiful
monument in Palestine. You know', and here the biographer-historian
seemed
to assume the role of a patriarchal Jew-'the coming of the Nazis was
rather
a welcome thing. So many of our German Jews were hovering between two
coasts; so many of them were riding the treacherous current between
the
Scylla of assimilation and the Charybdis of a nodding acquaintance
with
Jewish things. Thousands who seemed to be completely lost to Judaism
were
brought back to the fold by Hitler, and for that I am personally very
grateful to him.'"-Meyer Steinglass quoting Emil Ludwig, "Emil Ludwig
before
the Judge", American Jewish Times, (April, 1936), p. 35; as quoted
in:
L.
Brenner, Zionism in the Age of the Dictators, Lawrence Hill Books,
Chicago,
(1983), p. 59.
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"19:5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my
covenant,
then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for
all
the
earth is mine: 19:6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and
an
holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the
children of
Israel."-The Jewish book of Exodus 19:5-6.
"32:1 And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of
the
mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said
unto
him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this
Moses, the
man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is
become
of him. 32:2 And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings,
which
are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters,
and
bring them unto me. 32:3 And all the people brake off the golden
earrings
which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron. 32:4 And he
received
them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he
had
made
it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which
brought
thee up out of the land of Egypt. 32:5 And when Aaron saw it, he
built
an
altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is
a
feast
to the LORD. 32:6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered
burnt
offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to
eat
and
to drink, and rose up to play. 32:7 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go,
get
thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of
Egypt,
have corrupted themselves: 32:8 They have turned aside quickly out of
the
way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and
have
worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, ...
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