Posted on 10/20/2010 5:29:30 AM PDT by SJackson
When people see a Jewish prime minister treated badly by an American president, they see a more isolated Jewish state.
We live in a world where there is an ongoing war against the Jews. For the first decades after Israels founding, this war was conventional in nature. The goal was straightforward: to use military force to overrun Israel. Well before the Berlin Wall came down, that approach had clearly failed.
Then came phase two: terrorism. Terrorists targeted Israelis both home and abroad from the massacre of Israeli athletes at Munich to the second intifada.
The terrorists continue to target Jews across the world. But they have not succeeded in bringing down the Israeli government and they have not weakened Israeli resolve.
Now the war has entered a new phase. This is the soft war that seeks to isolate Israel by delegitimizing it.
The battleground is everywhere: the media, multinational organizations, NGOs. In this war, the aim is to make Israel a pariah.
The result is the curious situation we have today: Israel becomes increasingly ostracized, while Iran a nation that has made no secret of wishing Israels destruction pursues nuclear weapons loudly, proudly, and without apparent fear of rebuke.
For me, this ongoing war is a fairly obvious fact of life. Every day, the citizens of the Jewish homeland defend themselves against armies of terrorists whose maps spell out the goal they have in mind: a Middle East without Israel. In Europe, Jewish populations increasingly find themselves targeted by people who share that goal. And in the United States, I fear that our foreign policy sometimes emboldens these extremists.
THERE ARE two things that worry me most. First is the disturbing new home that anti-Semitism has found in polite society especially in Europe. Second is how violence and extremism are encouraged when the world sees Israels greatest ally distancing itself from the Jewish state.
When Americans think of anti-Semitism, we tend to think of the vulgar caricatures and attacks of the first part of the 20th century.
Today it seems that the most virulent strains come from the Left. Often this new anti-Semitism dresses itself up as legitimate disagreement with Israel.
Back in 2002 the president of Harvard, Larry Summers, put it this way: Where anti-Semitism and views that are profoundly anti-Israeli have traditionally been the primary preserve of poorly educated rightwing populists, profoundly anti-Israel views are increasingly finding support in progressive intellectual communities. Serious and thoughtful people are advocating and taking actions that are anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent.
Mr. Summers was speaking mostly about our university campuses. Like me, however, he was also struck by alarming developments in Europe.
Far from being dismissed out of hand, anti-Semitism today enjoys support at both the highest and lowest reaches of European society from its most elite politicians to its largely Muslim ghettoes. European Jews find themselves caught in this pincer.
We saw a recent outbreak when a European Commissioner trade minister declared that peace in the Middle East is impossible because of the Jewish lobby in America. Heres how he put it: There is indeed a belief its difficult to describe it otherwise among most Jews that they are right. And its not so much whether these are religious Jews or not. Lay Jews also share the same belief that they are right. So it is not easy to have, even with moderate Jews, a rational discussion about what is actually happening in the Middle East.
This minister did not suggest the problem was any specific Israeli policy. The problem, as he defined it, is the nature of the Jews. Adding to the absurdity, this man then responded to his critics this way: Anti-Semitism, he asserted, has no place in todays world and is fundamentally against our European values.
Of course, he has kept his job.
Unfortunately, we see examples like this one all across Europe. Sweden, for example, has long been a synonym for liberal tolerance. Yet in one of Swedens largest cities, Malmo, Jews report increasing examples of harassment. When an Israeli tennis team visited for a competition, it was greeted with riots. So how did the mayor respond? By equating Zionism with anti- Semitism and suggesting that Swedish Jews would be safer in his town if they distanced themselves from Israeli actions in Gaza.
You dont have to look far for other danger signs: The Norwegian government forbids a Norwegianbased, German shipbuilder from using its waters to test a submarine being built for the Israeli navy.
Britain and Spain are boycotting an OECD tourism meeting in Jerusalem.
In the Netherlands, police report a 50 percent increase in the number of anti-Semitic incidents.
MAYBE WE shouldnt be surprised by these things.
According to one infamous European poll a few years back, Europeans listed Israel ahead of Iran and North Korea as the greatest threat to world peace.
In Europe today, some of the most egregious attacks on Jewish people, Jewish symbols, and Jewish houses of worship have come from the Muslim population.
Unfortunately, far from making clear that such behavior will not be tolerated, too often the official response is what weve seen from the Swedish mayor who suggested Jews and Israel were partly to blame themselves.
When Europes political leaders do not stand up to the thugs, they lend credence to the idea that Israel is the source of all the worlds problems and they guarantee more ugliness. If that is not anti-Semitism, I dont know what is.
That brings me to my second point: the importance of good relations between Israel and the United States.
Some believe that if America wants to gain credibility in the Muslim world and advance the cause of peace, Washington needs to put some distance between itself and Israel. My view is the opposite. Far from making peace more possible, we are making hostilities more certain. Far from making things better for the Palestinian people, sour relations between the United States and Israel guarantees that ordinary Palestinians will continue to suffer.
The peace we all want will come when Israel feels secure not when Washington feels distant.
Right now we have war. There are many people waging this war. Some blow up cafes. Some fire rockets into civilian areas. Some are pursuing nuclear arms. Some are fighting the soft war, through international boycotts and resolutions condemning Israel. All these people are watching the US-Israeli relationship closely.
In this regard, I was pleased to hear the State Departments spokesman clarify Americas position last week. He said that the United States recognizes the special nature of the Israeli state. It is a state for the Jewish people.
This is an important message to send to the Middle East. And when people see a Jewish prime minister treated badly by an American president, they see a more isolated Jewish state. That only encourages those who favor the gun over those who favor negotiation.
Back in 1937, a man named Vladimir Jabotinsky urged Britain to open up an escape route for Jews fleeing Europe. Only a Jewish homeland, he said, could protect European Jews from the coming calamity.
In prophetic words, he described the problem this way: It is not the anti-Semitism of men, he said. It is, above all, the anti-Semitism of things, the inherent xenophobia of the body social or the body economic under which we suffer.
The world of 2010 is not the world of the 1930s. The threats Jews face today are different. But these threats are real. These threats are soaked in an ugly language familiar to anyone old enough to remember World War II. And these threats cannot be addressed until we see them for what they are: part of an ongoing war against the Jews.
Murdochs business relationship with the Saudis who export Islam to the west and Murdochs support of Bliar who Islamified the UK through the Labour Party.
No disagreement.
The pro-muslim Labour party now led by two Jewish brothers named Milliband.
And in 2005, the Tories were led by Michael Howard. Besides, the parents of the Miliband brothers are Marxists, not Jews.
Many of those you mentioned employ 'journalists, lawyers and entertainers' who are in fact people who were born to Jewish households. However there are many times more of the folks who attack the Catholic Religion who are not Jewish.
It is, IMHO, a mistake to attribute all or even most of the anti-Catholic propaganda in Hollywood, the Radical Left Legal teams(like the ACLU) and the MSM to some Jewish Conspiracy for two reasons.
1. It is not true.
2. You will look foolish doing it.
At this point in time and speaking as a Catholic myself, I don;t think it will serve us well to look foolish while we are defending the faith against a secular onslaught from the left.
A wise man once said 'How many times do you have to get hit in the head before you figure out who is hitting you?'
It's amazing to see the difference in the rapid change of the world's attitude[ including and especially our own country's attitude] toward Israel Christians, God, and Jesus in the just last ten years or so.
After the horror of the death camps and ghettos of World War II I never thought I would live to see the return of anti-semitism to this degree again.
I thought people would be too intelligent to fall for this Satanic propaganda attack dreamed up by the sick mind of The Nazi regime.
Propaganda is one of the most deadly weapons the World has ever known.
I knew this and so do most half way intelligent people but that is what makes it so effective and deadly the more intelligent you are the more susceptible you are to it because you think that you can't be fooled.
It takes your resistance into account and therefore feeds you lies on a constant repetitive basis[ sometimes very ,very subtly,sometimes not] over a long period of time day after day until we "exchange the truth for a lie" and don't even reailize we have changed our position.,p. The end result is we one day wake up and find ourselves willing facilitators in a nightmare of a world out of our control gone criminally insane.
Be vigilant, do your own research, do not get your history from the boob tube or from anyone else, pray for guidance.
It's happening again right in front of our eyes and it is well on it's way. The Nations of the world are helping the Islamic nations who are sworn to destroy first the Jews then the Christians, to squeeze the tiny country of Israel first into a modern day ghetto annd then into oblivion.
Our country is already under judgment for our terrible sins we need to turn back and not keep adding to them.
It's amazing to see the difference in the rapid change of the world's attitude[ including and especially our own country's attitude] toward Israel Christians, God, and Jesus in the just last ten years or so.
After the horror of the death camps and ghettos of World War II I never thought I would live to see the return of anti-semitism to this degree again.
I thought people would be too intelligent to fall for this Satanic propaganda attack dreamed up by the sick mind of The Nazi regime.
Propaganda is one of the most deadly weapons the World has ever known.
I knew this and so do most half way intelligent people but that is what makes it so effective and deadly the more intelligent you are the more susceptible you are to it because you think that you can't be fooled.
It takes your resistance into account and therefore feeds you lies on a constant repetitive basis[ sometimes very ,very subtly,sometimes not] over a long period of time day after day until we "exchange the truth for a lie" and don't even reailize we have changed our position.,p. The end result is we one day wake up and find ourselves willing facilitators in a nightmare of a world out of our control gone criminally insane.
Be vigilant, do your own research, do not get your history from the boob tube or from anyone else, pray for guidance.
It's happening again right in front of our eyes and it is well on it's way. The Nations of the world are helping the Islamic nations who are sworn to destroy first the Jews then the Christians, to squeeze the tiny country of Israel first into a modern day ghetto annd then into oblivion.
Our country is already under judgment for our terrible sins we need to turn back and not keep adding to them.
It's amazing to see the difference in the rapid change of the world's attitude[ including and especially our own country's attitude] toward Israel Christians, God, and Jesus in the just last ten years or so.
After the horror of the death camps and ghettos of World War II I never thought I would live to see the return of anti-semitism to this degree again.
I thought people would be too intelligent to fall for this Satanic propaganda attack dreamed up by the sick mind of The Nazi regime.
Propaganda is one of the most deadly weapons the World has ever known.
I knew this and so do most half way intelligent people but that is what makes it so effective and deadly the more intelligent you are the more susceptible you are to it because you think that you can't be fooled.
It takes your resistance into account and therefore feeds you lies on a constant repetitive basis[ sometimes very ,very subtly,sometimes not] over a long period of time day after day until we "exchange the truth for a lie" and don't even reailize we have changed our position.,p. The end result is we one day wake up and find ourselves willing facilitators in a nightmare of a world out of our control gone criminally insane.
Be vigilant, do your own research, do not get your history from the boob tube or from anyone else, pray for guidance.
It's happening again right in front of our eyes and it is well on it's way. The Nations of the world are helping the Islamic nations who are sworn to destroy first the Jews then the Christians, to squeeze the tiny country of Israel first into a modern day ghetto annd then into oblivion.
Our country is already under judgment for our terrible sins we need to turn back and not keep adding to them.
It's amazing to see the difference in the rapid change of the world's attitude[ including and especially our own country's attitude] toward Israel Christians, God, and Jesus in the just last ten years or so.
After the horror of the death camps and ghettos of World War II I never thought I would live to see the return of anti-semitism to this degree again.
I thought people would be too intelligent to fall for this Satanic propaganda attack dreamed up by the sick mind of The Nazi regime.
Propaganda is one of the most deadly weapons the World has ever known.
I knew this and so do most half way intelligent people but that is what makes it so effective and deadly the more intelligent you are the more susceptible you are to it because you think that you can't be fooled.
It takes your resistance into account and therefore feeds you lies on a constant repetitive basis[ sometimes very ,very subtly,sometimes not] over a long period of time day after day until we "exchange the truth for a lie" and don't even reailize we have changed our position.,p. The end result is we one day wake up and find ourselves willing facilitators in a nightmare of a world out of our control gone criminally insane.
Be vigilant, do your own research, do not get your history from the boob tube or from anyone else, pray for guidance.
It's happening again right in front of our eyes and it is well on it's way. The Nations of the world are helping the Islamic nations who are sworn to destroy first the Jews then the Christians, to squeeze the tiny country of Israel first into a modern day ghetto annd then into oblivion.
Our country is already under judgment for our terrible sins we need to turn back and not keep adding to them.
Follow the oil contratcts and Israels war in it. Remember after 1967, dang or was it Yom kippur when Israel found oil in the Sinai after one of Nasser's failed attempts, built resorts on the Red Sea...then Kissinger( OUR GOV man) Mr screwnut himself tells Israel to return all of it so they bulldozed BRC( before Rachel Corrie) it all under.
Now consider"Leviathon" natural gas fiding, little war with Turkey and *bing* Iran wants in too. Just two days ago they discover( they = the joooooos0 oil in the wasteland of the ME( made green by Israel) discover more oil deposits bossibly billions of gallons. Who is going to calim this? The wondering bedouins? Egypt? Waywards "Gazan's" from Crete, Cyprus, L:ebanon, Egypt and elsewhere that get their "citizenship" after living in that "starving hellhole " replete with malls, schools, beach resorts, olive orchards after six month to two years of living there/ Good heavens "displaced pali's" get citizenship almost as fast as Mexicans (and other illegal latinos) gat work up a forged birth certificate (following in Obambi's footsteps) and a free American drivers license.
Great, hate the Jews, lovely damned world,
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