This is how screwed up American Jewish leadership is. Democratic congresswoman Shelley Berkley says she calls Mort Klein of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) before she decides how to vote on bills about the Middle East.
Well: Here is a ZOA-sponsored picnic in the occupied West Bank (Shomrom) the Sunday during Passover "to honor the brave Zionist pioneers whose vision and intense dedication 30 years ago resulted in the many vibrant communities we see today...
"Visit Sebastia... where Gush Emunim started the settler movement...
"At Havat Gilad... learn about the young pioneers of new hilltop communities..."
"At Havat Gilad... learn about the young pioneers of new hilltop communities..."
Here's a link to the community of Havat Gilad. Religious crazies, destroying American foreign policy.
That's the ZOA: destroying the two-state solution our president says he's for. Without a peep from anyone...
*EXCERPT FROM "Blue Gold: Have the Next Resource Wars Begun?" – by Tara Lohan, Published March 31, 2009 by "The Nation"
"Scarcity Is a Relative Term in the Jordan Valley"
"…While consumption varies among Israelis, they have continuous access to water, much like the luxury we enjoy in the United States. Palestinians, on the other hand, are at the will of Israel. In the West Bank, Palestinians have access to only about 20 percent of the water in the aquifer beneath them because sinking wells is prohibited. Their per capita water use is around sixty liters per day, below even the 100-liters-per-day standard of the World Health Organization. For Israelis the number is closer to 300 liters…"
*ENTIRE ARTICLE – link to thenation.com
Wow. That's got to be some party. Too bad they don't have front row seats to another shock and awe spectacle as they did for the destruction of Gaza.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1075465.html
UN: 70% of Palestinian youth oppose violence to resolve conflict with Israel
By DPA
Tags: palestinians, israel news, UN
Nearly 70 percent of Palestinian young adults believe the use of violence to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is not very helpful, according to a United Nations Development Program (UNDP) study released Tuesday.
Only 8 percent believe violence is an important tool, the study, based on interviews with 1,200 Palestinians over the age of 17 in the West Bank and Gaza.
Meanwhile, the PA institutes the DEATH PENALTY for selling land to Jews.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1238562884554&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
I know that Phillip is all into non-discrimination and all. So I'm surprised he didn't pick up this little tidbit.
Or most likely he did. But he buried and ignored it.
and Jews throughout their history have been paragons of internal liberalism and enlightenment? no, there have been and remain laws like din moser,but that doesn't matter, because we are the chosen holy hypocrites and assholes of the world. OK, Joshua.
Rowan,
I've never said that Jews have always been paragons of "internal liberalism an enlightenment" although much of modern values, mores and society can be traced to Judaism and Jewish culture.
My point is simply that Phil is a hypocritical bigot. A couple of days ago, he went on a hyperactive rant when Israel instituted army preferences for railroad jobs, shrieking that it was the equivalent of Jim Crow.
Meanwhile, the Palestinians CALL FOR THE DEATH PENALTY to anyone who SELLS LAND TO JEWS. Can you imagine the reaction here if an MK, or a rabbi, or for that matter some columnist in a b-rate publication, called for the death penalty for selling land to Arabs?
Of course we don't need even need a news item, because not surprisingly, in response to this outrage, you try and dust off doctrines such as "din moser." You actually prove the point about the frightening Jew hatred that Philip encourages and partakes in.
But hey, occasionally while pissing off most thinking people at parties, he'll meet a "fellow traveler." So he's cool with trying to hurt and insult people.
What a disgusting bigot.
I mean,seriously, that is the official Jewish religious attitude:we are the world's high holy hypocrites, God put us here to show the world how it is done. That's how organisations like Lubavitch sell themselves to the non-Jewish rich: we can teach you the highest and most sanctimonious forms of hypocrisy. And that, in a lower and cruder sense, is what they're doing here, too. They're proud of their hypocrisy, they regard it as a holy gift.
I guess this is as good a time as any to link to this…
http://www.mideastweb.org/jewreligion.htm
But do tell Rowan, your not antisemitic, your just antizionist, right?
joshua from your link – "Leviticus, 24:22, Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the Lord your God." when is that going to kick in towards the palestinians? is it that jewish folks don't really believe in practicing certain parts of their 'religion' that interfere with holding people hostage and murdering innocent people? throw relgion into this all you want.. i don't see israel as a religious country, so much as a fanatical one where religion plays a secondary role, unless perhaps it is some form of orthodox religion that carries with it an attitude of intolerance towards anyone that doesn't share in the same…
"Yair Gamliel, the seven-year-old boy whose skull was fractured by an ax-wielding terrorist in the settlement of Bat Ayin on Thursday Apr 2, is the son of Ofer Gamliel, one of three men convicted in 2003 and sent to prison for 15 years for a failed bomb plot against a Arab girls school in east Jerusalem."
well well well. Poetic justice, eh.
Can you imagine the reaction here
Depends how precious the land is. Le Bon Dieu ain't making any more and the portion alloted to the Palestinians keeps shrinking.
"well well well. Poetic justice, eh."
Well, no, it's not poetic justice when a seven year old boy is hit in the head with an axe. I don't care what his father did. The father's sins are not visited on the son, not to the fourth generation, or any generation.
When some of the Israel apologists here made fun of the death of Rachel Corrie I was shocked and offended. I'm also offended when someone tries to score political points off a kid being assaulted with an axe.
I already posted a retort to your remark,Duscany, but our hosts have deleted it.
Joshua, the webpage you link is full of nonsense. I don't care to go into a long discussion over the details, but the most easily refuted inaccuracy is their dismissal of the Talmud's slandering of Jesus. An accurate summery can be found in the Jewish Encyclopedia. Put simply, whoever wrote that webpage you linked is either ignorant or deceitful.
oh, well, if the Talmud says Jesus is boiling in a vat of excrement for all eternity, what does it matter? It won't hurt him, wherever he really is. The whole argument about religions slandering one another's sacred figures is stupid. For this reason, I would vigorously defend Salman Rushdie, for instance.
The trip sounds great, where do I sign up? I have been on many such trips in the past.
Rowan, thank you for you comment about how you are happy the kid had his head bashed in. You and most of the rest of the gang here are no "humanitarians", or "peace-lovers". I hope the rest of the world will learn to relate to your types the way you deserve.
keep hoping, brother.
@ Duscany | April 03, 2009 at 03:00 AM
I agree, Duscany. Your comment is over the line, Rowan. No child of seven is guilty of anything except maybe sneaking an extra cookie. He may have grown up to a freak like his Dad, and he may have grown up to the opposite.
ax-wielding terrorist
So, did he get away with it? That's always a consideration.
Moralistic bores. Your country is committing multiple genocides, all over the world. 'The Jews' are merely its front line troops. And you talk about morality.
Meanwhile, this sort of thing is happening every day in your own country, but it isn't so delicious to get frissons of horror about, is it?
A gunman recently laid off by IBM massacred 13 people at a civic association in upstate New York during a citizenship class for immigrants. The suspect blocked the back door of the American Civic Centre in the college town of Binghamton with his car before entering the front door. Police scanner reports said the gunman, wearing a bright green nylon jacket and dark-rimmed glasses, started shooting as soon as he went into the building. The suspect, who was found dead after apparently shooting himself in the head, was reportedly carrying an ID saying he was a 42-year-old Vietnamese-American named Jiverly Voong from nearby Johnson City, who had recently been fired by IBM.
@Rowan
Massive immigration, ethnic diversity, and hard economic times are a recipe for trouble.
Never fear; I'm sure the media will blame it on white NRA members.
The HuffPo type media will blame the ready availability of guns on the NRA, that's a reasonable prediction.
And the ZOA leads Passover picnics in the W Bank to honor the settler movement, and the goyim pay the price in taxes and body bags. So what's new?