Sometimes it seems that Israel and the lobby have to recapitulate the entire history of Jewish suffering– but projected now on to the new Jews, the Arabs–so as to compensate for the tragedies Jews have experienced in the last century or two.
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion are of course a landmark of anti-Semitism, a Russian police forgery about Jewish power in the late 1800s. Kafka read it, and was terrified by it. Helped him write The Castle. Well now the Israeli Defense Forces are trying to keep up, according to Haaretz:
The Pope and the cardinals of the Vatican help organize tours of Auschwitz for Hezbollah members to teach them how to wipe out Jews, according to a booklet being distributed to Israel Defense Forces soldiers.
Officials encouraging the booklet’s distribution include senior officers, such as Lt. Col. Tamir Shalom, the commander of the Nahshon Battalion of the Kfir Brigade.
The booklet was published by the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, in cooperation with the chief rabbi of Safed, Rabbi Shmuel Eliahu, and has been distributed for the past few months.
The booklet, titled "On Either Side of the Border," purports to be the testimony of "a Hezbollah officer who spied for Israel."
Help us. Someone help my people. We can’t do this alone.
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Intended to desensitize IOF to Lebanese Maronite Catholics.
Tensions escalated Tuesday as Lebanese military forces warned residents against approaching Israeli outposts along the shared border.
Lebanese security officials said they detained as many as 10 people they claim were plotting attacks on peacekeepers with the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon.
Lebanese officials say at least nine of those suspects were Arab nationals from foreign countries who were plotting attacks on Lebanese targets abroad.
UNIFIL peacekeepers last week were involved in a skirmish with demonstrators who were protesting an investigation linked to the explosion of a weapons depot that Israel claims belonged to Hezbollah.
Hezbollah, through its al-Manar news service, says the Israeli military has sent reinforcements to the border, telling its soldiers to “open fire” on anyone attempting to cross the border.
Israeli military officials told the national newspaper Haaretz they were “disturbed” by mounting insecurity along the shared border with Lebanon, saying recent events suggest Hezbollah has no intention of disarming.
U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the 34-day conflict between Hezbollah and Israeli in 2006, calls on the Shiite militia to disarm while ordering Israeli forces to respect Lebanese sovereignty.
Beirut, for its part, has lodged repeated complaints with the United Nations over the past several weeks charging Israeli forces with violating Lebanese airspace and territorial waters.
http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2009/07/21/Israeli-Lebanese-border-tensions-escalate/UPI-76691248215085/
I think I might have been the first to mention this here on another thread the other day but then yesterday noted a further report dealing with same which I think has to be mentioned out of fairness.
In a subsequent report Haaretz notes that after the story first broke the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations has utterly repudiated the publication. Alerted by the Haaretz report it investigated and essentially said that it just slipped by with their endorsement on it due to branch, non-senior people, and it seems genuinely horrified by it and issued what strikes me as an absolutely sincere apology to Catholics.
(http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1101801.html)
So c’mon folks, be a little human. People and institutions make mistakes, they get taken advantage of by lone nutballs and etc. Does anyone really believe that this Union—an *American* institution, thought that it was going to convince anyone with such a ridiculous story? That it would risk the anger from Catholics over doing so?
Judeofascism has always hated all Catholics. In fact, it’s always hated all Christians. Look what it did in the Soviet Union. Look what it’s doing in America. Look what it’s done to Western civilization. With Israel, its true face is just starting to be revealed.
Look, Ed, your most basic obsession is only another conspiracy narrative.
You can’t equate a couple of Jews in the communist leadership with all Jewish Russians. Much less make them collectively responsible for what happened. We’ve been there before. Start studying Russian history.
Besides the conspiracy narrative that later develops into the Protocols has deep roots in the orthodox Church. Nilus who added a version to his book in 1905 is in fact such a Russian holy man.
Are you trying to convince us that the hoax at the start of the century had was a vision for things to come, no matter how deeply related to other myth and fictions?
But why did I again waste this lines.
Ed is just another standard-issue Christian anti-Semite. That he does not endlessly repeat the “Jews killed Jesus” mantra does not alter that. After all, he has his own tedious ideological anti-Semitic mantra. It does not serve the discussion in any practical way at all, and it becomes incredibly boring incredibly quickly.
I waded into the comment section on that post, and it’s like thought police there… users hounding out users who even ‘tip’ a post they deem offensive. So much for free speech. Most of the commenters are proud to say they haven’t even read the post, the title was enough for them to decide it was offensive. Automatons.
Oops, wrong post. I was referring to the blogger banned from Daily Kos
I don’t know if the comment section of this promising looking new format is screwed up or what but I don’t see a comment I tried posting here so I’ll just assume it’s vanished and post again:
In a couple of threads back I think I was the first to note this story, but then another article came out and I noted same in that thread.
Essentially, after the original Haaretz article came out the Union of Jewish Congregations investigated and utterly renounced and repudiated the booklet. Essentially it said that it was endorsed by a branch office or officer and not reviewed by any higher authority in the Union and it immediately and obviously sincerely apologized for any offense caused to Catholics. It was obviously horrified by the thing and I think it ought to be believed: The repudiation was immediate, the Union could hardly believe the substance of the booklet, nor is it credible that it knew it was a lie and still put it out believing that it was worth the damage it would do if it was found out.
For some reason I can’t now find the Haaretz article that was posted with this new info but it was definitely there.
What about any offense caused to Hezbollah, which is a legitimate Lebanese liberation and political movement, or for that matter any Lebanese, or any Shi`i, or any Muslim, or any Arab? They have without question been every bit as insulted as the Catholics – in fact, what about Catholic Hezbollah supporters ?
Shirin wrote:
“What about any offense caused to Hezbollah, which is a legitimate Lebanese liberation and political movement, or for that matter any Lebanese, or any Shi`i, or any Muslim, or any Arab? They have without question been every bit as insulted as the Catholics – in fact, what about Catholic Hezbollah supporters ?”
Interesting. In fact Shirin I have found that link and here’s what the Union actually said:
” The Orthodox Union expresses its sincere regret to those of other faiths who may have been embarrassed or offended by the publication of this work.”
And here’s the link:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1101801.html
I do think the comment section of this new format is kind of screwed up. Sometimes one’s comments are posted right through. Other times you get the message that they are “awaiting moderation” but no matter how innocent your post is they never make it through.
An early glitch only hopefully; the new format looks really nice otherwise so hats off to Phil and Adam.
Otherwise because of this apparent glitch I’ll repost one that’s being “moderated” into oblivion:
Shirin: I have found that link and it’s here:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1101801.html
And, interestingly enough and to your precise point the Orthodox Union was reported in same as expressing “its sincere regret to those of other faiths who may have been embarrassed or offended by the publication of this work.”
I do think the comment section of this new format is kind of screwed up. Sometimes one’s comments are posted right through. Other times you get the message that they are “awaiting moderation” but no matter how innocent your post is they never make it through.
An early glitch only hopefully; the new format looks really nice otherwise so hats off to Phil and Adam.
Otherwise because of this apparent glitch I’ll repost a couple that are being “moderated” into oblivion:
Shirin: I have found that link and it’s here:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1101801.html
And, interestingly enough and to your precise point the Orthodox Union was reported in same as expressing “its sincere regret to those of other faiths who may have been embarrassed or offended by the publication of this work.”
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