The “Jewish cow” is the most productive cow in the world. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s latest boast about miraculous Israeli innovations came in an award speech he made last week (for the actor Michael Douglas), which was published by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs:
[Y]ou got your cell phone? You have Israel in your palm. So many applications, so many innovations. You drink a glass of water, not only in Israel but in many countries now, you’re drinking the product of Israeli technology and number one in recycling. I was in China with President Xi and they said: We want to have your dairy industry. They have to feed a lot of– they drink a lot of milk in China. And I said: Well, that’s a very good choice because you know which cow produces more milk per cow than any other cow? You think it’s a Dutch cow or French cow? No, it’s a Jewish cow. It’s a computerized cow. Every moo is computerized. And the same is true of water. You want to drink just to live, but hundreds of millions around the world are enjoying the products of Israeli innovation. That’s the old problem that we’ve solved with new techniques.
The use of the term “Jewish cow” is ugly. He’s not talking about an “Israeli cow;” he’s using the language of “racial science,” of evil provenance. At minute 8:30 below:
We’ve often heard that Israel invented the cherry tomato, or drip irrigation, but this is the best brag of all.By the way, NPR continued its series on Israel’s water innovations last weekend. We scooped them on the cow, though.
I thought you weren’t supposed to mix meat and dairy.
This is yet another example of how Israel, Netanyahu and his ilk are so obsessed with Jews, Jewish and Judaism just as the Nazis were. There is no analogy between Jewish and Dutch or French, because Jews are not separate and apart from the nationalities they bear just as anyone else who may be Muslim, Christian, atheist, etc., which is why there are Dutch Jews and French Jews. Yet, in Israel, it does not work that way, and Jewish becomes nationality, religion, and even viewed as genetically distinct.
Now a Jewish cow being the most superior in the world sounds something like the Nazis stating that Aryans were the most superior in the world. But wait a moment, we’re talking about “cows” here.
So the huge irony is that the Nazis wanted perfect cows as well as perfect humans. As the article states below, which happened to have been published in a few newspapers back in January, the breed of cows was genetically modified to have a muscular physique and deadly horns. Thus, there was a superior “Aryan” cow of decades ago, and the present “Jewish” superior cow in all the world of today. I just wonder when the world will finally wake up to realize that this is two sides of the same hideous coin.
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/british-farmer-forced-to-turn-half-his-murderous-herd-of-nazi-cows-into-sausages-9958988.html
As outrageous as this PM and his cabinet are, Zionist Union is a huge part of the problem according to Gideon Levy:
“Zionist Union: Likud’s shameful little helper
The government can rely on a solid majority of 85 Knesset members. True, at first glance the coalition of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seems to command a bare majority of 61 seats. But the experience of recent weeks shows that Netanyahu has others upon whom he can count. Zionist Union has been by his side on nearly every test, and he doesn’t even need to give its members cabinet positions. They are ingratiating, obedient and submissive even without them.
Most also identify with Netanyahu’s political path. When it comes to Gaza, Iran, the approach of a flotilla seeking to break the blockade and the boycott campaign, “there is no coalition or opposition,” as Zionist Union chairman Isaac Herzog says.
In other words, there is no Zionist Union. There is only unity – sometimes more Likud than Likud. Problems over controversial Likud MK Oren Hazan? Netanyahu can count on his patron.
Taking actor-director Oded Kotler to task for his anti-Likud comments? Boycotting a movie about Yigal Amir? Zionist Union falls into line. Scrapping a Knesset committee to examine the plight of foreign workers, because “they’re not a story anymore”? Extending the Citizenship Law, which is a disgrace to the country’s legislation? Zionist Union is there, a dishonorary member of the country’s most right-wing, nationalist coalition.
The curse that’s been hanging over Israeli politics for generations is now causing maximum damage, as the right hits new heights in its recklessness. The conduct of Zionist Union when it comes to the extension of the Citizenship Law, which bars Palestinian spouses of Israeli Arabs from receiving Israeli citizenship or residency, marks a new low.
The conduct of the party’s MKs, who left the parliament chambers during the vote – purportedly protesting but, in practice, as cover for their shame – must be acknowledged as a formative moment. It’s the moment when Zionist Union voters must renounce their elected representatives.
You need to remember what your representatives have done in the vote on this scandalous law, which wouldn’t have been passed in any other democracy in the world. Think how such a ban would have been perceived if it had been imposed on Jews freely marrying in any other country.
Remember how they ran away, those MKs of yours. Two days before the United States – a conservative and religious country – fully legalized same-sex marriage, members of the opposition in Israel supported a ban that prevents a fifth of the Israeli population from marrying as they wish. And this opposition pretends to represent the moderate and enlightened in society. …
… They have all been scattered to the winds by the abominable spirit of their party. And in the face of this void, a new ideological leader is ascending: Itzik Shmuli – Zionist Union’s equivalent of Likud’s Yaron Mazuz.
Over the weekend, Shmuli complained that his party is “not sufficiently condemning the Gaza flotilla.” Yes, that’s what’s lacking, one more condemnation of “the terror flotilla.” That’s what there’s an opposition for. That’s what we have Shmuli for – as if Mazuz, who called on Arab MKs to give back their Israeli citizenship, were not enough.
The curse of the Labor Party (which, along with Hatnuah, morphed into Zionist Union) is long and continuing. For generations, it has permitted too many Israelis to feel good about themselves, voting for the “Zionist left” while being nationalist and right-wing. By its very existence, this party has blocked the growth of an alternative to it. Its unceasing shift to the right – the yearning to be like the right, not to be identified with controversial positions and to blur its stance – began during Shimon Peres’ time, and maybe even before that.
The excuse is always the same: Elect us, and then afterward you’ll see. This “afterward” never comes. Now the party, which has changed its name but not its substance, is writing another chapter in its dynasty of shame. The right, drunk with power as never before, is landing punches on democracy and leveling blows on the remnants of justice. In the face of this, we have Zionist Union and Yesh Atid – which is portrayed as a fighting opposition as if its leader, Yair Lapid, were a local version of Che Guevara.”
http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.663293
It’s “udderly” fascinating to watch this implosion. Any ‘delegitimization’ belongs to Israel itself.
a jewish cow! whoda thunk? no kippa tho. hmm.
omg. He’s the King and Chief purveyor of Hasbara!
“I think we scooped them on the cow, though.”
LOL!
Coincidentally, and speaking of cows, I give you Amer Shomali:
“In the occupied West Bank, almost anything can come to be seen as a threat to Israel’s security. Even cows.
Yes, cows. Here’s the story: During the activism of the first Palestinian intifada, residents of the West Bank town of Beit Sahour organized boycotts of Israeli goods in an act of civil disobedience intended to pressure the government. Local activists in 1988 hatched a plan to bypass Israeli suppliers and produce milk locally. They bought 18 cows from a kibbutz, a collective Jewish farm. The plan, the activists thought, was both simple and elegant.
The Israeli military thought otherwise. As soon as the authorities got wind of the “Intifada milk” being distributed in Beit Sahour, they declared the cows a threat to Israel’s security. Following orders to aggressively clamp down on the intifada’s “neighborhood committees,” a local army commander directed his troops to shut down the dairy farm and seize the cows. Thus begins the tale of the wanted cows.
The story of the cows is a West Bank parable. It illustrates a reality that is at the core of the Palestinian experience of life under occupation: that Israeli military control permeates all aspects of life. In the West Bank and Gaza, the Israeli state controls Palestinians’ border crossings, internal movement within the West Bank, airspace, tax system and population registry. Israeli officials decide where and when Palestinians are allowed to travel. Israeli state authorities even shape our diets by determining what imported foods we are allowed to eat and drink.
I am the co-director of a film about the wanted cows and the Palestinians who sought to raise them as symbols of freedom. The film, called “The Wanted 18,” premiered at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival on June 13. But I was unable to attend the screening at Lincoln Center due to another element of this system of control: Israel’s restrictions on Palestinian freedom of movement.
As a resident of the city of Ramallah holding the so-called West Bank ID, I cannot travel to Jerusalem without a special permit from the Israeli military. So when I set up an appointment at the U.S. Consulate in occupied East Jerusalem to apply for a visa, I also had to apply for a pass to Jerusalem. After weeks of waiting, the date of my visa appointment approached. Finally, on the day of the appointment, Israeli officials told me I had been rejected for reasons of “security. …””
http://www.salon.com/2015/06/24/we_are_imprisoned_by_israel_a_filmmaker_not_allowed_to_attend_his_u_s_premiere_on_the_nightmare_of_life_in_the_west_bank/?utm_content=buffer84f0a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer