Imagine if you believed that forcing women to give birth in the dust at checkpoints outside Jerusalem would bring your people closer to God.
justicewillprevail
January 18, 2013 11:05 am
It is a symbol of everything Israel has come to embody: a visceral hatred of the Other, to the extent that they force them to give birth in the most barbaric of surroundings, the message being “don’t procreate here, this is what we think of your babies, in the hope that some will not survive, because there is no place for them in this Jewish-only utopia”. Contempt for human life doesn’t come much baser.
jahan
January 18, 2013 1:43 pm
I can not read the source for this report. What are the statistics for subsequent years? Where can these be located?
American
January 18, 2013 2:47 pm
More bad news—or good news depending on how you look at it. In one way, more of these crazies in the Israeli government might be good…..they could bring the Israel problem to a head and force the world to finally deal with it. Obviously Israel’s past and current craziness hasn’t been severe enough for the world to actually ‘do’ anything about it except go tisk, tisk. If Caroline Glick approves this crowd you can be sure they are certifiably insane.
The heart of Israel: The Second Zionist Revolution
By Bernie Quigley – 01/18/13 08:24 AM ET
“It makes no difference who is sitting on the throne,” Moshe Feiglin writes from Jerusalem this week in his commentary on Torah. “What really matters is where the heart of the nation resides.” Feiglin is writing about how Pharaoh sees the great power he is, a power telling him he is god the river, and god the creator of all that is, as it disintegrates around him and the world awaken again from the wreckage with Aaron and Moses. It is a fully appropriate reading for this week as Israelis prepare to go to the polls. The creations of Pharaoh appear on the verge of falling into the river, and Israel on the verge of finding its heart.
Two men, Moshe Feiglin and Naftali Bennett, enter the Knesset this week and their rise has already changed the trajectory of Israel. The influential Israeli columnist Caroline Glick reports:
“Next week we’re going to vote and it is already clear that Israel is in the midst of the Second Zionist Revolution. The first Zionist revolution was a socialist revolution. The second Zionist revolution is Jewish. Israel is coming into its own. Judaism is flourishing, changing, living and breathing here like it never has anywhere since the destruction of the Second Commonwealth. The secular left has been eclipsed by the Jewish right. I don’t call it the religious right because that is too limiting. What’s happening isn’t just about religion, it’s about everything, and that is why non-observant hipsters in Tel Aviv are voting for the Jewish Home party. Non-observant and observant Jews are joining forces and the anti-religious are being left behind.”
Imagine if you believed that forcing women to give birth in the dust at checkpoints outside Jerusalem would bring your people closer to God.
It is a symbol of everything Israel has come to embody: a visceral hatred of the Other, to the extent that they force them to give birth in the most barbaric of surroundings, the message being “don’t procreate here, this is what we think of your babies, in the hope that some will not survive, because there is no place for them in this Jewish-only utopia”. Contempt for human life doesn’t come much baser.
I can not read the source for this report. What are the statistics for subsequent years? Where can these be located?
More bad news—or good news depending on how you look at it. In one way, more of these crazies in the Israeli government might be good…..they could bring the Israel problem to a head and force the world to finally deal with it. Obviously Israel’s past and current craziness hasn’t been severe enough for the world to actually ‘do’ anything about it except go tisk, tisk. If Caroline Glick approves this crowd you can be sure they are certifiably insane.
The heart of Israel: The Second Zionist Revolution
By Bernie Quigley – 01/18/13 08:24 AM ET
“It makes no difference who is sitting on the throne,” Moshe Feiglin writes from Jerusalem this week in his commentary on Torah. “What really matters is where the heart of the nation resides.” Feiglin is writing about how Pharaoh sees the great power he is, a power telling him he is god the river, and god the creator of all that is, as it disintegrates around him and the world awaken again from the wreckage with Aaron and Moses. It is a fully appropriate reading for this week as Israelis prepare to go to the polls. The creations of Pharaoh appear on the verge of falling into the river, and Israel on the verge of finding its heart.
Two men, Moshe Feiglin and Naftali Bennett, enter the Knesset this week and their rise has already changed the trajectory of Israel. The influential Israeli columnist Caroline Glick reports:
“Next week we’re going to vote and it is already clear that Israel is in the midst of the Second Zionist Revolution. The first Zionist revolution was a socialist revolution. The second Zionist revolution is Jewish. Israel is coming into its own. Judaism is flourishing, changing, living and breathing here like it never has anywhere since the destruction of the Second Commonwealth. The secular left has been eclipsed by the Jewish right. I don’t call it the religious right because that is too limiting. What’s happening isn’t just about religion, it’s about everything, and that is why non-observant hipsters in Tel Aviv are voting for the Jewish Home party. Non-observant and observant Jews are joining forces and the anti-religious are being left behind.”
Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/international-affairs/277943-the-heart-of-israel-the-second-zionist-revolution#ixzz2IM5M0hgC
Thanks for your reporting, once again, Mondoweiss.