Alexander 0103-2, Alexander Roger

In the U.S., the extremist Orthodox milieu can be seen through the story

of

Harry Shapiro, a socially awkward loner who grew up in a Conservative

Jewish family in Jacksonville, Florida. He ultimately became

ultra-Orthodox

and found an ideological home in right-wing Jewish politics. So intense

were his

feelings that he staged a phony bombing of a Jacksonville synagogue

where

Shimon Peres was to speak on behalf of the Oslo accords.

 

The forces which led to Shapiro’s violent act are to be found throughout

 

Jewish institutions across the U.S. As a young man, Shapiro attended

Hebrew

high school classes and United Synagogue Youth meetings at the

Jacksonville

Jewish Center. Samuel Freedman reports that, “Rabbi Dov Kentof turned a

USY

campout into a simulated mission with the Israeli army, ending with

anthems

around the bonfire. Week after week in the classroom he narrated the

Jewish

 

epic of persecution and the resistance, from Masada and Bar Kochba

through

the Warsaw ghetto uprising and the Final Solution, covering one wall

with

photographs of Jewish corpses.” Shapiro recalled years later that,

“These

were totally new reasons to be JewishŠThis was more about feelings and

emotions-being proud you’re Jewish, not letting a Holocaust happen

again. It

affected my soul.”

 

In March 1982, Shapiro’s parents joined a two-week tour of Israel led by

David

Gaffney, rabbi of the Jacksonville Jewish Center. On the group’s first

full

day in Israel, after the scheduled stops at Carmel Winery and Weizmann

Institute, Rabbi Gaffney persuaded the driver to head further south

along

the Mediterranean coast, through Gaza, into Sinai, and finally to the

Jewish town of Yamit, the center of resistance to the peace treaty with

Egypt.

 

The Camp David accords of 1979 had stipulated that Israel would withdraw

 

>from the Sinai Peninsula it had captured in 1967 as a condition for

Egyptian President Anwar Sadat’s signing a separate peace. One of the

Israeli settlements in Sinai was Yamit, a community of 2,500. As many of

 

Yamit’s residents ultimately departed, they were replaced by loyalists

of

Gush Emunim (Bloc of the Faithful, the radical settlers’ movement), many

of

them transplanted Americans.

 

The Shapiros were emotionally moved by their visit. Later, they told

their

children about Yamit. Harry dwelled on a photograph of the war memorial,

 

proof of all he had learned in Rabbi Kentof’s class about the price of

Jewish survival. In 1984, Harry Shapiro flew to Israel. He sought out

the

Gush Emunim faithful and from them he learned that Israel’s victory in

the

1967 war was God’s will, the Torah’s words, that Jews were to abide in

all

of Eretz Israel.

 

When he returned to the U.S. and entered Yeshiva University, Shapiro

embraced

the philosophy of Meir Kahane. He faithfully read The Jewish Press, an

Orthodox paper published in Brooklyn. In an open letter to rabbis,

Avraham

Hecht, who led 2,000 congregants in Brooklyn as rabbi of Shaare Zion

synagogue and 540 colleagues as president of the Rabbinical Alliance of

America, declared: “The Torah permits the most extreme action against

those

who harm our fellow Jews.”

 

Rabbi Hecht said that surrendering any of the Land of Israel violated

halakah

(Jewish law), and anyone who did so could be killed as a rodef, “one who

 

pursues a Jew trying to kill him.” Asked by New York Magazine to clarify

what

sounded like a religious death threat, Hecht explained: “All I said was

that

according to Jewish law, any one person-you can apply it to whoever you

want-any one person who willfully, consciously, intentionally hands over

 

human bodies or human property or the human wealth of the Jewish people

to

an alien people is guilty of the sin for which the penalty is death. And

 

according to Maimonides-you can quote me-it says very clearly, if a man

kills him, he has done a good deed.”

 

 

 

Completing a Circle

 

It was in this atmosphere that Harry Shapiro went about his life. “Rabbi

 

Hecht’s theology,” writes Samuel Freedman, “completed a circle for

Harry.

Years ago, Gush Emunim had taught that God granted Eretz Israel to the

Jews; then Meir Kahane demonstrated how one could hate Jewish leaders in

 

the name of loving the Jewish people; and now Harry understood the

penalty

for disobeying divine commandment, ‘The Torah is our deed to the land,’

Harry put it. ‘Who is man to give it back?’ŠNever able to join the

battle

against Arabs in Eretz Israel, Harry decided to carry it against a Jew

on

American ground.”

 

Harry Shapiro admits his guilt. “I placed gunpowder in a pipe,” he told

the

court. “I placed it in a house of worship. I threatened the life of a

human

being with it. I called 911 and issued a threat to keep Mr. Peres from

speaking.” Shapiro now occupies a cell in a medium-security prison in

Jessup, Georgia. He appreciates the printouts his brother sends him from

a

Web site honoring Meir Kahane.

 

Early in the 20th century, the Orthodox in America gave every indication

of

withering to a vestige. As late as 1955, sociologist Marshall Sklare

dismissed the Orthodox experience in the U.S. as “a case study of

institutional decay.” Now, we have witnessed an Orthodox renaissance.

With

less than 10 percent of the Jewish population, the Orthodox

disproportionately affect the larger community. Orthodox educators often

 

staff the day schools and Hebrew schools of the Conservative and Reform

movements. In 1956 10 prominent religious scholars issued an issur, a

prohibition against Orthodox participation in any joint rabbinical

organizations-a direct blow against such umbrella groups as the New York

 

Board of Rabbis and the Synagogue Council of America.In 1979, a

vigilante

group calling itself TORAH-Tough Orthodox Rabbis And

Hasidim-spray-painted swastikas and anti-Semitic slurs on the only

Conservative synagogue left in the ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn stronghold of

 

Borough Park. In 1984, the Agudath Harabonim ran advertisements just

before

the High Holy Days urging Jews “not to pray in a Reform or Conservative

TempleŠwhose clergy have long rebelled against numerous sacred laws of

the

Torah and mislead thousands of innocent souls.”

 

The Halakhic instrument promoted by ultra-Orthodox rabbis, both in

Israel

and the U.S., that ultimately convinced Yigal Amir that he should kill

Yitzhak Rabin was the ancient Jewish doctrine of zealotry. The doctrine

maintains that under the most extreme circumstances, a God-loving Jew

can

kill another person without asking permission.

 

The doctrine of zealotry goes back to the first biblical Jewish

zealot-Pinchas

Ben-Eleazar. As told in the Bible, Pinchas, acting in awe of God, killed

 

Zimri, who had prostituted in public with a Midianite girl. Pinchas’s

problem was that the killing was totally unauthorized and he acted out

of

an uncontrollable momentary drive. And yet, in spite of the severity of

the

act, which was denounced, according to the Talmud, by the people’s

elders,

it was forgiven by God. The reason given was that Pinchas “was zealous

for

my sake among them.” God instantly terminated a plague that had already

killed 20,000 Jews. Pinchas’ entire line of ancestors were made priests

of

Israel. The prophet Elijah is also described in the Bible as a zealot

who

killed in his wrath 400 priests of Baal, a Canaanite god. Yigal Amir

convinced himself that in killing Rabin he was acting in the best

tradition

of Jewish zealotry.

 

For the ultra-Orthodox, both in Israel and the U.S., a form of

“messianic

Zionism,” which makes control over the biblical Land of Israel a

religious

mandate, has been growing. In his book, Terror in the Mind of God: the

Global Rise of Religious Violence, Professor Mark Juergensmayer notes

that

Jewish activists “haveŠbeen convinced that their violent acts have been

authorized as weapons in a divine warfare sanctioned by God. Dr. Baruch

Goldstein’s massacre at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron in 1994 was

 

described as a military actŠOne of his supporters explained, ‘It goes

back

to biblical times,’ indicating that the present-day Arabs are simply the

 

modern descendants of the enemies of Israel described in the Bible for

whom

God has unleashed wars of revenge.”

 

Thus far, the organized American Jewish community has done nothing to

isolate

the advocates of such violent extremism within its ranks. A vocal and

extreme

minority, sadly, has often been embraced in the name of an illusory

“Jewish

unity.” Any “unity” purchased at such a price has within it the seeds of

 

long-term disintegration.

 

Allan C. Brownfeld is a syndicated columnist and associate editor of the

Lincoln

Review, a journal published by the Lincoln Institute for Research and

Education,

and editor of Issues, the quarterly journal of the American Council for

Judaism. <end>

 

 

 

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I like the stilted construction of this particular lie:

 

“Even were it true that Israel evicted it’s Arabs (it’s not)”

 

Of course it is true that Israel expelled (not evicted, for this

has overtones of right and there was no right) somewhat more than

half the Arabs of Palestine.  And even more true is that Israel

won’t let them come back.  Blocking their return is illegal

under international law.  Mr. Metz spouts the official Zionist line,

which is full of such damned lies.

RLA

 

“Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz” wrote:

 

> In <[email protected]>, on 01/22/2001

>    at 07:23 PM, “rehan” <[NOSPAM]@nospam.com> said:

>

> >who done what first? heh? only reason they got kicked out was bcos

> >u’se bastards did it first. they would be there first if it werent

> >for u’se wanks.

>

> Even were it true that Israel evicted it’s Arabs (it’s not), that

> would still not have anything to do with the blatantly antisemitic

> actions of your brethern; the Jews that you expelled were not citizens

> of Israel until you forced them to move there.

>

> Too many people plonk you, so you had to change your address? Back

> into the filters. *PLONK*

>

> —

> ———————————————————–

>      Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT

>      Atid/2

>      Team OS/2

>      Team PL/I

>

> Any unsolicited commercial junk E-mail will be subject to legal

> action.  I reserve the right to publicly post or ridicule any

> abusive E-mail.

>

> I mangled my E-mail address to foil automated spammers; reply to

> domain acm dot org user shmuel to contact me.  Do not reply to

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Rabbis Must Speak Out | Lloyd Flaum

 

Letters | The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | October 10, 2000.

 

I am sick of the fighting in Israel. How many more will die in the name

of

religion or a piece of land that can’t be shared with all people who

find

their religions centered in this part of the world?

 

As a Jew, I call on all religious leaders to speak out against the

killing.

How many sermons on Yom Kippur were wasted on Zionism, inter-faith

marriages, giving money to the synagogue and the other typical concerns

of

the rabbis? Now is the time to speak out against the killing of all

people

in the name of religion and land.

 

Peace now! Speak out in synagogue and in church. We all have something

vested

in peace in the Middle East. Jews must stop the fighting, killing and

maiming. As Prime Minister Ehud Barak flexes his military might, how

many

Atlanta Jews are sickened by his militaristic threats against the

Palestinians? How many rabbis will attempt to raise the consciousness of

 

Jews that the fighting can stop with Barak urging peace instead of

threatening further military action against the Palestinians?

 

Let me know because I won’t be attending synagogues this year. I am sick

of

American Jewish leaders encouraging the violence to continue instead of

speaking out against it.

 

Lloyd Flaum, Marietta, GA

 

People posting on SCJ assert that posts there about Israel are off

topic,

yet all the major Jewish organizations ardently support Israel, and the

President of the Conference … is Ronald Lauder, an extreme right wing

Zionist.  There is a certain schizophrenia here, wanting to support

Israel

yet not being held to account for the crimes Israel commits.

Sort of a wanting to have one’s cake and eat it too.

RLA

 

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Now I Am Ashamed | Sarah Shartal

 

Letters | The Toronto Star, October 18, 2000.

 

As an Israeli born before the occupation, I have watched as my people

became

the overseers of cheap dependent workers, and we became richer off their

 

labor. We expropriated their land and resources and we limit their

economy.

 

Now we have inflicted the most violent attacks against them that I have

seen in my lifetime.

 

Also frightening is how Jewish Israelis are attacking Arab Israelis.

Mosques,

homes and businesses owned by Arab Israeli citizens have been attacked,

looted

and burned, while Jewish Israeli citizens shout, “Death to the Arabs.”

To

date, our government has not protected its Arab citizens. When Jews from

 

Nazareth Elite (a town near Nazareth) invaded Nazareth and started to

loot

local stores, local citizens came out to try to stop them. The army came

in

and shot the Arab victims of the attack, killing two of them.

 

Inside our country we have always divided our citizens by race. It’s

written into our identity cards.

 

Jewish Israelis have more legal rights than Arab Israelis with respect

to

where they can live and work. Although we’re taxed equally, we spend

more

on Jewish schoolchildren than on Arab children. In Jewish towns and

cities,

we built better housing, better roads, better community centers and

better

social services.

 

I grew up loving my country and now I am ashamed.

 

I remember reading something Thoreau wrote when slaves were still owned

in

the United States. He wrote, “You may not have a responsibility to free

your fellow man but you have a responsibility to get off his back.” At a

 

minimum we and our country should get off the backs of the Palestinians.

 

The West Bank and Gaza Strip are their lands.

 

Inside our country, if we are to survive with any humanity we must

protect

all of our country regardless of religion, race or opinions.

 

Sarah Shartal, Toronto, Canada

 

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The Saddest Sentence | Brad Rubin

 

Letters | The Washington Post | October 18, 2000.

 

An Oct. 13 news story about a pro-Israel rally in New York referred to a

 

sign held by a protester that read, “Don’t Throw Rocks and You Won’t Get

 

Killed.” This is perhaps the saddest single sentence I have read yet. As

a

faithful and observant Jew, I am told by the organizations that

supposedly

represent me-with the spin summarized in that sign-that I must be

entirely

pro-Israeli in my reactions to the recent violence.

 

As someone who believes in God and the principles of my religion, I

cannot

accept this sign, these statements, this representation. How offensive

that

I must be told that I must believe the Sixth Commandment has conditions,

 

that all people were not created in God’s image and that I should be

complicitous in the violation of all I have learned in synagogue because

it

will damage Israel’s political position.

 

Israel and the American Jewish community have demanded that Yasser

Arafat

and the Palestinian people disclaim the murders of the two soldiers

killed

before the world’s eyes. Although they should be justified in making

this

demand, how have they disclaimed the killing of 100 Palestinians, other

than by insinuating that they do not have the same value as Israeli

soldiers? How can Mr. Arafat order his people to stop protesting when we

 

proclaim our pride in our ability to kill them? And when will Israel,

the

American Jewish community and the media demand actual allegiance to the

principles, ethics and values of the religions that have supposedly

created

this conflict?

 

Brad Rubin, Washington, DC

 

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No More Knee Jerk Solidarity | Alan Schechner

 

Letters | The Savannah Morning News | November 9, 2000.

 

Although I did not attend the Solidarity with Israel rally on Oct. 13,

I,

like many at the rally, was brought up and educated to love and defend

Israel. Like many, I, too, am in pain at recent developments in Israel

and

the occupied territories.

 

My Zionist education culminated in my moving to Israel at age 18. During

 

the eight years I spent living in the country, I lived on kibbutzim,

both

religious

and secular. I volunteered and served in the army, seeing active duty

both

in Lebanon and in the occupied territories.

 

I lived on a Jewish settlement in the occupied territories and finally

worked for two years on Arab-Jewish relations, which included one year

living in an Israeli Arab village. As I write this, my parents and two

sisters still live in Israel.

 

It therefore pains me to say this but it is my opinion, based on my

experiences,

that Israel is a deeply racist and unjust society and that Zionism, at

least in its current form, degrades and demeans much of what is

beautiful

in Jewish culture.

 

My time in the army included the ongoing humiliation and oppression of

the

Palestinian population of the occupied territories. This was achieved by

an

endless list of roadblocks, document checks, public humiliations,

curfews and

violent suppressions of free speech.

 

One particularly painful memory for me is the night when I, together

with

my unit, was ordered to break into the houses of elderly Palestinians,

overturn their belongings, desecrate their peace and peace of mind for

no

other reason than to let them know who was boss.

 

As part of an invading force in Lebanon, I saw firsthand the evils of

collective

punishment. I saw whole communities destroyed because of the action of

one

individual. I saw a beautiful country destroyed by the megalomaniac

desires of

Ariel Sharon, whose already bloodstained hands are visible again in

these

latest troubles.

 

Living on a West Bank settlement I was appalled to learn that Saturday

night

activities there often consisted of breaking windows, overturning

vehicles and

generally causing havoc in the local Arab village. This unfortunately is

 

the reality of Israel- not the dreams of an enlightened Jewish homeland

that I was sold at my Zionist Youth Group and Jewish community.

 

In an attempt to work against these negative forces, in an attempt to

construct the Israel of my dreams, I worked for two years as a community

 

worker in

Arab-Jewish relations within Israel. That experience, though not as

horrific as

what had gone on before, again pointed to a deeply discriminatory

society.

 

Arab Israelis, taxpayers, voters were living in conditions far below

those

of Jewish citizens. Many villages lacked basic amenities. There were

open

sewers running through the streets, schools were overcrowded with few

facilities and fewer books. The list goes on and on and on.

 

So while I understand the longing of the Jewish community to show

solidarity with Israel, and I understand its need to help in some way, I

 

cannot help but balk at the statements of Israeli Vice Consul Ilan

Segev,

when he says that “Israel just wants peace,” or of Moise Paz, when he

insinuates that helicopter gunships and live ammunition are an apt

response

to a crowd of teenage stone-throwers.

 

Yes, we must show solidarity, but not with forces and ideologies that

perpetuate and encourage violence and discrimination. Instead of this

knee

jerk solidarity, let us search out and support those groups and

institutions, both Arab and Jewish, that are working for a fair and

equitable solution to the problems in Israel.

 

Let us support those groups that wish to put an end to over 30 years of

brutal

Israeli occupation, and let us support the human rights of all the

citizens

of this region.

 

If the local Jewish community, as your headline states, wants the

violence

to end in Israel, these are the steps that we must take.

 

Alan Schechner, Savannah, GA

 

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>From Dr. Bill Friend:

 

Here are some useful websites for information and contacts.

 

Palestine Diary  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PalestineDiary

Alternative Information Center

www.oneworld.org/euconflict/guides/orgs/meast/431.htm

CHALLENGE Magazine (Roni Ben-Efrat) www.odaction.org/challenge/

Critical-Jews-Worldwide  www.mindspring.com/~oznik/index.html

Elias Daviddson (The Dark Web pages of Zionism)

www.juscogens.org/engl.html

DIR YASSIN – Israeli Punk Band (check out their song lyrics)

www.angelfire.com/il/deiryassin/index.html

Jewish People’s Liberation Organization (Canada)

www.cam.org/~suulaha/jploolpj/decl-eng.htm

Jews Against The Occupation-NYC www.angelcities.com/members/jato/

Jews For Justice  www.cactus48.com/tmth.html

Jews For Racial and Economic Justice www.jfrej.org/

Neturei Karta (The Guardians of the City – anti-Zionist Chasidic

Organization) www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Bunker/5750/home.html

Noam Chomsky  www.lbbs.org/ZNETTOPnoanimation.html

Norman Finkelstein www.normanfinkelstein.com

SEARCH (Ned Hanauer) www.searchforjustice.org/main.html

Jewish Peace Fellowship www.jewishpeacefellowship.org/index.htm

The Coalition for Justice in Hawaiian Gardens & Jerusalem [ Rabbi Haim

Dov

Beliak](Originally StopMoskowitz – i.e, Dr. Irving Moskowitz, Bingo King

and

major donor to illegal settlements)

www.stopmoskowitz.com/index.html

The Ethical Spectacle (monthly, frequent essays on M.E. conflict)

www.spectacle.org

The Other Israel http://members.tripod.com/~other_Israel/index.html

Torah True Jews Against Zionism  www.jewsnotzionists.org

Bat Shalom-Feminist Center for Peace in the M.E. (Gila Svirsky)

www.batshalom.org

The Traubman Family Jewish-Palestinian Living Room Dialogue Group in

California

www.igc.org/traubman/dg-prog.htm

Middle East Crisis Committee (Stanley Heller) www.thestruggle.org

The American Council for Judaism (oldest continuous secular Jewish

anti-Zionist organization, started 1941 by Rabbi Louis Wolsey, exec.

dir.

for 30 years – Rabbi Elmer Berger.  Activists included Alfred M.

Lilienthal

(The Zionist Connection), Moshe Menuhin, father of Yehudi Menuhin;

Lessing

Rosenwald and others.)   www.acjna.org

Gush Shalom  www.gush-shalom.org

 

 

 

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APPALLING EQUATION

 

In an op ed published in the Israeli paper Ha’aretz this morning, Gideon

Levy pointed out the grave situation in the occupied Palestinian

territories threatening to push the area into a devastating war.

 

According the Levy, “It has been a long time – since their calamity in

1948 – that the Palestinians have endured such a hard Feast of the

Sacrifice. Just an hour’s drive from Jerusalem, a cruel drama has been

under way for the past five months the likes of which have not been seen

since the early period of the Israeli occupation, but the majority of

Israelis are taking absolutely no interest in it. The iron grip of the

closure in its new format is increasingly strangling a population of 2.8

million people, yet no one is saying a word, not around the cabinet

table of the outgoing government – the peace government – not among

those who are going to serve in the new government, and not in the

opposition of the Zionist left.”

 

 

 

Levy went on to state, “It has to be said starkly and simply: There has

never been a closure like this there, in the land of the barriers and

the closures.”

 

 

 

“No one enters and no one leaves, not those who are pregnant and not

those who are dying. There isn’t even a soldier with whom one can plead

and beg. The village, the refugee camp or the town are besieged and

their residents are imprisoned. A schoolchild cannot get safely to his

school, or a student to her college, or an adult to his work…”

 

“This mass jailing of an entire people, with its monstrously inhumane

dimension, entails also a mortal economic blow. According to data of the

United Nations envoy Terje Roed-Larsen, the credibility of which there

is no reason to doubt, the Palestinians are losing $6.8 million a day

because of the present closure, and to date their losses total more than

a billion dollars. For an economy that was shaky to begin with, that is

a deathblow. A quarter of a million unemployed, a million people living

beneath the Palestinian poverty line – $2.10 a day – and a 50 percent

decline in the gross national product: These are nightmarish statistics

not only for the Palestinians but for the Israelis as well…”

 

 

 

“Their hardship will be transformed into more and more terrorist

attacks. This is the point: the horrific distress of the Palestinians

because of the present closure will quickly turn into the distress of

the Israelis. If their Feast of the Sacrifice looks the way it does,

then our Purim will not bring with it much happiness either. Simple as

it is, no one is taking into account the gravity of this appalling

equation…”

 

 

 

“The present closure is totally unrelated to security considerations.

Anyone who doubts this is invited to go to the barriers and roadblocks

and see thousands of pedestrians and vehicles managing, despite

everything, to sneak into Israel under the nose of the soldiers. Those

who are willing to take the risk of doing this in order to work will

certainly also do it in order to perpetrate a terrorist attack. The true

purpose of the closure is to please the frightened settlers and perhaps

also, the suspicion arises, to destroy the Palestinian Authority, for

reasons, which are difficult to comprehend.

 

“The current siege, a shamefully appalling operation, must be lifted

quickly. This must not be made conditional on the cessation of the

violence, because the siege itself is the most effective spur of

violence…”

 

 

 

Levy concluded by stating, “There is no measure that the prime

minister-elect, Ariel Sharon, can take that would contribute more to

effecting a dramatic change in the situation than to remove, immediately

and unconditionally, the trenches and the earth ramparts from the

already difficult life of the Palestinians…”

 

The full article is available on the Internet at:

http://www3.haaretz.co.il/eng/htmls/kat9_4.htm

 

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Red Herring wrote:

 

> On Sun, 04 Mar 2001 10:22:32 -0600, Roger Alexander

> <[email protected]> wrote:

>

> >”The present closure is totally unrelated to security considerations.

> >Anyone who doubts this is invited to go to the barriers and roadblocks

> >and see thousands of pedestrians and vehicles managing, despite

> >everything, to sneak into Israel under the nose of the soldiers.

>

> Some closure, huh?

>

> The Pallies have no right to enter Israel.   Those who manage to sneak past

> Israeli checkpoints ought to be apprehended, tried and given stiff

> sentences.

>

> Let the murderous bastards develop their own economy, or starve to death.

>

 

And just how do you suppose they are going to develop an economy when they

have no access to any border, and no acces to one another, while the murderous

bastards who jail them for no reason other than that they won’t give up to the

bastards willingly while they breathe, keep them penned up.  YOu are a real

piece of work, whoever you are, you anonymous coward.

RLA

 

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Thanks Barry.

I cannot respond directly to your remark.  I don’t think of religions per

se to like or dislike.

I was born and brought up in the Methodist sect of Christianity, an offshoot of

the Church

of England, itself an offshoot of the catholic Church.  I do look upon cults

and cult like entities

in the same way as one looks at rabid dogs.  Scientology, ofr example, has done

incalculable

harm to a multitude of people, probably because the people running that crazy

cult are so

greedy.  And, of course, they have no care for the people harmed.  In a lesser

way, MLM

marketers are sort of like them, knowing that the people they draft into their

schemes have

no chance of getting rich, but knowing that they, the originators, will make

money anyway.

Again, I think the owners of businesses like Amway (for example, I have no

intention of singling

it out) do not care for the wellbeing of the people they inveigle into

investing their time and

money into the business.

I look at Zionism much the same way.  The original Zionists were AShkenazi

Jews who

came to Palestine with the avowed purpose of throwing the Palestinians out.

They have damn

near accomplished that, and they are busy every day killing and maiming the

Palestinians who

resist the final solution.  But even among their own the Ashkenazi are the

owners of the Zionist

business.  They treat the Sephardim as second class citizens, and of course,

the Druze worse,

and Arab Israelis worst.  Witness, for example, the killing of thirteen Arab

Israelis in the most

carefree way last October.

I know this isn’t quite responsive to your post, but it’s the best I can

do.

RLA

 

Barry Bowser wrote:

 

> I happen to think Ultra Orthodoxy is important.  Even though I am not ultra

> orthodox, when I ripped out the new testament completely off of the bible

> and kept the o.t., my intestines felt much better.

> I used to think of myself as freind to all the religions, now I am not so

> sure.  I still am a freind of Jesus/Yeshua but I am not so impressed with

> his followers.  I am enemy of any religion that is enemy to the Yehudi.

>

> “David Goldman” <[email protected]> wrote in message

> news:[email protected]

> > >You are so fullof shit it comes out of your nose, idiot! What the

> > >majority of Israel is opposed to is control by religious fanatics who

> > >would like nothing better than reduce personal freedom, take over the

> > >rendering of justice; at the same times those parasites who do not

> > >work, collect welfare, do not serve in the military while the country

> > >is at war.

> >

> > Nero fiddles as Rome burns………….The Zionist idol is just about

> > at its end……..