In a recent article titled “Slouching Towards a Palestinian Holocaust," Richard Falk, emeritus professor of international law at Princeton University, who was appointed on March 26 by the U.N.’s Human Rights Council to become the next special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories, writes:
“...it is especially painful for me, as an American Jew, to feel compelled to portray the ongoing and intensifying abuse of the Palestinian people by Israel through a reliance on such an inflammatory metaphor as ‘holocaust."
After describing the Nazi horrors, he asked: “Is it an irresponsible overstatement to associate the treatment of Palestinians with this criminalized Nazi record of collective atrocity? I think not. The recent developments in Gaza are especially disturbing because they express so vividly a deliberate intention on the part of Israel and its allies to subject an entire human community to life-endangering conditions of utmost cruelty.”
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For further research:
THE ISRAELI HOLOCAUST AGAINST THE PALESTINIANS
by Michael Hoffman and Moshe Lieberman
***
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu: "Revenge, revenge, revenge"
Safed chief rabbi calls on state to exact 'revenge' against Arabs
By Nadav Shragai, Jack Khoury, and Yoav Stern
Haaretz | March 26, 2008
The chief rabbi of Safed, Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, is calling on the government to carry out "state-sanctioned revenge" against Arabs in order to, in his words, restore Israel's deterrence.
The Musawa Center for Arab Rights in Israel said it planned to urge the Attorney General to censure Eliyahu over the comments and punish him "at the fullest severity of the law."
In a piece penned for this upcoming weekend's edition of the newsletter "Eretz Yisrael Shelanu," Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu wrote: "It's time to call the child by its name: Revenge, revenge, revenge. We mustn't forget. We have to take horrible revenge for the terrorist attack at Mercaz Harav yeshiva," referring to the incident in which eight students were killed earlier this month.
"I'm not talking about individual people in particular, I'm talking about the state," Eliyahu wrote. "[The state] has to pain them to the point where they scream 'Enough,' to the point where they fall flat on their face and scream 'help.' Not for the sake of satisfying the need for revenge but for the purposes of deterrence."
In the newsletter, which was distributed to synagogues around the country, Eliyahu proposes "hanging the children of the terrorist who carried out the attack in the Mercaz Harav yeshiva from a tree."
***
By Nadav Shragai, Jack Khoury, and Yoav Stern
Haaretz | March 26, 2008
The chief rabbi of Safed, Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, is calling on the government to carry out "state-sanctioned revenge" against Arabs in order to, in his words, restore Israel's deterrence.
The Musawa Center for Arab Rights in Israel said it planned to urge the Attorney General to censure Eliyahu over the comments and punish him "at the fullest severity of the law."
In a piece penned for this upcoming weekend's edition of the newsletter "Eretz Yisrael Shelanu," Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu wrote: "It's time to call the child by its name: Revenge, revenge, revenge. We mustn't forget. We have to take horrible revenge for the terrorist attack at Mercaz Harav yeshiva," referring to the incident in which eight students were killed earlier this month.
"I'm not talking about individual people in particular, I'm talking about the state," Eliyahu wrote. "[The state] has to pain them to the point where they scream 'Enough,' to the point where they fall flat on their face and scream 'help.' Not for the sake of satisfying the need for revenge but for the purposes of deterrence."
In the newsletter, which was distributed to synagogues around the country, Eliyahu proposes "hanging the children of the terrorist who carried out the attack in the Mercaz Harav yeshiva from a tree."
***
Monday, March 24, 2008
Bin Laden, the Pope's Muslim Convert, and the Media
by Michael A. Hoffman II
Copyright © 2008
www.RevisionistHistory.org
There is not a shred of proof that Osama bin Laden has issued any statement in 2008 warning the pope about crusading against Muslims. The media declare that bin Laden said it and people are expected to believe it. This is a hypnotic process.
The media then build on their Osama bin Laden hoax to do damage to Islam's image by showing a convert to Catholicism being baptized by the pope under threat of death from Muslims.
In this context, the media suppress all mention of the ongoing, world-wide rabbinic agitation against the pope for issuing a Tridentine Good Friday prayer that alludes to Judaics converting to Christ.
To complete their gambit, the media must pretend that Islam alone issues death penalties for conversion to Christianity, while pretending that Judaism does not engage in anything so dastardly.
In fact, Judaism declares a Judaic convert to Christianity to be a traitor to Judaism, and a "moiser" (traitor) is subject to death.
The difference here is that while Zionists and Talmudists invest billions of dollars in controlling the media and public relations of Europe and North America, the oil-rich Arab Muslims have almost no effective public relations representatives in the West; most of the fabulous Arab-Muslim oil wealth is invested in luxury resorts, hotels, shopping malls and other brainless sybaritic pursuits and expenditures.
However, Arab incompetence and stupidity in this regard does not absolve the western media from having lied about Osama bin Laden, the phantom antagonist whose ghost can always be relied upon to issue militant threats on cue, in support of the Judeo-West's jaundiced view of Islam, or even against candidate George W. Bush on the eve of the last presidential vote, helping to ensure Mr. Bush's reelection.
Meanwhile, Judaism's own traditionally hateful attitude toward the Church and its conversion efforts gets a free pass, swept under the rug by the western media in reporting the case of the Muslim convert. The Zionists want to use the Catholic Church against Islam, so they have cut a deal whereby their media make Benedict XVI a conditional hero. You can be sure there is a quid pro quo in effect, contingent on Benedict improving his relations with the rabbis and walking softly when it comes to fulfilling Christ's central mission of converting Jews; a mission all but lost in the hoopla over the Muslim man's baptism in Rome.
Most Muslims cannot be converted to Christianity as long as Christianity is viewed as little more than a front for the CIA, war-Zionism and submission to murderous Israeli rabbis who declare all Arabs to be descendants of Amalek and Haman and hence, fair game for extermination.
Is conversion to Christianity evil for Judaics but a benefit to Muslims?
Is extermination wicked when aimed at Judaics but understandable when Arabs are the targets?
Why always this Talmudic exceptionalism?
And which western intelligence agency concocts the press releases of "Osama bin Laden" and the other Salafists who act as public relations poster boys for Judaism, the Vatican and the White House?
Hoffman is the author of the forthcoming book, "Judaism Discovered."
***
Copyright © 2008
www.RevisionistHistory.org
There is not a shred of proof that Osama bin Laden has issued any statement in 2008 warning the pope about crusading against Muslims. The media declare that bin Laden said it and people are expected to believe it. This is a hypnotic process.
The media then build on their Osama bin Laden hoax to do damage to Islam's image by showing a convert to Catholicism being baptized by the pope under threat of death from Muslims.
In this context, the media suppress all mention of the ongoing, world-wide rabbinic agitation against the pope for issuing a Tridentine Good Friday prayer that alludes to Judaics converting to Christ.
To complete their gambit, the media must pretend that Islam alone issues death penalties for conversion to Christianity, while pretending that Judaism does not engage in anything so dastardly.
In fact, Judaism declares a Judaic convert to Christianity to be a traitor to Judaism, and a "moiser" (traitor) is subject to death.
The difference here is that while Zionists and Talmudists invest billions of dollars in controlling the media and public relations of Europe and North America, the oil-rich Arab Muslims have almost no effective public relations representatives in the West; most of the fabulous Arab-Muslim oil wealth is invested in luxury resorts, hotels, shopping malls and other brainless sybaritic pursuits and expenditures.
However, Arab incompetence and stupidity in this regard does not absolve the western media from having lied about Osama bin Laden, the phantom antagonist whose ghost can always be relied upon to issue militant threats on cue, in support of the Judeo-West's jaundiced view of Islam, or even against candidate George W. Bush on the eve of the last presidential vote, helping to ensure Mr. Bush's reelection.
Meanwhile, Judaism's own traditionally hateful attitude toward the Church and its conversion efforts gets a free pass, swept under the rug by the western media in reporting the case of the Muslim convert. The Zionists want to use the Catholic Church against Islam, so they have cut a deal whereby their media make Benedict XVI a conditional hero. You can be sure there is a quid pro quo in effect, contingent on Benedict improving his relations with the rabbis and walking softly when it comes to fulfilling Christ's central mission of converting Jews; a mission all but lost in the hoopla over the Muslim man's baptism in Rome.
Most Muslims cannot be converted to Christianity as long as Christianity is viewed as little more than a front for the CIA, war-Zionism and submission to murderous Israeli rabbis who declare all Arabs to be descendants of Amalek and Haman and hence, fair game for extermination.
Is conversion to Christianity evil for Judaics but a benefit to Muslims?
Is extermination wicked when aimed at Judaics but understandable when Arabs are the targets?
Why always this Talmudic exceptionalism?
And which western intelligence agency concocts the press releases of "Osama bin Laden" and the other Salafists who act as public relations poster boys for Judaism, the Vatican and the White House?
Hoffman is the author of the forthcoming book, "Judaism Discovered."
***
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Cryptocrat Arthur C. Clarke; also: Purimfest 2008
News for March 19, 2008
by Michael A. Hoffman II
Copyright (c) 2008. All Rights Reserved
www.RevisionistHistory.org
CONTENTS
1. Purimfest, 2008
2. A Director of the Cryptocracy Dies
Only two brief notes; brief because I am increasingly occupied with finishing my volume on Judaism, even as our long-suffering subscribers to "Revisionist History" newsletter demand to know when our long-delayed issue no. 45 will be published (as soon as our long book is completed); and even as many other obligations haunt and beckon.
1. PURIMFEST, 2008
Five years ago this week was Purim, when that Skull and Bones servant of Maimonides, George W. Bush, invaded a sovereign nation that was not connected to al-Qaida and did not have weapons of mass destruction, but was indeed a threat to the Zionist regime of "Israel."
Purim is the anti-Biblical rabbinic Halloween, based on the Talmud and the Hester Panim gnosis of the Kabbalah. If you live near an Orthodox Judaic shetl you may want to visit the area on March 21 (this year it falls on Good Friday). Not only will they be in grotesque Halloween-style attire as they celebrate the crucifixion of Christ and the murder of 40 "Amalek/Haman" Palestinians in Hebron 14 years ago, (on Purim 1994 which fell in February of that year; in Kabbalah, 14 is a number denoting strength of arms), perpetrated by their saint, Baruch Goldstein. They will also be DRUNK. Here's your chance to ask your rabbi-worshipping, so-called "Christian" friends what sort of "Biblical" religion orders its male adherents to get blind, staggering drunk on a "holy" day?
2. A DIRECTOR OF THE CRYPTOCRACY HAS DIED
Yesterday, March 18, one of the top directors of the Cryptocracy, Arthur C. Clarke, died in Sri Lanka, where rumor has it he savored the indecent favors of native boys without fear of prosecution.
In the Crypotocracy's Once-and-Future Camelot timeline, there are four significant years above all in the past few centuries of their playbook: 1945 (the atomic creation and destruction of primordial matter at the Trinity site in the Land of Enchantment); 1963 (the Killing of the King near the Trinity river and the Triple Underpass in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas); 1969 (the alchemical marriage of the sun and the moon after the first lunar landing) and 2001, the gateway to the (inner) space odyssey that is Childhood's End.
There are of course other significant years when events important to the advancement of The Process occurred, but these four are the momentous red letter ones.
Arthur C. Clarke was the final prophet of the 21 (2001) occult imperium. Symbolically, he watched over 2/3 of its completion (666 is of course 2/3 of one millennium).
Queen Elizabeth's astrologer royal, Dr. John Dee, code-named "007," had initiated the first 1/3 of The 21 (2001) Process which is, as you probably see by now, a Black Jack technology.
I do not have the leisure to expand on these direction markers at present. I offer them for your perusal and further research. (Some explication may be found in the opening pages of my book, "Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare").
Clarke was the sentinel of this system-of-things.
Without July 16, 1945; Nov. 22, 1963 and July 20, 1969, there could have been no 9/11 (Sept. 11, 2001).
It almost seems like magic, doesn't it?
Magic in our modern scientific age? Nonsense!
But what is magic, my friends?
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
--Arthur C. Clarke
***
Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare
http://www.revisionisthistory.org/cgi-bin/store/agora.cgi?p_id=18
The Masqueraders’ Jest
http://www.revisionisthistory.org/cgi-bin/store/agora.cgi?p_id=10003
***
by Michael A. Hoffman II
Copyright (c) 2008. All Rights Reserved
www.RevisionistHistory.org
CONTENTS
1. Purimfest, 2008
2. A Director of the Cryptocracy Dies
Only two brief notes; brief because I am increasingly occupied with finishing my volume on Judaism, even as our long-suffering subscribers to "Revisionist History" newsletter demand to know when our long-delayed issue no. 45 will be published (as soon as our long book is completed); and even as many other obligations haunt and beckon.
1. PURIMFEST, 2008
Five years ago this week was Purim, when that Skull and Bones servant of Maimonides, George W. Bush, invaded a sovereign nation that was not connected to al-Qaida and did not have weapons of mass destruction, but was indeed a threat to the Zionist regime of "Israel."
Purim is the anti-Biblical rabbinic Halloween, based on the Talmud and the Hester Panim gnosis of the Kabbalah. If you live near an Orthodox Judaic shetl you may want to visit the area on March 21 (this year it falls on Good Friday). Not only will they be in grotesque Halloween-style attire as they celebrate the crucifixion of Christ and the murder of 40 "Amalek/Haman" Palestinians in Hebron 14 years ago, (on Purim 1994 which fell in February of that year; in Kabbalah, 14 is a number denoting strength of arms), perpetrated by their saint, Baruch Goldstein. They will also be DRUNK. Here's your chance to ask your rabbi-worshipping, so-called "Christian" friends what sort of "Biblical" religion orders its male adherents to get blind, staggering drunk on a "holy" day?
2. A DIRECTOR OF THE CRYPTOCRACY HAS DIED
Yesterday, March 18, one of the top directors of the Cryptocracy, Arthur C. Clarke, died in Sri Lanka, where rumor has it he savored the indecent favors of native boys without fear of prosecution.
In the Crypotocracy's Once-and-Future Camelot timeline, there are four significant years above all in the past few centuries of their playbook: 1945 (the atomic creation and destruction of primordial matter at the Trinity site in the Land of Enchantment); 1963 (the Killing of the King near the Trinity river and the Triple Underpass in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas); 1969 (the alchemical marriage of the sun and the moon after the first lunar landing) and 2001, the gateway to the (inner) space odyssey that is Childhood's End.
There are of course other significant years when events important to the advancement of The Process occurred, but these four are the momentous red letter ones.
Arthur C. Clarke was the final prophet of the 21 (2001) occult imperium. Symbolically, he watched over 2/3 of its completion (666 is of course 2/3 of one millennium).
Queen Elizabeth's astrologer royal, Dr. John Dee, code-named "007," had initiated the first 1/3 of The 21 (2001) Process which is, as you probably see by now, a Black Jack technology.
I do not have the leisure to expand on these direction markers at present. I offer them for your perusal and further research. (Some explication may be found in the opening pages of my book, "Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare").
Clarke was the sentinel of this system-of-things.
Without July 16, 1945; Nov. 22, 1963 and July 20, 1969, there could have been no 9/11 (Sept. 11, 2001).
It almost seems like magic, doesn't it?
Magic in our modern scientific age? Nonsense!
But what is magic, my friends?
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
--Arthur C. Clarke
***
Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare
http://www.revisionisthistory.org/cgi-bin/store/agora.cgi?p_id=18
The Masqueraders’ Jest
http://www.revisionisthistory.org/cgi-bin/store/agora.cgi?p_id=10003
***
Thursday, March 13, 2008
War of attrition and rule by assassination
"Israel strongly defended the killings...'Yesterday, in Bethlehem, we again proved that the state of Israel will continue to hunt and to strike any murderer who has Jewish blood on his hands, and those who send him,' said the Israeli defense minister, Ehud Barak." (Barak has oceans of Palestinian blood on his hands. How would the world react if the Palestinians assassinated him? Assassination is terrorism no matter who practices it).
The Israeli policy on "peace talks" has become of late, a bit more transparent than usual. "Peace talks" are a cover for the on-going Israeli war of attrition against the Palestinians and their leadership. Under cover of "peace talks" and promises of hope and optimism the Israelis talk a good line and cut a nice image on network TV news in the West. Meanwhile, they use this public relations cover to plan ever more assassinations of the Palestinian leadership. Hundreds of Palestinian leaders have been killed in the past few years.
The UN protests. So too does the European Community. The US issues some mild cautionary rhetoric. The Arab League does next to nothing. It's a giant collective shrug of the shoulders which guarantees that more Palestinian leaders will be killed with impunity. The Israelis have never been prosecuted by any world court for any crime. They are strictly immune.
Why is this? The Left and the independents point to everything but the source: the Talmud and the other racist rabbinic texts. The Palestinians are descendants of Amalek in the eyes of the Israelis, and Amalek is to be exterminated. This is not an Old Testament doctrine for those of you who make the error of conflating the Tanakh with the Talmud. In the Bible God eliminated Amalek permanently and Christian Israelites recognize this. Talmudic counterfeit-Israel does not recognize it because they have Talmudically re-written God's Word to suit their own man-made agenda.
It's one thing for a hateful religion like Orthodox Judaism to practice murderous racism; it's another matter entirely when the rest of the world conspires to share in the racism, if only tacitly. No one in the West would tolerate this level of summary assassination of Israeli leaders, no matter how implicated they were in crimes or terrorism. Israelis are fully human in the eyes of the West. Not only are they not viewed as Amalek, they are THE Holy People in the doctrines of Freemasonry, American Zionist-Chuchianity and among neocon Republicans. The wicked, Nazi-like ideology of Orthodox Judaism is the source of the endless murders of Palestinians. Until this root is addressed we will never stem the bloodshed.
---Michael A. Hoffman II
Palestinians Unite in Anger Against Israeli Attack
NY Times March 14, 2008
By ISABEL KERSHNER
BETHLEHEM, West Bank — It was a display of Palestinian unity rarely seen since the militant Islamic group Hamas seized power in Gaza last summer and left the rival pro-Fatah Palestinian Authority struggling to hold on to the West Bank.
As thousands of men and women crowded into Manger Square on Thursday to attend prayers and the funerals for four local militants killed by Israeli undercover forces in a raid the day before, a general strike was observed throughout this Muslim-Christian city of 30,000 people.
In the square, youths held flags representing the mainstream Fatah, Hamas, the smaller, more extreme Islamic Jihad and the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The body of one of the victims, a local Islamic Jihad leader, Muhammad Shehada, was draped with the increasingly popular emblem of the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah.
More than creating a temporary fusion of political and ideological divisions, though, the killings enraged Fatah advocates of negotiations with Israel, who posed questions about its commitment to peacemaking.
“The crime committed by Israel against our people aims to blow up the peace process,” said Muhammad Khalil al-Laham, a Fatah legislator who came to the square, and whose voice rose in fury as row upon row of Muslim mourners bowed down on the paving stones in silent prayer.
“Bethlehem was the calmest and most committed city,” Mr. Laham said, noting that Salam Fayyad, the Palestinian Authority prime minister, had planned an international investors’ conference to be held in the city in May under the slogan, “You can do business in Palestine.”
Israel strongly defended the killings on Thursday as a legitimate response to terrorist acts. “Yesterday, in Bethlehem, we again proved that the state of Israel will continue to hunt and to strike any murderer who has Jewish blood on his hands, and those who send him,” said the Israeli defense minister, Ehud Barak. “It is unimportant how much time has elapsed. Israel’s long arm will reach him.”
The Israeli raid came at a delicate time for the authority and its president, Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah. Egyptian mediators are trying to broker a truce that would calm the hostilities between Israel and Hamas in and around Gaza, a truce that Mr. Abbas called for after violence spiraled there earlier this month.
Mr. Abbas’s office issued an unusually strong statement after the Bethlehem raid. “These barbaric crimes reveal the true face of Israel, which speaks loudly about peace and security all the while committing murders and executions against our people,” it said.
In a response, Islamic Jihad fired more than 20 rockets from Gaza at Israel on Thursday, after refraining from launching any for nearly a week. Only a small number of them fell inside Israel and they caused no casualties, the Israeli military said. Before dawn the Israeli Air Force carried out a strike in Gaza, also the first in nearly a week, hitting a rocket launcher, the military said.
To Israel, the four men were dangerous fugitives with long records in terrorism; two had been on Israel’s most wanted list for years. For the thousands who attended their funerals they were local heroes of the Palestinian resistance who had managed to survive this long. Mr. Shehada ran in the Palestinian elections as an independent candidate in 2006 and won 7,000 votes. One of the companions he was killed with, Issa Marzuk, 36, was voted onto the Bethlehem city council on an Islamic Jihad ticket in 2005.
The four, including Ahmed Balboul, a local commander of Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades, were shot while riding together in a car. Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades, is a militia affiliated with Fatah.
Palestinians say that all four had been hoping to be included in an amnesty agreement with Israel, but that Israel had refused. The 178 militants Israel did offer amnesty to last summer, under certain conditions, were all from Fatah.
Mr. Balboul, 48, had spoken in recent months about his support for a negotiated settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Mr. Shehada, 45, had used “the language of resistance up to the last minute,” said Ata Manaa, a journalist for a local Bethlehem television station who interviewed the fugitive earlier this week.
But many here believe that Mr. Shehada and his companions had not been engaged in violence against Israelis in recent years. “Though they opposed the Palestinian Authority’s position,” said Hassan Abed Rabbo, a spokesman for Fatah, “there was a clear commitment to the authority’s decision to maintain calm.”
Mark Regev, a spokesman for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, said it was true that the West Bank had been relatively quiet, “but that,” he added, “is largely because the Israeli Army is conducting these ongoing operations.” The Authority’s own security forces are in a process of capacity building, said Mr. Regev, “but we have no doubt they could do much more than they have done. They’ve been extremely reticent to take on the terrorist infrastructure,” he said.
There were no gunmen visible in Manger Square on Thursday, and only a couple of traffic policemen in uniform. Other members of the security services joined the mourners in civilian clothes. There was one burst of gunfire in the air as the funeral procession set off for the cemetery; otherwise, order prevailed.
“The Palestinian Authority doesn’t control an inch of the West Bank,” said Shawqi Issa, the director of the Ensan Center for Human Rights in Bethlehem. “Israel is everywhere.” Nor, he said, does Israel want peace. “Their strategy is to put obstacles in the way every day.”
Mr. Issa was a classmate of Mr. Shehada’s 30 years ago. The two happened to meet in an elevator about 40 minutes before Mr. Shehada was killed. Mr. Shehada, who was with Mr. Balboul, knew he was being pursued. “He said, ‘They don’t want to arrest me, they want to kill me,’ ” Mr. Issa recalled.
Israeli Attacks Condemned
DAKAR, Senegal (Agence France-Presse) — The United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, sharply condemned the Israeli attacks in a speech here on Thursday at the start of a meeting of the 57-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference.
“Israel’s disproportionate and excessive use of force has killed and injured many civilians, including children. I condemn these actions and call on Israel to cease such attacks,” Mr. Ban told an audience that included the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas. “At the same time,” he added, “I also condemn the rocket attacks directed against Israel and call for the immediate cessation of such acts.”
Isabel Kershner reported from Jerusalem, and Taghreed El-Khodary from Gaza. Khaled Abu Aker contributed reporting from Jerusalem, and Graham Bowley from New York.
***
The Israeli policy on "peace talks" has become of late, a bit more transparent than usual. "Peace talks" are a cover for the on-going Israeli war of attrition against the Palestinians and their leadership. Under cover of "peace talks" and promises of hope and optimism the Israelis talk a good line and cut a nice image on network TV news in the West. Meanwhile, they use this public relations cover to plan ever more assassinations of the Palestinian leadership. Hundreds of Palestinian leaders have been killed in the past few years.
The UN protests. So too does the European Community. The US issues some mild cautionary rhetoric. The Arab League does next to nothing. It's a giant collective shrug of the shoulders which guarantees that more Palestinian leaders will be killed with impunity. The Israelis have never been prosecuted by any world court for any crime. They are strictly immune.
Why is this? The Left and the independents point to everything but the source: the Talmud and the other racist rabbinic texts. The Palestinians are descendants of Amalek in the eyes of the Israelis, and Amalek is to be exterminated. This is not an Old Testament doctrine for those of you who make the error of conflating the Tanakh with the Talmud. In the Bible God eliminated Amalek permanently and Christian Israelites recognize this. Talmudic counterfeit-Israel does not recognize it because they have Talmudically re-written God's Word to suit their own man-made agenda.
It's one thing for a hateful religion like Orthodox Judaism to practice murderous racism; it's another matter entirely when the rest of the world conspires to share in the racism, if only tacitly. No one in the West would tolerate this level of summary assassination of Israeli leaders, no matter how implicated they were in crimes or terrorism. Israelis are fully human in the eyes of the West. Not only are they not viewed as Amalek, they are THE Holy People in the doctrines of Freemasonry, American Zionist-Chuchianity and among neocon Republicans. The wicked, Nazi-like ideology of Orthodox Judaism is the source of the endless murders of Palestinians. Until this root is addressed we will never stem the bloodshed.
---Michael A. Hoffman II
Palestinians Unite in Anger Against Israeli Attack
NY Times March 14, 2008
By ISABEL KERSHNER
BETHLEHEM, West Bank — It was a display of Palestinian unity rarely seen since the militant Islamic group Hamas seized power in Gaza last summer and left the rival pro-Fatah Palestinian Authority struggling to hold on to the West Bank.
As thousands of men and women crowded into Manger Square on Thursday to attend prayers and the funerals for four local militants killed by Israeli undercover forces in a raid the day before, a general strike was observed throughout this Muslim-Christian city of 30,000 people.
In the square, youths held flags representing the mainstream Fatah, Hamas, the smaller, more extreme Islamic Jihad and the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The body of one of the victims, a local Islamic Jihad leader, Muhammad Shehada, was draped with the increasingly popular emblem of the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah.
More than creating a temporary fusion of political and ideological divisions, though, the killings enraged Fatah advocates of negotiations with Israel, who posed questions about its commitment to peacemaking.
“The crime committed by Israel against our people aims to blow up the peace process,” said Muhammad Khalil al-Laham, a Fatah legislator who came to the square, and whose voice rose in fury as row upon row of Muslim mourners bowed down on the paving stones in silent prayer.
“Bethlehem was the calmest and most committed city,” Mr. Laham said, noting that Salam Fayyad, the Palestinian Authority prime minister, had planned an international investors’ conference to be held in the city in May under the slogan, “You can do business in Palestine.”
Israel strongly defended the killings on Thursday as a legitimate response to terrorist acts. “Yesterday, in Bethlehem, we again proved that the state of Israel will continue to hunt and to strike any murderer who has Jewish blood on his hands, and those who send him,” said the Israeli defense minister, Ehud Barak. “It is unimportant how much time has elapsed. Israel’s long arm will reach him.”
The Israeli raid came at a delicate time for the authority and its president, Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah. Egyptian mediators are trying to broker a truce that would calm the hostilities between Israel and Hamas in and around Gaza, a truce that Mr. Abbas called for after violence spiraled there earlier this month.
Mr. Abbas’s office issued an unusually strong statement after the Bethlehem raid. “These barbaric crimes reveal the true face of Israel, which speaks loudly about peace and security all the while committing murders and executions against our people,” it said.
In a response, Islamic Jihad fired more than 20 rockets from Gaza at Israel on Thursday, after refraining from launching any for nearly a week. Only a small number of them fell inside Israel and they caused no casualties, the Israeli military said. Before dawn the Israeli Air Force carried out a strike in Gaza, also the first in nearly a week, hitting a rocket launcher, the military said.
To Israel, the four men were dangerous fugitives with long records in terrorism; two had been on Israel’s most wanted list for years. For the thousands who attended their funerals they were local heroes of the Palestinian resistance who had managed to survive this long. Mr. Shehada ran in the Palestinian elections as an independent candidate in 2006 and won 7,000 votes. One of the companions he was killed with, Issa Marzuk, 36, was voted onto the Bethlehem city council on an Islamic Jihad ticket in 2005.
The four, including Ahmed Balboul, a local commander of Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades, were shot while riding together in a car. Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades, is a militia affiliated with Fatah.
Palestinians say that all four had been hoping to be included in an amnesty agreement with Israel, but that Israel had refused. The 178 militants Israel did offer amnesty to last summer, under certain conditions, were all from Fatah.
Mr. Balboul, 48, had spoken in recent months about his support for a negotiated settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Mr. Shehada, 45, had used “the language of resistance up to the last minute,” said Ata Manaa, a journalist for a local Bethlehem television station who interviewed the fugitive earlier this week.
But many here believe that Mr. Shehada and his companions had not been engaged in violence against Israelis in recent years. “Though they opposed the Palestinian Authority’s position,” said Hassan Abed Rabbo, a spokesman for Fatah, “there was a clear commitment to the authority’s decision to maintain calm.”
Mark Regev, a spokesman for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, said it was true that the West Bank had been relatively quiet, “but that,” he added, “is largely because the Israeli Army is conducting these ongoing operations.” The Authority’s own security forces are in a process of capacity building, said Mr. Regev, “but we have no doubt they could do much more than they have done. They’ve been extremely reticent to take on the terrorist infrastructure,” he said.
There were no gunmen visible in Manger Square on Thursday, and only a couple of traffic policemen in uniform. Other members of the security services joined the mourners in civilian clothes. There was one burst of gunfire in the air as the funeral procession set off for the cemetery; otherwise, order prevailed.
“The Palestinian Authority doesn’t control an inch of the West Bank,” said Shawqi Issa, the director of the Ensan Center for Human Rights in Bethlehem. “Israel is everywhere.” Nor, he said, does Israel want peace. “Their strategy is to put obstacles in the way every day.”
Mr. Issa was a classmate of Mr. Shehada’s 30 years ago. The two happened to meet in an elevator about 40 minutes before Mr. Shehada was killed. Mr. Shehada, who was with Mr. Balboul, knew he was being pursued. “He said, ‘They don’t want to arrest me, they want to kill me,’ ” Mr. Issa recalled.
Israeli Attacks Condemned
DAKAR, Senegal (Agence France-Presse) — The United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, sharply condemned the Israeli attacks in a speech here on Thursday at the start of a meeting of the 57-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference.
“Israel’s disproportionate and excessive use of force has killed and injured many civilians, including children. I condemn these actions and call on Israel to cease such attacks,” Mr. Ban told an audience that included the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas. “At the same time,” he added, “I also condemn the rocket attacks directed against Israel and call for the immediate cessation of such acts.”
Isabel Kershner reported from Jerusalem, and Taghreed El-Khodary from Gaza. Khaled Abu Aker contributed reporting from Jerusalem, and Graham Bowley from New York.
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
"One must not forgive goyim who harm Jews"
Rabbinic Statement Cites Talmudic Legal Codex in Urging Revenge Murder of Arabs
--Note the "credentials" of Rabbi Uzi Sharbaf, co-author of the statement--
Researched by Michael A. Hoffman II | The Hoffman Wire
www.RevisionistHistory.org
“...rabbis on Wednesday (March 12, 2008) called on Jews to avenge their enemies 'measure for measure,' a day after news reports circulated of an alleged yeshiva plot to strike a senior Arab official in retaliation for the terror attack at the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva last week. In notices posted along Jerusalem's Kiryat Moshe neighborhood, near the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva, the rabbis wrote: ‘Each and everyone is required to imagine what the enemy is plotting to do to us, and to match it measure for measure.’
“...The long list of rabbis who signed the notice includes Daniel Staveski, Itzhak Shapira, David Drukman, Yaakov Yossef - son of Shas spiritual leader Ovadia Yosef - and Uzi Sharbaf, who killed several Arab college students in Hebron 20 years ago and was recently pardoned from a life sentence...
“The statement also says that the massacre at the yeshiva was ‘the direct result of the lack of a proper government, which should have acted according to the Shulkhan Arukh (a 16th century rabbinical codex) which states that one must not forgive goyim who harm Jews or their property. ‘The governing leaders have decided to appease the Arab enemy. Only the real Jewish leadership can send the country to war knowing that it is a righteous battle against the enemies of Israel and God. In going to war,’ the rabbis write, ‘the Cohen fills the people with motivation by giving him the knowledge that he is going to fight his enemies and he must not show compassion or mercy.”
Source: Haaretz (Israeli newspaper), March 12, 2008
For Further Research:
Hidden Dimensions of the Attack on the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva
http://revisionistreview.blogspot.com/2008/03/attack-on-yeshiva-in-jerusalem-on-march.html
The Talmudic Persecution of Christians by the Followers of Orthodox Judaism
http://www.revisionisthistory.org/cgi-bin/store/agora.cgi?p_id=005
Zionism, Racism & the Beirut Massacre
http://www.revisionisthistory.org/cgi-bin/store/agora.cgi?p_id=0090
Goldstein's Massacre at the Mosque
http://www.revisionisthistory.org/cgi-bin/store/agora.cgi?p_id=0043
Judaism: Slideshow!
http://www.revisionisthistory.org/cgi-bin/store/agora.cgi?p_id=0039
"The Traditions of the Jews" by Johann Andreas Eisenmenger
http://www.revisionisthistory.org/cgi-bin/store/agora.cgi?p_id=0032
Freemasonry in Early America
http://www.revisionisthistory.org/cgi-bin/store/agora.cgi?p_id=0046
Magic and Paganism in the Reign of Elizabeth I
http://www.revisionisthistory.org/cgi-bin/store/agora.cgi?p_id=0053
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--Note the "credentials" of Rabbi Uzi Sharbaf, co-author of the statement--
Researched by Michael A. Hoffman II | The Hoffman Wire
www.RevisionistHistory.org
“...rabbis on Wednesday (March 12, 2008) called on Jews to avenge their enemies 'measure for measure,' a day after news reports circulated of an alleged yeshiva plot to strike a senior Arab official in retaliation for the terror attack at the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva last week. In notices posted along Jerusalem's Kiryat Moshe neighborhood, near the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva, the rabbis wrote: ‘Each and everyone is required to imagine what the enemy is plotting to do to us, and to match it measure for measure.’
“...The long list of rabbis who signed the notice includes Daniel Staveski, Itzhak Shapira, David Drukman, Yaakov Yossef - son of Shas spiritual leader Ovadia Yosef - and Uzi Sharbaf, who killed several Arab college students in Hebron 20 years ago and was recently pardoned from a life sentence...
“The statement also says that the massacre at the yeshiva was ‘the direct result of the lack of a proper government, which should have acted according to the Shulkhan Arukh (a 16th century rabbinical codex) which states that one must not forgive goyim who harm Jews or their property. ‘The governing leaders have decided to appease the Arab enemy. Only the real Jewish leadership can send the country to war knowing that it is a righteous battle against the enemies of Israel and God. In going to war,’ the rabbis write, ‘the Cohen fills the people with motivation by giving him the knowledge that he is going to fight his enemies and he must not show compassion or mercy.”
Source: Haaretz (Israeli newspaper), March 12, 2008
For Further Research:
Hidden Dimensions of the Attack on the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva
http://revisionistreview.blogspot.com/2008/03/attack-on-yeshiva-in-jerusalem-on-march.html
The Talmudic Persecution of Christians by the Followers of Orthodox Judaism
http://www.revisionisthistory.org/cgi-bin/store/agora.cgi?p_id=005
Zionism, Racism & the Beirut Massacre
http://www.revisionisthistory.org/cgi-bin/store/agora.cgi?p_id=0090
Goldstein's Massacre at the Mosque
http://www.revisionisthistory.org/cgi-bin/store/agora.cgi?p_id=0043
Judaism: Slideshow!
http://www.revisionisthistory.org/cgi-bin/store/agora.cgi?p_id=0039
"The Traditions of the Jews" by Johann Andreas Eisenmenger
http://www.revisionisthistory.org/cgi-bin/store/agora.cgi?p_id=0032
Freemasonry in Early America
http://www.revisionisthistory.org/cgi-bin/store/agora.cgi?p_id=0046
Magic and Paganism in the Reign of Elizabeth I
http://www.revisionisthistory.org/cgi-bin/store/agora.cgi?p_id=0053
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No direct link between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida
Study finds no direct link between Hussein and al-Qaida
By Warren P. Strobel | McClatchy Newspapers
Kansas City Star | March 11, 2008
WASHINGTON | An exhaustive review of more than 600,000 Iraqi documents captured after the 2003 U.S. invasion has found no evidence that Saddam Hussein’s regime had any operational links with al-Qaida.
The Pentagon-sponsored study, scheduled for release this week, did confirm that Hussein’s regime provided some support to other terrorist groups, particularly in the Middle East, U.S. officials told McClatchy Newspapers. However, his security services were directed primarily against Iraqi exiles, Shiite Muslims, Kurds and others he considered enemies of his regime.
The new study of the Iraqi regime’s archives found no documents indicating a “direct operational link” between Hussein’s Iraq and Osama bin Laden’s terrorist network before the invasion, said a U.S. official who was familiar with the report.
He and others spoke to McClatchy on condition of anonymity because the study isn’t due to be shared with Congress and released before today.
President Bush and his aides used Hussein’s alleged relationship with al-Qaida, along with Iraq’s supposed weapons of mass destruction, as arguments for invading Iraq after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in September 2002 that the United States had “bulletproof” evidence of cooperation between the radical Islamist terrorist group and Hussein’s secular dictatorship.
Then-Secretary of State Colin Powell cited several links between Hussein and al-Qaida in a watershed February 2003 speech to the U.N Security Council that was intended to build international support for the invasion.
Almost every one of the examples Powell cited turned out to be based on bogus or misinterpreted intelligence.
The new study was essentially completed last year and has been undergoing what one U.S. intelligence official described as a “painful” declassification review.
It was produced by a federally funded think tank, the Institute for Defense Analyses, under contract to the U.S. Joint Forces Command, which is based in Norfolk, Va. Spokesmen for the Joint Forces Command declined to comment until the report is released. One of the report’s authors, Kevin Woods, also declined to comment.
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By Warren P. Strobel | McClatchy Newspapers
Kansas City Star | March 11, 2008
WASHINGTON | An exhaustive review of more than 600,000 Iraqi documents captured after the 2003 U.S. invasion has found no evidence that Saddam Hussein’s regime had any operational links with al-Qaida.
The Pentagon-sponsored study, scheduled for release this week, did confirm that Hussein’s regime provided some support to other terrorist groups, particularly in the Middle East, U.S. officials told McClatchy Newspapers. However, his security services were directed primarily against Iraqi exiles, Shiite Muslims, Kurds and others he considered enemies of his regime.
The new study of the Iraqi regime’s archives found no documents indicating a “direct operational link” between Hussein’s Iraq and Osama bin Laden’s terrorist network before the invasion, said a U.S. official who was familiar with the report.
He and others spoke to McClatchy on condition of anonymity because the study isn’t due to be shared with Congress and released before today.
President Bush and his aides used Hussein’s alleged relationship with al-Qaida, along with Iraq’s supposed weapons of mass destruction, as arguments for invading Iraq after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in September 2002 that the United States had “bulletproof” evidence of cooperation between the radical Islamist terrorist group and Hussein’s secular dictatorship.
Then-Secretary of State Colin Powell cited several links between Hussein and al-Qaida in a watershed February 2003 speech to the U.N Security Council that was intended to build international support for the invasion.
Almost every one of the examples Powell cited turned out to be based on bogus or misinterpreted intelligence.
The new study was essentially completed last year and has been undergoing what one U.S. intelligence official described as a “painful” declassification review.
It was produced by a federally funded think tank, the Institute for Defense Analyses, under contract to the U.S. Joint Forces Command, which is based in Norfolk, Va. Spokesmen for the Joint Forces Command declined to comment until the report is released. One of the report’s authors, Kevin Woods, also declined to comment.
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Friday, March 07, 2008
The Attack on the Yeshiva in Jerusalem on March 6
THE HIDDEN DIMENSIONS
By Michael A. Hoffman II
Copyright © 2008
Picture this: the Nazi high command runs a school for future officers charged with shooting every Judaic they can find, and teaching genocide to the prospective leaders of the nation. While the mostly unarmed Nazi youths were gathered in prayer to Odin over copies of Mein Kampf, suddenly a lone Judaic resistance fighter bursts into the school and opens fire with an automatic weapon, killing eight of the students and wounding eleven others.
If this had happened during World War II, a street in Germany would now be named in honor of the killer and he would be listed among the righteous at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum. Your son or daughter might even learn of his "heroism" during a mandatory "Holocaust Studies" class.
At the end of February 2008, Matan Vilnai, the Israeli deputy minister of "defense," called for the extermination ("Shoah") of the Palestinians of Gaza. The weekend after he made that homicidal declaration, 100 Gazans lay dead, victims of Vilnai's edict. Some Gazans had been used as human shields, with Israeli soldiers resting machine guns on their shoulders. Others were Palestinian children who had been shot in the mouth and head in cold blood, by Israelis snipers who had been waiting for just such an opportunity (cf. Steven Erlanger, NY Times, March 6, 2008).
As usual, the world little noted the Israeli rampage and President Bush issued no statement decrying the loss of innocent Palestinian life. The "raid" in Gaza was just business as usual for the Israeli Talmudic army and its so-called "Christian" ally in the White House. Condoleeza Rice called for a resumption of "peace talks" before the bodies of the Palestinian victims were even cold.
It was a different reaction, however, that greeted the massacre on the evening of Thursday March 6 at the Mercaz Harav yeshiva in Jerusalem. Even though the dead were not civilians, but Israeli army recruits, President Bush condemned their deaths in the strongest possible terms, and Islam is today being excoriated anew as the epitome of religious hatred and terrorism.
Rabbi David Stav, one of many prominent graduates of the Jerusalem yeshiva said, "Followers of Islam claim they respect the people of the book. But this horrific act proves the emptiness of their claims." (Jerusalem Post, March 6, 2008).
Most Muslims do, in general, respect the followers of "the Book," the Old Testament. They are increasingly losing respect, however, for the followers of the Talmud, which is the holiest book in Judaism and whose ideology furnishes the doctrine of annihilation of the Arabs (whom the Orthodox rabbis term "Amalek"). In the usual biased reporting of the western media, much was made of celebrations in Gaza after the yeshiva shootings and little was reported concerning the "Death to the Arabs" rallies that erupted at the same time in the Judaic sections of Jerusalem.
The Mercaz Harav yeshiva has produced the bulk of the Talmudic leadership of Israeli "religious Zionism," which is the most racist and genocidal ideology in the Israeli state. Among its thousands of graduates are senior rabbis who have themselves either personally killed Arab civilians or called on the Israeli army to show them no mercy. Many Israeli army officers were trained at Mercaz Harav. It was founded in 1924 by Palestine's first chief rabbi, the aptly named Abraham Kook.
According to Mercaz Harav's own internal newsletter of Rosh Hashana 5767 (2008), their students were fighting Palestinians in Gaza ("Students from the Yeshiva as well, have been called up for reserve duty at the front").
The yeshiva's most notorious graduates include Rabbi Haim Druckman, who recently issued a call for the Israeli army to exterminate the Palestinans and show no mercy to Arab civilians; and Rabbi Moshe Levinger, who shot to death an unarmed Arab shopkeeper, a murder for which he received a sentence of only a token few months in jail. Other graduates include David Raziel, the first commander of the Zionist terror group Irgun, which perpetrated the Deir Yassin massacre of Palestinians.
By the hallowed standards of the Allies of World War II, had the attack on the Jerusalem yeshiva been perpetrated on a Nazi school, it would have been viewed as preventing a holocaust by executing would-be exterminators.
The Mercaz Harav yeshiva students were Zionist Nazis, yet the hypocrites of the earth who applaud and commemorate the terrorist methods of the French Resistance and the partisans of eastern Europe in the name of the "greater good" of stopping the "absolute horror" that was Nazism, view the attack on Mercaz Harav in a far different light, as proof of Arab perfidy, Muslim iniquity and Palestinian heartlessness.
What is our opinion? As a student of Judaism this writer knows something of the rabbinic mentality which pounds into the heads of every Judaic child from his earliest years the notion that non-Judaics hate him without rhyme or reason, and that this hatred is ineradicable. The Arab who shot up the Talmud school in Jerusalem, only confirmed the rabbis' prediction. A pathological prophecy is thus fulfilled. The deceased yeshiva students will enter the roll of martyrs as "the victims of antisemitism," and many more Zionist youth will fill their shoes at the yeshiva and go forth to holocaust more innocents in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon.
Since the post-modernist West is itself heavily Talmudic through Freemasonry, the Kabbalistic New Age movements, the neocon Right and the Bolshevised Left, the higher proportion of Arab civilian victims of Talmudic ideology and Israeli occupation, are not mourned the way the handful of Israeli victims are mourned. The general impression conveyed by the media is that Zionists are the King Lears of the Levant, more sinned against, than sinning.
Consequently, Muslim and Arab armed resistance to Israeli genocide, however much consonant with the resistance enshrined as the paradigm of courage and decency in World War Two Allied mythology, always pays dividends for the Israelis and feeds the self-fulfilling paranoia which Orthodox rabbis impart to generations of Judaic youths.
Violent Muslim resistance is an adjunct of Kabbalistic Judaism in its Hester Panim guise. Though still a few weeks away, we note that the attack in Jerusalem occurred close enough to the holiday of Purim to cause the students in the yeshiva to believe that the first shots fired by the assailant were the sounds of celebratory Purim firecrackers.
Judaism is not a normal enemy, it is an exceptional recrudescence of the guile and cunning synthesized from the accumulated intelligence of the eternal pagan psychodrama on which it is based. It cannot be fought with carnal weapons. It advances with each assault from those very weapons. The Muslims do not possess this higher awareness and thus are fated to forever fulfill the role assigned to them by Kabbalistic choreography, as partners in the rabbinic danse macabre.
[Hoffman is the author of the forthcoming book, "Judaism Discovered"].
For further reading:
THE ISRAELI HOLOCAUST AGAINST THE PALESTINIANS
www.revisionisthistory.org/cgi-bin/store/agora.cgi?p_id=125
THE ZIONIST WHO FOUNDED COMMUNISM
www.revisionisthistory.org/cgi-bin/store/agora.cgi?p_id=10020
MERCHANTS OF VENOM
www.revisionisthistory.org/cgi-bin/store/agora.cgi?p_id=143
SHOAH AND AUSROTTUNG
http://revisionistreview.blogspot.com/2008/03/debating-meaning-of-shoah-and.html
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By Michael A. Hoffman II
Copyright © 2008
Picture this: the Nazi high command runs a school for future officers charged with shooting every Judaic they can find, and teaching genocide to the prospective leaders of the nation. While the mostly unarmed Nazi youths were gathered in prayer to Odin over copies of Mein Kampf, suddenly a lone Judaic resistance fighter bursts into the school and opens fire with an automatic weapon, killing eight of the students and wounding eleven others.
If this had happened during World War II, a street in Germany would now be named in honor of the killer and he would be listed among the righteous at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum. Your son or daughter might even learn of his "heroism" during a mandatory "Holocaust Studies" class.
At the end of February 2008, Matan Vilnai, the Israeli deputy minister of "defense," called for the extermination ("Shoah") of the Palestinians of Gaza. The weekend after he made that homicidal declaration, 100 Gazans lay dead, victims of Vilnai's edict. Some Gazans had been used as human shields, with Israeli soldiers resting machine guns on their shoulders. Others were Palestinian children who had been shot in the mouth and head in cold blood, by Israelis snipers who had been waiting for just such an opportunity (cf. Steven Erlanger, NY Times, March 6, 2008).
As usual, the world little noted the Israeli rampage and President Bush issued no statement decrying the loss of innocent Palestinian life. The "raid" in Gaza was just business as usual for the Israeli Talmudic army and its so-called "Christian" ally in the White House. Condoleeza Rice called for a resumption of "peace talks" before the bodies of the Palestinian victims were even cold.
It was a different reaction, however, that greeted the massacre on the evening of Thursday March 6 at the Mercaz Harav yeshiva in Jerusalem. Even though the dead were not civilians, but Israeli army recruits, President Bush condemned their deaths in the strongest possible terms, and Islam is today being excoriated anew as the epitome of religious hatred and terrorism.
Rabbi David Stav, one of many prominent graduates of the Jerusalem yeshiva said, "Followers of Islam claim they respect the people of the book. But this horrific act proves the emptiness of their claims." (Jerusalem Post, March 6, 2008).
Most Muslims do, in general, respect the followers of "the Book," the Old Testament. They are increasingly losing respect, however, for the followers of the Talmud, which is the holiest book in Judaism and whose ideology furnishes the doctrine of annihilation of the Arabs (whom the Orthodox rabbis term "Amalek"). In the usual biased reporting of the western media, much was made of celebrations in Gaza after the yeshiva shootings and little was reported concerning the "Death to the Arabs" rallies that erupted at the same time in the Judaic sections of Jerusalem.
The Mercaz Harav yeshiva has produced the bulk of the Talmudic leadership of Israeli "religious Zionism," which is the most racist and genocidal ideology in the Israeli state. Among its thousands of graduates are senior rabbis who have themselves either personally killed Arab civilians or called on the Israeli army to show them no mercy. Many Israeli army officers were trained at Mercaz Harav. It was founded in 1924 by Palestine's first chief rabbi, the aptly named Abraham Kook.
According to Mercaz Harav's own internal newsletter of Rosh Hashana 5767 (2008), their students were fighting Palestinians in Gaza ("Students from the Yeshiva as well, have been called up for reserve duty at the front").
The yeshiva's most notorious graduates include Rabbi Haim Druckman, who recently issued a call for the Israeli army to exterminate the Palestinans and show no mercy to Arab civilians; and Rabbi Moshe Levinger, who shot to death an unarmed Arab shopkeeper, a murder for which he received a sentence of only a token few months in jail. Other graduates include David Raziel, the first commander of the Zionist terror group Irgun, which perpetrated the Deir Yassin massacre of Palestinians.
By the hallowed standards of the Allies of World War II, had the attack on the Jerusalem yeshiva been perpetrated on a Nazi school, it would have been viewed as preventing a holocaust by executing would-be exterminators.
The Mercaz Harav yeshiva students were Zionist Nazis, yet the hypocrites of the earth who applaud and commemorate the terrorist methods of the French Resistance and the partisans of eastern Europe in the name of the "greater good" of stopping the "absolute horror" that was Nazism, view the attack on Mercaz Harav in a far different light, as proof of Arab perfidy, Muslim iniquity and Palestinian heartlessness.
What is our opinion? As a student of Judaism this writer knows something of the rabbinic mentality which pounds into the heads of every Judaic child from his earliest years the notion that non-Judaics hate him without rhyme or reason, and that this hatred is ineradicable. The Arab who shot up the Talmud school in Jerusalem, only confirmed the rabbis' prediction. A pathological prophecy is thus fulfilled. The deceased yeshiva students will enter the roll of martyrs as "the victims of antisemitism," and many more Zionist youth will fill their shoes at the yeshiva and go forth to holocaust more innocents in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon.
Since the post-modernist West is itself heavily Talmudic through Freemasonry, the Kabbalistic New Age movements, the neocon Right and the Bolshevised Left, the higher proportion of Arab civilian victims of Talmudic ideology and Israeli occupation, are not mourned the way the handful of Israeli victims are mourned. The general impression conveyed by the media is that Zionists are the King Lears of the Levant, more sinned against, than sinning.
Consequently, Muslim and Arab armed resistance to Israeli genocide, however much consonant with the resistance enshrined as the paradigm of courage and decency in World War Two Allied mythology, always pays dividends for the Israelis and feeds the self-fulfilling paranoia which Orthodox rabbis impart to generations of Judaic youths.
Violent Muslim resistance is an adjunct of Kabbalistic Judaism in its Hester Panim guise. Though still a few weeks away, we note that the attack in Jerusalem occurred close enough to the holiday of Purim to cause the students in the yeshiva to believe that the first shots fired by the assailant were the sounds of celebratory Purim firecrackers.
Judaism is not a normal enemy, it is an exceptional recrudescence of the guile and cunning synthesized from the accumulated intelligence of the eternal pagan psychodrama on which it is based. It cannot be fought with carnal weapons. It advances with each assault from those very weapons. The Muslims do not possess this higher awareness and thus are fated to forever fulfill the role assigned to them by Kabbalistic choreography, as partners in the rabbinic danse macabre.
[Hoffman is the author of the forthcoming book, "Judaism Discovered"].
For further reading:
THE ISRAELI HOLOCAUST AGAINST THE PALESTINIANS
www.revisionisthistory.org/cgi-bin/store/agora.cgi?p_id=125
THE ZIONIST WHO FOUNDED COMMUNISM
www.revisionisthistory.org/cgi-bin/store/agora.cgi?p_id=10020
MERCHANTS OF VENOM
www.revisionisthistory.org/cgi-bin/store/agora.cgi?p_id=143
SHOAH AND AUSROTTUNG
http://revisionistreview.blogspot.com/2008/03/debating-meaning-of-shoah-and.html
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Thursday, March 06, 2008
The Bush Plan for Subsidizing the Oil Companies
by Timothy Egan
...at the White House...a week ago, President Bush touted tax breaks for oil companies that have just posted the largest profits in the history of American business. Yet he was dumbstruck when asked about the prospect of $4-a-gallon gasoline, a price that will force many families to choose between food and basic travel.
“Wait — what did you just say?”, the president asked after a reporter solicited his advice for Americans facing that price, which was predicted by many analysts. “Oh, yeah?” Bush said. “That’s interesting. I hadn’t heard that.” He doesn’t get out much, understandably.
But had the president been in California over the weekend, he would have found consumers paying what he apparently has yet to fathom — more than $4 a gallon at some stations. And then on March 5, oil reached its all-time, inflation-adjusted high on the global market: $104 a barrel. Remember that number. Because when oil was half that price, three years ago, Bush said the market alone was sufficient incentive for Big Oil to make added investments. But now that the price is over the $100 mark, Bush wants to continue giving breaks to oil companies rather than shift those incentives to alternative fuels, as many in Congress would do.
For Exxon Mobil, there was $40.6 billion in incentive. That was their profit last year — earning $77,220 a minute. Fine. Greed is good. All hail the free-market and shareholders who are seeing a nice return on their oil stocks. But asking the American taxpayer to indirectly subsidize this is grand folly at a time when the world’s oil reserves will soon be in decline.
Bush implied that the oil industry would not build new refineries without tax breaks. Wait a minute — they haven’t built a refinery for 32 years. What they have done is take refineries out of commission. Scarcity is also good, as Enron showed when they ginned up the phony California energy crisis seven years ago.
It’s hardly surprising that Bush had a bar-scan moment similar to his father’s befuddlement over something any first-grader could explain at a supermarket counter. But a man who is clueless about the price of a commodity so elemental to everyday life should not be giving advice on the value of that commodity.
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Dear Golem
by Michael A. Hoffman II
You voted for George W. Bush. Now the price at the pump is approaching $4 a gallon, inflation is out of control and the buying power of the dollar has been seriously eroded. On March 2, diesel prices rose to a record $3.99 a gallon in Spokane, Wash., compared with $2.62 a gallon last year. Diesel is of course the fuel that powers the trucks that move your groceries, your mail and your packages, since you, dear Golem, believed George W. Bush when he told you that America does not need to improve and expand rail and trains or other forms of mass transit, because they are bad for Big Oil. Well, Big Oil is doing very well indeed these days. How about you?
"[President Bush is] a thief ... a wastrel who squanders a vast sum of the nation's wealth on what turns out to be a recruiting drive certain to multiply the host of our enemies...Under the three-strike rule available to the courts in California, judges sentence people to life in jail for having stolen from Wal-Mart a set of golf clubs or a child's tricycle. Who then calls strikes on President Bush, and how many more does he get before being sent down on waivers to one of the Texas Prison Leagues?"
--Lewis Lapham
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...at the White House...a week ago, President Bush touted tax breaks for oil companies that have just posted the largest profits in the history of American business. Yet he was dumbstruck when asked about the prospect of $4-a-gallon gasoline, a price that will force many families to choose between food and basic travel.
“Wait — what did you just say?”, the president asked after a reporter solicited his advice for Americans facing that price, which was predicted by many analysts. “Oh, yeah?” Bush said. “That’s interesting. I hadn’t heard that.” He doesn’t get out much, understandably.
But had the president been in California over the weekend, he would have found consumers paying what he apparently has yet to fathom — more than $4 a gallon at some stations. And then on March 5, oil reached its all-time, inflation-adjusted high on the global market: $104 a barrel. Remember that number. Because when oil was half that price, three years ago, Bush said the market alone was sufficient incentive for Big Oil to make added investments. But now that the price is over the $100 mark, Bush wants to continue giving breaks to oil companies rather than shift those incentives to alternative fuels, as many in Congress would do.
For Exxon Mobil, there was $40.6 billion in incentive. That was their profit last year — earning $77,220 a minute. Fine. Greed is good. All hail the free-market and shareholders who are seeing a nice return on their oil stocks. But asking the American taxpayer to indirectly subsidize this is grand folly at a time when the world’s oil reserves will soon be in decline.
Bush implied that the oil industry would not build new refineries without tax breaks. Wait a minute — they haven’t built a refinery for 32 years. What they have done is take refineries out of commission. Scarcity is also good, as Enron showed when they ginned up the phony California energy crisis seven years ago.
It’s hardly surprising that Bush had a bar-scan moment similar to his father’s befuddlement over something any first-grader could explain at a supermarket counter. But a man who is clueless about the price of a commodity so elemental to everyday life should not be giving advice on the value of that commodity.
***
Dear Golem
by Michael A. Hoffman II
You voted for George W. Bush. Now the price at the pump is approaching $4 a gallon, inflation is out of control and the buying power of the dollar has been seriously eroded. On March 2, diesel prices rose to a record $3.99 a gallon in Spokane, Wash., compared with $2.62 a gallon last year. Diesel is of course the fuel that powers the trucks that move your groceries, your mail and your packages, since you, dear Golem, believed George W. Bush when he told you that America does not need to improve and expand rail and trains or other forms of mass transit, because they are bad for Big Oil. Well, Big Oil is doing very well indeed these days. How about you?
"[President Bush is] a thief ... a wastrel who squanders a vast sum of the nation's wealth on what turns out to be a recruiting drive certain to multiply the host of our enemies...Under the three-strike rule available to the courts in California, judges sentence people to life in jail for having stolen from Wal-Mart a set of golf clubs or a child's tricycle. Who then calls strikes on President Bush, and how many more does he get before being sent down on waivers to one of the Texas Prison Leagues?"
--Lewis Lapham
***
Saturday, March 01, 2008
Debating the meaning of "Shoah" and "Ausrottung"
Why is debate over the definition of the word "Shoah" in the context of Gaza encouraged, while debating the word "Ausrottung" in the context of Germany is an "antisemitic" thought crime?
by Michael A. Hoffman II
Copyright ©2008
The worldwide Zionist spin doctorate is out in full force denying that the Feb. 29 statement on radio by Israeli Defense Minister Matan Vilnai calling for the "Shoah" (Holocaust) of Palestinians in Gaza means what is says. This spin is performed in spite of the fact that one day after the call for a Shoah in Gaza was issued, 12 Palestinian civilians were slaughtered by the Israeli army.
Israeli apologists claim that in the context of Gaza, the Israeli official was "only" calling for a "disaster" in Gaza.
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz admits however that, "The word 'shoah,' Hebrew for 'holocaust,' is used primarily to describe the murder of six million Jews by the Nazis." (March 1, 2008. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/959601.html)
Even Steven Erlanger of the NY Times conceded as much*: "Mr. Vilnai used the Hebrew word 'shoah,' meaning catastrophe or holocaust, and RARELY USED FOR ANYTHING OTHER THAN the Nazi extermination of the Jews." (March 1, 2008. Emphasis supplied. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/01/world/middleeast/01mideast.html?scp=1&sq=shoah&st=nyt)
Yet much of the western media are denying that calling for a 'Shoah' in Gaza is a Holocaust reference. They're frantically spinning the term to mean something less than genocidal. If they don't succeed, all their calls for the President of Iran to be prosecuted at the World Court for allegedly calling for the destruction of the Israeli regime will be hypocritical, since by the same logic, the Israelis should be prosecuted for calling for genocide in Gaza.
In England, the conservative magazine "The Spectator" went so far as to declare, in an apparent fit of Orwellian delirium, "In Hebrew, the word 'shoah' is never used to mean 'holocaust' or 'genocide' because of the acute historical resonance."
Say what?
It's interesting that the right which Zionist media like the Associated Press accord to themselves in denying the Israeli holocaust against the Palestinians is seemingly axiomatic. Yet in their hubris they regard it as a thought crime for World War II revisionist historians like David Irving to claim that when Hitler used the word "Ausrottung" in connection with the Judaics of Europe, he was not saying he wanted to exterminate them.
Debate about the meaning and context of the word "Ausrottung" is verboten in the western media. They permit only one definition of "Ausrottung" --that it signifies extermination--to be promulgated. Anything else is "antisemitic Holocaust denial." Ah, but as we are witnessing at present, debate about the use of the word "Shoah" is not only permitted, it is practiced and advocated by the major media.
Here the Talmud's double-standard raises its ugly head: one draconian standard for the gentiles and a loophole/exception for The Holy People.
Debate over the definition of the word "Shoah" is encouraged because muddying the waters concerning the exact denotation of "Shoah" benefits the Israelis and gets them off the hook; while debating the word "Ausrottung" is widely regarded as a horrible breach of etiquette and scholarly decorum since this debate would call into question the legitimacy of conformity to the politically correct version of the history of World War II; a version which is enforced by imprisonment of non-conformists in Germany, Canada, Austria and Switzerland, and fines and prosecution in France and Australia.
THE DEBATE ABOUT THE USE OF THE WORD SHOAH
Palestinian Sami Abu Zuhri (in reference to Vilna's declaration):
"We are facing new Nazis who want to kill and burn the Palestinian people."
Reuters via The New York Times, March 1, 2008:
"On Friday, Vilnai warned Gazans they risked a "shoah" if rocket fire did not end. An aide said Vilnai meant 'disaster' rather than 'holocaust,' the word's more common meaning."
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-palestinians-israel.html?hp
AFP, March 1, 2008:
"The minister used the Hebrew term 'shoah' which means 'catastrophe' and in this context does not refer to the 'the Shoah' -- the Holocaust,' (Israeli spokesman) Eytan Guinsburg said on Friday."
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hh-9TDbg0aa65PZLTwd6ObqUJkiw
Amy Teibel, Associated Press, March 1, 2008:
"The Hebrew word "shoah" most often refers to the Holocaust but Israelis use it to describe all sorts of disasters. A spokesman for Vilnai, Eitan Ginzburg, said the deputy defense minister never intended it as a reference to the Holocaust but used the word 'shoah' to denote a disaster."
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jD4YSkDPlclqd9dHvg2f0Ij18zEgD8V4GO2G3
"The Mother of All Mistranslation," The Spectator (UK), Feb. 29, 2008:
"Ye gods. The BBC has put out this story: Israel warns of Gaza 'holocaust' Israeli leaders are warning of an imminent conflagration in Gaza after Palestinian militants aimed rockets at the southern city of Ashkelon. The deputy defense minister said the stepped-up rocket fire would trigger what he called a 'bigger holocaust' in the Hamas-controlled coastal strip. This reported remark by deputy defence minister Matan Vilnai caused widespread shock and absolute horror. For an Israeli minister to use the word 'holocaust' ...when for Jews of all people the 'Holocaust' means one thing: genocide ... was simply beyond belief. It was indeed without any credibility — because Vilnai never said it. It was an appalling mistranslation by Reuters, the source of the BBC story. Vilnai said: 'The more Qassam (rocket) fire intensifies and the rockets reach a longer range, they (the Palestinians) will bring upon themselves a bigger "shoah" because we will use all our might to defend ourselves'. Reuters translated the Hebrew word 'shoah' as 'holocaust'. But 'shoah' merely means disaster. In Hebrew, the word 'shoah' is never used to mean 'holocaust' or 'genocide' because of the acute historical resonance. The word 'Hashoah' alone means 'the Holocaust' and 'retzach am' means 'genocide'. The well-known Hebrew construction used by Vilnai used merely means 'bringing disaster on themselves'. As a subsequent Reuter's story reported, Vilnai's spokesman said: 'Mr. Vilnai was meaning 'disaster.' He did not mean to make any allusion to the genocide.' Israel's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Arye Mekel, added: 'Deputy Defence Minister Matan Vilnai used the Hebrew phrase that included the term 'shoah' in Hebrew in the sense of a disaster or a catastrophe, and not in the sense of a holocaust.' But this grotesque mistranslation has given Hamas a propaganda gift..." (http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/530786/the-mother-of-all-mistranslations.thtml)
Brian Klug, The Guardian (UK) Feb. 29, 2008:
"A spokesperson for Vilnai has said he was using the word in its general sense and that 'he did not mean to make any allusion to the genocide.' But the very fact that it was necessary to issue this 'clarification' is revealing. The term 'shoah' today, used in a political context, immediately conjures up the Nazi Holocaust. It frankly beggars belief that Vilnai could not have been aware that the word is so freighted...Imagine the outcry if it had been a Palestinian minister, rather than an Israeli one, who had used Vilnai's turn of phrase to refer to Israel's actions. Words matter, partly because escalating language goes hand in hand with escalating violence ...Vilnai says 'we will use all our might,' adding: 'we have no other choice.'
THE DEBATE ABOUT THE USE OF THE WORD AUSROTTUNG
David Irving:
"...there is probably no argument about what the word Ausrottung has come to mean in modern 1990s German usage. What it meant in Hitler's hands in the 1930s and 1940s is however what is germane to this issue. According to the standard Langenscheidt 1967 German dictionary, which suggests translations in descending order of likelihood, Judentum is translated only as: '(n.) Judaism,' while Ausrottung has the entry '(f.) uprooting; extirpation, eradication; extermination, pol. a. genocide.' ... the verb ausrotten and the noun Ausrottung have...many different meanings...
"When used by Hitler ... there is not one example known...where the word ausrotten has exclusively the meaning...namely of liquidate. On the contrary, when used by Hitler ausrotten has on several occasions demonstrably a meaning that can not be liquidate. Three examples:--
"(a) In August 1936 he dictated to his young secretary Christa Schroeder the text of the famous memorandum on the Four Year Plan (printed with commentary by Professor Wilhelm Treue in Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 1955, at pages 184 et seq.; quoted by the plaintiff in THE WAR PATH, at page 50). In this Hitler stated that Germany must be rendered capable of waging War against the Soviet Union because 'a victory by Bolshevism would lead not to a new Versailles treaty but to the final annihilation, indeed the Ausrottung, of the German nation'. Clearly Hitler is not saying that the Bolsheviks would liquidate one hundred million Germans: but that they would subsume the nation, take it over, emasculate it -- the Germans would cease to exist as a sovereign world power.
"(b) On November 10, 1938, addressing Nazi editors, he said: 'I have, I must add, often just one misgiving and that is the following: whenever I have a look at these intellectual classes of ours -- sadly, we need them; otherwise one might one day, uh, I dunno, ausrotten them or something' (German Federal Archives file NS.11/28, pages 30--46; and Dr Hildegard von Kotze and Professor Helmut Krausnick (ed.), Es Spricht der Führer, Gütersloh, 1966, at page 281; see too Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 1958, at page 188). Here too, the plaintiff submits, the sense of the verb ausrotten is 'turf them out' because at that time the Nazi blood purges had not begun, apart from Hitler's one murderous fling against the Brownshirts in 1934.
"(c) On July 4, 1942 he described over dinner a conversation he had had with the Czech president Emil Hácha about his threat to expel the Czechs from the occupied territories of Bohemia and Moravia. 'The Czech gentlemen had understood this so well,' he said, 'that they had thereafter attuned their future policies explicitly to the principle that all pro-Soviet Benes intrigues and Benes people had to be ausgerottet, and that in the struggle for the preservation of the Czech national characteristics there could no longer be any neutrals, but those who blew neither hot nor cold were also to be spat out.' (Text in Henry Picker, Hitlers Tischgespräche im Führerhauptquartier 1941--42 Stuttgart, 1963, at page 435). The context shows that ausgerottet is used by Hitler to denote physical removal and expulsion.
"(d) Even Himmler used the word ausrotten on occasions to mean something other than murder. For example replying on February 21, 1944 to a report from Bormann on abuses in the Lublin concentration camp, Himmler wrote: 'The guilty commandant, SS-Sturmbannführer Florstedt, has been under arrest for two months already. The deplorable conditions are being severely ausgerottet and redressed in rigorous court-proceedings' (National Archives microfilm T-175, roll 53, at page 7290)."
http://www.fpp.co.uk/Auschwitz/docs/Ausrottung/argument.html
Wikipedia:
"According to a leading authority, Charles D. Provan, 'It is simply not true that the word ausrotten (ausrottung) does not mean to kill. In fact, it denotes 'to kill' from the earliest reference I have been able to find where Adolf Hitler used the word, in a quote (approved by Hitler circa 1923) in reference to the occult philosopher Giordano Bruno executed by the Catholic Church during the Renaissance. Hitler states (this is a paraphrase), 'The Jews are such a rotten and filthy group of people that the only true solution to them is to ausrotten them while they are still in their mother's womb.' There are many other examples of ausrotten (ausrottung) being used to mean 'kill' in German, Christian and even Jewish (Talmudic) literature."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ausrottung
*MARCH 2, 2008. IMPORTANT UPDATE:
Since we first posted this blog entry, the NY Times has edited Steven Erlanger's statement about the word Shoah, to make it favorable to the Israeli position. The Times' revised it to read as follows: "On Friday, using the Hebrew word for the Holocaust, which also means catastrophe, Mr. Vilnai warned Palestinians that they faced catastrophe if the rocket firing continued." (Cf. "46 Killed in Israeli Strikes on North Gaza" by Steven Erlanger and Taghreed El-Khodary, "Published: March 2, 2008" [but on the NY Times website as of Saturday, March 1 at 9:52 pm PT]). http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/world/middleeast/02mideast.html?hp
Hence, we now have a statement of fact from the NY Times that "Vilnai warned Palestinians that they faced catastrophe," and NOT "Vilnai warned Palestinians that they faced genocide." The former becomes the official truth as dictated by the NY Times. Vilnai did not threaten genocide against the Palestinians, according to the NY Times. However, since the use of the word is disputed, how does the Times prove this opinion of theirs and transform it into a fiat -- simply on the "Big Lie" basis of repeating it in their prestigious pages? And how will the NY Times account for the discrepancy between the two statements attributed on the same day to their reporter Erlanger, on the Times' website?
VERSION ONE: "Mr. Vilnai used the Hebrew word 'shoah,' ...rarely used for anything other than the Nazi extermination of the Jews." Erlanger at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/01/world/middleeast/01mideast.html?scp=1&sq=shoah&st=nyt
VERSION TWO:"Mr. Vilnai warned Palestinians that they faced catastrophe if the rocket firing continued."
Erlanger at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/world/middleeast/02mideast.html?hp
On the Times' website, version two is described as "published March 2," which would tend to indicate that this is the version that would be published in the hard copy edition of the Sunday (March 2) NY Times.
Version one was published in the Saturday March 1 printed edition, but version two was not published in hard copy newspaper.
The hard copy Sunday March 2 NY Times makes only the following reference to Matan Vilnai: "The Israeli deputy defense minister, Matan Vilnai, said the military was engaged in 'an enlarged operation and not a major ground operation' of the type Israeli politicians have been pressing for. Mr. Vilnai told Israel Radio that 'we are using mostly air units' and that Israeli forces 'are permanently engaged in Gaza, and what we are doing now is within the scope of such activities." ("Israel Takes Gaza Fight to Next Level in a Day of Strikes, " by Steven Erlanger and Taghreed El-Khodary).
48 hours after the Israeli deputy defense minister said he wanted to exterminate the Palestinians of Gaza his statement is regarded as not worth mentioning in a report on the violence the Israelis inflicted on Gaza almost immediately after he made the statement. Obviously, the NY Times is attempting damage control on behalf of the public relations image of the Israelis. Vilnai's appalling call for genocide in Gaza has, as of March 2, 2008 been mentioned exactly once in the print edition of the New York Times newspaper.
More than 20 years ago Louis Farrakhan called Judaism a "gutter religion." His remark has been recalled and condemned almost constantly ever since. It was an issue as recently as the Democrat's debate at the end of February, when moderator Tim Russert stated to Barack Obama, "The problem some voters may have is, as you know, Reverend Farrakhan called Judaism 'gutter religion." (Transcript, "The Democratic Debate in Cleveland," NY Times, Feb. 26, 2008; http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/26/us/politics/26text-debate.html?scp=10&sq=Farrakhan&st=nyt)
Just two days after Matan Vilnai said of the 1.5 million Palestinian people living in Gaza that they may be annihilated** ("Shoah") and then dozens are killed in an Israeli pogrom, the New York Times can't recall his threat.
This is how the Israelis are protected from the consequences of their murderous, exterminating racism by the western media, even as their critics are eternally stigmatized. We are here witness to the mechanics of "hasbara" (Judaic propaganda).
** "...'Shoah' (in Hebrew, 'Annihilation')..." (New York Times Oct. 23, 1985).
More Israeli mandates for genocide:
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that Gazans cannot be allowed “to live normal lives”; Internal Security Minister, Avi Dichter, believes Israel should take action “irrespective of the cost to the Palestinians”; and the Interior Minister, Meir Sheetrit, suggests the Israeli army should “decide on a neighborhood in Gaza and level it” after each attack.
Source: Jonathan Cook, "Israel Plots Another Palestinian Exodus: The Meaning of Gaza's 'Shoah," Counterpunch.org, March 8, 2008.
For further reference:
THE ISRAELI HOLOCAUST AGAINST THE PALESTINIANS
by Michael Hoffman and Moshe Lieberman
http://www.amazon.com/Israeli-Holocaust-Against-Palestinians/dp/0970378424/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1204388368&sr=1-1
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by Michael A. Hoffman II
Copyright ©2008
The worldwide Zionist spin doctorate is out in full force denying that the Feb. 29 statement on radio by Israeli Defense Minister Matan Vilnai calling for the "Shoah" (Holocaust) of Palestinians in Gaza means what is says. This spin is performed in spite of the fact that one day after the call for a Shoah in Gaza was issued, 12 Palestinian civilians were slaughtered by the Israeli army.
Israeli apologists claim that in the context of Gaza, the Israeli official was "only" calling for a "disaster" in Gaza.
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz admits however that, "The word 'shoah,' Hebrew for 'holocaust,' is used primarily to describe the murder of six million Jews by the Nazis." (March 1, 2008. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/959601.html)
Even Steven Erlanger of the NY Times conceded as much*: "Mr. Vilnai used the Hebrew word 'shoah,' meaning catastrophe or holocaust, and RARELY USED FOR ANYTHING OTHER THAN the Nazi extermination of the Jews." (March 1, 2008. Emphasis supplied. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/01/world/middleeast/01mideast.html?scp=1&sq=shoah&st=nyt)
Yet much of the western media are denying that calling for a 'Shoah' in Gaza is a Holocaust reference. They're frantically spinning the term to mean something less than genocidal. If they don't succeed, all their calls for the President of Iran to be prosecuted at the World Court for allegedly calling for the destruction of the Israeli regime will be hypocritical, since by the same logic, the Israelis should be prosecuted for calling for genocide in Gaza.
In England, the conservative magazine "The Spectator" went so far as to declare, in an apparent fit of Orwellian delirium, "In Hebrew, the word 'shoah' is never used to mean 'holocaust' or 'genocide' because of the acute historical resonance."
Say what?
It's interesting that the right which Zionist media like the Associated Press accord to themselves in denying the Israeli holocaust against the Palestinians is seemingly axiomatic. Yet in their hubris they regard it as a thought crime for World War II revisionist historians like David Irving to claim that when Hitler used the word "Ausrottung" in connection with the Judaics of Europe, he was not saying he wanted to exterminate them.
Debate about the meaning and context of the word "Ausrottung" is verboten in the western media. They permit only one definition of "Ausrottung" --that it signifies extermination--to be promulgated. Anything else is "antisemitic Holocaust denial." Ah, but as we are witnessing at present, debate about the use of the word "Shoah" is not only permitted, it is practiced and advocated by the major media.
Here the Talmud's double-standard raises its ugly head: one draconian standard for the gentiles and a loophole/exception for The Holy People.
Debate over the definition of the word "Shoah" is encouraged because muddying the waters concerning the exact denotation of "Shoah" benefits the Israelis and gets them off the hook; while debating the word "Ausrottung" is widely regarded as a horrible breach of etiquette and scholarly decorum since this debate would call into question the legitimacy of conformity to the politically correct version of the history of World War II; a version which is enforced by imprisonment of non-conformists in Germany, Canada, Austria and Switzerland, and fines and prosecution in France and Australia.
THE DEBATE ABOUT THE USE OF THE WORD SHOAH
Palestinian Sami Abu Zuhri (in reference to Vilna's declaration):
"We are facing new Nazis who want to kill and burn the Palestinian people."
Reuters via The New York Times, March 1, 2008:
"On Friday, Vilnai warned Gazans they risked a "shoah" if rocket fire did not end. An aide said Vilnai meant 'disaster' rather than 'holocaust,' the word's more common meaning."
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-palestinians-israel.html?hp
AFP, March 1, 2008:
"The minister used the Hebrew term 'shoah' which means 'catastrophe' and in this context does not refer to the 'the Shoah' -- the Holocaust,' (Israeli spokesman) Eytan Guinsburg said on Friday."
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hh-9TDbg0aa65PZLTwd6ObqUJkiw
Amy Teibel, Associated Press, March 1, 2008:
"The Hebrew word "shoah" most often refers to the Holocaust but Israelis use it to describe all sorts of disasters. A spokesman for Vilnai, Eitan Ginzburg, said the deputy defense minister never intended it as a reference to the Holocaust but used the word 'shoah' to denote a disaster."
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jD4YSkDPlclqd9dHvg2f0Ij18zEgD8V4GO2G3
"The Mother of All Mistranslation," The Spectator (UK), Feb. 29, 2008:
"Ye gods. The BBC has put out this story: Israel warns of Gaza 'holocaust' Israeli leaders are warning of an imminent conflagration in Gaza after Palestinian militants aimed rockets at the southern city of Ashkelon. The deputy defense minister said the stepped-up rocket fire would trigger what he called a 'bigger holocaust' in the Hamas-controlled coastal strip. This reported remark by deputy defence minister Matan Vilnai caused widespread shock and absolute horror. For an Israeli minister to use the word 'holocaust' ...when for Jews of all people the 'Holocaust' means one thing: genocide ... was simply beyond belief. It was indeed without any credibility — because Vilnai never said it. It was an appalling mistranslation by Reuters, the source of the BBC story. Vilnai said: 'The more Qassam (rocket) fire intensifies and the rockets reach a longer range, they (the Palestinians) will bring upon themselves a bigger "shoah" because we will use all our might to defend ourselves'. Reuters translated the Hebrew word 'shoah' as 'holocaust'. But 'shoah' merely means disaster. In Hebrew, the word 'shoah' is never used to mean 'holocaust' or 'genocide' because of the acute historical resonance. The word 'Hashoah' alone means 'the Holocaust' and 'retzach am' means 'genocide'. The well-known Hebrew construction used by Vilnai used merely means 'bringing disaster on themselves'. As a subsequent Reuter's story reported, Vilnai's spokesman said: 'Mr. Vilnai was meaning 'disaster.' He did not mean to make any allusion to the genocide.' Israel's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Arye Mekel, added: 'Deputy Defence Minister Matan Vilnai used the Hebrew phrase that included the term 'shoah' in Hebrew in the sense of a disaster or a catastrophe, and not in the sense of a holocaust.' But this grotesque mistranslation has given Hamas a propaganda gift..." (http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/530786/the-mother-of-all-mistranslations.thtml)
Brian Klug, The Guardian (UK) Feb. 29, 2008:
"A spokesperson for Vilnai has said he was using the word in its general sense and that 'he did not mean to make any allusion to the genocide.' But the very fact that it was necessary to issue this 'clarification' is revealing. The term 'shoah' today, used in a political context, immediately conjures up the Nazi Holocaust. It frankly beggars belief that Vilnai could not have been aware that the word is so freighted...Imagine the outcry if it had been a Palestinian minister, rather than an Israeli one, who had used Vilnai's turn of phrase to refer to Israel's actions. Words matter, partly because escalating language goes hand in hand with escalating violence ...Vilnai says 'we will use all our might,' adding: 'we have no other choice.'
THE DEBATE ABOUT THE USE OF THE WORD AUSROTTUNG
David Irving:
"...there is probably no argument about what the word Ausrottung has come to mean in modern 1990s German usage. What it meant in Hitler's hands in the 1930s and 1940s is however what is germane to this issue. According to the standard Langenscheidt 1967 German dictionary, which suggests translations in descending order of likelihood, Judentum is translated only as: '(n.) Judaism,' while Ausrottung has the entry '(f.) uprooting; extirpation, eradication; extermination, pol. a. genocide.' ... the verb ausrotten and the noun Ausrottung have...many different meanings...
"When used by Hitler ... there is not one example known...where the word ausrotten has exclusively the meaning...namely of liquidate. On the contrary, when used by Hitler ausrotten has on several occasions demonstrably a meaning that can not be liquidate. Three examples:--
"(a) In August 1936 he dictated to his young secretary Christa Schroeder the text of the famous memorandum on the Four Year Plan (printed with commentary by Professor Wilhelm Treue in Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 1955, at pages 184 et seq.; quoted by the plaintiff in THE WAR PATH, at page 50). In this Hitler stated that Germany must be rendered capable of waging War against the Soviet Union because 'a victory by Bolshevism would lead not to a new Versailles treaty but to the final annihilation, indeed the Ausrottung, of the German nation'. Clearly Hitler is not saying that the Bolsheviks would liquidate one hundred million Germans: but that they would subsume the nation, take it over, emasculate it -- the Germans would cease to exist as a sovereign world power.
"(b) On November 10, 1938, addressing Nazi editors, he said: 'I have, I must add, often just one misgiving and that is the following: whenever I have a look at these intellectual classes of ours -- sadly, we need them; otherwise one might one day, uh, I dunno, ausrotten them or something' (German Federal Archives file NS.11/28, pages 30--46; and Dr Hildegard von Kotze and Professor Helmut Krausnick (ed.), Es Spricht der Führer, Gütersloh, 1966, at page 281; see too Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 1958, at page 188). Here too, the plaintiff submits, the sense of the verb ausrotten is 'turf them out' because at that time the Nazi blood purges had not begun, apart from Hitler's one murderous fling against the Brownshirts in 1934.
"(c) On July 4, 1942 he described over dinner a conversation he had had with the Czech president Emil Hácha about his threat to expel the Czechs from the occupied territories of Bohemia and Moravia. 'The Czech gentlemen had understood this so well,' he said, 'that they had thereafter attuned their future policies explicitly to the principle that all pro-Soviet Benes intrigues and Benes people had to be ausgerottet, and that in the struggle for the preservation of the Czech national characteristics there could no longer be any neutrals, but those who blew neither hot nor cold were also to be spat out.' (Text in Henry Picker, Hitlers Tischgespräche im Führerhauptquartier 1941--42 Stuttgart, 1963, at page 435). The context shows that ausgerottet is used by Hitler to denote physical removal and expulsion.
"(d) Even Himmler used the word ausrotten on occasions to mean something other than murder. For example replying on February 21, 1944 to a report from Bormann on abuses in the Lublin concentration camp, Himmler wrote: 'The guilty commandant, SS-Sturmbannführer Florstedt, has been under arrest for two months already. The deplorable conditions are being severely ausgerottet and redressed in rigorous court-proceedings' (National Archives microfilm T-175, roll 53, at page 7290)."
http://www.fpp.co.uk/Auschwitz/docs/Ausrottung/argument.html
Wikipedia:
"According to a leading authority, Charles D. Provan, 'It is simply not true that the word ausrotten (ausrottung) does not mean to kill. In fact, it denotes 'to kill' from the earliest reference I have been able to find where Adolf Hitler used the word, in a quote (approved by Hitler circa 1923) in reference to the occult philosopher Giordano Bruno executed by the Catholic Church during the Renaissance. Hitler states (this is a paraphrase), 'The Jews are such a rotten and filthy group of people that the only true solution to them is to ausrotten them while they are still in their mother's womb.' There are many other examples of ausrotten (ausrottung) being used to mean 'kill' in German, Christian and even Jewish (Talmudic) literature."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ausrottung
*MARCH 2, 2008. IMPORTANT UPDATE:
Since we first posted this blog entry, the NY Times has edited Steven Erlanger's statement about the word Shoah, to make it favorable to the Israeli position. The Times' revised it to read as follows: "On Friday, using the Hebrew word for the Holocaust, which also means catastrophe, Mr. Vilnai warned Palestinians that they faced catastrophe if the rocket firing continued." (Cf. "46 Killed in Israeli Strikes on North Gaza" by Steven Erlanger and Taghreed El-Khodary, "Published: March 2, 2008" [but on the NY Times website as of Saturday, March 1 at 9:52 pm PT]). http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/world/middleeast/02mideast.html?hp
Hence, we now have a statement of fact from the NY Times that "Vilnai warned Palestinians that they faced catastrophe," and NOT "Vilnai warned Palestinians that they faced genocide." The former becomes the official truth as dictated by the NY Times. Vilnai did not threaten genocide against the Palestinians, according to the NY Times. However, since the use of the word is disputed, how does the Times prove this opinion of theirs and transform it into a fiat -- simply on the "Big Lie" basis of repeating it in their prestigious pages? And how will the NY Times account for the discrepancy between the two statements attributed on the same day to their reporter Erlanger, on the Times' website?
VERSION ONE: "Mr. Vilnai used the Hebrew word 'shoah,' ...rarely used for anything other than the Nazi extermination of the Jews." Erlanger at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/01/world/middleeast/01mideast.html?scp=1&sq=shoah&st=nyt
VERSION TWO:"Mr. Vilnai warned Palestinians that they faced catastrophe if the rocket firing continued."
Erlanger at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/world/middleeast/02mideast.html?hp
On the Times' website, version two is described as "published March 2," which would tend to indicate that this is the version that would be published in the hard copy edition of the Sunday (March 2) NY Times.
Version one was published in the Saturday March 1 printed edition, but version two was not published in hard copy newspaper.
The hard copy Sunday March 2 NY Times makes only the following reference to Matan Vilnai: "The Israeli deputy defense minister, Matan Vilnai, said the military was engaged in 'an enlarged operation and not a major ground operation' of the type Israeli politicians have been pressing for. Mr. Vilnai told Israel Radio that 'we are using mostly air units' and that Israeli forces 'are permanently engaged in Gaza, and what we are doing now is within the scope of such activities." ("Israel Takes Gaza Fight to Next Level in a Day of Strikes, " by Steven Erlanger and Taghreed El-Khodary).
48 hours after the Israeli deputy defense minister said he wanted to exterminate the Palestinians of Gaza his statement is regarded as not worth mentioning in a report on the violence the Israelis inflicted on Gaza almost immediately after he made the statement. Obviously, the NY Times is attempting damage control on behalf of the public relations image of the Israelis. Vilnai's appalling call for genocide in Gaza has, as of March 2, 2008 been mentioned exactly once in the print edition of the New York Times newspaper.
More than 20 years ago Louis Farrakhan called Judaism a "gutter religion." His remark has been recalled and condemned almost constantly ever since. It was an issue as recently as the Democrat's debate at the end of February, when moderator Tim Russert stated to Barack Obama, "The problem some voters may have is, as you know, Reverend Farrakhan called Judaism 'gutter religion." (Transcript, "The Democratic Debate in Cleveland," NY Times, Feb. 26, 2008; http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/26/us/politics/26text-debate.html?scp=10&sq=Farrakhan&st=nyt)
Just two days after Matan Vilnai said of the 1.5 million Palestinian people living in Gaza that they may be annihilated** ("Shoah") and then dozens are killed in an Israeli pogrom, the New York Times can't recall his threat.
This is how the Israelis are protected from the consequences of their murderous, exterminating racism by the western media, even as their critics are eternally stigmatized. We are here witness to the mechanics of "hasbara" (Judaic propaganda).
** "...'Shoah' (in Hebrew, 'Annihilation')..." (New York Times Oct. 23, 1985).
More Israeli mandates for genocide:
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that Gazans cannot be allowed “to live normal lives”; Internal Security Minister, Avi Dichter, believes Israel should take action “irrespective of the cost to the Palestinians”; and the Interior Minister, Meir Sheetrit, suggests the Israeli army should “decide on a neighborhood in Gaza and level it” after each attack.
Source: Jonathan Cook, "Israel Plots Another Palestinian Exodus: The Meaning of Gaza's 'Shoah," Counterpunch.org, March 8, 2008.
For further reference:
THE ISRAELI HOLOCAUST AGAINST THE PALESTINIANS
by Michael Hoffman and Moshe Lieberman
http://www.amazon.com/Israeli-Holocaust-Against-Palestinians/dp/0970378424/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1204388368&sr=1-1
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Israelis "Shoah" Sixteen Palestinian Civilians
One day after Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai called for a Shoah ("Holocaust") in Gaza --
Emergency medical personnel rushed a Palestinian boy to a hospital in Beit Lahiya in Gaza, after he was wounded by Israeli troops.
GAZA (Reuters) - March 1, 2008 Filed at 5:46 a.m. ET.
"Israeli forces killed 31 Palestinians, 16 of them civilians, in the Gaza Strip on Saturday. One of the dead civilians was a mother who was preparing breakfast for her children. A girl and her brother were also among the dead."
UPDATE: As of March 2, the wire services are reporting 19 civilian dead for Saturday March 1 at the hands of the Zionist-Nazi occupation troops.
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Emergency medical personnel rushed a Palestinian boy to a hospital in Beit Lahiya in Gaza, after he was wounded by Israeli troops.GAZA (Reuters) - March 1, 2008 Filed at 5:46 a.m. ET.
"Israeli forces killed 31 Palestinians, 16 of them civilians, in the Gaza Strip on Saturday. One of the dead civilians was a mother who was preparing breakfast for her children. A girl and her brother were also among the dead."
UPDATE: As of March 2, the wire services are reporting 19 civilian dead for Saturday March 1 at the hands of the Zionist-Nazi occupation troops.
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