the Israel issue

 

Let the Jews, who claim to be the chosen race, prove their title by choosing the way of non-violence for vindicating their position on earth.

Mahatma Gandhi, Nov. 26, 1938


We warned you that this site contained controversial material, so here goes:

remember, truth can defend itself, if first our ears can hear it...

Also, let me note that this page and these articles are not anti-Jewish or anti-semitic - many of the "People of Israel" even oppose the "State of Israel"


Zionism, the Jewish State and US Policy


19 January 2003
- Israel's War Machine, JFK's Assassination, and the Atomic Bomb: An Overivew of Michael Collins Piper's "Final Judgment", by Victor Thorn, Babel Magazine, Issue #89
11 December 2002
- Zionism Unbound, by Ann Pettifer, Dissident Voice

[Gore] Vidal wrote: "since spades may not be called spades in freedom's land, let me spell it out. In order to get military and economic support for Israel, a small number of American Jews, who should know better, have made common cause with every sort of reactionary and anti-Semitic group in the United States, from the corridors of the Pentagon to the TV studios of the evangelical Jesus Christers all in the interest of supporting the likes of Sharon as opposed to the Peace Now Israelis whom they disdain."

...Robert Dreyfus, a senior correspondent at The American Prospect, came close in a first class expose on how the Pentagon's "well-placed hawks" are muzzling the CIA so that intelligence data that contradicts the case for war is not presented to the White House. Dreyfus is blunt: "For Perle, Wolfovitz and Feith an attack on Iraq is a strategic necessity, not because Saddam Hussein is a threat, but because America needs to display an overwhelming show of force to keep unruly Arabs and Muslims all over the world in line." However, Dreyfus still cannot mention the elephant in the room, namely that these well-placed hawks are Jewish-Americans and it is their hard-core Zionism that is shaping American foreign policy.


American/British/Canadian academia/business/labor begin campaign to punish Israel for excesses - others boycott

BOYCOTT ISRAEL CAMPAIGN

27 June 2003 - Company fined $6,000 for answering customer's question: "Is any of this stuff made in Israel?", Unknown News, Kansas City Star
12 December 2002 - British academic boycott of Israel gathers pace, by Andy Beckett and Ewen MacAskill, The Guardian
An impending boycott of Amazon.com? - Open letter to Amazon.com, and the reaction: Jerusalem Post ordered to stop claiming Amazon supports Israel
5 November 2002 - US warns companies over Israel boycott, BBC News
31 October 2002
- British Publisher, Citing Academic Boycott, Won't Sell Book to Israeli University, The Chronicle of Higher Education
27 October 2002 - Canadian Jews are incensed as Quebec union calls to boycott Israel, by Bram Eisenthal, Jewish Telegraph Agency
14 October 2002 - U.S. campuses divided by anti-Israel campaign; Schools urged to start economic boycott , by Michael A. Fletcher, Washington Post
1 May 2002 - Texas Business Under Fire For Boycott of Israel, IAP News

Hmmm, where have we heard "boycott" before? Could it be 24 Mar 1933?

Could it be that Jewish leaders brought the wrath of Germany down on the Jewish population by their actions?
See the German response to the Jewish boycott:

to follow...


The history of Israel

If Americans Knew - what every American needs to know about Israel/Palestine

From the website of the Zionist Federation

The Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland was established in 1899 to campaign for a permanent homeland for the Jewish people. At that time, Palestine was a distant and neglected province of the Turkish Empire with a Jewish population of approximately 50,000. Herzl was working towards obtaining permission for Jews to settle in Palestine but had reached deadlock in his negotiations with the Sultan. In the United Kingdom, the leaders of the Jewish Community had not shown support to the Zionist Movement and it was left to the few committed members of the Zionist Federation, men and women of faith and vision who were convinced that history and truth were on their side to support Herzl.

It was from this narrow base that the Zionist Federation became the centre of which Chaim Weizmann and his small band of British Zionists waged their struggle for a Jewish State. In 1917, the Balfour Declaration was communicated to Lord Rothschild and the letter from the British Foreign Secretary concluded "I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation".

During the next 30 years London became the centre of the World Zionist Movement. In the Zionist Federation's home at 77 Great Russell Street the Jewish Agency established its main political office and conducted government negotiations whilst the Zionist Federation secured Jewish and general support as well as financial assistance for the movement.

Among others, it was the leadership of the Zionist Federation who founded WIZO, UJIA, JNF and Youth movements. After the establishment of Israel, many of the graduates of the Zionist Federation became leaders in the new State.

In 1954 the Zionist Federation via the Zionist Federation Education Trust (now known as Scopus) created a network of Zionist Day Schools to educate Jewish children in the spirit of Zionism. The Zionist Federation Education Trust set up 14 schools with over 5000 pupils.

The British Zionist Federation was also the first in the world to set up its own office in Israel to assist in the integration of British Olim. The Zionist Federation today represents the UK Zionist Movement more than 120 organisations, and over 50,000 affiliated members.

 

The Balfour Declaration that started the whole thing around the time of World War I [Note the letter is addressed to a Lord Rothchild, in fact the grandson of Nathan Rothchild of Napoleonic Wartime fame]
Facts about Israel and history [note that they show their state occupying all of Palestine]
30 August 2002 - An official history of Israel, John R. Bradley, Arab News;

The Western media have universally welcomed Michael B. Oren’s “Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East” as a masterpiece. John R. Bradley argues that it is in fact crude Zionist propaganda, which Oxford University Press should never have published.

[Is the "official" history just propaganda? - This article is a must read to help cut through the spin of the usual reportage on Israel. some excerpts follow]

As Theodore Herzl, founder of the World Zionist Organization, said in 1895, when speaking of the Arabs of Palestine: “Spirit the penniless population across the frontier by denying it employment... Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly.”

Israel is a state that was born of terror. Not that you’d guess this from Oren’s account. He does admit that “up to a million Arabs” had to leave Palestine in 1948; but nowhere does he document the terrible brutality of Israel’s founders which led to that mass exodus. It’s all conveniently contextualized, or buried as part of the consequences of war.

Actually, many if not most Arabs were forcibly driven off their historic land. Some 800,000 of the approximately 900,000 Palestinians who originally lived in the area that became Israel were forced to flee as a result of a systematic campaign of intimidation, massacres and internationally recognized ethnically-motivated mass expulsions. When the Jewish state was created, approximately 400 Palestinian towns and villages were depopulated by Jewish armed groups under the cover of the war, and were razed to the ground.

...Oren’s intention, here as elsewhere, is clear: to show that Arabs hated Israel primarily because it represented a kind of “democratic, civilized ideal” that threatened the Arab world’s autocratic order. Arabs in fact hated, and still hate, Israel not because of anti-Semitism or because they can’t bring themselves to appreciate the virtues of democracy but because Israel has murdered their fellow Arabs in the tens of thousands and pillaged their villages and occupied their countries and later their Muslim and Christian holy sites.

...the United Nations, an organization that has done its utmost over the past 50 years, at the behest of the United States, to ensure Israel gets away with its perpetual war crimes.


Israel as outlaw state

Israel thumbs its nose at the United Nations

25 November 2002 - UN rejects Israeli account of British official's killing, by Eric Silver, Independent [UK]

UN Resolutions Against Israel, 1955-1992

The Occupation and settlement of the Palestinians' homeland:

25 August 2002 - Israel's Architecture of Occupation, Revolutionary Worker #1164

At the end of July 2002--in the same week that Israeli armed forces dropped 1,000 pounds of laser-guided explosives from a U.S.-made F-16 on the Al-Daraj neighborhood in Gaza City--a cultural bomb exploded in the world of architecture. A catalog for an entry by the Israeli Association of United Architects (IAUA) to the World Congress of Architecture in Berlin became the center of a storm of controversy when it was censored and suppressed by the leadership of the architects association--on the grounds that "the ideas in the catalogue are not architecture" and that it would damage Israel's image abroad by presenting "an anti-Israeli, one-sided presentation."

Created by two Israeli architects, Rafi Segal and Eyal Weizman, the catalog, A Civilian Occupation: The Politics of Israeli Architecture , details through essays, photos, maps and documents how Israeli architecture and urban planning have been involved in the seizure of Palestinian land --from the days when the Palestinians were driven from their lands in 1948 to the Jewish settlements now dominating the hillsides of the West Bank. In a foreword note, Weizman and Segal describe their mission--to analyze how "the mundane elements of planning and architecture have been conscripted as tactical tools in the Israeli state-strategy."

Outright war crimes and just hoodlum crimes:

17 December 2002 - The Dying Truth in Nablus, The Palestine Chronicle

On November 4, 2002 Amnesty International released a report documenting Israel's war crimes titled, "Israel and the Occupied Territories: Shielded from Scrutiny - IDF violations in Jenin and Nablus." The report documents stories of torture, beatings of prisoners who were stripped down to their underwear and of soldiers demolishing homes with residents still inside, leaving them to die under the rubble.

14 December 2002 - Notorious brothers brush aside scandal and crimes in race for power, Sydney Morning Herald
2 April 2002 - UPDATED OVERVIEW OF ISRAELI WAR CRIMES AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, Dianne Luping, Coordinator of International Advocacy, LAW - The Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment


Our loyal, democratic ally?

Some say that Israel is our only friend in the Middle East, forgetting that the US didn't have any enemies in the region until it began its overwhelming financing of the new Jewish state:

9 December 2002 - Economist tallies swelling cost of Israel to US, By David Frost, Christian Science Monitor

Since 1973, Israel has cost the United States about $1.6 trillion. If divided by today's population, that is more than $5,700 per person.

...For the first time in many years, Mr. Stauffer has tallied the total cost to the US of its backing of Israel in its drawn-out, violent dispute with the Palestinians. So far, he figures, the bill adds up to more than twice the cost of the Vietnam War.

 

12 September 2002 - US accused of double standards at UN, by Owen Bowcott, The Guardian

America's determination to topple Saddam Hussein has intensified the debate over enforcement of UN resolutions, reviving claims they are selectively targeted to reflect the political interests of the major powers.

Opponents of UN sanctions against Baghdad allege that Israel has been permitted to defy resolutions for the past 30 years ordering it to quit the West Bank and Gaza, while Iraq's non-compliance has been punished by repeated bombings and a rigorously enforced trade embargo.


22 August 2002
- Bombing Iraq to Protect Israel, by James J. David, Media Monitors Network

U.S. President George W. Bush last month accused Baghdad, along with Iran and North Korea, of making up an "axis of evil" bent on backing international terrorism and developing weapons of mass destruction. It seems that Senator Joseph Lieberman has convinced the President that Bagdad is a threat to the United States and launching a military attack seems to be the only alternative. Other close advisors such as Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and the Defense Chairman of the Advisory Board, Richard Perle, are also calling for the bombing of Iraq as the only sure method of destroying this threat. When Joseph Lieberman says that it's necessary to attack Iraq because Iraq is a threat to the United States, does he really think that smart Americans believe this? Does he really think that Iraq would attack the United States?

...So why did Senator Joseph Lieberman convince President Bush to focus on Iraq as a threat? I'll tell you why. It's not the United States that Senator Lieberman is concerned about. We know that Iraq is not a threat to the United States. Iraq is a threat to Israel. Senator Lieberman and other pro-Israelis in Washington don't want anyone else in the Middle East to own Nuclear weapons except Israel. It's Israel, not the United States, that Lieberman is concerned about. And he is willing to risk American lives and American money to insure that Israel is the super power in the Middle East. Isn't it odd that while Lieberman is pushing for a bombing of Iraq, it's the Israelis who are inflicting most of the casualties in Middle East with its current bombing campaign. In just the last 2 days the Israelis have killed 29 Palestinians, and most of them are innocent civilians including children. Iraq hasn't killed anyone since the Gulf War, and that's been 11 years ago. In just the last 17 months the Israelis have killed over 900 Palestinians and have demolished more than 300 homes causing more than 1500 children to become homeless. And the Israelis have been doing this with F-16 fighter jets, M1A1 Abram tanks, 155mm howitzers, Chaparral and Sidewinder missiles, and Apache and Cobra attack helicopters all supplied by the good 'ole United States.

22 August 2002 - Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman: A Conflict of Interest?, Media Monitors Network

On May 2, 2002, the Senate of the U.S. passed a notorious pro-Israel Resolution (S. Res. 247), with respect to the Mid-East controversy. Its co author was Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-CT). In pushing the measure, he barked, “You are either with us or the terrorists” (Washington Times, May 3, 2002). Who is this “us” he is talking about?

The measure falsely equated the U.S.’s post-9/11 fight against terrorism with Israel’s brutal occupation of the Palestinian people in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. It also condoned Israel’s vicious military attacks on Jenin, Ramallah and Bethlehem.

22 August 2002 - The Zionist Lobby and American Foreign Policy, by Gilad Atzmon, Counterpunch
20 August 2002 - Time to expose Israeli propaganda network, Cyprus, by Linda S. Heard, Gulf News
15 July 2002 - Spreading the Secret, by Gila Svirsky, "One of the best-kept secrets in Israel is that most Israelis are fed up with the occupation, and just want to get out."
6 July 2002 - What's wrong with Israel?, by Michael Neumann, Counterpunch
March 2002 - Israeli Weapons of Mass Destruction: a Threat to Peace, by John Steinbach, DC Iraq Coalition, WagingPeace.org


Western media treatment of the Israel issue (and Israeli treatment of the media):

22 January 2003 - Photographers Say They Were Beaten by Israeli Police; Men Claim They Were Threatened, AP
18 December 2002 - Robert Fisk: Journalists are under fire for telling the truth, Fisk, the Independent
23 November 2002 - Fisk condemns jounalists for using US and Israeli distortions, by Paul Weinberg, Straight Goods
20 October 2002
- Israeli sympathizers' arrogance knows no bounds, by Raff Ellis, Arab News
17 October 2002 - BBC's Mideast bureau chief calls for boycott of Sharon, by Sharon Sadeh, Ha'aretz Correspondent
17 October 2002 - Editors dismiss Israeli press chief's allegation of bias, by Edward Pilkington, Guardian
5 October 2002 - Israel No Longer Immune To Truthful Media Criticism, by John Pilger, British TV reporter

Until recently, a Zionist narrative has dominated much of the region's historiography in the west; and Israel's immunity from truthful media criticism has been almost guaranteed. Tim Llewellyn, for many years the BBC's Middle East correspondent, has described this, accusing the BBC of "continuing to duck" its public service duty to explain "the true nature of the disaster [of the occupation] and Israel's overwhelming responsibility for it".

Merely to say that invites intimidation and smear, which, says Yishai Rosen-Zvi, one of the brave Israelis who have refused to serve in the Occupied Territories, "has been the huge bluff of the Israeli establishment. [Every] criticism of its policies is called anti-Semitism, [when] criticising your country's policy is the only patriotic thing that one can do." He said this in my [John Pilger] documentary Palestine Is Still the Issue, which was broadcast on ITV1 last month.


Examples of Israel's "kindness" to Palestinians & Arabs

[the indigenous people on the land the Zionists want]:

An example of Israeli justice, frames from video capture of Jerusalem arrest and execution

10 March 2004 - No Arabic at McDonald's Israel, Al Ahram Weekly (Cairo)
29 October 2003
- 'I saw fit to remove her from the world', By Aviv Lavie and Moshe Gorali. Haaretz.com
28 December 2002 - Palestinian, 9, Killed in Gaza Strip, AP
current - EMS Under Fire, Palestine Red Crescent Society
17 December 2002 - Israeli soldiers prevent medical treatment – two newborn babies die as a result, The Palestine Monitor
03 December 2002
- Family tells how Israelis buried deaf father alive, by Justin Huggler, the Independent
26 November 2002 - Stripping Palestinians has Become Common Practice: Eyewitness Accounts, By Suzanne Russ, Palestine Chronicle

"They forced Yasser to take off all his clothes including his underwear…they ordered him to walk like a dog and then he burst into tears .."


26 November 2002 - Youth stripped naked, made to walk like dog [and killed], Times of Oman
23 November 2002 - I Was Shot While Escorting Jenin's School Children, by Caoimhe Butterly, Counterpunch
16 November 2002 - Rabbi in Hebron Says Annihilation of Non-Jews Acceptable, Palestine Chronicle
4 November 2002
- Amnesty accuses Israel of war crimes in West Bank, by Mark Heinrich, Reuters
1 November 2002 - Israeli police resume dog patrols, by Jamey Keaton, Salon.com
22 October 2002 - Commander charged with torturing Palestinian boy, by Chris McGreal, The Guardian
17 October 2002 - Five Palestinians Killed in Gaza, Say Medics, ABC News
17 October 2002 - Nine children among 16 shot by Israel, iafrica.com
9 October 2002 - Israeli Army Kills 2 Palestinians in Gaza-Witnesses, ABCNews.com
Examples of Hate Speech [against Palestinians]
12 September 2002 - Officers threaten to quit over commander accused of abuse, by Amos Harel, Ha'aretz
9 September 2002 - Arab Israeli stripped of citizenship, BBC News
28 August 2002- Israeli Tank Fire Kills Four in Gaza--Witnesses, Reuters
21 August 2002 - Israel blows up Gaza apartments, USA Today/APOnline
List of Palestinians killed during Al-Aqsa Intifada From September 29, 2000 - June, 2002
12 August 2002 - Jewish settlers seize Palestinian homes in West Bank, Times of India
9 August 2002 - In Response to Suicide Bombings, Israel Tries Targeting Entire Familes, Tampa Bay Online/AP
12 June 2002 - Discrimination in Israeli Law, The Palestine Chronicle
31 May 2002 - "I made them a stadium - in the middle of the camp"; Israeli Soldier Talks About Destroying Jenin, Yediot Aharonot
15 May 1998 - Israel: Torture still used systematically as Israel presents its report to the Committee Against Torture, Amnesty International

"We have to kill all the Palestinians unless they are resigned to live here as slaves."

-- Chairman Heilbrun of the Committee for the Re-election of General Shlomo Lahat, the mayor of Tel Aviv, October 1983.

The Israeli Iron Curtain / Berlin Wall

4 August 2003 - Israel's Anti-Terrorist Barrier - A New Berlin Wall?, Deutsche Welle
1 August 2003
- Is it a Fence? Is it a Wall? No, it's a Separation Barrier, by Nigel Parry, The Electronic Intifada
18 February 2003 - New wall sharpens Arab-Israel divisions, by James Bennet, International Herald Tribune / New York Times


Being anti-zionist is not to be anti-semitic (no matter what Abe Foxman says)

Some libertarians don't want to touch this issue with a ten-foot pole, but let's not be afraid to examine the hard issues in the world. If any other religion or practice had obvious flaws in it that made life difficult for its followers (and anyone in their way), most libertarians are unafraid to examine and condemn it. The Catholics always take a beating for their strange beliefs and presently the media is handing them their head for the results that come from (my opinion) their wacky beliefs about sexuality as it pertains to their leaders (priests, nuns, etc.).

Yet, Abe Foxman of the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) is here to scare anyone away from being critical of Israel in a recent speech, New Excuses, Old Hatred: Worldwide Anti-Semitism In Wake Of 9/11, by Abraham H. Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League. The speech was given before the ADL's National Executive Committee in Palm Beach, Florida, February 8, 2002 (excerpt):

First, let me say anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism, period. There is no debate about that. Remember what anti-Zionism is. Remember when it came out in the UN's "Zionism is racism" resolution. It is pure, simple, unadulterated anti-Semitism.

Just a note and question to be considered from info found on the net:

The Jews have been run out of every country in Europe.
Why? Is it because of their behaviour or is it mere antisemitism?
Read the Babylonian Talmud and learn how the THEM-US (Jew-Goy) mindset produces hatreds.

date and places Jews have been expelled from
Teachings from the Talmud
  • 250 Carthage
  • 414 Alexandria
  • 554 Diocese of Clement (France)
  • 561 Diocese of Uzzes (France)
  • 612 Visigoth Spain
  • 642 Visigoth Empire
  • 855 Italy
  • 876 Sens
  • 1012 Mayence
  • 1181 France
  • 1290 England
  • 1306 France
  • 1348 Switzerland
  • 1349 Heilbronn (Germany)
  • 1350 Hungary
  • 1388 Strassbourg
  • 1394 Germany
  • 1394 France
  • 1422 Austria
  • 1424 Fribourg & Zurich
  • 1426 Cologne
  • 1432 Savory
  • 1438 Mainz
  • 1439 Augsburg
  • 1446 Bavaria
  • 1453 Franconia
  • 1453 Breslau
  • 1454 Würzburg
  • 1485 Vincenza (Italy)
  • 1492 Spain
  • 1495 Lithuania
  • 1496 Portugal
  • 1499 Germany
  • 1514 Strassburg
  • 1519 Regensburg
  • 1540 Naples
  • 1541 Bohemia
  • 1550 Genoa
  • 1551 Bavaria
  • 1555 Pesaro
  • 1559 Austria
  • 1560 Prague
  • 1567 Würzburg
  • 1568 PapalStates
  • 1571 Brandenburg
  • 1582 Netherlands
  • 1593 Brandenburg/Austria
  • 1597 Cremona/Pavia/Lodi
  • 1614 Frankfurt
  • 1615 Worms
  • 1619 Kiev
  • 1649 Ukraine
  • 1654 Little Russia
  • 1655 Lithuania
  • 1669 Oran (Nth.Africa)
  • 1670 Vienna
  • 1712 Sandomir
  • 1727 Russia
  • 1738 Württemberg
  • 1740 Little Russia
  • 1744 Bohemia
  • 1745 Moravia
  • 1753 Kovad (Lithuania)
  • 1761 Bordeaux
  • 1772 Jews deported to the Pale of Settlement - Russia
  • 1775 Warsaw
  • 1789 Alsace
  • 1804 Villages in Russia
  • 1808 Villages & Countryside in Russia
  • 1815 Lübeck, Bremen, Franconia, Swabia, Bavaria
  • 1820 Bremen
  • 1843 Russian border with Austria and Prussia
  • 1862 US areas under Grant’s jurisdiction
  • 1866 Galatz, Romania
  • 1919 Bavarian foreign-born Jews
  • 1938-45 Nazi controlled areas
  • 1948 Arab countries

The Jews refer to the remainder of Earth's inhabitants, the non-Jewish peoples, as "Gentiles", "Goyim". Let's see what the Talmud teaches the Jews concerning the non-Jewish majority, i.e. those who are not part of Jahve's "Chosen People":

"The Jews are called human beings, but the non-Jews are not humans. They are beasts." Talmud: Baba mezia, 114b

"The Akum (non-Jew) is like a dog. Yes, the scripture teaches to honor the dog more than the non-Jew." Ereget Raschi Erod. 22 30.

"Even though God created the non-Jew they are still animals in human form. It is not becoming for a Jew to be served by an animal. Therefore he will be served by animals in human form". Midrasch Talpioth, p. 255, Warsaw 1855

"A pregnant non-Jew is no better than a pregnant animal". Coschen hamischpat 405.

"The souls of non-Jews come from impure sprits and are called pigs". Jalkut Rubeni gadol 12b.

"Although the non-Jew has the same body structure as the Jew, they compare with the Jew like a monkey to a human".  Schene luchoth haberith, p. 250 b.

"If you eat with a Gentile, it is the same as eating with a dog". Tosapoth, Jebamoth 94b.

"If a Jew has a non-Jewish servant or maid who dies, one should not express sympathy to the Jew. You should tell the Jew: "God will replace 'your loss', just as if one of his oxen or asses had died". Jore dea 377, 1.

"Sexual intercourse between Gentiles is like intercourse between animals". Talmud Sanhedrin 74b.

"It is permitted to take the body and the life of a Gentile". Sepher ikkarim III c 25.

"It is the law to kill anyone who denies the Torah. The Christians belong to the denying ones of the Torah".  Coschen hamischpat 425 Hagah 425. 5.

"A heretic Gentile you may kill outright with your own hands".  Talmud, Abodah Zara, 4b.

"Every Jew, who spills the blood of the godless (non-Jews), is doing the same as making a sacrifice to God". Talmud: Bammidber raba c 21 & Jalkut 772.

In Berakoth 58a the Talmud uses Ezekiel 23:20 as proof of the sub-human status of gentiles. It also teaches that anyone (even a Jewish man) who reveals this Talmudic teaching about non-Jews deserves death, since revealing it makes Gentiles wrathful and causes the repression of Judaism.

cited at http://palestiniancommunity.com/articles/Talmud.html


Additional teachings:

Sanhedrin 58b. If a heathen (gentile) hits a Jew, the gentile must be killed.

Sanhedrin 57a . A Jew need not pay a gentile ("Cuthean") the wages owed him for work.

Baba Kamma 37b. "If an ox of an Israelite gores an ox of a Canaanite there is no liability; but if an ox of a Canaanite gores an ox of an Israelite...the payment is to be in full."

Baba Mezia 24a . If a Jew finds an object lost by a gentile ("heathen") it does not have to be returned. (Affirmed also in Baba Kamma 113b).

Sanhedrin 76a. God will not spare a Jew who "marries his daughter to an old man or takes a wife for his infant son or returns a lost article to a Cuthean..."

Sanhedrin 57a . When a Jew murders a gentile ("Cuthean"), there will be no death penalty. What a Jew steals from a gentile he may keep.

Baba Kamma 37b. The gentiles are outside the protection of the law and God has "exposed their money to Israel."

Baba Kamma 113a. Jews may use lies ("subterfuges") to circumvent a Gentile.

Yebamoth 98a. All gentile children are animals.

Abodah Zarah 36b. Gentile girls are in a state of niddah (filth) from birth.

Abodah Zarah 22a-22b . Gentiles prefer sex with cows.

Moed Kattan 17a: If a Jew is tempted to do evil he should go to a city where he is not known and do the evil there.

Menahoth 43b-44a. A Jewish man is obligated to say the following prayer every day: Thank you God for not making me a gentile, a woman or a slave.

Gittin 57b. (Claims that four billion Jews were killed by the Romans in the city of Bethar.)

Gittin 58a. (Claims that 16 million Jewish children were wrapped in scrolls and burned alive by the Romans.)

Is Judaism/Zionism racist?

3 September 2003 - The Rest of the Story, by Mark Glenn, Information Clearing House


Israel against America (and Canada):

spying on the US (and Canada):

19 September 2003 - Spy agency suspects they may be foreign agents; Nine Israelis face deportation, by John Steinbachs and Andrew Seymour, Ottawa Sun
17 December 2002
- Israel is Number One in so many ways- including most spies in the US, by Spy-Swatter, sf.indymedia.org
The 'Israeli Art Student' Files; Media coverage of Israel's underground in the US – and the 9/11 connection
Jonathan Pollard incident

attack on US aircraft:

15 October 2002 - Israel And Sharon Tried To Shoot Down US SR-71 In 1973, by Richard Sale, UPI

The attack on the USS Liberty:

29 April 2002 - NSA Documents Reveal Israeli USS Liberty Attack Deliberate; A new look at Israel's bombing of the USS Liberty, by Eric Margolis, Toronto Sun
Admirals Urge Probe Of Attack On USS Liberty; Three admirals, an ambassador and a wounded survivor are demanding that Congress investigate the attack on the USS Liberty and subsequent cover-up, by James P. Tucker, Jr., American Free Press

Pressure on Congress to investigate Israel’s deliberate attack on the USS Liberty on June 8, 1967, and the cover-up by Washington mounted when ranking military officers gathered in Washington May 14 [2002]to express outrage at the high-level whitewashing of the tragic assault.

22 April 2001 - FEATURE: ISRAEL MEANT TO ATTACK U.S. SHIP; Book Says Israel Intended 1967 Attack on U.S. Ship, by JAMES RISEN, New York Times


US in support of Israel

4 August 2003 - Hidden facts brought out in open, by Najla Al Rostamani, Gulf News

"Of all American presidents, George W. Bush is the most pro-Israeli ever."


Mossad and other Israeli intelligence and murder operations:

17 January 2003 - Watch Your Back; Mossad Assinations on American Soil?, by Justin Raimondo, EtherZone.com
15 January 2003 - Israel to kill in U.S., allied nations, by Richard Sale, UPI
An index of articles on the Mossad, David Irving's Action Report Online

Kidon (''bayonet"), a sub-unit for Mossad's highly secret Metsada department


Remember, this is not an anti-Jewish issue and no one we know of that questions the state of Israel hates Jews or other semitic people - this is an issue questioning the rightness of the creation and perpetuation of a religious state in the midst of other people's lands by seizing those lands and liquidating or driving off the very owners of the land.


Many Jews oppose Israel! (or at least their present policies and leaders).
That's right, they are anti-Zionist!

19 January 2004 - Hate mail Jewish activists opposing the Israeli government's policies face intimidation and harassment via email and on the internet, by Brian Whitaker, Guardian
31 October 2003
- Sharon's newest critic: Israeli army chief, by Cameron W. Barr, The Christian Science Monitor
Jews Burning the Israeli Flag

21 December 2002 - Holocaust Industry and Zionism, by Professor Norman Finklestein, San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center
19 December 2002 - Israel Jails Conscientious Objectors; Set them free! Put Sharon and his partners in crime in jail!, Amnesty International Press Release
18 December 2002 - In Grief, Israeli Family Questions Army Aid to Settlers, by Ian Fisher, New York Times
31 October 2002
- Zionist Media Blackout of Jewish Anti Zionists, posted by: ArtBishop, Rumor Mill News Reading Room
30 September 2002 - Looking Behind Ha'aretz's Liberal Image, by Ran HaCohen, Letter from Israel (antiwar.com)
22 September 2002 - Prosecute Sharon for war crimes, Israeli women say, by Robert Fisk, The Independent
17 September 2002 - The Other Israel: Voices of Refusal and Dissent, by Kathleen Christison, CounterPunch [review of book, ed. by Roane Carey and Jonathan Shainin]

This is the story of Israel's war against the Palestinian nation as told by Israelis who oppose it--who oppose their country's oppressive policies and fear that they are destroying not only the Palestinians but Israel itself. These Israelis have shown themselves uniquely able to see past the national myths that blind most Israelis to their own misguided polices and sustain the blind faith of Israel's American friends in another myth, that of Israel's enduring "goodness."

...Just about everything you ever wanted to know about the occupation, about Israel's efforts to consolidate its control, about its treatment of the Palestinians, about its long-range goals, is here, frankly laid out without excuses or rationalization, without spin. Anthony Lewis begins with an introduction that baldly defines Israel's policy as the permanent assertion of control over and colonization of the occupied territories--a policy that he says guarantees both Palestinian hatred and Israeli insecurity.


13 September 2002 - "The hell with you," he said: Reply to an Israeli Friend, By Henry Makow, Ph.D., Bankindex.com [Jews argue amongst themselves about Zionism]

one friend writes to the other: "Yes, I believe that the people who hold the world's purse strings are responsible for humanity's woes. It's irrelevant that they and their allies are "Jewish" because they exploit Jews and gentiles alike. Zionism is an excellent example of this betrayal. For most Jews, Israel represents a national homeland. Most Israelis would accept peace within the 1967 borders. But this isn't happening because, for its financial sponsors, Israel's purpose is to colonize the Middle East. While Israelis want to live in peace, they are manipulated into playing the role of oppressor."


5/9/2002 - Jewish Rabbi: Israel a state against God!; Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/9/2002 [ can't tell if this is May or September], ArabicNews.com

A prominent Jewish rabbi considered Israel as a state standing "against God, against Torah, and against the Jewish religion." He added that it caused many tragic events to both Palestinians and Jews.

The Zionist movement, he said, that was behind establishing the Israeli state, is based on blood shedding, destruction, killing and terrorism. On the other hand, he supported the right of Palestinians in resistance and restoring their complete usurped homeland.

...Most of the Jews, up to the second world war, the rabbi said, were extremely opposed to the Zionist movement.

They accused Zionists of turning Judaism from a spiritual religion into a racist secular movement.

Theodore Hertzel, founder of the Zionist movement, was not a religious Jewish. He exploited the Jewish religion to distract and misguide the Jews.

The rabbi recalled that the Zionist forces used to blast off the Jewish temples and scare the Jews so that they might emigrate and usurp the land of Palestine from the original owners.

The man squarely accused the Zionists and the occupying Israeli army of committing carnage, heinous massacres against the Palestinian as well as against the Jewish people.

He termed the Palestinian resistance a legitimate action and normal reaction against Zionist offenses.

12 April 2002 - Torah Jews Denounce Israeli State, speech delivered by Rabbi Yisroel P. Feldman of Neturei Karta International, Jews United against Zionism

In addition to condemning the central heresy of Zionism, we also reject its policy of aggression against all peoples. Today this cruelty manifests itself primarily in the brutal treatment of the Palestinian people. We proclaim that this inhuman policy is in violation of the Torah.

The Great Gulf between Judaism and Zionism, Paper delivered by G. J. Neuberger a member of Neturei Karta

A Jewish world organization was founded in 1912 on the German-Polish border with the specific purpose of fighting Zionism. This organization, Agudath Israel, "Union of Israel," was to represent the true Jewish people in the world and to unmask the unwarranted and unjust claims of the Zionists. Rabbis everywhere joined Agudath Israel, as did masses of observant Jews. Anti-Zionist congresses were convened in Vienna and in Marienbad. In countries such as Poland, Agudists were members of parliament. Under Agudah leadership more than 50 years ago, Jews in the Holy Land opposed to Zionism obtained permission from Britain, the mandatory power in Palestine, to declare in writing that they did not wish to be represented by the Zionists or any of their groups, particularly not by the Zionist quasi-governmental organizations such as the Va'ad Leumi, "National Council."

Shortly thereafter, Jacob de Haan, a former distinguished Dutch diplomat who was then leader of Agudath Israel in Palestine, initiated talks with Arab leaders with a view toward the eventual establishments of a state there in which Jews and Arabs would have equal rights. In this way he hoped to forestall the creation of a Zionist state. Despite threats to his life, de Haan, fully aware of the ultimate dangers of a Zionist state, continued his talks and negotiations. On the eve of his departure in 1924 for Britain to meet with authorities there, he was assassinated by the Haganah, the Zionist paramilitary force, in the center of Jerusalem as he came from evening prayers.

9 August 2002 - The Message of the Bulldozer, Ramallah Online

"The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) deplores this week’s decision by the Israeli High Court of Justice...In 1948 Israel played an active role in driving 75% of the Palestinians from the Land. Over the next four or five years the bulldozer, following the tank, systematically demolished 418 Palestinian villages. Since 1967, as Israel’s tanks suppress Palestinian resistance to the Occupation with increasing frequency and ferocity, its bulldozers (aided by artillery and missiles) have demolished more than 9000 Palestinian homes and counting."

Others oppose Israel:

27 October 2002 - Canadian Jews are incensed as Quebec union calls to boycott Israel, by Bram Eisenthal, Jewish Telegraph Agency


Notes on Anti-semitism:

17 August 2003 - How to Reduce Anti-semitism, Dr. Henry Makow, Save the Males
21 October 2002
- Robert Fisk: How to shut up your critics with a single word, The Independent
25 July 2002 - Orwellian Anti-Semitism, John Chuckman, YellowTimes.org
David Irving's running list: An Index on Possible Causes and Origins of the Ugly and Irrational Phenomenon Known as anti-Semitism.


Books and articles by Jews about their opposition to Zionism:

17 February 2003 - The Amazing Warnings Of Benjamin Freedman, rense.com
Ralph Schoenman, The Hidden History of Zionism (1988)


Most Jews are not semitic!

3 August 2003 - DNA helps unscramble the puzzles of ancestry, by Stephen Magagnini, Sacramento Bee

Alanya Snyder, a Jewish middle school teacher in Oakland, had her DNA tested as a wedding present and discovered she matches people from central Asia.

The news thrilled Snyder's mother, Carel Bertram, a San Francisco State professor with a lifelong love of Turkic art and culture. Bertram suspects she and Snyder are descendants of the Khazars, a Turkic-speaking group that converted to Judaism about A.D. 750 and later was conquered by the Kiev Rus, or early Russians.

 


Opinion

13 August 2003 - The Bully Whines, Hanan Ashrawi, The Daily Star
27 July 2002
- This Really Needs To Be Said...Heavy Words Or Heavy Actions -Stop US Weapons Sales To Israel !, Frida Berrigan, World Policy Institute, BankIndex


other pages of interest:

 

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