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11 Friday Jul 2014

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Reminder: http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300127270 & http://www.meforum.org/522/the-smoking-gun-arab-immigration-into-palestine The easy story that makes thugs of Jews and victims of innocent Palestinian, may not be the true story — and it’s not: “The Palestinians who were forced out of their homes . . . .”  What about the Palestinians who fled their homes in advance of Arab columns and the promised destruction of Israel and the Jews?  How is it that Arab Muslims and Christians came to comprise 20 percent of Israel’s fully enfranchised citizenry?  What does one make of the camps of Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan, and Syria (yesterday’s Syria) in which Arab states have penned and manipulated and diminished the very people their armies abandoned in the field?

The prompt was the opening sentence of a bit of advice to the Palestinian leadership.

Around thugs, I suppose, it’s easier to live with a loyal lie — and attempt to live out that lie — than it is to wrestle with an uncomfortable but reliable truth.

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10 Thursday Jul 2014

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http://gulfnews.com/news/region/palestinian-territories/man-found-tortured-to-death-in-gaza-1.1262788 — “If I am not for others, what am I? If not now, when?”

When: Syria? When: Iraq? When: Gaza?

While Israel may grow against a barbarian foe — because the barbarian, despite the massive whining, can never win the sympathy of a decent heart anywhere, not even in his own yard — one may wonder at what point the same needs to be removed from power.

Done.

Finished.

Never Again.

This is not only about Jews or Israelis (who are Jewish and Christian and Muslim and from many, many points of origin, including in the modern population continuously from the land itself), but about a class of refugees cynically abused by their Arab handlers and their thugs.

“Reading” keeps taking place at the computer . . . .

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End The Preoccupation!

08 Tuesday Jul 2014

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“Hamas slammed Israel for the escalation.  Spokesman Sami Abu Zori: We will continue to defend our people against these crimes.  We warn the occupation not to continue its crimes against our people, and we assure the resistance is ready to defend (against) this aggression.”

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/08/us-palestinians-israel-idUSKBN0FC0JP20140708 – 7/8/2014.

Tally from recent days —

Three Israeli teens kidnapped and murdered;

Today alone, more than 120 rocket attacks launched on Israel since midnight;

One assault on Israel by sea and another by tunnel.

Related:

It is unclear, as of this posting, if the explosion was an intentional method of breaking out of the tunnel within Israeli territory.

Residents are being told to shelter in place, as initial reports indicate heavy exchanges of gunfire, and IDF helicopters hovering in the vicinity.

http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/07/08/israelis-near-southern-gaza-in-shelters-during-possible-terrorist-infiltration/ -7/8/2014.

In longitudinal time, the numbers reflecting assaults on Israel’s sovereignty also describe provocation for today’s “exchanges”: http://www.shabak.gov.il/ENGLISH/ENTERRORDATA/Pages/default.aspx

Related (from June 29, 2014): http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/06/29/isis-now-openly-operating-in-gaza-flags-seen-waving-at-funeral-video/

Israel’s former Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren stepped out on rooftop in Tel Aviv to tell the world in a proprietary Facebook video, ” ” . . . also out having fun . . . going about their lives normally . . . we will not letter terror . . . deprive us of the joys of life . . . .’ ”

“We will not tolerate rocket fire against our cities and townships, and therefore I ordered a significant broadening of IDF (Israel Defense Force) operations against the terrorists of Hamas and other terror groups in the Gaza Strip,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/08/israel-launches-military-offensive_n_5565848.html – 7/8/2014.

Loosely related to “Hamafia”: http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/steve-feldman/gaza-prison-or-paradise/ – 11/14/2012.

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07 Monday Jul 2014

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Hebrew culture has place x calendar and customs x language x religion and because of traditional tribal transmission, it’s generations may be schooled in “the old ways” with not much discomfort. However, large groups have converted, and in modern times the Abuydaya — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abayudaya — converted as a whole people and continue in the path.

Dispersion (into the “Diaspora”) alters land and language relationships, and, indeed, Jewish identity has suffered recession through intermarriage and national identification in other lands. Nonetheless, as may Shia, Jews worldwide have long taken measures to remain Jews, rejecting conversions en masse, maintaining language knowledge and customs, and sustaining identification with the Land of Israel.

As such affiliations go down to the bone, part of the genocidier’s motivation wants sheer sadistic control and humiliation, i.e., more than eliminating the presence of this “other”, the murderer has in mind the theft of the humanity and dignity of the same.

Some thoughts — probably most of mine — just get too long for Facebook.  A thread wants for a few words, not whole essays.  The above was on the way toward discussing the Islamic overlay over many distinctive cultures across feudal-to-modern history.

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Source: Philips, Abu Ameenah Bilal.  The Fundamentals of Tawheed (Islamic Monotheism).  Pp. 65, 66. Second Edition. Riyadh: International Islamic Publishing House, 2005.

My parents did not make me a Jew.

God did.

Imagine, however, the insecure parent obsessed with power and control over progeny.  Trust is given, but dependence must be cultivated, and in the trust-me voice of the father, the child is told ” . . . the child is not strong enough in the early stages of its life to resist or oppose its parents”, which presumptuously impugns the authority of other parents, but the writer being a parent too, either in fact or in spirit, may not be immune from his own declaration.

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Cynically Scripted? East Jerusalem Riots

04 Friday Jul 2014

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Hate, mindless hate, manipulated, ignorant, pointless would seem to course through East Jerusalem at the moment.

While police continue to investigate the murder of 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir, rioting crowds have erupted in East Jerusalem on the assumption — no evidence — that the crime must relate directly to revenge associated with the murder of three Israeli teens.

Posted to YouTube yesterday:

By AFP yesterday:

Posted to YouTube about an hour ago.

The basis: martyrdom, for the sake of martyrdom.

Without investigation, without process in the courts, the explanations for the murder are many, including a Palestinian false-flag operation to provoke and condone today’s rioting.

Prove it’s not so.

Prove the Palestinians now rioting are not being played into doing just that by their own handlers.

No investigation?

No proof of anything.

Additional Reference

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-braces-as-palestinians-bury-mohammed-abu-khdeir-jerusalem/ 7/4/7014.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/07/02/benjamin-netanyahu-warns-vigilantes-against-trying-to-avenge-slain-israeli-teens-after-abducted-arab-boy-reportedly-found-dead-in-jerusalem-forest/ – 7/3/3014.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.602736 – 7/3/2014.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-braces-as-palestinians-bury-mohammed-abu-khdeir-jerusalem/ – 7/3/2014.

http://www.jpost.com/National-News/Comment-After-the-horror-361106 – 7/1/2014.

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02 Wednesday Jul 2014

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And just a moment on the murder of an Arab teen in the vicinity of Jerusalem, an abhorrent act some — not only some Muslims, Jews as well — have skidded into calling an act of revenge far in advance of investigation. My response elsewhere to that:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/riots-in-east-jerusalem-after-body-of-arab-teen-found/ with some events, passions overrule reason — and due process of law. However, so the second part of the headline screams, “Netanyahu calls for swift probe into ‘abominable murder’ of Arab 16-year-old . . . .”

This is the argument against all vigilantism: First, make good law; then let the forces upholding that law do their work.

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02 Wednesday Jul 2014

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Excerpted from a gem of an essay —

Said rolled American racism and European colonialism into one mélange of white oppression of darker-skinned peoples. He was not the only thinker to have forged this amalgam, but his unique further contribution was to represent “Orientals” as the epitome of the dark-skinned; Muslims as the modal Orientals; Arabs as the essential Muslims; and, finally, Palestinians as the ultimate Arabs. Abracadabra—Israel was transformed from a redemptive refuge from two thousand years of persecution to the very embodiment of white supremacy.

Muravchik, Joshua.  “Enough Said: The False Scholarship of Edward Said.”  World Affairs, March/April 2013.

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17 Tuesday Jun 2014

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We touched on this theme briefly at a synagogue planning meeting last night. In addition to reaching communities at the edges of our regional service area and bringing in also unaffiliated Jews, there was mention of the want of the passion to promote the distinctive wonderful qualities of the Jews as a community.

Not yet approached but on my mind very much as the very stamp of the “secularized” (in truth, I believe) American Jew: I want a Judaism and Jewish ethos more easily accessed and enjoyed on a more universalized basis. I’m not particularly Christian-friendly in this and also flatly reject Muhammad’s all-of-the-prophets-were-Muslim confusion, but as Judaism promotes a deep ethical and moral conversation between man and God and man and man, it may be a beacon beyond itself.

Generals Constantine and Muhammad built empires on the backbone of the Torah, but perhaps they did not build a better backbone in thought themselves.

With that said, “Jewish rejectionism” (of other faiths) also inspires anti-Semitic sentiment. A more welcoming religion might offset that.

A “beacon beyond itself’ — Judaism and the great conversation it invokes has been that, the basis for three great religions and inseparable from them.

No Moses?

No Muhammad.

It’s that simple.

Why not revisit the qualities of the base?

I’m a little more than half way through Fassihi’s book on Iraq — it seems I have mostly experienced the world through the technology of the the book, thousands of them — and when I’m done, I may well trim back to a second tour through the Torah.

In the process of this thinking out loud, I shared the draft with multifaith chaplain and writer Diane Weber Bederman,  who then responded in this way:

I don’t see Judaism as rejectionist. I see it as a religion that says, believe in your God. The Noachide laws. It is a trusting religion that trusts in your beliefs. Unlike others who demean other religions we accept them That is the revolutionary change that Jews brought out of the desert. Caring for the other. Not by changing the other but by accepting the other. Which must not be confused with moral and cultural relativism

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