Lord Herbert wrote on Aug 7^th, 2014 at 8:24pm:


is that what you got from it ?

ok thanks for the answer ...

many blessings

namaste

- : ) =

bummer

it_is_the_light wrote on Aug 7^th, 2014 at 8:27pm:


If the Jews were unreasonable with their military action ~ then let them be taken to the international court at The Hague for a dissection of everything that took place on both sides of the border.

It's crucial to the whole debate for those on both sides of the argument to acknowledge that Hamas deliberately deployed their rocketry and their arsenal of weapons in amongst the civilian population.

It also bears remembering that Israel gave forewarning of its bombings and rocket attacks.

It's not a perfect world. Some mistakes were made.

The mistake Hamas made was to 'tease' Israel with thousands of rockets without any provocation.

Lord Herbert wrote on Aug 7^th, 2014 at 8:46pm:


At least we can have a bit of a laugh on such a sad topic:

it_is_the_light wrote on Aug 7^th, 2014 at 2:39pm:


But not moving as fast as the cowardly terrorist rocket crew though eh.

Lord Herbert wrote on Aug 7^th, 2014 at 8:46pm:


Says the J. Edgar Hoover of the board.

Israeli soldiers abduct 11 Palestinians in West Bank

Israeli forces have stormed a number of houses across the occupied West Bank, abducting at least 11 Palestinians and injuring several others.

According to local news and security sources, Israeli forces stormed a house in the city of al-Khalil (Hebron), arresting Ibrahim Jaber, who had been released in a 2011 prison swap.

Four others, including another former prisoner, were arrested in the town of Dura after Israeli forces stormed their houses, causing property damage. The men were reportedly assaulted before being taken away.

In the northern West Bank city of Jenin, three Palestinians were also kidnapped after the villages of Silat al-Harithiya, Kafr Dan, and Faqqua were raided.

At Za’tara checkpoint, located to the south of the city of Nablus, Israeli soldiers abducted 17-year-old Beirut Ali Mohammad. Reports indicate she was released hours later.

Two others were also abducted in the district of Bethlehem and the village of Baqa Ash-Sharqiya.

Tensions have been running high in the occupied West Bank since Israel launched a deadly military operation against Gaza on July 8.

The violent arrests come amid a 72-hour humanitarian truce between Israel and the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas.

The Israeli regime’s 29 days of military attacks against the Gaza Strip claimed the lives of nearly 1,900 Palestinians, including more than 400 children, and wounded over 9,500 others.

The Virtue & Necessity Of
Deconstructing 'Anti-Semitism'
By Mark Green
8-4-14


Those of us who dare to criticize Israel's centrality in American life are at a real disadvantage. We are disgusted by what we see, but contemporary protocol requires us to show respect and tolerance to the very people who inspire the disgust in the first place. Worse still, our tormentors have no reciprocal obligation for civility. The deck of cards in this dispute is stacked. Saying the wrong word, uttering an incorrect phrase, and one can be tarred as a disreputable 'Anti-Semite', which has become the scarlet letter of our time.

Have Jews been mistreated, shunned, defamed and killed? Certainly. Have Jews done the same? Most definitely. And to make mattes worse, they're still at it. Unfortunately, 'post-Holocaust' rules of discourse now dictate extreme rhetorical deference on this subject. This favors the opposition. There are linguistic land-mines everywhere. And they're been laid out almost exclusively by the other team. Fortunately, one Jewish blogger has recently provided the non-Jewish world with a 19-point guide on what NOT say about Jews and Israel if you wish to avoid the stigma of 'anti-Semitism' (this-is-not-jewish.tumblr.com/post/34344324495/how-to-criticize-israel-without-
being-anti-semitic).

But as Gaza burns and Israeli criminalty goes unpunished, the time has come to turn the tables on the world's most privileged victims. What, for instance, would happen if Jews were reduced to being treated and viewed just like normal, average, everyday human beings? Think of it. The repercussions would be colossal. All special political and cultural considerations that presently confer privilege on Israel and its minions would be ended. US sovereignty could be restored. Perhaps even justice and the rule of law could guide our nation's policies in the Middle East. Might censorious speech codes even be repealed? It's possible.

I concede that this is a radical proposal. There would surely be 'outrage' from the usual suspects. But the present levels of privilege, benefits and deference now accorded global Jewry are wreaking havoc on humanity. And in no small way, I blame entrenched 'anti-Semitic theory' for this, since it is an ideology that denies the yin and yang (or the sharing of any blame) within the historic narrative that purports to fully explain the enduring tensions between gentiles and Jews. Entrenched anti-Semitic theory also confers perennial 'victim status' on Jews. They're all 'survivors'. Is this conclusion really justified? In any event, the political payoff is enormous and across-the-board.

Anti-Semitic theory therefore is Zionist trope. Even the term 'anti-Semitism' is a ruse. After all, the intermittent animus directed towards Jews has has little to do with their Semitic origins or even 'Semitism' itself--whatever that may be. Arabs, of course, are a Semitic people; yet Americans are continuously steered towards mistrusting or despising them.

Another fallacy that's baked into anti-Semitic theory is the contention that irrational gentile 'prejudice' and the unflattering characterization of Jews in the New Testament are the primary sources of modern 'anti-Semitism'. Those explanations are pure kosher boloney.

Entrenched Jewish privilege also flies in the face of the 'equal treatment' clause of the US Constitution since it provides special consideration and unique assistance to one ethno-religious group operating out of Tel Aviv but living everywhere from NY to Singapore. Anti-Semitic theory has also laid the groundwork for America's unconditional 'special relationship' with Israel. And it advances the astonishing view that Jews are never safe and that they always deserve special consideration and unique protections.

As for the intermittent discord between the two parties (Jews/gentiles), anti-Semitic theory strategically places blame. It is a one-sided and self-exonerating exercise. Thus, anti-Semitic theory functions as a bracing ideology within a larger power structure that includes formal lobbying organizations such as AIPAC, ADL, ZOA, AJC, WINEP, CPMJO, SPLC, AEI and scores more.

Regarding the aforementioned guide (for gentiles) on 'How to Criticize Israel without Being Anti-Semitic', this manual is designed for one thing: to constrict and manipulate political discourse. It is emblematic of a broader movement whose objective is to convince its target audience (non-Jewish whites) that self-censorship (at the very least) must be imposed on all individuals whose political talking points 'aren't fair' to Jews, 'aren't completely true' about Jews, and should therefore be eschewed by non-Jews if they want to avoid the stigma of anti-Semitism. These prescribed 'dos' and 'don'ts' are not only hair-splitting, but insufferably self-serving. These thinly-veiled speech codes will never end until non-Jews reject them aggressively and categorically.

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