On the lamb….A rather ingenious, but vaguely anti-semitic piece to come out of Haaretz in Israel. And they wonder why less than 5% of Israeli’s read it and its going broke. For external consumption to a base of Heidegger style “deep ecology” humanism mated to various strains of white post-humanism, post-Zionism, post-Judaism, post-brains…Everything is reduced to biology. The old battle of the womb. There is a legitimacy at heart in Leftist attacks on Israel, a dislike of Imperialism, colonialism and the entire ethos of the Zionist project; what is peculiar is that the Anna Baltzers, Finkelsteins and this entire industry of dissent, talking heads, puts such effort into shaping, sculpting and modeling the facts to fit the theories and remove inconvenient contexts. Also, their basis of departure is based on the same hyper-secular premises that defined Zionism which in the end seems more to resemble a family spat between parents and off-spring than a legitimate effort to transcend the intractable…
—In the years after the Holocaust, which destroyed the centres of Jewish religious life in Eastern Europe, ultra-Orthodoxy was widely eulogized as a fading remnant. Yet, with heroic persistence, the remnant rebuilt its communal life. Today, the ultra-Orthodox – known as Haredim, those who fear God – are about 10 per cent of Israeli society, with the country’s highest birth rate. Some demographers predict that, if current trends continue, Haredim could reach 30 per cent of the population within 50 years.
Most Haredi young men don’t work or serve in the military – mandatory for other young Israeli men – but devote themselves to religious study, supported by their wives and state subsidies. Historically, there has never been a Jewish community wholly centred around full-time Torah study. Indeed, Jewish tradition is replete with warnings against Torah scholars avoiding employment.
As an initial response to the Holocaust, the Haredi violation of that ethos was perhaps understandable. But Israeli society can no longer afford to subsidize the massive Haredi exclusion from the work force or the military.—Read More:http://m.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/israel-faces-up-to-religious-extremism/article1358751/?service=mobile image:http://www.internationalpolicydigest.org/2012/01/04/womens-rights-in-israel-is-iran-closer-then-we-think/
from Akiva Eldar, another Golem maker who builds his own reality out of clay. A Golem monster who is fighting apartheid….A bit like the Origami concept; one lie folded over is like the strength of more than three lies…( see link at end)…Amid a dry economic report published yesterday in TheMarker lies an official announcement/acknowledgment of unparalleled importance: The government of Israel confirms that between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River there is no longer a Jewish majority. In other words, in the territory under Israel’s jurisdiction a situation of apartheid exists. A Jewish minority rules over an Arab majority….
—And what about this figure of 12 million? According to the CIA’s World Factbook, some 1.7 million Palestinians live in the Gaza Strip, and another 2.3 million live in the West Bank. Another 1.6 million Arabs live in Israel proper (according to the April 25 CBS press release that Eldar cites.) If we count only those Arabs living under Israeli rule (meaning in Israel and the West Bank), we reach 3.8 million. (And this figure does not take into account that the vast majority of the West Bank Palestinian population lives in Area A, or entirely under Palestinian Authority rule.) Moreover, even if we do add in the 1.7 Gaza Palestinians, who clearly do not “liv[e] under Israeli rule,” we reach only 5.5 million Arabs — still less than the 5.9 million Israeli Jews living in Israel, plus Judea and Samaria, or the West Bank.—Read More:http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&x_outlet=55&x_article=2306 image:http://contact.photoshelter.com/image/I0000qoGFrMaayyo
—Several years ago this reporter began receiving email correspondence from Lamb, who was determined to convert her from her “misguided Zionism.” In a quirky effort to impress, Lamb sent various pictures of himself in and around Hezbollah bunkers. In his piece de resistance, Lamb proudly sent a picture of himself with one of the most evil men to walk the planet, Samir Kuntar.
At age 16, Kuntar led a group of terrorists who infiltrated Israel from Lebanon. They killed a police officer, and then kidnapped a man and his 4 year old daughter. When the Israelis closed in, Kuntar shot the father in the back of the head, in front of the child, and then smashed the child’s head against a rock, using his rifle butt. Kuntar was released by Israel in 2008, in exchange for the bodies of Eldad Regev and Udi Goldwasser, whose kidnapping helped spark the Second Lebanon War.—Read More:http://www.jewishpress.com/news/hezbollah-supporter-franklin-lamb-urging-the-us-to-forge-israel-free-mid-east/2012/09/04/0/
…According to the Central Bureau of Statistics (which is subordinate to the Prime Minister’s Office ), of the 12 million residents living under Israeli rule, the number of Jews is just under 5.9 million (as of April 25 ). Twelve million minus 5.9 million Jews equals 6.1 million non-Jews. In other words, between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, there is a pretty Jewish state as far as its laws and customs, but the reality is not so democratic. Foreign sources report that Jews had already become a minority in the area of the greater Land of Israel several years ago. From now on, it is an official statistic.
—Belgium – Citing environmental laws, a Jewish resident of Antwerp is considering filing charges against a group of Satmar chasidim who burned an Israeli flag after a Lag B’Omer bonfire last Thursday.
According to reports in Belgian news source Joods Actueel, a neighbor took photos of the flag burning which took place at the Satmar synagogue located on Jacob Jacobstraat. According to Belgian law, burning a sheet or a cloth without a permit is a punishable offense, even when done on private property.
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Anti zionistic demonstrations by Jews are rare in Belgium and the exclusion of a Neturei Karta member from a synagogue in Antwerp two years ago was a source of controversy.
“In Judaism there is no room for hatred,” said David Terry, general manager of the Jewish News. “Do these people forget that Jews were burned in Auschwitz? We must always strive for reconciliation, not this kind of malice.”—Read More:http://www.vosizneias.com/106241/2012/05/13/belgium-satmar-chasidim-face-possible-legal-action-following-israeli-flag-burning/
There will certainly be those who argue that the 12 million includes the resident of the Gaza Strip, which Israel evacuated, and that I should have deducted 1.5 million people from the number of non-Jewish residents. But the 12 million, which does happen to include the residents of the Gaza Strip, is an official figure appearing on Ministry of Finance stationery. If this population “is not considered” for purposes of the demographic balance, the Finance Ministry should be so kind as to deduct it from the limit for receiving the tax breaks and from the balance of its income. Read More:http://www.haaretz.com/news/features/the-jewish-majority-is-history.premium-1.470233
—…To summarize, Akiva Eldar took an unsubstantiated figure which appeared in The Marker (12 million residents from the Jordan River to the sea) and attributed this figure to the Ministry of Finance and the Central Bureau of Statistics, two governmental bodies, despite the fact that neither of them mentioned the figure. And, based on these journalistic acrobatics, we have the false headline “The government’s acknowledgement that Jews are a minority in this land. . . “
…Why did Eldar invest so much effort into manipulating this data? The answer appears in the online subheadline, which posits that even the Israeli government acknowledges that “apartheid is here.” Appealing to the most rabid anti-Israel activists, Ha’aretz pulls the “apartheid” genie out of the bottle, all by relying on an incorrect, unsubstantiated figure falsely attributed to the government. Ha’aretz knows precisely for whom they are writing overseas, and Eldar knows how to deliver.—Read More:http://elderofziyon.blogspot.ca/ image:http://benatlas.com/2009/08/life-in-israel-in-1948-part-3/
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