Jews Against Secular Jewish Nationalism

JERUSALEM, 25 October (IRIN) - Dozens of patients in the Gaza Strip are unable to receive medical treatment, in some cases life-saving procedures, due to the continued border closures with Israel and Egypt, health officials and international aid workers said. “At least three patients denied exit permits have died since June, and others have lost limbs or sight,” Human Rights Watch reported. The Palestinian organization Al Mezan in Gaza said a fourth man, Nimir Muhammad Shuheibar, aged 77, died on 23 October while awaiting treatment. Shadi Yassin, a spokesman for the Israeli Civil Administration in Gaza, said he was unaware of deaths due to the restrictions. The Israel Medical Association said it “regards the access to healthcare services as a fundamental right of all persons and therefore takes the current situation very seriously.” The Rafah Crossing to Egypt, the only one from Gaza to points outside Israel, has been closed since 9 June. Patients who would have gone to Egypt for treat...

39 percent (372,000) of Jerusalem’s 800,000 residents are Palestinian, but the municipal budget allocates only 10% of its budget to them. [71]

Goldstein slaughtered 29 Muslims as they prayed in a mosque. His matzaivah describes him as a kadosh and a tzadick. We criticize the Arabs for naming parks after terrorists. So this isn't a government park you'll say. Still, you see the mentality of his family and likely their friends.Are we so different?

That's what I have been taught my whole life, that I am part of the superior race. Smarter, more just, more compassionate, harder working, more energetic, more moral - and not just more, but much more, incomparably more. Those goyim. Those Nazis. They are all so bad. How did they all stand by and let us get killed? And I find myself asking the same question of the Jews in my community. Don't you realize what our armies are doing in the territories? Do you grasp what kind of damage ten to twenty thousand tons of explosives can do to civilian populations. The explosive power is roughly that of the Atomic bomb that the Americans dropped on Hiroshima. 16,000 homes were destroyed. Would you like to see pictures of the dead children in Gaza, all 500 of them? No, they don't want to see it. They like life in Berlin. They are proud of their powerful fighting force that takes on all the enemies of the world, those commies, those Jews, all the world that is out to persecute us. We are...

from CNN (CNN)  A court in Jerusalem has found that the wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu humiliated and degraded a government caretaker in her home and has awarded the worker 80,000 shekels, or about $20,500, for emotional distress. Court awards damages to worker humiliated by Israeli Prime Minister's wife The court also ruled that the worker, Menachem Naftali, was tricked by an employee in the Prime Minister's office into believing he would get a permanent position. And for that misrepresentation, the court awarded Naftali 75,000 shekels, or about $19,200. The ruling gave a damning description of the behavior of Sara Netanyahu. Prime Minister cleared of libel allegation "Much evidence was brought before the court that pointed to the fact that there were harmful conditions of work because of the behavior of Mrs. Netanyahu and her relations to the workers," the judgment said. "These included exaggerated demands, degradation, humiliation and expres...

Nigel Parry   The Electronic Intifada   20 March 2002 Many unwitting journalists and politicians continue to reproduce the baseless Israeli claim that former Prime Minister Ehud Barak was “generous” in an “unprecedented” way in the offer he made to the Palestinians at Camp David. In a example from an Associated Press report of 20 March 2002, entitled “Gore mixes humor with serious remarks”: Al Gore mixed self-deprecating humor with a serious call for peace in the Middle East during a keynote speech at a fund-raiser for The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles. Gore told the crowd of about 950 on Tuesday that leaders in the Middle East must step up to end 18 months of Palestinian-Israeli violence. He said the cycle of violence began when Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat rejected an “extremely generous” peace settlement offered by then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak during the Clinton administration. “We must and will stand by the people of Israel,” Gore said. “...

Read Ownership of land in Palestine, Share of Palestinian Arabs and Jews as of April 1st, 1943 Category of land (Fiscal categories) Palestinians & others Jews Total Dunums (1000 sq. meters) Urban 76,662 70,111 146,773 Citrus 145,572 141,188 286,760 Bananas 2,300 1,430 3,730 Rural built-on area 36,851 42,330 79,181 Plantation 1,079,788 95,514 1,175,302 Cereal land (taxable) 5,503,183 814,102 6,317,285 Cereal land (not taxable) 900,294 51,049 951,343 Uncultivable 16,925,805 298,523 17,224.328 Total area: 24,670,455 1,514,247 26,184,702 Percentage 94.22% 5.8% 100% Roads, railways, rivers, and lakes 135,803 Total Area including roads, railways, etc. 26,320,505

I used to go by a theory about why Israelis seemed to me to be the nastiest, rudest, and most arrogant people I knew. It was just the ones who came to America. The good ones wouldn't want to leave. The bad ones came to America for riches. Now, this wasn't my theory. It was supplied to me by a religious Zionist, that major source of foolishness in the Orthodox world. They forever make excuses for the results of the Zionist fiasco. So coming to Israel I have learned of course that this theory is a self-serving fantasy. The Israelis here might even be worse than the ones in America, because obviously they are encouraged by other Israelis. In America, they are asked to tone it down a little. We see here one of the dangers of pseudo-intellectualism, which is rife in the frum world. You pose a theory and just as well could have juggled your words a bit differently and come up with an opposing view. It's all a matter of supporting your indulgences. So what happens to a person when...

Jews needs Torah and mitzvos. That's what my bones have learned. I knew the concept. Now I really know it, well more than I used to. Without Torah, our incredible energies become wild. We destroy the world as the Talmud says. So God expelled us from the land for the shortcomings in our observance. And we went from the authority of Torah to the authority of gentiles. The latter is actually a preferable situation to life without any authority, which is the case in the State of Israel today The early settlers of the 19th century were non-believers. And they came here to set up their own atheistic country. They had wanted to be gentiles in Europe but the Europeans only let them be peasants. They wanted to be royalty, but not regular royalty. They wanted to be gentiles, but not the normal gentile, who was a practicing Xtian or Muslim.  Jews rarely actually want to be purely gentile. They wanted to be Jewish gentiles. They want it all, a life of olam hazeh, with minimal duties but to ret...

That's the line one hears often in the Jewish world and one I heard when presenting to somebody my murder rate statistics from the prior post. It's not a good answer because the point was never that 27 deaths a year is not a tragedy, just that it doesn't justify turning an entire culture on its head by spending so much energy on the military and keeping 5 million people, more than 1/2 the population of Israel, in captivity and policing them. But while we are on the subject, do we care more about human life? Israel spends 18 billion a year, 10% of government spending, on defense, drafts every young person to military, and requires men to do yearly service until they are 40. Military culture here dominates everything. Yet, the country has 6 MRI machines. There were lots more MRI machines than that within 5 miles of me in America. Do I have to say any more? Is that a country that values human life? What about the highway driving which leads to over 200 deaths. What about the m...

List of countries by intentional homicide rate Rate per 100,000 people Top Ten UNODC  murder rates. Most recent year Country  (or  dependent territory , subnational  area, etc.) Rate Count Region Subregion Year listed Notes Honduras 84.3 6,757 Americas Central America 2013 Venezuela 53.7 16,072 Americas South America 2012 United States Virgin Islands  ( US ) 52.6 56 Americas Caribbean 2010 Belize 45.1 145 Americas Central America 2012 El Salvador 39.8 2,499 Americas Central America 2013 Jamaica 39.3 1,087 Americas Caribbean 2012 Lesotho 38.0 764 Africa Southern Africa 2010 Guatemala 34.6 5,155 Americas Central America 2012 Swaziland 33.8 416 Africa Southern Africa 2012 Saint Kitts and Nevis 33.6 18 Americas Caribbean 2012 120-130 Maldives 3.9 13 Asia Southern Asia 2012 United States 3.8 12,253 Americas Northern America 2013 Uzbekistan 3.7 1,060 Asia Central Asia 2012 Timor-Leste 3.6 39 Asia South-Eastern Asia 2010 Belarus 3.6 340 Europe Eastern Europe 2012 Kosov...