Jews Against Nationalism

Atzmon began his IDF training in June 1981, and succeeded in wangling a position within the Israel Defense Forces Orchestra. He explains this as a reflection of the fact that '’(p)laying scales at the speed of light seemed to me far more important than killing Arabs in the name of Jewish suffering.’ Three weeks before the end of his tour of duty, in the wake of the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, his troupe visited Israel's Ansar internment camp in the south of that country. Retrospectively, this was, he writes, a 'life-changing' experience, coming into direct contact with the conditions of captured Palestinians, some locked in solitary confinement in what he took at first to be 1 metre square concrete boxes for guard dogs. During a guided tour, he states that, as he peered across the barbwire at the POWs, he felt that ‘the place was a concentration camp. The inmates were the 'Jews', and I was nothing but a ‘Nazi’.'[19] As soon as he was demobbed from the

And this is what Rabban Yochanan ben Zakai heard: There is a snake in Yerushalyim that has twined its body around the Beis ha-Mikdash and for generations attempts have been made to loosen their hold on the sanctuary, but to no avail. You know who the snake was? The Tzaduckim and the Hurhadaisim. The Tzaduckim and the Hurhadaisim. I'll explain that. It's very important because there are analogies to that today. Today a snake has coiled itself around Eretz Yisroel. Not the Arabs. The Arabs we can compare to the Romans. The Arabs certainly would like to destroy everything chas v'shalom. But there's a snake coiled around Eretz Yisroel, worse than the snake that existed then. The atheists who are in authority, who rule Medinas Yisroel are the most dangerous serpent that ever came out from our midst. ( Rabbi Avigdor Miller, The Keg and the Serpent, Tape# 52, 11:06.)

http://www.nytimes.com/1982/08/21/world/excerpts-from-begin-speech-at-national-defense-college.html EXCERPTS FROM BEGIN SPEECH AT NATIONAL DEFENSE COLLEGE Special to the New York Times Published: August 21, 1982 FACEBOOK TWITTER GOOGLE+ EMAIL SHARE PRINT REPRINTS JERUSALEM, Aug. 20—   Following are excerpts from the text of a speech made Aug. 8 by Prime Minister Menachem Begin at the National Defense College and published today in The Jerusalem Post: The Second World War, which broke out on Sept. 1, 1939, actually began on March 7, 1936. If only France, without Britain (which had some excellent combat divisions), had attacked the aggressor, there would have remained no trace of Nazi German power and a war which, in three years, changed the whole of human history, would have been prevented. This therefore, is the international example that explains what is war without choice, or a war of one's choosing. Let us turn from the international

As soon as you use the words 'ilk' and 'parasite' we are off to a bad start because you are being derogatory without even hearing the other side's reason. I hope you don't do that at home. One has to put aside the wild emotions and romantic talk and look at fact and argument. You use a lot of buzz words like "defend Israel" that get the heart pumping but is it rational? Many a nation has gotten itself into stupid wars with these man crushes on the military. Example, the USA and World War One. The USA and the war in Iraq. The USA and Vietnam. Israel has not had a war in 40 years. And even the war in '73 was avoidable as Egypt wanted the land back that was taken in '67 and announced for two years its intention to attack. The Camp David accord which followed was what they had asked for and we've had peace with Egypt ever since. In '67 Israel attacked knowing that Egypt was not going to. Begin admitted that. So 70 years since a war. An

"Israelis liked to believe, and tell the world, that they were running an "enlightened" or "benign" occupation, qualitatively different from other military occupations the world had seen. The truth was radically different. Like all occupations, Israel's was founded on brute force, repression and fear, collaboration and treachery, beatings and torture chambers, and daily intimidation, humiliation, and manipulation." Israeli historian Benny Morris, Righteous Victims, p. 341

This is sickening. So heartless. Zionism is the opposite of Judaism.

copied and linked article: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/11/israeli-kindergarten-raid-terrifies-palestinian-kids-171107182749115.html Occupied East Jerusalem - Teachers and parents have decried a raid on a school by Israeli forces that resulted in the arrests of the school's deputy principal and three teachers. Israeli police entered the Zahwa al-Quds kindergarten and primary school in the occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Beit Hanina on Monday and made the arrests because staff refused to follow Israel's education standard, according to school staff. "Israel is attempting to force our school to adopt the Israeli education curriculum," Ziad al-Shamali, head of the school's parent committee, told Al Jazeera on Tuesday. "We are refusing this. So they decided to raid our school and scare our children." Local teacher Ola Nini told Al Jazeera several unarmed and plain-clothed Israeli police officers and officials from Israel's Jer

Israelis are prone to shouting. They are prone to shouting their opinions too. And the men have these hard faces, no smiling. The message they try to convey is, we are so tough. Don't mess with us. Tough guys. So this week I took a trip to the North to have some recreation. We got to the Hermon, Israeli's only snowy hill, and the tough faced soldier told us that the mountain was closed due to the weather. Too dangerous. The weather? It was foggy. It wasn't even raining. It wasn't snowing. There was no wind. Fog. Would they close down San Francisco each morning on account of the fog? The wimps in San Francisco don't close down the city when it's foggy. Then we went to the Kenneret, Israel's only lake and tried to rent a boat. No boats, too dangerous on account of the weather. The weather. It was perfectly calm. There were barely ripples in the water. The temperature was mild. These are the tough Israelis? I think they are paper tigers. They shout. T

Diana Buttu & Gideon Levy on Israeli Settlements, Kerry, Military Aid & End of Two-State Solution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnwtKL4yF98 EMMA ALBERICI, PRESENTER: Our next guest has been called possibly "the most hated man in Israel". Gideon Levy is an author and commentator who writes for the Haaretz newspaper. While he describes himself as a "patriotic Israeli", he's highly critical of what he calls his country's "moral blindness" to its acts of war and occupation. Gideon Levy is in Australia for a series of talks, including one at Sydney University on Wednesday night. He joined me a short time ago. Gideon Levy thank you very much for coming in. GIDEON LEVY, HAARETZ COLUMNIST: It is my pleasure Emma. EMMA ALBERICI: You have been called the most reviled journalist in Israel, indeed the most hated man in the country. Are they criticisms that sit comfortably with you, do you wear them as a badge of honour, or do they unsett

Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, the Lubavitcher Rebbe (1880-1950) http://www.truetorahjews.org/rayatz The straight-thinking Jew looks on in astonishment, thinking: what do these rebels against G-d and His Torah have to do with the Land of Israel? (Mishmeres Chomoseinu 20 Shvat 5716) I hereby join with the honored rabbis who oppose and protest against Mizrachi and the like. They do not walk in the spirit of the Torah. I wish to convey in writing that the Jewish people should separate themselves from this terrible desecration. Let the defiled leave the face of the Holy Land! (Om Ani Chomah, 5709 ch. 4 p. 400) We are foresworn by the covenant of G-d that we cannot overcome [exile] with might or power, only by understanding and knowing the word and command of G-d. (ibid.) In the early 1920’s, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, wrote a fiery pamphlet opposing settlement in Eretz Yisroel. He refers to the following Midrash on Shir Hashirim 2:8, which gives a

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The Anti-zionist Jews of Jerusalem 1/5 Lets them tell their own story and they come across very well, as decent, gentle, thinking people.

Ex-Mossad chief Efraim Halevy

Media should stop whitewashing Ahed Tamimi’s terror-supporting family

Question: : What should we say be our opinion of the Neturei Karta in Eretz Yisroel? You mean my opinion? My opinion is not important. Well anyhow, this gentleman asks what should we say about the Neturei Karta in Eretz Yisroel – of the shitah – of the derech of the Neturei Karta in Eretz Yisroel? Now that’s a question for which I am not suited. The truth is the Neturei Karta have among them choshuveh talmidei chachomim. But it’s true that among those who are not Neturei Karta, there are also very choshuveh talmidei chachomim. So I’m going to stick my little head between them – between Rav Amram Blau, zul’zein gezunt, a talmid chocham, and between, let’s say, what’s his name, Rav Chaskel Abramsky, who’s not Neturei Karta? Or HaRav Shach, the Rosh Yeshiva in Ponovizh Yeshiva. He’s not Neturei Karta. In general, there’s no question that almost everything fundamental is germane to all of them. They have the same ideas. They differ on minor points. The truth is the points are very min

Today I went into a sowing shop in a Chassidic neighborhood. I like the shop. The ladies are reserved and very modest but attentive to customers. They are hard working but they don't rush. They do good work. The prices are reasonable. But today, outside the shop, stood a chiloni man. At first I thought he was a soldier. This was not only because he stood with his chest out, blocking the doorway, but also because he was loaded down with, I don't know what it was, I thought it might be a gun and ammo at first, but it might have been camera equipment. No matter, he wore it like a gun. And his face was angry and arrogant and stonelike. I walked past him carefully and nervously. What was he doing there? Then I saw in this shop full of Chassidic women, two chiloni women. Seemed like a mother and a daughter. Ah, the man was waiting for them. They wore pants, skimpy shirts. Their hair was wild. They certainly didn't belong. They were looking at something, fabric maybe, and th

When you make major changes in life, you have to be informed. This is always a challenge for immigrants as mostly they rely on stories of far away places. Few people know this but a high percentage of immigrants to the United States a century ago returned to their home countries after getting a taste of reality. With the State of Israel, this dynamic is intensified because our historic emotional attachment to Eretz Yisroel gets mixed in with all sorts of myths about the modern society of Israel and leads to myth making. I'll start by talking to families. If you have kids above the age of 4 you should not come to Israel. This applies to Modern Orthodox families too. There is a myth that kids just pick up language, like magic. This is not how it really works. Children's brains certainly acquire foreign language far better than adults. But they don't just pick it up unless they are very small. And in that case, they are only picking up simple language. Fortunately,  not

http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/is-this-israels-most-hated-man/9198800 Author and commentator Gideon Levy has been called both "the most hated man in Israel" and "the most heroic." While he describes himself as a "patriotic Israeli", he's highly critical of what he calls his country's 'moral blindness' to its acts of war and occupation. Emma Alberici spoke to Gideon Levy ahead of his talk at the University of Sydney this week.

Cluster bombs: Hell from above After the agreed cessation of hostilities in Lebanon in 1982, Israel spent the next 72 hours dropping 4 million cluster bomblets on civilians in Southern Lebanon. It was a goodbye gesture of sorts. See the video above to learn what cluster bombs do to people. So much for the idea that Israel only targets rocket pads.

ournalist:  I want to ask a hypothetical question. If they would come in the middle of the day and tell the chareidim ‘We’re giving the State to you, do with it what you want.’ What would you do? Rav Amram:  We would take it for a short while and then tell the Arabs, “We have no dispute with you. You can live here. Whoever wants can come live here, Journalist:  But if the Arabs would come, wouldn’t they kill all the Jews? Rav Amram:  G-d forbid. If we would speak that way to them, they wouldn’t kill us. They want to kill only because we forcibly rule them. But if you don’t want to occupy them, they wouldn’t be like that. The Zionists want to rule over them, but not us. In our eyes, they are no different than the goyim of Switzerland and America. Once Arabs can come and do as they like, they won’t mind that there are even more Jews than them. The Arabs are not worse than any other non-Jews. Journalist:  But everyone knows their brutality when they manage to get ahold of a Jew

How does anybody call them that when they make statements like this: Minister Uri Ariel said Wednesday that there needs to be more dead and wounded Palestinians in Israel's attacks on the Gaza Strip. Speaking on Reshet Bet radio, the agriculture and rural development minister said that in the recent months the Israeli army has attacks on the coastal enclave, but "no deaths or injuries" were reported among the “Palestinians, terrorists.” He asked, “What is this special weapon we have that we fire and see pillars of smoke and fire, but nobody gets hurt? It is time for there to be injuries and deaths as well,” he said. read more: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.834063

Didn't you know that the media is anti-Israel? The oft heard gripe -- so common that it's taken in the Jewish community to be absolutely true-- is that the world press is anti-Israel. Have you heard that a few times? Have you said it? Let me suggest an experiment to you. Go to the Israeli paper Haaretz, read the many articles about Israeli brutality towards Palestinians, and then go to any American paper or for that matter any English language news outlet worldwide and see how many of the stories are covered there. The difference is pretty shocking. (Russia Today is an exception.) Haaretz will tell you all about shootings of protestors, many of them children and many them doing nothing more than burning tires in their own broken down neighborhoods or in fields, some doing nothing violent or illegal at all, some waving flags. It will tell you about settlers beating up Palestinians as soldiers watch, about settlers burning Palestinian olive trees or smashing their solar pa