Showing posts with label Israel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Israel. Show all posts

Thursday, October 18, 2018

Legacy of the British Empire.


Princess Diana.



Ze'ev Jabotinsky was a Zionist activist, orator, and writer who founded the Betar Movement. He was also a soldier who founded the Jewish Legion during World War I.

Jabotinsky (born October 18, 1880; died August 4, 1940) was born as Vladimir into a middle-class Jewish family in the Russian city of Odessa. At the age of 18, he left Odessa to study law in Italy and Switzerland, where he also served as a foreign correspondent for several well­known Russian newspapers. His reports and articles were widely read and soon became recognized as one of the brilliant exponents of Russian journalism. All his reports and articles were signed with his literary pseudonym “Altalena.” . . . continue reading 


President Ronald Reagan telling it like it is.




On the surface American Christians sound 'right' and justified vilifying Arabs, and those against Israel because of the Bible, and what is said in the Bible. It all incites self-righteous attitudes dipping its adherents towards a dogma, with a notion of supremacy over reasonable objections to the stance made by those in the so-called Army of the Lord.

Millions of American Christians cannot stray, with confidence, from the controversial reasons for saying, 'yea' to all aggression from Israel towards any perceived threat, or country against them; even if Israel started the misuse of power. The prophecies and stories in the Old Testament support the notion of 'right thinking' on this subject; meaning God is behind Israel and the Israelites are his chosen. This is the core of American policy towards Israel. New Testament philosophy began with this understanding of Israel's place in the Christian practice in the West. Despite the fact the first century followers of Jesus, who were accepted by Rome purposely worked to remove themselves from the vestiges of the progenitor of their new faith; today's form of Christianity informs the need to kill and take. 

This is perplexing, isn't it? 

The serious American citizen needs to look deeply into the Torah, the first five (5) books of the Bible, to gain a footing in the theology that allows our government to not intervene on behalf of the Palestine people. The average Christian needs to look closely at these justifications for a higher purpose: healing of their own souls, and release from the evil to whom (we) are devoted. For the slaughter and the taste of it; American foreign policy aims at Arabs and the enemies of Israel missiles, and gives financial support. The Israeli apartheid system designed around Palestinians to protect the Jewish systems of thought, and its contradictions comforts Jim Crow. Why would white Americans change for peace to take precedence over their predilections?

It doesn't make sense.  

So one last question remains: "How did conservatism, business, American dictatorial patriotism, and Christianity meld into one ideology?" We all need that answer. Without the truth as an answer, as soul singer, Curtis Mayfield sang, "If there's a hell below, we all gonna go!"  


Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
5/25/18 



cartoon. "Please don't leave us... "



Monday, July 2, 2018

Apartheid, alive in Israel, American endorsed!




It’s an irony that Vladimir Jabotinsky used Hitler
As precedent for the eviction of thousands,
Since forcible expulsion


Was amongst the charges against Adolf Eichmann,
An architect of industrialized mass murder;
Captured in Argentina, tried and hanged in Israel.


Undeterred, the former Chief Rabbi,
Mordechai Elyahu, has urged Israel,
Its army and its government
To employ “the Nazi choice”:
By which he’s meant the carpet bombing of Gaza,
And he urges the “indiscriminate killing of civilians”
On religious grounds.
Amen


The Chabad Lubavitch Rabbi Schneerson,
A self-proclaimed Messiah
Whose followers await his return from the dead
(As if the Rabbi hadn’t preached enough when alive
By his making the claim that his religion
Heralded a new Master Race),
Has a devoted and powerful acolyte, Rabbi Manis Friedman,
Who declares that the “only way to fight a moral war”
Is to “destroy the Arabs’ holy sites”
To “kill men, women and children”, to eliminate anyone
Who stands in the way of a Greater Israel.


With an Old Testament ferocity,
And a religious racism which the atheist,
Christopher Hitchens, has called,
“The root of religious evil”,
The Rabbi acclaims Israel’s relentless colonizing impulse
Whereby the Torah is used
To justify mass killings
And such crimes
Are given a whole country’s blessing.


The Head of the National Defence College,
Professor Arnon Sofer,
Outlines Israel’s strategy:
“If we want to remain alive, we will have to kill and kill and kill.
“All day, every day.”
Amen
Jerusalem Post, 24 May 2004]


Sunday, May 27, 2018

Americans supports Israel's Apartheid system


[On the surface American Christians sound 'right' and justified vilifying Arabs, and those against Israel because of the Bible, and what is said in the Bible. It all incites self-righteous attitudes dipping its adherents towards a dogma, with a notion of supremacy over reasonable objections to the stance made by those in the so-called Army of the Lord.] ~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 5/25/18



THE CHILDREN OF GAZA
The children of Gaza and the Profits from their Genocide.
from "The International Times, the newspaper of resistance."



“The Israeli-Arab conflict is to the wider global war of civilizations what Off Broadway is to Broadway. It is the small laboratory where trends get tested out first, or are perfected, and then go global.” - Thomas Friedman, New York Times, 1 February 2014.
“That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true…” – Thomas Paine
A bearded old man holds a placard:
“You take my water, burn my olive trees,
“Destroy my house, take my job, steal my land,
“Imprison my father, kill my mother,
“Bombard my country, starve us all,
“Humiliate us all, but I am to blame:
“I shot a rocket back." 
A selection of ungodly chants
From the Zionist Book of Psalms
Are used to announce the destruction
Of a country and its inhabitants: 
“There should be no electricity in Gaza,
“No gasoline or moving vehicles, nothing…
“We need to flatten entire neighbourhoods…
“Flatten all of Gaza.”
– Gilad Sharon, son of Ariel Sharon, Jerusalem Post.
Amen 
Gaza should be “bombed so hard the population
“Has to flee into Egypt.”
– Israel Katz, Minister of Transportation.
Amen 
Gaza should be “wiped clean with bombs.”
– Avi Dichter, Minister of Home Front Defence.
Amen 
Israeli soldiers must “learn from the Syrians
“How to slaughter the enemy.”
– Israeli Rabbi Yaakov Yosef.
Amen 

Vladimir Jabotinsky, Russian Jewish Revisionist leader,
born Oct. 18, 1880-Aug. 4, 1940.  

Here is Vladimir Jabotinsky, admirer of Mussolini
And godfather of Zionist terrorism,
Justifying the flattening of Arab villages in 1948
And their inhabitants being turned into refugees:
“The world has become accustomed to the idea
“Of mass migrations and has become fond of them.”
“Hitler, as odious as he is to us,” Jabotinsky adds,
“Has given this idea a good name in the world.”
Amen
[Tom Segev, One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate, New York: Henry Holt, 2001, p. 407] 






It’s an irony that Jabotinsky used Hitler
As precedent for the eviction of thousands,
Since forcible expulsion


Was amongst the charges against Adolf Eichmann,
An architect of industrialized mass murder;
Captured in Argentina, tried and hanged in Israel.


Undeterred, the former Chief Rabbi,
Mordechai Elyahu, has urged Israel,
Its army and its government
To employ “the Nazi choice”:
By which he’s meant the carpet bombing of Gaza,
And he urges the “indiscriminate killing of civilians”
On religious grounds.
Amen


The Chabad Lubavitch Rabbi Schneerson,
A self-proclaimed Messiah
Whose followers await his return from the dead
(As if the Rabbi hadn’t preached enough when alive
By his making the claim that his religion
Heralded a new Master Race),
Has a devoted and powerful acolyte, Rabbi Manis Friedman,
Who declares that the “only way to fight a moral war”
Is to “destroy the Arabs’ holy sites”
To “kill men, women and children”, to eliminate anyone
Who stands in the way of a Greater Israel.


With an Old Testament ferocity,
And a religious racism which the atheist,
Christopher Hitchens, has called,
“The root of religious evil”,
The Rabbi acclaims Israel’s relentless colonizing impulse
Whereby the Torah is used
To justify mass killings
And such crimes
Are given a whole country’s blessing.


The Head of the National Defence College,
Professor Arnon Sofer,
Outlines Israel’s strategy:
“If we want to remain alive, we will have to kill and kill and kill.
“All day, every day.”
Amen
Jerusalem Post, 24 May 2004]