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Javier Solana & Pierre Laval, Roughriders of the Desert Sands -- The EU Sti
2007-03-17 21:21:00 Carolyn Glick points out that Javier Solana 's declaration in Damascus in favor of restoring Syrian control of the Golan Heights [see previous post], an ancient part of the Land of Israel -- encourages the Syrian Baathist fascists to make war on Israel. As if they needed all that much encouragement.This is an interesting about-face [or volte face] for the ever hypocritical and sinister European Union . Just several months ago, Solana, the EU's top diplomat, told a group of Knesset members that he rejected Syrian policy. Now he's diplomatically encouraging a Syrian war on Israel, while Syria is known to have recently much reinforced its offensive missile capacity precisely in the Syrian-held sector of the Golan Heights.Knesset member Ofir Pines of the Labor Party, an avowed dove, responded angrily to Solana's bellicose remarks in Damascus. He also placed a resolution on the Knesset's agenda for an urgent discussion of this matter:These remarks do not fit the remarks that Solana ma... More About: Sand , Pierre , Pier
Pierre Solana & Javier Laval Ride Again!!! -- The EU Nostalgically Harks ba
2007-03-16 00:03:00 Javier Solana confirms once again that he is a spiritual reincarnation of Pierre Laval, if not Laval's biological offspring. He just went to Damascus to fawn and grovel before the Damascus Dictator, young Bashar Assad, who inherited the family estate --sometimes known as Syria-- from Dad. Bashar's dad was Assad Senior, called Hafiz.Javier Laval or Solana's message for the Syrian Supremo was:We [the European Union] intend to make an effort as much as possible so that Syria can get back the areas conquered [occupied] from it in 1967. [Yisraeli, 3-15-2007]Damascus, 14 March (AKI) - The European Union supports Syria in its endeavours to regain the Golan Heights from Israel, the EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana has stated. "We would like to work as much as possible to see your country Syria recuperate the territory taken in 1967," Javier Solana told a joint news conference with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem after meeting Syrian president Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday. ... More About: Ride , Again , Call , Nostalgic
More on Britain and the Holocaust
2007-03-08 22:40:09 Some of our previous posts have taken up the problem of Britain and the Holo caust , especially the harmful role of the BBC, an arm of the British foreign office then as now. Here is another little detail about Britain and the Holocaust, which fits into what we have reported about British hostility to Zionism and to Israel becoming a state.To this very day, however, many aspects of British policy towards the Nazi persecution and extermination of the Jews remain shrouded in mystery. For instance, according to a German source, in 1937 Hitler proposed to the British that all the Jews of Germany be sent to Palestine; the British rejected this idea. On this particular point, see Heeresadjutant bei Hitler 1938-1943: Aufzeichnungen des Major Engel, herausgegeben und kommentiert von Hildegard von Kotze, Stuttgart, 1974, pp 65, 95. [in Some Aspects of the Historical Significance of the Holocaust, Jerusalem Quarterly Reprint, the Middle East Institute, Jerusalem [not Washington DC], 1977; {rep... More About: More , Loca
More on Whether US & UK Supported Zionism & Israel in the Crucial 1940s --
2007-03-05 22:39:02 One of the big lies in the ongoing campaign to besmirch the glory of the struggle for Israel is to falsely claim that Israel was set up by the United States and Britain. This story is very relevant to the background of James Baker, to which we will return.The UK was in fact openly hostile to an independent Jewish state in the Land of Israel, in fact Britain opposed Jews becoming a majority in the Land of Israel or even a sizable minority. This policy was expressed in the 1939 "White Paper on Palestine," a British policy statement that severely restricted Jewish immigration into Israel during the Holocaust, as well as Jewish land purchases in the country designated as the Jewish National Home in international law. Meanwhile, the British air force did not bomb the gas chambers or the crematoria or the railroad tracks up to the death camps, despite the repeated requests of Jewish leaders. Neither did the United States or the Communist Soviet Union. Communist and "Western imperialist" p... More About: Port , Support , More , Zion
Who Is James Baker? -- Part 2
2007-03-05 22:39:02 Funny, isn't it, that so-called "leftists" like edward said and chomsky --and assorted and sundry Communists, Trotskyists, and left-over New Leftists-- have views on Israel and advocate policies on Israel similar to those advocated by Establishment pillars like jimmy carter & Jim Baker ? In the course of the anti-Israel struggle, hired academics --like Walt & Mearsheimer-- falsely claim that Israel has been supported by the US government from the beginning. This is very misleading. In fact, there has been a dispute or struggle over Israel policy within various branches of the US Government since before Israel became a state. The State Department was hostile to Zionism and to Israeli statehood before Israeli independence on 15 May 1948, in tune with its British allies and cothinkers. In fact, neither the British nor the United States governments gave effective aid to the Jews during the Holocaust. The gas chambers and crematoria and the railroad tracks leading to the camps were n... More About: Part , James Baker , James , Ames
The Carter/Baker/Walt-Mearsheimer/Polk Assault on Israel Part I -- Who Is J
2007-03-02 04:35:01 Baker, Carter, and their allies are not new at being Isra el 's enemies. What is new is the coordinated attack against Israel by certain wealthy and powerful Establishment personalities. Carter's receipt of funding from Arab potentates in the Persian Gulf is fairly well known. So are Baker's ties to Arab big money. However, Baker's background was not known to me before reading an article by Michel Gurfinkiel, "Report on Baker" [France-Israel Information, Oct-Nov-Dec 2006]. Gurfinkiel is on the editorial board of the French weekly newsmagazine, Valeurs Actuelles. Full disclosure: I met Gurfinkiel in Paris years ago and held lengthy talks with him].His article is important both for his description of Baker's personal background and for his account of US policy towards Israel over the years. I will add information of my own to my excerpts from Gurfinkiel's article.Baker was a close and trusted advisor of Bush Senior for many years. The Baker-Hamilton Commissionwas mandated by Cong... More About: Assault , Arte , Part
What They Don't Want You to Know about Kossovo
2007-02-22 16:29:03 When the Ottoman Empire ruled over the Balkans, the native, non-Muslim subject peoples of the Empire were exploited, oppressed, and humiliated by law in the status of dhimmis. This history has largely been forgotten in recent years, at least in major newspapers and electronic information outlets, as well as in the foreign ministries of major states and among the staff of international organizations. Instead of the Ottoman Empire --a Muslim state-- ruling over and oppressing the non-Muslim subject peoples for four centuries, a newer narrative has taken hold --aided by Edward Said's distortions and lies. The new narrative or paradigm holds that the Balkan non-Muslim native peoples, especially Serbs, have oppressed and committed atrocities against the Muslims. The time when Muslim massacres of Bulgarians were featured in Western press reports passed long ago. The new Western narrative is a pro-Muslim one, especially regarding Muslim peoples and groups formed out of fractions of native... More About: What , Hat , About , They , Know
Pico della Mirandola on Ancient Jewish Influence on Pythagoras -- Something
2007-02-21 16:28:06 The world today is very negative. A few hundred people are slaughtered in Baghdad in a slow week. European Union leaders toady to the monumental liars of Teheran who are developing nuclear weapons that might hit their precious Europe, not only Israel. The EU and other states [especially the EU] donate billions to the "palestinian authority," helping terrorists although the EU purport to abhor terrorism. Condoleeza [not sweet but bitter] Rice brings Israel's prime minister, Smolmert, together with terrorist leader Mahmud Abbas --in the name of "peace." And so on. There may not be a clash of civilizations but civilization is being eroded away.So let's be positive. Rather than accuse Europeans of being always and irremediably Judeophobic, we find that 500 years ago, one of the original [in both senses] and pioneering minds of the Italian Renaissance, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, believed in the philosophic character of Judaism, that Moses was a philosopher [p 166], that Plato and P... More About: Iran , Jewish , Dell , Methi , Wish
I'll be busy for a few days
2007-02-15 04:25:11 I'm currently busy, and won't be able to post again until next week. Until then, I wish everyone a good week, and thanks for visiting. More About: Days , Busy
Jews Oppressed in 19th Century Morocco -- Part 2
2007-02-08 16:21:02 The letter below was sent to the Alliance Israelite Universelle in Paris from the town of Sheshwan [Chechouan] in Morocco . Originally written in Judeo-Arabic, it was translated by a Monsieur Carmona and transmitted with the original to the AIU in Paris. It is a statement by the Jewish community of Sheshwan and counter-signed by a man named Asseruya."The Captivity Is Felt Here as Much during the Day as at Night," 1864. . . we hurry with some delay to indicate to you in writing the state ofthe town of Sheshwan and its inhabitants.Sheshwan is a small villagesurrounded by Arab clans. The inhabitants [belonging to theclans] are devoted to perpetual struggles the consequences of which aremade to rebound against us, their anger stirred up by their reciprocalfailures. And above all, the government of this region is so to speak nominaland powerless. Here, the Captivity [of Israel in Exile] isfelt as much during the day as at night. As far as we are concerned, we arealmost accustomed to no lo... More About: Press , Cent , Jews , Esse
Buried Street of Second Temple Period Jerusalem Now Discovered
2007-02-05 16:19:04 A while ago I referred to an important new archeological discovery in Jerusalem .Here are excerpts from what the weekly newspaper Maqor Rishon had to say about the discovery:In excavations in `Ir David [the original part of Jerusalem ruled by King David] one of the most impressive findings ever discovered in the city has been uncovered: A splendid, major street of steps from the Second Temple Period [from the Persian conquest till the destruction of the Temple, approx.] 600 meters long, that served pilgrims who went up from the Shilo'ah Pool to the Temple. Openings of the shops that have been revealed and the great magnificence of noticeable from the remnants of the street les the researchers to the conclusion that it was the main street of the city in the Second Temple Period. Beneath street level, drainage channels that fit what is described in the books of Yosef ben Matityahu [Josephus Flavius] have been discovered. Many findings have been discovered in the channels, including ve... More About: Sale , Street , Cover
Jews Oppressed in 19th Century Morocco -- Part I
2007-02-02 16:17:05 The big lie that Arabs traditionally treated Jews well is still around. It's a silly notion. But it dies hard. It is supported now and was supported and promoted in the past, by powerful interests, not only by Arabs, not only by the Arab League and such Arab spokesmen/propagandists as Clovis Maksoud, Ahmad Shukairy, Fayez Sayegh, Arafat, and others, but by powerful interests in the West that wanted to promote Arab nationalism and tear down and besmirch Zionism for sundry reasons. These reasons could have been the interest of having access to Arab oil and Arab markets or for building anti-Communist coalitions --at a time when Islam was considered a bulwark against Communism-- or plain and simple Judeophobia.In the 1880s, a French officer named Charles Foucauld took a trip through Morocco disguised as a Jew. Therefore, he was treated as a Jew by the Arabs/Muslims. Every Muslim who passed him on the road insulted him without provocation.May God make the father who begat you burn for... More About: Press , Cent , Esse
Is Norway Fit to Mediate?
2007-01-30 16:16:03 Actually, we could just as well ask whether the European Union is fit to mediate. By the way, to cut the suspense, the answer in both cases is NO. But let's stay with Norway in this post. Norway is a relatively small country with a population smaller yet, that is rather sparsely distributed throughout much of the country. Nevertheless, Norwegian diplomacy has very big ambitions. It wishes to take up the role of unversal peacemaker. A Norwegian journalist here in Jerusalem once explained to me that this aspiration derived from a very big egotism. Be that as it may, the Norwegian diplomats have been active in the Land of Israel promoting Arab fascists and Nazis who could make the Quislings, the native Norwegian Nazis, look like pacifist school girls by comparison. Besides interfering in the Land of Israel, the militantly pacifist descendants of the Viking marauders arranged truces in Sri Lanka, and modestly volunteered to supervise the truce between the government and rebels there. A... More About: Media , Mediate
A Turk Calls Israel "Israel"---recognizes the Land's Jewish/Israelite Past
2007-01-27 04:13:01 The British role in the Holocaust is a heavy topic, as we used to say. That goes too for the BBC's role --as a British government agency-- in the Holocaust. In a desire for some lightness, we will come back to the BBC during the Holocaust after continuing with Evliya Chelebi's description of the Land of Israel while under Ottoman dominion in the 17th century.Chelebi [Celebi, with a cedilla under the C] was a wealthy, educated Turk who traveled through his empire, his mind stuffed with all sorts of Muslim traditional geographical lore. The traditional Muslim lore was often confused --the Quran confuses Miriam sister of Moses with Mary, the New Testamant's mother of Jesus. But the traditional Muslim history and lore are much preferable to the blatant, extreme lies that Arab spokesmen make up today to undermine Israel. So Chelebi recognized the Land of Israel as the homeland of the Jews, of Israel.In the city of Safed in Galilee, he recognizes the castle as Jewish [p12]:. . . this c... More About: Calls , Lite , Past
Time Magazine's Photo Distortions -- More on Propaganda & Psy War
2007-01-25 16:11:01 Time Magazine is probably not as expert in psy war tricks as is the BBC [discussed in an earlier post], but Time's photo editors are no slouches in this trade. The 12-18-06 issue of Time was a year end photo special. It supposedly featured the best, most significant pix of the year. Only three photos in this issue dealt with Israel, all three concerned the summer's Israel-Hizbullah war. Two were of destruction in civilian areas of Lebanon and injury to civilians in the war. The third, the only one to show Israelis, was of the funeral of an Israeli soldier. What's the message? In Lebanon civilians suffered. In Israel soldiers were killed.In this issue of Time [12-18-2006], "Best Photo s of 2006" on the cover, we read on page 3, "Time presents a selection of the most compelling images of 2006, from ruination in Beirut to rebirth in New Orleans; the ifs and buts of Germany's World Cup; stem cells up close; and above, the real O.C."So Time makes it seem like "the ruination of Beirut... More About: Time Magazine , Time , Propaganda
Carter's Big Lie Campaign in High Gear
2007-01-24 04:09:05 Carter's tongue has been unleashed by the powers that be in the US electronic media. He is being invited onto talk shows in order to give him the opportunity to smear Israel as "racist" and as an "apartheid" state. Carter --as an anti-Jewish racist-- denies the right of Jews to live in parts of the ancient Jewish homeland, which were recognized in international law as belonging to the Jewish National Home. So the racist Carter is calling Israel "racist." Somehow he is not bothered by the Nazi-like anti-Jewish agitprop coming out of the Arab mass communications media, such as "Jews are the sons of apes and pigs." His recent "book" has been widely criticized for gross errors of fact. But that does not deter him nor does it deter the media from giving him a platform. It is no longer only the "leftist" fringe groups that call Israel "racist." Establishment voices --like Carter-- and Establishment institutions are doing the same. It is interesting how the smear of "apartheid" began on t... More About: Arte , Campaign , Campa , Gear , Camp
Big, New Lies that the West Supported Israel & Zionism All Along & the USS
2007-01-23 04:09:03 One of the major big lies about Israel today is that West ern, imperialist powers like the United States and Britain always supported Israel and Zionism, whereas the Soviet Union was opposed to them. Indeed, the new USSR declared in late 1917, not long after the Bolshevik takeover in Russia, that it supported nationalist movements among Muslims against non-Muslim peoples in the Middle East and Asia. On the other hand, Britain's support for the Jewish National Home project mandated by the San Remo Conference and endorsed by the League of Nations, withered away as the British too, like the Soviets and Communists, came to support the Arabs, more surreptitiously perhaps than the USSR. However, in the 1946-1949 period, the Communists supported Israel as Jews fought the British, whereas the British fairly openly supported the Arabs. Here are quotes from an American Communist book at the time:Israel, like the United States, was born in blood. . . [it] routed enemies vastly superior in numb... More About: Port , Hat , Support
In the aftermath of the Crimean War [1854] in which Britain
2007-01-16 16:05:05 In the aftermath of the Crime an War [1854] in which Britain and France had defended the Ottoman Empire against the Russian Empire, the British and French felt that the Ottoman state owed them favors. They wanted favors particularly in Jerusalem, perhaps because the ostensible reasons for the war had focussed on the Church of the Holy Sepulcher here. France received as a favor the ruins of St Anne's Church dating from the Crusades. This church is located inside the Lions' Gate on a street continuing into or becoming what Christians began to believe in the Crusader period was Jesus' Via Dolorosa. The St Anne's site also happens to sit on top of the remains of the Jewish Beyt Hisda [Bethesda] Pool dating from Second Temple Times. Bathing in the pool was believed to have healing powers and that's probably why the United States armed forces named a hospital outside Washington, DC, Bethesda.Of course, the French received other favors as well, as did the British. The Prince of Wales, ... More About: Math , After
Poems of Zion by Heine & Antonio Enríquez Gómez
2007-01-04 15:55:05 Poems of Zion were a popular genre among Jewish poets through the ages. Here are two poems of Zion from poets who had to live part of their lives falsely as Christians, given the pressures and oppressions of their times.Heinrich Heine is often considered the greatest lyric poet of the German language. His native tongue was not exactly German, it was the western dialect of Yiddish spoken by Jews in Germany. Heine always considered himself a Jew and wrote a beautiful description of a Sabbath eve in the home of a poor Jew.Here Heine starts out by contrasting Zion with Laura, a lady whom the Italian poet Petrarch [Petrarca] loved from afar.She was not a Laura whoseEyes, fading starsLit an ardent flame,In church on Holy Friday.Nor a noble ladyWho in the splendor of youthPresides over a joust and awardsA laurel wreath to the lucky winner.The woman the rabbi lovesHas a sign of mourning on her faceAnd despair in her heartShe is called Jerusalem.[Heine, Hebrew Melodies, in Charles Lehrmann, ... More About: Poems , Poem , Antonio
More on Hebron in the 19th Century -- Part III
2006-12-31 03:51:04 Saul Friedman goes on with his account of 19th century and his compilation of quotes from travelers' accounts:The worst example of Islamic bigotry operated at the Haram, the fortress structure [the Tomb of the Patriarchs built by King Herod] which rose over the blackened Cave of Machpelah. . . as Cook's [Cook's Handbook, p 149] advised, "The traveller can only stand a short way off from the entrance; he dare not enter, the place being guarded with most jealous care by the Moslems." It was advice well-taken. Elizabeth Butler wrote of "insolent-looking Muslims" who barred the way. "Had we attempted to enter," wrote Ms Butler, "we should have had a bad quarter of an hour from the Mahometans. These sons of the Bondwoman [= Hagar, mother of Ishmael, forefather of the Arabs] would stone any son of the Free who would attempt an entry." A contemporary, Henry Van Dyke, was only a trifle more successful [Friedman, p 135; E Butler, Letters from the Holy Land, p 37 ]:The modern town has abo... More About: Cent , Part , More , Bron , Century
Professor Biger's Turkophilic Fantasies -- More Distortion o
2006-12-27 15:48:15 Gid`on Biger is indeed an expert on the internal adminstrative boundaries in the Land of Israel during the Ottoman period [see previous post]. However, he has an unfortunate proclivity to apologize for Muslim misdeeds. Hence, he has been taken to the bosom of a Turkish apologist website, "Tall Armenian Tale." Remarks that he made several years ago at an Israeli-Turkish conference of historians at Tel Aviv University were recorded and summarized by Abraham Rabinovich, for many years a correspondent of the Jerusalem Post.Prof . Gideon Biger of Tel Aviv University said that Israeli and other Jewish historians have been distinctly ungenerous to the Turks in making them out to be "the big bad wolf."Acts of villainy attributed to the Turks during the World War I in fact constituted moderate, even civilized, behavior in the context of war, he said.WHEN fighting broke out in 1914, there were 85,000 Jews in Palestine, most of whom had arrived in the decades after 1882. Most did not adopt O... More About: Stor , More , Phil , Esso
The European Union: Madness & Moral Corruption vs A Rare Voi
2006-12-26 03:46:02 The Euro pe an Union is hostile to Israel following a European tradition of hostility to Jews going back 2,000 years. The hostility operates in many ways. The European Union is not an innocent bystander in Israel's conflict with the Arabs, nor can the EU be an "honest broker." Obviously, it has NOT been honest or decent in its relations with Israel, nor in its favoritism for anti-Israel Arabs. This deeply rooted policy can be partly explained by Bat Ye'or's Eurabia theory. But it goes back much farther into European history, into the history of European relations with the Jews, and into the European mind than the Eurabian phenomenon, which emerged in the early 1970s. In the context of its abysmal hatred for the State and People of Israel [and Jews generally], the EU propagates lies big and small. A recent EU declaration illustrates this phenomenon. Of course, there are sane voices in Europe, and Israel has many friends there. One of our favorites is the intelligent Italian daily, I...
The Generous, Welcoming Spirit of the Arabs of Hebron
2006-12-25 03:46:03 The Arabs of Hebron were notorious in the 19th century for their religious fanaticism, as indicated by our previous post on Hebron. Professor H E Dunning, who toured Israel around 1900, reports on his trip to the City of the Patriarchs:The people of Hebron are not only Muslims, but they are bad-tempered Muslims. They do not welcome a stranger of another faith. The small boy is apt to curse him. As these imprecations fall harmlessly, he may have recourse to stone. The stranger objects and attempts to chastise [admonish]. Then the adult citizen protests. The Christian stranger must remember that he is accursed, a fit object for stones and bad language. [Dunning, p 61; Friedman, p 134].Brritish Major Claude Conder, another 19th century visitor to Hebron, wrote:Let the student of Islam [that is, the curious non-Muslim] run the gauntlet of the fanatical guards of those sanctuaries [in both Hebron and Sh'khem (= Nablus)], let him be stoned for a dog and denied a drink of water as a Kafir... More About: Spirit , Bron , Gene , Nero , The A
Fake History on the "History Channel"
2006-12-18 15:41:01 The History Channel in Israel [channel 42 on `Arutsey Zahav] gets most of its broadcast material from American and British sources, unfortunately. It seems that most comes from the American History Channel . This material --these "historical" films-- reflect the biases and conventional lies of American Establishment and British propaganda. And this includes treatment of Jewish and Israeli historical matters. The problem for us in Israel is that this Anglo-American material is used uncritically, broadcast uncritically, without correction. The films are broadcast with the original English-language narration, plus Hebrew subtitles which do not diverge from the original. A case in point was broadcast this morning 12-17-2006 on the Israeli History Channel.The film told the story of Allenby's campaign in Israel in 1917-1918, particularly a September 1918 battle.Lie # 1 - The narration took pains to point out the diverse ethnic and geographic origins of Allenby's forces, British, Indians... More About: Story , Fake , Stor
Pierre Loti on Hebron circa 1895
2006-12-15 15:39:01 Pierre Loti, the famous French writer, came to Israel near the end of the 19th century. We have already quoted and translated part of his description of Jerusalem here and here. He also visited Hebron , one of the four holy cities of the Jews according to Jewish tradition. A sizable Jewish population lived there [sizable in proportion to the town's total population] until 1929, when Arabs made a pogrom and massacre against the Jews there. This pogrom was conducted with British acquiescence, if not British approval and encouragement, even instigation.Here we quote from a published translation into English of Loti's book:. . . Hebron is still without hotels; it remains indeed one of the most fanatical Mussulman towns of Palestine and will scarcely consent to lodge a Christian under its roofs [Pierre Loti, Jerusalem (trans. W P Baines; London: T. Werner Laurie, n.d.), p10]Arabs and Jews move in a crowd about the streets . . . Hebron is one of those towns that are not marred by a buil... More About: Pierre , Bron , Pier , Circa
How Do the British Do It? -- How Do the Masters Perpetrate P
2006-12-09 03:35:04 The British psychological warfare experts have long been the world's most expert, certainly on a level with the Communists, no slouches themselves. As for the American specialists in this field, they learned much or most of what they know from the British. Consider how close American and British foreign policies have been over the last 200 years, since the War of 1812.One of the British psy war operatives during World War II was none other than George Orwell, who recounted his experiences at the time in his memoirs [see Orwell: The War Commentaries & George Orwell: The Lost Writings, both edited by WJ West]. Orwell actually describes some of the techniques used in various situations during the war. He describes them in the context of solving various problems posed for the UK psy war effort by developments in the war in view of the constraints of British policy, etc. Previous posts here have described BBC policy towards the Holocaust, which was to ignore it as far as could safely be... More About: Petra , Trat , Master , The Master
PLO & Jihadists Adopt "Leftist," Popular Front, Demo-Stalini
2006-12-06 03:33:05 Harald Vocke discusses the PLO's propaganda effort in Lebanon in the 1970s. This propaganda considerably aided the PLO's war effort, especially since it was relayed by the Western press back to Western countries to influence the Western populations:During the civil war the Palestinian guerrillas put forward a clearly defined concept of psychological warfare. Their propaganda principles can be summarized as follows:1. In Lebanon, Left or 'progressive' Muslims fight against Right or 'reactionary' or even 'fascist' Christians.2. In the traditional distribution of power in Lebanon, the Muslims were at a disadvantage, since the Christians --especially the Maronites-- ensured for themselves too large a share in parliamentary representation and in the government.3. In Lebanon the Christians are rich, the Muslims are poor, and the Palestinians live in miserable camps at a bare subsistence level.4. The Lebanese Christians are 'isolationist' and 'separatist.' In order to preserve ... More About: Pop , Jihad , Popular , Front
Arabs helped the Romans destroy the Temple
2006-12-02 15:30:11 Arab auxiliary troops joined the Roma n legions besieging Jerusalem in the year 70.The Roman historian Tacitus writes in his book, The Histories (Kenneth Wellesley, translator, Penguin Books):The Histories, Book V:1... Titus Caesar, who had been selected by his father, to complete the conquest of Judaea and already enjoyed the reputation of a general... received added support...Awaiting him in Judaea were three Roman legions... the Fifth, Tenth, and Fifteenth...Then there were strong levies of Arabs, who felt for the Jews the hatred common between neighbors...... et solito inter accolas odio infensa Iudaeis Arabum manus...This demonstrates that the Arabs were collaborating with the Roman Empire, that is, with imperialists, almost 2000 years ago. They collaborated in the siege of Jerusalem that resulted in the destruction of the Second Temple . In the twentieth century, Arabs collaborated with the British Empire and the Nazis against the Jews. Since the evil Oslo Accords of 1993 and in... More About: Troy , Oman
Gems of Peace and Pacifism -- Allusions to the Real World
2006-12-02 15:30:11 The alliance of the most fervent pacifists with the very soldiers of a warrior society Jean-Paul SartreThis was one of Sartre's comments on the pacifists who sympathized with Hitler and his Nazis, and thereby helped to bring about the Second World War [September 1939] and the Fall of France to the Nazis [1940], some even going on to serve in the Vichy government for the sake of peace. For more on peace movements [and the source of the above quote], see here. Today, self-styled pacifists collaborate with mass murderers and even with jihad warriors who have an explicitly bellicose and war-mongering ideology/religion. What else is Israel's "Peace Now Movement"?- - - - - -Just as Rome, the capital of a great empire, had a Temple of Peace, so Berlin, capital of warlike Prussia and --after German unification-- of the German empire, the Second Reich, had a statue of the Goddess of Peace. This was a greenish statue on top of the Brandenburg Gate.A curious quote turned up in an article on ... More About: Pacifism , Real , Sion
George Antonius, the Arab Nationalist as British Imperialist
More articles from this author:2006-12-02 15:30:11 George Antonius has a big reputation as a reliable historian of Arab nationalism. This reputation has been shattered and shredded by the research of Elie Kedourie, Sylvia Haim [Mrs Kedourie], and George Kirk. And others. Antonius, like T E Lawrence and Lowell Thomas, helped to create a romantic fable of resurgent Araby.Antonius' reputation has benefitted from a long series of lies, not all of them of his own making, some originating from his admirers and the politically interested promoters of Arab nationalism, both Arabs and non-Arabs. However, most critical researchers have avoided confronting one of the big lies in the mythology surrounding Antonius. That is, that he was somehow a Third World revolutionary, an anti-imperialist, and all those other Good Things, an Edward Sa`id avant la lettre. Few things could be further from the truth, except that Sa`id was most likely a faker too in a way not much different from the Antonius form of fakery.Antonius was an enthusiastic, sincere ... More About: National , British , Nation , List , George 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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