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George Dubya Is Daddy's Boy -- Anti-Israel Jim Baker & Bob G
2006-12-02 15:30:11
In 1992, the Isra el Communist Party [usually called Hadash, its acronym] ran on a platform of a Two State Solution. That is, a State of Israel and an Arab state of "palestine." The two states would share the Land of Israel west of the Jordan River.In 2006, President George W Bush of the ostensibly staunchly anti-Communist United States of America, called for two states in the Land of Israel west of the Jordan River, one Jewish state called Israel, the other an Arab state to be called "palestine." In fact, both Bush and his secretary of state, Miss Bitter Rice, expressed annoyance and irritation in 2006 that the Arab state of palestine, which they had first openly advocated a few years before [including in the so-called Road Map] had not yet come into being. Indeed, their attitude on the matter was one of determination mixed with desperation and a sense of helplessness over the inability or unwillingness of the palestinian authority leadership --which the USA and the EU and Japan had...
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George Antonius, the Arab Nationalist as British Imperialist
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 ...
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Hizbullah's War Crimes -- Amnesty & Human Rights Watch Falsi
2006-12-02 15:30:11
The propaganda attacks on Israel --the continual defamation by the media, politicians, diplomats, and so-called "non-governmental organizations" [that are usually funded by governments]-- are meant to defame Jews and Israel and justify attacks on them. These attacks are similar in purpose to smear campaigns against Jews in the past, such as the Damascus Affair of 1840, the Beilis Case, the Nazi lies against Jews, the recent [2001] racist Durban Conference [which pretended to be anti-racist], and others.Jimmy Carter, ex-president of the United States, has smeared Israel as an apartheid state. This is a big lie worthy of Goebbels. Two American political scientists, Walt & Mearsheimer, falsely claim that Israel controls --and has always controlled-- American policy in the Middle East, thereby disregarding the weight of the American oil lobby and of the immense wealth of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Abu Dhabi, and other oil-rich Arab states, in addition to the ties to Arabs and oil of many inf...
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What Happened to the Temple Menorah after the Hurban?
2006-12-02 15:30:11
The Peace Temple [Templum Paci] in Rome was not the end of the Men orah's wanderings. This temple was one of the most grandiose in Rome [see Italian description below]. Built in the year 75 CE, the great nave in the middle had eight Corinthian columns. The building is believed to have been 300 feet by 200 feet.The Vandals, a Germanic tribe who had migrated through Gaul [today France] and Spain to North Africa, were the next usurpers of the Menorah. They attacked Rome [452 CE], looted the Peace Temple, and brought the Menorah --with other loot-- to their capital of Carthage, now in ruins. Then, the army of the Eastern Roman Empire --usually called the Byzantine Empire-- conquered Carthage [534 CE] led by its outstanding general Belisarius. He took the Menorah and other Temple loot back to his capital, Constantinople [today Istanbul, called in Hebrew Kusta], then ruled by Justinian. There too the Menorah was carried in a victory procession, as in Rome some 460 years before. The Menor...
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The Follies of International Diplomacy & "Peace-Making"
2006-12-02 15:30:11
UPDATING: 9-30-2006 The pro-Arab, anti-national Olmert regime in Israel, headed by the immensely corrupt ehud olmert, has agreed to the stationing of Malaysian troops [Malaysian prime minister mahathir muhammad is an IslamoNazi]. If olmert did not agree to this, then he has not objected vigorously. If the UN in the person of kofi annan or the UNIFIL command are the ones who decided to bring in Malaysian troops, then Israel should threaten to prevent their arrival by force, and if need be, to destroy those troops in the service of a Nazi government.UPDATING: Must read [in French] on Lebanon and the Hizbullah,here and here.The UN is not capable of making peace, if we go by the UN's past record. That leaves aside the issue of whether the UN --as a grouping of states and a bureaucracy-- wants peace --for Israel in particular. Indeed, how could the UN be capable of peacemaking or even want peace? Consider: The UN is a grouping of states each one of which has its own interests, and furth...
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PEACE: The Prophets' View of the Misuse of the Word "peace"
2006-12-02 15:30:11
They offer easy healing for the wounds of My people, saying:"Peace , Peace"and there is no peace! [Jeremiah 6:14]And they offered easy healing for the Daughter of My people, saying:"Peace, Peace"and there is no peace! [Jeremiah 8:11]These quotes from Jeremiah just go to show that politicians haven't changed all that much in the last 2500 years. The prophets of Israel sniffed out the hypocritical misuse of the word "peace" more than 2,500 years ago. Today, people are not always so smart, not even in Israel.Inasmuch as they have misled My people, saying:Peace!and there is none. [Ezekiel 13:10; the word shalom here is translated as "It is well," in the New Jewish Version of the Jewish Publication Society]. . . the prophets of Israel who prophesy about Jerusalem and foresee a vision of peace for her and there is no peace, declares the Lord God. [Ezekiel 13:16; again the NJV translates shalom as "well being"].Whether shalom is translated as "peace" or "well being," it is obvious that pol...
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Angel Ganivet on the Threat of Islamic Jihad and How to Deal
2006-12-02 15:30:11
What is the danger of Islam ic Jihad or militant Islam --or political Islam? And how should the civilized world deal with the problem? These are vey live questions that many people throughout the civilized world, in the East and the West, the South and the North, are asking today. Angel Ganivet considered the issue more than 100 years ago.Angel Ganivet [1865-1898] was a famous Spanish novelist and essayist who died more than one hundred years ago. He is considered a forerunner of the Generation of 1898, and was concerned in his Idearium Español with the spiritual identity of Spain. As a diplomat, he had a perspective on the world that few other Spaniards had in his time when Spain tended to be somewhat intellectually isolated from the rest of Europe and more backward.Ganivet obviously knew of the continuing conflict between Spain and the Arabs after the last Moorish kingdom was defeated by Spanish forces in 1492. Muslim jihad warriors at sea, often called the Barbary Pirates, raided ...
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Where Does the West Stand on Lebanon?
2006-12-02 15:30:11
After the Gemayel murder last week, it seemed that the West ern countries, even the long time pro-Arab nationalist EU, were against the murder, against the Syrian-Iranian policy of overthrowing even the remaining semblance of democratic-constitutional government in Lebanon that has been represented by the Fuad Siniora government, with all its faults. But you can never know where the Western states in general or the USA in particular stand unless you know the history of each Western state's relationship with Lebanon. And even then policies do change from time to time, even if they are not always coherent with the broad picture of any particular power's overall Middle Eastern policy.France, for instance, long prided itself on protecting the Middle Eastern Christians, especially the Lebanese Christians. Then, starting in 1976, it acquiesced or even collaborated in the Syrian takeover of Lebanon as part of a pro-Arab nationalist policy. In this context, Sunni Muslim billionaire Rafiq H...
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Chateaubriand on the Jews in general and in Israel in particular
2006-09-16 22:03:00
We have already presented Chateaubriand's description of the Jews living in Jerusalem whom he saw on his trip in 1806. Thirty years after his trip to East, he wrote again of the Jews in Israel and of how he saw the Jews in history. His dates are 1768 to 1848.The Jews were dispersed, living witnesses of the living word [he sees the Jews as witnesses to Christianity], they survived, a perpetual miracle in the midst of the nations. Strangers everywhere, slaves in their own country, they saw the Temple fall of which stone did not remain upon stone [a NT prediction], as my eyes were convinced [when he was in Jerusalem].One part of their population came in chains to Rome to raise up that other monument where Christians were to die [the Colosseum]. The chisel sculpted on an arch of triumph that is still admired [the Arch of Titus] the ornaments that shone in the ceremonies of Solomon, and of which, without this luck, we would not know the form; the pride of a Roman prince and the talent o...
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Pierre Loti's Observations of Jerusalem and the Jews There [1894] -- Part T
2006-09-07 14:56:00
Continuing Pierre Loti's description of Jerusalem , particularly of proceedings at the Western Wall Jewish prayer place --often offensively called the "Wailing Wall." This is just a section of the western retaining wall of the Temple Mount built by the Jewish priestly caste, the Kohanim, during the reign of King Herod of Judea, although not finished in his time. On the lower levels, the original Herodian stone wall is still in place to this day. It could not have been removed, of course, without destroying the Temple Mount itself, which subsequent conquerors [Arab-Muslims and Crusaders] wanted for their own use.Loti continues his description of Jewish prayer at the Western Wall prayer place:Against the wall of the Temple, against the last wreckage of their past splendor, it is the Lamentations of Jeremiah that they all recite over and over, with voices that chant quaveringly in cadence, with the quick rocking of the body:-- Because of the Temple which is destroyed, the rabbi cries o...
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Mark Twain on Israel's Landscape [1860s]
2006-07-18 21:51:00
In ancient times, the Land of Israel --previously known as Canaan-- was called a land of milk and honey. During the Second Temple period up to 70 CE, the land flowed with olive oil, an agricultural product that was exported and made the prosperity of the ancient Jews. Even after the devastation of Roman suppression of the Bar Kokhba revolt, most of the Land continued to flourish. Jews of Second Temple times built terraces on the hillsides of Judah and Samaria to hold the rainwater, a system which Professor Menashe Harel is convinced was a Jewish innovation. Many of these ancient terraces are visible to this day. However, after the Arab conquest, agricultural deterioration set in. Woods on the hills were cut down and the hills were not reforested. Walter Lowdermilk, an American expert on agronomy, wrote the once-famous book, Palestine, Land of Promise in the 1930s, which described the process from a scientific point of view. However, many earlier travelers had noted the ecological de...
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Yehudah HaLevi -- Zion! Wilt Thou Not Ask?
2006-06-23 18:01:00
Here's another Yehudah haLevi poem of Zion . Part of this rather long poem, dealing with Hebron , is already up on this site. HaLevi was one of the great poets of Zion of the Middle Ages, if not the greatest. Nina Salaman, in her translation of HaLevi, called this poem as above in the title here.David Goldstein in his translation gave a different title, "Longing for Zion." I prefer Nina Salaman's title.from Zion! Wilt Thou Not Ask? ? ???? ! ??? ????? Zion, will you not ask after your imprisoned ones,The remnant of your flocks, who seek your peace?From west and east, and north and south,From far and near, take greetings, from all sides,And peace from the captive of desire, whose tears fallLike Hermon's dew, while he longs to shed them on your hills.I am a jackal mourning your affliction, and when I dreamOf the return of your captives I am a lyre accompanying your songs.. . . . [translation by David Goldstein, Pen...
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Yehudah haLevi on Israel's Captivity among Arabs and Europeans
2006-06-19 19:38:00
Yehudah haLevi was born in Spain and lived in both the Christian and Muslim-Arab sectors of Iberia. Later, his Zionist passions led him to Isra el during the Crusading period of the Middle Ages.Dialogue between Israel and GodMy friend, the days of my affliction have compelled meTo dwell in the scorpion's and the viper's company,In captivity.Have mercy on me.My soul despairs of the rise of the dawn,To wait and hope morn after morn.What can I say, O my lover, whenEdom is in my citadel, born free,And I am subject to the Arab and the Admoni,Who oppress me.Like the dregs of humanity?My name which once stood supremeHas become in strangers' mouths a mark of shame,The Ammonite, the Moabite, and Hagar's line,Glorify themselves in visions because of me,Despising the word of God and PalmoniEnticing meBy false prophecy.Come let us return to the gardens, my friend,To gather there both lilies and nard.How can the doe live with the jackal's herd?. . . ."Be ready for the end, even if it tarrie...
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The Barbary Pirates Were Warriors for Islamic Jihad, according to a 19th Ce
2006-03-22 12:29:00
Islam divides the world into two parts geographically, Dar al-Islam where Islam and Islamic law [the Shari`ah] hold sway, and Dar al-Harb which is ruled by non-Muslims and is perforce in a permanent state of war [harb] with Dar al-Islam, as Muslims see things. Further, Islam sees only two nations in the world, the Nation of Islam, of Muslim believers [mu'iminun] and the nation of unbelievers [kufar], which includes the rest of the human race, no matter what their particular religion or sect or state of unbelief may be. Cesar Famin gave an account of this in 1853, an account relayed by none other than Karl Marx to readers of the New York Tribune [15 April 1854]. Yet, it seems that in the benighted 21st century, much knowledge that mankind possessed in the past has been forgotten due to the dictates of what is "politically correct."Famin reports that between Islamic states and states of the Dar al-Harb no lasting peace is possible, although there can be truces with those who surrende...
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The Beauty and Glory of Jerusalem [Jewish and Roman sources]
2006-03-08 17:43:00
The ancient Jews were enthralled with the beauty of Jerusalem , their religious and political capital. The Bible is easily accessible, so I shall give quotes from the less accessible Talmud.Ten measures of beauty descended to the world -- nine were taken by Jerusalem and one by the rest of the world [Talmud, Qiddushin 49b]???? ???? ??? ???? ?????, ???? ???? ??????? ???? ?? ????? ????Diez medidas de belleza han descendido al mundo -- nueve de ellas tomo Jerusalen, y lo demas fue al resto del mundo[Spanish translation of the above]He who has not seen Jerusalem in its glory has never seen a beautiful city [Sukkah 51b] He who has not seen the Temple in its splendor has never seen a glorious building [Sukkah 51b]We saw the city at the center of the Land of Jews, situated on a high and exalted mountain. At its top a splendid Sanctuary has been built, and there are three walls, each more than seventy cubits high and appropriately broad and long. It is all built with an outstanding degree of...
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Exile of the Jews from the Jerusalem Polis
2005-05-25 11:25:00
We are now under a multi-faceted psychological warfare assault which uses a whole series of lies which aims, among other things, to deny our very history. Hence the need to know the documents, Jewish and non-Jewish, that relate what happened to the Jews in the Land of Israel [called IVDAEA, Judea, by the Romans].Here is an important passage from the Greek-speaking Christian Church Father, Eusebios (in Latin, Eusebius), describing the Bar Kokhba uprising [approx. 132-135]. As a consequence of this war, Rome forbid the Jews to live in the Jerusalem region, which was renamed and reconstituted as the polis or colonia of Aelia Capitolina, named after Emperor Hadrian's clan (Aelius).Eusebios, The History of the Church (Historia Ecclesiae), IV:6When the Jewish revolt again grew to formidable dimensions, Rufus governor of Judaea, on receiving military reinforcements from the emperor, took merciless advantage of their crazy folly and marched against them, destroying at one stroke unlimited...
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YEARNING FOR HEBRON
2005-05-04 07:23:00
[from Zion! Wilt Thou Not Ask? by Yehudah haLevi]O who will make me wings, that I may fly afar,And lay the ruins of my cleft heart among thy broken cliffs!I would fall, with my face upon thine earth and take delightIn thy stones [O Zion] and be tender to thy dust.Yea, more, when standing by my father's tombsI would marvel in Hebron over the chosen of thy graves.I would pass into thy forest and thy fruitful field and standWithin thy Gilead, and wonder at thy mount beyond--[from Selected Poems of Jehudah Halevi, translation by NinaSalaman, Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1924]
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