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Jul 10, 2011

Passing of Fred Neuman

 

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From: Manuel Sotil <msotil@gmail.com>
Date: July 10, 2011 4:02:46 PM EDT
To: ReporterNotebook <RePorterNoteBook@gmail.com>
Subject: Passing of Fred Neuman

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Frederick Delano Newman was born in the Bronx on June 17, 1935, and grew up there. His mother chose the same middle name as that of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a hero of hers. After his father died when young Fred was 9, his mother raised her five children alone, supported by welfare checks, the rent from rooms in her house, near Yankee Stadium, and the fees she earned running poker games.
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The product of welfare checks, poker games and a rooming house income. 
Typical parasite whose spiritual ancestors in the profession of unbounded mischief and evil under the guise of good intentions are Marx, Freud, Reich (Wilhelm), via the Fabians (Webb, et al), and others.

He won't be missed.

Manuel Sotil

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DSK has Israel in his heart - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News

 


DSK has Israel in his heart

Former IMF chief recently charged with rape says Israel is first thing on his mind every morning.

By Elka LooksTags: Jewish World Diaspora Jews

Although his alleged sexual exploits are making waves, it is Israel, not women that is in former IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn's heart.

In an interview with the newspaper "Liberation" back in April, just over a month before he made headlines for attempted rape charges (that are looking increasingly shaky), DSK told the French daily that only three things could prevent him from becoming the next president of France - his money, his women and his Judaism.

The fallen-from-grace financier recounted an interview he gave some years back with the "Tribune Juive"(The Jewish Tribune), in which he said "I wake up every morning and think about how I can help Israel."

For starters, some good baguettes and camembert would be appreciated, as for diplomacy – let's hold off until we are once again sure he truly is a mensch.




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...an Israeli lawyer has filed a class-action lawsuit against former President Jimmy Carter, seeking $5 million in damages because his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" allegedly defamed Israel. Link: http://tinyurl.com/3pltqg2

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Red Ice Radio - Israel Shamir - Zionism & Multiculturalism

 

http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/2011/07/RIR-110710.php

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Fun stuff to read, tell and watch:

Now FREE to watch all 91 minutes: "Defamation," from Israeli filmmaker Yoav Shamir. LINK: http://tinyurl.com/3rvhdvc

Some of His Best Friends Are Jewish: The Saga of a Holocaust Revisionist By Nathaniel Popper. Link: http://tinyurl.com/3v6m88c

...an Israeli lawyer has filed a class-action lawsuit against former President Jimmy Carter, seeking $5 million in damages because his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" allegedly defamed Israel. Link: http://tinyurl.com/3pltqg2

"...when you have laws against questioning the Holocaust narrative, you are screaming at the other person to stop thinking!!!" ---Mike Santomauro. *Anthony Lawson's Holocaust Video "were the Germans so stupid"... Link: http://tinyurl.com/44nsrco

An anti-Semite condemns people for being Jews, I am not an anti-Semite.--Mike Santomauro. Link: http://tinyurl.com/42z9p8o

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IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn's heart: "I wake up every morning and think about how I can help Israel."

 


The words are from israel's most important newspaper, Haaretz:

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IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn's heart. The fallen-from-grace financier recounted an interview he gave some years back with the "Tribune Juive"(The Jewish Tribune), in which he said "I wake up every morning and think about how I can help Israel."


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Fun stuff to read, tell and watch:

Now FREE to watch all 91 minutes: "Defamation," from Israeli filmmaker Yoav Shamir. LINK: http://tinyurl.com/3rvhdvc

Some of His Best Friends Are Jewish: The Saga of a Holocaust Revisionist By Nathaniel Popper. Link: http://tinyurl.com/3v6m88c

...an Israeli lawyer has filed a class-action lawsuit against former President Jimmy Carter, seeking $5 million in damages because his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" allegedly defamed Israel. Link: http://tinyurl.com/3pltqg2

"...when you have laws against questioning the Holocaust narrative, you are screaming at the other person to stop thinking!!!" ---Mike Santomauro. *Anthony Lawson's Holocaust Video "were the Germans so stupid"... Link: http://tinyurl.com/44nsrco

An anti-Semite condemns people for being Jews, I am not an anti-Semite.--Mike Santomauro. Link: http://tinyurl.com/42z9p8o

Start reading DEBATING THE HOLOCAUST in under a minute: http://tinyurl.com/3f8h874

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Re: Death Penalty, Still Racist and Arbitrary - NYTimes.com

 

Crime statistics are a problem...

Just from the last few days...


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2011/07/03/2011-07-03_hivpositive_father_charged_with_raping_6month_old_son_knowing_he_had_the_disease.html















Cheers


Manuel Sotil

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On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Michael <RePorterNoteBook@gmail.com> wrote:
 


From: frank scott <fpscott@gmail.com>
Date: July 9, 2011 5:54:53 PM EDT
Subject: Death Penalty, Still Racist and Arbitrary - NYTimes.com

bulletin for all racist  assholes and further evidence of the decline of "white' superiority...

oh woe is us poor white folks now that whatsisname is president and blacks are taking over everything...

god bless americar!


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/09/opinion/09dow.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha212

email: fpscott@gmail.com

Frank Scott writes  political commentary and satire which appears in print in The Independent Monitor and online at the blog Legalienate



http://legalienate.blogspot.com





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Fun stuff to read, tell and watch:

Now FREE to watch all 91 minutes: "Defamation," from Israeli filmmaker Yoav Shamir. LINK: http://tinyurl.com/3rvhdvc

Some of His Best Friends Are Jewish: The Saga of a Holocaust Revisionist By Nathaniel Popper. Link: http://tinyurl.com/3v6m88c

...an Israeli lawyer has filed a class-action lawsuit against former President Jimmy Carter, seeking $5 million in damages because his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" allegedly defamed Israel. Link: http://tinyurl.com/3pltqg2

"...when you have laws against questioning the Holocaust narrative, you are screaming at the other person to stop thinking!!!" ---Mike Santomauro. *Anthony Lawson's Holocaust Video "were the Germans so stupid"... Link: http://tinyurl.com/44nsrco

An anti-Semite condemns people for being Jews, I am not an anti-Semite.--Mike Santomauro. Link: http://tinyurl.com/42z9p8o

Start reading DEBATING THE HOLOCAUST in under a minute: http://tinyurl.com/3f8h874

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Ingrid Zundel: " My latest there is on the well-known and controversial Bishop Williamson who has locked horns with the Tribe. "

 




To all -

I have not disappeared.  I have been badly stranded on the Net, with my list serve not working, and with other problems and maybe sabotage.  Too complex to explain.

At any rate, of late I have been posting on Veterans Today - a website that is quite sophisticated in featuring an impressive stable of columnists.   I like the way that website looks and feels.

My latest there is on the well-known and controversial Bishop Williamson who has locked horns with the Tribe. 

I slaved on that article for a whole week, and it is one of my better pieces. 

PLEASE POST FAR AND WIDE !!!


Other articles I wrote are at


Best to you all.

Ingrid





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Fun stuff to read, tell and watch:

Now FREE to watch all 91 minutes: "Defamation," from Israeli filmmaker Yoav Shamir. LINK: http://tinyurl.com/3rvhdvc

Some of His Best Friends Are Jewish: The Saga of a Holocaust Revisionist By Nathaniel Popper. Link: http://tinyurl.com/3v6m88c

...an Israeli lawyer has filed a class-action lawsuit against former President Jimmy Carter, seeking $5 million in damages because his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" allegedly defamed Israel. Link: http://tinyurl.com/3pltqg2

"...when you have laws against questioning the Holocaust narrative, you are screaming at the other person to stop thinking!!!" ---Mike Santomauro. *Anthony Lawson's Holocaust Video "were the Germans so stupid"... Link: http://tinyurl.com/44nsrco

An anti-Semite condemns people for being Jews, I am not an anti-Semite.--Mike Santomauro. Link: http://tinyurl.com/42z9p8o

Start reading DEBATING THE HOLOCAUST in under a minute: http://tinyurl.com/3f8h874

Peace.

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new essay by Petras - Multi-Billion Terrorists and the Disapearing Middle Class - please confirm receipt of essay

 

Multi-Billion-Dollar Terrorists and the Disappearing Middle Class

James Petras

            The US government (White House and Congress) spends $10 billion dollars a month, or $120 billion a year, to fight an estimated “50 -75 ‘Al Qaeda types’ in Afghanistan, according to the CIA and quoted in the Financial Times of London (6/25 -26/11, p. 5).  During the past 30 months of the Obama presidency, Washington has spent $300 billion dollars in Afghanistan, which adds up to $4 billion dollars for each alleged ‘Al Queda type’.  If we multiply this by the two dozen or so sites and countries where the White House claims ‘Al Qaeda’ terrorists have been spotted, we begin to understand why the US budget deficit has grown astronomically to over $1.6 trillion for the current fiscal year.

            During Obama’s Presidency, Social Security’s cost-of-living adjustment has been frozen, resulting in a net decrease of over 8 percent, which is exactly the amount spent chasing just 5 dozen ‘Al Qaeda terrorists’ in the mountains bordering Pakistan.

            It is absurd to believe that the Pentagon and White House would spend $10 billion a month just to hunt down a handful of terrorists ensconced in the mountains of Afghanistan.  So what is the war in Afghanistan about?  The answer one most frequently reads and hears is that the war is really against the Taliban, a mass-based Islamic nationalist guerrilla movement with tens of thousands of activists.  The Taliban, however, have never engaged in any terrorist act against the territorial United States or its overseas presence. The Taliban have always maintained their fight was for the expulsion of foreign forces occupying Afghanistan.  Hence the Taliban is not part of any “international terrorist network”.  If the US war in Afghanistan is not about defeating terrorism, then why the massive expenditure of funds and manpower for over a decade?

            Several hypotheses come to mind:

            The first is the geopolitics of Afghanistan:  The US is actively establishing forward military bases, surrounding and bordering on China.

                Secondly, US bases in Afghanistan serve as launching pads to foment “dissident separatist” armed ethnic conflicts and apply the tactics of ‘divide and conquer’ against Iran, China, Russia and Central Asian republics.

            Thirdly, Washington’s launch of the Afghan war (2001) and the easy initial conquest encouraged the Pentagon to believe that a low cost, easy military victory was at hand, one that could enhance the image of the US as an invincible power, capable of imposing its rule anywhere in the world, unlike the disastrous experience of the USSR.

            Fourthly, the early success of the Afghan war was seen as a prelude to the launching of a sequence of successful wars, first against Iraq and to be followed by Iran, Syria and beyond.  These would serve the triple purpose of enhancing Israeli regional power, controlling strategic oil resources and enlarging the arc of US military bases from South and Central Asia, through the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean.

            The strategic policies, formulated by the militarists and Zionists in the Bush and Obama Administrations, assumed that guns, money, force and bribes could build stable satellite states firmly within the orbit of the post-Soviet US empire.  Afghanistan was seen as an easy first conquest the initial step to sequential wars.  Each victory, it was assumed would undermine domestic and allied (European) opposition.  The initial costs of imperial war, the Neo-Cons claimed, would be paid for by wealth extracted from the conquered countries, especially from the oil producing regions.

            The rapid US defeat of the Taliban government confirmed the belief of the military strategists that “backward”, lightly armed Islamic peoples were no match up for the US powerhouse and its astute leaders.

 

Wrong Assumptions, Mistaken Strategies:  The Trillion Dollar Disaster

            Every assumption, formulated by these civilian strategists and their military counterparts, has been proven wrong. Al Qaeda was and is a marginal adversary; the real force capable of sustaining a prolonged peoples wars against an imperial occupier, inflicting heavy casualties, undermining any local puppet regime and accumulating mass support is the Taliban and related nationalist resistance movements.  Israeli-influenced US think-tanks, experts and advisers who portrayed the Islamic adversaries as inept, ineffective and cowardly, totally misread the Afghan resistance.  Blinded by ideological antipathy, these high-ranking advisers and White House/Pentagon civilian-office holders failed to recognize the tactical and strategic, political and military acumen of the top and middle-level Islamist nationalist leaders and their tremendous reserve of mass support in neighboring Pakistan and beyond.

            The Obama White House, heavily dependent on Islamophobic pro-Israel experts, further isolated the US troops and alienated the Afghan population by tripling the number of troops, further establishing the credentials of the Taliban as the authentic alternative to a foreign occupation.

            As for the neo-conservative pipe dreams of successful sequential wars, cooked up by the likes of Paul Wolfowitz, Feith, Abrams, Libby et al, to eliminate Israel’s adversaries and turn the Persian Gulf into a Hebrew lake, the prolonged wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan has, in fact, strengthened Iran’s regional influence, turned the entire Pakistani people against the US and strengthened mass movements against US clients throughout the Middle East.

Sequential imperial defeats have resulted in a massive hemorrhage of the US treasury, rather than the promised flood of oil wealth from tributary clients.  According to a recent scholarly study, the military cost of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan have exceeded $3.2 trillion dollars (“The Costs of War Since 2001”, Eisenhower Study Group, June 2011) and is growing at over ten billion a month.  Meanwhile the Taliban “tightens (its) psychological grip” on Afghanistan (FT 6/30/2011, p. 8).  According to the latest reports even the most guarded 5-star hotel in the center of Kabul, the Intercontinental, was vulnerable to a sustained assault and take over by militants, because “high security Afghan forces” are infiltrated and the Taliban operate everywhere, having established “shadow” governments in most cities, towns and villages (FT 6/30/11 p.8).

Imperial Decline, Empty Treasury and the Specter of a Smash-Up

            The crumbling empire has depleted the US treasury.  As the Congress and White House fight over raising the debt ceiling, the cost of war aggressively erodes any possibility of maintaining stable living standards for the American middle and working classes and heightens growing inequalities between the top 1% and the rest of the American people.  Imperial wars are based on the pillage of the US treasury.  The imperial state has, via extraordinary tax exemptions, concentrated wealth in the hands of the super-rich while the middle and working classes have been pushed downward, as only low paid jobs are available. 

In 1974, the top 1% of US individuals accounted for 8% of total national income but as of 2008 they earned 18% of national income.  And most of this 18% is concentrated in the hands of a tiny super-rich 1% of that 1%, or 0.01% of the American population, (FT 6/28/11, p. 4 and 6/30/11, p. 6). While the super-rich plunder the treasury and intensify the exploitation of labor, the number of middle income jobs is plunging:  From 1993 to 2006, over 7% of middle income jobs disappeared (FT 6/30/11, p. 4).  While inequalities may be rising throughout the world, the US now has the greatest inequalities among all the leading capitalist countries. 

The burden of sustaining a declining empire, with its the monstrous growth in military spending, has fallen disproportionately on middle and working class taxpayers and wage earners.  The military and financial elites’ pillage of the economy and treasury has set in motion a steep decline in living standards, income and job opportunities. Between 1970 -2009, while gross domestic product more than doubled, US median pay stagnated in real terms (FT 7/28/11, p. 4).  If we factor in the added fixed costs of pensions, health and education, real income for wage and salaried workers, especially since the 1990’s, has been declining sharply.  

Even greater blows are to come in the second half 2011:  As the Obama White House expands its imperial interventions in Pakistan, Libya and Yemen, increasing military and police-state spending, Obama is set to reach budgetary agreements with the far right Republicans, which will savage government health care programs, like MEDICARE and MEDICAID, as well as Social Security, the national retirement program.  Prolonged wars have pushed the budget to the breaking point, while the deficit undermines any capacity to revive the economy as it heads toward a ‘repeat recession’.

            The entire political establishment is bizarrely oblivious to the fact that their multi-hundred- billion-dollar pursuit of an estimated 50-75 phantom Al Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan has hastened the disappearance of middle income jobs in the US.

            The entire political spectrum has turned decisively to the Right and the Far-Right.  The debate between Democrats and Republicans is over whether to slash four trillion or more from the last remnants of our country’s social programs.

            The Democrats and the Far-Right are united as they pursue multiple wars while currying favor and funds from upper 0.01% super-rich, financial and real estate moguls whose wealth has grown so dramatically during the crisis!

 

 

Conclusion

            But there is a deep and quiet discomfort within the leading circles of the Obama regime:  The “best and brightest” among his top officials are scampering to jump ship before the coming deluge: the Economic Guru Larry Summers, Rahm Emmanuel, Stuart Levey, Peter Orzag, Bob Gates, Tim Geithner and others, responsible for the disastrous wars, economic catastrophes, the gross concentration of wealth and the savaging of our living standards, have walked out or have announced their ‘retirement’, leaving it to the smiling con-men - President Obama and Vice-President ‘Joe’ Biden - and their ‘last and clueless loyalists’ to take the blame when the economy tanks and our social programs are wiped out.  How else can we explain their less-than-courageous departures (to ‘spend more time with the family’) in the face of such a deepening crisis?  The hasty retreat of these top officials is motivated by their desire to avoid political responsibility and to escape history’s indictment for their role in the impending economic debacle.  They are eager to hide from a future judgment over which policy makers and leaders and what policies led to the destruction of the American middle and working classes with their good jobs, stable pensions, Social Security, decent health care and respected place in the world.

 

 

 

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The abandonment of the Diaspora: Israel and “Who is a Jew”

 

I was in the midst of researching and writing on the troubling reappearance of "Who is a Jew" in press and Knesset debates and found myself compelled to abbreviate and publish it on-line on Jerusalem Post, and send it out to my email list (you). Perhaps it is inevitable that as the years go by Israel will grow increasingly into a "normal" state, as Herzl predicted. But Herzl failed to anticipate a struggle for Israel between the secular and democratic and the haredi and halachic character of the state, a state of the Jews and a Jewish state. "Who is a Jew" is the focal point, and should "al pi Halacha" (according to Halacha) become law of the land then the breach between Israel and the Diaspora may finally grow unrepairable.

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Antisemitism and Jewish Survival

 

 


The abandonment of the Diaspora: Israel and "Who is a Jew"


 

"I came out of Auschwitz, a place where they decided 'who is a Jew.' I didn't think I was going to live to see the day when it was decided in Israel."

 

 

In a gesture to Israeli Orthodoxy David Ben-Gurion invited the two Orthodox parties, Agudat Israel and Mizrachi (later National Religious Party, or NRP), to participate in the First Knesset (1950). To convince them to join he agreed to retain the Ottoman tradition of a Chief Rabbinate with authority over areas of "personal status." This gesture marked the beginning of the contest between secular Israelis and Orthodoxy over the definition and character of the state.

 

In 1970 Golda Meir, "refused to yield to the Orthodox demands because she felt that the Orthodox monopoly over religion should not be extended to cover the diaspora and that while the Knesset could legislate for Israel, it was not entitled to pass legislation that would determine the kind of conversion that would be carried out in the diaspora." In 1974 Prime Minister Rabin similarly rejected the demands.

 

But in Menachem Begin Orthodoxy found a more sympathetic politician. And in 1977 Likud unseated the left-leaning Alignment to form Israel's 9th Knesset.

 

"It was public knowledge that Begin had promised the Orthodox leadership in Israel that, if elected, he would endeavor to change the Law of Return to insert the controversial phrase, 'conversion in accordance with Halakha' in the definition of Jewish identity." That year a delegation from the United States tried to convince the new prime minister to change his mind. He sympathized but reminded them that, "[i]n order to be elected Prime Minister and to form a coalition government, I had to take the political realities of our country into consideration." Political pragmatism trumped Jewish unity. And from that date "Who is a Jew" entered Israel's political mainstream.

 

The issue has also insinuated itself into the Israel-Diaspora dialogue. "At present, the definition [of Who is a Jew] is based on Hitler's Nuremberg Laws [actually the German Enabling Act of 1933 defined as "Jew" a person with a single Jewish grandparent]: the right of Return is granted to any individual with one Jewish grandparent, or who is married to someone with one Jewish grandparent [the 1970 Amendment]. As a result, thousands of people with no meaningful connection to the Jewish people theoretically have the right to immigrate."

 

What is surprising about this description of Jewish identity is that it appears on the website of Jewish Virtual Library, A division of The American-Israeli CooperativeEnterprise. After years of controversy regarding Jewish identity in Israel, this mainstream Jewish-Israel website unblinkingly accepts that the original intent of the Law of Return is no longer operative for the state of the Jews.

 

But the Law of Return and Israel's response to Hitler, the 1970 "Grandchild" amendment, are the heart of what defines Israel as Zionist. The Law representsIsrael's commitments, the breadth of its obligation as refuge to our Diaspora.

 

And this is the crux of the issue: Israel is six-plus decades into statehood; the Jewish nation nearly seven decades from the ovens of Auschwitz. From the perspective of a human life-span such an apparently long period absent mortal threat encourages trust that the threat, the "final solution" to the Jewish Problem, was an anomaly, a unique event in Jewish history. And if we accept that then need for refuge, for Zionism, is also passed.

 

So why should Israel cling to an anachronistic and limiting Law of Return, voluntarily restrict its sovereignty regarding identity and immigration merely to pander to the sensitivities of a Diaspora many inside and out the state of the Jews perceive to be in free-fall between assimilation and intermarriage?

 

And indeed my immediate surroundings in America are tranquil. My neighbors are friendly, as are my work associates. Life is, well, normal. Where the threat? But how trustworthy is personal experience in gauging risk? Germany in the years before Hitler may well have appeared equally risk-free to the Jews. After all, were they also not well represented in culture, the professions and the government? Germany had a Jewish foreign minister; a Jew had drafted the Weimar constitution.  

 

According to a 2010 report by the Jewish Agency, "Anti-Semitic incidents in western Europe peaked to a level not seen since the close of World War II." And Abe Foxman, on releasing the 2009 ADL survey of antisemitism in the US which showed antisemitism steady for the past several years [this was before Israel's Gaza War and the Mavi Marmara backlash] said, "It is a sobering reality that as Jews have become more accepted in society, there remains a consistent hatred of Jews among too many."

 

So antisemitism, far from disappearing, or even diminishing continues along its familiar cyclical course responding not to Jewish assimilation and good citizenship, but instead to the degree of social discomfort of the host country.

 

As regards Israel, for antisemites who find overt antisemitism "impolite," such as British and American professors and students, anti-Zionism serves nicely. Thousands may be slaughtered in Syria, but by some "mystery" of western sensibilities the state of the Jews remains the favored target for abuse by our genteel humanists.

 

Does the Diaspora still need Zionism, a refuge? If we choose to believe many of our historians who assure that the Holocaust was a "unique" historical event; or our theologians and artists who view the Holocaust as a "mystery" beyond understanding, then reassured by our experts we can relax; surely the West's centuries long Jewish Problem is a thing of the past, with no place in modern, rational society; its failed "final solution" no longer a threat.

 

And if Israel is just going through another of those periods of global friendlessness surely that will pass once the Iranian situation, the Arab Spring and the Palestinian situation return to calm. So a secure and inward looking Israel can continue along its proscribed path to the halachic legal system for the state advocated recently by its justice minister, free of concern that such a particularist legal system represent an explicit divorce from the Diaspora.

 

But if, just for a moment consider the possibility, the survival of Western antisemitism did not go out of style with the Holocaust, but is a permanent feature of Jewish existence; if anti-Zionism is just warmed over antisemitism for the polite; if History in fact is the inspiration for Holocaust, and 20th century technology made possible an expeditious means to carry it through, then the mid-20th century Holocaust likely does not represent the West's final Final Solution. And Israel will one day in a future not of its own determining again be needed as that Zionist homeland and refuge created by earlier generations of Diaspora Jews.

 

And the survival of the Law of Return and its 1970 "Grandchild Clause," had better be there to serve its intended purpose. 

 

 

Several recent articles relating to Jewish survivability in the Diaspora include:

 

1. Does papal 'exoneration' mean no more Holocausts?

 

2. Conversion, Kulturkampf and the future of Israel

 

3. The Jewish Problem, and the Diaspora

 

4. Holocaust history, Holocaust denial

 

5. Is Israel still Zionist?

 

6. No 'Jacobo', Jews are not safe in the Diaspora

 





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Fun stuff to read, tell and watch:

Now FREE to watch all 91 minutes: "Defamation," from Israeli filmmaker Yoav Shamir. LINK: http://tinyurl.com/3rvhdvc

Some of His Best Friends Are Jewish: The Saga of a Holocaust Revisionist By Nathaniel Popper. Link: http://tinyurl.com/3v6m88c

...an Israeli lawyer has filed a class-action lawsuit against former President Jimmy Carter, seeking $5 million in damages because his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" allegedly defamed Israel. Link: http://tinyurl.com/3pltqg2

"...when you have laws against questioning the Holocaust narrative, you are screaming at the other person to stop thinking!!!" ---Mike Santomauro. *Anthony Lawson's Holocaust Video "were the Germans so stupid"... Link: http://tinyurl.com/44nsrco

An anti-Semite condemns people for being Jews, I am not an anti-Semite.--Mike Santomauro. Link: http://tinyurl.com/42z9p8o

Start reading DEBATING THE HOLOCAUST in under a minute: http://tinyurl.com/3f8h874

Peace.

Mike Santomauro
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