"Should the Jews Leave Europe?"
31 de outubro de 2015
Vida
Cameratrap shot of a tiger in Anyuisky national park, Khabarovsky Province, Russia.
This year 12 adult tigers and six cubs have been registered in the park during the Amur tiger survey.
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This book is principally the story of a man who lived out
the greater part of his life in Western Europe in the latter half of
the twentieth century. Though alone for much of his life, he was
nonetheless occasionally in touch with other men. He lived through an
age that was miserable and troubled. The country into which he was born
was sliding slowly, ineluctably, into the ranks of the less developed
countries; often haunted by misery, the men of his generation lived out
their lonely, bitter lives. Feelings such as love, tenderness and human
fellowship had, for the most part, disappeared. The relationships
between his contemporaries are at best indifferent and more often cruel.
The Elementary Particles, Houellebecq (Prologue)
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França
Where the situation of France’s Jews is concerned, a brief example
will help drive home the historical point. On May 10, 1990, in the
southern town of Carpentras, one of the country’s oldest Jewish
cemeteries was desecrated: more than 30 tombstones were uprooted, and
the body of a recently buried eighty-one-year-old man was exhumed and
displayed next to an umbrella. The contrast between 25 years ago and
today? As the SPCJ pointed out in its 2014 report, older citizens still
remember how the desecration of the Jewish cemetery in Carpentras
“brought the French people to the streets,” whereas in 2006, “after the
anti-Semitic murder of Ilan Halimi, and in 2012, after the attack
against the Jewish school in Toulouse, rallies were almost exclusively
composed of members of the Jewish community.” In January 2015, if Jews alone had been killed and not cartoonists,
Jews alone would have been marching in protest in the streets of France.
All French Jews understand this. As so often in history, anti-Semitism
in France today is a symptom of the degeneration of the social bond.
"The Twilight of French Jewry, the Twilight of France", Alain El-Mouchan (Here)
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Anti-semitismo
Children's Show on Palestinian TV Praises Palestinian Attackers as "Young Heroes"
In a recent children's show on a Palestinian TV channel, the child host
praised the Palestinians who stabbed Israelis as heroes. "We revere the
young heroes who have sacrificed their lives for Jerusalem and who
carried out all those great heroic acts," she said. The program, titled
"Grownup Kids," aired on Al-Kitab TV on October 16, 2015.
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Israel
A Conversation about Judaism and Zionism in the 21st Century with Rabbi Jonathan Sacks and Yair Lapid
Templo
First century BCE Greek inscription from Jerusalem's Temple Mount
forbidding the entry of Gentiles to the Temple precinct, reading “..no
foreigner shall enter…” (The Israel Museum) “If we talk about the
closest thing to the Temple we have,” said David Mevorach, senior
curator of Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine Archaeology, “on the Temple
Mount, this was closest.”
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Vida
A fossil of a bat species known as Palaeochiropteryx was found in Messel, Germany.
The fossil is estimated to be about 49 million years old.
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Anti-semitismo
Preacher at Al Aqsa Mosque to the Jews: "We Shall Slaughter You Without Mercy"
In an impromptu sermon at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheik Omar Abu Sara called
to slaughter the Jews, whom he called "the most evil of Allah's
creations." The sermon was posted on the Internet on November 28, 2014.
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Israel
"Palestinians: What will happen to the Israelis when you take back Palestine of 1948 (Israel)?"
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Jews are being killed simply for being Jews
The murders of Israelis on a bus yesterday continue decades of violence by Arabs against the innocent
Loggerheads: Israel and Palestine seem
as far apart as ever, as this Palestinian demonstrates against Israeli
action in the occupied West Bank. Photo: AFP/Getty Images
On Tuesday, several Israelis were shot and stabbed on a bus in Jerusalem,
with three confirmed dead. Many others were left in a critical
condition. When such horrific events occur, it is natural to try to make
sense of them, and to ask: “Why did this happen?”
Members of Zaka rescue and recovery team on the bus where an attack took place in Jerusalem. Photo: Ronen Zvulun/Reuters
My family has been asking this question for generations. I think back to the burning of my great-great grandparents’ house in 1929, during anti-Jewish riots in Hebron: 133 Jews were killed in one week by Arab rioters, as students were massacred in a yeshiva. These attacks did not take place in a vacuum. Local Arab media at the time published inflammatory articles, raging against the rights of Jews to pray at the site of the Western Wall in Jerusalem. A flier by the “Committee of Holy Warriors in Palestine” was distributed, claiming that Jews had violated the honour of Islam. The British government-backed Palestine Inquiry Commission concluded that there was “no excuse” for the spate of murders.
Why was he shot? What prompted all these acts of terror? Was it the
Israeli “occupation” – which did not exist at the time? Was it the
policies of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, even though he was not
yet born? Was it frustration about the peace process?
Or was it
because little Zalman was a Jew, and how dare he sit on a bus? So tell
me again, why were the people on the bus murdered yesterday morning?
Palestinian students hold up axes during an anti-Israel protest in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah. Photo: Said Khatib/AFP
The common factor in all these attacks down the decades is the presence
of Jews in the land of Israel and their right of self-determination.
That is at the root of the killings. Yet through all the years, this
simple reason has been curiously overlooked. Even on November 29 1947,
the very day that the United Nations voted in favour of the Partition
Plan to create neighbouring Jewish and Arab states in British Mandate
Palestine, shots were fired at an ambulance carrying my aunt – a
Holocaust survivor – on her way to give birth to my cousin. Then, as
now, the very presence of Jews in the land of Israel appeared to be the
root cause of terrorist violence against them.
One myth in
particular has shown itself evergreen: the idea that Jews are trying to
undermine Islam and its holy sites in Jerusalem. We have heard the lie
that “Al Aqsa is in danger”
since the 1920s, when the Palestinian leader Haj Amin Al-Husseini tried
to stir up local rioters against Jews, inciting them to murder.
Husseini would distribute pamphlets saying: “O Arabs! Do not forget that
the Jew is your worst enemy and has been the enemy of your
forefathers.”
Last month, President Abbas called on Jews not to put their “filthy feet” on the Temple Mount,
again inciting anti-Jewish violence. Yet when Palestinian activists use
this revered holy site as a temporary base from which to attack
Israelis – piling up rocks, fireworks and explosives – it is they who
desecrate the place.
Those making libellous claims about Israel and Al Aqsa
today ignore the fact that 3.5 million Muslims visited the site last
year, compared to 200,000 Christians and just 12,500 Jews. Indeed,
Israel has maintained a delicate status quo since 1967, when it regained
control of the Old City of Jerusalem, and handed back the
administration of the Muslim holy sites to Islamic administrators known
as the Waqf. Israel is determined not to let the status quo change, and
has recently banned politicians from any visits to the site, in order to
calm tensions.
But ultimately, what we are seeing is not about
religious rights or land. It is about the same old issue. This is the
issue that people least want to discuss but which most needs to be
discussed. The excuse may change with the passing years. But the reality
is that, be it 1921, 1929, 1936 or 2015, Jews are being murdered simply
for being Jews.
Eitan Na’eh is Israel’s Acting Ambassador to Great Britain
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/11929445/Jews-are-being-killed-simply-for-being-Jews.html
13 de outubro de 2015
Anti-semitismo
Rafah (Gaza) cleric calls upon Palestinians to stab Jews
Brandishing a knife of his own during the speech at the Al-Abrar Mosque,
Sheikh Muhammad Sallah called on Palestinians in East Jerusalem and the
West Bank to “attack in threes and fours” and “cut them into body
parts.”
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Mahmoud Abbas
Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas:
“We bless you, we bless the Murabitin (those
carrying out Ribat, religious conflict/war to protect land claimed to be
Islamic), we bless every drop of blood that has been spilled for
Jerusalem, which is clean and pure blood, blood spilled for Allah, Allah
willing. Every Martyr (Shahid) will reach Paradise, and everyone
wounded will be rewarded by Allah. The Al-Aqsa [Mosque] is ours, the
Church of the Holy Sepulchre is ours, and they have no right to defile
them with their filthy feet. We will not allow them to, and we will do
everything in our power to protect Jerusalem.”
[Official PA TV, Sept. 16, 2015]
Why is the world ignoring a wave of terror in Israel?
Attacks like these do not occur in a vacuum. Such acts of pitiless slaughter are the direct result of a pervasive Palestinian infrastructure
Palestinian men throw stones at Israeli soldiers during riots at the Qalandia checkpoint near Ramallah Photo: EPA/OLIVER WEIKEN
In the last week, my country,
Israel, including our capital, the Holy City of Jerusalem, have come
under an unprecedented wave of Palestinian terror. A week ago, Eitam and Na’ama Henkin were brutally executed
by Palestinian terrorists point-blank in their car. Their four
children, Matan, 9, Nitzan, 7, Neta, 4, and Itamar, 9 months old, who
are now orphaned, were still in the back seat and miraculously unharmed.
Their lives are now irreparably altered. Days later, two more Israelis were stabbed to death in Jerusalem. One of the men killed was holding his two year old child at the time. More lives and families torn apart. Two weeks ago, Alexander Levlovitz, who was on his way home after Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) dinner, was murdered when Palestinian youths threw rocks at his car and he lost control. Over the past 48 hours in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and virtually all parts of Israel, we have had over 150 terror attacks, including stabbings, shootings, stones thrown and vehicular rammings.
Three days of rioting left scenes of destruction in East Jerusalem's Shuafat neigbourhood before spreading to other Palestinian areas of the city and Arab towns in Israel Photo: AP
Yet somehow the international community is silent in the face of this
terror onslaught against my people. Is our blood cheaper? Do Jewish
lives not matter? Let there be no mistakes, ifs, buts or maybes. We are being targeted for one reason and one reason only: we are Jews. I understand Europe has a number of pressing concerns, including
Islamic State and the wave of Syrian refugees, but what about us? Do we
not count? Many leaders, especially in Europe, are quick to
condemn Israeli settlements, yet sure take their time to utter a
muddied, equivocal word of condemnation against these terror attacks.
Likewise human rights groups such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty.
Then I look at some of the media reporting on these attacks, such as that from the BBC,
and ask myself how on earth they can twist the facts and logic beyond a
semblance of recognition to actually place the blame on Israel.
"Only when the Palestinian leadership unequivocally renounces
terrorism and roots out and condemns all those who preach violence
against Israel and hatred of the Jewish people, can there be hope for
real peace. Even more exasperating are those international leaders
who, after only noticing the situation when Israel has the audacity to
defend itself, then predictably call for us to exercise "restraint".
Excuse me? Restraint? Imagine for a moment if people were being
mown down with cars, guns or knives by Islamic terrorists on the streets
of central London, Paris, Washington or Moscow. How would leaders of
those countries react? Where are all those so-called enlightened
liberals, who continue to call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
(BDS) against the Jewish State, but are silent in the face of
Palestinian terror against Jews? Israelis, like all people, have
the right to live in safety and security, free from terror. And our
government and security forces have an obligation to take whatever
action necessary to ensure this. The tension across Israel,
especially Jerusalem, is increasingly palpable. Somehow this wave of
terror feels different to last summer’s rocket barrage from Hamas. At
least then we had the Iron Dome and time (albeit only 15 seconds) to
find shelter. But it is something much more intimate and personal when a
terrorist singles you out to kill you in cold-blood. Many
commentators and pundits are calling these "lone wolf" attacks. But how
many lone wolf attacks does it take to constitute a co-ordinated wave of
terror? The bottom line is that attacks like these do not occur
in a vacuum. Such acts of pitiless slaughter are the direct result of a
pervasive Palestinian infrastructure headed by PA President Mahmoud
Abbas, indoctrinating hate, inciting violence and instilling a worldview
justifying such gruesome acts. Barely a week ago, Abbas gave an incendiary speech before the plenary of the United Nations General Assembly, all but giving a green light to this wave of terror.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly Photo: AP Photo/Mary Altaffer
In a speech on Palestinian TV
on September 16th, Abbas proudly stated “we bless every drop of blood
spilled for Jerusalem. With the help of Allah, every shaheed (martyr)
will be in heaven.” He then added “Al-Aksa is ours and so is the Church
of the Holy Sepulchre. They [Jews] have no right to desecrate them with
their filthy feet.” And people still wonder where these terrorists get their motivation. Not only has the Palestinian Authority failed to condemn these barbaric terror attacks, they have now, incredibly, sought to condemn Israel for defending ourselves. Abbas is surely giving new meaning to the term "chutzpah". Is this really a sign of a leader who yearns for peace? Only when the Palestinian leadership unequivocally
renounces terrorism and roots out and condemns all those who preach
violence against Israel and hatred of the Jewish people, can there be
hope for real peace. As the PA continues to insist that the
world recognize a Palestinian state, one must ask exactly what type of
state it wants: one that teaches the virtues of peace, or incites and
glorifies terror?
In a groundbreaking speech on Islamic extremism this July, the British Prime Minister David Cameron made clear,
if you say “violence in London isn’t justified, but suicide bombs in
Israel are a different matter” – then you too are part of the problem.”
To all those people who fail to condemn this
Palestinian terror, or find ways to excuse, equivocate or minimize it, I
say the same – "then you too are part of the problem."
Arsen Ostrovsky is an international human rights lawyer living in Israel
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/11921994/Why-is-the-world-ignoring-a-wave-of-terror-in-Israel.html
Roménia
Soldiers walk on guard
at the Holocaust memorial, in Bucharest, Romania, on Holocaust
remembrance day. About 280,000 Romanian Jews and 11,000 Romanian Roma,
or Gypsies, were deported and killed during the second world war when
Romania was ruled by a pro-Nazi regime. About 6,000 Jews live in Romania
today, compared to 800,000 before the war.
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Paul Celan
"Psalm"
No one kneads us again out of earth and clay,
no one incants our dust.
No one.
Blessèd art thou, No One.
In thy sight would
we bloom.
In thy
spite.
A Nothing
we were, are now, and ever
shall be, blooming:
the Nothing-, the
No-One's-Rose.
With
our pistil soul-bright,
our stamen heaven-waste,
our corona red
from the purpleword we sang
over, O over
the thorn.
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