Usually I prepare myself to write my articles. Those on Israel and the Jewish people, however, I do from my heart, because the media is plagued with endless attacks against us, whether it is in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, South America and so on, seemingly virulent anti-Semitic ranting showers our everyday.
But what's wrong with the world?
Are they going insane?
The famous three "Ds" are increasingly in action as we speak: Demonization, double standard and deligitimation are sweeping the four corners of the Earth to assure the destruction of Israel.
When Barack Hussein Obama flatly told Israel in front of the whole world that he was expecting them to go to borders prior to 1967, he actually meant: We need you out, so why don't you help us?
Whoever studies world History, knows that the connection between German Nazis and Muslim Arab regimes blossomed and has left imprints that are easily traceable until now.
It's only with men of the stature of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper that we can say there is hope, as he says "Canada will stand by Israel regardless of the cost."
It all starts with the safe-hate from Jews themselves, and it goes on with the devilish surrender by our rabbinical leaders in their perennial quest to 'conquest' the enemy and in the end, they are the ones conquered.
Leniency rules and its unavoidable result is licentiousness.
So, others like the Scots and Swedes, and many others, feel they can allow themselves to behave like savages and boycott precisely the people who has given so many wise men, inventors, discoverers, scholars, doctors, physicists, nuclear physicists, IT techs, chemists.
Even artists that have made this a better world: Chagall, Arthur Rubinstein, Natan Milstein, Vladimir Horowitz. The lists are endless.
And, yet, so-called Civilization decides to side with the barbarians, those who perform stoning, beheading, honor killing, dismember limbs, slit babies throats when they and their parents sleep defenselessly.
And, has anybody realized the kind of psychological terrorism that's inflicted on the Israelis and Jews on a daily basis?
Because we do have feelings, you know.
We help cure the wounded enemy.
We help their children if they are in danger.
Israeli hospitals treat Muslim Palestinians and cure them until they heal and they do not charge anything.
In the army, our kids who are soldiers, are taught not to shoot unless completely and absolutely indispensable.
And, what does that do to us, Jewish Mothers...?
Does anyone think about that?
It tells us that Israel worries more about the enemy than about their precious soldiers, our own children.
When Muslims threaten Israel with their Naksa and Naqba days -it's torture not only for Israel but also for us Jews in the diaspora.
As it is, Israelis feel compelled to rise above the challenges that terrorism sends their way.
Whenever, G-d forbid, a terror attack has occurred, they all rush to clean up and the other day, someone very proudly said to me: "The next day everything is as if nothing had happened."
I said that I found it wrong.
Those attacks should be there for a few days so the world can see the violence and virulence of the intensity of those deadly Muslim terrorist attacks.
This is what I call the psychological torture of the Israeli people and the Jews.
Can you imagine so much pressure put even on the United States?
Israel is tiny. A tiny giant, just as King David was.
But this psychological torture is cruel to all involved, including and especially our children.
First thing that should be addressed is the rise of liberalism among Jews and Israelis.
We need to get back to our sources, read Torah and our traditions.
That will give our leaders the strength to have an iron will and stamp their feet and tell the world:
We have enough. Enough torturing our people. Stop behaving like beasts!
G-d is with us.
©ElianaBenador
Opinions are the author's exclusively.
Goodwill Ambassador Eliana Benador is US Representative of the Shomron Liaison Office, Samaria, Israel; former President of Benador Associates, and a national and international political analyst and global strategist.
Showing posts with label Anti-Semitism. Show all posts
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Sunday, June 12, 2011
Saturday, June 4, 2011
STRATEGIST OF EVIL THOMAS FRIEDMAN DEADLY ANTI-SEMITISM
WASHINGTON, June 3, 2011 - Thomas Friedman has gone from "nice Jewish boy" supporter of Israel to apologist for anti-Semites. He's gone from supporting Israel to supporting its destruction. How did this happen?
A Jewish Boy
In his book, From Beirut to Jerusalem, Friedman describes his high school years as “one big celebration of Israel’s victory in the Six-Day War.” Yes, the 1967 war.
It is striking to learn that the author was a bar mitzvah-ed Jewish boy who, after visiting Israel in December 1968, fell in love with the country and spent three summers living in a Kibbutz near Haifa.
As recently as 2006, in an interview he gave to Debate Link, Friedman delivered a strong defense of Israel regarding collateral civilian casualties, and also comments on anti-Semitism:
“You’re dealing with an enemy [Hezbollah] that has embedded itself in the civilian population (on the Lebanese side) … but at the same time, it was the only way from the Israeli point of view to exact a price on Hezbollah’s constituency that ultimately Israeli hoped – and I don’t think this was a crazy thing – would deter Hezbollah the next time, with people saying “wait a minute, I don’t want to go through this again. So, I don’t think Israel “snapped,” I don’t think it behaved in a particularly irrational manner. It was brutal, but it was an ugly war, and one that Israel didn’t invite.”
"And so the point is, you can’t argue from emotion. You have to argue from facts. And one can simply point out those kinds of contradictions because there is only one way to explain those contradictions, sometimes. Not all the time, but sometimes, and that’s anti-Semitism….”
What Is anti-Semitism?
Anti-Semitism refers exclusively to anti-Jewish feelings, feelings of prejudice specifically against Jews. It also has more complex meaning, referring to an aversion which includes the feeling that the Jews actually represent a threat to the world.
Hence, Jews are feared proportionally to their wish to succeed politically and economically. Conspiracy theorists see their economic and political ambitions as the goal "to conquer the world.”
Anti-Semitism in the Muslim World
In the 1930s and 40s, the Nazis made sure to approach the Muslim world and shared with it their anti-Semitic methods and approach. At this time they established close bonds with leading political figures of Egypt, Iran and Iraq, among others.
After viewing Jews in their midst as dhimmis, or protected minorities, it was probably a huge blow to their pride that those same dhimmis, in 1948, managed to get their own land: Israel.
Thus, conspiracy theories among Muslims against Jews were exacerbated, supported by the economic success of oil producing countries like Libya and Saudi Arabia, which promoted anti-Semitism and justified it with such documents as "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” which helped them make their case against the Jews and Israel.
Strategist of Evil
Move forward to this year. Friedman accepted an honor from Howard University. He chose not to notice that earlier in the month, on April 2, Howard hosted the notorious and virulent anti-Semite, Louis Farrakhan. Farrakhan, always true to himself, did not miss that opportunity to target Jews and the Israeli Zionist movement with vicious attacks.
Thomas Friedman and Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad at the Aspen Institute, 2009. (Photo: The Aspen Institute (Flickr))
Now Friedman puts his name to an article containing his recipe to facilitate the Palestinians’ victory over his own people and Israel. In his "Lessons from Tahrir Square," he sees Muslim democracy where most experts see Egypt's deconstruction to a sharia-based state.
The whole Middle East is in uproar, and by all accounts things do not seem to be going towards democracy American style after all. It's in this context we must view Friedman's talk of Palestinian "pacifism" and democracy.
In his article, Friedman in veiled fashion walks a virulently anti-Semitic path trod mostly by Muslims who hide nothing of their hatred and violence toward Israel and the Jews.
Friedman Attacks Israel
Friedman’s veiled anti-Semitism comes bottled for public consumption under the label, "goodwill." Goodwill, all right, but for Israel's attackers. He abandons himself to the most monumental and dangerous single attack against Israel currently found in the media.
What is Friedman thinking when he defends people who are either the perpetrators of crimes of terrorism worldwide, or who stand silently by while terrorists kill innocent civilians?
What is he thinking when he advises the enemies of Israel on the best ways to succeed at destroying Israel and killing Jews?
What is he thinking when he advises the enemies of Israel to stage peaceful demonstrations, when a few months ago those enemies cowardly entered an undefended home and slaughtered a family of five in their sleep?
What does he think he will achieve with the monsters that massacred the Fogels, that slit their throats, including the throat of three-month-old Hadassah?
What does he think he can achieve with Palestinians who rejoiced over those bestial murders, even distributing candies and dancing in celebration?
What is he thinking when he suggests that Palestinians should stage a “peace day?”
Friedman knows all too well that they sleep, dream, and live-for the destruction of Israel; they make no secret of that.
He is out of his mind when he writes, “If Palestinians peacefully march to Jerusalem by the thousands every Friday with a clear peace message …”
We know what Muslim Palestinians want. No peaceful march is in their minds.
Hasn’t three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Friedman ever looked at a map of how Palestinians envision their country after they’ve had their way with Israel?
It is a simple yellow area. And there is no Israel there.
Why not? Because their one goal is to destroy Israel.
Conclusion
Under international law, it is illegal to attack another country. One could argue that all attacks on and incitement against the security of any country are wrong. They should never be tolerated.
I cannot give a pass to Friedman when he uses his rhetoric to incite Muslim terrorists against Israel. His piece is ammunition to Israel's enemies, the enemies of Israeli children, men and women, old and young. Every Jew in Israel is threatened by Friedman’s writings.
His words are worse than a bomb exploding in a crowd. A bomb is bad enough, but its effects are limited to the immediate victims and the suffering of their families.
In the age of cyber-space, when the internet lets news go viral, the negative effects of an attack like Friedman’s will be amplified, endlessly used to fuel terror attacks, endlessly jeopardizing the safety of civilians.
Our Western democratic tradition ensures freedom of speech, and Friedman has the right to avail himself of it. But his is an irresponsible use of that freedom. It endangers innocent lives, and it should be punishable.
This is not about freedom of speech. This is about accepting the consequences of its abuse.
Thomas Friedman is dangerous. He is spreading anti-Semitic rhetoric in an irresponsible way, and no one in the civilized world should condone it. If attacks like his were aimed at France, Australia, China or Kuwait, they would be intolerable.
They are aimed at Israel and are intolerable.
What’s wrong is wrong. And anti-Semitism is wrong.
http://tinyurl.com/3fgtbs8
Goodwill Ambassador Eliana Benador is US Representative of the Shomron Liaison Office, Samaria, Israel; former President of Benador Associates, and a national and international political analyst and global strategist.
A Jewish Boy
In his book, From Beirut to Jerusalem, Friedman describes his high school years as “one big celebration of Israel’s victory in the Six-Day War.” Yes, the 1967 war.
It is striking to learn that the author was a bar mitzvah-ed Jewish boy who, after visiting Israel in December 1968, fell in love with the country and spent three summers living in a Kibbutz near Haifa.
As recently as 2006, in an interview he gave to Debate Link, Friedman delivered a strong defense of Israel regarding collateral civilian casualties, and also comments on anti-Semitism:
“You’re dealing with an enemy [Hezbollah] that has embedded itself in the civilian population (on the Lebanese side) … but at the same time, it was the only way from the Israeli point of view to exact a price on Hezbollah’s constituency that ultimately Israeli hoped – and I don’t think this was a crazy thing – would deter Hezbollah the next time, with people saying “wait a minute, I don’t want to go through this again. So, I don’t think Israel “snapped,” I don’t think it behaved in a particularly irrational manner. It was brutal, but it was an ugly war, and one that Israel didn’t invite.”
"And so the point is, you can’t argue from emotion. You have to argue from facts. And one can simply point out those kinds of contradictions because there is only one way to explain those contradictions, sometimes. Not all the time, but sometimes, and that’s anti-Semitism….”
What Is anti-Semitism?
Anti-Semitism refers exclusively to anti-Jewish feelings, feelings of prejudice specifically against Jews. It also has more complex meaning, referring to an aversion which includes the feeling that the Jews actually represent a threat to the world.
Hence, Jews are feared proportionally to their wish to succeed politically and economically. Conspiracy theorists see their economic and political ambitions as the goal "to conquer the world.”
Anti-Semitism in the Muslim World
In the 1930s and 40s, the Nazis made sure to approach the Muslim world and shared with it their anti-Semitic methods and approach. At this time they established close bonds with leading political figures of Egypt, Iran and Iraq, among others.
After viewing Jews in their midst as dhimmis, or protected minorities, it was probably a huge blow to their pride that those same dhimmis, in 1948, managed to get their own land: Israel.
Thus, conspiracy theories among Muslims against Jews were exacerbated, supported by the economic success of oil producing countries like Libya and Saudi Arabia, which promoted anti-Semitism and justified it with such documents as "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” which helped them make their case against the Jews and Israel.
Strategist of Evil
Move forward to this year. Friedman accepted an honor from Howard University. He chose not to notice that earlier in the month, on April 2, Howard hosted the notorious and virulent anti-Semite, Louis Farrakhan. Farrakhan, always true to himself, did not miss that opportunity to target Jews and the Israeli Zionist movement with vicious attacks.
Thomas Friedman and Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad at the Aspen Institute, 2009. (Photo: The Aspen Institute (Flickr))
Now Friedman puts his name to an article containing his recipe to facilitate the Palestinians’ victory over his own people and Israel. In his "Lessons from Tahrir Square," he sees Muslim democracy where most experts see Egypt's deconstruction to a sharia-based state.
The whole Middle East is in uproar, and by all accounts things do not seem to be going towards democracy American style after all. It's in this context we must view Friedman's talk of Palestinian "pacifism" and democracy.
In his article, Friedman in veiled fashion walks a virulently anti-Semitic path trod mostly by Muslims who hide nothing of their hatred and violence toward Israel and the Jews.
Friedman Attacks Israel
Friedman’s veiled anti-Semitism comes bottled for public consumption under the label, "goodwill." Goodwill, all right, but for Israel's attackers. He abandons himself to the most monumental and dangerous single attack against Israel currently found in the media.
What is Friedman thinking when he defends people who are either the perpetrators of crimes of terrorism worldwide, or who stand silently by while terrorists kill innocent civilians?
What is he thinking when he advises the enemies of Israel on the best ways to succeed at destroying Israel and killing Jews?
What is he thinking when he advises the enemies of Israel to stage peaceful demonstrations, when a few months ago those enemies cowardly entered an undefended home and slaughtered a family of five in their sleep?
What does he think he will achieve with the monsters that massacred the Fogels, that slit their throats, including the throat of three-month-old Hadassah?
What does he think he can achieve with Palestinians who rejoiced over those bestial murders, even distributing candies and dancing in celebration?
What is he thinking when he suggests that Palestinians should stage a “peace day?”
Friedman knows all too well that they sleep, dream, and live-for the destruction of Israel; they make no secret of that.
He is out of his mind when he writes, “If Palestinians peacefully march to Jerusalem by the thousands every Friday with a clear peace message …”
We know what Muslim Palestinians want. No peaceful march is in their minds.
Hasn’t three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Friedman ever looked at a map of how Palestinians envision their country after they’ve had their way with Israel?
It is a simple yellow area. And there is no Israel there.
Why not? Because their one goal is to destroy Israel.
Conclusion
Under international law, it is illegal to attack another country. One could argue that all attacks on and incitement against the security of any country are wrong. They should never be tolerated.
I cannot give a pass to Friedman when he uses his rhetoric to incite Muslim terrorists against Israel. His piece is ammunition to Israel's enemies, the enemies of Israeli children, men and women, old and young. Every Jew in Israel is threatened by Friedman’s writings.
His words are worse than a bomb exploding in a crowd. A bomb is bad enough, but its effects are limited to the immediate victims and the suffering of their families.
In the age of cyber-space, when the internet lets news go viral, the negative effects of an attack like Friedman’s will be amplified, endlessly used to fuel terror attacks, endlessly jeopardizing the safety of civilians.
Our Western democratic tradition ensures freedom of speech, and Friedman has the right to avail himself of it. But his is an irresponsible use of that freedom. It endangers innocent lives, and it should be punishable.
This is not about freedom of speech. This is about accepting the consequences of its abuse.
Thomas Friedman is dangerous. He is spreading anti-Semitic rhetoric in an irresponsible way, and no one in the civilized world should condone it. If attacks like his were aimed at France, Australia, China or Kuwait, they would be intolerable.
They are aimed at Israel and are intolerable.
What’s wrong is wrong. And anti-Semitism is wrong.
http://tinyurl.com/3fgtbs8
Goodwill Ambassador Eliana Benador is US Representative of the Shomron Liaison Office, Samaria, Israel; former President of Benador Associates, and a national and international political analyst and global strategist.
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