Richard Silverstein: Just Another Confused Jew In Exile

The Self-Hate Fuhrer has published a new tirade in the Guardian: American Jewish groups must speak up over Gaza. The Anti-Self Defamation League was initially establish to respond to the malicious lies of people like Silverstein, who pretend to be open “liberals,” but who in fact live by censorship and viciously attack anyone who doesn’t hold by their views. Here is a prime opportunity to make use of real freedom!
Silverstein writes:

While Israel’s savage assault against Hezbollah in Lebanon during the 2006 war generated an uproar, one wonders whether the massacres that occurred in Gaza crossed a moral threshhold. Can an effort to end Israeli impunity have real impact, both in terms of influencing world opinion and of impacting on Israeli behaviour? Israel has become an expert at wearing down its opponents, honing such skills during 40 years of occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. The question is: what, if anything, can the peace community do differently this time?

Nonsense-the “Palestinians” have become experts in wearing down Israel-a War of Attrition which, unfortunately, has “Jewish” participants-namely the author. The Land Of Israel has been occupied by non-Jews for almost two thousand years, and the world has not cried out. The occupation here is that of the Jewish spirit-the occupation of the Nation of Israel not being loyal to its vow “We Will Do And Obey” (Exodus 24:7). People like Richard Silverstein only worsen this crime-the origin of occupation. Perhaps the peace community can reconsider it’s sinister hypocrisy and reevaluate it’s condemnation of Judaism and it’s precepts-especially Mr. Silverstein, who has made a career out of misrepresenting the Jewish tradition and Jews living outside of Israel.
He asserts lastly:

Israel’s policy has verged on madness. Nor has it achieved its objective of pacifying Gaza or toppling Hamas. And isn’t one of the definitions of madness to repeat a behaviour even after it has failed, with the conviction that it will succeed the next time? When you see a loved one or family member descending into self-destruction, you reach out and help. My goal is to turn Israel away from the path of madness.

Madness? When Arabs launch attacks against Israeli civilians-collective punishment-you have nothing to say. But, when Israel asserts its right to retaliate and protect Israelis-including Arab Israelis-you scream “justice!” Why? Also, it is obviously galut Jews (Jews of the exile) who are descending into oblivion. Here is the National Jewish Population Survey 2000-01: Strength, Challenge and Diversity in the American Jewish Population. The facts speak for themselves: Israel’s Jewish population is growing at a steady rate and America’s Jewish population is declining. It seems that Mr. Silverstein is using his misguided views as a vehicle to blur the real issues that are devastating the Jewish community today-assimilation, apathy, and liturgical ignorance. Perhaps “tikkun atzmi” (fixing oneself) should be his new approach.

Leave Your Baggage Behind

Secular commentator Gideon Levy has a new article online and it is ripe with new ideas about the religion of Abraham in the State Of Israel. Let’s get started:
Levy writes:

and millions of Israelis joyfully read out praise in the Passover Hagaddah for genocide-jihad by means of horrific plagues and drowning infants-it’s time to admit it: We live in a religious country.

Well, it says in the Israeli Declaration Of Independence that Israel must be a democracy and Jewish. That is why you see a religious country. There were horrific plagues because the Egyptians were drowning Jewish babies. Is everything clear now?
He continues:

We must admit that this society has rather dark religious aspects. Foreigners landing in Israel might ask themselves what country they’re in: Iran, Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia? In any case, it’s not the liberal, secular and enlightened society it purports to be.

The Torah is called “light”(דאורייתא). Foreigners that I know who bother to come here usually try to look at Judaism with an open mind-perhaps herein lies your problem! It purports to be because it gets funded by a powerful Western democratic country (USA). The countries you named are Muslim countries-so let them be Muslims. This is a Jewish country-so why can’t you let us be Jews? Because you have to Enlighten us to death? Secular Zionists like you will hypocritically go after Jews in the exile for being assimilated and not “Israeli” enough! This is the occupation you speak of accusingly-the occupation of self-appointed intellectuals like yourself who refuse to let Jews be Jews in their Land. Furthermore, Israel cannot, you correctly state, call itself liberal. This is part of the multiple personality syndrome that Jews have brought with them from 2,000 in exile-just like the extra piece of baggage that new immigrants are allowed to bring when they come to Israel.
Occasionally Mr. Levy is correct:

In no other country are there streets without buses and tracks without trains on the Sabbath.

This is a tribute to the Jews living in Israel.
Finally Levy’s article reaches it’s hateful peak:

Just as with the tyranny of another minority, the settlers, who terrorize the majority, so it is with the tyranny of the ultra-Orthodox: The tyranny exists because the secular majority has chosen to obey it.

Yes Gideon-it is you-the branja-the minority of hateful European mixed multitudes who grinds against us every year like sandpaper. You will never admit that Tel Aviv University, the bastion of anti-Jewish sentiment in Israel, was built upon an Arab village. You forget, conveniently that secular Zionists from the beginning sought to displace Arabs living in Israel so that Jews could reclaim their ancient Homeland. Now when world sentiment is against you, the settlers are your scapegoat? You don’t blame the world for having mistreated the Jews for so long? You don’t blame the Arabs for having made the Western Wall into a trash heap before Jews reasserted control over the Old City (which is very much shared today, actually)? Only religious Jews who have consistently prayed for 2,000 years for their return to Zion are singled out? This is the sickness of the spiritual occupation which those of you in the fifth column advocate.
Thank G-d for the settlers. Thank G-d for the persistence of the minority. You write:

If the majority were to stand up and not surrender to the minority, buses would run every day and bread would be sold on Passover.

No, sir. The Nations stood up to the Jews and the Jews didn’t surrender. That is why we didn’t all become Christians (or Muslims). That is why you are able to live in this Land and attack us so comfortably from the artificial mound aptly called “Tel Aviv.”

Roseanne On Jesus and Kabbalah

Roseanne Barr has once again given us insight into the inner workings of Judaism in this reflection posted on her blog:

CONNECTION TO JESUS...

Part of the story of "jesus" is actually about his friend, shimon bar yochai...both men and their wives were erased from european jewish history, in its drive to become german/enlightened...ARYANIZED.. and yet it has been kept alive in sephardic/aramaic communities for two thousand years. (in another post I talked about this holy racial war of jewish thought - the talmudic and the zoharistic)

Outside the cave (in P'q'uin) where rabbi shimon hid for thirteen years from the romans...

In an instant, my mind raced ahead of itself, forward, and yet into the past... it smelled things and saw things and heard things unseen.

I saw the voice! I heard the smell! All senses synthesized...like at sinai.. I felt energy of life pulsing up from the earth and down from the trees. I flew at the speed of light, my eyebeam! The men I was with told me that in those days, they walked one inch off the ground and could teleport.

They were the temple monks, running for their lives, like now in tibet. The scorpion walked across the ari's tomb and we called the rav and karen on the phone (teleportation..to speak with those thousands of miles away) and karen said the scorpion is the only animal you can kill and incur no karma. Removing them changes nothing. Leaving them changes nothing.

I am a scorpio. I leave no mark, but I vow to supply the small link missing in the story of the temple, the end of the six thousand year old jews.

rabbi shimon bar yochai channelled the zohar. it contains all of the meditations that jesus practiced. The zohar says that in the age of acquarius, everyone will know these meditations. I have vowed to help that along.

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ASDL Response:

Aryanized? Sephardic Jews are saving Judaism...wow! This is from the same Roseanne who called Israel a Nazi state? Doesn't she understand that Jews of Arab countries are the core of the right-wing in Israel? "Jesus" rejected his teacher's ways and formed a cult-the one you were raised in, Roseanne. How about some actual Torah learning? You too, Larry!

Gideon Levy And The Crime Of Minority Worship

Gideon Levy, in his article Has anyone in Israel asked why the Swedes hate us? continues his case against the State of Israel. His rant is primarily driven by an unwavering minority complex:

The world is always against us, period.

Here he attacks his own liberal European branja (a Yiddish term meaning the "experts" or the "guild"), as if he were not one of them:

thanks to the gung-ho Israeli press

Levy goes on to say:

the pointless killing and destruction wrought by Israel

Gideon you don't mention that Gaza was firing missiles into "Israel proper" for years! What about that death and destruction? Here your self-hate hasbara (Hebrew for a one-sided explanation or propaganda) is uncovered.
He continues:

these sorts of moments that made me feel ashamed to be an Israeli,...

We are also ashamed that you are an "Israeli!"
Levy asserts that Israeli leaders are:

warmongers versus seekers of negotiation...

You are the warmonger-you strive for some kind of one-sided false "peace" that is simple a mirage. The Arabs will never give up violence as an option. Only secular Jews like yourself-people who have spent their entire lives distancing themselves from Judaism-go on to quote, time after time the Jewish prophecies talking about abandoning of war. You quote Judaism when it is convenient for you to do so.
Below Levy never mentions the Arabs' behavior-never once. He never points out that is was the unrelenting pursuit of violence perpetrated by Hamas that led to Israel's long awaited retaliate-as if to say that Jews are not permitted to defend themselves.

Lieberman's belligerent statements and the Israel Defense Forces' violent actions in the territories

He states about the US and George Bush:

who gave it such a blank check for all its settlements, targeted assassinations and occupation activities

Since when do Jews, who are the true owners of the Land Of Israel, need approval from the nations of the world-or from Gideon Levy and his band of lost Israelites? Furthermore, in total ignorance to Judaism you say that Israel cannot target those in the process of killing Jews! What a despicable immoral policy-this is in total contradiction to the Torah:

if one comes to kill you, kill him first

אם בא להרגך-השכם להרגו

ברכות נ"ח-א

If a thief is found breaking in, and he is struck so that he dies, there shall no blood be shed for him.

Exodus 22:1

It was secular Jews who insisted on having their own state, and then created a movement called Zionism. Now, more than one-hundred years later, it's offspring, Bnei Hertzl, are having a Ashka-tantrum in the face of world pressure:

For decades now, the world has been buying the Zionist narrative almost in full.

He incorrectly states:

The occupation and settlements have been going on for more than 40 years with no serious impediment.

Sorry Gideon-you can't fool everyone. The occupation is within you. The fact that you spend all of your time and energy pandering to the West-your new savior-and not sharpening your expertise in your own religion, Judaism is the mother-of-all-occupations. Forty-years? Try two hundred years! The occupation of the Jewish Enlightenment, the Haskalah, has leveled world Jewry with assimilation and confusion. Many Jews have no idea what their own religion means. You are only contributing to this occupation.

Know How To Respond To Heretics

A friend commented to me, “Are you sure it’s alright what you are doing?” His question was intended to ask if there was a justification, in Judaism, for creating a blog that holds accountable those Jews who attack Judaism and Israel without any Torah justification. Well, here is his answer. Here is a collection of statements from Jewish scriptures regarding such issues.

Haaretz Owned By Nazi-Linked Firm: Now It All Makes Sense

Special Thanks To Avi For This Tasty Tidbit!
Recently, in a spat with Richard Silverstein, reader Taming Korach pointed out that Haaretz is a German-owned newspaper. Thanks to another reader, Avi, we now have the evidence to convict lil Richard on charges of idiocy. Lil Richard whimpered:

Let it not be said that you waste any time actually trying to propound truthful or factual arguments. Haaretz is not “owned” by Germans. A German publishing company owns a minority stake. Furthermore, the German company has specifically said it has absolutely no control over anything written in the newspaper. So much for yr command of the facts. You can’t stand the idea that Israelis actually write Haaretz and advance ideas & arguments w. which you vehemently disagree. So you conveniently argue that the reason for this is that Haaretz is owned by anti-Semitic Nazis/Germans. Nice work.

Here is proof that Haaretz is connected to the former Nazi regime. As Avi wrote me: “now it all makes sense!”
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according to Wikipedia:

Management
The newspaper’s editorial policy was defined by Gershom Gustav Schocken, who was editor-in-chief from 1939 to 1990. Haaretz is owned by the Schocken family. The editor of the paper today is Dov Alfon, replacing David Landau in April 2008.[15] Landau succeeded Hanoch Marmari[16] and Yoel Esteron in April 2004. Adar Primor was the editor of Haaretz English Edition from 2005-2007. Charlotte Halle became managing editor of the English Edition in 2007 and editor of the English Edition in February 2008.
In August 2006, DuMont Schauberg acquired 25 percent of the shares of the Haaretz group. This German publisher, based in Cologne, owns four daily newspapers and a dozen other publications. It is also a partial owner of various radio stations. The deal was negotiated with the help of former Israeli ambassador to Germany Avi Primor. According to the CEO of the Haaretz group Amos Schocken, the proceeds from the sale will allow the company to augment its stake at Walla!, an Israeli Internet site.

A Fading Understanding

In his article A Fading Peace, author Brian Freedman writes a quality piece about his experience with anti-Arab sentiments amongst Israeli youth. Freedman does provide an intelligent well-thought out assessment of the current conflict. He, unfortunately, like many Anglo Jews today having a faded picture of Israeli society that is fading as fast as a Tel Aviv sunset.
Freedman states:

The kids wear this bigotry with pride, as if it were a source of patriotism…

Is that not a blanket statement? That would be far more appropriate for the Arabs than for Israeli Jews. The Arabs have no vocal leftist opposition, with the exception of informants and leftist Jews like those on the Wall of Shame on this blog. Do you think the Meretznikim in Tel Aviv have this kind of attitude? They are busy hating Haredim (black-hat Orthodox) to hate the Arabs.
Describing a group of anti-Arab Jewish kids he encountered Freedman writes:

I vindicate them mostly because they are young and they undoubtedly learn this mentality at the dinner table.

Again, Arabs don’t have anti-Israel hate pow-wows? Leftist Jews? No, only the average Israeli fed up with the Arabs and the world’s tolerance of their behavior gets pegged for the media’s special attention. He writes further:

Avigdor Lieberman’s successful campaign slogan, “No Loyalty, No Citizenship,” is aimed at initiating a McCarthy-like litmus test to suppress the nagging, caustic voice of a frustrated Israeli Arab population.

A teacher of mine who is now at the Technion told me that there were Israeli Arabs who deliberately gave Hezbollah directions regarding which areas of Israel to hit in the latest Israeli-Lebanese War. Brian, you don’t point that out. You also don’t point out that there were families of Arab suicide bombers getting stipends from the Israeli government after having perpetrated their murderous missions! How’s that for nuts? Would any Western country be so naive? Your comments, and those of so many Jews in the Diaspora represent a fundamental lack of understand of the culture, problems, and challenges-in their totality-that Israel and its Arabs neighbors face. Hopefully more Jews will come to Israel and educate themselves to counteract this “fading understanding.”