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  • Did The Jews Destroy Western Culture?

    I have often been intrigued by the hounding of the Jews throughout History by all Races, Nations.

     

    My feeling is that not all of them could be the aggressors and that all of them were wrong.

     

    I have not been able to spot of a single reason for this persecution,barring the oft-repeated statements like the Jews are miserly,they stick together, they bleed others white by usury and they occupy the Highest offices wherever they go, irrespective of the nation where they live.

    Did the Jews destroy Western Culture?

    Take a look ,for example at US.

    List of Politicians of Jewish origin.

     

    Former cabinet Members.

    • Henry Kissinger (R-Secretary of State: 1973-1977)
    • Arthur Goldberg (D-Secretary of Labor: 1961-1962) also Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
    • Oscar Straus (politician) (R-Secretary of Commerce and Labor: 1906-1909)
    • Henry Morgenthau, Jr. (D-Secretary of Treasury: 1934-1945)
    • Abraham Ribicoff (D-Secretary of HEW (HHS): 1961-1962)
    • Wilbur J. Cohen (D-Secretary of HEW (HHS): 1968-1969)
    • Edward H. Levi (R-Attorney General: 1975-1977)
    • Harold Brown (D-Secretary of Defense: 1977-1981)
    • W. Michael Blumenthal (D-Secretary of Treasury: 1977-1979)
    • Neil Goldschmidt (D-Secretary of Transportation: 1979-1981)
    • Philip Klutznick (D-Secretary of Commerce: 1980-1981)
    • Robert Reich (D-Secretary of Labor: 1993-1997)
    • Robert Rubin (D-Secretary of Treasury: 1995-1999)
    • Dan Glickman (D-Secretary of Agriculture: 1995-2001)
    • Mickey Kantor (D-Secretary of Commerce: 1996-1997, US Trade Representative: 1993-1996)
    • Lawrence Summers (D-Secretary of Treasury: 1999-2001)
    • Michael Chertoff (R-Secretary of HS: 2005-2009)
    • Michael Mukasey (R-Attorney General: 2007-2009)
    •  Not to forget Abraham Lincoln and Roosevelt
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_American_politicians

    You also have world Class entertainers.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_Jewish_entertainers#Film_directors

    And , of course , not to forget Christ!

    Jewish Culture was integrated by the Western Culture and , in my opinion, not other wise.

    Even Christianity is for the Reformation of the Jewish practices and not out right condemnation of Judaism.

    To me to state that Judaism destroyed Western Culture is akin to saying Protestantism destroyed Christianity!

    But Historical evidence points out to the persecution of Jews more than the persecution of the West by The Jews.

    The Judaic Destruction of Western Culture
    The Judaic Destruction of Western Culture

    Persecution of The Jews by all Races.

    “In the Middle Ages Antisemitism in Europe was religious. Though not part of Roman Catholic dogma, many Christians, including members of the clergy, have held the Jewish people collectively responsible for killing Jesus, a practice originated by Melito of Sardis. As stated in the Boston College Guide to Passion Plays, “Over the course of time, Christians began to accept… that the Jewish people as a whole were responsible for killing Jesus. According to this interpretation, both the Jews present at Jesus Christ’s death and the Jewish people collectively and for all time, have committed the sin of deicide, or God-killing. For 1900 years of Christian-Jewish history, the charge of deicide has led to hatred, violence against and murder of Jews in Europe and America.”[3]

    During the High Middle Ages in Europe there was full-scale persecution in many places, with blood libels, expulsions, forced conversions and massacres. An underlying source of prejudice against Jews in Europe was religious. Jews were frequently massacred and exiled from various European countries. The persecution hit its first peak during the Crusades. In the First Crusade (1096) flourishing communities on the Rhine and the Danube were utterly destroyed; see German Crusade, 1096. In the Second Crusade (1147) the Jews in France were subject to frequent massacres. The Jews were also subjected to attacks by the Shepherds’ Crusades of 1251 and 1320. The Crusades were followed by expulsions, including in, 1290, the banishing of all English Jews; in 1396, 100,000 Jews were expelled from France; and, in 1421 thousands were expelled from Austria. Many of the expelled Jews fled to Poland.[4]

    As the Black Death epidemics devastated Europe in the mid-14th century, annihilating more than a half of the population, Jews were taken as scapegoats. Rumors spread that they caused the disease by deliberately poisoning wells. Hundreds of Jewish communities were destroyed by violence in the Black Death persecutions. Although Pope Clement VI tried to protect them by the July 6, 1348 papal bull and another 1348 bull, several months later, 900 Jews were burnt alive in Strasbourg, where the plague hadn’t yet affected the city.[5]

    Jews in India faced no persecution from Hindus from the time they migrated to India, but they were subjugated by Christian missionaries during the Goa Inquisition from the year 1552. Portuguese invaders in the South India committed massive atrocities on South Indian Jewry in the 17th Century.[6]

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Jews

    I chanced upon one Video and a News Article on the subject, but I remain unconvinced that the Jews destroyed the Western Culture.

    In case you have any information, please share.

    Jews destroyed Western Culture.

    “Divorce replaces marriage, abortion replaces birth, the home acquires a mere utilitarian function, and the family becomes the battleground of individual strife.

    Promoting the erotic-as-its-own-end, Jewish Hollywood deliberately undermines the propagation of the White race, scorns its history, and crushes its destiny.

    The disintegrated victims shorn of their organic and historic connections with the great super-personal content of Life, become unfruitful, lose both their will to power and theirwill to propagate.

    Following in this wake of Judaic wreckage, the White Christian victims lack the ability to believe in or to follow anything noble and future-reaching.

    The Jew has attained his goal in destroying Western culture while at the same time he remains embodied in an organism immune from his destructive programme.

    Could another “organism” with its own self-preserving aims and boundaries surface to oppose Judaic rule?

    Militarism is emerging as a potent political and economic force in the West. Could the military be the Western world’s last hope in overturning the power of the Jew?…

    http://www.realjewnews.com/?p=561

     

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  • Anti Semitic Groups of The World, Wisenthal

    I recently posted  that the voice against Israel’s Policies is not Anti Semitic.

     

    Then I did some research.

     

    I came across a Link through Der Spiegel The German News Paper on a List prepared By Simon Wiesenthal who is responsible for the hunting down of Nazis accused of War Crimes during Hitler’s Regime.

     

    I was shocked to find that the Anti Semitic Groups are quite active and they continue to spew venom.

     

    I am also surprised at the number of Islamic terrorist Groups which target Jews.

     

    Historically Islam treated the Jews better comparatively than the other Groups of the World(Ref.O!Jerusalem,The Rise and fall of the Third Reich)

     

    Such activities are to be dissuaded, if not nipped in the bud by the respective Governments as this virus if transnational.

     

    Anti Semiticism
    Anti Semitism

    Here is the List.

    EGYPT’S MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD
    Today effectively rules the Arab world’s largest and most
    important nation
    MOHAMMED BADIE
    MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD’S MORAL GUIDE
    “The Jews have dominated the land, spread corruption
    on earth, spilled the blood of believers and in their
    actions profaned holy places. Zionists only understand
    the language of force and will not relent without
    duress. This will happen only through holy Jihad.”
    – Mohammed Badie
    FUTOUH ABD AL-NABI MANSOUR
    EGYPTIAN CLERIC, HEADS RELIGIOUS ENDOWMENT FOR THE MATROUH GOVERNATE
    “Oh Allah, destroy the Jews and their supporters – Oh Allah, disperse them and
    rend them asunder, Oh Allah, demonstrate your might and greatness upon them.”
    At a nationally televised service at el-Tenaim Mosque attended by Egyptian President Morsi, cleric
    Al Nabi Mansour prays, Morsi was shown fervently answering “Amin” (Amen).
    – Futouh Abd Al-Nabi Mansour, October 19, 2012 – source: MEMRI.

    IRANIAN REGIME
    MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD
    PRESIDENT OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN
    “It has now been some 400 years that a horrendous
    Zionist clan has been ruling the major world affairs.
    And behind the scenes of the major power circles, in
    political, media, monetary, and banking organizations
    in the world, they have been the decision-makers, to
    an extent that a big power with a huge economy and
    over 300 million population, the presidential election
    hopefuls must go kiss the feet of the Zionists to ensure
    their victory in the elections.”
    – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, July 1, 2012, Speaking to Ambassadors of Islamic Countries
    MAJOR GENERAL HASSAN FIROUZABADI
    ARMED FORCES CHIEF OF STAFF
    “The Iranian nation is standing for its cause that is the full annihilation of Israel.”
    – Major General Hassan Firouzabadi, August 5, 2012
    MOHAMED RAHIMI
    FIRST VICE PRESIDENT
    [The Talmud] “…teaches [the Jews] how to destroy non-Jews so as to protect
    an embryo in the womb of a Jewish mother.” As ‘evidence’ of Jewish control of
    international illegal drug trade, the vice president alleged that there isn’t “a single
    addict among the Zionists.”
    At a ceremony in Tehran marking International Day against Drug Abuse and
    Illicit Trafficking.
    2012 Top Ten Anti-Semitic/Anti-Israel Slurs4
    EUROPEAN FOOTBALL (SOCCER) FANS’ ANTI-SEMITISM
    The problem of anti-Semitic abuse at soccer matches which until
    recently has been limited to Eastern Europe, has been revived in Western
    Europe. The most serious situation has been a resurgence of anti-Semitic
    chanting toward one particular team, Tottenham Hotspur, which is based
    in a traditionally Jewish section of London. In a recent match against
    a rival West Ham United, sections of its fans chanted, “Adolf Hitler’s
    coming for you” and “You’re getting gassed in the morning” and
    making hissing noises like the sound of a gas chamber. A reporter for the
    Telegraph said, “We are not talking about a few isolated crooners here.
    A significant proportion of West Ham’s travelling support participated.“
    Because Tottenham has the largest Jewish fan base in England, it has long
    been the target of anti-Semitism—so much so that the fans have adopted
    the slurs “Yid” and “Yiddo” as a way of deflecting abuse.
    SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER
    UKRAINE’S ANTI-SEMITIC “SVOBODA” (FREEDOM) PARTY
    OLEG TYAGNIBOK
    LEADER OF THE SVOBODA PARTY
    In recent elections the radical right party won 41 seats in the Ukrainian
    Parliament (10.44%% of the popular vote). Tyagnibok has called for purges
    of the approximately 400,000 Jews and other minorities living in Ukraine
    and has demanded that Ukraine be liberated from what he calls, the
    “Muscovite Jewish Mafia.”
    – Oleg Tyagnibok
    IGOR MIROSHNICHENKO
    MEMBER OF UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT SLANDERS US
    ACTRESS MILA KUNIS
    MP Igor Miroshnichenko, recently labeled noted Ukrainian-born American
    actress Mila Kunis, a ‘zhydovka’, (dirty Jewess). Zhid is an insidious slur used against
    Jews since the times of the Czar and invoked by the Nazis and their collaborators as they
    rounded up the Jews to murder them at Babi Yar and in the death camps. Mila Kunis’
    family, like countless thousands of other Ukrainian Jewish families, left the Ukraine in the
    first place because of anti-Semitism. The Wiesenthal Center has urged Prime Minister
    Azarov to publicly denounce the political extremists.

    GREECE’S GOLDEN DAWN PARTY
    NIKOLAOS MICHALOLIAKOS
    GOLDEN DAWN FOUNDER
    Nikolaos Michaloliakos, Golden Dawn’s founder appeared to give a Nazi
    salute in the Athens City Council. He claims that it was merely “the salute
    of the national youth organization of Ioannis Metaxas.”
    In May 2012, he told an interviewer that six million did not die in the Nazi
    Holocaust. He called the figure an exaggeration. “There were no
    ovens. This is a lie…there were no gas chambers, either”
    – Nikolaos Michaloliakos
    See related Youtube: http://youtu.be/yXy7f17GXtQ
    The Times of London reports that Golden Dawn’s member Artemis
    Matthaiopoulos, elected MP for the town of Serres, was the front man
    of the Nazi punk band Pogrom. One of the band’s songs, “Auschwitz”
    included anti-Semitic lyrics such as “f*** Wiesenthal”, “f*** Anne
    Frank”, “f*** the whole tribe of Abraham”, “Juden raus” and
    “The Star of David makes me vomit.” Matthaiopoulos is the second
    neo-Nazi rocker to represent Golden Dawn in the Greek Parliament.
    ILIAS KASIDIARIS
    SPOKESMAN FOR THE GOLDEN DAWN PARTY
    During a session of the Greek Parliament that was discussing an assault
    charge against Kasidiaris, he read from the notoriously anti-Semitic
    “Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion’s” protocol #19. It alleges
    that Jewish leaders seek to discredit patriots as part of their attempt to
    take over governments: “In order to destroy the prestige of heroism,
    we shall send them for trial for theft, murder and every kind of
    abominable and filthy crime.”
    – Ilias Kasidiaris

    FAR-RIGHT HUNGARIAN JOBBIK PARTY
    MARTON GYONGYOSI
    FOREIGN POLICY CABINET
    On October 26, Marton Gyongyosi, far-right party leader criticized Hungary’s
    foreign ministry for supporting Israel and raised the specter of dual loyalty
    by calling for background checks on Hungarian Jewish citizens.
    “I think now is the time to assess how many people there are of
    Jewish origin here, and especially in the Hungarian parliament
    who represent a certain national security risk of Hungary.”
    – Marton Gyongyosi
    Gyongyosi’s remarks spurred other lawmakers to wear Jewish stars in protest and led to public
    demonstrations.

    NORWAY HONORS PROMOTER OF ANTI-SEMITIC
    CONSPIRACY CANARDS
    TROND ALI LINSTAD
    Trond Ali Linstad’s website warns readers to “beware the Jews” and
    the “influence they have in newspaper, in other media, and in
    many political organs.”
    Linstad depicts violence against Israel as a “great success” and supports
    use of the slogan -”Kharibat Khybarj” a jihadist term for terrorism against
    Jews. He also alleges “every president in the US must adapt to the
    Jewish lobby,“ which he says undermines US policy.
    – Trond Ali Linstad
    Despite his notorious record, in 2012 Linstad was nominated by King Harald V for
    the Royal Service Medal, which recognizes people for work in the arts, science,
    industry and public service!

    LOUIS FARRAKHAN
    In the past, Louis Farrakhan has claimed that Jews controlled
    the slave trade, the US Government, and continue to seek world
    domination. In 2012, Farrakhan intensified his anti-Semitic
    rhetoric.
    “Jews control the media. They said it themselves…
    In Washington right next to the Holocaust museum is
    the Federal Reserve where they print the money. Is
    that an accident?”
    October 21, 2012 at Mosque Maryam in Chicago
    “…Did you know the Koran says that Jews are the most violent of people? I didn’t write it, but
    I’m living to see it.”
    February 26, 2012 – Savior’s Day Speech, Chicago
    “Brothers and sisters, you’ve gotta stop being guided by the controlled media that is owned by
    Zionist forces that want to make you pawns in the struggle of Israel and Zionism.”
    “Guidance in a Time of Trouble” speech in San Diego, 5/27/12
    SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER 2012 Top Ten Anti-Semitic/Anti-Israel Slurs
    INFLUENTIAL GERMAN MEDIA PERSONALITY’S
    BIGOTRY
    JAKOB AUGSTEIN
    OWNER / EDITOR, DER FREITAG WEEKLY
    CONTRIBUTOR, SPIEGEL ONLINE
    “With backing from the US, where the president must secure
    the support of Jewish lobby groups, and in Germany, where
    coping with history, in the meantime, has a military component,
    the Netanyahu government keeps the world on a leash with an
    ever-swelling war chant.”
    “Israel’s nuclear power is a danger to the already fragile peace of the world. This
    statement has triggered an outcry.Because it’s true. And because it was made by a
    German, Guenter Grass, author and Nobel Prize winner. That is the key point. One must,
    therefore, thank him for taking it upon himself to speak for us all.”
    “Israel is threatened by Islamic fundalmentalists in its neighborhood. But the Jews also
    have their fundamentalists, the ultra-orthodox Hareidim. They are not a small splinter
    group. They make up 10% of the Israeli population. They are cut from the same cloth as
    their Islamic fundamentalist opponents. They follow the law of revenge.”
    “The fire burns in Libya, Sudan, Yemen, in countries which are among the poorest
    on earth. But those who set the fires live elsewhere. Furious young people burn the
    American, and recently, the German flag. They, too, are victims, just like the dead at
    Benghazi and Sanaa. Whom does this all this violence benefit? Always the insane and
    unscrupulous. And this time it’s the U.S. Republicans and Israeli government.”
    “Gaza is a place out of the end of times….1.7 million people live there on 360 sq.
    kilometers. Israel incubates its own opponents there.”
    all translated quotes from Spiegel Online
    – Jakob Augstein
    Respected Die Welt columnist Henryk M. Broder, who has testified as an expert in the Bundestag about German
    anti-Semitism, labeled Augstein a “little Streicher” adding: “Jakob Augstein is not a salon anti-Semite, he’s a pure
    anti-Semite…an offender by conviction who only missed the opportunity to make his career with the Gestapo
    because he was born after the war. He certainly would have had what it takes.”10
    http://www.wiesenthal.com/2012slurs
    We invite members of the public to forward to the Wiesenthal Center anti-Semitic and/or anti-Israel
    so that such incidents can be exposed and that the perpetrators be held accountable
    in the court of public opinion.
    SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER
    http://www.wiesenthal.com
    310.553.9036
    SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER
    LOUIS FARRAKHAN (CONT.)
    “I don’t know how many Jews were killed. I know something happened in Nazi Germany,
    and if it’s one million, two million, three million; it’s one million, two million, three million
    too many. But to deny a person the right to challenge your articulation of numbers and to
    put you in jail if you deny aspects of the Holocaust… You can’t speak about Jews. You can’t
    criticize Jews. If you do, you’re an anti-Semite.”
    Farrakhan: How many of you are lawyers? Only have one in the house? No wonder we go to jail so
    much, brother! But at the top of the law profession, who are the top in law?
    Audience: Jews.
    Farrakhan: Sorry I didn’t hear you.
    Audience: Jews!
    Farrakhan: Any doctors in the house? Ain’t got no doctors? Oh there’s one way in the back. At the top of
    the medical profession, the top in that are members of the Jewish community. Anybody in media?
    Who’s the top in that field?
    Audience: Jews.
    Farrakhan: Anybody a rapper in the house? There’s rappers. You can rap, ain’t nothing wrong with that,
    but at the top of that are those that control the industry. Any of you have Hollywood ambitions, Broadway
    ambitions? Who’s the top of that?
    Audience: Jews.
    Farrakhan: Same people! They’re masters in business. Well I’m not a businessman I’m a banker.
    Well who’s the master of the bankers?
    Audience: Jews.
    Farrakhan: TALK TO ME!
    Audience: Jews!
    Holy Day of Atonement Keynote Address, Mosque Maryam, Chicago

    http://www.wiesenthal.com/atf/cf/%7B54d385e6-f1b9-4e9f-8e94-890c3e6dd277%7D/TT_2012_3.PDF

     

     

  • Voice Against Israel’s Aggression Is Not Anti Semitism

    Any criticism of Israel whenever it indulges in activities which may be termed as  ‘terrorist’, is attacked with the inundation that it is ‘Anti Semitic’

    Read the following story from Der Spiegel.

     

    Germany collaborated with Israel for building a Submarine for carrying Nuclear Missile .

     

    The investigative reporter who did that article is immediately snubbed as Anti Semitic .

     

    DPA German journalist Jakob Augstein.
    DPA German journalist Jakob Augstein.

    “Given the rising trends of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel resentments in German society, it’s probably helpful to focus on the effects of this new quality and tone of Israel criticism in the public discourse. Even Günter Grass may wholeheartedly believe it’s his life’s last mission to communicate Israel’s danger to the world out of love and friendship for the Jewish people and their state. The effect of this trend on media consumers, however, is more important than the motives of more or less relevant individual authors.“

    “Last June’s cover story in SPIEGEL on the German-Israeli submarine deal is an example: ‘Should Germany, the country of the perpetrators, be allowed to assist Israel, the land of the victims, in the development of a nuclear weapons arsenal capable of extinguishing hundreds of thousands of human lives?’ … ‘Should Germany, as its historic obligation stemming from the crimes of the Nazis, assume a responsibility that has become ‘part of Germany’s reason of state?” The subtext is clear: 1. Israel plans to wipe out the Iranian people and thus is equal to the Third Reich. 2. Germany is pressured into this because of the Holocaust.”

    “The systematic and subtle manipulation of this sort in reports about Israel — whether skillfully staged or unintentional, to a large extent explains why, according to a study on anti-Semitism in German society recently commissioned by the Bundestag (the federal parliament), almost 40 percent of Germans claim that ‘Jews try to take an advantage out of the Third Reich History;’ why 44 percent say they ‘understand that one dislikes Jews, when looking at Israel’s policies.’”

    The point in italics is 100 % true.

    Israel seems to believe that their sufferings entitle them to indulge in the crimes they have accused of others!

    To avenge the sufferings, as it were, the Israelis have a made People with out motherland(Palestinians) , who(Arabs) were the people  throughout the History of the persecution of the Jews were the most tolerant in comparison.

    The common belief that the Jews are/were Lily white is erroneous.

    If they were why is it they were singled out by nearly all the cultures?

    Referring to Mythologies might soothe their conscience.

    http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/ronen-bergman-on-the-conflation-of-criticism-of-israel-with-antisemitism-a-877479.html

    Gaza is a place out of the end of times,” Augstein writes in one of the lines quoted by the Wiesenthal Center. “1.7 million people live there on 360 square kilometers. Israel incubates its own opponents there.” Other lines chosen to illustrate the journalist’s alleged anti-Semitism state that US presidents “must secure the support of Jewish lobby groups” and that “the Netanyahu government keeps the world on a leash with an ever-swelling war chant.” Augstein writes that “Jews also have their fundamentalists, the ultra-orthodox Hareidim,” who are “cut from the same cloth as their Islamic fundamentalist opponents.” And he calls “the US Republicans and the Israeli government” insane and unscrupulous.

    Perhaps predictably, the inclusion of Augstein, son of SPIEGEL’s founding editor in chief Rudolf Augstein, on the list has launched yet another national debate in Germany about the contours of anti-Semitism and how far one can go when criticizing Israel before being labelled a racist.Germany’s history, after all, has long informed the country’s deep official support of Israel, but its center-left majority displays an almost reflexive affinity for the Palestinians.(Der Spiegel)

     

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  • The Bible says’Jews Killed Jesus’-How else could it have said?

    Referring to my Blog on ‘Fox publishes survey on Jews Killed Jesus in Facebook’, I received a communication from The MackQuigley Report © to refer to their site for information which I am reproducing here.

    We need to remember the society in which Jesus lived.

    Stained glass at St John the Baptist's Anglica...
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    He lived among the people of Jewish Faith -in fact Jesus and  Joseph were Jewish with Romans ruling them.

    The Disciples of Jesus were of Jewish extract.

    One of them betrayed him as believed.

    So when one has to refer to some one apart from his name, especially if you have to name a crowd, you tend to refer the ethnicity,tribe or the race they belong to.

    How else could some one give a reference?

    This is akin to the statement that” all Muslims are terrorists’ or ‘All Germans were Nazis’ which is non- sense.

    Any society will have its Judas and crackpots and Megalomaniacs.

    To name the race  for the mistakes of an individual, is immature.

    One must remember that The Bible was compiled nearly after 300 years after Jesus and that too in a conclave of the Cardinals assembled at the behest of Constantine to suit his political ambitions.

    Let me leave it at that.

    There is no point in talking about some thing which might have happened or had happened.

    One must move on in Life.

    ”

    Perhaps the only thing more ridiculous than thinking “pope” Ratzinger could declare the Jews exonerated of the blood of Christ, would be accepting ex-Anglican now Roman Catholic traditionalist“bishop” Richard Williamson‘s announcement that the Jews are guilty of “deicide” – a made-up word that the Bible never uses – implying that Christ’s death as a man was the death of God, and therefore man killed God. (Catholics play similar word-games to blasphemously call Mary the “mother of God”).

    Ignoring all that superstitious blather, the Bible believer can determine and declare the absolute truth on the matter from the real Final Authority – the Authorized Version of 1611. In that Book we read the following:

    The Jews plotted to Kill Jesus Christ:

    “After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.”John 7:1.

    “I and my Father are one. Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.” John 10:29-33.

    Christ said the Jews would be to blame for killing him:

    “31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. 32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. 33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? 34 Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: 35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. 36 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation. 37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!” Matthew 23:31-37.

    Those Jews that knew better consented by their silence:

    “Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue: For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.” John 12:42-43.

    Not just leaders, but “all the people” demanded Christ’s death at the price of their own guilt:

    “And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified. When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it. Then answeredall the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.” Matthew 27:33

    “And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesar’s friend: whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar. … And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King! But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar. Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away.” John 19:16.

    When Peter testified to them of their guilt they plotted to kill him also:

    http://mackquigley.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/jews-christ-killers/

    Foot Note.

    Had Christ said the words attributed to him, don’t you think it runs contrary to his teachings of ‘Love Thy enemy’?

    Let people follow Jesus’s teachings and not what some report wherever it is from.

    What is said is important than who said.

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  • Remaining impartial in the Middle East .

    Notwithstanding syrupy prose ,what comes out is the fact that Jews are still talking about times when people were supposed have occupied places as per their mythologies.By the same yardstick, Hindu mythologies declare the land of Hindus encompassed the whole globe.Shall Hindus take a claim for the whole world?
    People have been migrating and living together notwithstanding religious texts for ages in all parts of the world.Only after the concealed desire of the Jews to possess what has been said in their religion, got intensified after genocide of Jews by Hitler. Jews should, better than any body else what it is to be stateless.Why ,driven by victim hood,should one deny the land where the Palestinians have been living?It is not as though Jews are being driven out.Palestinians also should be provided land.
    But the Jews seem to bent on denying Palestinians space more than acquiring space for Jews themselves.
    Very sad.
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    As Tim Franks finishes his spell as the BBC’s Middle East correspondent, he explains how his own background made it inevitable that some people would make certain assumptions.
    Tim Franks reporting from the Gaza-Israel border
    Tim Franks has been BBC Middle East correspondent since March 2007

    First an admission: I am a Jew, and a journalist.

    And now an apology: I hate the solipsistic writing I am about to be guilty of, where the journalist puts himself at the centre of the story.

    But let me try to explain.

    The reason for the admission is that my dual identity – Jew and journalist – has not just been a matter for me these past three-and-a- half years. From the start, it was of apparently burning import for a good number of friends, acquaintances and people whom I had never met.

    That it was so, perhaps illuminates one small corner of the cloud of smog that envelops the Middle East.

    There were those Jews from the synagogue in my previous posting, Brussels, who heard about my new job, clapped me on the back and said, “Thank goodness, at last you’ll be able to put our side of the story.”

    The Middle East has become occluded by prejudice, prejudice in its literal sense of pre-judgement

    There was the non-Jewish classmate from school – someone I had not exchanged a word with for 20 years – who emailed me out of the blue to commiserate over how difficult it would be for me in my new job not to have divided loyalties, to Judaism and to journalism.

    And there was the non-Jewish friend of the family who declared, to one of my relatives, that my appointment had come about because of the pressure the previous Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, had applied to the director-general of the BBC.

    Refugees

    And there are many who believe that, as a journalist, I am also guilty before I have broadcast a word: guilty of being in hock to the all-powerful Jewish lobby, guilty of being in thrall to the Palestinian culture of victimhood, guilty of stirring over-heated controversy out of every spit and whistle in this corner of western Asia.
    Balata refugee camp
    Balata is the largest refugee camp in the West Bank

    The Middle East has become occluded by prejudice, prejudice in its literal sense of pre-judgement.

    Too many people have unshakeable views of others. The label does not help identify the person. It becomes the person.

    It can be a rather comforting deception.

    Take the radioactive issue of refugees.

    The West Bank’s largest refugee camp is Balata – home to more than 30,000 Palestinians, wedged into concrete apartment blocks barely a shoulder-width apart.

    Ask the young boys there – boys who are third, even fourth generation refugees, born in this camp – where they come from and, without missing a beat, they will still say Haifa or Jaffa or other cities deep within Israel, places that certainly they and probably their parents have never visited.

    And so it was a shock to me recently when, in a hotel room in Amman, the Palestinians’ chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, told me that the Israelis had to understand that part of any final deal involving the establishment of a Palestinian state would have to include the return of some Palestinian refugees to Israel.

    Some. Not all, as the usual theology demands.

    Jewish settlements

    There are Israelis willing to punch holes in the wall of myths.

    Jeremy is a British Jew who made aliyah (emigrated to Israel) 20 years ago.

    Construction work at a Jewish settlement
    More than 430,000 Jewish settlers live in the West Bank

    He, his wife and three daughters live in a small apartment in Jerusalem. It is not an easy or financially cushy life but, as a religiously observant Jew and committed Zionist, there is nowhere he would rather be.

    Which is not to say that he is not speaking with ever thicker tones of despair about his new home country.

    Take the Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

    Ideologically committed Jewish settlers regard this land, replete as it is with biblical references, as more precious than Tel Aviv or other cities within the Green Line, within what’s considered to be Israel proper.

    Jeremy says that this veneration of the land has become “idolatry.” Few insults, between Jews, over the last 5,000 years, have been more wounding.

    ‘Pogrom’

    A more recent word was used in the wake of an eviction of a houseful of Jewish settlers in the West Bank city of Hebron.

    Map of Israel and the Occupied Territories

    Despite doom-laden predictions, the Israeli police and army managed quite easily to extract the Jews, whom the Israeli Supreme Court had ruled were living illegally in the building.

    But then Jewish rioters wreaked their vengeance on Palestinians living in the valley below the house.

    I crouched by an outside wall, while rocks and firebombs were thrown at the homes, inside which terrified families had barricaded themselves.

    Leaning over the wall, on the far side of the valley, were scores of residents of the adjoining settlement of Kiryat Arba.

    They appeared, passively, to be watching the mayhem unfold.

    The next day, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz called the previous evening’s riot a “pogrom”, the word coined in the 19th Century to describe the systematic, blood-soaked, anti-Jewish rioting in Russia.

    Psychological barriers

    The term was shocking, poignant and appropriate.

    I guess, and again forgive the solipsism, but some may want to know my response to the question that I, as a BBC journalist, could never – and never wanted to – answer: namely, what did that, and a million other incidents, make me, a Jew, feel about the Jewish state?

    Probably unfairly… I resented the fact that none of them appeared to be approaching each rousing song or traditional prayer in any different way on this specific day

    On one level, it was simple.

    That night of rioting was ghastly. It reflected a deep reservoir of shamefulness and dysfunction.

    My paternal grandparents had, as children, early last century, left Lithuania and Russia for the sanctuary of Britain.

    They and their families would have known all about the particular terror of pogroms.

    The following evening, I was in my synagogue in Jerusalem for the Friday night service that brings in Shabbat (sabbath).

    It is the most determinedly happy point of the Jewish week, and the synagogue to which I have belonged the past three years makes a point of filling the hour and a quarter with – in liturgical terms – some cracking tunes.

    By about half-way through, I have usually overcome my British and hazily agnostic reserve and am joining in. But on this Friday, I could not escape feeling flat and depressed.

    Probably unfairly – given the unusually high sensitivity among much of this congregation to what is happening on occupied territory – I resented the fact that none of them appeared to be approaching each rousing song or traditional prayer in any different way on this specific day.

    In a way, it was almost adolescent: why can’t they see the blackness too?

    In another, it reflected the psychological barriers Israelis have erected at the same time as the separation barrier along the West Bank: it puts what is happening over there – over the other side of the Green Line – out of mind.

    It is, as one Israeli friend acidly put it, “a peace dividend, without the peace”.

    I do not believe I had covered the story for radio or TV any differently because I was a Jew.

    But was I feeling more bleak the following day because this was violence perpetrated by Jews? Well, perhaps.

    Ineluctable truths

    Against that, and many other similar incidents, there were also countless moments of celebration and nurture, which felt particular because of where they were and the company they kept.

    Ploughing on Kibbutz Degania Bet in 1945 in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine
    The first kibbutz was founded in 1910

    I was never the sort of Jew who went weak-kneed when close to the Western Wall and, indeed, from my first visit to Israel as a teenager, I rather kicked against the assumption that I would be transported on waves of epiphany.

    But when I was lucky enough to spend eve of festival meals in the homes of Jewish friends in Jerusalem, were they special because of the people or because of the locale?

    It seems futile to try to separate, given that these were Jews who had chosen to live in Jerusalem.

    The same goes for the kibbutz, the rural collective farm, where one of my favourite artists had resided for more than 50 years, and where the life remained a deeply unfashionable paean to a socialist idyll, which in turn had been a foundation of the original Zionist dream.

    In other words, it is important to contextualise.

    Of course it is, it is what we, as journalists, should always aim to do.

    But it is what you absolutely cannot do if you trade in apparently ineluctable truths about the nature of Israelis or Jews or Palestinians or Arabs or Muslims: then the circle becomes sterile and self-defeating.

    ‘Another code’

    So, to return at long last to what I, as a Jew, feel about the Jewish state. Well, it is what I, as a journalist, feel about the Jewish state: that it’s there.

    Just as the stateless Palestinians are there.

    Yes, this is the Middle East but it is not the Middle Ages

    Neither is going to cease being without a blood-soaked cataclysm. No competing narrative is going to vanquish the other. We need to move on.

    There are not many – maybe not any – places such as this land.

    Places where there have been 4,000 years of conflict. Where it is almost impossible to plant your foot on the historical turf and say “Aha! On this we can agree.”

    In what city in the world, other than Jerusalem, has control swung 11 times between religions?

    So yes, this place is unique.

    But does that mean it demands different rules?

    One of the most telling comments I heard was uttered on a hilltop settlement by Shoshanna Shilo.

    She was a grandmother, with twinkling eyes, whom I had first met as she was carried away, rigid with fury, by four Israeli military policemen, from an impromptu protest in the West Bank.

    I met her again, a few weeks later, at her own settlement.

    It wasn’t, she said, just that this land which the rest of the world wants for a Palestinian state belongs to the Jews. It was also what she saw as the delusion that the other side wants peace.

    “This is the Middle East,” she told me. “It’s not Europe. We live,” she said, “by another code.”

    Well, yes, it is the Middle East but, no, it is not the Middle Ages.

    These days, we should all try to live by a different code. Shouldn’t we?
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