tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25864393985264515532024-03-21T20:04:42.467-07:00The New PorphyryDo not adjust your computer screen. I am in control of the discussion. For the next lifetime I will adjust the vertical and
horizontal debate settings. You have reached His majesty and the Days Of Awe known as: The Outer Polimics.JoeWallackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10666074795187377455noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586439398526451553.post-17000812749041367792022-01-02T08:42:00.029-08:002022-01-05T08:50:02.212-08:00The Skirvin Hotel<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgO1Lrb6XgsyBzYF3dHCemxiIKMz5dQ4DpduzYQRuDffEu77kRWgoNpLBbxaUrAluMPEexzNkJjPl1nxTMQp1HmNPkywWdqAWBpozKEt6CFjWoWlE6amlDUPBPMxltTa0_bTae_43KL9Gt3RypawYJ2O3e_iBa-DTephErS5CkGtGxPQOnSGmQuVepRxg=s4032" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgO1Lrb6XgsyBzYF3dHCemxiIKMz5dQ4DpduzYQRuDffEu77kRWgoNpLBbxaUrAluMPEexzNkJjPl1nxTMQp1HmNPkywWdqAWBpozKEt6CFjWoWlE6amlDUPBPMxltTa0_bTae_43KL9Gt3RypawYJ2O3e_iBa-DTephErS5CkGtGxPQOnSGmQuVepRxg=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Introduction</span></b></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> If you are ever in or around
Oklahoma City or just have an unnatural urge, I recommend you visit The Skirvin
Hotel. My advice is to make sure any kids are safely tucked in for the night
and then head straight for the darkly inviting Red Piano Bar and order one very red glass
of wine.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size: x-large; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">Driving to Lincoln
Nebraska from Houston with my son for his new job as IT Support Specialist
(computer nerd) I decided to stop over in Oklahoma City. Not a whole lot to see
on the way, steady decrease in elevation and water and increase in speed limits
and casinos. I had heard of the Skirvin Hotel there and nothing else so by
whatever is the opposite of the process of elimination, decided to stay there. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://cdn2.newsok.biz/cache/r960-7299b6b20bd8d4d4214b5e07e8a70676.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="800" height="504" src="https://cdn2.newsok.biz/cache/r960-7299b6b20bd8d4d4214b5e07e8a70676.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">History</span></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-size: xx-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">The hotel was built in 1925 by William
Skirvin, business magnate in oil and real estate, who left Galveston after the
1900 hurricane disaster. It was considered the premier hotel in Oklahoma City
for most of the twentieth century, hosting VIPs such as Richard Nixon, Dean
Martin and Sidney Applebaum.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> The haunting stories began with one about
Skirvin and a woman at the hotel who he knew, not only as an employee.
According to legend she jumped out a window of the hotel (without a parachute).</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> The modern haunting stories are famous for
involving NBA teams who stayed at the hotel to face the Oklahoma City Thunder
in their prime. It must have been pretty scary facing Kevin Durant, Russell
Westbrook and James Harden on the same team, so it became a popular excuse for
teams that lost (badly) to blame it on hauntings since the reputation for
hauntings was there while the reputation for non supernatural nightlife was
not.</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiscpK0bilBgGb_lYErmwoDWoJpCS7_4esL-zYbaOpr5StwgX1ZmbmE4Lh32B4ADTAca64t06lPFuDa9wwgDTY7U89HKZhbwFhG9fI-p6VmvKr2Jz8cSh7eeeTKPKZnWQcqHHATeb8Y4rUg1-gL_TdYestJya0geuMYvtXU-2pF1aQhJoisWn0cYyzunw=s4032" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiscpK0bilBgGb_lYErmwoDWoJpCS7_4esL-zYbaOpr5StwgX1ZmbmE4Lh32B4ADTAca64t06lPFuDa9wwgDTY7U89HKZhbwFhG9fI-p6VmvKr2Jz8cSh7eeeTKPKZnWQcqHHATeb8Y4rUg1-gL_TdYestJya0geuMYvtXU-2pF1aQhJoisWn0cYyzunw=w204-h265" width="204" /></a></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhFwnxGr60S6ByExyKGl44OgGMpKJc6O5SbCL2lPBXCpqigBK5QjJ3tlaEZSv3gzbrdomJ6ZovBU-hg4Adnb9KpfUrEngVVtJp19tjAcWp9PJT-OnCZa90bQE4_MdBl5jmV2m9rGU1x8wes3jrbQxFravHJzP1NHAz7RPQYUtazUsUfx-d3F9qvAVDxKQ=s4032" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhFwnxGr60S6ByExyKGl44OgGMpKJc6O5SbCL2lPBXCpqigBK5QjJ3tlaEZSv3gzbrdomJ6ZovBU-hg4Adnb9KpfUrEngVVtJp19tjAcWp9PJT-OnCZa90bQE4_MdBl5jmV2m9rGU1x8wes3jrbQxFravHJzP1NHAz7RPQYUtazUsUfx-d3F9qvAVDxKQ=w211-h252" width="211" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgsvmGEGBIKuAIyWAsn8CexTM00zhd1NfnNUFq6bOHfZP82Shfn4MY9PNPmCrFyM5iqJuqK7AwP31DrbmD0yiJohtNiV4H9SakHzGjIrfeATzAmdVZ2gjKgtfU2ZN3kounpScNw17VwezsglQ0jX1VQZ8nZtteaHC3KxPoQCYs_CwFD0G6vkvGIAbwQqA=s4032" style="clear: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgsvmGEGBIKuAIyWAsn8CexTM00zhd1NfnNUFq6bOHfZP82Shfn4MY9PNPmCrFyM5iqJuqK7AwP31DrbmD0yiJohtNiV4H9SakHzGjIrfeATzAmdVZ2gjKgtfU2ZN3kounpScNw17VwezsglQ0jX1VQZ8nZtteaHC3KxPoQCYs_CwFD0G6vkvGIAbwQqA=w192-h244" width="192" /></a><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Stay</span></b></div></div><div><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Check in as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">“Can I stay in Room 1408?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">“We don’t have a Room 1408”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Check –<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">“Can I stay on the 13<sup>th</sup>
floor?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">“We don’t have a 13<sup>th</sup>
floor”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Check –<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">“I’ll take the highest room you
have.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">“Room 1212”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Check -<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">As far as natural observations:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span>The hotel is almost all shades of brown. Combined with excessive
windows as to numbers and individual size, from the outside, it does exude the
potential for creep as the lights are way out of proportion to the visible
structure, especially at night. 1 Shivers. My scaremometer was lit to the “Strange”
range. The inside is a stylish and elegant Art-Deco, aged like a good, but not
great Scotch. Hundred years ago, different era. Haunted hotels age like Scotch.
They get better with age. So, the Skirvin is still aging in the barrio, not
ancient, but not nouveau creepche either. 1 Shiver. Most remarkable is the
(over)use of the number 3. The entire hotel consists of 3 Towers. The prominent
feature </span><span>of the interior is 3 oversized and perfectly symmetrical
elevators. On the crowning 14</span><sup>th</sup><span> floor are, well you can guess how
many beautifully decorated special event rooms there are. 1 Shiver. This may
sound strange but be sure and go to the dining room when it is closed. Check
out the colorful picture overlandly the entrance of a long ago but not
forgotten nightlife.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Room was nice. Our room just happened to be positioned next
to another tower, so pulling back the drapes revealed a brick wall that looked
like it was only 1 foot away. Jon Cusack, look out! Performing the same
procedure on the other window was no more comforting as it had an unnecessarily
too good view of the mysterious 14<sup>th</sup> floor, which was built with
Suites and where the VIPs stayed. These suites had their own accessible balconies
with a combination of being way too long (the entire length of the suite) and edge
way too short, seemingly inviting one to take a really long walk on a really
short peer. 1 Shiver. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> As far as unnatural observations:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I have to confess here that I’m not a believer. I thought I
heard a voice once but it turned out it was just my wife telling me take out
the garbage. For a Science Project my son and I did a study of haunted hotels
in Texas with a hypothesis that there was a direct relationship between claims
of the supernatural and changes in ownership. The implication was that a
significant factor in claims of haunting was what the ownership wanted.
Strangely, the study demonstrated the opposite, no change in claims of haunting
despite changes in ownership. The Science Project won first place. To this day
I still worry that proponents of the supernatural refer to this, “Award winning
scientific study proves the existence of the supernatural.” Anyway, your author
had no unnatural observations to report during his stay (although the food was
scaringly good). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I do have to mention that when I took a picture of the
elevator floors display from the inside of the elevator it came out all blurry
with thin wavy lines of bright colors and looked like something Andy Warhol would
have painted after staying at the hotel (and doing acid). First time that has
happened with my iphone. Checked my scaremometer and it had moved from “Strange”
to “Bizarre”.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0t5W_GDqZjKijr6MWaCCN9YhQgGHtP91VB0S8qT1tgiT_yO_QNipVSTRK_rhFX8RtRy9J4_g9L1C957-78UMuS6bL1NGLfY-GdvrO-jwMjfmE3KNXp-GU6GMiSKkIYCFiqUExTvQszbRJ/s500/damn-good-stuff-sir.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="500" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0t5W_GDqZjKijr6MWaCCN9YhQgGHtP91VB0S8qT1tgiT_yO_QNipVSTRK_rhFX8RtRy9J4_g9L1C957-78UMuS6bL1NGLfY-GdvrO-jwMjfmE3KNXp-GU6GMiSKkIYCFiqUExTvQszbRJ/s320/damn-good-stuff-sir.gif" width="320" /></a></div><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Stories</span></b></div></b><p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: x-large;">Stories are written by storytellers and therefore, are not
good evidence. Evidence is told by
witnesses and therefore, is evidence. Bob, who was the valet and the first
person and last(?) I saw there said he had heard lots of stories of the
supernatural from employees and guests but said I should ask others there for
the stories. Carol, the check in clerk, said she once heard music early in the
morning coming from the bar but when she went there, there was nothing there. Ted,
another check in clerk, said that one time when the hotel was snowed in, early
in the morning he saw a bottle of Scotch moving around by itself but staying on
the counter (apparently aware, at least of the saying, that there is a special
place in Hell reserved for those who waste good Scotch). Alice the maid said
that when NBA teams had stayed there she often heard the clanking of rubber
against iron above her. All in all, in the words of Madeleine Kahn, “How
owdinary”.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Skrivinatnight.jpg/1920px-Skrivinatnight.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="600" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Skrivinatnight.jpg/1920px-Skrivinatnight.jpg" width="800" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Rating</span></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: x-large;"> 1 –
Exterior = Pretty creepy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> 2 –
Interior = Creepy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> 3 – Atmosphere = Stories are just mehpy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;">With apologies to Stephen King, I give it 5 (out of ten of
course) shivers.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhCdV3ioppmqGSTX4jUDrtXTOZi91qTMtinP-04ERNUpFOtEPUJtOLjtwss6n6l0_pgbaEbnI9DRJiOScugnrdnkf7fCM3sztJXVqXPz1hVROibywMSDOvWOP2rPOv2qYbwykgVAslgB2lSnr_GmoyFMyCfmCQrefO2GhuqMxX4eh9sKXt8HflKyKX9DQ=s4032" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhCdV3ioppmqGSTX4jUDrtXTOZi91qTMtinP-04ERNUpFOtEPUJtOLjtwss6n6l0_pgbaEbnI9DRJiOScugnrdnkf7fCM3sztJXVqXPz1hVROibywMSDOvWOP2rPOv2qYbwykgVAslgB2lSnr_GmoyFMyCfmCQrefO2GhuqMxX4eh9sKXt8HflKyKX9DQ=s320" width="320" /></a></div><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Departing
with Spirit</span></b></div></b><p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">For those scare-challenged souls
who followed my advice by starting this journey into the heart of the Skirvin
and have what was originally a full glass of very red wine, I now advise you to
finish it before I continue. I’ll wait…As I was ready to depart a person I had
not seen before the whole time I was there, Jeff, significantly older than all
the other employees with white hair and dressed all in black, brought me my
car. I of course asked him if he had any good haunting stories. He said he did.
He told me he used to be the engineer for the hotel and one time, at night, when
it was closed for renovation and no one besides himself was in the building he
went into the lobby and all three elevators came down to the first floor and
opened at the same time. They then all closed and again at the same time all
floor displays in big red numbers showed they stopped and stayed on 6. Jeff
apparently noted the polite look on my face so he offered to text me a picture.
Sure enough it showed all 3 elevators stopped at the 6<sup>th</sup> floor.
Interesting. I don’t know if it really happened but nonetheless, good story. I talked with Jeff for a while
and then followed Larry David’s New Year’s resolution before I departed for
Lincoln. On the way out I told Carol about the story I had just heard and
showed her the picture on my phone. She said she had heard the story before but
had never seen a related picture and asked where I got it. I said Jeff the
valet just gave it to me. She said “What, Bob is the only valet right now.” I
said the guy said his name was Jeff. She shook her head, “What Jeff?”. As I
noted that my scaremometer had now moved all the way into the “Macabre” zone I
said older guy, white hair, he said he used to be the engineer here. Her hands
froze on the counter and she took half a step back, “That Jeff died 13 years
ago.”</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> [Postscare - We will be conducting a seance at the Emily Morgan hotel in San Antonio on Halloween 2022 to try and contact "Jeff" and get his/its permission to post here the picture he sent me of the 3 elevators rolling a 666.]</span></p></div><div><br /></div>JoeWallackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10666074795187377455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586439398526451553.post-8962431925204387812021-06-13T12:26:00.016-07:002021-06-20T09:53:42.524-07:00Jew Did The Crime, You Read The Times<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BtVjY4YIMAAI0ts?format=jpg&name=small" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="413" data-original-width="620" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BtVjY4YIMAAI0ts?format=jpg&name=small" /></a></div><br /> <b style="font-size: xx-large;">1. Introduction of the Issue</b><div><b style="font-size: xx-large;"><br /></b></div><div><b style="font-size: xx-large;"><b><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><u style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-weight: 400;">The Question</u></span></b></b></b></div><div><b style="font-size: xx-large;"><b><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><u style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-weight: 400;"><br /></u></span></b></b></b></div><div><b style="font-size: xx-large;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="font-weight: 400;">The question of this post is who is guiltier of "War Crimes" in the recent Israel/Gaza war, Israel or Gaza? (I say "Gaza" instead of Hamas because why say an entire country on one side, Israel, and just a political party, Hamas, on the other side? It makes one think that those who do want to increase blame on the entire Israel side while limiting blame on the Gaza side to Hamas, even though Gazans support Hamas' recent actions exponentially more than Israelis support their government's recent actions. Homas don't play that game). </span></span></b></b></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b style="font-size: xx-large;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 400;">Doing a search on the Internet (Google) with key words "Israel" "Hamas" "War Crimes" and "2021" gives 10 direct hits on the first page. Most of the articles claim that Israel and Hamas may be guilty of War Crimes. What is the actual EVIDENCE though for </span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: x-large;">relative</span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 400;"> war crimes (who is guiltier)? </span></b></div><div><b style="font-size: xx-large;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b style="font-size: xx-large;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 400;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";">2. Discussion</b></span></b></div><div><b style="font-size: xx-large;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 400;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";"><br /></b></span></b></div><div><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: x-large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NZkStSdlh3c" width="320" youtube-src-id="NZkStSdlh3c"></iframe></div><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";"><u>Definition of "War Crimes"</u></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";"><u><br /></u></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";"><u><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crime#Legality_of_civilian_casualties">Legality of civilian casualties</a><br /></u></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";">"</span></span></span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">Under the </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_armed_conflict" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Law of armed conflict">law of armed conflict</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> (LOAC), the death of non-combatants is not necessarily a violation; there are many things to take into account. Civilians </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif;">cannot</i><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> be made the object of an attack, but the death/injury of civilians while conducting an attack on a military objective are governed under principles such as of proportionality and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_necessity" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Military necessity">military necessity</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> and can be permissible. Military necessity "permits the destruction of life of persons whose destruction is incidentally unavoidable by the armed conflicts of the war; </span></span></div><div><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: x-large;">it does not permit the killing of innocent inhabitants for purposes of revenge or the satisfaction of a lust to kill. The destruction of property to be lawful must be imperatively demanded by the necessities of war."</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-40" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crime#cite_note-40" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[40]</a></sup></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">...</span></div><div><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><span style="font-size: large;">When there is no justification for military action, such as civilians being made the object of attack, a proportionality analysis is unnecessary to conclude that the attack is unlawful."</span></span></div><div><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><span style="font-size: large;">Summary:</span></span></div><div><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><span style="font-size: large;">1) If the objective of the attack is civilian the attack is always </span></span></div><div><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><span style="font-size: large;"> a War Crime. </span></span></div><div><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><span style="font-size: large;">2) Civilian casualties in an attack are not automatically a War Crime.</span></span></div><div><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><span style="font-size: large;">3) If there is a combination of a military objective and civilian casualties from an attack, the relative value of the military objective must be compared to the civilian damage to determine if there is a War Crime. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";"><u><br /></u></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";"><u>Measurement of War Crimes in 2021 Gaza/Israeli War</u></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";"><u><br /></u></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">The most objective measurement of War Crimes is in terms of <b>quantity</b> rather than quality (with apologies to Jon Oliver #RatFJonOliverandtheHamasmissileherodeintoTelAvivwith). </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Israel%E2%80%93Palestine_crisis#Gaza">Gaza</a><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";"><u><br /></u></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">Gaza fired 4,360 rockets, all with the objective of Israeli civilians, so that's 4,360 War Crimes. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">Trying to quantify possible Israeli War Crimes is much more difficult. Other than Israel, it's unknown how many rockets Israel fired at Gaza. Everyone would agree that the majority of Israeli rockets had military objectives. You would have to look at specific Israeli rocket attacks but another significant problem is while Gaza would be in the best position to provide evidence of a War Crime, lying about the relative military versus civilian damage would be well within its definition of "resistance".</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">For example, looking at an Israeli attack with the most potential for War Crime due to the extent of civilian damage, the lead candidate is probably when Israel fired 11 missiles along 200 yards of Wehda Street, in Gaza City. Gaza claimed that 44 civilians were killed. Here the objective of the attack was military as according to Israel the objective was a Hamas military base in an underground tunnel. So the fact that there was collateral civilian damage does not automatically make it a War Crime. The proportionality of the military value must be compared to amount of civilian damage. A Hamas military tunnel would have a very high military value as there are relatively few such tunnels in Gaza, they are the best hiding places for rockets and Hamas military leaders, are deterrents to an Israeli ground assault and are protected by being placed deliberately close to major civilian centers. In addition to destroying the tunnels Israel also estimated it killed 44 Hamas soldiers, including important officers, in the strike. On the other side, in addition to killing possibly 44 civilians, Israel destroyed two multi-family residential buildings. Israel claimed afterwards that it was not aware of the extent of the tunnel and its proximity to the buildings. This suggests that Israel did think that the resultant civilian damage was excessive in proportion to the military value or at least that others would think so. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">Other important factors though in determining War Crimes in the context of proportionality are:</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">1) The intent of the attack. Here Israel had no intention of inflicting so much civilian damage.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">2) The extent to which the enemy contributed to the amount of civilian damage. Here the placement by Hamas of a military tunnel underneath residential buildings is not only a War Crime by itself but also makes the residential buildings part of the military target. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">3) Comparison to other similar attacks by other countries. There are comparable attacks by other major countries with exponentially higher proportions of civilian damage that were never Internationally categorized as War Crimes.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">Based on the above, it's unclear that if you were any country other than Israel, the International Community would conclude this attack was a War Crime. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><p><span style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><u style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande", "trebuchet ms", verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: xx-large;"><b>3. Conclusion</b></u></span></p></div><div><span style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span face=""lucida grande", "trebuchet ms", verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: xx-large; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: underline;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzF3f_0yg0WGBIcMmoL7kstJvwLHQ7k_sHy3yTTsvLynnYdmMBBIEDFIOcb9r_8kn2hn-elkWM57aXucfJ4JQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br />In summary, regarding who is guiltier of War Crimes in the recent Israeli/Gaza War, and using the most objective measurement of War Crimes, the number of, we have the following conclusive results:</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span face=""lucida grande", "trebuchet ms", verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span face=""lucida grande", "trebuchet ms", verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Gaza = 4,360</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span face=""lucida grande", "trebuchet ms", verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span face=""lucida grande", "trebuchet ms", verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Israel = -0-</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span face=""lucida grande", "trebuchet ms", verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span face=""lucida grande", "trebuchet ms", verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">So congratulations Gaza, you finally found something you are better at than Israel. And when will the protest/boycott of Gaza for war crimes be held at the Palestinian/Palestinian supporters' offices or business connections and when is the UN session to condemn Gaza for War Crimes and/or related Op-Ed in The Times (rhetorical, no need to answer). </span></span></div><div><span style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><u style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande", "trebuchet ms", verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: xx-large;"><b><br /></b></u></span></div>JoeWallackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10666074795187377455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586439398526451553.post-47283958369776361862021-02-19T18:10:00.017-08:002021-03-21T19:07:35.555-07:00Has There Ever Been Colonialization, Genocide and an Endless Series of Crimes Against the Universe in Modern Israel?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/images/jordan_stamp.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="342" src="https://jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/images/jordan_stamp.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div><br /></div><div><b style="font-size: xx-large;">1. Introduction of the Issue</b></div><div><b style="font-size: xx-large;"><br /></b></div><div><b style="font-size: xx-large;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><u style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-weight: 400;">The Question</u></span></b></b></div><div><b style="font-size: xx-large;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-weight: 400;">The question of this post is whether or not t</span></span></b></b><span style="color: #222222; font-size: x-large;">here has ever been colonialization, genocide and an endless series of crimes against the universe in modern Israel? Doing a search on the Internet with key words "Israel" and "Genocide" (the worst of the Big 3) gives 10 hits on the first page. Nine of the articles claim Israel is guilty of genocide against the Palestinians. One article defends against this claim. Keeping in mind though that people are often guilty of what they falsely accuse other people of, what is the actual EVIDENCE for </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: x-large;">colonialization, genocide and an endless series of crimes against the universe in modern Israel?</span></div><div><span style="color: #222222; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #222222; font-size: x-large;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";">2. Discussion</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #222222; font-size: x-large;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";"><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #222222; font-size: x-large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/1948-Jordanian_artillery_shelling_Jerusalem.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="242" data-original-width="350" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/1948-Jordanian_artillery_shelling_Jerusalem.jpg" /></a></div><br /><b style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 400;"><u>Colonialization</u></span></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #222222; font-size: x-large;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #222222; font-size: x-large;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization#Modern_colonialism">Colonization</a><br /></span></b></span></div><blockquote><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">"While many European colonization schemes focused on shorter-term exploitation of economic opportunities (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newfoundland_Colony" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Newfoundland Colony">Newfoundland</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">, for example, or </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberia" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Siberia">Siberia</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">) or addressed specific goals (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> or </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_South_Wales" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="New South Wales">New South Wales</a></span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><span style="font-size: large;">), a tradition developed of careful long-term social and <b>economic planning</b> for both parties,"</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></div></blockquote><p><span style="font-size: large;">One of the lies told by Palestinians/Arabs is that foreign powers directly participated in their wars against Israel on the side of the Israelis. Not at all well known, is that the United Kingdom, the greatest colonializer of all time, created, supplied, maintained and led the Jordanian army against Israel during the War of Independence. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Legion">Arab Legion</a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">(The Soviet Union, Cuba, Pakistan and North Korea also provided soldiers who directly fought against Israel). Great Britain provided the leader of the Arab Legion, John Glubb, and the top officers. Glubb married a Jordanian and the Jordanian King married a Brit (now that's old school!). </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">During the War of Independence, because of Great Britain's Arab Legion, the Jordanian army was the only relatively modern quality army the Arabs had. During the Israeli Civil War, Israel had defeated the Palestinians everywhere, including the West Bank. Without the Arab Legion Israel would have taken the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, in the War of Independence. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">At the time, the King of Jordan wanted all of Israel to be part of Jordan, even though the population of Jordan was relatively smaller than the Palestinian population. He realized though that he lacked the military strength to do that and the British told him they would only support taking over the part of Israel designated for the Palestinians. Based on how the War went he was willing to only annex the portion of Israel conquered by the Arab legion and allow a Jewish Country in whatever was left. He never wanted a Palestinian country as, if he was successful in taking the West Bank, the majority of his subjects would be Palestinian, and a neighboring Palestinian country would be a direct threat to his rule. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">In the War of Independence, Egypt and Syria had much larger militaries than Jordan and much more threatening politics, and, a majority of the West Bank was Palestinian, so the Israelis had a defensive policy towards the West Bank in general with the exception of East Jerusalem. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The Arab Legion won the West Bank and East Jerusalem and Jordan annexed both. Thus Jordan colonized the West Bank and could not have done so without the foreign colonizing power Great Britain. Included in the take was East Jerusalem, which the United Nations including Great Britain, had agreed was to be an International City. Great Britain publicly stated that it did so for its own economic self-interests. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Great Britain was embarrassed by the fact that its military was leading an attack against a country that at the time would have to reach up to be third world status and that would have been exponentially stronger if the British had not prevented so many Jews from leaving Europe to prevent being murdered by the Nazis, so it ordered all its officers to return to Jordan after they initially crossed into Israel. All of them though quickly (and unofficially) returned to lead the front lines (but lying seems a relatively low badge of dishonor to pin on them here). </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">So, Jordan/Great Britain thus colonized part of Israel, with Jordan leaving open the possible final solution of the conflict to it colonizing all of Israel. The United Nations complained that this was a violation of the related UN Mandate. But there were no boycotts, demonizations, violent protests or terrorist attacks against Jordan/Great Britain.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">And HOW did Jordan accomplish this. That involves what follows, genocide and crimes against the Universe.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: xx-large;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 400;"><u>Genocide</u></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: xx-large;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 400;"><u><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_Convention#Definition_of_genocide">Genocide</a><br /></u></span></b></span></p><h2 style="background-color: white; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Definition_of_genocide">"Definition of genocide</span><span class="mw-editsection" face="sans-serif" style="font-size: small; line-height: 1em; margin-left: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; user-select: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Genocide_Convention&action=edit&section=1" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap;" title="Edit section: Definition of genocide">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></h2><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: xx-large;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 400;"></span></b></span></p><blockquote><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Article 2 of the Convention defines genocide as</span></p><blockquote class="templatequote" style="background-color: white; border-left: none; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; margin: 1em 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 40px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em;"><span style="font-size: large;">... any of the following acts committed with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocidal_intent" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Genocidal intent">intent to destroy</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide#.22In_whole_or_in_part.22" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Genocide">in whole or in part</a>, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such:</span></p><dl style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em;"><dd style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">(a) Killing members of the group;</span></dd><dd style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;</span></dd><dd style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;</span></dd><dd style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;</span></dd><dd style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.</span><div class="templatequotecite" style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 0px; padding-left: 1.6em;"><span style="font-size: large;">— <cite style="font-style: inherit;">Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Article 2<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Convention-text_5-0" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_Convention#cite_note-Convention-text-5" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[5]</a>"</sup></cite></span></div></dd></dl></blockquote></blockquote><p><span style="color: #222222; font-size: large;">During the War of Independence the Arab Legion, and thus Jordan, conquered the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Qualitatively, East Jerusalem had exponentially more Jewish religious significance than any other religion. Quantitatively, it's difficult to estimate how many Jews were in East Jerusalem/West Bank before Jordanian colonization because:</span></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-size: large;">During and after the Battle of Jerusalem, Palestinian civilian looting destroyed most of the synagogues and Jewish schools. After the Battle Jordan expelled all Jews from East Jerusalem and prevented Israelis from visiting Jewish holy sites. Thus there remained no significant Jewish presence in East Jerusalem in terms of people or identifying history except for the Western Wall which ironically was spared because Muslims insisted it was an Islamic heritage site and not a Jewish one. Thus an almost complete destruction of Jews and Jewish history in East Jerusalem, which has always been the heart of Judaism. Now what's the word for that?</span></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><b><u>An Endless Series of Crimes against the Universe</u></b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://mickhartley.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451ebab69e2017ee5c4f284970d-550wi" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="376" data-original-width="550" src="https://mickhartley.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451ebab69e2017ee5c4f284970d-550wi" /></a></b></span></div><p style="font-size: xx-large;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimes_against_humanity#First_use">Crimes Against Humanity</a><br /></b></span></span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: 400; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><b>"Nuremberg Trials</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: 400; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: 400; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><b>After the Second World War, the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Charter_of_the_International_Military_Tribunal" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="London Charter of the International Military Tribunal">London Charter of the International Military Tribunal</a> set down the laws and procedures by which the Nuremberg trials were to be conducted. The drafters of this document were faced with the problem of how to respond to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="The Holocaust">the Holocaust</a> and the grave crimes committed by the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_regime" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Nazi regime">Nazi regime</a>. A traditional understanding of war crimes gave no provision for crimes committed by a power on its own citizens. Therefore, Article 6 of the Charter was drafted to include not only traditional war crimes and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_against_peace" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Crime against peace">crimes against peace</a>, but also <i>crimes against humanity</i>, defined as</b></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"></span></p><blockquote><blockquote class="templatequote" style="background-color: white; border-left: none; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; margin: 1em 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 40px;"><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Murder">Murder</a>, extermination, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Slavery">enslavement</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Deportation">deportation</a>, and other <a class="extiw" href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/inhumane" style="background: none; color: #3366bb; text-decoration-line: none;" title="wikt:inhumane">inhumane</a> acts committed against any <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Civilian">civilian</a> population, before or during the war, or persecutions on political, racial or religious grounds in execution of or in connection with any crime within the jurisdiction of the Tribunal, whether or not in violation of the domestic law of the country where perpetrated.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimes_against_humanity#cite_note-12" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[12]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-black_book_13-0" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimes_against_humanity#cite_note-black_book-13" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[13]</a>"</sup></span></p></blockquote></blockquote><p><span style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><br />The List is long and undistinguished:</span></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_for_Jerusalem">Battle for Jerusalem</a><br /></span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>"</span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">Israeli victories against the Arab militias in the city pushed Abdallah of Jordan to order the Arab Legion to intervene."</span></span></p></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">"It deployed in East Jerusalem, fought the Israelis and took the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Quarter_(Jerusalem)" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Jewish Quarter (Jerusalem)">Jewish quarter</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_City_(Jerusalem)" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Old City (Jerusalem)">Old City</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">. <b>The population was expelled</b> and the <b>fighters taken prisoners to Jordan</b>."</span></span><p> </p><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">"<b>Arab forces attacked </b></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadassah_medical_convoy_massacre" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Hadassah medical convoy massacre"><b>a Jewish medical convoy</b> on its way to Hadassah Hospital</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> on </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Scopus" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Mount Scopus">Mount Scopus</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">. The British had provided no escort (as they had in previous months) and both they and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmach" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Palmach">Palmach</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> forces were slow to intervene during the attack and help the ambushed Jews. After seven hours of fighting, the British put an end to the standoff; by then 78 Jews (mostly unarmed medical personnel) had been killed, as was one British soldier.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMorris2008128_41-0" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_for_Jerusalem#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMorris2008128-41" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[41]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FightingJackChurchill_42-0" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_for_Jerusalem#cite_note-FightingJackChurchill-42" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[42]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Hadassah_marches_on_43-0" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_for_Jerusalem#cite_note-Hadassah_marches_on-43" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[43]</a>"</sup></span></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><b><u><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_War#Battle_for_Jerusalem">Battle for Jerusalem</a><br /></u></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">"The Jordanians in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latrun" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Latrun">Latrun</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> cut off supplies to western Jerusalem.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Karsh2002p62_158-3" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_War#cite_note-Karsh2002p62-158" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[154]</a></sup><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> Though some supplies, mostly munitions, were airdropped into the city, <b>the shortage of food, water, fuel and medicine was acute. </b>The Israeli forces were seriously short of food, water and ammunition.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Karsh2002p62_158-4" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_War#cite_note-Karsh2002p62-158" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background: none; color: #0645ad; font-size: large; text-decoration-line: none;">[154</span><span style="background: none; color: #0645ad; font-size: 11.2px; text-decoration-line: none;">]</span></a>"</sup></span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">"King Abdullah ordered </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bagot_Glubb" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="John Bagot Glubb">Glubb Pasha</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">, the commander of the Arab Legion, to enter Jerusalem on 17 May. T<b>he Arab Legion fired 10,000 artillery and mortar shells a day,</b></span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Karsh2002p62_158-5" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_War#cite_note-Karsh2002p62-158" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[154]</a></sup><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> and also attacked </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Jerusalem" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="West Jerusalem">West Jerusalem</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> with <b>sniper fire</b>."</span></span></blockquote><blockquote><p><span style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><b>"</b><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><b>The 1,500 Jewish inhabitants of the Old City's Jewish Quarter were expelled</b>, and <b>several hundred were detained</b>. The Jews had to be escorted out by the Arab Legion to protect them against <b>Palestinian Arab mobs that intended to massacre them</b>.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-162" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_War#cite_note-162" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[158]</a>"</sup></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Jerusalem#1948_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_War_and_aftermath">East Jerusalem</a> </span></p><blockquote><p><span style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">"During the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_for_Jerusalem" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Battle for Jerusalem">Battle for Jerusalem</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">, fighting in the Jewish quarter between the </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordanian_Arab_Legion" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Jordanian Arab Legion">Jordanian Arab Legion</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> and the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Defense_Forces" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Israel Defense Forces">IDF</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irgun" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Irgun">Irgun</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehi_(militant_group)" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Lehi (militant group)">Lehi</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> had been particularly fierce, leaving the zone in ruins. <b>The battle and subsequent looting by Palestinian civilians left 27 synagogues and 30 schools destroyed.</b></span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFischbach200886_33-0" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Jerusalem#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFischbach200886-33" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;"><b>[28]</b></a></sup><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><b> The Jordanian army is said to have blown up, three days after conquering the area, what remained of the </b></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurva_Synagogue" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Hurva Synagogue"><b>Hurva Synagogue</b></a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">, which had served both as a civilian refuge and Israeli military post.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFischbach200886_33-1" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Jerusalem#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFischbach200886-33" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[28]</a>"</sup></span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p><span style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">"In the first six months of the 1948 war 6,000 Jews also abandoned the city, and when war broke out, <b>thousands fled the northern areas subject to Jordanian shelling</b>. "</span></span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p><span style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"> <span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">"as Jordan did not recognize Israeli passports, <b>neither Jewish nor Muslim Israelis were allowed access to their traditional sites of worship in East Jerusalem</b>, though Israeli Christians, with a special </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif;">laissez-passer</i><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">. were permitted to visit Bethlehem over Christmas and the New Year.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEIsraeli201423,118,197_61-0" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Jerusalem#cite_note-FOOTNOTEIsraeli201423,118,197-61" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[50]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBregerHammer201049,_n.168_62-0" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Jerusalem#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBregerHammer201049,_n.168-62" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[51]</a>"</sup></span></p></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><u style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande", "trebuchet ms", verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: xx-large;"><b>3. Conclusion</b></u></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_political_violence#Six-Day_War_and_aftermath" style="font-size: x-large;">Palestinian political violence</a></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-size: large;">"<span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bagot_Glubb" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="John Bagot Glubb">John Bagot Glubb</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif;">, a high-ranking </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_army" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="British army">British army</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif;"> general who worked with the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Legion" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Arab Legion">Arab Legion</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif;">, explained in his autobiographical history of the period how he convinced the Legion to arm and train the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedayeen" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Fedayeen">fedayeen</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif;"> for free.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ref_h_36-0" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_political_violence#cite_note-Ref_h-36" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[36]</a></sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif;"> The Israeli government cites dozens of these attacks as "Major Arab Terrorist Attacks against Israelis prior to the 1967 </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Six-Day War">Six-Day War</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif;">".</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ref_i_37-0" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_political_violence#cite_note-Ref_i-37" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[37]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ref_j_38-0" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_political_violence#cite_note-Ref_j-38" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[38]</a></sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif;"> Between 1951 and 1956, 400 Israelis were killed and 900 wounded by </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedayeen" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Fedayeen">fedayeen</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif;"> attacks.;</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ref_k_39-0" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_political_violence#cite_note-Ref_k-39" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[39]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ref_l_40-0" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_political_violence#cite_note-Ref_l-40" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[40]</a></sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif;"> according to the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Defamation_League" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Anti-Defamation League">Anti-Defamation League</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif;"> "[i]n 1955 alone, 260 Israeli citizens were killed or wounded by fedayeen".</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ref_m_41-0" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_political_violence#cite_note-Ref_m-41" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[41]</a>"</sup></span></p></blockquote><p> <span style="font-size: large;"> [It was not enough for England to have their General lead Jordan against Israel in a Colonialization, Genocide and Crimes Against The Universe effort. After the War this shmuck putz trained Palestinian terrorists to commit terrorist attacks against Israel from the safety of Jordan.]</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">In conclusion then, During The War of Independence, we've seen how Jordan, with England's help, colonized part of Israel, and tried to colonize all of it, committed genocide in East Jerusalem and The West Bank and committed numerous crimes against the universe during and after The War. So when people say there has been colonialization, genocide and crimes against the universe in modern Israel, they are correct. They just often have the guilty party and the victims switched. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><p> </p><div><span style="color: #222222; font-size: x-large;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></b></span></div>JoeWallackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10666074795187377455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586439398526451553.post-80419938922205413882020-02-14T16:46:00.007-08:002020-11-29T13:29:14.821-08:00Is Palestinian Terrorism Good For Israel?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="font-size: xx-large;">1. Introduction of the Issue</b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><u style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-weight: 400;">The Question</u><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-weight: 400;" /><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-weight: 400;">The question of this post is whether or not Palestinian Terrorism is good for Israel. In order to answer the question one needs to define "what is good for Israel". For purposes of this post I will assume that what is good for Israel is land. The post will then discuss the historical relationship between Palestinian Terrorism and its effect on the quantity of Israeli land. </span></span></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">1947 UN Partition Plan For Israel/Palestine</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-large;">The above is the original proposed separation of land for Israel and the Palestinians per the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Partition_Plan_for_Palestine">1947 UN Partition Plan</a>. This post will emphasize the changing relationship over time/events/offers between Israeli land and (offered/non-Israeli) Palestinian land. The comparison will primarily be quantitative rather than qualitative as quantitative is more objective. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-large;">Per this plan Israel was to receive 54% of the land, the Palestinians 45% and 1% would be the International city of Jerusalem. Qualitatively, the majority of the land is in the Negev desert and Israel was allocated almost all of the Negev. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-large;">Israeli/Jewish = Acceptance of Plan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-large;">Palestinian/Arab = Rejection of Plan and position that it would not accept any land being given to a Jewish State. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Partition_Plan_for_Palestine#Subsequent_events">Subsequent Events</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947%E2%80%931949_Palestine_war">Israeli War Of Independence</a> - 1948-1949</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">On May 14th 1948 Great Britain left Israel/Palestine. The next day all surrounding Arab countries invaded Israel with the intention of not allowing any Israeli/Jewish State. Egypt and Jordan, the two main invading Arab powers, did not intend any Palestinian State either, they wanted to colonize parts of Israel/Palestine for themselves. It's unclear, if the Palestinians would have been able to decide for themselves, whether or not to accept the Partition Plan, they would have or not. In any case they allied with the surrounding Arab countries.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">In preparation for the invasion Palestinian/Arab leaders publicly threatened that the intent of the invasion went well beyond a mere military victory:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">"<a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haj_Amin_al-Husseini" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Haj Amin al-Husseini">Haj Amin al-Husseini</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> said in March 1948 to an interviewer in a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffa" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Jaffa">Jaffa</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> daily </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">Al Sarih</i><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> that the Arabs did not intend merely to prevent partition but "would continue fighting until the Zionists were Annihilated".</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-morris2008p187_115-1" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Partition_Plan_for_Palestine#cite_note-morris2008p187-115" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[115]</a>"</sup></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">[Note al-Husseini was the highest Muslim religious figure in Palestine and had recruited Palestinians for the SS during WWII]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Higher_Committee" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Arab Higher Committee">Arab Higher Committee</a>:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">"</span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The Palestinian Arabs make a grave declaration before the UN, before God and before history that they will never submit to any power that comes to Palestine to impose a partition. The only way to establish a partition is to get rid of them all: men, women, and children."</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-large;"><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Arab League's Secretary-General </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Rahman_Hassan_Azzam" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam">Azzam Pasha</a>:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">"</span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I personally wish that the Jews do not drive us to this war, as this will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades"</span></span></blockquote>
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Plenty more where those came from but you get the idea. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-large;">Conclusion = Palestinian/Arab reaction to Israeli/Jewish acceptance of the Partition Plan was Terrorism. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">After The War of Independence:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947%E2%80%931949_Palestine_war#Aftermath">Land percents after the War</a> =</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-large;">Israel = 78%</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-large;">Jordan/Egypt = 22%</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: xx-small;">Palestinians = -0- %</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Conclusion = As a result of the Arabs/Palestinians trying to reduce Israel's percent to -0-, Israel's percent of the land went from 54% to 78% and if your criterion for what is good for Israel is land, then this was Tov mehode for Israel. Meanwhile, the Palestinian percent went from 45% to -0-. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War">Six-Day War</a> - 1967</b></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Subsequent to The War of Independence the Arab League agreed on a policy statement that there would be no negotiation with Israel and no acceptance of an Israeli country. In May 1967 Egypt removed UN peacekeeping forces from their border with Israel and massed troops on the border. Israel had previously announced that if Egypt closed the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping Israel would consider that an act of war. Egypt closed the straits. Egypt also sent troops to Jordan.</span></span>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Once again Nasser, the leader of the Arab forces, made clear his intentions by constantly having threats made against Israel by the Egyptian radio service and saying things like c</span><span face=""helmet" , "freesans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #404040;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">oexistence was not possible because Israel had robbed and expelled the Palestinians and Israel would get what was coming for threatening to march on Damascus, occupy Syria and overthrow the Syrian Arab regime.</span></span><div><span style="color: #404040; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-large;">Conclusion = Palestinian/Arab reaction to The War of Independence was Terrorism.</span></div><div><span style="color: #222222; font-family: times new roman; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: x-large;">After The Six Day War:</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: times new roman; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<span face=""helmet" , "freesans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #404040;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face=""helmet" , "freesans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #404040;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War#/media/File:6DayWarEnglish.png">Land percents after the War</a> =</span><br style="color: black; font-size: medium;" /><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-large;">Israel = 100%</span></span><br style="color: black; font-size: medium;" /><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-large;">Palestinians = 0%</span></span><br style="color: black; font-size: medium;" /><span style="color: black; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span face=""helmet" , "freesans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #404040;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span face=""helmet" , "freesans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #404040;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span face=""helmet" , "freesans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #404040;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">Conclusion = As a result of the Arabs/Palestinians trying to reduce/eliminate Israel's percent, Israel's percent of the land went from 78% to 100% and if your criterion for what is good for Israel is land, then this was pretty, pretty, pretty good for Israel. </span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span face=""helmet" , "freesans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #404040;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: xx-large;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span face=""helmet" , "freesans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #404040;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: xx-large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: xx-large;"> </span></span></span></span></span><u style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande", "trebuchet ms", verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: xx-large;"><b>3. Conclusion</b></u></div><div><u style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande", "trebuchet ms", verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: xx-large;"><b><br /></b></u></div><div><span face=""lucida grande", "trebuchet ms", verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: xx-large; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: underline;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NZkStSdlh3c" width="320" youtube-src-id="NZkStSdlh3c"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;">From the beginning of the conflict, the Arabs/Palestinians have refused to negotiate with Israel and instead used Terrorism to try and prevent Israel from having any percent of Israel. As a result Israel has ended up with 100% of Israel and the Palestinians have ended up with -0-%. Now that's Justice for Palestine!</span></span></div><div><span face=""helmet" , "freesans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #404040;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span face=""helmet" , "freesans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #404040;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span face=""helmet" , "freesans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #404040;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span face=""helmet" , "freesans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #404040;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span face=""helmet" , "freesans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #404040;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span face=""helmet" , "freesans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #404040;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span face=""helmet" , "freesans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #404040;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div>JoeWallackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10666074795187377455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586439398526451553.post-64234142050410774502019-07-27T14:40:00.000-07:002019-07-28T16:22:09.770-07:00The Counting Of The Omar (Antisemitic Statements). Is Ilhan Omar Antisemitic?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="font-size: xx-large;">1. Introduction of the Issue</b><br />
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<u><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Question</span></u><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">The question of this post is whether or not Ilhan Omar is antisemitic. In order to answer the question one needs to select a definition of antisemitism. For purposes of this post I will use the most recent definition of antisemitism which is used by some governments agencies and generally by the United States which is =</span><br />
<a href="https://www.holocaustremembrance.com/working-definition-antisemitism"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Working Definition of Antisemitism</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The Working Definition of Antisemitism has the following definition:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With the following examples:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Calling for, aiding, or justifying the killing or harming of Jews in the name of a radical ideology or an extremist view of religion.</span></span><br />
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<li style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.8em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical allegations about Jews as such or the power of Jews as collective — such as, especially but not exclusively, the myth about a world Jewish conspiracy or of Jews controlling the media, economy, government or other societal institutions.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> </span></li>
<li style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.8em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Accusing Jews as a people of being responsible for real or imagined wrongdoing committed by a single Jewish person or group, or even for acts committed by non-Jews.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> </span></li>
<li style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.8em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Denying the fact, scope, mechanisms (e.g. gas chambers) or intentionality of the genocide of the Jewish people at the hands of National Socialist Germany and its supporters and accomplices during World War II (the Holocaust).<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> </span></li>
<li style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.8em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Accusing the Jews as a people, or Israel as a state, of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> </span></li>
<li style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.8em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Accusing Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel, or to the alleged priorities of Jews worldwide, than to the interests of their own nations.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> </span></li>
<li style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.8em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> </span></li>
<li style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.8em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> </span></li>
<li style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.8em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Using the symbols and images associated with classic antisemitism (e.g., claims of Jews killing Jesus or blood libel) to characterize Israel or Israelis.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> </span></li>
<li style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.8em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> </span></li>
<li style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.8em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel." </span></li>
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><br />Note that the above generally contain two significant elements:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">1. <b>Assuming a negative conclusion</b> regarding Israel/Jews while denying/minimizing the related discussions/arguments needed to support the conclusion. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">2. Applying standards to Israel/Jews that are <b>not applied to others</b>, especially those most in conflict with Israel/Jews.<br /><u><br /></u></span><u style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Application of Omar's Significant Statements to The Question</span></u><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">As Israel is currently most in conflict with Hamas, this post will only consider significant statements from Omar regarding Israel or Hamas. Omar's statements then will be evaluated specifically based on the examples above and generally based on their extent of double standards. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b style="font-family: "times new roman";">2. Discussion</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b style="font-family: "times new roman";"><br /></b></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">A neutral place to start looking would be Omar's Wikipedia page at the </span><br />
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<span class="mw-headline"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1. "</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">she supports the BDS movement"</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Here we have the <b>double standard</b> that she supports penalties unilaterally against Israel without any consideration of penalties against those that Israel is in conflict with or for that matter any other country in the known Universe.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2. A 2012 Tweet "</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "pt serif" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel,"</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "pt serif" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">This is a direct demonization of Israel ("hypnotized"and "evil") and she has further given it a religious context by using "Allah" for God. She initially claimed a defense of limited demonization, just Israel and not Jews. However, the context she uses it in is limited to <i>Jewish</i> Israel and not all of Israel which includes a significant amount of non-Jews. Plus, her context includes that the supposed victims of Israel are the non Jews in Israel. So she is demonizing a group of Jews, which happen to comprise about half the Jews in the world.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "pt serif" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Omar subsequently apologized for the tweet confessing that the demonizing language she used has been common historical antisemitic rhetoric used against Jews in general and could therefore be understood/connected to all Jews and not just Israel. But this is not a defense here as she has left her intent as demonizing Israel. </span></span></div>
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JoeWallackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10666074795187377455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586439398526451553.post-31319088444280699552018-12-05T10:59:00.002-08:002018-12-09T11:46:34.775-08:00Why Did CNN Terminate Its Contract With Marc Lamont Hill?<br />
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<b style="font-size: xx-large;">1. Introduction of the Issue</b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 400;"><u>What Happened?</u></span></b><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">CNN recently terminated its contract with Marc Lamont Hill for Commentator services. A quick search of the Internet does not show a direct related statement from CNN. However, it's generally accepted that this is true and the best second hand statement seen (from CNN Business) is:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/29/media/marc-lamont-hill-cnn/index.html">CNN severs ties with liberal pundit Marc Lamont Hill after his controversial remarks on Israel</a>:</span><br />
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"Marc Lamont Hill is no longer under contract with CNN," a spokesperson for CNN confirmed in a short statement.<br />
The move was first reported by the media news website <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/exclusive-cnn-fires-marc-lamont-hill-following-israel-comments/" style="box-shadow: rgb(0, 197, 158) 0px -1px 0px inset, rgb(0, 197, 158) 0px -1px 0px inset; box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">Mediaite.</a>"</blockquote>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 400;"><u>Why It Happened?</u></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 400;">So far CNN has not publicly stated why it terminated the contract so you have to try and deduce/guess why. A summary of the first page of a related Google search gives popular reasons/guesses. Note that those critical of Hill give relatively better potential main specific reasons for why the contract was terminated and those supportive of Hill give relatively worse reasons:</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 400;">The Washington Post = Apologists for Israel conducted a smear and harassment campaign.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 400;">Jewish Journal = For saying </span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #232323; font-family: , serif; letter-spacing: -0.7px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">“free Palestine from the river to the sea,”.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #232323; font-family: , serif; letter-spacing: -0.7px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Jewish Exponent = </span></span><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 400;">For saying </span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #232323; font-family: , serif; letter-spacing: -0.7px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">“free Palestine from the river to the sea,”.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #232323; font-family: , serif; letter-spacing: -0.7px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Campus Reform = </span></span><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 400;">For saying </span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #232323; font-family: , serif; letter-spacing: -0.7px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">“free Palestine from the river to the sea,”.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #232323; font-family: , serif; letter-spacing: -0.7px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Insider NJ = F</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "bitter" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">or supporting equal rights for Palestinians.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "bitter" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Inquirer = </span></span><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 400;">For saying </span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #232323; letter-spacing: -0.7px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">“free Palestine from the river to the sea,”.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #232323; letter-spacing: -0.7px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Al Dia = </span></span><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 400;">For saying </span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #232323; letter-spacing: -0.7px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">“free Palestine from the river to the sea,”.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #232323; letter-spacing: -0.7px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">TruthOut = </span></span><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 400;">For saying </span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #232323; letter-spacing: -0.7px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">“free Palestine from the river to the sea,”.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #232323; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.7px;">BreakingIsraelNews = </span></span><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 400;">For saying </span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #232323; letter-spacing: -0.7px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">“free Palestine from the river to the sea,”.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #232323; letter-spacing: -0.7px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Ebony = </span></span><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 400;">For saying </span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #232323; letter-spacing: -0.7px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">“free Palestine from the river to the sea,”.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #232323; letter-spacing: -0.7px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><u>1. The Contract</u></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #232323; letter-spacing: -0.7px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">CNN has not released any information about the contract between CNN and Hill so the terms needed to be guessed at. Something to look at than would be known contract information from similar contracts between commentators and major networks, especially CNN. Unfortunately CNN also does not appear to release general information regarding contracts with Commentators either. Since Hill and others who have had their contracts terminated by CNN have not stated exactly what was in the contract that caused its termination we can only deduce that one term of the contract was that the Commentator was prohibited from revealing the terms of the contract. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #232323; letter-spacing: -0.7px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><u>2. Possible Terms of the Contract that Caused Termination</u></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #232323; letter-spacing: -0.7px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Commentator contracts often limit the commentator from making comments that the Network considers overly negative such as inflammatory, prejudiced, biased, controversial and false. The Network could decide that a Commentator went over the limit with a single comment, an entire commentary or cumulative comments in commentaries on the same subject. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #232323; letter-spacing: -0.7px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">A contract could also have a term that the Network reserves the right to terminate the contract without cause. This could be caused by a Commentator being too controversial, outside pressure on the Network or the Network simply deciding that this Commentator was not a very good commentator. </span></span>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #232323; letter-spacing: -0.7px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><u>3. The Best Reason is the Worst Comment</u></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #232323; letter-spacing: -0.7px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The best reason to terminate is usually the one worst comment because individual comments are easier to publicize than cumulative ones. Let's look for the possible worst comment by Hill in his recent speech to the UN:</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #232323; letter-spacing: -0.7px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The worst comment appears to be:</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #232323; letter-spacing: -0.7px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "montserrat" , serif; letter-spacing: normal;">“Contrary to western mythology, black resistance to American apartheid did not come purely through Ghandi and nonviolence," Hill said (see video below.) "Rather, slave revolts and self-defense and tactics otherwise divergent from Dr. King or Mahatma Gandhi were equally important to preserving safety and attaining freedom. If we are to operate in true solidarity with the Palestinian people, we must allow the Palestinian people the same range of opportunity and political possibility. If we are standing in solidarity with the Palestinian people, we must recognize the right of an occupied people to defend itself. We must prioritize peace, but we must not romanticize or fetishize it. We must advocate and promote nonviolence at every opportunity, but we cannot endorse a narrow politics of respectability that shames Palestinians for resisting, for refusing to do nothing in the face of state violence and ethnic cleansing."</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">In just one paragraph Hill manages to present the entire range of positions on Palestinian Terrorism:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">1) Advocate against it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">2) Advocate against it but don't criticize it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">3) Accept it but do not prioritize it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">4) Advocate for it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Of course the worst of this range would be advocating Palestinian Terrorism. Hill does not say this directly but a strong implication from being in favor of Palestinian Terrorism would be somewhere in between also being in favor of increased Israeli civilian casualties or at least a position with a consequence of increased Israeli civilian casualties. Note that in general an increase in Palestinian Terrorism (or for those who think the two words do not go together like Arafat & Nobel or President & Trump, "violence") is exponentially more likely to cause exponentially more Palestinian casualties than Israeli. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #232323; letter-spacing: -0.7px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">In summary Hill is clearly in favor of increased Palestinian violence and his being unclear on his exact position of Palestinian Terrorism and the related effect of increased Israeli civilian casualties leaves it open, especially to his critics, to interpret the worst.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #232323; letter-spacing: -0.7px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The next best worst comment appears to be:</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #232323; letter-spacing: -0.7px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">"<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "montserrat" , serif; letter-spacing: normal;">Give us what justice requires -- and that is a free Palestine from the river to the sea"</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "montserrat" , serif;">"from the river to the sea" has always been not just a but the main political slogan of The Palestinians/Hamas supporting a goal of complete Palestinian control of all of Israel:</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "montserrat" , serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_nationalism#From_the_river_to_the_sea">From the river to the sea</a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><u>4. The Cumulative Reason for Termination</u></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Per the above Hill at a minimum called for increased Palestinian violence and invoked the traditional Palestinian rallying cry for the elimination of the Country of Israel in the same speech. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Further cumulative effect may have been that the above also made CNN consider Hill's previous controversial comments on the same subject such as:</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/news/nation/243148/marc-lamont-hill-accused-israel-poisoning-palestinian-water/">JEWISH JOURNAL</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #232323; font-family: , serif; font-size: 24px; letter-spacing: -0.7px;">“How can you romanticize nonviolence when you have a state that is at all moments waging war against you, against your bodies, <b>poisoning your water</b>, limiting your access to water, locking up your children, killing them,” Hill said. “We can’t romanticize resistance.”</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Yikes! Since retracted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/connor-williams/2014/08/04/cnn-contributor-gripes-iron-dome-takes-away-hamass-military">MRCNewsBusters</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700;">"But what the Iron Dome does is it also takes away all of Hamas's military leverage</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif;"> which is very different than say, 10 years ago or 15 years ago in other wars like Lebanon, et cetera. As a result, it not only serves a defensive purpose but de facto serves an offensive purpose. </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700;">It allows Israel to essentially assault and siege Gaza without any retribution or response on the other side. So again, to some extent, they are not just funding defense, they are funding an offensive war and ultimately an occupation. That for me, is the problem.</span>"</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hill is against Israel having the Iron Dome defense which helps protect Israeli civilians from Palestinian Terrorist Rocket attacks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hill was a supporter of Ward Churchill who was a 911 denier. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2018/11/30/cnn-was-right-to-fire-marc-lamont-hill/">theAlgemeiner</a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "montserrat" , serif;">Until recently Hill said he did not know if Louis Farrakhan was a racist and anti-semite:</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "montserrat" , serif;"><a href="https://www.mediaite.com/online/cnn-contributor-marc-lamont-hill-denounces-louis-farakkhan-after-a-photo-of-the-two-of-them-surfaces/">Mediaite</a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Hill invokes </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3e3d3d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Leila Khaled, a Palestinian Terrorist, in the context of violently resisting what he considers to be a violent State:</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #3e3d3d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://freebeacon.com/issues/video-appears-show-marc-lamont-hill-accusing-israel-poisoning-palestinian-water/">The Washington Free Beacon</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "montserrat" , serif;">As that great 20th century philosopher Goose would say, "The List is long and distinguished." </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "montserrat" , serif;">The irony here is that Hill is really being vetted <i>after</i> his contract was terminated.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "montserrat" , serif;"><u style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande", "trebuchet ms", verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><b>3. Conclusion</b></u></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "montserrat" , serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "montserrat" , serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">The best reason Marc Lamont Hill's Commentator contract with CNN was terminated may have been a combination of the recent worst comment he has made in a UN speech advocating at a minimum increased Palestinian violence against Israel along with the cumulative effect of his prior controversial comments on the same subject of Israel. CNN promotes itself as being a relatively objective Network and while trying to present both sides of an issue trying to avoid commentators with overly radical positions. </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "montserrat" , serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "montserrat" , serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">For those who need a simpler conclusion, based on what he should have known were CNN's standards for commentators, he was not a very good commentator. And for my Jewish readers, in the simplest terms, Marc Lamont Hill is a putz. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Perhaps the better question/title for this post is why didn't CNN terminate its contract with Hill earlier?</span></span></span>
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<b style="font-size: xx-large;">1. Introduction of the Issue</b><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">At long last. A book which finally understands the Israeli/Palestinian conflict by fairly and objectively analyzing the central and key relationship between Terrorism and Security Measures. Baconi carefully details the strong relationship between the two, how each effects the other. More terrorism leads to more Security Measures and vice-versa. A refreshing, timely and necessary alternative analysis to the routine type of unilateral criticism which ignores one side of the relationship…just kidding.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Baconi’s preface is just standard Palestinian propaganda. Baconi simply suggests alternatives to Hamas being a terrorist organization even though they clearly are under International Law. They don’t think they are, other countries don’t think they are, it’s unclear what a terrorist organization is and maybe they are but because they are “resisting” maybe they are not. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Once Baconi has exorcised Terrorism from Hamas he postures that all we are left with are Security Measures from Israel and now, magically, there is a clear definition of terrorism which can be applied to Israel. In order to accomplish this Baconi has to be in denial regarding the history of the Conflict and make significant accusations against Israel that would be much easier to make against Hamas.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Background of the Conflict:</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Sitting in the darkness of the theater, I thought of Palestine. Lacking the clarity of historical hindsight, the Palestinian struggle for self-determination seems frozen in time, in many ways an interminable anticolonial struggle unfolding in a postcolonial world. It is a world that has confronted the carnage of decolonization. But the battle is still raging in Palestine, with ever-present urgency. The simplistic binaries that frame conversations of Palestinian armed struggle evoke the condescension expressed by colonial overlords”</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">There was never a colonial background to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict against the Palestinians. The prior owner was Great Britain which took control after it defeated the Ottoman Empire. The War of Independence was part Civil War. The Jews already lived there, they were not fighting for the benefit of any home/native country. To the extent there was an attempted colonizing effort the Jews in fact were on the defensive having to defend themselves from all surrounding Arab countries, most of who did have colonizing ambitions. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Even worse, the subsequent history of Israel was Israel having to continuously defend itself against the colonizing efforts of these same neighboring Arab countries. The Palestinian role in the conflict since the beginning has been, now what’s that word that Baconi threw out? Oh yeah, terrorism. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">“Hamas’s actions fit into the definition of terrorism used by the U.S. Department of State, which notes that “terrorism is premeditated politically motivated violence perpetrated against non-combatant targets by sub-national groups or clandestine agents.”4 While Hamas itself admits that it has used such tactics, it vehemently rejects being designated a terrorist organization. The logic underpinning this seeming contradiction is the absence of a single definition about what constitutes terrorism.5 The term is malleable and subjective, and more importantly, it has been used as a tool of war.6 The definition put forward by the U.S. State Department has consistently and cynically been manipulated to justify illegal and morally reprehensible military measures, in this case by Israel. Furthermore, while the label of “terrorism” under this definition can be applied to Hamas, it fails to account for the terror caused by Israel’s relentless military regime over the Palestinians.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">There is an International definition of Terrorism and it is not just the United States that considers Hamas a Terrorist organization but also the EU as well as several Arab countries. Regarding Israel’s Security Measures they are a direct response to Terrorism. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Furthermore, this study has proceeded from the premise that Hamas is at its core a political, not a religious, party. Of course, through its own declaration, Hamas is an Islamic movement by charter and by the faith of its leadership and its member base. While this book has addressed how this belief system impacts Hamas’s political outlook, it has not explored the theological underpinnings of the movement’s ideology. In other words, this is not a book about Islam, but Islam has a key presence within the book.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">You need nothing other than what Baconi has said above to conclude that Hamas is primarily a religious organization. Hamas is secondarily a military dictatorship as it does not allow any opposition or even criticism. Hamas is not a political organization as the word is normally used as there are no other significant political parties, no freedom of the press and no elections. There are other political parties but only those approved by Hamas. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">“Using this material, Hamas Contained offers an overview of the three decades of Hamas’s existence, primarily as narrated from the movement’s perspective.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Hamas clearly lacks credibility as a source based specifically on its history and in general as since it is a Terrorist organization willing/wanting to murder innocent women and children, lying would fall well within its own range of “resistance”. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">“During the summer of 2014, when global newsrooms were covering Israel’s military operation in the Gaza Strip, I watched Palestinian analysts being rudely silenced on the air for failing to condemn Hamas as a terrorist organization outright.1”</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Most of the countries in the world are publicly more sympathetic to the Palestinians than the Israelis as evidenced by the continuous lopsided UN votes. The US is more balanced with Conservative sources generally being more supportive of Israel and Liberal sources being more supportive of the Palestinians. Do a random search of the Internet and you will see a majority of hits (so to speak) being critical of Israel. Baconi’s footnote above refers to Sean Hannity which I have to confess was my biggest laugh of the day. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Attitude</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Against the backdrop of flares and explosions lighting up Gaza’s night skies during Israeli military incursions, some Israelis trek up to raised viewing points, sit on couches, and eat popcorn while watching the “fireworks” over the beleaguered land.3”</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Even if this was true, it’s generally the Israelis that regret all casualties in the conflict and the Palestinians that cheer not only Israeli casualties caused by terrorism, by compensating the terrorists and their families, but their own casualties caused by their own terrorism by passing out candy like it was Halloween and naming public areas after Terrorists. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">“The collective punishment of millions has become permissible, comprehensible, and legitimate. Destroying schools and targeting UN shelters, as Israel did in 2014, are military tactics that have been justified as essential for Israel to defend itself against terror. The killing of more than five hundred children during that same operation for many becomes little more than an unfortunate necessity.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Israel is the side that takes extreme security measures targeting specific terrorist targets and it is Hamas that inflicts collective punishment on Israel with general random Terrorist attacks. It is also Hamas that makes schools and UN shelters targets by launching attacks and storing weapons in them and Israel that tries to avoid them as targets. The number of Gaza children killed is something to consider if only Baconi was considering the relationship of Terrorism to Security Measures. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“By eliding the movement’s political ideology, as was done to the PLO before it, Israel has maintained policies aimed at depoliticizing Palestinian nationalism, and sustained its approach of conflict management rather than resolution. Through a dual process of containment and pacification, Hamas has been forcefully transformed into little more than an administrative authority in the Gaza Strip, in many ways akin to the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. At the time of its thirtieth anniversary, the movement appears temporarily—if not conclusively—pacified, and Israel seems to have succeeded in maintaining the permanence of an occupation long deemed unsustainable.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">It is Hamas that has prevented itself from being a political organization by instead being primarily a theocracy and preventing freedom of speech. This is clearly demonstrated in practice as the only negotiation Hamas ever participates in are cease-fires. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">If a resolution to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict was based on conscience all of Israel would be Jewish. As shown above there is no context of colonizing. The original and continuing context is the Holocaust and subsequent real genocide of the significant Jewish populations in all surrounding Arab countries justifying a Jewish country that protects Jews. In the real world though conscience does not create resolution, usually because the different sides have different consciences. Resolution is based on negotiation. The only thing that has prevented the Palestinians from the start from having their own country is terrorism. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">If Baconi did try a radical new approach to the Conflict and try to consider the relationship of Terrorism to Security Measures it’s possible that he might observe that there is a direct relationship. Once aware of this he may further note the direction of the relationship. Maybe, just maybe, less terrorism creates less Security Measures. At an extreme maybe no terrorism would lead to…I’m not kidding. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">In the meantime, even though Baconi is understandably sympathetic to the Palestinians, who should have their own country, he is ironically working against that, unwittingly helping to maintain the status quo by unilaterally criticizing Israel and exorcising Palestinian Terrorism from the discussion. Terrorism can be effective against Terrorism. Israel proved that in The War of Reprisals. But Palestinian Terrorism has not been effective against Israel. Israel has gotten better defending against it than Palestinians have gotten committing it. The majority of casualties now in terrorist attacks are on the Palestinian side. The world to some extent, especially the world powers, see Israeli Security Measures JUSTIFIED by Palestinian Terrorism. The most important country here, Israel, sees it to a large extent. In the meantime Israel gets stronger exporting oranges grown in the desert, high tech start-ups and nobel prize winners. Palestinians just continue exporting terrorism, sowing/reaping and controversy with former Arab allies. All the Palestinians need to do is drop the Terrorism to be like Israel. Really, if an Israeli and Palestinian were dressed the same and standing next to each other, could you tell the difference (other than the Palestinian being the one holding a knife)? </span></span><br />
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<b style="font-size: xx-large;">1. Introduction of the Issue</b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Selective reporting involves devoting more resources, such as news articles or air time, to the coverage of one side of the story over another."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The basic issue of The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_conflict">Israeli–Palestinian conflict</a> is the relationship between claimed cause and claimed effect. Israel, its supporters and advocates, generally claim a relationship of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_political_violence">Palestinian Terrorism</a> is the cause of Israel's extreme security measures. Palestinians, their supporters and advocates, generally claim a relationship of Israel's extreme security measures are the cause of Palestinian Terrorism. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The following are criteria to determine the existence and extent of selective reporting:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">1) Reporting of one side of the relationship in <b>absolute</b> numbers. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />2)</span> <span style="font-size: large;">The</span> <b style="font-size: x-large;">relative</b><span style="font-size: large;"> reporting of one side of the relationship to the reporting of the other side.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />3)</span> <span style="font-size: large;">The </span><b style="font-size: x-large;">level</b><span style="font-size: large;"> of the description used. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />4)</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Possible</span> <b style="font-size: x-large;">consequence</b><span style="font-size: large;"> of under reporting the other side of the relationship.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Let's test drive the criteria above for Neil Godfrey's blog <a href="http://vridar.org/">Vridar</a> starting with a search of his site for "Israel" and summarize:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">1) The number of articles involving Israel.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">2) The tone of the article regarding Israel.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">3) The extent of the article's tone towards Palestinians:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u style="font-weight: bold;">1.</u> <a href="http://vridar.org/2017/07/31/postscript-on-romes-and-israels-foundation-stories/">Postscript on Rome’s and Israel’s foundation stories</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Israel tone = The purpose of the article is to consider parallels between The Jewish Bible's Israel origination stories and Greek origination stories. In the comments you can see the author theorize that the Jewish stories were to some extent copied from the Greek and that a historical Jewish Palestine was significantly later than what The Jewish Bible indicates. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Palestinian tone = No direct mention of Palestinians here. The article has an implication, which is explicit in prior related articles, that if "The Jews'" history in Israel is much later than is commonly thought/argued than someone else must have been there earlier/much earlier such as maybe, I don't know, Palestinians?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u style="font-weight: bold;">2.</u> <a href="http://vridar.org/2017/07/29/comparing-the-romes-and-israels-foundation-stories-aeneas-and-abraham/">Comparing the Rome’s and Israel’s Foundation Stories, Aeneas and Abraham</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Israel tone = Same as above.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Palestinian tone = </span><span style="font-size: large;">Same as above. If the author wanted to objectively compare who's claim to Israel/Palestine is earlier a good comparison would be, which one, Israelis or Palestinians, use the <i>other</i> one's religious book as the start of their history? Hmmm. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u style="font-weight: bold;">3.</u> <a href="http://vridar.org/2017/05/17/how-philo-semitic-british-israelism-morphed-into-anti-semitic-white-supremacism-christian-identity/">How Philo-Semitic British Israelism Morphed into Anti-Semitic White Supremacism / Christian Identity</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Israel tone = The article is about antisemitic beliefs and not about Israel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Palestinian tone = The article is about Christian antisemitism and not Muslim/Palestinian antisemitism. So based on this article Israel has reason to feel threatened, just not by </span><span style="font-size: large;">Muslims/Palestinians.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><u style="font-weight: bold;">4.</u> <a href="http://vridar.org/2017/04/05/reality-behind-arab-threats-to-destroy-israel/">Reality Behind Arab Threats to Destroy Israel</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Israel tone = Israeli leadership knew from the beginning that Arabs were not a significant threat to Israel and by lying to the Israeli population about the level of the threat wrongly convinced Israelis that the Arabs were a significant threat. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Palestinian tone = No mention of "Palestinians" in the article. Strangely, the Arabs are first described as easily having the ability to destroy Israel and than described as always realizing that they could not destroy Israel. Since there is no mention of Palestinians there is no mention that all Palestinian political organizations have always had a Charter calling for the destruction of Israel. Note that in the potential context of Palestinians as a threat to Israel, Godfrey's blog minimizes their numbers, in this case to -0-. In the context though of Palestinian refugees/supposed right of return they quickly multiple into greater numbers than Israelis and exponentially more than Jews with any religious/physical connection to Israel. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">An objective review of the history of actual quotes/writings of Arab leaders from the beginning shows that they were not just sincere about thinking they could destroy Israel but enthusiastically sincere.</span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><u style="font-weight: bold;">5.</u> <a href="http://vridar.org/2017/04/04/primitive-democracy-in-ancient-israel/">Primitive Democracy in Ancient Israel</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Israel tone = Same as 1. and 2. above but now the source for The Jewish Bible has been expanded from Greek sources to (non-Jewish) Middle Eastern sources.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Palestinian tone = </span><span style="font-size: large;">Same as 1. and 2.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u style="font-weight: bold;">6.</u> <a href="http://vridar.org/2017/02/09/the-inspiration-for-israels-law-of-the-ideal-king/">The Inspiration for Israel’s Law of the Ideal King</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Israel tone = Same as 1. and 2.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Palestinian tone = </span><span style="font-size: large;">Same as 1. and 2. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u style="font-weight: bold;">7.</u> <a href="http://vridar.org/2016/12/30/israels-best-friends-to-her-rescue/">Israel’s Best Friends to Her Rescue</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Israel tone = Israel is described as being overly influenced by its "radical" element leading to a policy of illegal settlements in the West bank. These illegal settlements are said to prevent a peace agreement all by themselves and it's said that this policy will lead to an Apartheid State.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Palestinian tone = No mention of any radicals, illegal activity or plans to have an Apartheid Arab/Muslim State. In fact no mention of Palestinians at all except for the context of being victims.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><u style="font-weight: bold;">8.</u> <a href="http://vridar.org/2016/12/30/how-israel-uses-not-misuses-the-bible/">How Israel Uses (not “Misuses”) The Bible</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Israel tone = Israel is described as using The Jewish Bible to justify all of Israel being a Jewish State.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Palestinian tone = As in 7. no mention of "Palestinians" in the article except in the context of being victims. You wouldn't know from the article that it's actually the Palestinians who are primarily a religion oriented government and have a majority of their population who think all of Israel should be Arab/Muslim based on their Bible. In fact you wouldn't even know from the article that the Palestinians are Muslim.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><u style="font-weight: bold;">9.</u> <a href="http://vridar.org/2016/12/16/the-tribes-of-israel-modeled-on-the-athenian-and-ideal-greek-tribes/">The Tribes of Israel modeled on the Athenian and Ideal Greek Tribes?</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Israel tone = The article is similar to most of the articles above, arguing that The Jewish Bible copied from Greek stories supporting that the Jewish history in Israel is much later than Jews would argue. The comments go beyond and all the way to The Jewish Bible dishonestly invented "history" of Jews returning to and reclaiming their homeland and demonizing the people (Canaanites/Palestinians) who were there first to justify genocide.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Palestinian tone = As always, Palestinians only referred to in the context of victims. No attempt to find similar copying/accusations in The Arab Bible. </span><br />
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JoeWallackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10666074795187377455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586439398526451553.post-50517154534940396072017-07-21T08:26:00.001-07:002017-07-21T08:26:51.371-07:00The Amazin Kristkin!<div class="smallfont" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, "lucida grande", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<strong>The Amazin Kristkin!</strong></div>
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Story background: It's Herod's Palace, Saturday night. The warm up<br />ACTS have just finished and the place is hoppin. The Manager/MC goes<br />on stage to introduce the headliner. The crowd has been whipped up<br />into an eschatological frenzy. If they don't get their feature act<br />soon, someone is going to be crucified. Showtime!<br /><br />Manager: Okay, okay. I know you're all dying for our featured act,<br />but first I have a few announcements to make. Next week at Herod's<br />Palace the always popular Balaam and his talking donkey, the world's<br />greatest ventriloquist act. I swear you will not be able to<br />see the donkey's lips moving. And the week after, back by popular<br />request, the number one burlesque show on the Gaza Strip, Eve West and<br />W.C. Snake. (Lowers voice) when she's bad she's very bad but when<br />she disobeys she's even better. (Wrinkles eyebrows) guys, you<br />might want to start working on your alibis early. (Some guys in<br />audience start nodding in agreement). We also have a VIP with us here<br />tonight. Sitting in the balcony next to our own beloved King Herod is<br />the Governor of this region for the mighty Roman Empire, the<br />honorable Pontias Pilate. Pilate stands up and waves to sparse<br />applause.<br /><br />Voice from crowd : Caesar sucks! (Crowd laughs).<br /><br />Pilate : Who said that?! (Directs Roman guards to find the source.<br />Entire crowd shuts up and puts on innocent faces as guards begin to<br />make their way through the crowd.)<br /><br />Manager : Ahem. Okay, one more announcement before I introduce your<br />headliner tonight. Please remember to pick up your livestock<br />from the goat check room before you leave the Palace. We are not<br />responsible for any lost sheep or other animals that are left<br />here over night. Finally, Rebbe Yell will lead us in our pre-show,<br />non-sectarian prayer. (An old small Rebbe with a long white<br />beard comes onto the stage.)<br /><br />Rebbe Yell : (All bow heads). Our gracious Father in heaven. We thank<br />you for the entertainment that we are about to receive and for<br />providing us with the gift of laughter.<br /><br />All : Amen.<br /><br />Manager : And now, it is my great pleasure to introduce to you,<br />(crowd starts to cheer) the man you've been waiting your whole lives<br />for. Direct from a sold out, extended stay, standing room only and<br />record setting performance in the Galilee. (Cheer builds) Guaranteed<br />to heal whatever ails you, able to get a rise out of anyone,<br />including the dead, a real son-of-a-god and your ticket to heaven, The<br />One, Only and Holy Guest, The Amazin Kristkin and Paul Saver and<br />The World's Most Disciplined Choir! (Thunderous applause). (Paul<br />leads the Disciples onto the stage on their hands and knees,<br />forming a large cross, with The Amazin Kristkin laying stretched<br />out on their backs with his hands and feet tied to their<br />backs). (Paul pulls out a small cross and starts leading the Disciples<br />in their opening number).<br /><br />Disciples : (Singing) Your love, is lifting us higher, than we've<br />ever been lifted before.<br /><br />Peter : (Solo with Disciples singing opening refrain in background)<br />So keep it up, quench our desire, and we'll be at your feet for ever<br />more. (The cross formation reaches the center of the stage and stops.<br />Then the top of the cross starts to elevate where Kristkin's head is.<br />Kristkin looks to the right and his right hand immediately becomes<br />untied. He looks to the left and his left hand becomes untied. He<br />looks down at his feet and his feet become untied. As the cross<br />continues to elevate he slowly and smoothly slides down to a standing<br />position. The Disciples remain in tiered formation, still singing the<br />opening number with their outside arms forward, presenting Kristkin.<br />The crowd goes crazy and the continuous drone of the Palace vendors<br />shouting "mutton on a stick" and "nice, cool wine, get your nice,<br />cool wine here" is temporarily drowned out.)<br /><br />Kristkin : (Wearing a long, flowing, white cape and a matching white<br />robe with very large sleeves and an extra large, red K emblazoned on<br />the back of the cape with smaller red K's on his sleeves waves to<br />the crowd). Thank you. Thank you very much. (Blows kisses). I love you<br />all. (Extends and raises his right arm and a large loaf of white bread<br />suddenly appears by his right sleeve). (Heavy applause). (Hands loaf<br />of bread to a man sitting in front row). Here, pass this around.<br /><br />Man : Thanks. Say, do you have any butter?<br /><br />Kristkin : (Pats his vest). Um, no. Sorry. (Looks back at crowd).<br />Hey, it's great to be back at the Palace. I just flew in from the<br />Galilee today. (Lifts arms). Boy, are my arms tired! (Fuh-boom-Paul<br />does rim shot). (Crowd roars). I tell you the truth. Show business,<br />show business, it' in my blood show business. I just wish it was in<br />my act! (Crowd howls). (Looks and points to a small group of Roman<br />woman and their babies a few rows back). This must be the Caesarian<br />Section! (Crowd is dying). Okay, now for my first trick. (Raises left<br />hand and a large deck of cards appears next to his sleeve. Applause.)<br />I hold here in my hands all six hundred and thirteen<br />commandments. I will now shuffle the cards and let a member of<br />the crowd select one without my seeing which one it is. I will<br />then tell you exactly what that commandment means without knowing<br />which card has been taken. (Moves to a man in the front row and holds<br />all the cards out, written side facing away and turns his face away.<br />The man picks one card.) The commandment you selected means love the<br />Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all<br />your mind.(To the man) Now, read to the crowd the commandment you<br />selected.<br /><br />Man : Thou shalt not boil a calf in its mother's milk.<br /><br />Kristkin : See? (Raises arms triumphantly as crowd applauds). Thank<br />you. Thank you. (Waves to crowd) I love you all. (Extends and raises<br />both arms and loaves of white bread at one sleeve and dark bread at<br />the other sleeve appear. Crowd oohs and then applauds. Throws bread<br />into the crowd). For my next trick I was going to pull a Rabbi out of<br />a hat but the Rabbi died. (fuh-boom.) Okay, I am now ready to perform<br />a feat of magic never before seen here at Herod's Palace. I will<br />attempt to transform a jar of ordinary water into wine. (Raises arms<br />and looks upward). Paul, I'm ready. (Paul carries over a jar of rather<br />brown looking water and a large shroud).<br /><br />Paul : (Holds up jar for audience to see). Hmmm. Looks like the<br />Romans put the bath lines a little too close to the sanitation lines.<br />(Laughter) (Places jar at Kristkin's feet and covers Kristkin with<br />the shroud.) (The Disciples come slowly strolling onto the stage,<br />wearing big, white, comfortable sweaters with the first letter of<br />their name stitched in red on the front, singing and snapping their<br />fingers to the beat).<br /><br />Disciples : Kristkin just left for Chicago, turning muddy water into<br />wine.<br /><br />Simon : (Solo with Disciples singing opening refrain in background).<br />He's been from Jerusalem to Egypt and all points in between. (As<br />Disciples continue their song there is a small amount of movement at<br />the bottom of the shroud and a barely audible squishing sound.)<br /><br />Manager : (Peering out from the side of the stage and saying to<br />himself) I hate it when he does this one. I'll be up all night trying<br />to get the stains out of the floor.<br /><br />Kristkin : (Dramatically removes shroud and raises jar up to reveal<br />what appears to now be wine. Heavy applause. Brings jar over to front<br />row to drink and then stops, raises both arms out and head upwards<br />and three loaves of bread simultaneously appear, one at each sleeve<br />and one at his collar). (Huge applause. As they are clapping half of<br />audience is asking "how does he do that?" and the other half are<br />shaking their heads saying "I don't know.") Thank you. Thank you.<br />(Blows kisses) I love you. I love you all. Now be sure to pass over<br />my bread and wine to King Herod. Eating and drinking is his second<br />favorite activity next to taxing the peasants. (People are doubling<br />over with laughter. Herod gets annoyed look on face). Actually, I<br />shouldn't make fun of King Herod, we go way back together. I remember<br />when he first opened up this Palace ten years ago and since then,<br />there's nothing I wouldn't do for King Herod and nothing King Herod<br />wouldn't do for me. And that's the way its been for ten years, we've<br />done nothing for each other. (People are rolling on the floor. The<br />look on Herod's face changes from annoyed to really annoyed.) And<br />now, it's time for my grand finale. Never before successfully<br />performed on stage. I will be placed inside a coffin with the lid<br />nailed shut. There will then be spears thrust through the coffin,<br />piercing my body and killing me. The coffin will be opened and I will<br />have disappeared. Then the coffin will be nailed shut again and after<br />three minutes I will reappear, unharmed. Paul, is everything ready?<br /><br />Paul : Yes, Kristkin. (Wheels small wooden coffin onto the stage with<br />several round holes on each side and what appear to be blood stains<br />next to the holes. Crowd becomes quiet.)<br /><br />Kristkin : I have here the "widowmaker" taken directly from Elijah<br />the Great's final performance. (Looks down) may G-d have mercy on his<br />soul. (Crowd starts to worry). (Climbs into coffin and as he's<br />closing the lid says) I'll see you in the next life. (Crowd is<br />becoming anxious).<br /><br />Paul : (Hammers lid shut. Goes over to Roman guards and says) May I<br />borrow your spears? I think Kristkin has something caught between his<br />teeth. (Nervous laughter from crowd). (Meanwhile, the Disciples are<br />forming a human pyramid next to the coffin with Judas on top).<br /><br />Judas : (Singing with the rest of the Disciples humming background)<br />Mistakes, he's made a few, cause he's not G-d, he's just a Jew.<br /><br />Paul : (Placing spears into coffin but having trouble pushing them<br />completely through. Occasional "ow" or "ouch" can be heard from<br />inside the coffin.) Say, can a couple of you guards come over and<br />help me place these spears, I'm having some problems? (Two Roman<br />guards come over. The first grabs a spear that's halfway in and gives<br />it a forceful shove to put it all the way through. A loud "Ahhhh!" is<br />heard and the crowd shudders. The second guard pulls a stuck spear<br />back out of the coffin.)<br /><br />Guard : That's not how you move a spear. This is how you move a<br />spear. (Backswings spear in air and then launches it forward towards<br />the coffin.)<br /><br />Paul : (Tries to stop guard but it's too late). No, wait! Don't!<br />(Spear goes into coffin and becomes stuck inside. A very<br />loud "Aaaaaargh" is heard.)<br /><br />Judas : (Finishing song). What have we learned, during our stay? Did<br />our good deeds, keep sin away? We kept the law, as best we may. We<br />did it Hisss Way.<br /><br />Paul : (Starts tearing open coffin lid). Oh no. Please, no. (Manager<br />comes over to help. They finally get the lid open. The coffin is<br />empty and there is a trail of blood leading to a trap door underneath<br />the coffin.)<br /><br />Manager : This is terrible.<br /><br />Paul : You mean because Kristkin could be seriously or even fatally<br />wounded?<br /><br />Manager : No, because the act's not finished and I paid Kristkin in<br />advance.(Notices small, blood spattered note at bottom of coffin).<br />What's this? (Reads note) "I shall reappear on the exact one<br />hundredth anniversary of Harry Houdini's death". Who the hell is Harry<br />Houdini?<br /><br />Paul : I have no idea. Damn, it took me twenty years to put this act<br />together. What am I supposed to do now?<br /><br />Manager : (Shrugs) I don't know. Why don't you write a book about it?<br /><br />Paul : Yea, right. A book, sure. (Scratches chin) Hey, wait a minute,<br />hmmm.</div>
JoeWallackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10666074795187377455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586439398526451553.post-75423033750417111682017-06-04T15:17:00.002-07:002017-06-07T08:14:34.236-07:00Genocide In The Israeli/Arab Conflict<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>1. Introduction of the Issue</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Over at Neal Godfrey's blog Godfrey continues to try and support his conclusion that there was/is/will be genocide in the Israeli Arab conflict <a href="http://vridar.org/2017/06/03/expulsion-of-the-palestinians-insights-into-yishuvs-transfer-ideas-in-world-war-2/">Expulsion of the Palestinians: Insights into Yishuv’s Transfer Ideas in World War 2</a>. His problem so far is that he continues to look for it in the wrong place. He keeps looking for it on the Israeli side but there are now more Palestinians in Israel than there were at the start of the conflict and while Israel had no reaction whatsoever to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Palestinian_Museum">The Palestinian Museum</a> the Museum has no exhibits because of internal Palestinian fighting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>"Genocide</b> is intentional action to destroy a people (usually defined as an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_group" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Ethnic group">ethnic</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationality" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Nationality">national</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(classification_of_humans)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Race (classification of humans)">racial</a>, or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Religion"><b>religious</b></a> group) in whole or in part. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_word" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Hybrid word">hybrid word</a> "genocide" is a combination of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Greek language">Greek</a> word <i>génos</i> ("race, people") and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Latin">Latin</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffix" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Suffix">suffix</a> <i>-cide</i> ("act of killing").<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide#cite_note-1" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a></sup> The United Nations <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_Convention" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Genocide Convention">Genocide Convention</a>, which was established in 1948, defines genocide as "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or <b>religious</b> group".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-UNLegalDef_2-0" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide#cite_note-UNLegalDef-2" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[2]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide#cite_note-3" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[3]</a></sup></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The term genocide was coined in a <b>1944</b> book;<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-schab_4-0" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide#cite_note-schab-4" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[4]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPower200222-29_5-0" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPower200222-29-5" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[5]</a></sup> it has been applied to the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Holocaust"><b>Holocaust</b></a>," </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Note that included in the definition of "Genocide" is a religious group and that the term was created because of the genocide of Jews in the Holocaust of which the Palestinians and Arabs participated. Strangely Godfrey prohibits the combination of "Holocaust" and the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict because he thinks it creates unfair sympathy for Israel. On the other hand he is quick to combine "Genocide" and Palestinians (as supposed victims) even though the word was originally created to describe the genocide of the Jews (which was largely successful because of the effort of Palestinians/Arabs to prevent a Jewish State at the time).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Everyone, including Godfrey, would agree that there was Genocide against the Jews in all of the surrounding Arab countries:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here we have the expected qualities of genocide, murder, persecution, intimidation, forcible eviction, theft of all property, desecration and removal of history. Contrast this to what Godfrey tries to manufacture as Genocide on the Israeli side, while Israel is attempting to defend itself against a repetition of genocide against Jews, one (not "the") Jewish leader, in preparation for war, writes that assuming the Jews survive genocide one option is to try and make <b>agreements</b> with surrounding Arab countries to transfer some Palestinians out of strategically vulnerable areas so as to make the next genocidal attempt against Israel less likely to be successful. Under such a plan the Palestinians and Arab countries would be compensated per any agreement. The proposed plan would remove Palestinians by force if necessary (see how easy that was Neil). Note that this was one idea by one Israeli leader and never official Israeli policy unlike every Palestinian political organization that has an explicit genocidal policy towards Israel. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">So we do have clear evidence of Genocide just outside of Israel, perpetrated by all of Israel's Arab neighbors. But do we have evidence of Genocide inside Israel itself?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">During the Israeli/Arab conflict it's generally agreed that Jordan was the least malicious of Israel's neighbors. During The War of Independence Jordan illegally captured East Jerusalem which under the UN Mandate was supposed to be an International City. Let's see how that worked out for Jews not just in East Jerusalem but everywhere:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordanian_annexation_of_the_West_Bank">Jordanian annexation of the West Bank</a>:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">1) <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">The Jordanians immediately expelled all the Jewish residents of East Jerusalem.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-15" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordanian_annexation_of_the_West_Bank#cite_note-15" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[14]</a></sup></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px; white-space: nowrap;">2) </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">All but one of the 35 synagogues in the Old City were destroyed over the course of the next 19 years, either razed or used as stables and chicken coops.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">3) </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">Many other historic and religiously significant buildings were replaced by modern structures.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-16" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordanian_annexation_of_the_West_Bank#cite_note-16" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[15]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Tessler1994_17-0" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordanian_annexation_of_the_West_Bank#cite_note-Tessler1994-17" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[16]</a></sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;"> The ancient Jewish cemetery on </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_of_Olives" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Mount of Olives">Mount of Olives</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;"> was desecrated, and the tombstones were used for construction, paving roads and lining latrines; the highway to the Intercontinental Hotel was built on top of the site.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-18" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordanian_annexation_of_the_West_Bank#cite_note-18" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[17]</a></sup></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px; white-space: nowrap;">4) </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">Tensions continued between Jordan and Israel through the early 1950s, with Palestinian guerrillas and Israeli commandos crossing the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Line_(Israel)" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Green Line (Israel)">Green Line</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">5) </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">Tourists entering East Jerusalem had to present baptismal certificates or other proof they were not Jewish.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-39" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordanian_annexation_of_the_West_Bank#cite_note-39" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[38]</a></sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;"> </span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-40" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordanian_annexation_of_the_West_Bank#cite_note-40" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[39]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-41" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordanian_annexation_of_the_West_Bank#cite_note-41" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[40]</a></sup></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">1) - 5) = The destruction of Judaism in East Jerusalem, East </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jerusalem being the most important geographical area for </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Judaism at the time as well as the symbol of Judaism.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">For those sitting on the Wall as to whether this is sufficient to</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">justify a label of Genocide, add in that Jordan then allowed</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Palestinian terrorists to operate from East Jerusalem.</span></span></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In summary Neil Godfrey could end his desperate attempt to find evidence of Genocide in The Israeli/Arab conflict by simply looking everywhere except on the Israeli side. Seriously, Godfrey thinks he is helping the Palestinians by trying to demonize Israel and ignoring Palestinian/Arab evils. By doing this though he makes the Palestinians think that either he sees nothing evil in what they do or at least will tolerate it. Palestinian Terrorism though is the only reason Palestinians do not have their own State. They need constructive criticism and not just propaganda against Israel. By solely criticizing Israel you are hurting the Palestinians, not helping them, and your efforts will just blow up (so to speak) in your and their's face.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">1. Introduction of the Issue</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u>Common Claim</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's often claimed that during <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Israel%E2%80%93Gaza_conflict">The Gaza War (2014)</a> Israel used "disproportionate force". <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/10/politics/bernie-sanders-israel-gaza/">Bernie Sanders made this claim during an interview with Jake Tapper</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u>The Numbers</u></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Sanders mistakenly claimed in an interview a few weeks earlier that about 10,000 people were killed. The two main sources commonly used for casualties during the conflict are Israel and Hamas. Since everyone would agree that Hamas is a Terrorist Organization and therefore intentionally murders innocent women and children, the odds that they would also be willing to lie about the related casualties are proportionately greater than 2,125 to 73. Per <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Israel%E2%80%93Gaza_conflict#Casualties_and_losses">Israel</a>, 2,125 Palestinians died during the War and 72 Israelis and one foreigner died. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u>What is the Right Question to Ask?</u></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Supporters of the Palestinians tend to try and emphasize the disproportionate casualty statistics and avoid or at least minimize the overall context. This starts and ends with an answer, "Israel used disproportionate force," and misses something more important, the related starting question:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Was Israel justified in its response based on Israeli standards of justice?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Of course you could ask the question using other standards of justice but, as most people would first ask the question using their standard of justice, this article will only ask the question using Israel's standard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> You're Making Things Up Again Bernie</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>What caused the Israeli response?</u></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">In order to answer the basic question of this article, the first question to ask is what caused the Israeli response. Per <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Israel%E2%80%93Gaza_conflict#Operation_timeline">Wikipedia</a>:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;">Between 4 and 6 July, a total of 62 rockets were fired from Gaza and the IAF attacked several targets in Gaza.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ynetnews14_194-0" style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Israel%E2%80%93Gaza_conflict#cite_note-ynetnews14-194" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;">[190]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ynetnews16_195-0" style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Israel%E2%80%93Gaza_conflict#cite_note-ynetnews16-195" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;">[191]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ynetnews17_196-0" style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Israel%E2%80%93Gaza_conflict#cite_note-ynetnews17-196" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;">[192]</a></sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"> The following day, Hamas assumed formal responsibility for launching rocket attacks on Israel.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-nathanthrall_36-5" style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Israel%E2%80%93Gaza_conflict#cite_note-nathanthrall-36" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;">[32]</a></sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"> Hamas increased rocket attacks on Israel,</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-economist-two-big_113-1" style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Israel%E2%80%93Gaza_conflict#cite_note-economist-two-big-113" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;">[109]</a></sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"> and by 7 July had fired 100 rockets from Gaza at Israeli territory;</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>Was Israel justified in making any response of force?</u></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Per <a href="http://www.un-documents.net/a29r3314.htm">UN Resolution 3314</a> and therefore International Law:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Article 3<br />Any of the following acts, regardless of a declaration of war, shall, subject to and in accordance with the provisions of article 2, qualify as an act of aggression:</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "bookman old style" , "book antigua" , "garamond" , "times new roman";">(b) Bombardment by the armed forces of a State against the territory of another State or the use of any weapons by a State against the territory of another State;</span> </span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">Clearly Hamas would meet the definition of "aggression" here. Beyond that, as Hamas was additionally targeting and murdering/injuring/terrifying civilians with this bombardment their actions would be considered by most, and especially Israel, to go beyond mere aggression, all the way to Terrorist Attacks. From Israel's standpoint then, a forceful response was justified.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>In comparing the deaths on both sides what is a fair number to use for the Palestinians?</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Per Israel 2,125 Palestinians died. Israel estimates 953 Palestinian civilians were killed. Since the 1,172 Palestinian soldiers who were killed were killed while supporting Terrorist Attacks against Israel, Israel would not include them in considering the extent of Israel's military response. Everyone would agree that some of the Palestinian civilians killed were killed by Hamas, either intentionally or accidentally. Fatah estimates that about 10% of the Palestinian deaths were intentionally killed by Hamas and let's guess that another 10% were unintentionally killed by Hamas. That would bring the Palestinian civilian deaths directly caused by Israel to about 762. Per Israel there were 73 Israeli deaths. Most were soldiers but since the soldiers were defending Israel against Terrorist Attacks Israel, by its standards, would be justified in including them in a comparison of fatalities. So the ratio here is about 10 to 1. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>How many casualties did the response PREVENT?</u></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Before measuring how proportionate Israel's response was we need to consider how many Israeli deaths it may have prevented. In total the Israeli response stopped the Terrorist Attacks. Once the Terrorist Attacks stopped the Israeli response stopped. Most countries, including Israel, would accept a far higher ratio than 10 to 1 in order to stop ongoing Terrorist Attacks from a hostile State. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We also need to consider the risk to Israel, even if relatively small, of the <i>possibility of significantly more casualties</i>. Hamas confessed/boasted that during the War it attempted to strike Israel's nuclear facility at Dimona <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Operation-Protective-Edge/Rocket-alert-sirens-sound-in-Zichron-Yaakov-120-km-north-of-Gaza-362087">HAMAS: WE ATTEMPTED TO HIT THE NUCLEAR REACTOR IN DIMONA</a> .</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>Was Hamas indirectly responsible for some Palestinian casualties directly caused by Israel?</u></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It's generally agreed that Hamas was by:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">1. Deliberately launching some rockets from/near civilian buildings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">2. Ordering the general Gazan population not to move to safer areas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The Hamasgous still rules the wasteland</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">3. Conclusion</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In summary a fair consideration of the fatalities to include on each side indicates about a 10 to 1 ratio. From Israel's standpoint this ratio would be within the bounds of a proportionate response due to the following key considerations:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">1. The Israeli response was <b>caused</b> by Terrorist attacks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">2. The Israeli response was <b>limited</b> to what was necessary to stop the Terrorist attacks. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">3. The <b>possibility</b> existed of significantly greater Israeli casualties if the Terrorist attacks were not stopped.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">4. <b>Hamas</b> was also responsible for some Palestinian fatalities. </span></div>
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JoeWallackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10666074795187377455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586439398526451553.post-5885559761424041362016-11-05T12:34:00.002-07:002016-11-19T12:23:19.192-08:00You Might Be An Antisemite<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">1. You Might Be A Redneck</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">2. You hate all Israeli Jews and all Jews who support Israel but you
love all other Jews (the ones who hate Israeli Jews and Jews who support
Israel).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">3. You think the Holocaust should never be remembered for the purpose of
supporting Israel but should always be remembered for the purpose of
making comparisons between Israel and Nazis.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">4. You are interested/fascinated with what there is/might be about Jews
that has traditionally made them victims yet you have no interest in
what there is/might be about Muslims/Christians that made Jews victims.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">5. You think that Judaism has negatively influenced Israel but Islam has
not necessarily negatively influenced the surrounding Muslim countries. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">6. You have an endless fascination with the argument that Israel is
guilty of genocide even though there are now more Arabs in Israel than
there were 70 years ago and the only reason the launch of the
Palestinian museum of history was unsuccessful was because of internal
Palestinian disagreements and no interest in the actual genocide of all
Jewish communities in the surrounding Arab countries during the same
time period. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">7. You think there is never a context for Israeli security measures but always a context for Palestinian terrorism.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: #ecf3f7;">8. You think that plotting by The Grand Mufti with Adolf Hitler against the Jews is irrelevant to the current Israeli/Arab conflict but any mention that the current Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas wrote his Thesis on Holocaust Denial </span><img src="http://earlywritings.com/forum/images/icons/misc/wikipedia.gif" height="16" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="16" /><span style="background-color: #ecf3f7;"> </span><a href="http://earlywritings.com/forum/wiki.php?q=The%20Other%20Side:%20The%20Secret%20Relationship%20Between%20Nazism%20and%20Zionism" rel="nofollow" style="direction: ltr; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; unicode-bidi: embed;">The Other Side: The Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism</a><span style="background-color: #ecf3f7;"> is verboten.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: #ecf3f7;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Grande", "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">9. Your favorite sources for criticism of Israel are Israelis/Jews but you would never ever use a Palestinian/Muslim source such as the son of the founder of Hamas </span><img src="http://earlywritings.com/forum/images/icons/misc/wikipedia.gif" height="16" style="border-width: 0px; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="16" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Grande", "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://earlywritings.com/forum/wiki.php?q=Mosab%20Hassan%20Yousef" rel="nofollow" style="color: #105289; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; unicode-bidi: embed;">Mosab Hassan Yousef</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Grande", "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> to criticize Palestinians.</span></span></span></span></span>JoeWallackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10666074795187377455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586439398526451553.post-35172870753734079372016-08-21T12:44:00.001-07:002016-11-03T08:19:21.286-07:00Son Control - Mark's 2nd Amendment. Was "son of God" Added Later to Mark 1:1? The Greek Patristic Evidence.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1. Introduction of the Issue</b></span></h2>
<u><span style="font-size: large;">Bible Reading</span></u><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Mark 1:1 either reads as follows or uses alternative words with about the same meaning in all English Bibles that I am aware of:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%201:1&version=NRSV">BibleGateway Mark 1:1 NRSV</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="text Mark-1-1">"The beginning of the good news<sup class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NRSV-24214a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NRSV-24214a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%201:1&version=NRSV#fen-NRSV-24214a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</sup> of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.<sup class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NRSV-24214b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NRSV-24214b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%201:1&version=NRSV#fen-NRSV-24214b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]"</sup></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span><br />
<u><span style="font-size: large;">Alternative</span></u><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">There is Textual Criticism evidence for an alternative reading: <span style="font-size: large;"><span class="text Mark-1-1"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="text Mark-1-1">"The beginning of the good news<sup class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NRSV-24214a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NRSV-24214a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%201:1&version=NRSV#fen-NRSV-24214a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</sup> of Jesus Christ"</span></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">with the difference being the omission of </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="text Mark-1-1">"the Son of God".</span></span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u>Greek Patristic Evidence</u></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">A key area of evidence for the Alternative is the early Greek Patristic evidence. Patristic evidence is normally an important category of External evidence except when there is relatively little of it. For the issue at hand though, we have early Patristic evidence in quantity. Patristic evidence is also relatively weightier for the Gospel of Mark than for other Gospels as Mark is relatively poorly attested by early Manuscript evidence compared to the other Gospels.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">2. Discussion</span></h2>
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<u><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Tatian c. 170</span></span></u></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />Considering <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatian">Tatian</a> as witness here:</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">"Tatian the Assyrian[1][2][3][4] (c. 120–180 AD) was an Assyrian early Christian writer and theologian of the 2nd century.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Tatian's most influential work is the Diatessaron, a Biblical paraphrase, or "harmony", of the four gospels that became the standard text of the four gospels in the Syriac-speaking churches until the 5th-century, when it gave way to the four separate gospels in the Peshitta version.[5]"</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />his related witness is the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatessaron">Diatessaron</a></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">"The Diatessaron (c 160–175) is the most prominent Gospel harmony created by Tatian, an early Christian apologist and ascetic.[1] Tatian combined the four gospels—Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John—into a single narrative.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Tatian's harmony follows the gospels closely in terms of text but puts the text in a new, different sequence. The four gospels differ from one another; like other harmonies, the Diatessaron resolves contradictions. It also omits both the contradictory genealogies in Matthew and Luke. In order to fit all the canonical material in, Tatian created his own narrative sequence, which is different from both the synoptic sequence and John's sequence. Tatian omitted duplicated text, especially among the synoptics. The harmony does not include Jesus' encounter with the adulteress (John 7:53–8:11), a passage that is generally considered to be a late addition to the Gospel of John,[2] with the Diatessaron itself often used as an early textual witness to support this. No significant text was added.[3]</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Only 56 verses in the canonical Gospels do not have a counterpart in the Diatessaron, mostly the genealogies and the Pericope Adulterae. The final work is about 72% the length of the four gospels put together (McFall, 1994).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">In the early Church, the gospels at first circulated independently, with Matthew the most popular.[4] The Diatessaron is notable evidence for the authority already enjoyed by the four gospels by the mid-2nd century.[5] Twenty years after Tatian's harmony, Irenaeus expressly proclaimed the authoritative character of the four gospels. The Diatessaron became a standard text of the gospels in some Syriac-speaking churches down to the 5th century, when it gave way to the four separate Gospels,[5] in the Peshitta version.[6]"</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/diatessaron.html">The text of the Diatessaron</a><br /><br />and regarding the offending verse here:</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">"The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God."</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />It is nowhere to be found in the Diatessaron. We have the following reasons to think this is evidence that Mark 1:1 either outright did not exist at this time or was recognized by Tatian as likely not original:</span></span></h2>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Tatian used almost all of "Mark".</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">There is no clear reason for Tatian to exorcise 1:1.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">It would be natural for Tatian to start his Gospel with it as his theology is that Jesus started as son of God. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Diatessaron likewise does not have the start of "Matthew" or "Luke" again suggesting that either they outright did not exist at this time or were recognized by Tatian as likely not original. If "Matthew" and "Luke" had beginnings added (which their primary source "Mark" did not have) than that is evidence that "Mark" did too.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Elliott argues (well) that all of 1:1-3 is unoriginal <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=tjgzlfewUxgC&pg=PA269&lpg=PA269&dq=J.K.+Elliott+%22Mark+1:1+-+3+%E2%80%93+A+later+addition+to+the+Gospel?%22+NTS+46+%282000%29+584+-+8&source=bl&ots=4M9Li9qjO6&sig=ajVomhsAO4MFFd6tZ5gkX_stmao&hl=en&sa=X&ei=8-kwUZ6KJ4jY8gSVjIDgDQ&sqi=2&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=J.K.%20Elliott%20%22Mark%201%3A1%20-%203%20%E2%80%93%20A%20later%20addition%20to%20the%20Gospel%3F%22%20NTS%2046%20%282000%29%20584%20-%208&f=false">J.K. Elliott "Mark 1:1-3–A later addition to the Gospel?" NTS 46 (2000) 584-8</a></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Now, getting all the way back to the specific question of this article, if there is evidence that Mark 1:1 is not original, is that evidence that the "son of god" in 1:1 is an addition?<br /><br />As Kenneth Mars said in the classic ''Young Frankenstein'' "of gorse" in an absolute sense. In a relative sense though if all of 1:1 is an addition is that evidence that "son of God" is a even later addition to the prior addition of 1:1?<br /><br />I think so as general evidence of editing in the neighborhood is evidence of specific editing there and specifically general addition evidence is specifically evidence of specific addition editing. <br /><br />Thus I will add Tatian as evidence for addition and note the coordination with the other evidence as there is no quality evidence that "son of God" even existed in Tatian's time. </span></span></h2>
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<u><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Irenaeus c. 190</span></span></u></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0103311.htm%20Irenaeus%203.11.8">Against Heresies (Book III, Chapter 11)</a></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">"8. The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, as it is written in Esaias the prophet,"</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />Compare to the Text:</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">"The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Even as it is written in Isaiah the prophet,"</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />The only significant difference being "the son of God". Irenaeus explicitly says "son of God" twice in his related discussion and a major theme is the generation of Jesus. It seems reMarkable to me that he would invoke the offending phrase in his discussion but not in his quote. <br /><br />Irenaeus' context here is a general one. He is claiming support from the individual Gospels for his conclusion that there should be exactly four Gospels. Strangely, his mystical, indirect argument is exactly the type he accuses his opponents of. </span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><u><b>Origen c. 240</b></u></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/origen-john1.html">Origen Commentary on John Book I.14</a></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">"The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ."</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />followed by:</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">"The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">as it is written in Isaiah the prophet, Behold I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The voice of one crying m the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make His paths straight."</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />Compare to the Text:</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">"The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Even as it is written in Isaiah the prophet, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, Who shall prepare thy way.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make ye ready the way of the Lord, Make his paths straight;" </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />The only difference is "the son of God" and this is for 3 verses.<br /><br />Origen's <b>context</b> is that the Christian Bible is a continuation of the Jewish Bible.</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/origen-john6.html">Origen Commentary on John Book 6.14</a></span></span></h2>
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</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">"The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">as it is written in Isaiah the prophet, Behold, I send My messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make His paths straight." </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Compare to the Text:</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">"The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Even as it is written in Isaiah the prophet, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, Who shall prepare thy way.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make ye ready the way of the Lord, Make his paths straight;" </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The only difference is "the son of God" and this is for 3 verses.<br /><br />Origen's <b>context</b> is that he is trying to harmonize the Gospels.</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/origen162.html">Origen Contra Celsus BOOK II. CHAP. IV</a></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">"The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">as it is written in the prophet Isaiah, Behold, I send My messenger before Thy face, who shall prepare Thy way before Thee" </span></span></blockquote>
<h2>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Compare to the Text:</span></span></h2>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">"The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Even as it is written in Isaiah the prophet, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, Who shall prepare thy way." </span></span></blockquote>
<h2>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The only difference is "the son of God" for 2 verses.<br /><br />Origen's <b>context</b> is that the Christian Bible states that it is connected to the Jewish Bible. </span></span></h2>
<h2>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></h2>
<h2>
<u><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Serapion c. 350</span></span></u></h2>
<h2>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Per the two main authors here on opposite sides, Head, contra "son of God", and Wasserman, pro "son of God", there is agreement that Serapion is a Contra. Per Michael Kok, Serapion, with evidence similar to Origen, quotes Mark 1:1-2 twice without "the son of God" in <i>Against the Manichees</i> (which exists only in the Greek) 25 & 37. </span></span></h2>
<h2>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></h2>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>Basil c. 363</u></b></span><br />
<br />
<h2>
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><a class="external text" href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/78009407/Ebooksclub-org-Against-Eunomius-Fathers-of-the-Church" rel="nofollow">Against Eunomius (Book II) 15 (Page 150)</a></span>
</h2>
<blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">"The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ,
as is written in Isaiah the prophet:
a voice of one crying out [Mk 1.1]"
</span></blockquote>
<h2>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Compare to the Text:
</span></span></h2>
<blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">"The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
Even as it is written in Isaiah the prophet, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, Who shall prepare thy way.
The voice of one crying in the wilderness"
</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">Wasserman points out that the omission of the second half of verse 2
is support for the omission of "the son of God" in verse 1. But again,
the cumulative absence of Patristic quotation of "son of God" here
suggests the more likely explanation that it did not exist/was not
accepted as original at this time. Also note here that Basil's context
is the timing of "the son of God" so it would be reMarkable for him to exorcise it from his related quote. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>Cyril Jerusalem c. 370</u></b></span><br />
<br />
<a class="external text" href="http://www.synaxis.org/cf/volume30/ECF00001.htm" rel="nofollow">ST. CYRIL OF JERUSALEM: CATECHETICAL LECTURES LECTURE III. ON BAPTISM</a>
<br />
<blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">"The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, &c.:
John came baptising in the wilderness"
</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><span style="font-size: large;">Compare to the Text:
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
<br />
<blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">
"The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
Even as it is written in Isaiah the prophet, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, Who shall prepare thy way.
The voice of one crying in the wilderness"
</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><span style="font-size: large;">Cyril gives part of the missing text early on (1):
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"For the voice is heard of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord" </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">He adds (2): </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"Make straight the way of the Lord" </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">So the only part of the start of "Mark" he is missing besides "son of God" is the prophetic prediction. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Part of his argument (11): </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"If the Son of God was baptized" </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Why not quote that if it's in the text. He's making a treatise out of a few verses. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">And, as the Brits says, the cruncher (14): </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"Jesus Christ <b>was the Son of God</b>, yet He preached not the
Gospel before His Baptism. If the Master Himself followed the right time
in due order, ought we, His servants, to venture out of order? From
that time Jesus began to preach[5], when the Holy Spirit had descended
upon Him in a bodily shape, like a dove[6]; not that Jesus might see Him
first, for He knew Him even before He came in a bodily shape, but that
John, who was baptizing Him, might behold Him. For I, saith he, knew Him
not: but He that sent me to baptize with water, He said unto me, Upon
whomsoever thou shalt see the Spirit descending and abiding on Him,that
is He[7]. If thou too hast unfeigned piety, the Holy Ghost cometh down
on thee also, and a Father's voice sounds over thee from on high--not,
"This is My Son," but, "This has now been made My son;" for the "is"
belongs to Him alone, because In the beginning was the Word, and the
Word was with God, and the Word was God[8]. To Him belongs the "is,"
since He is <b>always the Son of God</b>: but to thee "has now been
made:" since thou hast not the sonship by nature, but receivest it by
adoption. He eternally "is;" but thou receivest the grace by
advancement." </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Cyril's point/apology here is that the Synoptics appear to show
Jesus as becoming son of God at baptism. Cyril's spin is that it is only
from the standpoint of the <b>witness</b> that Jesus became son of God
at the baptism. Jesus was "son of God" before the baptism (ala "John")
and he (Jesus) knew/knows/will know it. Being able to quote "Mark" as
saying "son of God" before the baptism is exactly what he would have
wanted and done had it been there, same as his fellow Patristics.
</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>Epiphanius c. 378</u></b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=DAP-uJTfc84C&pg=PA70&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false" rel="nofollow">Panarion Section 51 (Page 26)</a></span>
<br />
<blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">"The beginning of the Gospel, as it is written in Isaiah the prophet, A voice of one crying in the wilderness."
</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">Compare to the Text:
</span><br />
<blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">"The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
Even as it is written in Isaiah the prophet, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, Who shall prepare thy way.
The voice of one crying in the wilderness"
</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">So Epiphanius has exorcised "Behold, I send my messenger before thy
face, Who shall prepare thy way" and "Jesus Christ, the Son of God."
Epiphanius says the northodox are using "Mark" to support their position
(page 31):
</span><br />
<blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">""Look" they said here is a second Gospel too with an account of Christ,
and nowhere does it say that his generation is heavenly. Instead they
said, "the spirit descended upon him in the Jordan and a voice, "this is
my beloved son with whom I am well pleased.""
</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">If the text had said "son of God" at 1:1 than Epiphanius likely would
have used it since he would consider it evidence from "Mark" that Jesus
was the son of God before the baptism. He discusses the related text of
the Gospels in detail looking for any support so the context indicates
it was not there. Professor Ehrman briefly mentions the issue in TOCoS
but doesn't going into the timing. Consider that at the time Epiphanius
writes about the issue the only known extant Greek support is Vaticanus
(coordination).
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Epiphanius has provided us with the motive to add "son of God"
and contemporary to him is when the extant Greek evidence for it starts. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>Asterius c. 385</u></b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Per Wasserman:
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
<br />
<blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">
"The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ,
as is written in the prophets:
</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><span style="font-size: large;">Compare to the Text:
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
<br />
<blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">
"The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
Even as it is written in Isaiah the prophet"
</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><span style="font-size: large;">Here Wasserman confesses that this is simply a quote of the Short.
While he is in a confessional mood, Wasserman further confesses that
Asterius is commenting on the heading of Psalm 9 and specifically the
"son" in it and making/creating a connection to Mark 1:2 with Jesus
supposedly the end of the Law in the Jewish bible and the start of a new
era as witnessed by "Mark". Therefore, the context of Asterius
indicates it was not there to use. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>Severian c. 390</u></b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Per Wasserman:
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Cites a compiler of the relevant manuscripts that says 12 are
Short and 2 are Long. Based on quantity, Severian is than Short and this
is then direct evidence of change from Short to Long.</span>
<br />
<br />
<h2>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>3. Conclusion</b></span></h2>
<span style="font-size: large;">Critical (good) Textual Criticism usually decides textual criticism issues based on The Difficult Reading Principle combined with a minimum of other textual criticism evidence. Here the Difficult Reading Principle clearly favors "Son of God" as addition as that is what orthodox Christianity would strongly prefer. The Patristic External evidence category is always important and here it is even more important than usual as there is only one papyri witness (which supports omission). Prior to the fifth century we have nine Greek Patristic witnesses above who support addition and no Greek witnesses who support original until </span><span style="font-size: large;">Cyril of Alexandria early 5th century. Thus the Difficult Reading Principle combined with the dominant Patristic witness for addition, which easily meets the minimum additional evidence requirement, clearly supports "Son of God" as addition.</span><br />
<br />
<br />
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<h2>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></h2>
JoeWallackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10666074795187377455noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586439398526451553.post-31754319772939226692016-08-01T06:51:00.002-07:002016-08-01T06:58:58.605-07:00The William Of Oz<div align="center" id="yui_3_15_0_1_1470059428827_973">
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<span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1470059428827_976" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: medium;"><b id="yui_3_15_0_1_1470059428827_975">The William Of
Oz</b></span></div>
<div align="center" id="yui_3_15_0_1_1470059428827_924">
<span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1470059428827_969" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Starring:<br />Madelein Albright
as Dorothy<br />Richard Rubin as the Scarecrow<br />William Cohen as the
Lion<br />Alan Greenspan as the Tin Man<br />and<br />Bill Clinton as the
Wizard<br />Special guest appearance by Leona Helmsley as the Good Witch Of<br />The
North.<br />Bill Clinton wardrobe provided by Hyundi Motors, Ltd.</span></div>
<div align="center" id="yui_3_15_0_1_1470059428827_978">
<br />
<span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1470059428827_979" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Story background :
</span></div>
<div align="center" id="yui_3_15_0_1_1470059428827_981">
<span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1470059428827_980" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Three new cabinet members who
are all (unbeknownst<br />to them) searching for the same thing begin their
journey to Washington<br />to start their new careers.</span></div>
<div align="center" id="yui_3_15_0_1_1470059428827_982">
<br />
<span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1470059428827_984" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Albright : </span></div>
<div align="center" id="yui_3_15_0_1_1470059428827_986">
<span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1470059428827_985" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">How will we ever find our way
to Washington?</span></div>
<div align="center" id="yui_3_15_0_1_1470059428827_987">
<br />
<span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1470059428827_988" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Rubin : </span></div>
<div align="center" id="yui_3_15_0_1_1470059428827_990">
<span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1470059428827_989" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Look, there are some twenty
dollar bills over there.</span></div>
<div align="center" id="yui_3_15_0_1_1470059428827_991">
<br />
<span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1470059428827_992" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Cohen :</span></div>
<div align="center" id="yui_3_15_0_1_1470059428827_994">
<span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1470059428827_993" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">And off in the distance, I
think I see some small unmarked<span class="ygrps-yiv-1440089912750390808-28022007">
bills.</span></span></div>
<div align="center" id="yui_3_15_0_1_1470059428827_996">
<span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1470059428827_995" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Albright :</span></div>
<div align="center" id="yui_3_15_0_1_1470059428827_998">
<span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1470059428827_997" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">(Cupping her hand over her
eyes) </span></div>
<div align="center" id="yui_3_15_0_1_1470059428827_1000">
<span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1470059428827_999" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">And way over yonder, I<span class="ygrps-yiv-1440089912750390808-28022007"> think I see </span><br />some stock certificates for the
Indonesian National<span class="ygrps-yiv-1440089912750390808-28022007"> Oil
Company.</span></span></div>
<div align="center" id="yui_3_15_0_1_1470059428827_1002">
<span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1470059428827_1001" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Albright <br />(As she scoops up
the twentys) </span></div>
<div align="center">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Follow the fund raising
trail!</span></div>
<div align="center">
<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Rubin : <br />(As he scoops up the small unmarked
bills)</span></div>
<div align="center">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Follow the<span class="ygrps-yiv-1440089912750390808-28022007"> </span>fundraising trail!</span></div>
<div align="center">
<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">All :</span></div>
<div align="center">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Follow, follow, follow, follow,
follow the fundraising trail!</span></div>
<div align="center">
<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">As our heroes make their
way to Washington they all begin singing:</span></div>
<div align="center" id="yui_3_15_0_1_1470059428827_1005">
<br />
<i id="yui_3_15_0_1_1470059428827_1004"><span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1470059428827_1003" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">"We're off to see the
Wizard, the wonderful William of Oz,<br />If ever there was a Wizard of Oz, the
William of Oz is the one,<br />Despite the scandals, coverups and screwups,<br />his
approval rating keeps going up and up,<br />Because, because, because, because,
because,<br />because of the wonderful things he says,<br />Ha ha ha ha!<br />We're
off to see the Wizard, the wonderful William of Oz."</span></i></div>
<div align="center">
<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Albright : <br />What is that
white stuff falling from the sky? Is it snow?</span></div>
<div align="center">
<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Rubin : <br />It's not
melting. Maybe its Manna.</span></div>
<div align="center">
<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Cohen : <br />No, look,
(grabs one out of the air) they're faxes. It's from <br />Clinton. All of the
information that we need for our cabinet<br />positions. They must have dropped
them from Air Force 1.</span></div>
<div align="center">
<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Everyone gathers up all the
faxes as they continue to follow the fund<span class="ygrps-yiv-1440089912750390808-28022007">
</span>raising trail.</span></div>
<div align="center">
<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Albright : (Reading through
the faxes) <br />There's hardly anything here about <br />diplomacy, it just talks
about how to handle lobbyists.</span></div>
<div align="center">
<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Rubin : <br />I don't see
anything about fiscal policy, only what to say to<br />taxpayers.</span></div>
<div align="center">
<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Cohen : <br />There's
absolutely nothing here about defense needs, only a<br />budget.</span></div>
<div align="center">
<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">As the new cabinet members
make their way through the Enchanted<br />Press Forest they begin
chanting:</span></div>
<div align="center">
<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Lobbyists and taxpayers and
budgets, oh my!<br />Lobbyists and taxpayers and budgets, oh my!<br />Lobbyists and
taxpayers and budgets, oh my!</span></div>
<div align="center">
<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Finally, they arrive at the
Emerald White House and meet the President.</span></div>
<div align="center">
<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Albright : <br />Mr.
President, I just want to tell you what an honor it is for me<br />and my friends
here to be serving in your my cabinet.</span></div>
<div align="center">
<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Bubba : <br />Excuse me
everyone. Mr. President, Boris Yeltson is on Line 1.</span></div>
<div align="center">
<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Clinton : <br />What does he
want, another loan?</span></div>
<div align="center">
<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Bubba : <br />No sir. He
wants you to grant the McDonalds in Moscow a<br />liquor license.</span></div>
<div align="center">
<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Clinton : <br />Tell him I'll
call him back.</span></div>
<div align="center">
<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Bubba : <br />Yes Mr.
President.</span></div>
<div align="center">
<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Albright : <br />Mr.
President, I was wondering if you could do me a favor. I <br />want to be Jewish
again. Can you send me to Israel first?</span></div>
<div align="center">
<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Clinton : <br />Are you
crazy? You're already scheduled to go to Cairo,<br />Amman and Damascus next year.
After your little surprise<br />revelation, how am I suppose to make it up to the
Arabs,<br />appoint Yassir Arafat to the Supreme Court. (Scratches his<br />chin and
arches his eyebrow) Hmmm, I wonder what Arafat<br />thinks about sitting
Presidents being sued? Bubba, make a <br />note to call Arafat.</span></div>
<div align="center">
<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Bubba : <br />Yes Mr.
President. Mr. President, Fidel Castro is on Line 2,<br />he says he wants to talk
peace.</span></div>
<div align="center">
<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Clinton : <br />Tell him to
call me back in thirty years.</span></div>
<div align="center">
<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Bubba : <br />Yes Mr.
President.</span></div>
<div align="center">
<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Clinton : <br />Now listen up
everyone. Ya'll being here is my favor to you.<br />So now it's payback time. Go
out into the world and make me<br />look good.</span></div>
<div align="center">
<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Bubba : <br />Mr. President,
Buffy is on line 1.</span></div>
<div align="center">
<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Clinton : <br />I'll take it
on the secure line in the bomb shelter. Now get<br />going everyone.</span></div>
<div align="center">
<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Albright is outside the
Emerald White House crying and being consoled<br />by Rubin and Cohen.</span></div>
<div align="center">
<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Albright : <br />I'll never
get to be Jewish again.</span></div>
<div align="center">
<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Suddenly, there is a large
puff of smoke accompanied by the distinct smell<br />of Matzoh Ball soup.
Appearing out of nowhere is a middle aged women<br />dressed in standard fairy
godmother attire except for the apron and fuzzy<span class="ygrps-yiv-1440089912750390808-28022007">
slippers.</span></span></div>
<div align="center">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Albright :<br />Who are
you?</span></div>
<div align="center">
<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Helmsley : <br />I'm the Good
Witch Of The North.</span></div>
<div align="center">
<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Albright : <br />The Good
Witch Of North? You look like Golda Meir.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Helmsley : <br />And you look
like Claudia Schiffer? Listen, I'm right in the<br />middle of an intense scrabble
game with the Wicked Witch<br />Of The West. I'm about to lay down "quixotic" with
the x<br />on triple word score, so let's make this quick. What do
you<br />want?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Albright : <br />I want to be
Jewish again. Purim's coming. I want to dress<br />up as Esther, bake Hamentashens
and take a ritual Mikvah.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Helmsley : <br />Would you
settle for two out of three?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Rubin : <br /><br />I want to
be Jewish again too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Cohen : <br />Me
too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Albright : <br />We all want
to be Jewish again, but we've forgotten how.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1470059428827_1010" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: small;">Helmsley :<br />You have all
forgotten how to be Jewish, but Judaism has<br />not forgotten you. It still lives
in your hearts and your deeds.<br />Just close your eyes, put your hands on your
hearts and say<br />three times, "there's no place like homeland, there's
no<br />place like homeland, there's no place like homeland."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Continued from <a href="http://thenewporphyry.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-strange-chapter-of-dr-jewkyll-and_31.html">The Strange Chapter Of Dr. Jewkyll And Mr. Hymn - Day 1</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dearest Diary, this morning I re-read Isaiah Chapter 53 as planned to see if I would start to develop tendencies towards Christian beliefs. Reading Chapter 53 by itself I can almost understand why some Christians think it supports the idea of vicarious atonement although I think a better explanation is that it is merely saying that a person or persons who can maintain good morals and ethics in the face of persecution set a good example for others. Again, when I looked at the surrounding chapters it's clear to me that Chapter 53 describes the nation of Israel and any theme of vicarious atonement in 53 is not supported by the rest of Isaiah. I did not have the rest of the Tanakh available for comparison. Still, I remain curious as to why the Christians consider Chapter 53 to be such good evidence for the truth of Christianity so I've decided to remove Chapter 53 from Isaiah for tomorrow's reading and put the rest of Isaiah in my safety deposit box along with the rest of the Tanakh. No significant unusual behaviour noted although tonight I actually lost to my computer at chess at level 13 in 40 moves. I'm sure this is just a temporary setback. Also, while flipping channels this evening I noticed a show called World Federation Wrestling which looked God-awful. I complained to my cable company that I never ordered this show but they assured me that I've always had it since I've had cable. Strange that I've never noticed it before. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Once again, I accidentally saw Donald Drumph tonight. Idiot. He may have some small point to make on immigration I suppose. I find him really annoying but maybe he is entertaining.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sincerely, Dr. Henry Jewkyll</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Judgment-Shroud-Turin-Walter-Mccrone/dp/1573926795"> Judgment Day for the Shroud of Turin by Walter C. Mccrone (Author) </a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"In order to get a supernatural explanation out of the "Shroud", one
must be Scientist. But if someone gets a supernatural explanation out of
the "Shroud", then one is not Scientist. But in order to..."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">*Walter,
I'm glad to see that my work was not in vain and that the Pursuit of
Truth has finally overtaken perceived truth. The title alone, "Judgment
Day For The Shroud Of Turin", is worth the price of the book (30 pieces
of silver). The fact that Heller's book, arguing for the authenticity of
the Shroud has long since fossilized in the Apologist's Hall Of Fame
and gone out of print while your book remains popular kind of says it
all.*</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">The beauty of the book is that while McCrone puts the
"Shroud" under the microscope, in a typology which ironically is so
crucial to many Church doctrines, McCrone at the same time puts the
faith of a Church which believes its leader is infallible but couldn't
even tell you if it was going to rain tomorrow under the microscope as
well. So, in addition to presenting overwhelming and then some evidence
that the "Shroud" is really a shroud the book becomes a wonderful
illustration of the nature of Apologetics. Ignore/deny superior tests
for supporting conclusions and create/cling to inferior tests supporting
assumptions thus placing the usual scientific process backwards (isn't
this evidence of Satan?).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">If McCrone is guilty of anything it was
baiting the Church into thinking that he was exactly the type of
scientist wanted by the Church, top credentials but sympathetic to the
cause of the Church and determined to prove the Shroud authentic. In his
initial letters to Father Rinaldi, offering his services to research
the Shroud, McCrone titled his letters, "Authentication Of The Turin
Shroud" and wrote, "The provenance for the Shroud is known dependably
for more than 600 years with considerable evidence extending this date
back to the time of Christ...The protection of this information through
proper channels must remain uppermost in our minds...I sincerely hope we
may be able to work on this most interesting project and hope that we
will be able to obtain data supporting the conclusion that this linen
was indeed the one used as Christ's Shroud after the cruxifixion."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">As
a scientist McCrone should have known before he started his testing
that the Shroud was 14th century as he was familiar with the extant
letters from the Bishops of Lyons (yes, "Lyons") to the then Pope
stating that the creator of the Shroud had confessed that it was a
painting (this fact more than any other illustrates the absurdness of
the necessity to even test the Shroud for authenticity as the situation
is that we have second and third hand evidence that the "Shroud" is a
fraud while we have no hand or even foot evidence that there even was a
burial shroud of Jesus). Even the supporters of the "Shroud" generally
agree that these letters are authentic but they claim that they refer to
some other burial Shroud of Jesus near Lyons at the same time
(ignore/deny). McCrone had also studied the results of testing by the
1973 Italian Commission, the first group of Scientists, hand picked by
the Church, to test the Shroud whose results strongly implied that the
Shroud was a 14th century painting. Aside from the conclusive evidence
that McCrone found indicating the Shroud was a fraud the Church and
Christian scientists involved in the study of the Shroud also came to
hate McCrone because they felt that his initial portrayal of being
sympathetic to the Church was a false appearance to induce the Church to
use him and hid his true belief that the Shroud was a fraud and he
wanted to prove that it was to feed his ego and build his reputation as a
great scientist.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">The bulk of the book consists of McCrone
explaining the necessity, procedures, analysis and conclusions of
scientific testing of the Shroud in terms easily understandable to the
non-scientist and this is where McCrone excels as in addition to
superior scientific skills he displays supreme communication skills as a
teacher as well. McCrone proves through the use of state of the art
microscopic technology that the Shroud image consists almost entirely of
paint pigments popular in the 14th century. While generally conceding
that there is some paint pigment on the Shroud, supporters of the Shroud
deny that the image is a painting because there is no evidence of
brushstrokes when examined microscopically. To answer this objection
McCrone demonstrated that if the paint was sufficiently diluted in a
water base there would be no detectable brushstrokes. McCrone recreated
shrouds using the same paint materials used on the Shroud and reported
that there were no visible brushstrokes on the recreations and that
under the microscope the particles were identical between the
recreations and the Shroud and challenged any Shroud supporter to try
and tell the difference (a challenge which is still untaken). McCrone
next demonstrated that there is no actual blood in the "blood" image
areas of the Shroud. Dried blood under the microscope is always black
but the blood areas of the Shroud were red. Chemical analysis of the
blood image areas also indicated that they lacked major chemical
components of blood such as potassium. Shroud supporters, such as
Heller, conclude that the blood image areas are blood because they
contain some chemical components of blood such as calcium and iron but
they ignore that paint pigments also contain calcium and iron. When
asked to explain why the usual tests for the presence of blood fail
here, such as black color and existence of potassium, they explain that
the explanation is some unknown process (ignore/deny).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">These then
were the two significant conclusions of McCrone, the image is a
painting and there is no evidence of blood. McCrone wrote up the results
of his testing in articles for peer reviewed and accredited scientific
journals and his results are largely accepted by the scientific
community at large. McCrone also deals with claims of Shroud supporters
who are then forced to rely on inferior issues to support their beliefs.
Regarding the common supporter claim that the "Shroud" is a perfect
negative image McCrone points out that the hair and blood images of the
Shroud are positive, not negative images. The other popular supporter
claim is that the Shroud contains a collection of pollens which support a
journey from the Middle East, to Turkey and then to Europe. McCrone
notes that his examination of the Shroud indicated that the majority of
these pollens were concentrated in one extremely limited area of the
Shroud and recognizing that he is not a pollen expert provides a special
section in his book detailing the report of a pollen expert who has
serious doubts as to the credibility of the Scientist (Frei) who
reported the pollen findings. McCrone builds such a strong case for the
Shroud being a 14th century painting that when McCrone reports towards
the end of his book the results of carbon dating showing a 14th century
date (surprise) it's actually anti-climactic.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">McCrone also
describes his impressive credentials, tools and talent for such a
project and is quite merciful in describing the lack of corresponding
qualifications of his Christian "scientist" opponents instead limiting
himself to objectively describing their limited qualifications and use
of inferior equipment. John Jackson for instance, perhaps McCrone's
biggest critic, had the main qualification for studying the Shroud of
being a captain in the U.S. Air Force. Generally, the Christian
scientists supporting the Shroud have not had peer reviewed articles
published in accredited scientific journals.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">McCrone's reward for
his work was to be ostracized and shunned by the Church and fellow
Christian scientists who in addition to obviously not liking his results
were incensed that unlike some predecessors who had similar findings
McCrone had the courage to make POSITIVE conclusions ("The Shroud is a
14th century painting") rather than play the Church's game and avoid
positive conclusions indicating the Shroud was not authentic ("I did not
find evidence that the Shroud is from the 1st century").</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">In the
face of this persecution McCrone displays a timely and welcome sense of
humor during his book giving appropriate placed applicable quotes such
as Ambrose Bierce's "Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told
by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">*Walter:
Did you ever know you are my hero? You are the cleaning solution
beneath my microscope slide. By golly, you and your microscope were
right all along. You've convinced me and I hope your book will convince
others. With best wishes and keep up the good work.*</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">Sincerely and free at last, Galileo</span>JoeWallackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10666074795187377455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586439398526451553.post-36591907537244353502016-06-24T07:35:00.004-07:002016-06-26T13:39:48.383-07:00The Israeli/Arab Conflict - Who is Easier to Demonize as Naziish?<br />
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<i><span id="ygrps-yiv-225868772role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1466779098974_968"><span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1466779098974_967">Poetry recital by</span></span> Hatem Bazian<span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1466779098974_966"><span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1466779098974_965"> at "Mein Kampfeehouse", </span></span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span id="ygrps-yiv-225868772role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1466779098974_966"><span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1466779098974_965">Berkeley,
California, April 30,
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<i><span id="ygrps-yiv-225868772role_document" style="color: black; font-size: large;"><span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1466779098974_962"><span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1466779098974_961">"To mein furkengroovin fuhrer. Man, I really dug the way
you</span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span id="ygrps-yiv-225868772role_document" style="color: black; font-size: large;"><span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1466779098974_958"><span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1466779098974_957">were swingin through
Poland.
Barbarossa was so heavy, that it</span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span id="ygrps-yiv-225868772role_document" style="color: black; font-size: large;"><span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1466779098974_956"><span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1466779098974_955">blew my mind. You restated the negativeness of the
universe.</span></span></span></i></div>
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godless</span></span></span></i></div>
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with</span></span></span></i></div>
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useless,</span></span></span></i></div>
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cosmos.</span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span id="ygrps-yiv-225868772role_document" style="color: black; font-size: large;"><span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1466779098974_983"><span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1466779098974_982">Mein furkengroovin fuhrer, to me you'll always be
the</span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span id="ygrps-yiv-225868772role_document" style="color: black; font-size: large;"><span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1466779098974_999"><span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1466779098974_998">April 30, 2001.</span></span></span></i><br />
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<span id="ygrps-yiv-225868772role_document" style="color: black; font-size: large;"><span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1466779098974_999"><span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1466779098974_998">Perhaps the only thing Israel and the Palestinians agree on is that the Palestinians demonize Israel as Naziish. From <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Media_Watch">Palestinian Media Watch:</a></span></span></span><br />
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<span id="ygrps-yiv-225868772role_document" style="color: black; font-size: large;"><span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1466779098974_999"><span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1466779098974_998"><a href="http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=18228">PMW Bulletins Israeli PM Netanyahu is a Nazi with a swastika tattoo - in Fatah cartoon</a> </span></span></span><i><span id="ygrps-yiv-225868772role_document" style="color: black; font-size: large;"><span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1466779098974_999"><span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1466779098974_998"> </span></span></span></i><br />
<i><span id="ygrps-yiv-225868772role_document" style="color: black; font-size: large;"><span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1466779098974_999"><span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1466779098974_998"><br /></span></span></span></i>
<span id="ygrps-yiv-225868772role_document" style="color: black; font-size: large;"><span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1466779098974_999"><span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1466779098974_998"><a href="http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=16305">PMW Bulletins Fatah: All Israelis are Nazis</a></span></span></span><i><span id="ygrps-yiv-225868772role_document" style="color: black; font-size: large;"><span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1466779098974_999"><span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1466779098974_998"><a href="http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=16305"> </a></span></span></span></i><br />
<i><span id="ygrps-yiv-225868772role_document" style="color: black; font-size: large;"><span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1466779098974_999"><span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1466779098974_998"><br /></span></span></span></i>
<span id="ygrps-yiv-225868772role_document" style="color: black; font-size: large;"><span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1466779098974_999"><span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1466779098974_998"><a href="http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=16051">PMW Bulletins Fatah posts Nazi children's book: Don’t trust a fox or a Jew</a></span></span></span><i><span id="ygrps-yiv-225868772role_document" style="color: black; font-size: large;"><span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1466779098974_999"><span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1466779098974_998"></span></span></span></i><br />
<i><span id="ygrps-yiv-225868772role_document" style="color: black; font-size: large;"><span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1466779098974_999"><span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1466779098974_998"><br /></span></span></span></i>
<span id="ygrps-yiv-225868772role_document" style="color: black; font-size: large;"><span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1466779098974_999"><span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1466779098974_998">Perhaps the only thing the rest of the world agrees on though is that the Palestinian Media is not credible. So, if we are forced to make a comparison to Nazis here, which side, Israeli or Palestinian, is more Naziish?</span></span></span><br />
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When There Were Real Nazis:</h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Once</span> <span style="font-size: large;">upon a time there were real Nazis and it really was not that long ago. The Israeli/Arab Conflict first went from simmer to boil during:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947%E2%80%9348_Civil_War_in_Mandatory_Palestine">1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The military leaders on the Palestinian side were </span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fawzi_al-Qawuqji" title="Fawzi al-Qawuqji">Fawzi al-Qawuqji</a> and </span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abd_al-Qadir_al-Husayni" title="Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni">Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni.</a> The political leader was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amin_al-Husseini">Amin al-Husseini:</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fawzi_al-Qawuqji">Fawzi al-Qawuqji</a></b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>"Fawzi al-Qawuqji</b> (<a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_language" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a>: <span dir="rtl" lang="ar">فوزي القاوقجي</span>; 19 January 1890 – 5 June 1977) was a leading Arab nationalist military figure in the interwar period,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Achcar_1-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fawzi_al-Qawuqji#cite_note-Achcar-1">[1]</a></sup> <b>based in Germany</b>, and <b>allied to Nazi Germany</b> during <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, who served as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Liberation_Army" title="Arab Liberation Army">Arab Liberation Army</a> (ALA) <b>field commander</b> during the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Palestine_War" title="1948 Palestine War">1948 Palestine War</a>." </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"</span><span style="font-size: large;">awarded the German Iron Cross"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"</span><span style="font-size: large;">After suffering serious wounds fighting the British in Iraq, al-Qawuqji was transported to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vichy_France" title="Vichy France">Vichy French</a>-held Syria, and then made his way to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">Nazi Germany</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Lyman_9-2"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fawzi_al-Qawuqji#cite_note-Lyman-9">[8]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-18"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fawzi_al-Qawuqji#cite_note-18">[17]</a></sup> He remained in Germany for the remainder of World War II, recuperated from his wounds, and married a German woman.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-19"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fawzi_al-Qawuqji#cite_note-19">[18]</a></sup><sup> </sup>Al-Qawuqji's sojourn in Germany has been the subject of considerable controversy.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-20"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fawzi_al-Qawuqji#cite_note-20">[19]</a></sup> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Achcar" title="Gilbert Achcar">Gilbert Achcar</a> recounts stories of conflicts during his Berlin period:"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"<b>He was awarded the rank of a colonel of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wehrmacht" title="Wehrmacht">Wehrmacht</a></b>
(German Army), and given a captain to act as his aide, along with a
chauffeured car, and an apartment near the clinic at Hansa. His expenses
were paid by Wehrmacht High Command and by Rashid Ali's Foreign
Minister. The Germans used al-Qawuqji's name and reputation extensively
in their propaganda.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-23"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fawzi_al-Qawuqji#cite_note-23">[22]"</a></sup></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So among </span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fawzi_al-Qawuqji">Fawzi al-Qawuqji</a>'s Naziish credentials:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">1) Colonel in the Nazi army</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">2) Actively fought against the Allies</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">3) Healed and married a German in Nazi Germany</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">4) Was used for propaganda purposes by the Nazis</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In addition, famously said:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"In August he threatened that, should the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Partition_Plan_for_Palestine" title="United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine">United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine</a>
vote go the wrong way, “we will have to initiate total war. We will
murder, wreck and ruin everything standing in our way, be it English,
American or Jewish"<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-morris2008p61_30-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fawzi_al-Qawuqji#cite_note-morris2008p61-30">[29]"</a></sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-morris2008p61_30-0">"I have come to Palestine to stay and fight until Palestine is a free
and united Arab country or until I am killed and buried here," ... His
aim, he declared, borrowing the slogan that was becoming the leitmotiv
of the Arab leadership, was "to drive all the Jews into the sea."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Collins_.26_Lapierre.2C_p._207_35-1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fawzi_al-Qawuqji#cite_note-Collins_.26_Lapierre.2C_p._207-35">[34]</a></sup></sup></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: large;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-morris2008p61_30-0"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Collins_.26_Lapierre.2C_p._207_35-1"><span style="font-size: large;">Sounds pretty Naziish.</span> </sup></span></sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-morris2008p61_30-0"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Collins_.26_Lapierre.2C_p._207_35-1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amin_al-Husseini">Amin al-Husseini</a> </sup></span></sup></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-morris2008p61_30-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Collins_.26_Lapierre.2C_p._207_35-1">Just from the picture above you can already tell this is not going to be pretty -</sup></span></sup></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-morris2008p61_30-0"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Collins_.26_Lapierre.2C_p._207_35-1">"In 1921 the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Commissioners_for_Palestine_and_Transjordan" title="High Commissioners for Palestine and Transjordan">British High Commissioner</a> appointed him <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Mufti_of_Jerusalem" title="Grand Mufti of Jerusalem">Grand Mufti of Jerusalem</a></b>, a position he used to promote <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a> while rallying a non-confessional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_nationalism" title="Arab nationalism">Arab nationalism</a> against Zionism.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amin_al-Husseini#cite_note-12">[12]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amin_al-Husseini#cite_note-13">[13]</a></sup> During the period 1921-36 he was considered an important ally by the British Mandatory authorities.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-14"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amin_al-Husseini#cite_note-14">[14]</a></sup>
His opposition to the British peaked during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936%E2%80%9339_Arab_revolt_in_Palestine" title="1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine">1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine</a>. In 1937, evading an arrest warrant, he fled Palestine and took refuge successively in the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Mandate_of_Lebanon" title="French Mandate of Lebanon">French Mandate of Lebanon</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Iraq" title="Kingdom of Iraq">Kingdom of Iraq</a>, until <b>he established himself in <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Italy_%281861%E2%80%931946%29" title="Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946)">Fascist Italy</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relations_between_Nazi_Germany_and_the_Arab_world" title="Relations between Nazi Germany and the Arab world">Nazi Germany</a>.</b> During <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>
<b>he collaborated with both Italy and Germany by making propagandistic
radio broadcasts</b> and by <b>helping the Nazis recruit Bosnian Muslims for
the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffen-SS" title="Waffen-SS">Waffen-SS</a></b> (on the ground that they shared four principles: family, order, the leader and faith)." </sup></span></sup></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Back in the summer of 1940 and again in February 1941, al-Husseini submitted to the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_dictatorship" title="Nazi dictatorship">Nazi German Government</a> a draft <b>declaration of German-Arab cooperation</b>, containing a clause:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Germany and Italy recognize the right of the Arab countries to solve
the question of the Jewish elements, which exist in Palestine and in the
other Arab countries, as required by the national and ethnic (<i>völkisch</i>) interests of the Arabs, and <b>as the Jewish question was solved in Germany</b> and Italy.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-160"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amin_al-Husseini#cite_note-160">[160]"</a></sup></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-morris2008p61_30-0"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Collins_.26_Lapierre.2C_p._207_35-1"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></sup></span></sup></span><sup><span style="font-size: large;">"</span></sup><span style="font-size: large;">Subsequently, the Mufti declared in November 1943:</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: large;">It is the duty of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammedan" title="Mohammedan">Muhammadans</a>
[Muslims] in general and Arabs in particular to ... <b>drive all Jews from
Arab and Muhammadan countries</b>... . Germany is also struggling against
the common foe who oppressed Arabs and Muhammadans in their different
countries. It has very clearly recognized the Jews for what they are and
resolved to find <b>a definitive solution [<i>endgültige Lösung</i>] for the Jewish danger that will eliminate the scourge that Jews represent in the world.</b></span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Arabs_pp._151_178-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amin_al-Husseini#cite_note-Arabs_pp._151-178"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>[</b>178]</span>"</a></sup></blockquote>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">November 1943 al-Husseini greeting Bosnian Waffen-SS volunteers with a Nazi salute.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-216"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amin_al-Husseini#cite_note-216">[216]</a></sup> At right is SS General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-Gustav_Sauberzweig" title="Karl-Gustav Sauberzweig">Karl-Gustav Sauberzweig</a>.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Throughout World War II, al-Husseini <b>worked for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_powers" title="Axis powers">Axis Powers</a> as a broadcaster in propaganda</b> targeting Arab public opinion. He was thereby joined by other Arabs such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fawzi_al-Qawuqji" title="Fawzi al-Qawuqji">Fawzi al-Qawuqji</a><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-208"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amin_al-Husseini#cite_note-208">[208]</a></sup> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasan_Salama" title="Hasan Salama">Hasan Salama</a>. <b>The Mufti was paid "an absolute fortune" of 50,000 marks a month</b> (when a German field marshal was making 25,000 marks a year),<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-209"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amin_al-Husseini#cite_note-209">[209]</a></sup> the equivalent today of $12,000,000 a year.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Mikics_2014_129-1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amin_al-Husseini#cite_note-Mikics_2014-129">[129]</a></sup> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Winchell" title="Walter Winchell">Walter Winchell</a> called him "the Arabian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Haw-Haw" title="Lord Haw-Haw">Lord Haw-Haw</a>".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-210"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amin_al-Husseini#cite_note-210">[210]</a></sup></span><br />
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The Mufti also wrote a pamphlet for the 13th <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_Waffen_Mountain_Division_of_the_SS_Handschar_%281st_Croatian%29" title="13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1st Croatian)">SS <i>Handschar</i></a> division, translated as <i>Islam i Zidovstvo</i> (Islam and Judaism) which closed with a quotation from Bukhari-Muslim by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Hurairah" title="Abu Hurairah">Abu Khurreira</a>
that states:"The Day of Judgement will come, when the Muslims will
crush the Jews completely: And when every tree behind which a Jew hides
will say: '<b>There is a Jew behind me, Kill him!</b>".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-211"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amin_al-Husseini#cite_note-211">[211]"</a></sup></span> ...<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">On 1 March 1944, while speaking on Radio Berlin, al-Husseini said:
'Arabs, rise as one man and fight for your sacred rights. <b>Kill the Jews
wherever you find them.</b> This pleases God, history, and religion. This
saves your honor. God is with you.'<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-213"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amin_al-Husseini#cite_note-213">[213]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-214"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amin_al-Husseini#cite_note-214">[214]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-215"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amin_al-Husseini#cite_note-215">[215]</a>"</sup></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-215">"Husseini helped organize Arab students and North African emigres in
Germany into the "Arabisches Freiheitkorps", <b>an Arab Legion in the
German Army</b> that hunted down Allied parachutists in the Balkans and
fought on the Russian front.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Medoff_1996_189-2"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amin_al-Husseini#cite_note-Medoff_1996-189">[189]"</a></sup> </sup></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amin_al-Husseini">Amin al-Husseini</a></span></span>'s Naziish credentials:</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">1) Protected by the Nazis during the War</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">2) Assisted with Nazi propaganda</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">3) Recruited Muslims for the Waffen-SS</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">4) Issued policy statement that the Arabs had the right to solve the "Jewish question" in the same way the Nazis solved theirs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">5) Wrote approvingly of the Nazi effort to eliminate the problem of Jews in the world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">6) Wrote propaganda encouraging the destruction of all Jews.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">7) Helped organize an Arab legion in the Nazi army.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">8) Met with Hitler, Himmler and numerous top Nazi officials to discuss official policy against the Jews.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Impressive credentials. </span><br />
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<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-morris2008p61_30-0"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Collins_.26_Lapierre.2C_p._207_35-1"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abd_al-Qadir_al-Husayni" title="Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni">Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni</a></span></sup></span></sup></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-morris2008p61_30-0"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Collins_.26_Lapierre.2C_p._207_35-1"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>"Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni</b> (<a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_language" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a>: <span dir="rtl" lang="ar">عبد القادر الحسيني</span>, also spelled <b>Abd al-Qader al-Husseini</b>) (1907 – 8 April 1948) was a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_nationalism" title="Palestinian nationalism">Palestinian Arab nationalist</a> and fighter who in late 1933 founded the secret militant group known as the Organization for Holy Struggle (<i>Munathamat al-Jihad al-Muqaddas</i>),<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abd_al-Qadir_al-Husayni#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abd_al-Qadir_al-Husayni#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup> which he and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasan_Salama" title="Hasan Salama">Hasan Salama</a> commanded as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_the_Holy_War" title="Army of the Holy War">Army of the Holy War</a> (<i>Jaysh al-Jihad al-Muqaddas</i>) during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936%E2%80%9339_Arab_revolt_in_Palestine" title="1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine">1936–39 Arab revolt</a> and during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Palestine_war" title="1948 Palestine war">1948 war</a>."</span></sup></span></sup></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-morris2008p61_30-0"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Collins_.26_Lapierre.2C_p._207_35-1"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relations_between_Nazi_Germany_and_the_Arab_world#Mandatory_Palestine">Relations between Nazi Germany and the Arab world</a> </span> </sup></span></sup></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"The Mufti sent Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni to Germany in 1938 for explosives training."</span> <br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-morris2008p61_30-0"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Collins_.26_Lapierre.2C_p._207_35-1"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abd_al-Qadir_al-Husayni" title="Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni">Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni</a></span></span></span>'s Naziish credentials:</span> </sup></span></sup></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-morris2008p61_30-0"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Collins_.26_Lapierre.2C_p._207_35-1">1) Received military training in Nazi Germany.</sup></span></sup></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-morris2008p61_30-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Collins_.26_Lapierre.2C_p._207_35-1">Unimpressive compared to the high standards of Naziishim already demonstrated here. You could even say the most Naziish thing about him was his affiliation with the others here testing heil for Naziishim. His co-commander was </sup></span></sup></span><span style="font-size: large;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-morris2008p61_30-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Collins_.26_Lapierre.2C_p._207_35-1"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasan_Salama" title="Hasan Salama">Hasan Salama</a>. Maybe he can help bring up the average:</span></span></span></sup></span></sup></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-morris2008p61_30-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Collins_.26_Lapierre.2C_p._207_35-1"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasan_Salama" title="Hasan Salama">Hasan Salama</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></sup></span></sup></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-morris2008p61_30-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Collins_.26_Lapierre.2C_p._207_35-1"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;">"the Mufti arranged for Salama and other Arab fighters to be flown to
Germany for military training. The Germans trained Salama to be a
paratrooper.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasan_Salama#cite_note-3">[3]"</a></sup></span></span></span></span></span></span></sup></span></sup></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-morris2008p61_30-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Collins_.26_Lapierre.2C_p._207_35-1"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3">"Salama was as a member of a special commando unit of the Waffen SS in <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_ATLAS" title="Operation ATLAS">Operation ATLAS</a>, which was jointly operated by German Intelligence and Grand Mufti al-Husseini."</sup></span></span></span></span></span></span></sup></span></sup></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-morris2008p61_30-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Collins_.26_Lapierre.2C_p._207_35-1"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasan_Salama" title="Hasan Salama">Hasan Salama</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>'s Naziish credentials:</span></span></span> </sup> </span></span></span> </span></span></span></sup></span></sup></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-morris2008p61_30-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Collins_.26_Lapierre.2C_p._207_35-1"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">1) Received military training in Nazi Germany.</span></span></span></span></span></sup></span></sup></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-morris2008p61_30-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Collins_.26_Lapierre.2C_p._207_35-1"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">2) Was a member of the Waffen SS (the armed wing of the Nazis notorious for war crimes even by Nazi standards). That'll manheim up the average. </span></span> </span></span></span></sup></span></sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-morris2008p61_30-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Collins_.26_Lapierre.2C_p._207_35-1"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span> </sup></span> </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">So in summary, for what looks like the four most important Palestinian leaders, they met with Adolf Hitler and other top ranking Nazis to discuss Nazi strategy, spent time in Nazi Germany, were trained by Nazis, assisted with Nazi propaganda, were in the Nazi army including the Waffen-SS and married Nazis. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In our comparison here it's going to be difficult for their Israeli counterparts to top but that doesn't mean that many will still try. Do a search on the Internet for "Israel Palestinians Nazi". Every hit on the first page will be comparing Israelis to Nazis. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ben-Gurion">David Ben-Gurion </a>was the leader of Israel at the time. I can practically guarantee that he never met with Adolf Hitler. So what were his Naziish credentials? At his Wikipedia site most of the quotations are like this:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"</span><span style="font-size: large;">This is our native land; it is not as birds of passage that we return to
it. But it is situated in an area engulfed by Arabic-speaking people,
mainly followers of Islam. Now, if ever, we must do more than make peace
with them; we must achieve collaboration and alliance on equal terms"</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Not much competition. We need to move to a source apparently more motivated than Wikipedia to demonize Ben-Gurion:</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Neil Godfrey's Vridar: <a href="http://vridar.org/2015/11/12/expulsion-of-the-palestinians-caution-and-discretion-during-the-war-years/">Expulsion of the Palestinians: Caution and Discretion during the War Years</a> and the worst we can find there:</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #003366;">"We will <b>propose</b> to Iraq P£10 million in
return for the resettlement of 100 thousand Arab families from Palestine
in Iraq. <b>I do not know whether Iraq will accept this proposal</b>. If this
business was only with Iraq — she might listen to us. Iraq needs a
larger Arab settlement and of course it would not be adverse to
receiving millions [of pounds]."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #003366;"><b>"</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"><b>We
have to examine, first, if this transfer is practical, and secondly, if
it is necessary. It is impossible to imagine general evacuation without
compulsion, and brutal compulsion.</b> There are of course sections of the
non-Jewish population of the Land of Israel which will not resist
transfer under adequate conditions to certain neighbouring countries,
such as the Druzes, a number of Bedouin tribes in the Jordan Valley and
the south, the Circassians and perhaps even the Metwalis [the Shi’ite of
the Galilee]. But it would be very difficult to bring about the
resettlement of other sections of the Arab populations such as the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">fellahin</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">
and also urban populations in neighbouring Arab countries by
transferring them voluntarily, <b>whatever economic inducements are offered
to them.</b>"</span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #003366;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The context of Ben-Gurion here is that it is an idea and not policy. It would also require agreement with the Arabs as a whole and only some Palestinians would have force used against them. Note also the attempt to provide compensation. This is a long way from the Palestinian leaders of the time possessing every Nazi quality except for being German. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #003366;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">So who's more Naziish now? Beowitch. </span></span></span><br />
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<span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1466606643028_981" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: large;">It’s the year 2,025. Israel has
recently achieved final peace with all of its<span class="ygrps-yiv-1724783893890161007-09082004"> </span>Arab neighbors culminating in the opening
of the Benjamin Netanyahu<span class="ygrps-yiv-1724783893890161007-09082004"> </span>Academy of
Acting in Cairo and the Yassir Arafat Institute For<span class="ygrps-yiv-1724783893890161007-09082004"> </span>Reformed Terrorists in Tel Aviv. Thanks
to the new peace Israel has<span class="ygrps-yiv-1724783893890161007-09082004"> </span>replaced
its policy of mandatory military service with mandatory<span class="ygrps-yiv-1724783893890161007-09082004"> </span>graduation from medical school. Also,
because of key military<span class="ygrps-yiv-1724783893890161007-09082004"> </span>secrets
given to Israel by super spy Jonathan Pollard, Israel has<span class="ygrps-yiv-1724783893890161007-09082004"> </span>become the world leader in science and
technology.</span></div>
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its resources from military applications<span class="ygrps-yiv-1724783893890161007-09082004">
</span>to scientific applications Israel has become the first country to</span><span class="ygrps-yiv-1724783893812042708-26022007"> </span></span></span><span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1466606643028_976" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: large;">develop a ship, the “USS Enteraplea Pollard,” which is capable of<span class="ygrps-yiv-1724783893890161007-09082004" id="yui_3_15_0_1_1466606643028_977"> </span>going back in time. The “USS Enteraplea
Pollard” has been sent on a<span class="ygrps-yiv-1724783893890161007-09082004"> </span>secret
mission to go back in time and remove Chapter 53 from the writings of
Isaiah.</span></div>
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JoeWallackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10666074795187377455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586439398526451553.post-47930487362988069172016-06-18T09:19:00.002-07:002017-05-05T06:39:00.578-07:00The Israeli/Arab Conflict - The London Conference - 1939<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/LondonConference1939.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="219" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/LondonConference1939.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
An official picture from The London Conference - 1939. The astute blog reader will notice the Aranomily of the absence of any Jews in the picture.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1. Introduction of the Issue</b></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></h2>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://thenewporphyry.blogspot.com/2015/11/israel-before-british-mandate.html">Israel Before The British Mandate</a> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
question than, is if there has never been a country approximating Israel
that was a Muslim/Arab country, and the original usage of the word for a
geographical area "Palestine" by the British explicitly provided for a
Jewish State, than why are Arabs in Israel now and since the British
Mandate referred to as "Palestinians" as if they are the original
citizens of a country called "Palestine"?</span><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span> </b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://thenewporphyry.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-israeliarab-conflict-mcmahonhussein.html"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The Israeli/Arab Conflict - The McMahon–Hussein Correspondence - 1916</span></b> </a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">"</span></span><span style="font-size: large;">1. By allying with the British and helping to defeat the Ottomans, the Arabs did earn a national Arab State in the Middle East.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">2. The British promise/agreement to the
Arabs for an Arab State preceded any such agreement with the Jews for a
Jewish State in Israel. </span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">3. The British were clear that not all
of the Middle East would be an Arab State and never formally
communicated to the Arabs that Palestine would be part of an Arab
State.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">4. While there never has been an Arab
and or Muslim State approximating the area of Israel and under the
Ottomans there was no "Palestine" entity or governing area approximating
Israel, the British did use the name "Palestine" to refer to the area." </span><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://thenewporphyry.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-israeliarab-conflict-balfour.html">The Israeli/Arab Conflict - The Balfour Declaration - 1917</a> </span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"</span><span style="font-size: large;">Violent Arab rejection of The
Balfour Declaration of 1917 was the start of the Israeli/Arab conflict
which has continued to the present time. We will also see in subsequent
posts here that the position of the two sides regarding Jewish and Arab
states in Israel has not changed since 1917:<br />
<br />
Jewish position - Has always been in favor of and offered Two-State solution.<br />
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Arab position - Has always opposed and rejected offer of Two-State solution.<b>"</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://thenewporphyry.blogspot.com/2016/05/peel-commission.html">The Israeli/Arab Conflict - The Peel Commission - 1937</a> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">Even though the Peel Plan was the first
specific partition plan it became the basis for all subsequent partition
plans. The Plan favored the Jewish side because of British financial
reasons and the thinking that the Jewish need for a State was much
greater than the Arab need. From an Arab standpoint the Plan was
unfavorable because they would receive the less developed land (even
though the Jews were responsible for most of the development), they
would receive proportionately less land based on relative populations
(even though this would benefit both sides from a budget standpoint),
most transfers would be of Arabs and they would not have an independent
State but become a part of Jordan.</span> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span><br />
</b></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://thenewporphyry.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-woodhead-commission-1938.html"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The Israeli/Arab Conflict - The Woodhead Commission - 1938</span></b> </a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Because
the predecessor Plan, The Peel Commission, was accepted in principle by
the Jews but not only rejected by the Arabs but created an Arab
position of refusing to accept the creation of any Jewish state, Britain
tried to create a new Partition Plan which would be much more favorable
to the Arabs. The Woodhead Commission Plan was much more favorable to the
Arabs as they would have an independent Palestinian state for Arabs,
Jews would be required to contribute substantially to this Arab state
and the Jewish state would be one fifth the size of the Palestinian
state. As a result though, the Arab position did not change. They would
not accept and would violently oppose the creation of any Jewish state.</span><br /><b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Violent Arab rejection of </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
Balfour Declaration of 1917 was the start of the Israeli/Arab conflict
which has continued to the present time and was the primary Arab
reaction to The Woodhead Commission.</span></span></span><br />
<br />
<h2>
<span style="font-size: large;">2. Discussion</span></h2>
<h2>
<span style="font-size: large;"> </span></h2>
<h2>
<span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Conference_(1939)">The London Conference - 1939</a></span></h2>
<h2>
<span style="font-size: large;"> </span></h2>
<span style="font-size: large;">"</span><span style="font-size: large;">The <b>London Conference (1939)</b>, or <i>St James Palace Conference</i>, was called by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_National_ministry" title="Fourth National ministry">British Government</a> to plan the future governance of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_%28region%29" title="Palestine (region)">Palestine</a> and an end of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Mandate_of_Palestine" title="British Mandate of Palestine">Mandate</a>. It opened on 7 February 1939 in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_James%27s_Palace" title="St James's Palace">St James's Palace</a> after which the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_the_Colonies" title="Secretary of State for the Colonies">Colonial Secretary</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_MacDonald" title="Malcolm MacDonald">Malcolm MacDonald</a>
held a series of separate meetings with an Arab and a Jewish
delegation, because the Arab delegation refused to sit in the same room
as the Jewish delegation. When Maconald first announced the proposed
conference he made clear that if no agreement was reached the government
would impose a solution. The process came to an end after five and a
half weeks with the British announcing proposals which were later
published as the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_White_Paper" title="1939 White Paper">1939 White Paper</a>" </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Britain's proposals were:</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"</span><span style="font-size: large;">A limit to Jewish immigration over the following five years after
which numbers would be set by agreement with the Palestinian Arabs;
restrictions on what parts of the country Jews could buy land.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Gradual introduction of Palestinians, Jews and Arabs, into senior administrative posts.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">After a period of ten years the British would transfer all powers to a representative Government."</span><br />
<br />
<u><b><span style="font-size: large;">Key related points -</span></b></u><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">1)
Motivation - Britain's motivation here was to favor the Arab side. The biggest current problem was violent Arab rejection of any Jewish state. Also, World War II was looming and all existing Middle Eastern countries were Arab. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">2)
Expectation - Britain's proposal did look like a stalling for time, at least until the War was over. There was a ten year transitional plan before Britain gave up any control and was conditional on an end to the violence. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">3)
Limitation - Britain's plan had no specifics.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">4)
Development - Disproportionate current and future development of Israel
by Jews, which benefited/would benefit all inhabitants, was no longer any kind of consideration.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u><b>Jewish reaction -</b></u> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">To the </span><span style="font-size: large;">McMahon–Hussein Correspondence of 1916 promising the Arabs that most of Palestine would be an Arab state = None. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">To
the Balfour Declaration of 1917 = Acceptance. Hope was turned into
possibility and preparations were started for a Jewish State. The
emphasis was on the creation of a Jewish State with little thought as to
the extent of the Jewish State and whether there would also be a
Palestinian state in Israel. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">To
The Peel Commission of 1937 = Acceptance of the Plan in general but
rejection of the specific borders as too small. Created committee to
negotiate specific borders.</span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">To the Woodhead Commission of 1938 = Rejection. </span></span>Since
the recommended Plan would give the Jews one fifth the area of the
previous plan and they would be required to provide significant
financial assistance to the Arab state which would be five times larger,
the Plan was summarily rejected with no offer of negotiation. </span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">To The London Conference of 1939 = "</span></span></span><br />
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">no minority status for the Jewish community in Palestine</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">the Mandate to remain in place</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Jewish immigration to continue, governed by the capacity of the country to absorb the incomers</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">investment to speed up development in Palestine</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-34"><span style="font-size: large;">[34] "</span></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-34"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-34"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></sup></li>
</ul>
<br />
<u><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Arab reaction -</b></span></u><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">To the </span><span style="font-size: large;">McMahon–Hussein Correspondence of 1916 promising the Arabs that most of Palestine would be an Arab state =</span><b> </b>Acceptance.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">To
the Balfour Declaration of 1917 = Rejection. The Arabs were clear that
not only would they reject the creation of any Jewish state in Israel
but they would be violently opposed. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">To
The Peel Commission of 1937 = Rejection. The primary specific complaint
was that it would give the Jews the best land. The Arabs rejected the
granting of any land to the Jews under any form of administration and
demanded an end to Jewish immigration. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">To
the Woodhead Commission of 1938 = Ignored. The Woodhead Commission
spent three months in Israel, had fifty-five evidence receiving
meetings, and no Arabs participated. This even though the proposed Arab
state would be five times larger than the Jewish state and receive
significant financial assistance from the Jewish state. If instead of
having simply a demand that there be no Jewish State the Arab position
had been to just minimize the Jewish state and maximize the Arab one,
historically, this would have been the best opportunity for the Arabs to
do so.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">To The London Conference of 1939 = "</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span>
<br />
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Independence</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">No Jewish National Home in Palestine</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Replacement of the Mandate by a Treaty</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">End to Jewish immigration</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-23"><span style="font-size: large;">[23] "</span></sup></li>
</ul>
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>3. Conclusion</b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The conflict for Britain was that the Jews had a much greater <b>need</b> for a homeland than the Arabs because of persecution and the larger the Jewish State the smaller Britain's related financial problem's would be, while the Arabs had a much greater <b>demand</b> than the Jews, that there would be no Jewish State. The imminence of World War II though made the British plan look like a stalling tactic to avoid giving up any control until the War was over. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">The biggest current problem for the British was violent Arab protest over the possibility of creating any Jewish State. The attempted British solution was to propose a one State solution here, similar to what was accepted for Lebanon, with Arabs and Jews holding senior government positions. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The London Conference also exposed another serious obstacle to negotiations, the Arab refusal to meet directly with Jews. This implied an Arab attitude of Jewish inferiority even though everyone would agree that the Jews in general were economically superior. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Violent Arab rejection of </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
Balfour Declaration of 1917 was the start of the Israeli/Arab conflict
which has continued to the present time and continued to be the primary Arab
reaction to subsequent Plans. We will continue to see in subsequent
posts here that the position of the two sides regarding Jewish and Arab
states in Israel has not changed since 1917:</span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jewish position - Has always been in favor of and offered Two-State solution.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Arab position - Has always opposed and rejected offer of Two-State solution. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">In
hindsight, the greatest tragedy regarding the failure of a Two-State
solution was not that the Arabs still don't have a related State but
that 6,000,000 Jews were murdered by a Country with the same main
religion as Britain in a Continent with the same religion because there
was no Jewish State at the time. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Critics
of Israel will try to demonize Israel by posturing and only looking at
The Jews/Zionists/Israel's supposed eternal goal of wanting it all. But
we need to distinguish between wanting and <i><b>accepting</b></i>. It's
normal to want more than you are willing to accept but in negotiations
what is most important is what you are willing to accept. And that is
the difference between Israel and the Arabs and has always been the
difference. Regardless of what both sides supposedly want, Israel has
always been willing to accept a two-State solution and the Arabs have
not. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span> </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>JoeWallackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10666074795187377455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586439398526451553.post-25676944432407582492016-06-17T08:16:00.000-07:002016-06-17T08:26:12.970-07:00Sudden Incarnation!Starring:<br />
<br />
Dan Patrick as "Dirty Mary"<br />
<br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihad_Awad" title="Nihad Awad">Nihad Awad</a> as Captain Dagg<br />
<br />
JoeWallack as the Street Pagan<br />
<br />
And<br />
<br />
Donald Sutherland as "Shades"<br />
<br />
Special guest appearance by Yeshua courtesy of Warning Brothers<br />
Studios.<br />
<br />
Sunglasses generously provided by the Swiss Banking Association<br />
Holocaust Survivors Reparations Fund.<br />
<br />
Jointly presented by the National Association of Sunday Schools <br />
and Judas Ford Dealership, where our motto is "The Customer Is <br />
Always Righteous" and the guaranteed lowest prices in Heaven, <br />
Earth or Hell, starting at just thirty pieces of silver.<br />
<br />
Narrator: The Streets of Babylon are filled with the cowardly,<br />
unbelieving, vile, murderous, sexually immoral, magicians,<br />
idolaters, liars and Methodists. Whenever there's a dirty little job<br />
to do, one man is called upon to set things right. That man, whose<br />
name is Immanuel, is named Dirty Mary.<br />
<br />
Dirty Mary : (Showing up at the Captain's office) You called me?<br />
<br />
Captain Dagg : Depravity is natural to man; it is born with him, and <br />
not acquired in the progress of life. It is not to be ascribed to <br />
evil habit, or evil example. Evil habits are formed by evil doing; <br />
and evil doing would not be, if there were no evil propensity. Evil <br />
example would not everywhere exist, if human nature were not <br />
everywhere corrupt; and the tendency to follow evil example would not <br />
be so common, and so much to be guarded against, if it were not <br />
natural to man. The Scriptures clearly teach this doctrine. "Behold, <br />
I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me."[16] <br />
The psalmist did not mean to charge his mother with crime in these <br />
his humble confessions, but manifestly designs them to be an <br />
acknowledgment that his depravity was in-woven in his nature, <br />
and bore date from the very origin of his being. The Saviour taught, <br />
that which is born of the flesh, is flesh.[17] The term flesh, which <br />
is here opposed to spirit, signifies, as it does in other places, our <br />
depraved nature. It traces human depravity up to our very birth.<br />
<br />
Dirty Mary : So?<br />
<br />
Captain Dagg : In concluding this brief inquiry into the origin of <br />
the Bible, we may admire and adore the wonderful providence of God, <br />
which has made his enemies the preservers and witnesses of his <br />
revelation. The Jews, who killed the prophets and crucified the Son <br />
of God himself, have preserved and transmitted the Scriptures of the <br />
Old Testament, and are now witnesses to the world of its divine <br />
origin, and the truth of its prophecies. The Roman Catholic Church, <br />
the great Antichrist, or man of sin, drunk with the blood of <br />
the saints, has transmitted to us the Scriptures of the New <br />
Testament, and now gives, in the same two-fold manner, its testimony <br />
to this part of the Sacred Volume. <br />
<br />
Dirty Mary : I see. (Goes to office, turns on computer and starts <br />
cruising the message boards. Sees following message: "Dear Christian<br />
friend, my Hebrew/English dictionary translates "almah" as "young <br />
women". Of course, it is a 1997 dictionary so it could be out of date <br />
and one of my fellow congregates at Temple Beth I Hear You Calling <br />
owns stock in the publishing company so there could be some bias in <br />
favor of the Jews. Anyway, this is all just my opinion, I could be <br />
wrong. Sincerely, JoeWallack." <br />
<br />
Dirty Mary flies off into a rage determined to find JoeWallack and<br />
bring him to justice for his blasphemy of the Holy Spirit.)<br />
<br />
Collage of Dirty Mary combing the streets trying to find JoeWallack.<br />
<br />
New Orleans - knocks on door of "Just Sleezing Through Motel". Shows<br />
post to Jimmy Swaggert. Swaggert shakes his head "no".<br />
<br />
Airplane - sits down next to Reverend Schuler who is bound and gagged.<br />
Shows post and removes gag. Schuler shrieks at the top of his<br />
lungs, "I want a soufflé!!!". Covers ears and puts gag back on <br />
Schuler.<br />
<br />
Rome - ushered into small, dark backroom of Vatican where Pope is<br />
playing poker with some Bishops. Shows post to Pope who<br />
takes a quick glance, gives an even quicker "no" shake and<br />
looks at hand which contains three kings (all hearts). Puts<br />
hand in pocket which comes up empty. Takes off crucifix<br />
around neck and throws it into pot.<br />
<br />
A dejected Dirty Mary walks back to office when he notices that Temple<br />
Beth I Hear You Calling is located next door to his office building. <br />
Further, he sees a young man walking out holding a prayer book in one <br />
hand and "Groucho" glasses in the other.<br />
<br />
Dirty Mary : (With menacing sneer). You JoeWallack? (JoeWallack <br />
freezes, then puts on Groucho glasses and tries to get away. Dirty <br />
Mary closes the distance like O.J. Simpson during a "blackout" while <br />
JoeWallack takes two steps and then trips over his own feet. Dirty <br />
Mary takes out large Bible, cocks it in arm and aims it threateningly <br />
at JoeWallack's head.) I know what yer thinking Pagan. Just how many <br />
gods are there in Christianity, five or six? There's the Father, the<br />
Son, the Holy Spirit, Satan, the Counselor and if Jesus died but was <br />
resurrected and will return, should he be counted twice? To tell you <br />
the truth I kind of lost track myself during two thousand years of <br />
theological excitement, changes inspired by the Holy Spirit and <br />
redactions. But seeing as Christianity is the most powerful religion <br />
in the world and will blow your soul clean off if I'm right and <br />
you're wrong, you have to ask yourself one question. "Do I feel <br />
lucky?". WELL PAGAN, DO YA?! (Moves Bible closer to JoeWallack's head <br />
with increasingly menacing sneer.)<br />
<br />
JoeWallack : Okay, okay, don't throw the book at me. I accept Jesus as<br />
my personal lord and savior. (Dirty Mary slowly turns and starts to <br />
stoically walk away.) Wait a minute. I gots to know. Which version of <br />
the Bible is that?<br />
<br />
Dirty Mary: (sneer on face gradually changes to a grin). KJV, 1954. It<br />
has so many mistranslations even I don't use it anymore, but I was in <br />
a hurry this morning and it was all I could find on the way out. <br />
(Throws Bible into nearby dumpster and starts whistling to self).JoeWallackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10666074795187377455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586439398526451553.post-58975038578429647552016-06-11T08:32:00.001-07:002016-06-11T10:28:16.696-07:00Star Of David Wars<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1465658708509_1002" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">A short, short
time ago, 16-06-06 08:21:08 EST to be exact, in a galaxy very, very near
(actually our own galaxy I think), there is a Jewdie Knight named "Luke" Skyworker,
leader of the Rebellion, who fights to unite the galaxy under one religion. His
adversary is the evil emperor who believes that "All possess alike liberty of
conscience and immunities of citizenship. For happily the government of the
Empire, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance,
requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves
as good citizens."<br /><br />Our story starts out in a small deli on the lower east
side. Their prices are a little high, not too high, just a little high, their
food is ok, it's not great, what do I know?<br /><br />Be with us next week when
"Luke" meets the spiritual leader of the Rebellion, Yodayahwahwho?, and learns
about the "Verse".</span></span>JoeWallackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10666074795187377455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586439398526451553.post-60002220832476228162016-06-04T11:29:00.001-07:002016-06-11T17:54:21.374-07:00The Israeli/Arab Conflict - The Woodhead Commission - 1938<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<h2>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></h2>
<h2>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1. Introduction of the Issue</b></span></h2>
<h2>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></h2>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://thenewporphyry.blogspot.com/2015/11/israel-before-british-mandate.html">Israel Before The British Mandate</a> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
question than, is if there has never been a country approximating Israel
that was a Muslim/Arab country, and the original usage of the word for a
geographical area "Palestine" by the British explicitly provided for a
Jewish State, than why are Arabs in Israel now and since the British
Mandate referred to as "Palestinians" as if they are the original
citizens of a country called "Palestine"?</span><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span> </b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://thenewporphyry.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-israeliarab-conflict-mcmahonhussein.html"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The Israeli/Arab Conflict - The McMahon–Hussein Correspondence - 1916</span></b> </a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">"</span></span><span style="font-size: large;">1. By allying with the British and helping to defeat the Ottomans, the Arabs did earn a national Arab State in the Middle East.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">2. The British promise/agreement to the
Arabs for an Arab State preceded any such agreement with the Jews for a
Jewish State in Israel. </span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">3. The British were clear that not all
of the Middle East would be an Arab State and never formally
communicated to the Arabs that Palestine would be part of an Arab
State.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">4. While there never has been an Arab
and or Muslim State approximating the area of Israel and under the
Ottomans there was no "Palestine" entity or governing area approximating
Israel, the British did use the name "Palestine" to refer to the area." </span><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://thenewporphyry.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-israeliarab-conflict-balfour.html">The Israeli/Arab Conflict - The Balfour Declaration - 1917</a> </span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"</span><span style="font-size: large;">Violent Arab rejection of The
Balfour Declaration of 1917 was the start of the Israeli/Arab conflict
which has continued to the present time. We will also see in subsequent
posts here that the position of the two sides regarding Jewish and Arab
states in Israel has not changed since 1917:<br />
<br />
Jewish position - Has always been in favor of and offered Two-State solution.<br />
<br />
Arab position - Has always opposed and rejected offer of Two-State solution.<b>"</b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://thenewporphyry.blogspot.com/2016/05/peel-commission.html">The Israeli/Arab Conflict - The Peel Commission - 1937</a> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Even though the Peel Plan was the first
specific partition plan it became the basis for all subsequent partition
plans. The Plan favored the Jewish side because of British financial
reasons and the thinking that the Jewish need for a State was much
greater than the Arab need. From an Arab standpoint the Plan was
unfavorable because they would receive the less developed land (even
though the Jews were responsible for most of the development), they
would receive proportionately less land based on relative populations
(even though this would benefit both sides from a budget standpoint),
most transfers would be of Arabs and they would not have an independent
State but become a part of Jordan. </span><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span><br />
</b></span><br />
<h2>
<span style="font-size: medium;"></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Violent Arab rejection of </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
Balfour Declaration of 1917 was the start of the Israeli/Arab conflict
which has continued to the present time and was the primary Arab reaction to The Peel Commission.</span></span></span></h2>
<h2>
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></h2>
<h2>
<span style="font-size: large;">2. Discussion</span></h2>
<h2>
<span style="font-size: large;"> </span></h2>
<h2>
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodhead_Commission">The Woodhead Commission - 1938</a></span></span></span></h2>
<h2>
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></h2>
<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">"</span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;">The <b>Woodhead Commission</b> (officially the <b>Palestine Partition Commission</b><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Report_1-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodhead_Commission#cite_note-Report-1">[1]</a></sup>) was a British technical commission established to propose "a detailed" partition scheme for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_Palestine" title="Mandatory Palestine">Mandatory Palestine</a>, including recommending the partition boundaries and examination of economic and financial aspects of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peel_Plan" title="Peel Plan">Peel Plan</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Mandated_Landscape_2-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodhead_Commission#cite_note-Mandated_Landscape-2">[2]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodhead_Commission#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The Commission was appointed at the end of February 1938 and
conducted its investigations from April to early August 1938. It
rejected the Peel Commission's plan mainly on the grounds that it
required a large transfer of Arabs, and considered two other plans. It
preferred a modification of the partition, which forms a satisfactory
basis of settlement, if the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> government accept "the very considerable financial liability involved,"<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-archive.jta.org_4-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodhead_Commission#cite_note-archive.jta.org-4">[4]</a></sup> that balances the Arab state budget.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-WoodheadReport1938_5-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodhead_Commission#cite_note-WoodheadReport1938-5">[5]</a></sup> In this plan, the entire Galilee and a corridor from Jaffa to Jerusalem would remain under British mandate.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It published its conclusions on November 9, 1938, after which the
British government rejected the imminent partition of Palestine as
involving insurmountable "political, administrative and financial
difficulties".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-MajestyStatement_6-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodhead_Commission#cite_note-MajestyStatement-6">[6]</a></sup> Britain called for a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Conference_%281939%29" title="London Conference (1939)">conference in London</a> for all relevant parties to work out a compromise."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Commission developed three plans with the following the recommended plan:</span></span><br />
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<u><b><span style="font-size: large;">Key related points -</span></b></u><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">1)
Motivation - Britain rejected the Peel Plan because it required a large transfer of Arabs and the Arabs refused to negotiate the Plan. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">2)
Expectation - Britain was now increasingly aware of the difficulties involved in creating any plan which was acceptable to both sides and thus had much lower expectations now regarding being able to create any currently successful plan. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">3)
Limitation - Since estimated tax revenue was significantly less among Arabs, if significantly less Arabs were transferred to a Jewish state, then Britain would have to provide significant financial assistance to the Arab state. Britain's related problem was that the smaller the Jewish State, the fewer Arabs would have to be transferred but the fewer the Arabs transferred, the greater Britain's related financial problem. In order to try and accomplish this, the proposed Jewish state would be one fifth the size as that under the Peel Commission, in order to minimize Arab transfer, and this Jewish state would have a significant tax imposed in order to help balance the budget of the Arab state. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">4)
Development - Disproportionate current and future development of Israel by Jews, which benefited/would benefit all inhabitants, was no longer a key consideration.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><u><b>Jewish reaction -</b></u> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">To the previous </span><span style="font-size: large;">McMahon–Hussein Correspondence of 1916 promising the Arabs that most of Palestine would be an Arab state = None. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">To
the Balfour Declaration of 1917 = Acceptance. Hope was turned into
possibility and preparations were started for a Jewish State. The
emphasis was on the creation of a Jewish State with little thought as to
the extent of the Jewish State and whether there would also be a
Palestinian state in Israel. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">To
The Peel Commission of 1937 = Acceptance of the Plan in general but
rejection of the specific borders as too small. Created committee to
negotiate specific borders.</span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">To the Woodhead Commission of 1938 = Rejection. </span></span>Since the recommended Plan would give the Jews one fifth the area of the previous plan and they would be required to provide significant financial assistance to the Arab state which would be five times larger, the Plan was summarily rejected with no offer of negotiation. </span></span> </span><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Arab reaction -</b></span></u><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">To the previous </span><span style="font-size: large;">McMahon–Hussein Correspondence of 1916 promising the Arabs that most of Palestine would be an Arab state =</span><b> </b>Acceptance.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">To
the Balfour Declaration of 1917 = Rejection. The Arabs were clear that
not only would they reject the creation of any Jewish state in Israel
but they would be violently opposed. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">To
The Peel Commission of 1937 = Rejection. The primary specific complaint
was that it would give the Jews the best land. The Arabs rejected the
granting of any land to the Jews under any form of administration and
demanded an end to Jewish immigration. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">To the Woodhead Commission of 1938 = Ignored. The Woodhead Commission spent three months in Israel, had fifty-five evidence receiving meetings, and no Arabs participated. This even though the proposed Arab state would be five times larger than the Jewish state and receive significant financial assistance from the Jewish state. If instead of having simply a demand that there be no Jewish State the Arab position had been to just minimize the Jewish state and maximize the Arab one, historically, this would have been the best opportunity for the Arabs to do so.</span></span><br />
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<h2>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>3. Conclusion</b></span></h2>
<h2>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></h2>
<span style="font-size: large;">Because the predecessor Plan, The Peel Commission, was accepted in principle by the Jews but not only rejected by the Arabs but created an Arab position of refusing to accept the creation of any Jewish state, Britain tried to create a new Partition Plan which would be much more favorable to the Arabs. The Peel Commission Plan was much more favorable to the Arabs as they would have an independent Palestinian state for Arabs, Jews would be required to contribute substantially to this Arab state and the Jewish state would be one fifth the size of the Palestinian state. As a result though, the Arab position did not change. They would not accept and would violently oppose the creation of any Jewish state.<br /><b> </b></span><br />
<h2>
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Violent Arab rejection of </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
Balfour Declaration of 1917 was the start of the Israeli/Arab conflict
which has continued to the present time and was the primary Arab
reaction to The Woodhead Commission. We will also see in subsequent
posts here that the position of the two sides regarding Jewish and Arab
states in Israel has not changed since 1917:</span></span></span></h2>
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jewish position - Has always been in favor of and offered Two-State solution.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Arab position - Has always opposed and rejected offer of Two-State solution. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">In
hindsight, the greatest tragedy regarding the failure of a Two-State
solution was not that the Arabs still don't have a related State but
that 6,000,000 Jews were murdered by a Country with the same main
religion as Britain in a Continent with the same religion because there
was no Jewish State at the time. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Critics
of Israel will try to demonize Israel by posturing and only looking at
The Jews/Zionists/Israel's supposed eternal goal of wanting it all. But
we need to distinguish between wanting and <i><b>accepting</b></i>. It's
normal to want more than you are willing to accept but in negotiations
what is most important is what you are willing to accept. And that is
the difference between Israel and the Arabs and has always been the
difference. Regardless of what both sides supposedly want, Israel has
always been willing to accept a two-State solution and the Arabs have
not. </span></span><br />
<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span> </span><br />
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Continued from <a href="http://thenewporphyry.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-strange-chapter-of-dr-jewkyll-and.html">The Strange Chapter Of Dr. Jewkyll And Mr. Hymn </a><br />
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<b>Day 1</b><br />
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Dear Diary, this morning I read Isaiah Chapter 53 as planned to see <br />
if I would start to develop tendencies towards Christian beliefs as <br />
Christians claim that it is the best evidence for the truth of <br />
Christianity. But after I read it and then looked at the surrounding <br />
chapters of Isaiah it was clear to me that the nation of Israel was <br />
being described and not Jesus. I next looked at the rest of Isaiah <br />
and couldn't find any support for the Christian interpretation that <br />
Isaiah 53 describes the vicarious atonement of Jesus. Finally, <br />
skimming through the rest of the Tanakh I can see that this type of <br />
human sacrifice is expressly prohibited and condemned as a Pagan <br />
ritual so I really don't understand how the Christians can view <br />
Chapter 53 as they do. I've decided that tomorrow I will confine <br />
myself to reading Chapter 53 alone so I've removed Isaiah from my <br />
Tanakh and put the rest of the Tanakh in my safety deposit box. That <br />
way I can focus on Chapter 53 just in case I missed something during <br />
the first look through. No unusual behaviour noted. I had been <br />
beating my computer chess program regularly at level 13 and was ready <br />
to move up a level but tonight I could only manage a draw. Probably <br />
just because I'm tired due to the experiment. I'll go to bed earlier <br />
tonight.<br />
<br />
Flipping channels, I accidently saw Donald Trump tonight, PT Von<br />
Clownstick! What a buffoon. I removed Faux News from my list of<br />
channels long ago and thought that was the only place you could still<br />
see Clownstick. Anyway, I could only stand a few seconds of him.<br />
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Dr. Henry Jewkyll<b> </b>JoeWallackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10666074795187377455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586439398526451553.post-61938592480353183672016-05-25T08:42:00.002-07:002016-05-28T14:31:28.765-07:00The Israeli/Arab Conflict - The Peel Commission - 1937<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<h2>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1. Introduction of the Issue</b></span></h2>
<h2>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></h2>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://thenewporphyry.blogspot.com/2015/11/israel-before-british-mandate.html">Israel Before The British Mandate</a> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
question than, is if there has never been a country approximating Israel
that was a Muslim/Arab country, and the original usage of the word for a
geographical area "Palestine" by the British explicitly provided for a
Jewish State, than why are Arabs in Israel now and since the British
Mandate referred to as "Palestinians" as if they are the original
citizens of a country called "Palestine"?</span><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span> </b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://thenewporphyry.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-israeliarab-conflict-mcmahonhussein.html"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The Israeli/Arab Conflict - The McMahon–Hussein Correspondence - 1916</span></b> </a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">"</span></span><span style="font-size: large;">1. By allying with the British and helping to defeat the Ottomans, the Arabs did earn a national Arab State in the Middle East.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">2. The British promise/agreement to the
Arabs for an Arab State preceded any such agreement with the Jews for a
Jewish State in Israel. </span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">3. The British were clear that not all
of the Middle East would be an Arab State and never formally
communicated to the Arabs that Palestine would be part of an Arab
State.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">4. While there never has been an Arab
and or Muslim State approximating the area of Israel and under the
Ottomans there was no "Palestine" entity or governing area approximating
Israel, the British did use the name "Palestine" to refer to the area." </span><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://thenewporphyry.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-israeliarab-conflict-balfour.html">The Israeli/Arab Conflict - The Balfour Declaration - 1917</a> </span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"</span><span style="font-size: large;">Violent Arab rejection of The
Balfour Declaration of 1917 was the start of the Israeli/Arab conflict
which has continued to the present time. We will also see in subsequent
posts here that the position of the two sides regarding Jewish and Arab
states in Israel has not changed since 1917:<br />
<br />
Jewish position - Has always been in favor of and offered Two-State solution.<br />
<br />
Arab position - Has always opposed and rejected offer of Two-State solution.<b>"</b></span><br />
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<h2>
<span style="font-size: large;">2. Discussion</span></h2>
<h2>
<span style="font-size: large;"> </span></h2>
<h2>
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peel_Commission">The Peel Commission - 1937</a> </span></h2>
<h2>
<span style="font-size: large;"> </span></h2>
<span style="font-size: large;">"</span><span style="font-size: large;">The <b>Peel Commission</b>, formally known as the <b>Palestine Royal Commission</b>, was a British <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Commission" title="Royal Commission">Royal Commission</a> of Inquiry, headed by <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wellesley_Peel,_1st_Earl_Peel" title="William Wellesley Peel, 1st Earl Peel">Lord Peel</a>, appointed in 1936 to investigate the causes of unrest in <a class="new" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_League_of_Nations_Mandate_for_Palestine_administered_by_Britain&action=edit&redlink=1" title="The League of Nations Mandate for Palestine administered by Britain (page does not exist)">The League of Nations Mandate for Palestine administered by Britain</a> following the six-month-long <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_general_strike" title="Palestinian general strike">Arab general strike in Mandatory Palestine</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">On July 7, 1937, the commission published a report that, for the
first time, stated that the Mandate had become unworkable and
recommended partition.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-avalon_1-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peel_Commission#cite_note-avalon-1">[1]</a></sup> British cabinet endorsed the Partition plan in principle, but requested more information.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Mandated_Landscape_2-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peel_Commission#cite_note-Mandated_Landscape-2">[2]"</a></sup></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Mandated_Landscape_2-0">The Partition was per the following map with the Jewish side bordered in red:</sup></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"A Treaty system based on the Iraqi-Syrian precedent, proposed: Permanent mandates for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a> area and "corridor" stretching to the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean" title="Mediterranean">Mediterranean</a> coast at <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffa,_Israel" title="Jaffa, Israel">Jaffa</a>—and
the land under its authority (and accordingly, the transfer of both
Arab and Jewish populations) be apportioned between an Arab and Jewish
state. The Jewish side was to receive a territorially smaller portion in
the mid-west and north, from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Carmel" title="Mount Carmel">Mount Carmel</a> to south of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be%27er_Tuvia" title="Be'er Tuvia">Be'er Tuvia</a>, as well as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jezreel_Valley" title="Jezreel Valley">Jezreel Valley</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galilee" title="Galilee">Galilee</a>, while the Arab state linked with Trans-Jordan was to receive territory in the south and mid-east which included <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judea" title="Judea">Judea</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaria" title="Samaria">Samaria</a>, and the sizable <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negev" title="Negev">Negev desert</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-PeelSummary_18-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peel_Commission#cite_note-PeelSummary-18">[18]</a>"</sup></span><br />
<br />
<u><b><span style="font-size: large;">Key related points -</span></b></u><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">1) Motivation - Britain decided that the current Mandate was not sustainable because Britain could not keep the peace. Primarily because of Arab violence and protest.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">2) Expectation - Britain's expectation was unclear because The Peel Commission Plan was a defensive plan with Britain feeling forced to do what it did not want to do and was not ready to do.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">3) Limitation - The Arab portion would not be an independent State but would become a part of Jordan. The Jewish State would have to pay a tax to help support the Arab side in order to relieve Britain of the burden. There would be a significant transfer of Arabs to the Arab portion and no specific plan to improve irrigation for the Arab side. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">4) Development - The Jewish side was deliberately given a higher ratio of land in recognition that Jews provided more tax revenue per capita which would reduce/eliminate Britain's related financial support obligation. Britain recognized that Jewish immigration had significantly improved living conditions in Israel for everyone.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><u><b>Jewish reaction -</b></u> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">To the previous </span><span style="font-size: large;">McMahon–Hussein Correspondence of 1916 promising the Arabs that most of Palestine would be an Arab state = None. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">To
the Balfour Declaration of 1917 = Acceptance. Hope was turned into
possibility and preparations were started for a Jewish State. The
emphasis was on the creation of a Jewish State with little thought as to
the extent of the Jewish State and whether there would also be a
Palestinian state in Israel. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">To The Peel Commission of 1937 = Acceptance of the Plan in general but rejection of the specific borders as too small. Created committee to negotiate specific borders.</span></span> </span><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<u><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Arab reaction -</b></span></u><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">To the previous </span><span style="font-size: large;">McMahon–Hussein Correspondence of 1916 promising the Arabs that most of Palestine would be an Arab state =</span><b> </b>Acceptance.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">To
the Balfour Declaration of 1917 = Rejection. The Arabs were clear that
not only would they reject the creation of any Jewish state in Israel
but they would be violently opposed. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">To The Peel Commission of 1937 = Rejection. The primary specific complaint was that it would give the Jews the best land. The Arabs rejected the granting of any land to the Jews under any form of administration and demanded an end to Jewish immigration. </span></span><br />
<br />
<h2>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>3. Conclusion</b></span></h2>
<h2>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></h2>
<span style="font-size: large;">Even though the Peel Plan was the first specific partition plan it became the basis for all subsequent partition plans. The Plan favored the Jewish side because of British financial reasons and the thinking that the Jewish need for a State was much greater than the Arab need. From an Arab standpoint the Plan was unfavorable because they would receive the less developed land (even though the Jews were responsible for most of the development), they would receive proportionately less land based on relative populations (even though this would benefit both sides from a budget standpoint), most transfers would be of Arabs and they would not have an independent State but become a part of Jordan. <b> </b></span><br />
<h2>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b></b></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Violent Arab rejection of </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
Balfour Declaration of 1917 was the start of the Israeli/Arab conflict
which has continued to the present time and was the primary Arab reaction to The Peel Commission. We will also see in subsequent
posts here that the position of the two sides regarding Jewish and Arab
states in Israel has not changed since 1917:</span></span></span></h2>
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jewish position - Has always been in favor of and offered Two-State solution.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Arab position - Has always opposed and rejected offer of Two-State solution. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">In hindsight, the greatest tragedy regarding the failure of a Two-State solution was not that the Arabs still don't have a related State but that 6,000,000 Jews were murdered by a Country with the same main religion as Britain in a Continent with the same religion because there was no Jewish State at the time. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Critics of Israel will try to demonize Israel by posturing and only looking at The Jews/Zionists/Israel's supposed eternal goal of wanting it all. But we need to distinguish between wanting and <i><b>accepting</b></i>. It's normal to want more than you are willing to accept but in negotiations what is most important is what you are willing to accept. And that is the difference between Israel and the Arabs and has always been the difference. Regardless of what both sides supposedly want, Israel has always been willing to accept a two-State solution and the Arabs have not. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Mandated_Landscape_2-0"> </sup></span> <span style="font-size: large;"> </span>JoeWallackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10666074795187377455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586439398526451553.post-48816050458294299912016-05-21T07:43:00.003-07:002016-05-21T07:58:25.531-07:00The Strange Chapter Of Dr. Jewkyll And Mr. Hymn<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My name is Dr. Henry Jewkyll. I’m a tenured professor of psychiatry
at a University. “Tenured” means that basically I’m retired
except that I still receive a monthly paycheck. I’ve always been
fascinated by the effect that ancient religious writings have on the behavior
of many people. There seems to be an intrinsic human desire to believe
that the older a writing is the more credibility it has. I can easily
understand how a person could come to believe that an ancient religious
writing is the absolute truth if they have been raised in a culture which
has always taught them to believe that. But what if a person is exposed
to an ancient religious writing which is different than the culture they
were brought up in? Which is stronger? The religion of one’s upbringing
or later, exclusive exposure to a different religion’s ancient writings?
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I’ve decided to conduct an experiment to determine which is stronger
and because I’ve had a lot of free time since I became tenured I
will be the subject of the experiment. My own upbringing is Reform Judaism
where the Bible is seen as mainly figurative and designed to teach moral
and ethical lessons. I will be gradually exposing myself to ancient Christian
religious writings. Every morning I will select a specific Christian writing
to read later. I will then temporarily self-hypnotize myself into believing
that I had no religious upbringing and currently have no religious views
of any kind. After hypnosis I will read the selected Christian writing
and at the end of the day I will note in a diary any changes in my behavior.
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The Christians claim that Isaiah Chapter 53 is the best evidence of the
truth of Christianity so that will be the first writing I select for reading.
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