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Sep 2, 2011

Anne Frank tree lives again

 

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Some of His Best Friends Are Jewish: The Saga of a Holocaust Revisionist By Nathaniel Popper. Link: http://tinyurl.com/3v6m88c

...an Israeli lawyer has filed a class-action lawsuit against former President Jimmy Carter, seeking $5 million in damages because his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" allegedly defamed Israel. Link: http://tinyurl.com/3pltqg2

"...when you have laws against questioning the Holocaust narrative, you are screaming at the other person to stop thinking!!!" ---Mike Santomauro. *Anthony Lawson's Holocaust Video "were the Germans so stupid"... Link: http://tinyurl.com/44nsrco

An anti-Semite condemns people for being Jews, I am not an anti-Semite.--Mike Santomauro. Link: http://tinyurl.com/42z9p8o

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Leaked US Documents Confirm Dangers of Israeli Organized Crime

 


Leaked US Documents Confirm Dangers of Israeli Organized Crime 
Ali Abunimah 
http://electronicintifada.net/blog/ali-abunimah/special-treatment-gives-israeli-mobsters-free-access-us-soil-wikileaks 

Known Israeli organized crime bosses are able to travel feely to the United States, unlike counterparts from Italy, China and Central America, because the State Department has failed to apply US law to them ... This revelation comes in a May 2009 cable from the US Embassy in Tel Aviv titled "Israel: A Promised Land for Organized Crime?" The cable, which was released by Wikileaks on August 26, details the growing alarm of American officials that "Organized crime in Israel now has global reach, with direct impact inside the United States." Israel, according to the cable, is a world center of money laundering, drug trafficking, and trafficking in women for prostitution; and Israeli crime families operate international criminal syndicates involved in gambling, credit card and technology fraud spanning the globe. 



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Fun stuff to read, tell and watch:

Now FREE to watch all 91 minutes: "Defamation," from Israeli filmmaker Yoav Shamir. LINK: http://tinyurl.com/3rvhdvc

Some of His Best Friends Are Jewish: The Saga of a Holocaust Revisionist By Nathaniel Popper. Link: http://tinyurl.com/3v6m88c

...an Israeli lawyer has filed a class-action lawsuit against former President Jimmy Carter, seeking $5 million in damages because his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" allegedly defamed Israel. Link: http://tinyurl.com/3pltqg2

"...when you have laws against questioning the Holocaust narrative, you are screaming at the other person to stop thinking!!!" ---Mike Santomauro. *Anthony Lawson's Holocaust Video "were the Germans so stupid"... Link: http://tinyurl.com/44nsrco

An anti-Semite condemns people for being Jews, I am not an anti-Semite.--Mike Santomauro. Link: http://tinyurl.com/42z9p8o

Start reading DEBATING THE HOLOCAUST in under a minute: http://tinyurl.com/3f8h874

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Jennifer Levin's Mother Remembers 'Preppy Murder' Case

 


Jennifer Levin's Mother Remembers 'Preppy Murder' Case

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) -- Twenty-five years ago, New Yorkers were shocked by the Central Park killing of 18-year-old Jennifer Levin. The "preppy murder" case landed Robert Chambers in prison after a novel defense that said it was an accident.

"She died young and beautiful. She just didn't die easily," she told CBS 2's John Slattery.

Jennifer was about to go to college, with dreams of becoming a fashion designer. Robert Chambers was 19. He'd attended East Side prep schools and spent a semester at Boston University until he got into trouble.

He just broken up with his girlfriend, and walked with Jennifer Levin from an East Side bar over to Central Park - the last she was seen alive.

On the morning of August 25, 1986, a bicyclist found Jennifer Levin's body, bruised and half-naked. She'd been strangled to death.

Chambers later took a defense of "rough sex."

"His story was rough sex and everything else. He tried to make it sound like an accident and he didn't mean it. And yet, when it was finished, he walked away and left her lifeless body in the park and that was it," said Levin.

After 12 days of deliberation, Chambers accepted a plea bargain of manslaughter and 15 years. He served the entire term, due to bad behavior.

In 2004, Chambers was arrested for drugs and pleaded to a lesser charge, serving 100 days.

In 2007, he and a longtime girl friend were arrested for running a cocaine operation out of her East Side apartment. Chambers pleaded and got 19 years.

"He got more time in jail for selling drugs than he got for murdering my daughter, which is pretty amazing," Levin said.

Author Linda Fairstein, who prosecuted the case, said Chambers' problem has always been alcohol and drugs.

"He wasted two lives. He killed Jennifer... He went to prison for 15 years, and when he got out, he started again."

"He's done so much damage to my family and I'm sure to his family too, that I try not to think about him at all. I just hope that he never gets back on the street," Levin said.

Chambers, now 44, is still serving time.

For a mother who says this time of year is always tough, her daughter is nearby in a picture, frozen in time.

Chambers is currently serving time for the latest drug conviction at a correctional facility outside Buffalo.
He could be eligible for a parole hearing in November 2023.

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Sources of Christian Doubt - the Second Coming deferred

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Antisemitism and Jewish Survival

 

 


By David Turner on

Sources of Christian Doubt: the Second Coming deferred


Stereotype and prejudice are the eternal message and legacy of those documents most holy to all Christendom. The fountainhead of antisemitism, their literal message remains mostly hidden and relatively benign: until social stress again achieves critical mass.

 

To my audience: Issues discussed in my writings will almost certainly offend some, hurt others. It is not my intention to cause such feelings among my Christian readers, but to explore what lies below the surface of modern antisemitism. Antisemitism is an outgrowth of a long tradition of Christian theological anti-Judaism. As a constant presence in what is referred to as the Diaspora, antisemitism tends to intensify fed by social uncertainty and economic stress. As Europe between the wars illustrates, incipient Jew-hatred can quickly transform into a lethal form resulting in a murderous assault on millions of otherwise innocent human beings whose only crime was to have been born Jewish; or to be told that despite several generations of Christian heritage, a single apostate Jewish grandparent was sufficient to impose a sentence of death. My purpose is to provide warning; my audience those who were past, and will again provide, the victims for the next confluence of social stressors resulting in our next Holocaust.

 

In my most recent submission, Christian Insecurity and the Jewish Problem, Part 2: Quest for Identity, I questioned why Augustine suggested that Jesus' messiahship would be in doubt, why when he wrote, "by their own Scriptures [Jewish survival is] a testimony to us that we have not forged the prophecies about Christ" (The City of God, Book 18, Chapter 46)he used the word, "forged" regarding Christian claims on behalf of Jesus? Of course he might have been addressing the Jews, an argument intended to convince a hypothetical Jewish audience. But his overall argument is clearly directed at a Christian, not Jewish audience, and so the word, "forged," has to be taken at face value: it is an expression of doubt in those same Jewish scriptures claimed as foretelling the salvational messiah's future appearance.

 

There is no way of proving or disproving "history" based on belief. Yet rational believers, such as Augustine in the fourth century, and such Christian theologians of the 20th and 21st centuries as Nicholls, Carroll and Reuther represent, if not doubt in the existence of Jesus, at least question the value of early church documents as historical in representing the man and his mission. What follows is a discussion of one major source of a malaise undercutting Christian confidence, occasionally surfacing over the centuries, an unease that Nicholls so painfully describes as, "...the very presence of the Jewish people in the world ... could not fail to cause profound and gnawing anxiety [for Christianity which]...usually leads to hostility." It is this anxiety that is my true subject of interest.

 

Christianity is a religion of acceptance, forgiveness and love. So how explain the disconnect between that self-perception and the Holocaust? What is the source of that persistent historical sense of disquiet that resulted in the perpetuation of an early conflict between mother and daughter that has proven lethal to the parent at the hands of the child?

 

Be patient therefore, brethren, until the parousia. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it until it receives the early and the late rain. You also be patient, establish your hearts, for the parousia of the Lord has drawn near. — James 5:7–8

 

And do this, understanding the present time: The hour has already come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. 12 The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. Romans 13:11

 

 

Saint Paul, Byzantine ivory relief, 6th Рearly 7th century (Mus̩e de Cluny)

 

Paul and Parousia: Expectation of the Parousia, the return of Jesus and the installation of the thousand year Kingdom of God has been a principal, perhaps the principal of Christian faith since its emergence from Judaism two millennia ago. That sense of disquiet that began with St. Paul continues in the present. The accuracy of the following quote is disputed, but the intent is clear, a long-held conviction and hope:

 

Is Jesus going to return in glory by the year 2000? According to Fr. Gobbi's locutions, the Blessed Mother says he is: "I [Mary] confirm to you that, by the great jubilee of the year two thousand… the return of Jesus in glory, to establish his Reign in the world."

 

Over the course of his ministry Paul's expectation of the Parousia evolved from imminent to deferred. For example, in 1 Corinthians 7:29 he writes:

 

What I mean, brothers and sisters, is that the time is short… For this world in its present form is passing away.

 

Here stated his expectation is that Jesus' return is near at hand. But Jesus did not return and Paul, described by Alan Segal in his biography, Paul the Convert, as himself in dread of dying, was continually forced to put off the date of personal and collective salvation. His reassurance to his communities of converts was as much self-assuring, consolation to himself. In II Thessalonians 2:1, expectations of immediate parousia dashed, he explains that parousia is delayed indefinitely, until Satan is revealed:  

 

Now concerning the parousia of our Lord Jesus Christ and our assembling to meet him, we beg you not to be quickly shaken in mind or excited, either by spirit or by word, or by letter purporting to be from us, to the effect that the Day of the Lord has come. Let no one deceive you in any way; for that Day will not come unless the apostasy comes first and then the man of lawlessness is revealed…"

 

For a religion a mainstay of which is the Parousia and "eternal life in Christ," I suggest that parousia deferred is faith uncertain. Along with the fact that those to whom Jesus was supposedly sent, the Jewish people, failed to accept him; that somehow, even following Jesus mission of salvation and the replacement of Judaism by gentile Christianity Jews and Judaism continued to exist alongside Christianity: perhaps not an issue for the general and unreflective population of believers, for some influential Christian thinkers, such as Augustine, such questions demanded answers. And the very need for "answers" illustrates primal Christian insecurity.  

 

And while the presence of influential Christian thinkers questioning Christian roots points at the sources, it is the overwhelming body of naïve faithful, those for whom the writings of Paul and the gospels are not questioned but are the "inerrant Word of God;" those who accept unreflectively that, as described in Matthew, the Jews hated Jesus to the point of demanding his death; that, as they appear in John Jews are the children of Satan, in league with the antichrist: Christ-killers and Christian haters.

 

Stereotype and prejudice are the eternal message and legacy of those documents most holy to all Christendom. The fountainhead of antisemitism, their literal message remains mostly hidden and relatively benign: until social stress again achieves critical mass.

 

Other writings in this Series:

 

1. Christian Insecurity and the Jewish Problem, Part 2: Quest for Identity

2. Christian Insecurity and the Jewish Problem: The Introduction

3. Martin Luther (1483 - 1546): Theologian of the Holocaust

4. 'Purity of Blood' and The Spanish Inquisition (1492)

Polish-Jewish sociologist compares West Bank separation fence to Warsaw Ghetto walls

Polish-Jewish sociologist compares West Bank separation fence to Warsaw Ghetto walls

 

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/polish-jewish-sociologist-compares-west-bank-separation-fence-to-warsaw-ghetto-walls-1.381828

 

·         Published 01:05 01.09.11

·         Latest update 01:05 01.09.11

Polish-Jewish sociologist compares West Bank separation fence to Warsaw Ghetto walls

Sygmunt Bauman says Israel 'terrified of peace' and 'taking advantage of the Holocaust to legitimize unconscionable acts,' in interview with Polish weekly 'Politika.'

By Roman Frister

 

Sygmunt Bauman, the Jewish sociologist and one of the greatest philosophers of our time, castigated Israel harshly this week, saying it did not want peace and was afraid of it.

Bauman said Israel was "taking advantage of the Holocaust to legitimize unconscionable acts," and compared the separation fence to the walls surrounding the Warsaw Ghetto, in which hundreds of thousands of Jews perished in the Holocaust.

Beskrivning: Separation fence in Bethelehem

Meta-graffiti of a walled Christmas tree on the separation fence in Bethelehem.

Photo by: Olivier Fitoussi

 

In a long interview to the important Polish weekly "Politika," Bauman said Israel was not interested in peace. "Israeli politicians are terrified of peace, they tremble with fear from the possibility of peace, because without war and without general mobilization they don't know how to live," he said.

"Israel does not see the missiles falling on communities along the border as a bad thing. On the contrary, they would be worried and even alarmed were it not for this fire," the Polish-British sociologist said.

Bauman, who lived in Israel briefly, referred to an article he wrote in Haaretz, in which he expressed concern that the younger Israeli generation was being raised on the understanding that the state of war and military alert were natural and unavoidable.

The Polish public has not heard such a diatribe against Zionism and Israel since the anti-Semitic propaganda campaign the Communist regime conducted after the Six-Day War.

Not surprisingly, leading Jewish figures came out against it.

"Politika" published the criticism alongside the letter of Israeli ambassador in Warsaw Zvi Bar, who rejected Bauman's "half truths" and "groundless generalizations."

Bauman, who was born in Poland in 1925, has been living in England since he left his lecturer's chair at Tel Aviv University in 1971.

He is seen as one of the greatest sociologists of our time and has dealt extensively with the ties between the Holocaust and modernism, globalization and consumer culture in the postmodern era.

Some of his books have been translated into Hebrew, including "Liquid Love."

His grandson is attorney Michael Sfard, of the human rights group Yesh Din.

UK wax museum puts guard next to Hitler ... JPost - International

 

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Too many Nazi salutes:



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Some of His Best Friends Are Jewish: The Saga of a Holocaust Revisionist By Nathaniel Popper. Link: http://tinyurl.com/3v6m88c

...an Israeli lawyer has filed a class-action lawsuit against former President Jimmy Carter, seeking $5 million in damages because his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" allegedly defamed Israel. Link: http://tinyurl.com/3pltqg2

"...when you have laws against questioning the Holocaust narrative, you are screaming at the other person to stop thinking!!!" ---Mike Santomauro. *Anthony Lawson's Holocaust Video "were the Germans so stupid"... Link: http://tinyurl.com/44nsrco

An anti-Semite condemns people for being Jews, I am not an anti-Semite.--Mike Santomauro. Link: http://tinyurl.com/42z9p8o

Start reading DEBATING THE HOLOCAUST in under a minute: http://tinyurl.com/3f8h874

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Gilad Atzmon: The End of Innocence Revisited

 

1. Gilad Atzmon: The End of Innocence Revisited 

Introduction: The following piece is a commentary I wrote and circulated amongst friends on the 15th  of  September  2001, just four days after9/11.   At the time I didn't regard myself as a writer. I was a jazz musician preparing for the publication of my debut  novel.

During that time I didn't know a single editor, journal or media outlet. My commentary was circulated on the net via emails.  Eventually, nine months later, it was published by Counterpunch.  This commentary was, in fact, my first attempt to comment on world affairs, ethics and politics.

I am slightly embarrassed about some of my early formulations. I want to believe that I am a better writer now.  I am certainly more succinct and yet, I somehow managed to predict, already then, in September 2001,  that the fate of the west was doomed and the collapse of  Anglo-American strategy was inevitable. This paper is ten years old but its message may even be more devastating today.

 

The End of Innocence by Gilad Atzmon

15th September 2001

http://www.counterpunch.org/2002/08/03/the-end-of-innocence/

In the light of the tragedy and the devastating images from New York City, in the shadow of embarrassingly stupid remarks made by the major western 'free world' leaders and in the light of the call for a western jihad against a faceless enemy, I feel obliged to expose the lie that stands in the center of the current liberal democratic militant enthusiasm.

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...an Israeli lawyer has filed a class-action lawsuit against former President Jimmy Carter, seeking $5 million in damages because his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" allegedly defamed Israel. Link: http://tinyurl.com/3pltqg2

"...when you have laws against questioning the Holocaust narrative, you are screaming at the other person to stop thinking!!!" ---Mike Santomauro. *Anthony Lawson's Holocaust Video "were the Germans so stupid"... Link: http://tinyurl.com/44nsrco

An anti-Semite condemns people for being Jews, I am not an anti-Semite.--Mike Santomauro. Link: http://tinyurl.com/42z9p8o

Start reading DEBATING THE HOLOCAUST in under a minute: http://tinyurl.com/3f8h874

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