Monty Python on Anti Semitism


The punch line comes in the end, if you can take it...
You can basically get away with everything except 'anti Semitism'...
Atzmon writes on political matters, social issues, Jewish identity and culture. His papers are published on very many press outlets around the world. Here is just a short list of his recent publications: World News, Press Tv, Rebelion, The Daily Telegraph, Uprooted Palestinians, Veterans Today, Palestine Telegraph, Counterpunch, Dissident Voice, Aljazeera Magazine, Information Clearing House, Middle-East-Online, Palestine Chronicle, The People Voice, Redress, Shoa (The Palestinian Holocaust) , The Guardian, transcend and many more.
Jewish identity is tied up with some of the most difficult and contentious issues of today. The purpose in this book is to open many of these issues up for discussion. Since Israel defines itself openly as the ‘Jewish State’, we should ask what the notions of ’Judaism’, ‘Jewishness’, ‘Jewish culture’ and ‘Jewish ideology’ stand for. Gilad examines the tribal aspects embedded in Jewish secular discourse, both Zionist and anti Zionist; the ‘holocaust religion’; the meaning of ‘history’ and ‘time’ within the Jewish political discourse; the anti-Gentile ideologies entangled within different forms of secular Jewish political discourse and even within the Jewish left. He questions what it is that leads Diaspora Jews to identify themselves with Israel and affiliate with its politics. The devastating state of our world affairs raises an immediate demand for a conceptual shift in our intellectual and philosophical attitude towards politics, identity politics and history.
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The punch line comes in the end, if you can take it...
You can basically get away with everything except 'anti Semitism'...
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“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”
“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master — that’s all.”
Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass (1871)
The lexicon of Israel and its Western lobbyists constantly needs parsing to know just what is meant. Most glaringly is the term “settlers”, which suggests peaceful pioneers wishing to integrate with the locals. In Israel, the word “settlers” is a loaded term, for they are “aggressive squatters, half a million of them in over 100 illegal colonies — ugly blots on an otherwise lovely landscape ... who terrorise local villagers, vandalise their crops, pollute their land and harass their children,” as described by Stuart Littlewood. The Fourth Geneva Convention forbids that an occupying power transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.
By Gilad Atzmon
According to sources in Iran, a nuclear scientist was killed in Tehran today by a bomb placed on his car by a motorcyclist. It is very clear to most of us who stands behind these continuous attacks on Iran’s scientists and military personnel.
However, the discrepancy between Hebrew and English press reporting on the incident is pretty staggering and demands some deliberation.
While the Israeli English outlet Ynet reports on the incident in a pretty cold manner, it goes as far as reporting on “mysterious explosion in Iranian capital”, the Hebrew Yntet is happy to suggest that Israel is probably behind all those ‘mysterious attacks’.
The Hebrew publication ends its coverage of the story stating that yesterday Chief of Staff - Major General Benny Gantz, said that 2012 would be a “critical year for Iran”. he refered specifically to “continued pressure (on Iran) from the international community and the things that happen to them unnaturally". It doesn’t take a genius to gather that if General Ganz speaks about future “unnatural” events, he must be closely familiar with the details of such events!!!
Is it possible that America starts to think ideologically or even ethically?
Is it possible that the American people are tired of being the world's police force?
Is it possible that Americans are also tired of AIPAC?
I guess so...
In the ‘only Democracy in the Middle East’, Jewish Knesset Member Anastasia Michaeli was caught today on camera throwing water in the face of Palestinian Knesset Member Ghaleb Majadele. The violent incident took place during a Knesset's Education, Culture and Sports Committee meeting.
In the Jewish State, people like MK Michaeli are in charge of ‘education’ and ‘culture’. Its no wonder that Israel has become a criminal collective
- a poll taken at the time of Operation Cast Lead (January 4-6, 2009) revealed that 94% of the Jewish population strongly supported the murderous operation; 92% thought it had security benefits for Israel; 92% justified the air force strikes on Gaza.
We are clearly dealing with a very problematic continuum.
To watch video:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4173224,00.html
The Hasbara Version:
And the reality on the ground:
We learned today that Britain has sent its best warships to the Gulf
Britain's newest warship is heading to the Gulf for its first mission at a time of tensions over Iran's threat to close the strategic Strait of Hormuz, a key transport route for oil.
The Royal Navy's Type 45 destroyer HMS Daring, which has a "stealth" design to help avoid detection by radar, is to join other British ships in the region, the Ministry of Defence confirmed Saturday.
This fact shouldn’t take us by surprise considering the embarrassing fact that 80% of Britain’s ruling party’s MPs are members of the rabid Zionist 'Conservative Friends of Israel' (CFI).
How long is going to take before British people show signs of fatigue of their politicians and their institutional treacherous behaviour?
At least he is honest...
We kill them because we want their oil, not because we want to liberate anyone or to introduce democracy.
Just one year before the first Zionist Congress...