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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, RedressShoa (The Palestinian Holocaust) , The Guardian, transcend and many more.

Gilad Atzmon's New Book: The Wandering Who? A Study Of Jewish Identity Politics

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.

The book is available on Amazon.com  or Amazon.co.uk

Gilad Atzmon on HardTalk BBC Persia (english) from Gilad Atzmon on Vimeo.


Entries from November 1, 2012 - November 30, 2012

Thursday
Nov222012

The Bigger They Are The Harder They Fall

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that Israel has just suffered a historic defeat.

by Norman Finkelstein

Chanting victory slogans and shouting “the resistance has triumphed,”
jubilant residents flooded the streets of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday night
to express their joy over the Egyptian-brokered ceasefire deal, which came
into effect at 21:00 (1900 GMT), AFP reported.

One only had to watch the international news coverage.

BBC persisted in its typically awful reportage on the Israel-Palestine conflict during Israel’s latest rampage.  

But tonight it had to acknowledge that the people of Gaza were out in the streets celebrating.  

It desperately sought some “balance” by positing that “some people in Israel are probably also celebrating.”  

Fat chance.

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Thursday
Nov222012

Alan Dershowitz, Devil’s Advocate

By Gilad Atzmon

Ethnic cleansing advocate Alan Dershowitz is not at all happy.  He is devastated by the media and international community's failure to distinguish between the Israeli military and ‘Hamas terrorists’ (this is how he refers to Palestinian freedom fighters). Last week, Haaretz lent its pages to the Talmudic spin-meister – and I was delighted because Dershowitz’ arguments throw new light on the depths of Jewish ideological and political morbidity.

“As Hamas continues to target Israeli civilians in their homes, Israel continues to target terrorist leaders and other legitimate military targets.” It seems that Dershowitz has found the magic formula that distinguishes between the ‘Jew’ and the ‘Goy’ in this conflict. The Jew is always a ‘civilian’ who happens to be a ‘victim’, while the dozens of babies, children and women murdered in the last week by Israel, they must have been ‘terrorist leaders’.

Dershowitz argues that the Hamas policy is “designed to sow terror among the Israeli population.” This is a peculiar argument. Due to its limited means, Hamas is confined to the use of primitive rockets. If Hamas had cruise missiles at its disposal and still used them to target civilians, then  I would be the first to agree with Dershowitz and even support his argument. But the contrary is true: It is the IDF that possesses the most sophisticated weaponry and is capable of targeting military targets with precise, even astonishing accuracy. So, with that in mind, every Palestinian civilian casualty caused by the Jewish state must be counted as an Israeli attempt at massacre and therefore, nothing short of a vile war crime.

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Wednesday
Nov212012

Jewish Harmonious, Democratic, Peace Loving Beauty 

 

Wednesday
Nov212012

Do you really support Israel? 

Wednesday
Nov212012

Mohammed Omer - A Report From Gaza Under Siege


Gaza City—Casualties mount as the Israeli military continues to bomb the Gaza Strip. On Sunday Gaza’s health minister, Dr. Mofeed Makhlalati, said the death toll had risen to seventy-five killed and more than 680 injured. So far three Israelis have been killed as result of Palestinian rockets fired from Gaza.


Medical sources at Shifa Hospital say that 90 percent of the casualties are civilian. “We are human. We like life, and we would like to live life like other people,” Dr. Makhlalati said at Shifa on Sunday evening. Behind him, more bodies were being moved into the morgue.

In Gaza City, Israeli fighter jets fired four missiles at a sports stadium. In Rafah, at the southern end of the Gaza Strip on the Egyptian border, F-16s and unmanned drones fired nineteen guided missiles at the tunnel complexes, which are used to smuggle everything from petrol and bicycles to food and medicine. The tunnels have been the lifeline of the besieged Strip ever since Israel imposed its blockade in 2006, soon after Hamas won democratic elections in Palestine.

Another missile fell further north, claiming three members of the Fujo family, two of whom are children. Israel’s highly sophisticated missiles have taken out the electrical towers that provide power to Rafah from Egypt. One by one, vital supplies and services to the population are being destroyed. Commercial activity has all but ceased. Gas stations no longer have fuel. Other civilian targets have been bombed, including the office of the prime minister as well as several mosques and the police headquarters.

Sunday morning Israeli fighters targeted the media, bombing two well-known office buildings, Shawwa Hosari and Shorouq, which house most of the international media outlets, including Germany’s ARD, Britain’s Sky News, the Saudi-owned Al Arabiya, the Associated Press, Reuters, NBC, CNN and the Lebanon-based Al Quds TV. Eight journalists were injured; one cameraman lost his leg.

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Wednesday
Nov212012

Atzmon on Press TV: Israel is confused and so is America

"It is very clear to me that there are some forces in Israel that are pushing for a ground invasion and total distruction of  the Gaza people," he told Press TV's U.S. Desk in a phone interview on Tuesday.

"America is in a very confusing situation and it pays a heavy price for this involvement," Atzmon added.

 

Tuesday
Nov202012

Palestinian Resistance – The Political, Social and Human Right of Self-​Defense

By Lynda Brayer

Once again the bombs are fall­ing on the Gaza Strip, a stretch of ter­rit­ory excised from Palestine proper as a res­ult of con­tinu­ing illegal and ille­git­im­ate actions by Israel. In fact, Gaza has become a closed ghetto, first cut off from Palestine in viol­a­tion of the par­ti­tion plans and polit­ical pro­grams and then turned into a sealed ghetto, fol­low­ing the demo­cratic elec­tions which brought the Islamic Res­ist­ance Party ­­— Hamas — into power. Cat­egor­ized as a ter­ror­ist organ­iz­a­tion in the United States, with some of its lead­ing sup­port­ers there imprisoned for over twenty years for send­ing human­it­arian aid to Palestini­ans in Gaza, it can come as no sur­prise that the Israeli and West­ern media accuse Hamas for attack­ing Israel with rock­ets, rather than report­ing that Hamas sent off the rock­ets as a response to an Israeli attack!

This method of report­ing is part of con­tin­ued efforts of de-​legitimization of the Palestinian struggle for free­dom from the yoke of Zion­ist gen­o­cidal oppres­sion and viol­ence. Fur­ther­more, the con­dem­na­tions have not been accom­pan­ied by ref­er­ence to the his­tor­ical record: that the Zion­ist war, both cold and hot, against the Palestini­ans has not stopped for even one day since 1948, and that it went into relent­less high gear since 1967 and con­tin­ues unabated. This con­tinu­ous aggres­sion — admin­is­trat­ive and mil­it­ary — is never brought into the West­ern vis­ion or under­stand­ing, although a quick per­usal of the web­sites of the Palestine Cen­ter for Human Rights loc­ated in Gaza City, Mah­som Watch and Betselem provide chilling and detailed inform­a­tion of this con­tinu­ing quo­tidian warfare.

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Tuesday
Nov202012

Sharon the Truth Teller

By Gilad Atzmon

Gilad Sharon, son of Ariel Sharon, wrote in the Jerusalem Post that Israel should “Flatten all of Gaza.”

“There should be no electricity in Gaza, no gasoline or moving vehicles, nothing. Then they’d really call for a ceasefire,” he wrote. “We need to flatten entire neighbourhoods in Gaza. Flatten all of Gaza. The Americans didn’t stop with Hiroshima – the Japanese weren’t surrendering fast enough, so they hit Nagasaki, too.”

Many Israelis and even some Zionists are ‘outraged’  but the truth must be told – Sharon’s views are fully consistent with Zionism, Israeli thinking and some aspect of Jewish culture.

For example, Sharon’s call is fully consistent with some devastating Old Testament’s passages:

‘You will chase your enemies, and they shall fall by the sword before you. Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight; your enemies shall fall by the sword before you.’ Leviticus, 26:7–8

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Monday
Nov192012

For God's Sake

Here is the army of God's Chosen people

 

To Read the Great Nahida Izzat:

http://uprootedpalestinians.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/in-palestine-something-miraculous.html

Monday
Nov192012

Endorsement of the day - Gauden Sarasol on El Pais

 

http://lacomunidad.elpais.com/la-abadia-de-theleme/2012/11/8/la-identidad-errante-gilad-atzmon-

"A superb and necessary book that demystifies some "undeniable truths" about Jewish identity -
Gauden Sarasola, El Pais


The Wandering Who by Gilad Atzmon  


The following is a google translate, hence far from being reliable.

Israel, a people invented a synecdoche State

Gauden Sarasola
A superb and necessary book demystifies some "undeniable truths" about Jewish identity.

That Forewarned is forearmed, and this is true here twice: on the one hand, the book of Gilad Atzmon (<< >> Identity wandering. Editions and Eastern Mediterranean, 2012) opens with a phrase, due the National Socialist camp survivor Israel Shahak, leaving orientation clearly stated what will come next, << Nazis made me afraid of being Jewish, and the Israelis have made me ashamed to be Jewish >>, focusing further his research in a point-interrogacón that nobody dares to ask: What is a Jew? , And secondly, that the Kid warns tell from the start that this is an important book, do I say important, clearly necessary.

The author is a noted jazz saxophonist devoted to and from the front pages reveals the essential role played in that activity changes his political positions. If your grandfather was a Jewish fanatic, he inherited some of it in his youth, but the contact with reality, and more specifically his military service coincided with the invasion of Lebanon, and the visit of a crowded field in which the Palestinians, made him realize that he was on the wrong side of the Palestinians and originating in those lands, had been fired and kicked dejándoseles not return to them. From the beginning those who were arriving were guided by the idea that more can capador.

One way to be diegetic discourse intertwined with explanatory essay, Gilad Atzmon is showing the steps it was taking in its clarification regarding what happened and going over there explaining the facts and realities that made him change his ideas and become in propagandist of Palestinian rights and decided demystifying Zionist fallacies of taking advantage of an alleged insider identity, even by God himself, will allow all types of theft, expulsions, discrimination making use of the weapons of his glorious army of the only armies of the world that has an ethical code << >> (curious ethics, to the extent that instead of looking at the path Kantian universalizable some values ​​are based on discrimination, denial and annihilation of those involving an obstacle in his triumphal march) to claim the promised land << >> by Yahweh and there << mount the only democracy in the Middle East >>, but the thing is not there but the traitor << >> - that of so is considered, saying it is the classic example of the inferiority of some Jews that leads them to self-mortification, reveals the tentacles that Zionism has spread, by powerful lobbies, to monitor the progress of some of the most governments powerful in the world. The U.S. case is shredded using names of successive governments and their advisers (Wolfowitz, Greenspan, etc.) And the finding of his forays into distant countries to (besides boots seize several) to remove dangers to their partners of Israel, become, since its foundation in the area zealous gendarme.

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The wandering who- Gilad Atzmon

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