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New Israeli political party urges non-Jews' expulsion
Dozens of right-wing Israeli leaders have announced the creation of a new political party which founders say will be dedicated to the expulsion of millions of Muslims and Christians from Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.
The party was launched in Jerusalem on Saturday night.
Taking part in the ceremony were many leaders of the officially outlawed but effectively tolerated Kach group such as Baruch Marzel and Hen Ben Elyahu.
Kach is a violent Jewish militia made up of Jewish activists who reject democracy and advocate the expulsion or, if necessary, annihilation of Arabs from what they call Eretz Yisrael (Land of Israel).
According to some Jewish religious authorities, Eretz Yisrael encompasses mandatory Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Cyprus, and parts of Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Turkey.
Since the outbreak of the second Palestinian intifada or uprising four years ago, Kach terrorists have killed scores of Arab civilians.
Those caught by the Israeli authorities usually received symbolic or light prison sentences. The bulk of the perpetrators are allowed to remain at large.
Expulsion
According to Ben Elyaho, a co-founder of the new party, the expulsion of non-Jews from Israel would "resolve all of Israel's political, economic and social problems".
"Our party calls for cleansing the region extending from the River Jordan to the Mediterranean from the Goyem [derogatory for non-Jews] and thus guaranteeing a Jewish majority of no less than 90% throughout the Land of Israel," he said.
Most of the founders of the new party are affiliated with Kach and other similar groups.
Another prominent co-founder is Baruch Marzel, a colleague of Baruch Goldstein who in 1994 murdered 29 Arab worshipers who were praying at the Ibrahimi mosque in central Hebron.
Killer exalted
Following Goldstein's death at the hands of Arab survivors, Marzel and his fellow Kach activists eulogised him as a great "saint of the Torah".
Moreover, Marzel and his friends erected a memorial plaque made up of fine marble in the settlement of Kiryat Araba near Hebron "to immortalise" Goldstein's memory.
Eventually, the Israeli government of Ehud Barak, under pressure from the Meretz party, partially erased the structure in Kiryat Araba.
Kach was originally founded in the mid-1970s by Meir Kahana, an American rabbi, who preached that Judaism and democracy were incompatible and that Israel would have to choose either Judaism or democracy, but not both.
Kahana, who eventually became a member of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, called for the expulsion of all Arabs from Israel.
Right-wing resurgence
Kach itself does not command widespread support in Israel. However, with Israeli society as a whole drifting to the right especially since the election of Ariel Sharon as prime minister more than three years ago, the movement has come to enjoy an influence far exceeding its actual size.
According to Professor Era Sharkansky of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Kach is trying to exploit the growing rightist opposition to the proposed Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip to increase its following.
"Those people will not accept anything, they are against any settlement with the Palestinians involving territorial concessions. And they will threaten civil war in order to thwart Sharon's disengagement plan," he said.
Sharkansky suggested to Aljazeera.net that the current political environment in Israel was increasingly conducive to the growth of Kach, in light of the near takeover of the Likud by right-wing extremists who oppose the planned withdrawal from Gaza, the dismantling of Jewish settlements and the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank.
Sharkansky argued that Sharon might be trying to circumvent or neutralise the rightist opposition to his plan by getting the US to accept his other plan to annex large parts of the West Bank, including such settlements as Ariel, Ma'ali Adomim and Gush Etzion.
This, Sharon hopes, would desensitise right-wing opposition to the Gaza plan, even though the annexation of the West Bank settlements may kill any chance for the creation of a viable Palestinian state in the West Bank.
Aljazeera
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/3DBAEF08-AB3D-484B-AE66-740BC803DE57.htm
Taking part in the ceremony were many leaders of the officially outlawed but effectively tolerated Kach group such as Baruch Marzel and Hen Ben Elyahu.
Kach is a violent Jewish militia made up of Jewish activists who reject democracy and advocate the expulsion or, if necessary, annihilation of Arabs from what they call Eretz Yisrael (Land of Israel).
According to some Jewish religious authorities, Eretz Yisrael encompasses mandatory Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Cyprus, and parts of Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Turkey.
Since the outbreak of the second Palestinian intifada or uprising four years ago, Kach terrorists have killed scores of Arab civilians.
Those caught by the Israeli authorities usually received symbolic or light prison sentences. The bulk of the perpetrators are allowed to remain at large.
Expulsion
According to Ben Elyaho, a co-founder of the new party, the expulsion of non-Jews from Israel would "resolve all of Israel's political, economic and social problems".
"Our party calls for cleansing the region extending from the River Jordan to the Mediterranean from the Goyem [derogatory for non-Jews] and thus guaranteeing a Jewish majority of no less than 90% throughout the Land of Israel," he said.
Most of the founders of the new party are affiliated with Kach and other similar groups.
Another prominent co-founder is Baruch Marzel, a colleague of Baruch Goldstein who in 1994 murdered 29 Arab worshipers who were praying at the Ibrahimi mosque in central Hebron.
Killer exalted
Following Goldstein's death at the hands of Arab survivors, Marzel and his fellow Kach activists eulogised him as a great "saint of the Torah".
Moreover, Marzel and his friends erected a memorial plaque made up of fine marble in the settlement of Kiryat Araba near Hebron "to immortalise" Goldstein's memory.
Eventually, the Israeli government of Ehud Barak, under pressure from the Meretz party, partially erased the structure in Kiryat Araba.
Kach was originally founded in the mid-1970s by Meir Kahana, an American rabbi, who preached that Judaism and democracy were incompatible and that Israel would have to choose either Judaism or democracy, but not both.
Kahana, who eventually became a member of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, called for the expulsion of all Arabs from Israel.
Right-wing resurgence
Kach itself does not command widespread support in Israel. However, with Israeli society as a whole drifting to the right especially since the election of Ariel Sharon as prime minister more than three years ago, the movement has come to enjoy an influence far exceeding its actual size.
According to Professor Era Sharkansky of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Kach is trying to exploit the growing rightist opposition to the proposed Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip to increase its following.
"Those people will not accept anything, they are against any settlement with the Palestinians involving territorial concessions. And they will threaten civil war in order to thwart Sharon's disengagement plan," he said.
Sharkansky suggested to Aljazeera.net that the current political environment in Israel was increasingly conducive to the growth of Kach, in light of the near takeover of the Likud by right-wing extremists who oppose the planned withdrawal from Gaza, the dismantling of Jewish settlements and the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank.
Sharkansky argued that Sharon might be trying to circumvent or neutralise the rightist opposition to his plan by getting the US to accept his other plan to annex large parts of the West Bank, including such settlements as Ariel, Ma'ali Adomim and Gush Etzion.
This, Sharon hopes, would desensitise right-wing opposition to the Gaza plan, even though the annexation of the West Bank settlements may kill any chance for the creation of a viable Palestinian state in the West Bank.
Aljazeera
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/3DBAEF08-AB3D-484B-AE66-740BC803DE57.htm
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Sounds like them Ay-rabs are going to get a taste of their own medicine. Good. Transfer.
Why is this crap allowed on Indymedia?
I wonder why indybay allows Zionist racists to post their racist posts, yet hides some articles that exposes the criminal actions of the Zionists.
Why is that?
Why is that?
Because lying about your opponents in the service of racial defamation and a fascist/Nazi agenda is not what progressives do.
"lying about your opponents"
Unless it involves something like repeating the antisemitic canard that "goyim" is a derogatory term, as the al-Jazeera site does in the article above.
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Unless it involves something like repeating the antisemitic canard that "goyim" is a derogatory term, as the al-Jazeera site does in the article above.
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How silly they get when it comes to that little piece of promised land, Jews want a tiny piece of land and the whole world finds time to unite & cry racist, Syria occupies lebanon for 30 years and not a peep, shame on you foolish jew haters, move on, get over it, Jews aint going anywhere but its time the arabs did from Israel, perhaps out of US when the next 9-11 hits, arafat the pstain born in Tunisia founded by the kgb to get the west,
If you don't like it here, just try this link where they censor everything out of existence.
You'll be happier there, it's so CLEAN. But it's also so boring that all their trolls come over here to whine about their troubles.
You'll be happier there, it's so CLEAN. But it's also so boring that all their trolls come over here to whine about their troubles.
For more information:
http://sf.indymedia.org/
the "editor"/censor of that site?
really, the "troll"-reductionism thing doesn't really work, in that it doesn't really provide an adequate map to understand the terrain. maybe it's time for a rethink on what you expect in providing a public discussion forum for a milieu of firebrands, malcontents and shit-stirrers.
maybe there's worse things than messy-around-the-edges. like, say, the sterile-dictatorship look of the other leading brand.... talk about discrediting everyone else. sheesh.
really, the "troll"-reductionism thing doesn't really work, in that it doesn't really provide an adequate map to understand the terrain. maybe it's time for a rethink on what you expect in providing a public discussion forum for a milieu of firebrands, malcontents and shit-stirrers.
maybe there's worse things than messy-around-the-edges. like, say, the sterile-dictatorship look of the other leading brand.... talk about discrediting everyone else. sheesh.
There isn't an unambiguous answer to that question, but many Jews think it is, and it's certainly quite often used with hostile intent. Thus, the assertion that "goyin" is "derogatory for non-Jews" is NOT an "antisemitic canard", as Gehrig asserts.
Moreover, why does Gehrig not comment on any of the more serious matters in the article? Could it be that he's just blowing smoke?
My web site:
Moreover, why does Gehrig not comment on any of the more serious matters in the article? Could it be that he's just blowing smoke?
My web site:
For more information:
http://kpfa.aarons.fastmail.fm/
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>>>"According to some Jewish religious authorities, Eretz Yisrael encompasses mandatory Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Cyprus, and parts of Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Turkey. "<<<
Al-Jazeerah is generally correct but nevertheless deliberately exaggerates for propaganda effect. The maximalist version of Eretz Yisrael corresponds to King David's empire which encompassed all but a miniscule patch of Israel proper, Judea-Samaria, some of the Sinai, roughly today's Jordan, Southern and eastern Lebanon, much of Syria, Iraqi territory west of the Euphrates and a minor portion of southern Turkey but *not* Cyprus an Saudi Arabia.
Look at the map:
http://www.bible-history.com/map-davids-kingdom/ map-davids-kingdom_near_east.html
For those who are interested in an explanation of the difference between the minimalist and maximalist interpretations of the borders of Eretz Yisrael from a rabbinical viewpoint and can stand Jewish religious Hebrew based jargon, see http://www.lind.org.il/ml_parsha/5760/matot-masei60_ml.htm
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As for Aaron's question, just because some Jews use "goyim" with a hostile intent or in a hostile context and this word may have been imbued with a derogatory meaning within some Jewish circles, doesn't mean it's "real" or "proper" meaning and usage is one disrespectful of non-Jews. The al-Jazeerah reporter imposed his own intentional (or mistaken) distortion of the word on the Jew he quoted.
>>>"According to some Jewish religious authorities, Eretz Yisrael encompasses mandatory Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Cyprus, and parts of Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Turkey. "<<<
Al-Jazeerah is generally correct but nevertheless deliberately exaggerates for propaganda effect. The maximalist version of Eretz Yisrael corresponds to King David's empire which encompassed all but a miniscule patch of Israel proper, Judea-Samaria, some of the Sinai, roughly today's Jordan, Southern and eastern Lebanon, much of Syria, Iraqi territory west of the Euphrates and a minor portion of southern Turkey but *not* Cyprus an Saudi Arabia.
Look at the map:
http://www.bible-history.com/map-davids-kingdom/ map-davids-kingdom_near_east.html
For those who are interested in an explanation of the difference between the minimalist and maximalist interpretations of the borders of Eretz Yisrael from a rabbinical viewpoint and can stand Jewish religious Hebrew based jargon, see http://www.lind.org.il/ml_parsha/5760/matot-masei60_ml.htm
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As for Aaron's question, just because some Jews use "goyim" with a hostile intent or in a hostile context and this word may have been imbued with a derogatory meaning within some Jewish circles, doesn't mean it's "real" or "proper" meaning and usage is one disrespectful of non-Jews. The al-Jazeerah reporter imposed his own intentional (or mistaken) distortion of the word on the Jew he quoted.
Leo Rosten, in his famous book "The Joys of Yiddish," addressed the question of whether the term "goyim" is derogative or not. His response wasn't, and if it sounds like it is, it's because -- by analogy -- "I know people who can say the word 'Democrat' and make it sound like the worst curse in the world."
I've found that in many cases -- including here on the IMCs -- those non-Jews who are fixated on the phrase "goyim" or "chosen people" often reveal themselves to be projecting their own prejudices onto the Jews. Check it out for yourself.
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I've found that in many cases -- including here on the IMCs -- those non-Jews who are fixated on the phrase "goyim" or "chosen people" often reveal themselves to be projecting their own prejudices onto the Jews. Check it out for yourself.
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