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| DATE | 2023-11-05 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] [ Docs ] global war on the Jews .... again.
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There are very few people on the Gaza strip who do not want to kill as
many Jews as they can get away with.
On Sat, Nov 04, 2023 at 05:11:03PM -0400, Liz Moore wrote:
> This is just an atrocity! Sorry- extremely -politically incorrect- but blow the strip to hell. Be done with this. If we do the amicable situation thing we are here again in another decade. It needs to end.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Nov 4, 2023, at 5:49 AM, Ruben Safir via Docs wrote:
> >
> > https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/hamas-weapons-israel-invasion-gaza-aff4247d
> >
> >
> >
> >> On 11/3/23 23:25, Liz Moore via Docs wrote:
> >> I’m mean what has happened to our world?!?! How is this possible!!!! It’s outrageous! I mean “gas the Jews” how is that a peaceful protest!!!!????
> >>
> >> You can’t yell fire in a movie theater- you can’t yell racial or religious threats either! EVER!!
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPhone
> >>
> >>>> On Nov 3, 2023, at 9:42 AM, Ruben Safir via Docs wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Opinion | The Global War on the Jews
> >>> The Editorial Board
> >>> 5–6 minutes
> >>>
> >>> The disturbing fact of the past month is that Jews are under attack not
> >>> only in Israel and not only by Hamas. The weeks since the barbaric Oct.
> >>> 7 Hamas invasion of Israel have witnessed physical assaults on Jews the
> >>> world over, including in the U.S. and Europe. This most modern of
> >>> pogroms—global, televised, politicized—demonstrates exactly what is at
> >>> stake as Israel ramps up its defensive war against Hamas in Gaza.
> >>>
> >>> The Islamist group and its Western enablers are pursuing or justifying a
> >>> genocidal war against Jews, not merely a territorial dispute with
> >>> Israel. And since Western governments too often seem unable to protect
> >>> the Jewish minorities in their midst, Israel must defend itself as the
> >>> only safe home for the Jewish people.
> >>>
> >>> This weekend hundreds of rioters in Dagestan, Russia, stormed an airport
> >>> in search of Jewish travelers. Mobs raided hotels in other parts of the
> >>> North Caucasus looking for Jews, and a Jewish community center under
> >>> construction in the city of Nalchik was the target of an apparent
> >>> attack.
> >>>
> >>> Germany has witnessed a spate of anti-Semitic incidents, including an
> >>> attack with Molotov cocktails against a synagogue in Berlin on Oct. 18.
> >>> Some Jews found Stars of David painted on their homes, an echo of the
> >>> Nazi persecution. German politicians have been forceful in their
> >>> denunciations, but apparently not forceful enough in their policing.
> >>>
> >>> Two Jewish schools in London closed for a period over safety concerns,
> >>> and some British Jews no longer feel safe wearing visible symbols of
> >>> their faith. They’re probably right to worry the state can’t protect
> >>> them. Tens of thousands of protesters in London over three successive
> >>> weekends called for “jihad” and chanted “from the river to the sea,” a
> >>> demand for the erasure of Israel and by extension its citizens. A crowd
> >>> in Sydney, Australia, chanted “gas the Jews” after the Hamas attack.
> >>>
> >>> Americans like to believe such things couldn’t happen in the U.S. They
> >>> have. The Anti-Defamation League last week reported a 388% increase in
> >>> anti-Semitic incidents from Oct. 7-23 compared with the same period a
> >>> year ago. The 312 incidents the ADL recorded include a car carrying
> >>> individuals with Palestinian flags allegedly swerving toward a Jewish
> >>> family and several alleged assaults by pro-Palestinian protesters. The
> >>> ADL tally counts 109 anti-Israel rallies that featured support for Hamas
> >>> or violence against Jews in Israel.
> >>>
> >>> These and too many other incidents to count put paid to the notion that
> >>> one can distinguish anti-Zionism from anti-Semitism since Oct. 7. If
> >>> protesters wanted to burn Israeli flags in a fit of wrong-headed pique
> >>> about a two-state solution, that is one thing. Only anti-Jewish hate can
> >>> explain how synagogues, children and airports are targets of this
> >>> outrage.
> >>>
> >>> Yet many Western intellectuals—and a growing number of
> >>> politicians—insist on maintaining this false distinction. They’ve seen
> >>> what Hamas has done to innocent Israeli civilians, and what pro-Hamas
> >>> protesters have said and done in Western streets. They’d nonetheless
> >>> forgive any violence by Hamas or Hezbollah against Jews as anticolonial
> >>> defiance.
> >>>
> >>> This is why Israel is fighting, and must fight, as hard as it is for its
> >>> survival as a state. And why it’s inexcusable for any Western politician
> >>> now to demand a cease-fire in Gaza. No leader who is demonstrably
> >>> incapable of protecting Jews in his or her own country should try to
> >>> prevent Israel from defending itself. This is how the West slips from
> >>> “never again” into “nowhere is safe.”
> >>> ***
> >>>
> >>> This global war on Jews also clarifies what is at stake for Western
> >>> societies in this fight. The West spent the decades after the
> >>> civilizational catastrophe of the Holocaust vowing never again to allow
> >>> itself to slide into such barbarism. What we see now in the attacks on
> >>> Jews is how that slide began.
> >>>
> >>> Before there was a Chancellor Hitler in 1933, there were roving bands of
> >>> Brownshirts inflicting political and anti-Semitic violence on the
> >>> streets of Germany. They too often went unchecked by police, prosecutors
> >>> and politicians who didn’t understand the menace, sympathized with the
> >>> offenders, or merely felt overwhelmed by the scale of the danger. Hitler
> >>> gained power in part because the German state no longer could maintain
> >>> its monopoly on violence in defense of democratic values.
> >>>
> >>> Today’s threats to democracy are different, but one lesson is the same
> >>> and is crystal-clear: A Western society that can’t or won’t muster the
> >>> will to defend its Jewish neighbors and fellow citizens won’t be able to
> >>> defend itself.
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> > So many immigrant groups have swept through our town
> > that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological
> > proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
> > http://www.mrbrklyn.com
> > DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002
> >
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> > Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and extermination camps,
> > but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013
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So many immigrant groups have swept through our town
that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological
proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
http://www.mrbrklyn.com
DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002
http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software
http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive
http://www.coinhangout.com - coins!
http://www.brooklyn-living.com
Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and extermination camps,
but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013
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