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A Letter to Abraham, “Abe the Fox”, Foxman
National Director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
Consiglieri to the “Israeli” Family
From the Slave of Allah (SWT) Assad Jibril Pino:
O, Son of the path of Prophet Musa (wa’salam) you do great honor to this humble servant of Allah (SWT). Your admonition of my expression of solidarity with the Palestinian resistance against Zionist terrorism in your diatribe, Never Again: The Threat of the New Anti-Semitism (2003) leaves me breathless in gratitude. One blurb for your book, featured prominently on the Anti-Defamation League web site, shouts: "At
First, let me thank you for once again calling attention to the martyrdom of Ayat al-Akras (May Allah be pleased with her). We ask God (SWT) to elevate her to the highest of the seven heavens, for He (SWT) is the only one capable of doing so. Second, please pass on my appreciation to New York Times (NYT) for not only carrying a review of Never Again?, but also featuring the first chapter online, making come true for me the dream of every historian of becoming a part of history. Vide
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/30/books/chapters/1130-1st-foxman.html?ex=1071550800&en=ccc848f533765e1e&ei=5070
These two sentences are two more than ninety-nine percent of the membership of the American Historical Association will ever see in print concerning their writings. I predict your book will hit the New York Times Best Seller list, and gain translation into all major world languages. Most important to me are Arabic and Hebrew, that the people of Occupied Palestine may ponder your assessment of my character, and Spanish and Portuguese, so that relatives, friends and fellow Believers in
What “different interpretation” of my writings do you have to reveal? For the benefit of those who cannot afford to purchase your book, myself included (the local library copy is in my hands), prospective readers should know that I am filed under the rubric of “Strange Bedfellows”, which purports to document a secret alliance between the far left and right to destroy world Jewry---the infamous “Red-Brown” coalition of Israel Shamir’s old home, Russia. A confession: I still have friends on the left, even after my reversion to Islam. Of the machinations of the far right, I know nothing. Nada. Let me set you straight about my religion. A Muslim is not of the left, nor of the right, nor of the Center. He is above. You, on the other hand are nothing. Nada. Not even a good Jew, for no Follower of Musa (wa’salam) and the commandments revealed to him by Allah (SWT) would resort to slander, espionage and censorship. You started your stewardship at the ADL by labeling the exposure of Jewish influence over American politics an anti-Semitic act. Next, you brought calamities to bear on critics of the Zionist real estate project overlooking the
O, Child of the Bani Israel, how could you stoop so low? Have you forgotten Allah’s (SWT) favor when he saved your forefathers from the tyrant Firaun and drowned his hosts in the
You’re going to have to serve somebody.
And it may be as-Shaytan-r-ragim
Or it may be Allah (Subannahwatallah),
But, you’re going to have to serve somebody.
True to my twin heritage, I close with the salutation of
Ummah o Muerte, Venceremos!
Assad Jibril Pino
I truly enjoyed reading your article about the Greek Orthodox in Palestine.
I know that your statement about all Christians in Palestine being Orthodox
in the nineteenth century is true because I am the son of one
Greek-Orthodox-turned-Baptist.
My father who was named the Oldest man in Israel and lives in Jerusalem was
baptized in the Greek Orthodox Church of Rafeedia, was married in the Greek
Orthodox Church and attended the services in the Greek Orthodox Church of
Nablus. He was eventually in the 1960s "brain-washed" with several of my
siblings into the American way of worship and all became Baptist.
The Greek Orthodox Church in Palestine had a very tough time against the
influx of the Church of England and the Church of Rome to a large degree
owing to the fact that its leadership was Greek
and remote from the flock. They could not have held the Chritains of
Palestine together or provide them the leadership that made them stay in the
Church.
I admire your courage and bravery in standing up to the tyranny of the
powers to be which are bent on sweeping clean all traces of belief that
attaches people to the land of Palestine whether they are Muslim or
Christian.
Truly,
Suleiman Shehadeh Shahin
born in Nablus Palestine to a Greek Orthodox Father and an Anglican mother.
Now in America
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From Ken Freeland, Texas
Adam,
This was a fine piece, and while your immediate purpose has certainly been
well served by it, I am hopeful that that you will continue to apply your
inspired intellct to write at greater length about the theological roots of
the Israel/Palestine conflict. I may be wrong, but I think that the
Christian world is thirsty for such an anlysis, an analysis is long overdue.
Your point about the Catholic apostasy on the question of Jewish salvation
is important. I was not aware that this had been established by Vatican II,
but I am aware that the current pope has indicated exactly the same. It is
nothing less than a refutation of the profound disparity between Christian
and Judaic ethics that so animated in the second generation of Christians to
liturgically differentiate themselves from the Jews. They were keen to
emphasize the critical difference, while today these Catholic leaders seem
dedicated to the proposition that there is no significant religious
difference between Christianity and Judaism -- we can almost hear these
modern apostates wondering aloud what Jesus was making all that fuss about
two thousand years ago . . . before the Jews who rejected his message had
him put to death, that is . . .
I think the case with the evangelical Christian Zionists is different,
though. You write: "The war in the Holy Land has a theological dimension,
and it reaches the ends of the world. Indeed, the dangerous and evil creed
of 'Christian Zionism' is a Judaising tendency and a result of theological
ignorance." While I agree with much of this statement, I have to question
your use of the term "Judaising" here. Webster's defines "Judaize" as "to
follow Jewish religion and customs; to make Jewish." In the theological
sense, it has been classically used to describe the tendency of some in the
young Church to insist on the maintenance of irrelevant Jewish religious
practices, such as circumscision and sumptuary laws (Paul arguing the
opposite tendency, of course). One of the oddest things about Christian
Zionism is that it expressly does NOT recognize the validity of Judaism, nor
does it seek to imitate it in any way. While I belive it is correct to
accuse Christian Zionists of "theological ignorance," it is not ignorance
of the distinction between Christianity and Judaism taht they are guilty of,
but rather an overemphasis on a dispensationalist rendering of obscure
apocaplyptic passages in the New Testament (inspired, one often hears it
argued, by Scofield et al.) at the expense of the essential ethical
teachings of Jesus, or what we sometimes call the Christian commandments.
This creed is indeed " dangerous and evil," but only because its adherents
override Christian ethics in supporting even the greatest evil perpetrated
by the war criminals who govern Israel, in hopes that this will expedite the
Second Coming. Morally, this compares to a juvenile delinquent helping to
set a house on fire because he wants to see the firemen come to put it out.
"If things just get bad enough, if we can make the scriptural prophecy
fulfil itself," goes their thinking, " then God will have to send Jesus
back, and we can finally have our "rapture." And so this need to fulfill
prophecy, no matter how much evil is involved, is all justifiable because
the "second coming" is seen as a summum bonum, and everything that leads to
it is, by definition, as good.
Such a belief system is the worst of all Christian apostasies. It suggests
two things: 1) That the end justifies the means, and 2) That God requires
evil in order to accomplish good. This notion that evil can produce good is
CONTRARY to everything that Christ taught. He was not joking when he said:
"you shall judge them by their fruits." Bad trees do not give good fruit.
Evil is just that: evil. It is not the path to good. So while the
oxymoronic Christian Zionists do not in the slightest validate Judaism,
they do justify the evil done by the Zionists as mystically necessary for an
impending epiphany, and therefore do share in common with their Jewish
Zionist congeners an ethical belief system that posits an ultimate good as
justifying the most evil of means. While Ariel Sharon and Pat Robertson
would debate what that ultimate good consists of, they would fully agree
that the most egregious evil committed by Zionist Israel in the present is
to be celebrated on bringing it into being.
Peace,
Ken Freeland
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Hi Israel,
Your article struck a chord with me. I have a Palestinian friend (christian) who mentioned the problem to me. He told me that he was born Greek Orthodox but had recently switched his allegiance to the Catholics. He had been motivated by political considerations more than by religious ones. He said that the Greek Orthodox clergy, not being "native", was too accommodating to the occupier.
Anyway, thanks for your article. You sound like a true believer, which I can only envy.
Regards,
Michael from New York
Christians of the US, please, Wake Up!
And stop war against religions
Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Ralph Reed, the Christian Coalition and many
Evangelical Christians in the US and abroad, as well the Christian Coalition
with Ralf Reed, who heads Bush-Cheney re-election campaign in the South,
unabashedly declare their support for Israel by reciting a verse from the
Bible: 'God will bless those who bless Israel, curse those who curse
Israel.' Num. 24, 9. These Evangelical Christians love Arial Sharon's
policies and support him. Over 3000 Christian-Zionists from 80 countries, in
October 2003 cheered Sharon, called a man of peace, by President Bush.
Sharon told those Christians, "We love you" and they reciprocated that
affection back to him.
Eckstein, a leader of the Chicago-based International Fellowship of
Christians and Jews said, "The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is at the cusp
of becoming, God forbid, a worldwide conflict between Jews and Muslims." In
fact, the Christian fundamentalist Evangelicals nourish this hate between
Jews and Muslims. These who call themselves Christian-Zionists declare their
love to the God of Israel and their hate to the God of Islam; they refer to
the last as "Hubal," the moon God of Mecca known as Allah. What they forget
is that the Arab-Christians who preceded Islam for 600 years have always
called and still call God by the name Allah. I am an Arab-American Catholic
Priest and I have always refered to God as Allah. He is the same Allah, God
of the Jews, Christians and Muslims. There is no other God, but one God
called differently by different cultutres. We cannot pretend that the God of
the Jews or of the Christians is a better God than the one of the Muslims.
This is absolutely a kind of blaphemy againt the One and Only God who
created us all the same and at his image, Gen. 1:27
What these fundamentalists Evangelical Christians/Christian-Zionists are
doing and preaching is very frightening, their actions predict a gloomy
2004, which might create a culture clash and/or a war between or among
relgions.
If President Bush is reelected, they will have four more years to inject
their brand of Christian fundamentalism in the US and the world. President
Bush's administration relies on them; many of them are Christian
Fundamentalists. Trying to instill this brand of fundamentalist evangelical
Christian-Zionist Bible interpretation into the world is very dangerous, as
this type of Christianity do recognize only their own and very speciafic way
to see justice, fairness, peace and truth in the world, based on their
interpretation of the Bible. Those that support that type of Christianity
may be then at war against both religion and humanity.
Never in modern history have fundamentalist Christians had so much power.
If we allow them to go on unchecked, Christianity itself will be blamed for
all of their wrongdoings throughout the world. Adherents of other religions
do not see the difference between fundamentalist Christians and good and
righteous Christians; just as many Western Christians do not see the
difference between fundamentalist Muslims and good and righteous Muslims.
Many today accuse all Christians of being "Crusaders" even though we have
nothing to do with those old unfortunate wars. It will take generations upon
generations before we can prove ourselves as followers of Jesus, who asked
us to love, to cooperate, to forgive, and to be instruments of peace, truth
and justice.
The Gospel of fundamentalist Evangelicals will be mistaken as the Gospel of
the Old Testament. People will mistake our God as one who condones
destruction of people by others. It will be so difficult to prove that our
God is the God of Love and Justice. It will be difficult to recognize in
Jesus the God who came to save the world in a nonviolent way, accepting to
die than to destroy or kill.
That is why Christian religious leaders and people should immediately take a
principled stand and denounce in strong terms this form of Christianity,
which is not ours. It is not enough to sign a statement or a petition here
and there. We need to meet, organize, seek out the media, walk the streets,
make banners, distribute flyers and put ads in newspapers. The White House
must hear our voices for what we are, the majority of peace loving
Christians in the US: Catholics, Orthodox, Anglicans, Presbyterians,
Lutherans, Methodists, Quakers... We need to speak out today and not
tomorrow.
2004 already seems frightening because these Christian Fundamentalists have
an upper hand in the political arena of the US and the current
administration and because they have a platform to speak out and represent
the rest of Christianity unfairly:
1) They do not see the history of the world from the eyes of justice and
truth. They have their own agenda and their own strategy. They are imposing
their theology on us and, our country, the US, is more than ever under their
influence.
2) They see the suffering of many nations in Africa, Asia and South America
as part of the history of God and their own interpretations of the Bible.
3) They feel God calling them to speak on his behalf to the world and to
punish or award, to preach and impose a kind of God never known before.
4) They see all Arabs and Muslims as terrorists that should be pursued and
destroyed. They do not believe that these Arabs have the right to
self-defense or resistance even when their countries and homes are invaded.
5) They see in Arial Sharon and his policies the command of God of the
Bible, the God-Sabaoth of Israel, to kill and destroy the so called the new
"Philistines" of the Old Testament.
6) They call for spreading their faith with a Bible Belt from Afghanistan to
Iraq to Saudi Arabia and the rest of the world.
7) They want to bring the Jews from all over the world to Israel and to
subsidize the construction of illegal settlements on the Occupied
Territories and on the Syrian Golan.
8) They are pushing to have the so called prophecies to be fulfilled and see
the second coming of the Missiah.
9) They preach that Armageddon is around the corner and a war of religion is
imminent.
10) They speak surely about the imminent power of the Messiah and the
immanent second Jewish holocaust when this false Messiah will slaughter Jews
who would refuse convert to Christianity in this war called Armageddon.
A war of religion nourished by these fundamentalist groups is around the
corner. It seems that 2003 was a preparation for it and that 2004 will be
the continuation of this same strategy, if not its last chapter.
We need to work hard to stop this.
We cannot accept as Christians being pushed to a war of religion by these
fanatics who do not see any other horizon but a military Messiah who is an
Antichrist for us all.
We cannot accept today to murder harmony between people when we should
respect other religions and have interfaith contacts and cooperation.
We cannot accept to fight for the same ONE God who is called differently by
others: Allah, Adonia, HaShem, the Most High, the Great Being... Enough with
wars of religion.
We cannot let the sound of weapons kill love of others, the cooperation and
sharing with others; this love that we worked hard to build for generations
in an international effort for harmony in the world.
Christians of the world!
Listen to me, please, Muslims, Jewish, Buddhists, Hindus...will look at you,
Christians, this year 2004:
Will you be worthy of your Christianity that calls for love?
Or you will be condemned for generations and generations as a religion of
destruction and war because of some lunatic Christian fanatics.
What would you choose?
Christians of the USA and the wolrd! Please, wake up before it is too late.
For more articles from the same author please visit:
1) http://www.al-bushra.org/LabibKobti/labib.htm
2) http;//www.Al-Bushra.org
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I had a hunch that you converted to Orthodoxy.
Welcome.
Indeed, as you are aware, we trace our creed to the
Jews of ancient Antioch, the Roman capital of Syria.
Thus we Syrian Christians should be both proud of our
Jewish heritage and our belief in Jesus Christ.
I often lament the decline of our church in Palestine.
Unlike Lebanon, Syria and Jordan, the Syrian Greek
Church has faced a continual barrage of problems
resulting from the 1920 partition of Syria and the
subsequent Zionist occupation of Palestine. Where we
once consituted the second largest religious group in
Palestine, our numbers have diminished dramatically
due to emigration and conversion to Protestant and
Catholic parishes.
The Greek control of the Palestinian church results
from there being two separate Patriachs in greater
Syria - Jerusalem and Antioch (now Damascus). The
latter is very much a Arabic led church, which likely
explians the superior health of the church in Syria,
Lebanon and Jordan.
Best regards,
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Nick Ferris
nickferris@...
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Re Christian Zionists
Dear Editor:
I must correct a statement made in an article: Christian Zionists:
Evangelicals a new lifeline for Israelis, By Craig Nelson: The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution 25 December 2003.
Because this misconception is the primary reason the Evangelical Christians
continue to support Israel. The following paragraph is missing a key piece
of information:
Eckstein accused the media of propagating the notion that Christian Zionists
support Israel only as a prelude to the second coming of Christ, when,
according to a literal interpretation of the Bible, all Jews will be
converted to Christianity or wiped out in Armageddon. "It is incorrect," he
told the Israeli audience. "The real reason [Christian Zionists] support
Israel is because of the Bible: 'God will bless those who bless Israel,
curse those who curse Israel.' "
The statement above, God will bless those who bless Israel, curse those who
curse Israel is from one of these revised versions and is not accurate, nor
does the passage exist. In fact, based upon world history and the first
5-books of the bible, also known as the foundation of the Torah, the passage
could never exist as Israel never existed prior to 1948. The actual passage
is Genesis 12:3 and it is God's Promise to Abram. The actual text is, "I
will bless those who bless you, (referring to Abram) and I will curse him
who curses you, (again referring to Abram)."
While it is true, the Bibles used by the Christian Zionists teach this, it
is also true that beginning in 1908 and reaching 100's of passages
re-written in 1962 specifically the Scofield Reference Bible, (though
evidence of revisionism on this line is present in nearly every Bible
published today) were revised to accommodate the creation of Israel.
Israel never existed as country or a nation in Biblical literature or on
maps prior to 1908, ever. The Israel the bible speaks of is the Israel of
like minds and those whom worship Him alone, at time referred to the Kingdom
or House of Israel and does not involve specific real estate. Israel is
also used to refer to the descendents of Jacob, (the kingdom of Israel
comprising the 10 northern tribes in Genesis) as a way to differentiate from
the tribes of Judah in the south. The Catholic and Lutheran Churches will
not use the Scofield Bible because it is considered propaganda and tainted
due to the massive revisionism.
This is critical because Christian Zionists and Talmudic Zionists use this
passage to justify everything occurring in the Middle East from genocide,
apartheid and ethnic cleansing to the right of return. On the Right of
Return, Genesis 12:7 states: "Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, 'To
your descendants I will give this land,'"
Here the Bible is referring to real estate, (evident in the boundaries given
within preceding and following passages), yet the key word is "descendants".
You see, David, Jesus and Ishmael are all descendents of Abram.
David--Judaism, Jesus--Christianity and Ishmael-- Islam...According to the
non-altered texts of both the Bible and the Torah and Qu'ran, the land of
Palestine belongs to all of the descendents of Abram: Jewish, Muslim and
Christian. The promise to Abram says nothing about leaving it to just one
son or one faith. It says all descendents.
To verify this, simply look up this passage in any Bible printed prior to
1908. Upon doing so, the manipulation of the Evangelical text is quite
overt. The Evangelical Christians misquoted bible passages to justify their
participation in apartheid and ethnic cleansing. Allowing such a statement
to remain without correction further perpetuates the tensions and
misconceptions.
I am also journalist and this is a story I've been following, researching
and reporting on now for almost 4-years. If you are interested I'll put you
in touch with person's in all three faiths not tied to the agenda whom are
well studied on all three holy scriptures and the dynamics of politics and
religion in the Middle East. There is a story that needs to be told. Today
a huge chasm exists in Christianity between those led by the Zionists, also
referred to as the Pharisees, and the rest of Christianity comprising
Catholics, Lutherans, Methodists and other fundamental Christians. The
tension between the groups is near breaking.
Likewise a huge chasm in Judaism between the Torah Faithful Jewry and the
Talmudic Inspired Secular Zionists and at the middle of this is Israel. Not
that it exists, few have a problem with that. It is how Israel has chosen
to exist and the misery and danger its actions force on others: threatening
its neighbors with over 600 nuclear weapons and the 4th largest military in
the world. The behavior of Israel earns it the moniker as the single
biggest threat to world peace, at least according to 58% of Europeans and
42% of Americans and it is the Christian Zionist whom make this possible,
doing so by quoting false scriptures. Your article just gave legitimacy to
a passage that doesn't and has never existed. It also perpetuates a myth
and gives fuel to justified killing. As a respected publication, I don't
think that was your intention which is why I feel compelled to write. Any
questions I can be reached at the information below.
Sincerely
Laura Dawn Lewis
(response to: Christian Zionists: Evangelicals a new lifeline for Israelis, By Craig Nelson in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 25 December 2003
Anthony Judge, witty creator of elaborate pun-filled essays, sends in a new
one, called Is God a Terrorist? Always good read!
http://laetusinpraesens.org/docs00s/godact.php
From Sasha Papovic, Yugoslavia
Dear Mr . Shamir ,I’m reading Your articles for a longer time . Especially Your texts in Moscow –based magazine Zavtra, which I’m respecting like one of the rarely opositon magazines in Russia . I was very happy to find great intelectual with perspectives which were so close to my own and at the same time endless source of information and analyses not only about the Middle East conflict but about the global situation with the accent on the Jewish role which is crucial fact in global politics, but unfortunatelly for the most authors - not only mondialist but also critics of mondialism and globalism, - Jewish role does not exist at all, there is no zionism, it was some political movement from the past and nothing else. Every critical observation of the Jewish role is representing by the mainstream media as neonazism, racism while its promoters as the most devilish persons in the world, ambasadors of the Satan himself . While I’m reading Your articles I remember the words of famous Serbian philosopher and ideologist Dimitrije Ljotic who wrote more than 70 years ago : All we know about English, German, Russian, American, Serbian, Greek, Turkish, Bulgarian, Italian etc imperialism.But … what about the Jewish imperialism? If we talked about this imperialism we will be represent as antisemites ,but when we are talking about german or Russian imperialism nobody will accuse us of being enemies of Russian or German people.We are not talking against Jewish people on the same way as we are not talking about Russian or German people when we are talking about their imperialism. The same is with the Jewish imperialism. Imperialism comes from impere-ordering. When somebody orders to ohters he is already imperialist.And today Jews are ordering to many people in the world.
Offcourse Ljotic was acused for antisemitism. Even today his name is a kind of tabu in Serbia. Personally like many people from my generation in Europe and in world I was wictim of this propaganda and I belived that Jews are good people, victims through all history, I couldn’t understand that they are like all others, that there are both victims and butchers between Jews like it is the case between Russians, Germans, Serbs and others . Later when I found the books of Noam Chomsky and many other critics of the global politics of USA, and Russian publications, ZAVTRA especially where I found Your name for the first time I realised the whole stupidity of our education and the whole propaganda in the last decades.
As You are already guessing I come from former Yugoslavi,another victim of the global butchers and of the madness of nationalism and chauvinism. I know very well and I can understand You and situation in Israel more than people, from any other country. We lived happily in big and prosperous country .We know very well that we are in fact from the same bloood – South Slavs, with the same language, there were some diferent traditions and religions but it was the case with centuries like in Palestine. And nobody fought because of that in our history. In fact diferent religions fought together against the comon enemies.And now they formed little pseudostates from Slovenia through Bosnia to Macedonia, a kind of artificial creations with the main aim creating of the favourable US platzdarm for their geopolitical ambitions in the area of the Balkans and even more in the East Mediteranean and East European region in the same time . Now we can see the results of this project of the destruction of Yugoslavia. There are around 300.00 or maybe more dead people in Bosnia, destruction of economy on the great part of teritory of former Yugoslavia,who knows how many refugees …
But our so called goverments,or I can say occupation authorities are happy because former Yugoslav republics will join NATO and EU. It is so could slave mentality developed by MTV+CNN+IMF, and as You mentioned in one of Your essays by the Soros- trained prozionist and proamerican “elites” in East Europe.
Yes zionism is that magic word which is so forbidden in East European countries,where the whole intelectual “elite “ is working against it’s one people for the bloody money of George Soros .
Partition – that so called “solution” proposed from India and Israel to Ireland finds one of its latest realizations in Yugoslavia ."We can’t live together" - was the moto of nationalists, the same people wich are fighting now for EU and NATO where we should live together with Germans and Irish who are more diferent from us than Bosnians and Croatians . In fact we will be a group of colonies of zionism, like all EU, like USA, like Israel, like everybody .
When my friend Altay Unaltay from Yarin magazine from Isambul told me about Your web site in English I already new about you russian writings. But here I found whole library. I must say that I enjoyed in the last few days like I have enjoyed only in rare moments of my life. It is really intelectual enjoyment to read about the essence of Palestine conflict from Your perspective , through Your style of narration ,where You are taking the reader in the places of the Holy land, in history, its presence, travel in diferent points of the actual tragedy and its roots , representing the whole problem like no one else. Especially it was great enjoyment to read Your books with essays Gallilee flowers and Our lady of sorrow, beautifull amalgram of literary masterpiece and political essays . When I read Your remarks about antisemitism, dialogue of civilizations, Your critics of Maariv because of attacking Shirac, Your interview to Greek journal I can say only that I deeply sorry that I ddin’t find Your articles much earlier .. and that You did not start writing in English earlier.
My father was officer in Yugoslav Army and through his books I found a lot of stuff about Israel .I remember when I was a child I read book called 6- day war between Israel and Arabs, analitical perspectives from Yugoslav General who was in Egypt in that period . Although Yugoslavia was pro-arab orientated, the book described the whole system of Israel, of its Army, the mobilization of the whole society .In short, I can say that I respected Israel and its warrior spirit a lot. Later I found the other I must say uglier side of the whole story .
I’m writing geopolitical essays,articles about politics, philosophy ,trying to be critical to New World Order and its system, cooperating with people in Serbia, Bulgaria, Russia, France and many other countries. It would be great pleasure of me to cooperate with such a imprtant figure in our joint fight for more justice in the world.
With that hope I’m finishing my first letter to You and hope that we will have good cooperation .
With best wishes from the land of Alexander and Justinian –Macedonia,where I’m now :
Sasha Papovic
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From Peter Myers, Australia
Re: Moses Hess and Lasse Wilhelmson
Hess wrote Rome and Jerusalem in 1862; yet in 1870 or so, he was a
participant at the First International, in Marx' camp.
I know of no antagonism between Marx & Hess over Hess' position on
Jewish nationalism.
There was a clash between Marx' camp & Bakunin's camp. Marx was
manoevring to exclude Bakunin.
Bertram D. Wolfe writes in his book Marxism: One Hundred Years in the
Life of a Doctrine, (Chapman & Hall, London 1967):
{p. 60} The International Workingmen's Association was originally
founded by the British Labour Movement in collaboration with some
workingmen's delegations from France. Marx had been called {p. 61} in at
first as a respected emigre from Germany, with a revolutionary past and
a doctor's degree. ... Yet its congresses could and did outvote him and
his faction, for Bakunin, Proudhon, and others who did not accept his
every pronouncement, had more influence than he in France, Italy, Spain,
Belgium, Holland, and Switzerland, while the English continued to have
views distinctly their own. Marx had decided just before the
Franco-Prussian War that he must pack a congress with his disciples, set
it to be held in a country from which Bakunin was banned, strengthen the
powers of the General Council over the affiliated movements, whose mere
clearing-house and obedient servant it was supposed to be, then expel
Bakunin and move the Headquarters of the General Council to far-off
America, where Bakunin could not lay hands on it and where it would not
require so much of Marx's attention and time.
The strategy for packing the congress was such that even a Lenin might
have envied it. Marx picked The Hague, to which Bakunin could not go
because he was wanted by the police of both France and Germany. Engels
paid the fare of five members of the General Council who would side with
Marx. Marx wrote to Kugelmann in Germany and to Sorge in America to send
the largest possible delegations of the faithful, and as many blank
credentials as possible which he might fill in with suitable names.
{end quote}
Bakunin made some rude remarks about Marx' Jewish congregation (not that
word, but words to that effect). I have the material somewhere.
Some info on the clash between the Marx & Bakunin camps at the First
International is at http://users.cyberone.com.au/myers/correctness.html
Shlomo Avineri wrote of Hess in his book THE MAKING OF MODERN ZIONISM:
The Intellectual Origins of the Jewish State (Basic Books, New York
1981):
{p. 36} CHAPTER 3 Moses Hess: Socialism and Nationalism as a Critique of
Bourgeois Society
IN MOSES HESS (18l2-75) two powerful ideological and political forces -
socialism and the beginning of Jewish national thought - were integrated
into a unique synthesis. When he died after decades of activity in the
German and international socialist movement, the inscription on his
tomb, near Cologne, read: "Father of German Social Democracy."
Seventy-five years later, when the State of Israel was established, its
government (then under the leadership of the Labor Party), transferred
his remalns from Germany and reinterred them in the cemetery of the
first kibbutz, near Lake Tiberias. There he lies now among the other
founders of Zionist socialism - Syrkin, Borochov, Katznelson.
{p. 40} In the year 1845 Hess's essay,
{p. 41} "On Capital," appeared, which contains very severe
pronouncements regarding the Jews and identifying Judaism with
capitalism. Only recently has it been shown that Hess' work preceded
that of Marx. Hess wrote his essay in 1843 and sent it to Marx for
publication. However, it was published a year and a half later. Hence,
Hess's work was known to Marx while he wrote his essay, "On the Jewish
Question," and most of the images which appear in Marx' works are
borrowed from Hess.
{endquote}
This is very important. Where did Marx get his inside information on the
operations of Jewish bankers like the Rothschilds - perhaps from Hess?
And where did Hess get it, if not from direct connections? Given Hess'
importance as a pioneer of Zionism, this information is the more
credible.
David McLellan has some more information on this theme in his book Marx
Before Marxism, 2nd edition (MacMillan, London, 1980).
With regard to Marx' article On the Jewish Question, he writes:
{p. 141} Many of the themes of this article, particularly that of money
and the Jewish-Christian relationship, are taken directly from an
article by Hess entitled 'On the Essence of Money'.2 Hess submitted this
article for publication in the Deuch-Franzoche Jahrbucher, but the
review collapsed before it could appear. Hess's influence here is
important, as Marx's criticism of Bauer's second article contains his
first tentative application to the field of economics of Feuerbach's
idea of alienation. Hess had converted both Engels and Bakunin to
communism, but his influence on Marx was a much slower process: in
1842-3, when Hess's proselytising was at its most active, Marx was no
communist, and by the time Marx did become a communist, in Paris, Hess
was only one among many new points of reference. Nevertheless, at this
particular juncture, Marx seems to have leaned very heavily on Hess.3
It is largely this article that has given the impression that Marx was
an anti-semite.4 This is inaccurate. In the passages already referred to
in the Holy Family which deal with the Jewish question, Marx tends to
side with the Jews more than with Bauer. Marx also makes clear there
that he judges the political maturity of a state by the degree to which
the Jews in it are emancipated, and considers it illogical of civil
society not to grant the Jews equal rights.5
2 See further McLellan, The Young Hegelians and Karl Marx, pp. 153 ff.
3 On the relationship of Hess to Marx, see Kagi, Genesis des
historischen Materialiismus, pp. 146 ff.; McLellan, The Young Hegelians
and Karl Marx, pp. 137 ff. For a view emphasising the 'eschatological'
element peculiar to both, see E Thier, Das Menschenbild des jungen Marx
(Gottingen, 1967) pp. 41 ff.
4 See, as an extreme, D. Runes's edition of this article entitled A
World without Jews (New York, 1959). There is a general treatment ot
this question in: J. Carlebach, Karl Marx and the Radical Critique of
Judaism (London, 1978) pp. 148 ff.
5 See S. Avineri, 'Marx and Jewish Emancipation', Journal of the History
of Ideas, xxv (1964).
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Zeev Sternhell on National Socialism in Israel:
http://users.cyberone.com.au/myers/nat-soc-isr.html
Peter Myers, 21 Blair St, Watson ACT 2602, Australia
http://users.cyberone.com.au/myers
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From Simon Jones, a Canadian in Tashkent
Re: Ross Vachon
too bad Vachon, in the great American anti-communist tradition, spoils his
analysis with such remarks as "Trotsky (the grandaddy of neo-conservatism
according to serious political historians)"
Trotsky was an opponent of Zionism. Much as Trotsyists drive me mad with
their tone-deaf political diatribes, I still consider them my allies against
capitalism (until they defect to the neocons!). Blaming Trotsky for neocons
(presumably because some of them give up the struggle in the spirit of "If
you can't beat 'em, join them") is bad logic and unfair.
Re : Grip of Death
Thanks. As an economist myself, I would say it's not
so simple as R seems to state. There are 2 debt possibilities - the foreign
trade balance and the state budget balance.
Since the advent of neolib/con Thatcherism, govts like Canada (US under
Clinton) have 'paid down' the state budget deficit rapidly (by stealing from
the poor). Japan and the US under Bush/ Reagan pile up huge deficits here
(Japan uses this to 'prime the pump' with public works, the US - for
military waste - both presumably to get the Keynesian upward spiral going to
benefit all to some extent).
Re foreign trade balance, the US is the big, bloated bad guy here, using its
world-money-standard $ advantage to print massive quantities of $ based only
on trust, to finance a breath-taking deficit (to finance its wars and
consumer mania). Most other countries have foreign trade SURPLUSES,
including Uganda I'm sure, just to pay the interest on its past deficits and
borrowings from IMF etc (further benefiting the US as owners of the IMF).
There's a wonderful piece dealing with the
real evil here - total convertibility and total economic control by $/ gold,
the Gordian knot which we must break to escape our present insanity:
<http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/cc/Lietaer.html>
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From Ardeshir Mehta
Re: Grip of Death
THIS is how we can break free of the clutches of the Mammonites, who
control our every move by constantly forcing us into greater and
greater debt. This is how we can break free of SLAVERY!
From http://www.prolognet.qc.ca/clyde/Guernsey.html:
GUERNSEY'S MONETARY EXPERIMENT
Those who interested in the questions raised by Rowbotham (Shamir's
letter of 2 January 2004), might take a look at the review written by
Keith Rankin, NZ, October 1998:
http://www.geocities.com/~econz/KeithRankin/
IJSEreviewRowbothamGripDeath.html
Elias Davidsson
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And all of those from whom you came are great! For a moment, permit me to
embrace the millions from whom you and i derive. In all solemniity.: Yes,
I've read the "missings of Edward Said" , pushing us to remember and
establish us as the world. And , each of us, in the grand collectivity of
the world, write and use words as weapons,...what is it Engels
wrote...something about all we have is the pen....and inferring the fist at
some point. (1844). Off the top of my present momentary conscousness.
And allow me a moment, in this brief note, to honour those from whom I came,
a breviary - love of our Jesus - of angry, sparsely acceptible, "negro
"educated intellectuals who raged in my presence. (I was a minor member of
the family) that the "jews" were experiencing what we've long experienced"
.( A little person and i remember.) This little person was able to grow up
and not be abolished. To read in adolescence the eloquence through those of
the Monthly Review, previously referenced, the Pathfinder Press, "The
Discourse on Colonialism", Aime Cesaire.
Do you see how the desperate control of those who made
capital...humiliation, genocide etc. and the. yours and our courageous
recognition of the reproduction of capital, my peoples' labour and yours and
the angst of dying in that process, has always slivered through and now
exponentially through our working partners in information technology bring
you to your Christmas messages, which I'm still struggling to take time to
read?
An embrace from all who came before.
Pat Robinson
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America became a caste society
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040105&s=krugman
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Re: New Protocols of the Elders
Dear Israel,
You said:
Know your enemy' - and the following text is composed by an enemy, a
Strauss-taught American enforcer of the Elders' world. Regard his cunning,
do not be overwhelmed by his bragging, learn his weaknesses, find allies,
and defeat the bastard.
Shamir
I have read this text and of course it is one of the most chilling notions I
have yet seen. I wanted to remind you about something important to keep in
mind when reading his words.
I know who this "enemy" is. His name is FEAR. He has done us a great service
by showing himself to us in no uncertain terms. To attack him only makes him
stronger - for we play to his strength. Blessings upon him for showing us
his face so clearly. For this will cause us to look at ourselves and
remember that we are not Fear - but rather we are Love. If we want to rid
the world of the control of Fear, then we must become the manifestation of
who we really are - LOVE. So we do not need to feel overwhelmed that he will
win out. For that leads to more Fear. Let us be the Love that we are - one
to another. We can do this - one person at a time. And we can start with
loving our selves. Let us look with better eyes - and behold that we have a
lot of support from the natural world. The other children of our Earth
Mother still love us - in spite of ourselves. We are not alone - but One in
Love.
As always, my warmest regards to you and your family. And my thanks for your
messages.
With love,
Bear
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America and its Jewish Lobby:
From Anthony Saidy, LA
It was instructive watching C-SPAN coverage of top Democrats
who could become president. Each had to field questions about Israel.
Rep.Nancy Pelosi, Minority Leader, faced a student in Baltimore (site of
her family dynasty) who pointed out Israel's wealth and military power
and asked why US taxpayers should have to pay anything at all to Israel,
let alone the biggest part of the foreign aid budget. Her answer started
with 1948. "The birth of Israel was one of the happiest moments of the
20th century." After 3 minutes, the student said, "You haven't answered
my Q" and she simply said, "Because it's in the national interest of the
US." Case closed. (Pelosi, with Rep. Henry Waxman, D-L.A., was one of
those who jumped on Rep. Jim Moran[D-VA] for daring to say that the
influential Jewish community might have stopped the war in Iraq.)
Sen. John Kerry faced a caller in New Hampshire who said, "All of
you are afraid to criticize Sharon. Why?" Best Kerry came up with was
"Israel is fighting for its survival." (Thus resembling Kerry in the
election race. He and others had assailed Dean for daring to say that US
should be evenhanded in brokering peace in ME.)
An old socialist once taught me to ask, "Who's in charge of the
cash register?" Do you think the preponderance of Zionist donors to the
Dems' treasury might be crucial? E.g., Israeli emigre & movie mogul Haim
Saban bought them a new HQ for $7,000,000. It has been estimated that
each dollar donated by the Israel Lobby (disguised by a multitude of
PACs) to members of Congress brings Israel $1000 in aid.
To restore American democracy, radical campaign finance reform
is needed. But why should the Congress, 90% of whose incumbents enjoy
unchallengeable seats, enact it?
-AF Saidy
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From James Morris, LA
Re: Neo-con potpourri
Dear Israel,
Thank you very much for sending this to me.. I have forwarded it to General
Zinni as well.. The article by Professor MacDonald is excellent. Please also
access the following URL at your convenience:
http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewforum.php?f=15
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Re: Palestinian Art
Dear Israel Shamir,
We would like to let you know about the 2004 Palestinian Art Wall Calendar. The
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Vladimir Tamari Taleb A-Dweik Ahmad Nassar
Nabil 'Anani Samia Halabi Hani Zu'rob
Ghassan Kanafani Baha Al-Bukhari Ahlam Al-Faqih
Mohammad Al-Sayyed Suliman Mansour Youssef A-Dweik
The calendar is being sold online http://www.resistanceart.com and through local
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The calendar has been produced in cooperation with the League of Palestinian
Artists in Ramallah, and a percentage from all sales will be donated to them.
Please help us spread the word about the calendar.
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