http://www.iamthewitness.com/books/Walter.White/Who.Brought.the.Slaves.to.America.htm - Who Brought the Slaves to America?

*Sign Reader,

Wow your conspiracy thoeries are interesting better than the X-files! I see this kind of rant equivalent to Jessie Jackson's rant on Obama.

When you grow up and stop blaming Jews for everything outside your poor ability to debate then I'll respect what your saying. But I cannot debate or dialogue with someone who thinks Jews are respeonsible for 90% if not 100% of the world's problems. Jews have their hands in a lot of things I will say, but i'm not going to sit here and blame jews for everything, because as we say growing up in my house you have a level of responsibility. A Jews as you say may have enslaved my ancestors and raped my women, took away my native language and my history but that doesn't make me want to strap bombs to my body and blow up their descendants. Today I'm the boss with the degree and the power I have a level of authority where many Jews, Muslims and Christians work under me, but I respect all equally as my fellow co-workers. So despite what history shows I will not hold people accountable for the horrific crimes their ancestors have done to my people, something many Arabs especially Jews need to understand.

Sign Reader:

 You started this point, now listen what I am going to tell you- There are levels stages in people's state of slavishness, Jessie has his own and Obama has his and you have yours!

Like I said this conversaiton is not about neoconservatives its about a generalization you continually make.

Wow you are an idiot. Do you not understanding? Powerful Jews who abuse their power must be judged INDEPEDENT of other jews across the world. It is therefore unfair to say "jews this, jews that" and judge them only citing the abuse made by Jews in political power. I'm saying there are millions of Jews across the world and all of them cannot be responsible for what other Jews do. A young Jewish boy from the bronx who plays baseball surely can't be responsible for what is going on in Palestine if he has not lived there. With respect to Dr. Iqbal I'm not going to dispute entirely what he says rather, I think the souls of some blacks are indeed in the hands of the majority and yes this chain plays on and on.

The problem is that to you people every thing is crap!

(Hazrat Israfil � in his Amreekan mode)

Once upon a time, I had the pleasure or, you could say, immense delight of feeling that I had found a genuine philosophical friend, just a bit off the practical sense way, but nevertheless a great philosophical friend. I had hoped that we shall interact and cause to contribute some goodness to this pobre ailing and injured world, to the global atmosphere poluted by London and Washington thugs

Sadly, it didn�t take much time for the first layer of beauty and charm to peel off.

Over these past few months that I have been absent from this august Community, I notice that my role model seems to have turned into absolute, pure and simple American crap.

We call other everyone else crap only and when we are!

Sadly, this dicussion of lingustical semantics is getting us nowhere.

God's Chosen People

The American people have been led to believe that Jews are "God's Chosen People". This myth was started by a small group of Jews. A few Jewish leaders took excerpts from the Bible and interpreted them as "Chosen People". But, isn't it odd that it is not the religious Jews who claim to be "God's Chosen People." It is the atheistic non-believing Jews who claim that honor.

Leading the cry, "We are God's Chosen People" are the Zionist/Marxist (Ashkenazi) Jews who for political purposes chose Judaism and who don't have a drop of biblical Jewish blood in them.

One Israeli religious Jew said it well, "At one time we Jews were chosen by God to be his messengers. But, long ago we forfeited that right".

Anyone who has read the Bible with an open mind knows that God gave Jews of that time special favors. But, it was in the form of covenants. In these covenants were conditions � the conditions were that God demanded the Jews obey His Word. Time after time the Jews broke the covenants. They rejected God and turned to adoring mammon. It doesn't take a biblical scholar to realize that long ago even the real Jews lost the right of being God's chosen people.

In comparing the degree to which the followers of the 3 major religions practice their beliefs, I make this observation:

Judaism � Few Jews, Sephardic or Ashkenazi, are religious. This is true in America, in Israel and world-wide.

Christianity � The Christians' religion has felt the influence of Jewish meddling and infiltration (especially in America) resulting in confusion and bickering between the various Christian denominations. This has led to a 'lukewarm' attitude among most Christians toward their religion. There is evidence to prove that Jews, or one of their many fronts, have started many of the Christian denominations and thus dominate doctrine.

Islam � Moslems, who follow the teachings of Islam, are by far the most fervent of the 3 major religions in following their religious beliefs.

The Judeo-Christian ethic we hear so much about in America is a big joke � the result of an intense Zionist propaganda campaign.

I'll toss in one last thought about the "God's Chosen People" myth: God said, 'Beware of those who call themselves Jews and are not, for they lie'. Could it be the Ashkenazi Jews are the people to whom God was referring?

1. Because Israel has continuously been involved in war or preparing for war, the cream of Israel's youth are leaving Israel or they find some excuse to not serve in the armed forces. The Israeli Army is so short of manpower that it is openly recruiting homosexuals of which Israel has an abundant supply. In 1976 an Israeli army officer testifying before the Knesset (Israel's Congress) said in effect, if we do not recruit homosexuals, we will not have enough manpower to fill the ranks.

Israel has a highly organized crime syndicate headquartered in Bat-Yam near Tel Aviv. Many members of the crime syndicate are ex-convicts and ex-commandos from the Israeli Army and they are highly skilled in the use of weapons and explosives.

The crime syndicate in Israel operates openly because of corruption in government and police circles. Some of the police and government officials are actively associated with the crime operation. The average American doesn't hear of this, the real side of Israel, because the Zionist controlled press, radio and TV in America keeps silent about it. But, in Israel some newspapers report the facts. For instance: Right in the middle of page one of the Hebrew language newspapers a couple of years ago was an article that said in effect, what the Italian mafia couldn't accomplish in 40 years, the Israeli mafia accomplished in 5 years. It has developed the largest illegal drug exporting ring in the Mideast, selling drugs mainly to Germany and the U.S. They have even set up a distribution network within Germany and the U.S.

Except for a few religious Jews who have emotional religious ties to the holy sites in Israel, and lower class Jews who can't afford to leave, all other decent Jews have left or are planning to leave. One big reason is the sin permeating virtually every phase of Israeli society is too much for decent Jews to endure.

Israel's Racist Policies

You will recall that I mentioned my troubles in Israel began when I, an Ashkenazi Jew, married a Sephardic Jewess. Anti-Sephardic treatment by Ashkenazi Jews is even official government policy. This racism runs very deep in Israel and sharply divides the Jewish population.

One day, I entered a cafe in Tel Aviv. The place was crowded and I sat down on the only seat available. Also sitting at this table were 5 Sephardic Jews from Morocco. They learned that I was studying the Hebrew language, so they were helping me with my studies when a blue-eyed, Nazi-type Israeli police officer walked into the cafe.

He ordered me to "Get away from those Kooshim. 'Kooshim' in Hebrew means 'Niggers.'

I replied, "After I finish eating".

The officer drew his service revolver and said, "You move now!"

"You had better listen to him," the cafe owner advised. So, I got up.

Standing close to me, the officer pointed his gun right at my face and ordered, "Throw your coffee and pastry on the floor".

With a gun pointed at me, I didn't argue, I threw the coffee and pastry on the floor.

Then he said, "Get out of here and don't come back." Later, I learned that I was lucky. He could have arrested me if he had wished; and he could have even shot me under vague Israeli laws.

In the U.S., if anyone complains of police brutality or misconduct, there is an investigation, but not in Israel. The person registering a complaint can expect police reprisal in the form of a beating. Besides being denied decent housing and decent employment because I was married to a Sephardic Jewess, I was the target of racial slurs. Several times I was even attacked by Ashkenazi Jews because I had married a Sephardic Jewess. Other American Ashkenazi who had gone to Israel and married Sephardic Jewesses received the same treatment as I. Because Sephardic Jews are victims of the racist practices against them, I had often heard, in Israel, a Sephardic Jew tell a European Ashkenazi Jew, "Hitler didn't kill enough of you bastards".

But... I want to tell you one more thing. You talk about... "Oh, the Jews.
Why the Jews ? Christianity. Why, we got Christianity from the Jews and
the Jews gave us Jesus, and the Jews gave us our religion". But do you know
that on the day of atonement that you think is so sacred to them, that on that
day... and I was one of them ! This is not hearsay. I'm not here to be a
rabble-rouser. I'm here to give you facts.
When, on the Day of Atonement, you walk into a synagogue, the very first
prayer that you recite, you stand -- and it's the only prayer for which you
stand -- and you repeat three times a short prayer. The Kol Nidre. In that
prayer, you enter into an agreement with God Almighty that any oath, vow,
or pledge that you may make during the next twelve months -- any oath, vow
or pledge that you may take during the next twelve months shall be null and
void.
The oath shall not be an oath; the vow shall not be a vow; the pledge shall
not be a pledge. They shall have no force and effect, and so forth and so on.
And further than that, the Talmud teaches: "Don't forget -- whenever you
take an oath, vow, and pledge -- remember the Kol Nidre prayer that you
recited on the Day of Atonement, and that exempts you from fulfilling that".
How much can you depend on their loyalty ? You can depend upon their
loyalty as much as the Germans depended upon it in 1916.

From:Jack Bernstein

July 25, 2008

The Epiphany of Rev. Thomas Are

Are You Ready to Face the Facts About Israel?

�On October 21 (1948) the Government of Israel took a decision that was to have a lasting and divisive effect on the rights and status of those Arabs who lived within its borders: the official establishment of military government in the areas where most of the inhabitants were Arabs.�

Martin Gilbert, http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1554700663/counterpunchmaga - Israel: a History

I had given up on finding an American with a moral conscience and the courage to go with it and was on the verge of retiring my keyboard when I met the Rev. Thomas L. Are.

Rev. Are is a Presbyterian pastor who used to tell his Atlanta, Georgia, congregation: �I am a Zionist.� Like most Americans, Rev. Are had been seduced by Israeli propaganda and helped to spread the propaganda among his congregation.

Around 1990 Rev. Are had an awakening for which he credits the Christian Canon of St. George�s Cathedral in Jerusalem and author Marc Ellis, co-editor of the book, http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0807069000/counterpunchmaga - Beyond Occupation .

Realizing that his ignorance of the situation on the ground had made him complicit in great crimes, Rev. Are wrote a book hoping to save others from his mistake and perhaps in part to make amends, http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0932863159/counterpunchmaga - Israeli Peace Palestinian Justice , published in Canada in 1994.

Rev. Are researched his subject and wrote a brave book. Keep in mind that 1994 was long prior to Walt and Mearsheimer�s recent book, which exposed the power of the Israel Lobby and its ability to control the explanation Americans receive about the �Israeli-Palestinian conflict.�

Rev. Are begins with an account of Israel�s opening attack on the Palestinians, an event which took place before most Americans alive today were born. He quotes the distinguished British historian, Arnold J. Toynbee: �The treatment of the Palestinian Arabs in 1947 (and 1948) was as morally indefensible as the slaughter of six million Jews by the Nazis. Though nor comparable in quantity to the crimes of the Nazis, it was comparable in quality.�

Golda Meir, considered by Israelis as a great leader and by others as one of history�s great killers, disputed the facts: �It was not as though there was a Palestinian people in Palestine and we came and threw them out and took their country away from them. They did not exist.�

Golda Meir�s apology for Israel�s great crimes is so counter-factual that it blows the mind. Palestinian refugee camps still exist outside Palestine filled with Palestinians and their descendants whose towns, villages, homes and lands were seized by the Israelis in 1948. Rev. Are provides the reader with Na�im Ateek�s description of what happened to him, an 11-year old, when the Jews came to take Beisan on May 12, 1948. Entire Palestinian communities simply disappeared.

In 1949 the United Nations counted 711,000 Palestinian refugees. [ http://domino.un.org/unispal.nsf/9a798adbf322aff38525617b006d88d7/93037e3b939746de8525610200567883%21OpenDocument - United Nations General Assembly Appendix 4, No. 15 ]

In 2005 the United Nations Relief and Works Agency estimated http://www.un.org/unrwa/publications/pdf/rr_countryandarea.pdf - 4.25 million Palestinians and their descendants were refugees from their homeland.

The Israeli policy of evicting non-Jews has continued for six decades. On June 19, 2008, the Laity Committee in the Holy Land reported in Window Into Palestine that the Israeli Ministry of Interior is taking away the residency rights of Jerusalem Christians who have been reclassified as �visitors in their own city.�

On December 10, 2007, MK Ephraim Sneh boasted in the Jerusalem Post that Israel had achieved �a true Zionist victory� over the UN partition plan �which sought to establish two nations in the land of Israel.� The partition plan had assigned Israel 56 percent of Palestine, leaving the inhabitants with only 44 percent. But Israel had altered this over time. Sneb proudly http://cgis.jpost.com/Blogs/sneh/entry/annapolis_a_true_zionist_victory - declared : �When we complete the permanent agreement, we will hold 78 percent of the land while the Palestinians will control 22 percent.�

Sneb could have added that the 22 percent is essentially a collection of unconnected ghettos cut off from one another and from roads, water, medical care, and jobs.

Rev. Are documents that the abuse of Palestinians� human rights is official Israeli policy. Killings, torture, and beatings are routine. On May 17, 1990, the Washington Post reported that Save the Children �documented indiscriminate beating, tear-gassing and shooting of children at home or just outside the house playing in the street, who were sitting in the classroom or going to the store for groceries.�

On January 19, 1988, Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin, later Prime Minister, announced the policy of �punitive beating� of Palestinians. The Israelis described the purpose of punitive beating: �Our task is to recreate a barrier and once again put the fear of death into the Arabs of the area.�

According to Save the Children, beatings of children and women are common. Rev. Are, citing the report in the Washington Post, writes: �Save the Children concluded that one-third of beaten children were under ten years old, and one-fifth under the age of five. Nearly a third of the children beaten suffered broken bones.�

On February 8, 1988, Newsweek magazine quoted an Israeli soldier: � We got orders to knock on every door, enter and take out all the males. The younger ones we lined up with their faces against the wall, and soldiers beat them with billy clubs. This was no private initiative, these were orders from our company commander. . . . After one soldier finished beating a detainee, another soldier called him �you Nazi,� and the first man shot back: �You bleeding heart.� When one soldier tried to stop another from beating an Arab for no reason, a fist fight broke out.�

These were the old days before conscience was eliminated from the ranks of the Israeli military.

In the London Sunday Times, June 19, 1977, Ralph Schoenman, executive director of the Bertrand Russell Foundation, wrote: �Israeli interrogators routinely ill-treat and torture Arab prisoners. Prisoners are hooded or blindfolded and are hung by their wrists for long periods. Most are struck in the genitals or in other ways sexually abused. Most are sexually assaulted. Others are administered electric shock.�

Amnesty International concluded that �there is no country in the world in which the use of official and sustained torture is as well established and documented as in the case of Israel.�

Even the pro-Israeli Washington Post reported: �Upon arrest, a detainee undergoes a period of starvation, deprivation of sleep by organized methods and prolonged periods during which the prisoner is made to stand with his hands cuffed and raised, a filthy sack covering the head. Prisoners are dragged on the ground, beaten with objects, kicked, stripped and placed under ice-cold showers.�

Sounds like Abu Gharib. There are news reports that Israeli torture experts participated in the torture of the detainees assembled by the American military as part of the Bush Regime�s propaganda onslaught to convince Americans that Iraq was overflowing with al Qaeda terrorists. On July 23, 2008, Antiwar.com posted an Iraqi news report that the Iraqi government had released a total of 109,087 Iraqis that the Americans had �detained.� Obviously, these �terrorist detainees� had been used for the needs of Bush Regime propaganda. No one will ever know how many of them were abused by Israeli torturers imported by the CIA.

Rev. Are�s book makes sensible suggestions for resolving the conflict that Israel began. However, the problem is that Israeli governments believe only in force. The policy of the Israeli government has always been to beat, kill, and brutalize Palestinians into submission and flight. Anyone who doubts this can read the book of Israel�s finest historian Ilan Pappe, http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1851685553/counterpunchmaga - The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2006).

Americans are a gullible and naive people. They have been complicit for 60 years in crimes that in Arnold Toynbee�s words �are comparable in quality� to the crimes of Nazi Germany. As Toynbee was writing decades ago, the accumulated Israeli crimes might now be comparable also in quantity.

The US routinely vetoes United Nations condemnations of Israel for its brutal crimes against the Palestinians. Insouciant American taxpayers have been bled for a half century to provide the Israelis with superior military weapons with which Israelis assault their neighbors, all the while convincing America--essentially a captive nation--that Israel is the victim.

John F. Mahoney wrote: �Thomas Are reminds me of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: an active pastor who comes to the unsettling realization that he and his people have been fed a terrible lie that is killing and torturing thousands of innocent men, women and children. Not without ample research and prayer does such a pastor, in turn, risk unsettling his congregation. The Reverend Are has done his homework and, I suspect, has prayed often and long during the writing of this courageous book.�

Bonhoeffer was a Lutheran theologian and pastor who was executed for his active participation in the German Resistance against Nazism.

Professor Benjamin M. Weir, San Francisco Theological Seminary, wrote: � This book will make the reader squirm. It asks you to lend your voice in behalf of the voiceless.�

Americans who can no longer think for themselves and who are terrified of disapproval by their peer group are incapable of lending their voices to anyone except those who control the world of propaganda in which they live.

The ignorance and unconcern of Americans is a great frustration to my friends in the Israeli peace movement. Without outside support those Israelis, who believe in good will and do not share their government�s belief in Lenin�s doctrine that violence is the only effective force in history, are deprived, by America�s support for their government�s policy of violence, of any peaceful resolution of a conflict began in 1947 by Israeli aggression against unsuspecting Palestinian villages.

Rev. Are wrote his book with the hope that the pen is mightier than the sword and that facts can crowd out propaganda and create a framework for a just resolution of the Palestinian issue. In his concluding chapter, �What Christians Can Do,� Rev. Are writes: �We cannot allow others to dictate our thinking on any subject, especially on anything as important as Christian faithfulness, which is tested by an attitude towards seeking justice for the oppressed. It�s a Christian�s duty to know.�

Duty, of course, has costs. Rev. Are writes: �Speak up for the Palestinians and you will make enemies. Yet, as Christians, we must be willing to raise issues that until now we have chosen to dodge.�

More than a decade later, President Jimmy Carter, a true friend of Israel, tried again to awaken Americans� moral conscience with his book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.
Carter was instantly demonized by the Israel Lobby.

Sixty years of efforts by good and humane people to hold Israel accountable have so far failed, but they are more important today than ever before. Israel has its captive American nation on the verge of attacking Iran, the consequences of which could be catastrophic for all concerned. The alleged purpose of the attack is to eliminate nonexistent Iranian nuclear weapons. The real reason is to eliminate all support for Hamas and Hezbollah so that Israel can seize the entire West Bank and southern Lebanon. The Bush regime is eager to do Israel�s bidding, and the media and evangelical �christian� churches have been preparing the American people for the event.

It is paradoxical that Israel is demonstrating that veracity lies not in the Christian belief in good will but in Lenin�s doctrine that violence is the effective force in history and that the evangelical Christian Zionist churches agree.

Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review. He is coauthor of http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/076152553X/counterpunchmaga - The Tyranny of Good Intentions. He can be reached at: mailto:[email protected] - [email protected]