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Migron Exposes Different Sides of Israeli Society

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How Migron Became a defining Israel landmark

Israel has a complex population, its made of secular and religious Jews, a vast community of ex-Russian citizens and a large Muslim minority (that is also spilt between religious and secular). The difference among Israeli religious Jews can be as big as (if not larger) then the difference between two Americans living in both ends of the great continent.

Migron, a Israeli settlement, has been the cause of much trouble in the political scene in the last four months, the Israeli high court of justice decision to evacuate the settlement was the final one in a long line of legal disputes over the case. The Israeli government itself had gotten into rough waters over the case, and much of the composition on the parliament today is a result of the Migron affair.

In simple words, Israeli settlers have established themselves on land that is Palestinian owned, without permits or license, or any agreement on the side legal owners. The settlers did go into negotiations over purchase of the land and how to make it legally theirs, but they did not conclude these negotiations or reached an agreement with the Palestinian owners. All these are facts that have been known and true for many years now, it is only the recent few months activity that exposes the many different faces of Israeli society.

The Israel left, namely “Shalom Achshiv” (“Peace now”) had been one of the major forces to come to the aid of the Palestinian land owners in this case and help them find legal counseling as well as public recognition of their side of the story. The activists of this movement are (mostly, but not only) secular Jews who seek justice for an Arab Palestinian minority.

The settlers themselves took a side part in the whole affair, they have been clear from them very start that they would not let this situation get out of hand or escalate into violence of any kind (towards the Israeli police or the Palestinians who live around them), they have only expressed a deep and profound sorrow about leaving their homes and not being sure of what alternative they will be given by the government. A few days ago the settlers were evicted, and they did so without any kind of resistance or trouble to the authorities, in a way it was a “model eviction” – showing that even far right Israeli settlers can be as peaceful and law-abiding as anyone else.

Only the events of last night shed a different light on the matter, and show another dimension to the Migron affair, in what has been by now called “price tag operations” far right activists have vandalized a monastery near Latrun in Israel, in a way that is consistent with the state of mind of the religious fanatics that they are they sprayed the walls with offenses directed towards the virgin Marry and Jesus.

And there you have it – three sides to the Israeli society, left wing activists helping out Palestinians get the law to rule in their favor, religious violent activists who engage in a war of religion on anything non Jewish in the land of Israel, and Israeli religious settlers who are evicted peacefully out of their houses of 30 years.

Israel’s religious nut cases do not need much to go out and punish non Jews

Canadian Gays Out of Touch With Reality Celebration

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A new documentary looks at the difficulties of Palestinian gays, on one side they are persecuted by their own families and hunted down to be killed, on the other they seek refuge in Israel, mainly the city of Tel Aviv and need to live in fear of being arrested by the police for being illegal aligns and a security risk.

The mathematics of this problem is not difficult, anyone will prefer to be arrested and interrogated for a few months and not be slaughtered like a goat by his own father or brothers, and this is exactly why many Arab gays choose to flee to Israel from their homes and villages, from Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt as well as from the Palestinian territory. However it is not a reality that any person needs to accept, anyone should be free to live a full and true life, and not be persecuted for their religious beliefs or sexual tendencies. It seems that many Israelis, especially gays, try and help their fellow gay Arabs, in this short trailer for the documentary by Yariv Mozer you can clearly see the support and help of local Israelis to the 3 “stars” of the film.

On the other hand we have a delirious group called “Queers Against Israeli Apartheid” who mange to get everything so wrong that they chant “the state of Israel has got to go”, on a false belief that somehow a democratic country, with Muslim Arabs serving as supreme court judges, police officers and politicians is somehow like South Africa of the past in which racial segregation was enforced on people of non white skin color.

By removing Israel from the Middle East you will lock all the options for most of the gays living in this area, since they are freely and openly hunted down and killed for being gay in all Arab countries. Somehow the gays of Toronto do not care about gays too much, but about committing to a lie based proclamation that Israel is an apartheid state.

When there is so much in this world today to protest and work against, the ongoing slighter in Syria, the situation of the Coptic minority in Egypt, the war and famine in South Sudan and the usual, repeated human rights violations in Iran these Canadian gays seem to out of touch with reality that they have chosen an unreal cause for concern, and focus their energy on hampering the only hope gays have in the middle east. Shame on them.

 

What Darkness Looms Ahead for Israel?

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In this past few years there has been a live, global, debate over the Iranian nuclear program and its potential meaning Israel, however this, as we all discover, is not the biggest threat to this country – but its own ignorant and anti democratic government and ministers.

The German celebrated author Gunter Grass had published a song that implies that Israel is the real threat to Iran and not the other way around, his song might suggest that Israel, with its vast nuclear arsenal of weapons is more a danger to Iran than Iran is to Israel. This is not the first time that a writer causes a minor disturbance by voicing a somewhat nothing to do with reality concern (since it is exclusively Iran that consistently calls for the destruction of Israel and promises its demise), but here this guy gets some special treatment for Israel’s interior minister, Eli Yishai.

Eli Yishai is Israel’s interior minister, he is the head of a movement which prides itself as a Sfaradi Jewish traditionalists, and of which a few prominent figures have spent, or are currently spending, some time in Israel penitentiaries as penalties for corrupt behavior. There is little doubt that Yishai is learned in the rules and laws of the Jewish religion, however he seems to have not taken any of this democratic ideas to heart.

And Mr. Yishai has decided that since Mr. Grass had published his legitimate opinion over Israel, in a poem that he wrote, that he will not be allowed to visit Israel and will be considered a persona non grata. In a move that is outrageously ignorant and unimaginably dangerous the (no less than) minister of interior of the state of Israel is banning someone because of his opinion, oh the dark future that looms over Israel if this man continues to dictate his totalitarian bolshevism and bars important voices from singing out in Israel.

What Is More Dangerous For Israel- Iranian Nukes or Eli Yishai

The Fine Print of the Arab Protest

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Not An Arab March - But Islamic March on Jerusalem

Today the news tell us that Israel is bracing itself for the coming of thousands of Arab protestors up to its boarders with Lebanon, Syria and Jordan. If you pay attention to the fine print you will soon understand that the word “Arab” is not correct here, it should have been “Muslim” protest, not an Arab one.

Arabs come in many shapes and colors, under different religions (Arab Christians, Arab Jews) and they span across a huge area that can not define, under one word, almost anything besides maybe “human”.

Thousands of Muslim protestors are planning to reach the boarders of Israel for a “March on Jerusalem” day, to mark the taking away of Muslim sovereignty by the Jewish state, note that they are not doing a march for peace, or a march for the equal and fair distribution of land between ethnic groups, they are marching to a religious city under the flag of taking it back to their religion.

There is no “march for equality” because it already exists, Israeli Arabs enjoy democratic rights and privileges that most of their brothers in the Muslim/Arab countries just next door do not have (see Syria and about 10,000 killed over a few months), there is no “March for splitting this area between Jews and Muslims” because this is not the goal of Muslims, as instructed under Islam, any place that was once governed by Islam should return to Muslim law.

And most of all, this is not a Palestinian protest, but a pan Islamic one, because it holds in it everything that is the base for the objection to the very existence to the state of Israel – Muslim faith and holy books.

Israel Postal Service and Jesus

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Don't you love it when Religions fight?

The Israeli postal service faced a problem, a missionary group had ordered thousands of copies of the new testimony to be sent to homes in many cities of Israel, a predominantly Jewish state (the only one there is on the face of this green planet). The books had a note attached to them, saying something along the lines of “a great catastrophe is about to happen, save yourself and your family by turning to christ our lord”.

This is just so messed up that no matter how you look at this you can get a good laugh. From the missionary position (that should be the first laugh right here) they are saving lives, helping Jews finally make the move to Christianity and embracing Jesus, the church has been trying to get Jews to turn Christian for 2,000 years now, mostly by burning them up, this time its in the form of rental persuasion.

The Jewish point is that the book by itself is dangerous (it says so in the bible, even suggesting moving to another religion is an offense punishable by death) but the note attached, the officials claim, will scare and terrorize people into reading the book, looking at the pictures and, yes, its all gone by then.

Here we have the classic case of religions fighting each other, with the main basic fear glaring out as if it was a firecracker on a moonless night, to be exposed to the ideas of another religion. The Jewish rabbi’s know that the fact that Christianity (as well as Islam) are so close to the Jewish faith (well, they were all born from the same book) and that both other religions make the basic same assumptions as to how the world was created that it is easy to just change and move on to the next religion in line.

The missionaries have the most difficult case, they are trapped in the never ending quest to get more subscribers, with the fear of eternal suffering they are forever doomed to walk the streets looking for someone to save, even if that someone does not want to be saved.

And the postal service, yes, this story does have a happy end, as it seems some of the Jewish mail men thought it was dangerous to distribute these copies because it was opposed to the Jewish faith, but some others, who are secular, simply thought that it is against any moral value to try and poison the minds of people with lies and fairytale stories, however both sides lose, the mail needs to be distributed, as much as anyone does not like it.

Now all we need to do is to wait for Jews to start sending the Bible to the many homes in the fair state of Utah.