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Torquemada’s Nightmare – Spain Wants Its Jews Back

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Nobody expects the Spanish in inquisition
Nobody expects the Spanish in inquisition

 

The surprising news from Spain announce that the country is considering to re-invite its long lost Jewish community to the country by granting citizenship to those who will prove ancient roots in Spain. The mass deportation of Jews occurred in the times of the Spanish inquisition, who aimed mainly to clear Spain of all religious minorities and create a fully Catholic Christian society.

Beyond the curiosity as to why do this (at all, or now), the response this suggestion has from the Jewish side is almost as astonishing as the proposal, while many Israelis are happy to explore the possibility of having another passport some Rabbis already published strong opinions against embracing a Spanish citizenship. It is reported that Rabbi Aviner has a very simple reason for denying the Spanish gesture, “Jews should never forgive the Spanish for the inquisition and accepting the passport will be interpreted as a sign of forgiveness”.

But who is Rabbi Aviner actually angry with? People who lived (and died) 500 years ago? is he going to look for Torquemada’s descendants and let them know he is upset with their long dead – and whom had absolutely no influence of any kind – forefather?, this is a philosophical question, however it should be clear to anyone living today that having issues with actions and resolutions that are centuries old are not relevant to any living person today. Furthermore, letting go of this grudge risks yet another destabilization in the form and shape of the modern Jewish identity which is structured around the terrible things done to these people during the 2,000 years of Christian bigotry and proudly followed by the Muslim world, in other words forgiveness and acceptance are the biggest dangers that this Rabbi has in keeping his flock nearby.

Back to the Spanish, why would they do this right now?, well the reasonable answer is to right the wrong, to patch a significant period in its history and apologize for the victims of its actions. But seriously, Spain and Israel has good relations,  as well as Jewish communities all over the world with Spain, so there is no issue here. Promotion the pluralist and tolerant Spanish culture was another reason, however anyone who visited Spain in the last 10 years knows the huge number of immigrants in its cities, Spain is one of the biggest immigration countries in the world.

The last possible reason, which is no doubt the most cynical one, is the financial crisis in the country, which is so dramatic and deep experts estimated a whole generation will live under it for most of its lifetime, is causing native Spanish to leave their country in search for a better life, an injection of a new type of population which Spain has not had for hundreds of years might just turn this thing around, however try and convince someone to move into a country he has no connection with only because 500 years ago an ancient ancestor might have lived there…

All of this reminds us of a great speech the wonderful Christopher Hitchens made, in which he mentions, naming one after the other, countries that forced its Jews to leave (or killed them) and eventually that country lost its power.

Israel’s Walls

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Israel has many walls, some say too many, one of those walls is also the most ancient one, the west wall of what was believed to be the Jewish temple in ancient times, the sole survivor of the brutal Roman destruction of Jerusalem as a response to the local disloyalty to Rome.

This wall has come to symbolize Jewish faith for many years, but the religious authorities, almost like anywhere else in the world, want to keep this place as their own and dictate to others how the place should be seen and treated. And so last week we witnessed an amazing site, Jewish women who want to pray and sing in the sight of the ancient Jewish temple being aggressively arrested by Israeli police, because this, somehow, offends the feelings of other people – most of them not even present on the site at the time.

The story is short and basic, orthodox Jews do not believe females have any place in public worship, they do not pray and they certainly do not put on them any of the distinctive Jewish clothing reserved for prayer – that is exclusively male. This does not end here, it seems that in Israel it is illegal to hurt the feelings of these people, so women can not dress the way they might want because someone else, living in a whole different place, is offended by that… WHAT?

A piece of religious clothing is restricted for male use only, in Israel, due to the request of religious authorities, and these women get abused for asking to do whatever they want to do for one hour per month, 11 hours annually total, because some people find that too much for their feelings, and they can not deal with it, and somehow the police goes along with this.

Nothing better to demonstrate the unholy grip religious authorities around the world have on normal regular good people, you can not do something because it offends someone who is not even there to be offended by it, they are offended by the idea of it – so your rights are smashed away at the idiotic aggressive back thinking beliefs of others, this can not be a good thing for Israeli society.

Emotions Have Been Raw in France

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Anyone reading the title would expect a clash, two sides who are upset and on the edge of eruption, a “tension has been high” kind of feeling on the streets. But no – you are reading this the wrong way, what this actually means is “Muslims in France are Increasing their anti Jewish Activities”, that is actually what the title means.

It seems that France (and Belgium) Muslim communities have stepped up their active and physical level of violence towards the Jewish population of those countries, one would expect just the opposite to happen as Muslims are now widely blamed for the massacre that took place in Toulouse a week ago, but as it happens this religion does not follow normal and decent rules.

So “Emotions have been raw in France” means that Muslims are now, somehow, even more aggravated than before by the mere existence of Jews in France and Belgium, even though the Jewish communities have been there hundreds of years before the waves of Muslim immigration to the continent. Jews have been hit with emotions, however these are more of fear and terror, and the response to those fears is simply to take cover and hope for the best. Muslims however, awaken to frenzy activity by the slaughter of 7 years old girl, and two younger boys, somehow take offense at the Jews, and now physically go after them.

Since this is clearly a war of religions, with all perpetrators being Islam’s followers and all victims clearly identified as Jewish, held on a predominantly Christian ground one would look up to the religious majority opinion – namely the Christian church response to these attacks, and the Vatican did express outrage over the Toulouse killings, and we can all but wait and see what the future holds – since Muslims are not only committed to killing Jews but other types of infidels as well.

Islamists Keep Going At Jews in France
Belgium's Islamists Join in As Well

Religious Murders and the Reasoning Behind It

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If there is one thing that the terrible acts of the Norway 2011 killing teach us is to wait a little to see who is really behind some of the worst acts humans are capable of. And comparing between Norway Oslo 2011 and France Toulouse 2012 was indeed something that was called for until the early morning hours of today, when it was clearly established that it is a Muslim group behind the killings in the Jewish school in that French city.

It is sometimes a cause of great wonder to us how the far right and religious fanatics seem identical in their purpose and their objectives, so much alike that both can be equally suspected of the same crime.

But lets talk about the main thing today, the response of EU foreign minister Baroness Ashton to the Toulouse killings, which obviously places her neatly in the Islamic radical corner of the world of politics. For some reason Ashton can not keep a fair distance between intention and result, this inability – or better phrased – unwillingness to distinguish  these two is the Western leftist main hobby in the last 10 years.

For Ashton if Israeli planes try to hit a terrorist who is, at that moment, engaged in activity that is dedicated to killing innocent non combatants in Israel, and in the attempt to destroy this person those Israeli war planes hit children who are playing in the next room (mainly because Palatinian terrorists engage in war only when they are nestled within the general population – with a preference to kindergartens) those Israeli planes are responsible for the killing of those children.

The measure of responsibility can be discussed, however the intention was never there, those planes did not lift off with orders to destroy young lives but with the orders to protect the innocent civilians of Israel who are under rocket and missile attacks. On many occasions that government of Israel publicly apologized for the damage caused to non combatants, however that does not change Ashtons opinion on it – for her it was as if the Israeli government assembled to declare war on a bunch of Palestinian children.

The fact is that no one in Israel, not in the political system and not in the religious authority has ever called for the destruction of Muslims, young or old, and there is a constant apologetic tone regarding deaths of non combatants from Israel for years, in direct contrast to the hysteric cries of massacre and murder for the sake of god that comes from every corner of the Arab and Palestinian world. For many Muslims do believe that Jews need to be killed – without going into details such as age or gender – just slaughter Jews and God will be happy.

So the poisoned mind of EU foreign minister Baroness Ashton leads her to the same reasoning as of a terrorist, if Israeli soldiers show up all geared up and ready to massacre Palastinian children why wouldn’t an armed young men drive over to a Jewish school and shot everyone down as a revenge – since these are basically the same thing?

It is not only EU foreign minister Baroness Ashton who is to blame for a mindset that is not only completely false, it also falls on the French media who does not resist the lie filled propaganda of religious war waged by Muslims against the state of Israel, and who are constantly connecting the unfortunate death of non combatants Muslims (because they do not do this for Jews) to a sort of Israeli purpose and goal.

Dieudonné Wants to Kill All White People?

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Hehe, no, its just Jews he wants to kill (all of them, babies and old alike), and in any case its just a joke, a silly little joke, no need to get crazy over it. Right?

Well, its pretty racist to say you have no choice but to kill someone just because of them being born into a culture, country, religion or color of any kind, but since this is a joke it is just a racist joke.

If a Jewish actor or a stand up comedian (there are a few of those I think) would make a poor joke about punishing Dieudonné for his stupidity by raping each one of his five children, it would also be a stupid and racist joke, because these children did not choose this person as their father, they have no control over what he does and says, why pick on small kids? (if they are not Jewish, that is).

And many times there are people who are only part Jewish, lets say someone who had a Jewish Grandmother, should he be killed? maybe we should just cut off his limbs, or just one hand and half a leg. Or a Jewish baby that has been taken from his family, he will grow up not knowing he is Jewish, should he still be killed? or a Jewish 6 year old girl in Paris, should we stab her in the heart and cut her stomach open, take her heart out and burn her body in the street? hehe – just a joke.

Kill Them All! (just a joke)

(this guy is a French comedian, already heavily involved in far-right activity and has some racist issues in his past, he is controversial and very blunt, however in his last production he has probably demonstrated how blind hater of any other group can deform your intelligence and sense of humor)