Jews held over Jerusalem 'bombs'

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What Jews think

What Jews think 01/25/2004 09:30 AM
Hanan Cohen sends along a link to the American Jewish Committee's 2003 Annual Survey of American Jewish Opinion. The sample of 1,000 self-identified Jews, a representative cross-section of Americans, has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 points. 76% of us think caring about Israel is a very important part of being a Jew. Only 5% are more positive this year than last about the chance for peace. 81% of us think ""The goal of the Arabs is not the return of occupied territories but rather the destruction of Israel," but 54% support the creation of a Palestinian...

Commentary - The UN and the Jews

Commentary - The UN and the Jews 02/18/2004 05:11 AM
"What that something is has become too clear to deny: over the past several decades, the UN has fashioned itself into perhaps the foremost global platform for anti-Semitism." .. full Commentary article .. Anne Bayefsky

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Watch out for them jews...

Watch out for them jews... 04/13/2004 08:41 AM
Searching Google for the word "Jew" brings up a clearing house of anti-jewish propaganda, Jew Watch.
WTF?

C.C. Hates the Jews

C.C. Hates the Jews 12/26/2003 01:44 AM
Though Hanukkah sales are down more than 90 percent at the Dallas-area Party City stores this holiday season, they're doing brisk business in white hoods, robes, and rope. (12-26)

Israel to take all Ethiopian Jews

Israel to take all Ethiopian Jews 01/08/2004 07:13 PM
The last 18,000 members of Ethiopia's Jewish community can start coming to Israel, says the foreign minister.

The Jews vs. The Drug Dealer

The Jews vs. The Drug Dealer 07/26/2004 05:33 PM
What follows is a true story sent to me (and a few other friends) by a friend who we'll refer to as Bob. Only names have been changed. I laughed my ass off while reading it. You may or may not, since you do not know Bob. But I couldn't let the story remain in obscurity. "Bob" and "Sam" recently had this adventure. Here's how it happened: Yesterday afternoon my friend Sam comes into my office and tells me that...

Kurds are the Closest Relatives of Jews

Kurds are the Closest Relatives of Jews 12/29/2004 08:16 PM
Kurds are the Closest Relatives of Jews Funny, They don't look Jewish:"Research has just begun into the ancient ties between Kurds and Jews. It would be interesting to see if the various Jewish groups have as strong a family tie to Kurds in the maternal lineages as they do in the paternal lineages. Preliminary studies indicate that Jewish populations in eastern Europe and Yemen have maternal origins that contain much more non-Israelite ancestry than their paternal origins. Despite this admixture with other groups, the Jewish Judean people ultimately began their existence in an area within or nearby Kurdistan, prior to migrating southwest to Israel. This exciting research showing that Kurds and Jews may have shared common fathers several millennia ago should, hopefully, encourage both Kurds and Jews to explore each others' cultures and to maintain the friendship that Kurds and Jews enjoyed in northern Iraq in recent times (as chronicled in Michael Rubin's recent article "The Other Iraq"). As Rubin indicates, the Kurdish leader Mullah Mustafa Barzani once visited Israel and met with Israeli government officials. Rubin refers to the Iraqi Kurds' "special affinity for Israel" and writes that "In the safe haven of Iraqi Kurdistan, the Jews and Israel are remembered fondly, if increasingly vaguely." Let us hope that this relationship can be renewed and strengthened."

Israel takes in 200 French Jews

Israel takes in 200 French Jews 07/28/2004 03:11 PM
Two hundred French Jewish immigrants arrive in Israel, amid tensions over anti-Semitic attacks in France.

"“Those Jews”: If only Israel and its
supporters would disappear "

"“Those Jews”: If only Israel and its
supporters would disappear " 11/01/2003 04:13 AM

George W.'s re-inauguration: a day of
celebration for Jews and gynecologists

George W.'s re-inauguration: a day of
celebration for Jews and gynecologists 02/01/2005 09:38 PM

As George W. is sworn in today for a second term, it occurs to me how grateful American Jews should be that he won.  For those Americans, of whom there are a fair number (see my Israel Essay for statistics), who believe that Jews have too much political power and, in particular, that Jewish Wall Street financiers control American politics behind the scenes, imagine what feelings a Kerry victory would have provoked.  We had an anti-gun candidate who had presented himself to voters for decades as Irish-American but was in fact one-quarter Jewish.  A majority of American Jews voted for this candidate, who was also supported with massive funds from George Soros, a Jewish baron of Wall Street, resulting in Kerry and Democratic "527 committees" spending $292 million during the campaign (versus $113 million on the Republican side, according to www.publicintegrity.org).&nb sp; If it were Kerry being sworn in today that would have confirmed everything that a lot of folks believe about a Jewish conspiracy controlling American politics.

One group that does seem to be celebrating today are America's gynecologists.  My aviation habit has thrown me into contact with a lot of ob-gyns, none of whom have shed a tear over the defeat of John Edwards, the Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate, who made much of his money suing ob-gyns for cerebral palsy cases.

French Jews 'must move to Israel'

French Jews 'must move to Israel' 07/18/2004 01:34 PM
Israeli PM Ariel Sharon urges all Jews in France to relocate immediately to escape anti-Semitic attacks.

Orthodox Jews Worry Water Isn't Kosher
(AP)

Orthodox Jews Worry Water Isn't Kosher
(AP) 06/01/2004 07:32 AM
AP - Orthodox Jews in New York have become concerned that the city's drinking water may not be kosher because it contains tiny crustaceans known as copepods.

Latest Philip Roth novel: Aviation and
Jews

Latest Philip Roth novel: Aviation and
Jews 12/17/2004 06:36 PM

Just finished Philip Roth's latest novel, Th e Plot Against America, a worthy addition to any Jewish pilot's bookshelf.  Roth concentrates on his usual terrain of Newark, NJ Jewish family life.  This time the background is an America in which Charles Lindbergh has beaten FDR in the 1940 presidential election.  Lindbergh proceeds to negotiate deals with Japan and Germany rather than enter World War II and the federal government initiates some programs designed to disperse Jews from their traditional neighborhoods in places such as Newark out into the American heartland, e.g., rural Kentucky.

A lame ending and not as good as Am erican Pastoral, for which Roth won the Pulitzer, but a lot better than Roth's early novels and worth a try even if you were at some point forced to read Portnoy's Complaint.

Serbian Gypsies and Jews in Dispute Over
Cemetery

Serbian Gypsies and Jews in Dispute Over
Cemetery 08/22/2004 06:29 AM
A once indifferent Jewish population is objecting to the building of a sewer system through an ancient cemetery in a Serbian city's Gypsy quarter.

Ben Shapiro: It's time for American Jews
to open their eyes

Ben Shapiro: It's time for American Jews
to open their eyes 06/17/2004 07:04 AM
Ben Shapiro: It's Time For American Jews To Open Their Eyes .. Jews to give up on the Democratic party .. latest article

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A Dutch Soccer Riddle: Jewish Regalia
Without Jews

A Dutch Soccer Riddle: Jewish Regalia
Without Jews 03/28/2005 01:08 AM
A troubling trend for a Dutch soccer team with a "Jewish" identity: Anti-Semitic chants and gestures from the bleachers.

Ukranian cave system that hid Jews from
Nazis for nearly a year

Ukranian cave system that hid Jews from
Nazis for nearly a year 07/22/2004 12:52 AM
This is an incredible National Geographic piece on the exploration of the Priest's Grotto, a cave system in the Ukraine where 38 Jews hid from the Nazis for nearly a year.

Once inside, Nicola marveled at not only the remarkable natural features of the cave but signs of human presence, including walls and old shoes and walls made of stones...

"It's amazing," Nicola told National Geographic News. "When I go into a cave I have special boots, because an ankle sprain deep in a cave could be serious business. I have special wicking underwear, so I don't get hypothermia, a special suit, special gloves for gripping things. I have three independent light sources—that's a standard rule. This is all for a day trip into a cave, and yet this is a situation where average people lived here for nearly a year."...

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"Without Jerusalem, there will be no
peace"

"Without Jerusalem, there will be no
peace" 04/05/2005 09:21 AM
Arabs decry Israel's plan to build a ring of Jewish neighborhoods around the Old City, saying Sharon wants to keep it from becoming the Palestinian capital.

Mel Gibson, the Jews, Haiti, and blaming
it all on people who died 175 years ago

Mel Gibson, the Jews, Haiti, and blaming
it all on people who died 175 years ago 03/08/2004 11:03 PM

People are blaming all of the Jew-hatred in Mel Gibson's new movie on the visions of a German nun, Sister Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774-1824).  According to this article from Newsday:

The bedridden visionary, who is said to have borne the stigmata and the wounds of the crown of thorns, is a particular source of contention for Gibson because of her depictions of Jews as bloodthirsty and venal. In The Dolorous Passion, for instance, she "sees" Jewish priests passing out bribes to get people to offer false testimony against Jesus and even tipping the Roman executioners. She also describes seeing Jesus' cross being built in the courtyard of the Temple in Jerusalem.

And Emmerich's 19th-century biographer, the Rev. C.E. Schmoe'ger, wrote about how she had one vision of an "old Jewess Meyr," who confessed to her "that Jews in our country and elsewhere strangled Christian children and used their blood for all sorts of suspicious and diabolical practices."

Gibson, who carries a relic of Emmerich in the form of a faded piece of cloth from her habit, vehemently rejects characterizations of the nun as anti-Semitic.

In other news... I was listening to NPR news a couple of days ago.  All of Haiti's current troubles were being blamed on things that the French did in 1825 and this proposition was discussed seriously for 15 minutes.  Haiti does seem to be in rather tough shape, at least going by the CIA Factbook page:

"About 80% of the population lives in abject poverty.  ... The economy shrank an estimated 1.2% in 2001 and an estimated 0.9% in 2002.  Literacy rate is 53%."

Despite an HIV infection rate of 6.1% and a lot of deaths from AIDS the population is still growing at an annual rate of 1.67%, i.e., there are an ever-increasing number of Haitians to share an ever-smaller pie.  (cf. Malthus)

Perhaps there are more problems in our world of 2004 that can be blamed on those French and Germans who died circa 1825...  Anyone care to suggest some dead Europeans to blame in the comments section?

Pope John Paul II Knew the Pain of
Palestinians and Jews

Pope John Paul II Knew the Pain of
Palestinians and Jews 04/03/2005 07:58 AM
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Suicide attack on Jerusalem bus

Suicide attack on Jerusalem bus 01/29/2004 03:49 AM
At least 10 people are killed as a suspected suicide blast rips apart a bus in west Jerusalem.

Gloom at end of Jerusalem summit

Gloom at end of Jerusalem summit 06/22/2005 01:59 AM
A summit with Israel fails to meet Palestinian expectations though Ariel Sharon's government reports progress.

Next Jerusalem.pm Meeting Announcement

Next Jerusalem.pm Meeting Announcement 08/27/2004 01:41 PM
offerk writes "The Jerusalem Perl Mongers will hold their next meeting on Wednesday, August 25 at 6 p.m. Motke Keshet will lecture about 'Raw Data Engine - A Perl Generic Cure for a Perennial Problem,' introducing various techniques in Perl programming ...

BBC NEWS | Middle East | French Jews
'must move to Israel'

BBC NEWS | Middle East | French Jews
'must move to Israel' 07/19/2004 01:06 AM
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon Has Urged All French Jews To Move To Israel Immediately To Escape Anti-Semitism

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Jerusalem Blast Injures 5 Palestinians
(AP)

Jerusalem Blast Injures 5 Palestinians
(AP) 05/08/2004 04:02 PM
AP - An explosion went off in a grocery store in an Arab neighborhood of Jerusalem on Saturday, injuring at least five Palestinians, police said.

Jerusalem Post Internet Edition

Jerusalem Post Internet Edition 06/27/2004 04:41 AM
Jpost.com - Sat Jun 26, 08:57 pm GMT

Explosion rattles east Jerusalem

Explosion rattles east Jerusalem 05/08/2004 04:08 PM
A blast seriously injures three people at a shop just outside the Old City in the Palestinian part of the city.

Suicide bomber strikes Jerusalem

Suicide bomber strikes Jerusalem 09/22/2004 10:25 AM
A Palestinian suicide bomber blows herself up at a bus stop in Jerusalem, killing two people.

Israel warning on Jerusalem site

Israel warning on Jerusalem site 09/26/2004 11:19 AM
Israel's security minister warns a sacred site in Jerusalem will collapse unless the number of Muslim pilgrims is limited.

Car Bomb Kills Two, Wounds 16 Near
Jerusalem

Car Bomb Kills Two, Wounds 16 Near
Jerusalem 08/11/2004 01:53 PM
Reuters via Wired News Aug 11 2004 5:43PM GMT

Jerusalem land seizures 'illegal'

Jerusalem land seizures 'illegal' 02/01/2005 09:19 PM
Israel's top legal official tells the government to halt confiscating Palestinian property in East Jerusalem.

Free municipal WiFi in Jerusalem

Free municipal WiFi in Jerusalem 09/05/2004 11:56 PM
Xeni Jardin: Following up on last week's post about the city of Philadelphia considering free wireless 'net access for all, BoingBoing reader cyphunk says, "Pfff. Jerusalem (Israel) is already rolling out free wifi for the ENTIRE city -- starting with major commercial areas." Link to news story.

Suicide Bomber Kills Two in Jerusalem
(AP)

Suicide Bomber Kills Two in Jerusalem
(AP) 09/22/2004 10:57 PM
AP - A missile from an Israeli helicopter wounded 12 in a Palestinian refugee camp in Gaza early Thursday after a teenager from the West Bank evaded roadblocks and blew herself up next to a busy Jerusalem bus stop, killing two policemen.

Jerusalem barrier route revealed

Jerusalem barrier route revealed 03/14/2005 06:04 PM
Israel's disputed barrier will cut off East Jerusalem and a major Jewish settlement from the West Bank, reports say.

'ZORBA THE ANTI-SEMITE': Composer on
JEWS: 'These little people are the root
of evil'

'ZORBA THE ANTI-SEMITE': Composer on
JEWS: 'These little people are the root
of evil' 11/13/2003 08:53 AM
Greece's most popular composer .. horrific bigot .. Yahoo News

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Suicide Bombing Kills at Least One in
Jerusalem (Reuters)

Suicide Bombing Kills at Least One in
Jerusalem (Reuters) 09/22/2004 10:17 AM
Reuters - A Palestinian woman suicide bomber wearing a veil blew herself up near a hitch-hiking post in Jerusalem on Wednesday, killing one person and wounding 15 in the first such attack in the city in seven months.

Car Bomb Near Jerusalem Kills Two,
Wounds 16 (Reuters)

Car Bomb Near Jerusalem Kills Two,
Wounds 16 (Reuters) 08/11/2004 10:08 AM
Reuters - A car bomb exploded between two Israeli army checkpoints on a busy transit route outside Jerusalem Wednesday, killing two Palestinians and wounding 16 people in the first such attack for six months.

A Cruel Fate in Jerusalem: Will Mahdi,
6, Walk Again?

A Cruel Fate in Jerusalem: Will Mahdi,
6, Walk Again? 08/19/2004 01:55 AM
The boy was gravely wounded when a Palestinian militant blew up explosives prematurely at an Israeli checkpoint.

Checkpoint Bomb Near Jerusalem Kills 2,
Wounds 19

Checkpoint Bomb Near Jerusalem Kills 2,
Wounds 19 08/11/2004 01:53 PM
Reuters via Wired News Aug 11 2004 5:42PM GMT
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Tribute to Fortune Red, Disneyland's
fortune-telling pirate

Tribute to Fortune Red, Disneyland's
fortune-telling pirate 09/19/2004 06:17 AM
Cory Doctorow: Randall sez, "Showcasing the now-extinct shooter arcade that once graced the exit to Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean attraction, The Pirates Arcade page offers your chance to have Fortune Red, the fortne-telling pirate machine tell your fortune. Click on the "Fortune Red Has This To Say..." button, and one of the 20 possible fortunes will be delivered in a popup window. Most fortunes make reference to one Disneyland attraction or another, including the long-gone Mine Train Through Nature's Wonderland." Link (Thanks, Randall!)

Fortune.com - Fortune 500 - The Money
Machines

Fortune.com - Fortune 500 - The Money
Machines 07/24/2004 04:53 AM
92% de los americanos prefieren acceso a un cajero automtico que a su email .. A history of the ATM Machine

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Caterpillar: Making a Killing in
Palestine?

Caterpillar: Making a Killing in
Palestine? 04/02/2005 02:46 AM
Arabic Media Internet Network Apr 2 2005 5:16AM GMT

Israel and Palestine, Choosing Sides

Israel and Palestine, Choosing Sides 09/24/2004 05:35 AM
Pressure Groups and Censorship in Israel/Palestine. "I suspect that the causes are complicated and multi-factorial. I suspect that I and others like me – who remained ignorant and negligent on this issue for so long – bear much of the guilt. I suspect that others whose emotional ties to Israel served as blinders on this subject share in our culpability. I suspect that still others who knew the truth and refused to speak of it, or who participated in its cover-up, bear a significant portion of this awful responsibility. I suspect that the career damage and death threats that often result when one begins to speak out on this issue played a part."

Bush hums a lively tune on Palestine

Bush hums a lively tune on Palestine 04/15/2005 06:51 PM
Arabic Media Internet Network Apr 15 2005 11:01PM GMT

Intifada spurs Palestine internet boom

Intifada spurs Palestine internet boom 12/11/2003 09:43 PM
Electronic Intifada Dec 11 2003 8:39PM ET

ISRAEL VS.
PALESTINE: THE INTRACTABLE, ENDLESS
WAR

ISRAEL VS.
PALESTINE: THE INTRACTABLE, ENDLESS
WAR 05/27/2004 04:36 AM

Things are usually the way they are for a reason. But there are few situations in the world that appear, from a distance, as unreasonable as the war between Israel and Palestine, a war that has been going on, in essence, without let-up for more than half a century. At one point the efforts to reach a peace settlement got so close to success that the negotiators on each side received Nobel Peace prizes for their efforts. But the dream didn't last, and for reasons we couldn't fathom, the cycle of bloodshed, escalation and retaliation cranked up again and is now at firestorm levels, threatening to push the entire Mideast into even more cataclysmic violence. The reason we couldn't fathom this, is because we've never lived there, never walked a mile in their shoes. In The New Yorker this week, Jeffrey Goldberg provides us with an excellent proxy for such an experience, as he crisscrosses the area, from Israel's "ideologues of aggressive settlement" to Palestinian mothers teaching their children the honour of death in the holy war against the Jews, describing what he sees and what he hears from those in power, and from those who have nothing. It is a gut-wrenching, depressing journey. You'll need to buy the May 31 edition to read it, and I would recommend it highly. Alternatively, you can listen to Goldberg summarize his findings, along with a slide show of photos by Gilles Peress, here. One of those photos, of a Palestinian woman peering through a temporary gap in the new Israeli Separation Wall, is reproduced above. Goldberg makes no secret of his personal view of all this: The leaders of the Jewish national-religious camp do not adhere to observable reality, They exist in the glorious Jewish past and in the messianic future but not in the reality of today, in which Jewish soldiers give their lives to protect settlements; in which Palestinians live and die at checkpoints; in which Israel is becoming a pariah among the nations; and in which Israel may one day cease to exist as a democratic Jewish state. [Michael Tarazi, legal advisor to the Palestinian negotiating team says] "Settlements are the vanguard of binationalism" -- a single state that would soon have an Arab majority. "I don't care if they build more. The longer they stay out there, the more Israel will appear to the world to be essentially an apartheid state."... "We have to look at the way the South Africans did it. The world is increasingly intolerant of the Zionist idea. We have to capture the imagination of the world. We have to make this an argument about apartheid." The view of the moderate majority on both sides is that the best of a sorry lot of options is to have Israel dismantle the settlements and withdraw from the pathetic Gaza Strip and the volatile West Bank, to the so-called Green Line, the UN-brokered treaty line after the last "official" war. But that majority view is very fragile, and violently opposed by a significant minority on both sides. The settlements in the occupied territories are the flash-point, where hugely outnumbered Jews, many of them vehemently anti-Arab, provocative, and uncompromising, are surrounded by largely militant Palestinians ready to lay down their lives to reclaim "their homeland", and protected by an Israeli army that has ceased being protectors and become an army of occupation, many of whom are all too willing to demonstrate violently which side they support, as Goldberg reports. There are no good guys and bad guys in this war, and every confrontation, of which there are thousands, at every checkpoint, every attack by Arab militants (many of them children), every razing of Palestinian homes to make way for more Iraqi settlements, every suicide bombing, radicalizes both sides and renders the position of the moderate majority untenable. The extremists on both sides, outnumbered though they may be, are firmly in control of the political agenda, and their every provocative act strengthens their position rather than ostracizing them. The "ideologues of aggressive settlement" on the Israeli side, and especially in the settlements, largely believe that all of the occupied territories are theirs by divine right, and that it is the will of God that all Arabs be expelled from their holy land in its entirety -- that, as their website says, "There is no Palestine". And the militants and zealots on the Palestinian side, among the poorest and most destitute people on the face of the Earth, and with one of the highest birth rates, state categorically that they would not stop fighting if Israel withdrew from Gaza and the West Bank, but would merely be encouraged to continue the war until all Jews were extinguished from their holy land. The rabidly intolerant have the will and the ready means to scuttle every attempt at compromise, to embarrass moderates, to incite violence and then say "I told you so." There is nothing particularly unique in this, of course. Many of the tribal wars in Africa, the ethnic wars in the Balkan states, and the insane religious war in Northern Ireland, exhibit the same shameful, and shameless, pattern of violence and intransigence. The next, inevitable attack by Islamic fundamentalists on US soil will surely produce the same knee-jerk result in the US, and launch another war to treat the symptoms and exacerbate the disease. Ariel Sharon, less moderate than most but less extreme than the extremists, has taken an impossible 'middle' course sure to satisfy no one: Withdraw from Gaza, kind of (there are a host of conditions that render the withdrawal largely a joke to Palestinians), and bulldoze Palestinian homes to build a mammoth wall, not along the Green Line but deep inside the West Bank to "protect" the Jewish settlements, which are everywhere, not just in the border areas. The partisan, bipartisan support he has received in the US shows how little America's leaders understand the realities of the area's politics. As I've said before, the only answer, and it will take decades, perhaps centuries to achieve, is to deal with the underlying humanitarian issues, to give Palestinians a reason to value peace, "something to lose", and help them build infrastructure and educational institutions, and a future to believe in. Poverty, ignorance and inequality, not religious and ethnic hatred, are the real enemies of peace. It doesn't matter whether the area is partitioned into two states, fairly or unfairly, or made into a single apartheid state. Things are the way they are for a reason, and in Israel-Palestine the reason is entrenched, and there is no short-term answer. No matter who represents the two sides, there will be decades of violence, war, and bloodshed to come, and it is inexcusable and ignorant of those of us who don't live there to take sides for cynical political gain. Let us instead -- as we should be doing in Afghanistan, Iraq, and all the other areas we have recklessly meddled in, in the absurd and arrogant belief that we understand the problems and have all the answers -- let us instead invest in infrastructure, in education, in building a better world even as the zealous minorities try to tear it apart. The founders of the religions we all claim to believe in would surely understand, and nod in assent.

"Davids Medienkritik: Jews In German
Public TV / Juden im deutschen
öffentlich-rechtlichen Fernsehen [take a
look at the pictures]"

"Davids Medienkritik: Jews In German
Public TV / Juden im deutschen
öffentlich-rechtlichen Fernsehen [take a
look at the pictures]" 04/28/2004 05:33 PM

Jews held over Jerusalem 'bombs'

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