Wow, it's very interesting how many people so ardently protect Israel. Of course we've all been raised to believe Jews are victims--what with the whole Holocaust thing--but the realities of the Holocaust and the nature of Israel in general has been completely pulverized by the Jewish-controlled media for decades. In reality Jews DO hold an incredible amount of power in the world. They control the money, and where there is money in this world, there is political power. They own the media. They own the banks. They own entertainment, food, and almost any other multi-national corporation you can think of. That is not racist, that is fact. They are not weaklings, but Israel wants you to believe they are. Purchasing kosher-labeled foods DOES finance Israel's genocidal agendas. That is fact. Billions of American dollars go to Israel every year to fund their military, which they use to eradicate the Arabs from whom they stole their land in the first place. Unfortunately, as with many other atrocities in this modern day, almost all foods in the grocery store are "kosher", which means partial proceeds automatically go to Israel. Easy enough to do when Jews own the companies. We are immediately labeled anti-Semitic because we have criticisms that truly are backed up by documented facts? Individual Jews are not the enemy--it is the Israeli government and radically political Jews in high places that perpetrate these atrocities. That is not racist. It could be anybody, it just happens to be them. We have all been brainwashed to mentally coddle Jews because we're so afraid of being called racist. Even the word "Jew" sounds like a racial slur. We don't need to tiptoe over them. Ever think there is a reason Jews have been kicked out of every land they've ever inhabited? Hitler did not just hate dark-haired, big-nosed people any more than Osama bin Laden just "hates our freedom." Wake up, people. Learn to see objectively.
Even so, your analysis is not entirely objective and seems to contain some hatred on your part. There is no 'enemy' in this situation, each side has been put there by certain circumstances and the people are caught in the middle. I know it's hard to be objective when it seems everyone likes to takes sides, but the way forward is detatched understanding.
You're very right. I suppose "objective" was the wrong word. True understanding is better, but it's hard to be detached once we begin understanding. That's what I don't understand about attachment/detachment. Isn't caring attachment? How do we become active about something, change anything in the world, without becoming attached?
I don't know - it's a good question. Observe anyone with an opinion on this topic and you will see that in the vast majority of people there isn't an attempt to understand. Instead there is hatred taking over, because of ethnicity, religion, nationalism or other reasons. It is hard to identify the cause of hatred when you are so attached to these things from birth. I think the first step is to realize we are all one people not divided by social or political boundaries in any real sense.
The rabbis are going to tell you that Jews are 'better' than gentiles, and that the lives of Jews are worth infinitely more than the lives of gentiles ! Let us know HOW you're going to convince the rabbis that "goyim" should be treated as human beings and NOT as fodder for missiles and 'predator drones.'
I've dated Jewish men, known rabbis, and they have always treated this goyim with respect. Plus, Jew + goy = joy. I love my Jewish brothers and sisters.
Well, this is bad but it's not exclusive to the Jews. Every religion and government has examples of this kind of bigotry. We have to stamp it out without creating more hate. Can't you see that when you say "I hate the Jews because of this..." you're doing the same thing you're protesting against? It's self-defeating. Target certain kinds of behavior instead of whole races.
That may be true ... or it may not be true .... I'm trying to think of another group that wields the same kind of power that organized Judaism wields. But if you're trying to make any sort of reference to the "Islamists" ... we all know .... or perhaps we all should know .... that "Islamists" are actually "Judaics" in disquise ! In the person of "Adam Gadahn" we have the prototype of a "Judaic" who dons the mannerisms of an Islamic Arab. Ever since the 1950s, "Judaics" have been committing all manner of crimes such as terrorist bombings while disguising themselves as Arabs, and they've been doing so with the intention of smearing the adherents of Islam with the brush of "terrorism," so as to pave the way for a military response against a wide assortment of innocent and non-involved parties. I've never heard of a Unitarian, a Buddhist (or even a Christian) group that trumpets an idea that even remotely approaches the level of "chutzpah" that's inherent in organized Judaism. I've never heard of any other group of people that worships itself as intently as the people who call themselves "Jews." If you can cite even one (1) such example, please do so .... but let me add that it's incumbent upon you to demonstrate that such group wields a level of power that's on par with organized Judaism. Hatred is simply a natural response that was built into the human race by the process of natural selection ! Hatred must have survival value, or else it never would have evolved as part of our emotional 'baggage.' It is a NATURAL RESPONSE that we all experience whenever we find ourselves confronted by an enemy who is seeking to do us harm. If you've ever been on the inside of a courtroom, or if you've ever been 'stuck' in a chance encounter with someone who's done any kind of serious damage to yourself or to your family .... I daresay that you would feel the emotion of 'hatred' toward that person. Hatred gets a bad rap, I think, primarily on account of organizations like the ADL, which are themselves promoters of hatred ! If you were seeking to advance an agenda of 'hatred' toward the other races ... or if you were seeking to bring actual harm to the people of other races ... there is perhaps no better way of stifling opposition to your agenda than to accuse your victims of being "haters" !! Your reasoning simply eludes me here.
Re: the subject of inter-marriage between Jews and non-Jews. I suppose that it could be a good thing in cases where both partners turn out to be lacking in terms of strong religious convictions .... but in those cases where one of the marriage partners decides that he or she wants to remain faithful to an ingrained religious conviction .... watch out ! A marriage can quickly turn into a battleground .... especially when the mother and father are at loggerheads over circumcision or any other aspect of religion. As for the rabbis, it only stands to reason that they'd like to be viewed in a positive light in communities where Jews are in the minority. The situation, of course, is totally and completely different in those communities where Jews are in the majority. In a community such as "Kiryas Joel" or the State of Israel, for example, or in any other place where Jews constitute the majority of the population ..... this is where the rabbis are going to show their "true colors."
My mother is Jewish. My grandmother was a Jew. My grandfather was a Jew. My sisters are Jewish. My youngest sister once attended a Yeshiva .... the Yeshiva is located somewhere in the vicinity of 13th avenue in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn, N.Y. I attended Jewish parochial school as a child .... I stood up in front of my congregation and sang the haftorah (haftorah va'yechi) when I was thirteen years of age. My rabbi was a fellow named Abraham M. Heller. He was a highly respected rabbi in his day, and he was the author of an excellent book ("The Vocabulary of Jewish Life"). If you ever venture off into the Kensington section of Brooklyn, N.Y., you will find a building on Church Avenue with his name on it. I was trained to sing the haftorah in the year 1971 by a fellow named Rabbi Baskin, and my rabbi at the Yeshiva of Brighton was a fellow named Rabbi Laks.
What... I don't know where all this came from. All i'm saying is that we should start having universal standards instead of pitting one government/race/religion against the other. We can either have an endless cycle of governments committing terrible acts against each other, all justified unilaterally and driven by retaliation against the "other side" (essentially the history of mankind) or draw a line and say "STOP. This behavior is wrong, no matter who does it". One will lead to our own destruction, the other offers a sliver of hope. You see what i'm saying? You're perfectly right - hatred was necessary for natural selection throughout human evolution. That fact doesn't lead to the conclusion that hatred should be encouraged or is even desirable. Now that we are capable of compassion and understand human suffering and the negative effects of hatred we need to do all we can to curtail it. If the ADL is part of that as you say, then obviously they are hypocritical and I condemn them too.
Then I'm asking you to step outside your initial personal experience and let it go. I know how hard that is. (Hell, I grew up around Baptists.) People are people, and they're a mixed bag. Don't let the fundamentalists get you down.
In that case, we should both agree on the subject of boycotting kosher food ! Now .... please take one more good look at the big letter "U" that has a circle around it .... Have you ever stopped to consider the meaning of this symbolism ? The letter "U" represents a polarized magnet, while the circle around the letter "U" represents the planet earth, and what this means is that organized Judaism is seeking to polarize the planet earth into various warring factions of "goyim" in the hope of inciting one group of "goyim" into taking up arms against other groups of "goyim." It plays out something like this in real life ..... Israeli agents will destroy a mosque in the city of Najaf or in Mosul .... but the newsmedia aren't going to tell you what really happened; what we're going to hear - instead - is that the mosque bombing was carried out by a group of "Shiite militants." Blame will be assigned at the doorstep of some innocent faction in the hope of creating a state of warfare between two rival factions of gentiles, both of whom organized Judaism is seeking to exterminate. It's very important that we differentiate between 'aggressive' hatred and 'defensive' hatred. Defensive hatred is totally justified .... it even has a certain amount of survival value as long as it isn't being misdirected. If you have an enemy that is seeking to inflict harm on you or on your family, then imo you are perfectly justified in feeling hatred against that enemy PROVIDING that you aren't misdirecting your hatred against some innocent third-party.
What on earth is 'defensive' hatred? Sorry, but such a thing does not exist. There is only hatred. Talking about justifications for emotions is absurd, as emotions are reactionary and conditioned into us. And no one would argue one isn't entitled to defend one's family. Does we need hatred to defend our families? No, we only need to see the reality of the situation and that requires love, not hate.
Defensive hatred can be defined as, 'extreme hostility which is directed against an enemy who is seeking to inflict harm on yourself or on your family.' In a similar fashion .... you can make an effort to argue that there's no such thing as vanilla and strawberry ice cream. There is only ice cream ! I don't see how it can be any less absurd than condemning emotions ! I'm not a neurologist .... but my guess would be that certain emotions have been "hard-wired" into our nervous systems from birth, as opposed to the process of conditioning, which implies that an organism has learned something by way of interaction with its environment. Nature has wired us to feel a certain way in relation to external threats. It's like I said before .... it must have a certain amount of survival value. Your enemy is seeking to kill you, and you are more likely to prevail against an enemy who is seeking to kill you, if you hate your enemy.