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A Deeper Look Into The Jerusalem School Massacre
When the voice announced on the car radio “Palestinian terrorist
killed eight school children in Jerusalem”, I thought to myself ‘How
horrible.’ As I was programmed to do by the wording of the news story,
I imagined little children playing in a schoolyard when it all had
taken place, killed in cold blood. On another broadcast the announcer
had more details and mentioned the attack had been on ‘Seminary’
students, adding to the depravity of it all. I imagined these humble,
little, monk-looking creatures praying for peace, harmony, and all
that ‘love thy neighbor’ business that is supposed to be part of the
Kingdom of God. ‘What an awful thing to do,’ I thought, ‘Simply
horrible’.
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Like all things these tightly-controlled-information age, I
suspected there was more to it than what they were saying. I got home
and started reading. Then more reading, and then even more reading and
then a little more, and sure enough, there it was–the ‘devil’ in the
details as they always say. As it turns out there was another side to
the coin we were not being told about, a side just as horrible as the
initial story of the shooting itself, and in an instant, I came to the
realization that this school shooting held the key to resolving, or at
least understanding, the Palestinian-Israeli “conflict”, as most
Western Media like to call it.
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Some Of Israel's Most Brutal Killers Come From Here
As it turned out, the school in question (or rather, the ’seminary’
as they were referring to it) turned out to be a training camp for
Jewish terrorists, not much different than the video footage we all
see on mainstream news featuring Islamic militants running through
obstacle courses with Kalashnikovs shouting ‘Alahu Akbar’! Like most
things these days, it was cleverly disguised under the very
religious-sounding name ‘Merkaz Harav,’ or the Rabbi Center.
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This Terror School Was Started In 1924
The Merkaz was established back in 1924 by Rabbi Abraham Yitzhak
Kook, chief Rabbi of Palestine, a fact I found rather interesting,
since Israel was established in 1948. I am not sure who ‘appointed’
him to that post, but that is another story for another time. As it
turns out, the ‘good Rabbi’ was rabid not only in his support of
Zionism but as well in the new ideology he himself concocted in the
early 1900’s. Kook saw the Merkaz as the ultimate center for raising
Jewish leaders who would build the “true” Jewish society in the land
God had given ‘His people’ as a gift, the result of which would lead
to universal and religious redemption. In short, the thin line
separating heaven on earth from hell on earth was the Jewish people
‘redeeming’ the land of Palestine by whatever means were necessary.
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Zionist Training Camp
Over the years the Merkaz grew to become the number one extremist
Zionist religious training camp in Palestine, where trainees are
nursed on the ideology that Palestine was a gift from God and that it
is their religious duty to drive away the inhabitants of the land in
the manner “God” demanded. According to the Rabbi, this was the ONLY
road to salvation and redemption. The Merkaz was seen by many as
‘God’s gift’ to the Zionist Movement because (after years of being
shunned by Jewish religious sectors) finally came someone who
interpreted Zionism to be the long-awaited messiah. Kook taught that
the messiah is an entity that doesn’t necessary have to come in a
human shape, meaning that it could be an idea.
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The Deir Yassin Masacre
This goes a long way towards explaining much of the brutality
perpetrated against the civilian population of Palestine by many of
Israel’s leaders throughout recent history. One such ‘graduate’ of the
Merkaz was David Raziel, the first commander of the terrorist group
Irgun whose members have committed the despicable massacre of the
village of Deir Yassin, where 250 men, women, children and elderly
were butchered to death. The killings were done with machine guns,
grenades, and knives.
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Some of the victims were decapitated. 52 children were killed and
mutilated in front of their mothers. 25 pregnant women were cut open
at the wombs and their babies were cut to pieces in front of their
dying mothers. Those who survived were loaded up on trucks like cattle
and taken to Jerusalem were they were paraded in the middle of a
Jewish mob who lined up both sides of the streets spitting at them,
throwing garbage, rocks, animal manure, shoes (and anything else they
could get their hands on) at the frightened, shocked and awed
Palestinians, and all of this in the name of ‘redemption’.
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From Terrorist To Prime Minister
Menachem Begin, who later became Prime Minister of Israel, and a
winner of the Nobel Peace Prize was the infamous father and planner of
the Deir Yassin Massacre, issued a statement following the massacre
congratulating the Jewish murderers for their holy handiwork–
“Accept my congratulations on this splendid act of conquest. Convey my
regards to all the commanders and soldiers. We shake your hands. We
are all proud of the excellent leadership and the fighting spirit in
this great attack…Tell the soldiers: you have made history in Israel
with your attack and your conquest. Continue this until victory. As in
Deir Yassin, so everywhere, we will attack and smite the enemy. God,
God, Thou has chosen us for conquest.”
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The Terrorist Gang Known As Gush Emunim
The Merkaz Harav became one of the most influential religious
centers in Israel to effect policy regarding the illegal Jewish
settlements on Palestinian lands.
The notorious Israeli terrorist group Gush Emunim was founded
within this Merkaz and called for settling the Jews on Palestinian
land, again, a ‘gift from God’ to the Jews. In 1974 Shimon Peres
(current Israeli president and the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize)
was Defense Minister of Israel at the time, which meant that the
Occupied Palestinian Territories were under his watch. Under his
command this terrorist movement was helped in acquiring land in the
West bank through terror and harassment of the legitimate Palestinian
owners to build illegal Jewish settlements throughout the West bank
and Gaza. Peres called this policy “functional compromise” in order to
receive the political support of the Gush Emunim and settler
movements.
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It must be remembered that the influence of the settler movements
in Israeli politics is by no means inconsequential. Rather, it is
widespread through the many thousands of students who graduate from
this Merkaz and others end up holding positions in government,
military, academic, and many other facets of Israeli society. No
Israeli government has been spared the wrath of this extremist
movement whose influence is increasing day by day since 1974 up to the
present and whose is one of “the State of Israel is the foundation
upon which rests the Throne of God in this world”.
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The Community Rabbi Sets The Example
As controversial as it may sound, the fact is that over the ages
Judaism has seen many transformations in its theology to the point
where one would be safe describing it as a totally different religion
throughout its history. The followers of Judaism throughout the ages
have depended mainly on the Rabbis for their understanding of the
doctrine. The different schools of thought have seen their highs and
lows depending on the power and strength of the Rabbis at the time.
As controversial as it may sound, the fact is that over the ages
Judaism has seen many transformations in its theology to the point
where one would be safe describing it as a totally different religion
throughout its history. The followers of Judaism throughout the ages
have depended mainly on the Rabbis for their understanding of the
doctrine. The different schools of thought have seen their highs and
lows depending on the power and strength of the Rabbis at the time.
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The Rebbe
Today in Israel, the dominating theology is the teaching of a lone
American Rabbi (known as ‘the Rebbe’ to his followers) Rabbi Menachem
Mendel Schneerson, whose students consider him to be the Messiah. It
was (is) believed he is the one who will lead the Jews to redemption,
although he died in 1994. After his death Congressmen Chuck Schumer,
John Lewis, Newt Gingrich, and Jerry Lewis along with 220 other
Congressmen bestowed the Congressional Gold Medal on the Rebbe, and
the Senate followed suit and president Clinton even spoke at the
Medal-awarding ceremony saying: ‘The late Rebbe’s eminence as a moral
leader for our country was recognized by every president since Richard
Nixon.’
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An Aging Rebbe Is Honored By US Zionists
I looked up the Congressional Gold Medal and I found the following:
“A Congressional Gold Medal is the highest civilian award which may be
bestowed by the United States Congress, the legislative branch of the
United States government. The decoration is awarded to an individual
who performs an outstanding deed or act of service to the security,
prosperity, and national interest of the United States” and then I
looked at the Rebbe’s deepest thoughts and I found this:
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The Jewish Superiority
“The difference between a Jewish and a non-Jewish person stems from
the common expression: ‘Let us differentiate.’ Thus, we do not have a
case of profound change in which a person is merely on a superior
level. Rather, we have a case of ‘let us differentiate’ between
totally different species. This is what needs to be said about the
body: the body of a Jewish person is of a totally different quality
from the body of all nations of the world … A non-Jew’s entire reality
is only vanity. The entire creation exists only for the sake of the
Jews…”
I believe the reader would agree that with a such statements this man
could easily be described as a racist, Jewish supremacist whose
thoughts and expressions went against the freedom and equality that
the institution known as Congress was built upon. But yet, incredibly,
we find the men and women who swore to uphold the constitution of the
United States sold out their conscience and the American principles of
“freedom and justice for all” for 30 pieces of silver.
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Arabs To Be run Out Of Their Homes
Jewish religious leaders have always compared the Palestinians to
the ancient Canaanites whose extermination and/or expulsion are
predestined by divine design according to scriptures. This again
explains the attitude of the people of Israel in their sympathy
towards the demands of the religious parties of Israel in expelling
Palestinians from their land. Jewish law does permit some non-Jews to
reside in the land of Israel under certain conditions, which can be
summed up thus–”must pay taxes and accept suffering, humiliation and
servitude” as expressed by Mordechai Nisan of the Hebrew University in
Jerusalem who relied upon the law of Maimonides. For those not
acquainted with the law of ‘great’ doctor of Jewish law Maimonides,
the law demands the following–that a non-Jew be held down, that he not
raise his head against Jews, that no non-Jews may be appointed to any
office or position of power over Jews, and if such non-Jews refuse to
live under these conditions then this is a signal of disobedience
which necessitates Jewish warfare against them in cleansing the land
of Israel of their presence.
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A Disturbing Look Into Their Special World
In 1990 a book published by Shlomo Aviner of the Merkaz Harav gives
answers to some of the questions that arose during the First
Palestinian Intifada. One question was: “is there a difference between
punishing an Arab child and an Arab adult for disturbance of our
peace?’ The answer began by cautioning Jews ‘not to compare Jews and
non Jews’ in applying Jewish laws, and particularly when it comes to
punishing a Jewish boy under the age of thirteen and Jewish girls
under the age of twelve. The point was clear–the laws of Maimonides
were written for Jews alone. The Rabbi summed it up by saying that any
non-Jew must pay for any crime committed, but not necessarily so for
the Jews themselves. This explains in part why there is such a huge
number of children either killed by the Jewish army and their settler
thugs or held in Israeli prisons.
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A Rabbi Calls For 'No Mercy' Retaliations
A militant speech by Rabbi Ya’acov Shapira, head of the Merkaz
following the recent attack in Jerusalem read: “This monstrous attack
must bring about a major and substantial change. We call upon and
demand from the Government of Israel to wake up and to fight to the
end, without mercy, against the enemies of Israel. This is a terrible
crisis! It is one of private mourning and of national mourning. But
the Yeshiva will continue its path of study, teaching, growing and
disseminating the Torah of Israel in our complete and holy Land of
Israel.” Instead of realizing that the attack was in response to the
mass murder of non Jews (Muslim and Christian Arabs) the Yeshiva
continues with its kill-all policy by asking the government to “fight
to the end” against the Palestinian people and to do so without mercy.
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Many Yeshiva Students Are Army Personnel
The school vowed to continue its path of disseminating its hate and
its murderous teachings of cleansing completely their “holy Land of
Israel” in the hope that this will lead to “Universal Redemption.”
Many of the “students” at the Merkaz have completed their army service
and many are still IDF officers. This is clear from the report in
Haaretz published March 8, 2008 where a “student” by the name of
Yitzhak Danon told Israeli Channel 2 that he “fired two shots into the
attacker’s head.” One question that comes to mind is this–When was it
the last time you have heard of students carrying a high-powered
automatic machine gun to school? And remember, this is no ‘ordinary’
school; we were told it’s a seminary. Something is not adding up here,
these students at the Yeshiva are armed and dangerous.
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The Yeshiva Is A Training Base For Israel's Worst
In the words of Rabbi Shapira, the “Yeshiva served as training base
for Rabbis and students who went out to settle all parts of the Land
of Israel”, and in the words of Rabbi Kook on the eve of the 1967 war:
“Yes, where is our Hebron? Have we forgotten it? Where is our chechem
(Nablus)? And Jericho? Will we forget them? And the far side of the
Jordan, it’s ours, every clod of soil, every region and bit of earth
belonging to the Lord.”
Well, the problem is the land has been inhabited for the last few
thousands of years by the people of the land, the original people of
the land, not the Judaic Europeans who think “God” had given it to
them as a gift. Rabbi Kook also declared a religious
prohibition–meaning God’s orders–against ceding any part of the Land
of Israel to non-Jews. In other words he told his people that “God”
says in effect ‘Don’t leave any non-Jews on the land, they all must be
killed.’ This declaration–in the word’s of the Yeshiva spokesman,
Yehoshua Mor-Yousef is as follows–”This is the basis of all that we
believe in.” This is a clear call for a genocidal war against the
Palestinian people by the largest religious “school” in Israel.
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Soldiers Who Shoot Children
Over the years this Merkaz has issued extreme religious decrees
giving license to Israeli soldiers to kill Palestinian civilians,
including if it can be believed, children. Rabbi Lior, an associate of
the Merkaz and a former student of the Yeshiva who is also the Rabbi
of the illegal Jewish settlement Kiryat Arba told Israeli soldiers and
Jewish militants (many of them former students of the Yeshiva) that it
is permissible to kill Palestinian children. It is a growing
understanding amongst many religious Israelis with Messianic Zionist
beliefs that Jews must expedite the cleansing of the land process to
induce the redemption by killing as many Palestinians as possible to
create the appropriate condition for the messiah to appear in their
own lifetime.
The leaders of the religious parties in Israel (and especially the
Mirkaz Ha’arv) strongly oppose any peace settlement with the
Palestinians. Furthermore, the idea of creating a Palestinian State in
the West Bank, and Gaza with East-Jerusalem as its capital is a
redline that will only take place over their dead bodies. The idea of
swapping peace for land is in total opposition to their religious
beliefs, as it would prevent their ‘messiah’ from appearing. This
being the case, any negotiating with Israel is meaningless as long as
the religious parties are in control of Israeli politics.
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The Yeshiva Produces Violent People
The influence of the religious parties in the Israeli army goes
much deeper than their presence in the political arena. This again
explains the brutality and barbaric nature of the actions of the
Israeli Army regarding the Palestinians. Two weeks ago Rabbi Hershel
Schachter, the Dean of Yeshiva University, told students to think
before they enlist in the army, saying: “There is no mitzvah
(commandment) to destroy the land of Israel…If the army asks you to
destroy any of the settlements, and if the government orders the army
to divide Jerusalem, I would tell everyone to resign from the army. I
would tell them to shoot the Prime Minister.”
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Arabs To Be Killed As You Would Cattle
This whole theology was shaped by the founder of the Mirkaz, Rabbi
Kook, who once boasted that “The difference between a Jewish soul and
souls of non-Jews - all of them in all different levels - is greater
and deeper than the difference between a human soul and the souls of
cattle.” It is no wonder then that members of the Israeli army have no
remorse after killing Palestinian children since they do not consider
them humans. To a Jew killing a Palestinian is just like hunting a
rabbit or duck in the wilderness. It’s even worse than that, since in
the world of hunting there are hunting seasons with ‘rules of
engagement’ that one must adhere to, but in Palestine it’s open season
all year.
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Israeli Settlers Can Commit Any Atroccity With Impunity
With all this in mind, it is easier now for us to understand the
dominant religious thought in Israel and why many religious Jews
throughout the world believe that ‘the redemption’ is at hand. They
believe that the power of Satan (manifested in non-Jews) must be
defeated. Therefore the stealing of non-Jewish land in Palestine is
considered redemption of the land by its being taken into Jewish
hands. They believe that being transferred from the satanic to the
divine sphere ‘cleanses’ it of evil. They look at it as land that has
been sanctified. This also might explain the fact that a Jew in Israel
can kill a non-Jew and get away with it, but if a non-Jew kills a Jew
it is considered under Jewish law as the worst possible crime.
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Relying upon the code of Maimonides and Jewish law known as Halacha
it is stated that a ‘Jew who kills a non-Jew is exempt from human
judgment’ as he (or she) has not violated the prohibition of murder
according to Jewish law which Israel’s law is based upon. Jewish
Rabbis have always maintained that Jews who killed Arabs should not be
punished. This is clear by the demands of both Labor, Likud, and
Kadima governments of Israel by insisting on not releasing Palestinian
prisoners with Jewish blood on their hands
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Kidnapped For Organs?
If that is not enough, Jewish law provides for the taking of body
parts of non-Jews to save the life of a Jew, according another Rabbi
at the Mirkas Harav, Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg. Ginsburg said the killing
of Palestinians is a “Jewish virtue”. Going a step further, Rabbi Dov
Lior, one of Rabbi Kook’s top students proposed using captured
(kidnapped) Palestinians in conducting medical experiments. Just as
scientists use laboratory rats for testing, Jewish theology allows
non-Jews for such use as well.
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Let us listen more to what these 21st century lunatics say: “Don’t we
have any powerful friends whatsoever? Let’s open our Tenach (Bible) to
BaMidbar (Numbers), chapter 33:50-53, and 55. These scriptures make it
very clear that we do have a powerful friend. The G-d of the Bible is on
Israel’s side.”
And where do they get this idea, that God is on their side? From here,
book of Numbers, 35–
“And the LORD spoke unto Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at
Jericho, saying: ‘Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them:
When ye pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, then ye shall drive
out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their
figured stones, and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all
their high places. And ye shall drive out the inhabitants of the land, and
dwell therein; for unto you have I given the land to possess it… But if ye
will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then shall
those that ye let remain of them be as thorns in your eyes, and as pricks
in your sides, and they shall harass you in the land wherein ye dwell.”
Rabbi Wants Children To Be Hung
Recently, Shmuel Eliyahu, Chief rabbi of Safad told the Israeli
government to officially allow Israelis to “revenge against Arabs.” He
proposed hanging the children of the person who attacked the Merkaz
Harav Yeshiva from a tree, and to do it to everyone who attacks Israel
until they (Palestinians) scream enough “to the point where they fall
flat on their face and scream help”. He also said the Palestinians
need to “understand very well the language of revenge.”
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An Israeli Poodle
Now enters the hypocrisy and political prostitution of our own
Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, who said of the Yeshiva
attack–’The United States condemns tonight’s act of terror and
depravity”, “This barbarous act has no place among civilized peoples
and shocks the conscience of all peace loving nations. There is no
cause that could ever justify this action.” This comes as the Israeli
army was killing not just children, but infants in Gaza, deliberately
which is not considered barbaric from the conscience of the “peace
loving” nation of Israel and the US government. The conscience of all
“peace loving nations” is not shocked when Palestinian children are
buried under the rubble of their homes while sleeping in their cribs.
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Bush Never Condemns Israeli Brutality
Worse yet, that conscience looked the other way when heads and many
body parts were scattered in the streets of Gaza just a day before the
attack on the terrorist Yeshiva training center. President Bush spoke
with the President of China over the harsh crackdown of the Tibetan
Intifada, but had no words for the Israeli President, or the Prime
Minister for the barbaric, inhumane, savage way in dealing with the
Palestinian people’s call for freedom from oppression. America’s
conscience is long overdue for a reality check when it comes to its
being a civilized and modernized nation of people.
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Should The World Accept This Palestine Genocide?
In conclusion, the Palestinian people have limited options to
choose from when it comes to solving their 60 years of occupation and
Diaspora: One they might want to try convincing “God” to change his
mind about awarding the land to the Jews, that perhaps He should
instead “reveal” a new covenant with the Jews requiring them to share
a piece of it with the Palestinians as a way of redeeming themselves
and that maybe they should just forget all about this idea of being
“chosen” to kill the Palestinians to get to heaven. This is sure to be
a difficult feat to accomplish, since the two way communications with
“God” ended with Mohammed (PBUH).
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The only other option is to convince Israel and the US to close
down all Jewish Yeshivas that teach and promote the
“kill-the-Palestinians” theology. The war on terror–if it is to be
genuine and if it is to be effective, must go to the roots of terror,
and one such root is the idea that Jews are superiors to non-Jews and
that “God” is a racist God who chooses people based on their
particular ‘race’ instead of their deeds.
Those who would quibble at such suggestions of re-examining the
racist tenets of Jewish thinking should ask the question–is this not
what the world has heard these last 7 years when it comes to Islam?
Achieving peace in the “Land of Peace” requires yet another
transformation of the Jewish religion to accept co-existence with
Christians and Muslims in the land of Palestine.
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Hesham Tillawi, PhD International Relations is a Palestinian American
writer, Political Analyst and a TV show host. His program Current issues
with Hesham Tillawi can be viewed Live every Thursday evening between at
8:00 PM Central Standard Time on Cox Cable system Channel 15 in Louisiana,
Nationwide on Bridges TV, and Worldwide on Amazonas Satellite, as well as
Live on the Internet at http://www.currentissues.tv and can be contacted
at Tillawi@currentissues.tv Interviews then archived for on demand viewing
at www.currentissues.tv
http://heshamtillawi.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/at-war-with-god-the-saga-of-the-palestinian-people/
At War with “God”: the Saga of the Palestinian People
Hesham Tillawi, Ph.D. – Wordpress.com March 31, 2008
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