Jewish Organizations Call For End to Gaza Bombings »
Posted By hyperbola 10 months, 1 week ago in ReligionInstead of offering unquestioning support of Israel's latest military venture in the decades-long conflict, four major Jewish organizations are calling for an immediate end to the bombings, and for humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip.
One of the groups, Americans for Peace Now, the sister organization of the Israel-based Peace Now, called for "the government of Israel to end its military operation in the Gaza Strip and to act toward achieving a cease-fire."
And Brit Tzedek v'Shalom, the Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace, called on the outgoing Bush administration "to initiate an international effort aimed at negotiating an immediate cease-fire."
These strong statements, along with ones from J Street (the political arm of the pro-Israel, pro-peace movement) and the Israel Policy Forum (IPF), are in sharp contrast to many of the more hawkish traditional pro-Israel groups, who make no mention of a cessation of armed hostilities. The confident assertions from the four groups are a relatively new sort of campaign.
"You see a voice that is increasingly clear and has a significant resonance in the American Jewish community, and beyond the Jewish community, that takes a position, stakes it grounds, and won't be intimidated," said Daniel Levy, a former Israeli negotiator and the director of New America Foundation's Middle East Task Force, one of the four groups.
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truthiness10 months, 1 week ago
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"While … air strikes by Israeli Defense Forces in Gaza can be understood and even justified in the wake of recent rocket attacks," according to Ben-Ami, "we believe that real friends of Israel recognize that escalating the conflict will prove counterproductive, igniting further anger in the region and damaging long-term prospects for peace and stability."
a rational point. the right of all people to self defense is unquestionable. as is the right of all people to self-determination and liberty. which 'should' amount to a simple two state solution with a mutual non-aggression treaty.. but rational thought doesn't seem to operate in the middle east very well.
and kudos to hyper for finally offering a balanced article that supports his point from rational minds rather than finding the most extremist anti-semite and self hating wacko jews to quote.
now, an equally balanced article about the palestinian side of things and I might start to believe you are interested in peace and justice in the region as opposed to just hating on jews which your traditional M.O. leads me to believe.-
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Justice4All10 months, 1 week ago
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Yes, hyper get's a little passonate at times. But overall he is usally fairly balanced and I enjoy his articles and information. When people take a more objective approach their information is more credible.
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When people post insults or respond to facts and logic with insults I tune them out. The insults are simply rage at knowing they are wrong and have no facts to support their opinions. I think perhaps that's the religious approach. Strong belief in something but no facts to back it up. -
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hyperbola10 months, 1 week ago
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Do you consider this professor at Tel Aviv University to be a self-hating anti-semite? How about all the Israelis who made it one of Israel's most popular books? Anti-semites too?
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When and How Was the Jewish People Invented?
No one is more surprised than Shlomo Sand that his latest academic work has spent 19 weeks on Israel's bestseller list – and that success has come to the history professor despite his book challenging Israel's biggest taboo.
Dr. Sand argues that the idea of a Jewish nation – whose need for a safe haven was originally used to justify the founding of the state of Israel – is a myth invented little more than a century ago.
An expert on European history at Tel Aviv University, Dr. Sand drew on extensive historical and archaeological research to support not only this claim but several more – all equally controversial.
In addition, he argues that the Jews were never exiled from the Holy Land, that most of today's Jews have no historical connection to the land called Israel and that the only political solution to the country's conflict with the Palestinians is to abolish the Jewish state.
The success of When and How Was the Jewish People Invented? looks likely to be repeated around the world.
http://www.propeller.com/story/2008/10/09/when-and...
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HMMace10 months, 1 week ago
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WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF THE JEWS DONE THE SAME??? LAUNCHED ROCKETS HAP HAZZARDLY INTO THE STRIP???? THE JEWISH ROCKETS WOULD HAVE A LITLE MORE BANG TO THEM..BUT--TIT FOR TAT AS THEY SAY..THEN SAY MAYBE--TEN, FOR EVERY ONE OF THE PALS????
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I WISH THE JEWS WOULD JUST RUN ALL THE PALS INTO THE SEA, AND BE DONE WITH THEM..DO YOU THINK ANYONE WOULD COME TO THE PALS AID?? I THINK NOT--ALL ANYONE ELSE WILL DO IS USE THE PALS AS CANNON FODDER..BEING UNEDUCATED--WHAT ELSE ARE THEY GOOD FOR???-
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Justice4All10 months, 1 week ago
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HMM is an interesting case. He portrays himself as a racist/zionist hatefilled war monger. But he seems just a little to extreme. There have been a few others like him on both sides of this issue. I called one out a couple days ago. They are either zionists pretending to be nazi's who want to exterminate Jews or they are terrorists pretending to be Jews who want to push the Palestinians into the sea.
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I'm guessing HMM is pretending to be a zionist.
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cherev10 months, 1 week ago
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Americans for Peace Now
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Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace
J Street
Israel Policy Forum
To describe these organizations as "Jewish" is certainly debatable since Judaism is a religion and none of these organizations has any connection to the Jewish faith; but to consider them "major" is an outright lie.
None of these organizations has vocally opposed Arab terrorist activities. They only criticize Israeli defensive or retaliatory actions. Consequently, their input now is worse than useless to bring about genuine peace.-
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hyperbola10 months, 1 week ago
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Ah the zionist marcarthyism again! How desperately afraid you psuedo-jewish zionists are of honest jews.
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Explaining the Long — and Largely Untold — History of Jewish Opposition to Zionism
A THREAT FROM WITHIN: A CENTURY OF JEWISH OPPOSITION TO ZIONISM,
by Yakov M. Rabkin,
While many in Israel and in Jewish communities in the U.S. and other countries now promote the idea that Zionism and Judaism are, in effect, the same and that opposition to Zionism constitutes “anti-Semitism,” the historical fact — largely untold — is that, for most of its history, Zionism has been a decidedly minority movement among Jews throughout the world.
Since its inception as a political movement in 1897, both Reform and Orthodox Jews rejected Zionism’s basic premise of creating a Jewish state in Palestine and having Jews either emigrate to it or, at the very least, consider it “central” to their Jewish identity.
An overwhelming majority of Orthodox Jews, unwilling to accept the restoration of a Jewish state in Palestine by means other than divine intervention, considered Zionism a false messianic movement. Most Jewish liberals and socialists, having accepted the faith of the Enlightenment, with its emphasis on optimism, reason and progress, rejected Zionism as a reactionary philosophy. ....
... In the forward, Joseph Agassi, professor of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University, notes that, “The author raises questions about the myth that Israel protects the Jews around the world and constitutes their natural homeland. This book rightly shows that this myth is anti-Jewish.
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