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April 30, 2015
The Israeli Humanitarian Enthusiasm – A Dialectical Perspective
By Gilad Atzmon
The Times Of Israel reported today “Israel’s aid team to Nepal larger than any other country’s'
Video:
http://www.wibbitz.com/watch/?id=b529016edd6484075bfdd2012ac903dfd
We are familiar with this pattern. Israel is always fast to send its medical aid and rescue teams to remote destinations as soon as the news about a natural disaster hits CNN. Yet, peculiarly, it is the same Israel that inflicts tragedies that easily match the worst natural disasters on its next door neighbours.
How can we reconcile this clear discrepancy between Israel’s humanitarian enthusiasm and the collective lethal ambitions Israeli society inflicts on its Arab neighbours? Why are the Israelis so intent on displaying a global image of ‘caring’ while behaving in a murderous and heartless manner towards their neighbours?
Jewish identity politics can be seen as a dialectic struggle between self-hatred and self-love. Self-hatred refers to the acceptance that something is intrinsically wrong within the ‘Jewishness.’ This was the view shared by most early Zionists who agreed amongst themselves, at least, that the Jewish Diaspora identity was corrupted, capitalistic and morbid. They wrongly believed that ‘homecoming’ would save the Jews from themselves. Self-love, on the other hand, is the ability to fight one’s symptoms and convey an image of goodness.
Sending the biggest aid mission to Nepal and suffocating Nepalese survivors in Stars Of David is an indication that Israel has a lot of guilt to manage. And its remedy is an act of humanitarian virtue.
The Jewish State can be seen as a dialectic struggle between good and evil. But if Israeli existence is of a dialectic nature, it may well suggest that at least, politically and metaphysically, it cannot be resolved, it can only evolve.
This leaves the Israelis doomed to bounce between Gaza and Nepal or shall we say, evil and virtue, till they are redeemed from this impossible struggle Jews inflicted on themselves by their awkward nationalist project.
Saving Jewish Babies Is A Priority
Israel Evacuates Surrogate Babies From Nepal but Leaves the Mothers Behind
http://time.com/3838319/israel-nepal-surrogates/
An Israeli Boeing-747 returned from Nepal to Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport on Tuesday afternoon, and among its 229 passengers were 15 Israeli babies, all born within the past six weeks to surrogate mothers in Nepal.
Some of the babies were with their Israeli parents and others were cared for by Israeli passengers. None of the surrogate mothers were allowed to travel.
The infants’ arrival completed the evacuation of 26 surrogate Israeli babies from Nepal, where a devastating earthquake on Saturday killed more than 4,000…
The first Israeli baby was born to a surrogate mother in Nepal in January 2014, and it is now the destination of choice for Israelis who do not have access to surrogacy in Israel. Many Asian and European countries ban commercial surrogacy, and it can cost up to $150,000 in the U.S. and Canada but only $30,000 in Nepal.
But while the Israeli government scrambled to evacuate the 26 Israeli newborns and their Israeli parents from Nepal, a further 100 women, some Nepalese, some Indian, are still carrying babies for Israelis. The Israeli Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein said he would allow the most heavily pregnant to be flown to Israel to give birth and outgoing Interior Minister Gilad Erdan promised to remove immigration hurdles for the rest. “We have decided to hold off on all the procedures, even if it causes a problem with the Nepalese or Indian governments, so as to bring over the babies as soon as possible,” Israeli news sources quoted him as saying on Monday.
An opinion piece in the Haaretz newspaper went one step further, accusing the Israeli public of showing selective empathy by focusing only on the newborn infants, and not the women who had carried them.
“How can it be that none of the human interest stories or compassion-filled posts mentioned these women, who came from a difficult socioeconomic background … to rent their wombs … who now, like the babies they’ve just had, are also stuck in the disaster zone?” writer Alon-Lee Green asked.
Greg Johnson (Counter-Currents ) interviews Gilad Atzmon
http://www.counter-currents.com/2015/04/interview-with-gilad-atzmon/
Greg Johnson: On Sunday, April 12th, 2015, I sat down with Gilad Atzmon in London for a wide-ranging discussion of his views on Zionism, Israel, Palestine, the Jewish question, Jewish identity, philosophy (Kant, Heidegger, Weininger), history and the concealment of shame, Kevin MacDonald and David Duke. After the interview was over, I re-read my review of Gilad’s book The Wandering Who?. I was surprised, as I had forgotten how critical it was. Thus it was very big of him to do this interview, and I admire that trait greatly.
April 29, 2015
Israel confirms- Mohammed Deif, is alive and kicking
Ynet reported today that, Hamas military chief Deif is alive, laying groundwork for next war with Israel.
Despite attempt on his life, that resulted in a cold blood murder of his wife and infant son, Hamas' top military commander is actively renewing group's rocket stockpiles and rebuilding strategic tunnels.
Nine months after Israel locked horns with Hamas in Gaza for over 50 days, it is clear that not only did Mohammed Deif, Hamas' military commander, survive the Israeli the Hamas is once again ready for battle.
Not much is left out of Israel’s 'power of deterrence.'
April 28, 2015
The Shabbos Goy
Gilad Atzmon Interviews PhD Milena Rampoldi
German human rights campaigner PhD Milena Rampoldi, the woman behind the pro- Palestinian site www.promosaik.com, has been subject to some ugly harassment in the past week. Surprise surprise, it wasn’t the Zionists, Hasbara merchants or Mossad operators who tormented her. It was a Palestinian ‘supporter.’ The following interview is sad: it reveals the heightened state of despair displayed by our thought police. The Stalinist purge culture that is symptomatic of the Jewish Left and its network of Sabbos Goyim backfired once again. Truth cannot be suppressed forever, it doesn’t even leak out; it just bursts.
Gilad Atzmon: Milena, you have been subject to some severe political pressure recently. It appears as if the people who mounted pressure on you consider themselves to be ‘anti’ Zionists and ‘pro’-Palestinians. Can you identify these people and explain what their demands were? Why did they campaign against you?
Dr. Milena Rampoldi: I think that censorship is the result of fear combined with a sense of entitlement. I never thought that I would be subject to censorship as editor-in-chief of www.promosaik.com. Our magazine is relatively small. We are fighting for human rights and peace. We are engaged with different topics, not just Palestine. Our focus is on the fight against racism and Islamophobia and we stand for intercultural and interreligious empathy. However, as a Muslim and as a human rights activist, Palestine is an especially important issue to me.
My interview with you was the last in a long series of exchanges I conducted on anti- Zionism, Israel and Palestine. I introduced your interview, and asked a question about why your position is unique within the context of dissent to Zionism and Israel. I wondered whether your arguments are so provocative because they transcend the usual Zionism/anti-Zionist discourse in that you challenge both simultaneously.
Dr. Milena Rampoldi - Promosaik' editor-in-chief
Gilad Atzmon: It is simple. I examine Jewish Identity Politics. As far as I am concerned, Zionism and Jewish anti-Zionism are similar in nature and tactics because they are the two sides of the same coin. They are both continuations of the same exceptionalist ideology and culture.
Dr. Milena Rampoldi: My idea was to start a debate… to invite people to write to us and start an open ideological, spiritual and ethical exchange. I do not agree with all the ideas I publish, or with all that you say, but this is not the issue. If I were to publish only those ideas with which I agree, the promise to present a mosaic-diversity of opinions would be a lie.
As soon as your article appeared on our site, I was subject to a vile attack by E.A, the editor-in-chief of an established German pro-Palestinian online magazine that published a lot of articles about Palestine. He was a very important partner for us because he published many of our articles on his site.
Gilad Atzmon: Milena, I understand that you prefer not to mention E.A by name but it would be silly to hide his identity from our readers. The person who contacted you is ‘Pro’-Palestinian activist Erhard Arendt, am I correct?
PhD Milena Rampoldi: Yes, it was he. His magazine is crucial for the success of my work, because I am relatively small and need to reach more readers.
Gilad Atzmon: Can you please name the Magazine? Don’t be afraid of these people, actually naming your abuser is your insurance policy.
PhD Milena Rampoldi: The magazine is called Palästina Portal and it is well known in Germany.
First they told me that they will no longer publish anything by ProMosaik and if I continue to publish independently, I may have to face the consequences. They repeatedly told me that I don’t understand the (Israeli Palestinian) conflict. I was offended both because I grasp your ideas and consider myself an intelligent person. They insisted that I remove you from our website. I agreed in part but I refused to remove the English version of the interview we did in March.
At that stage, I was trying to calm the situation. This was a big mistake on my part and I regret it. However, I did remove the German translation of my interview with you. I also deleted a very positive comment about your work by the prominent Jewish author, Evelyn Hecht Galinski. My initial idea was not to glorify you, but to create a debate with as many contributors as possible.
Another person I was “advised ” to delete by Mr Arendt, this time on the phone, was the wonderful pacifist Johanna Heuveling. I like her lot, although again, I do not agree with everything she says. I like her approach to reconciliation and peace work for Palestine. Mr Arendt called her “an Israeli collaborator,” which is simply not true. I then asked Erhard Arendt: what next? I realised that step by step he was taking over my editorial board.
Erhard Arendt was born to lead the masses
The next day, the harassment continued. Arendt wasn’t satisfied. He was angry that Gilad Atzmon wasn’t completely excised from the site. The English interview with you was still displayed. He also claimed to have found traces of your thoughts in a couple of posts by others including Paul Eisen. Paul is a good colleague, and I read his thoughts regularly. He is a friend of yours. So what? And William Hanna is also a fan of yours.
Watch Paul Eisen in Conversation with Gilad Atzmon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fOJbWtmBFE
Erhard Arendt threatened again that he would stop publishing me. I stupidly did what he wanted but Arendt didn't stop harassing me. Arendt told that publishing you is no different than ‘posting Goebbels.’ He called you a ‘Nazi.’ It was wrong and outrageous. I think that you are a Jew and you have the right to question your Jewish identity.
Gilad Atzmon: I am not a Jew and Goyim are also entitled to question Jewish identity, politics and culture.
Dr. Milena Rampoldi: It is your right to say this, but it still has nothing to do with Nazism. I refused to accept the Nazi label. I told Arendt that I only removed the German translation because I thought that in Germany the interview could be misinterpreted as Holocaust denial and because I wanted him to circulate my articles. Let me emphasise, I am not a Holocaust denier. I empathise with the suffering of people who lost their relatives in the Holocaust. I regard Anne Frank as a symbol of Jewish suffering.
I consider myself left wing and I push for a far more colourful left. I felt terrible because I had violated my principles, I also thought that you would understand my position as, in fact, you did. I removed a comment by Galinski about your interview because it was ‘too positive.’ This saga started to make me sick. I felt dismissed as a person and as a thinker.
The crisis didn’t fade away. Arendt made me think that the entire anti-Zionist community had turned against me. I was upset because I really like the people I interview and work with; in particular two old ladies, the beloved Felicia Langer and the wonderful and brave Ellen Rohlfs, whom I consider a wonderful poet. Arendt made me believe that Felicia Langer would turn against me, because she would see me as a Holocaust denier.
Then I found out that I wasn’t alone. I spoke with the Jewish communist author and publisher Giuseppe Zambon. I asked him whether publishing an interview with Atzmon was really a bad move. Zambon was very helpful and supportive, he said that it does not matter if you agree with Atzmon or not, you should never agree to remove him from your website, because freedom of expression is the most important political weapon. The struggle is for Palestine, not against each other.
I was hurt by the entire saga, the tactics, and the lack of manners. I accept that some people do not approve of me, but I am genuine and truthful. When I make a mistake, I am quick to apologise. I would like to apologise to you for my conduct in this saga.
Gilad Atzmon: You don’t have to apologise to me. The day Zionists and their caretakers stop chasing me and my supporters, my role as a whistleblower will be over. I will retire quietly. But for now, I am amused by the fear I create within this clumsy collective of crypto Zionists and AZZs (Anti-Zionist Zionists).
Dr. Milena Rampoldi: I think that it is not a matter of Anti-Zionism, Zionism, or any ideology. Some people see you as obstacle and want to silence you. They don’t like that you are a star and a truth teller.
Gilad Atzmon: This is fine. I love being an obstacle.
Dr. Milena Rampoldi: I often feel that people simply want to interfere with our spirit. This is not limited to Anti-Zionists. Justice and freedom of speech are two things I would die for.
Gilad Atzmon: For quite some time we have been dealing with a controlled opposition in our midst. The first challenge is to expose the vicious matrix that interferes with our ability to speak the truth and to think authentically. To support Palestine and justice is to put yourself in the line of fire. I have done it for a while, I am pretty good at it and occasionally, I even enjoy it! Not everyone can put up with this role. Let’s move on, what is next for you? You seem more spirited than ever and this is good news.
Dr. Milena Rampoldi: I plan to study the coexistence between Jews and Turks in 19th century Istanbul. I am convinced that this positive experience can be replicated. I would also like to publish a small compilation of interviews with anti-Zionists to convey a true portrait of Mosaic diversity. What I like most in your thinking is your ability to rethink your position again and again. Although we differ ideologically, I think that we follow the same method, hermeneutically speaking. At the end of my interview with you, your take on Netanyahu made it clear to me that we used the same method but came to opposite conclusions. When I asked you about Netanyahu I was hoping to hear from you that Jews wouldn’t stand for Netanyahu, understanding that he was the worst possible representation of their most problematic positions. But you had the opposite opinion. You said, “He is the right man for them… He is a true reflection of what Jewishness is all about, Netanyahu is the contemporary archetype Jew ” You had a clear view of reality, as did Paul Eisen, when I asked him who would win the Israel elections. He correctly predicted the results; while I was shocked by Netanyahu’s win, I couldn’t write a word for half a day!
Gilad Atzmon: Thanks for your time Milena. Truth has set you free. You are emancipated now, and you should thank Arendt and his ilk. I certainly do.
April 26, 2015
Jerusalem Post: Reality Check-The irony of Lord Janner’s escape from trial
By Jeff Barak
GA: Once again, an ultra Zionist outlet explores the truth the Guardians of Zion are desperate to conceal...Discussing bringing charges against suspected elderly Nazis, Nazi hunter Janner told the Jewish Chronicle in 2012: “I don’t care what bloody age they are. These criminals should have been dealt with years ago.”
The furor in Britain over the decision not to prosecute Lord Janner of Braunstone for alleged child sex abuse due to his severe dementia raises a number of issues, not least the irony of Janner’s own stance regarding the prosecution of elderly Nazi war criminals.
But first, a quick recap on the Janner story. Lord Janner, or Greville as he is more widely known among his large circle of friends and acquaintances (full disclosure: I know him slightly, have enjoyed his hospitality and always found him great company) was a Labor member of parliament for many years as well as the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the umbrella organization for British Jewry.
As an MP, he represented a constituency in the English Midlands city of Leicester where perhaps the only Jewish connection was the fact that he “inherited” his seat from his father, Barnett Janner, after whom the small communal settlement in northern Israel, Gan Ner, is named. The crimes of which Janner is accused, and which Janner has always denied (the allegations have surfaced a number of times over the years) took place in a Leicestershire children’s home between 1970 and the 1980s.
Despite the British director of public prosecutions, Alison Saunders, saying that mistakes had been made in not putting Janner on trial following the three previous investigations into his alleged activities, she ruled that due to Janner’s severe dementia, a prosecution now would not be in the public interest.
Saunders’ decision has been fiercely condemned by politicians and media commentators across the board in Britain, which comes as no surprise. Their determination to see Janner stand trial does not stem from any hidden anti-Semitic desire to see one of British Jewry’s most famous leaders humiliated; rather, it reflects the fact that the past cover-up of child abuse cases involving establishment figures has become a dominant public issue in the UK over the past couple of years.
But Saunders was right in her decision not to prosecute.
Independent medical experts ruled that Janner lacks the mental capacity to understand questions about the alleged offenses, which means he is unable to defend himself. As leading UK barrister David Pannick QC, who has assisted Janner’s legal team on this issue recently wrote: “No criminal trial could be possibly fair in such circumstances. Any judge would inevitably stop the proceedings as an abuse of process...It would have been wrong for her [Saunders] to start a prosecution that would inevitably be dismissed by any court.”
SO WHERE does that leave us in terms of Nazi war criminals? Janner himself was unequivocal here.
Discussing bringing charges against suspected elderly Nazis, Janner told the Jewish Chronicle in 2012: “I don’t care what bloody age they are. These criminals should have been dealt with years ago.”
The co-founder of the Holocaust Education Trust and the youngest war crimes investigator in the British army following the end of the Second World War, Janner has always been adamant about the need to prosecute.
When Sobibor guard John Demjanjuk was found guilty of war crimes at the age of 91, he said: “No concessions to age or the time that has passed can be made when it comes to justice for crimes of this magnitude.”
But just as Janner is now escaping trial on the grounds of severe dementia, we must reluctantly accept the fact most surviving Nazis are probably too old to be brought to justice, and only the most select of cases, such as that of 93-year-old Oskar Gröning, known as the bookkeeper of Auschwitz for his role in counting cash seized from inmates, should go ahead.
And the importance of such trials lie not in the punishment they can hand down – at the age of 93, any jail sentence is more or less irrelevant – but in the educational purpose they can serve. As Holocaust denial refuses to disappear, there is still, sadly, the need for former Nazis to testify about the horrors they perpetrated.
Impressively, Auschwitz twin Eva Kor, who survived Josef Mengele’s barbaric genetic experiments at the camp, told the German court last week she does not want to see Gröning punished, despite his admitting his “moral guilt” over the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Jews. Instead, she wants him “to make a statement to the young neo-Nazis of today to tell them that Auschwitz did exist and that the Nazi ideology created no winners, there were only losers. It created so much pain.”
Just as Saunders decided against Janner’s prosecution on the grounds of not being in the public interest, the final attempts to bring the last surviving Nazi war criminals to justice must also be based on whether their trial will serve a clear educational purpose, even if this means some escape trial, rather than descend into an argument over their fitness to stand trial.
April 25, 2015
Jew vs. Muslim
By: Gilad Atzmon
Evidence of Lord Janner’s paedophilia is flooding in. The Daily Mail reported today that “police and social workers were told more than 20 years ago that the peer took a vulnerable boy to Labour Party offices and Parliament before molesting him in his marital bed. A ten-page witness statement details the alleged victim's harrowing ordeal at the hands of Janner.”
But there is a crucial fact that the British press attempts to conceal. Lord Janner was the chairman of the Board of Deputies, a group that claims to represent all British Jews at the same time he was allegedly molesting little boys. If the allegations are true, then Janner molested young boys at the same time that he represented the Jewish community. I can see why the British press attempts to conceal Lord Janner’s prominence within the Jewish world. But would the British press make a similar collective effort to conceal the ethnicity or prominence of a British Muslim paedophile?
April 24, 2015
Crime And Punishment - Holocaust vs. Paedophilia
By Gilad Atzmon
Allison Pearson wrote in The Telegraph two days ago, “As Oskar Groening, the so-called Accountant of Auschwitz, goes on trial at the age of 93 for his complicity in war crimes, the 86-year-old Labour peer Greville Janner is excused prosecution for 22 alleged sexual offences against nine boys in his Leicestershire constituency, from the 1960s to the 1980s, because he is suffering from ‘severe dementia’.”
Pearson is spot on. While Groening is merely a Goy and a German, Lord Janner is a Jew and not just an ordinary Jew, but a quite prominent one. From 1978 to 1984 Lord Janner was the chairman of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, an institution that claims to “represent British Jews.” Lord Janner is also dominant in the field of holocaust education. He is clearly concerned with Jewish suffering but apparently dismissive of the shoah he is accused of inflicting on minor boys at the same time he represented British Jews.
Apparently there has been long and ongoing massive whitewash operation for Lord Janner, allowing him to conceal his alleged egregious sex crimes. The BBC revealed recently that as early as “1989 a detective sergeant was told not to arrest Mr Janner or search his home.”
Unlike German elder Oskar Groening who stands trial for being an ‘instrument in a mass murder,’ whatever that means; Lord Greville Janner is not going to be arrested or charged. Lord Janner is free and he has not wasted his freedom. Apparently the elder Lord who suffers ‘severe dementia,’ has been active in transferring and concealing his wealth, presumably in case a few of his alleged victims decide they deserve compensation for the shoah he inflicted on them.
The Daily Mail reports that: “Lord Janner gave his children deeds to his £2m home at height of abuse… the move could slash potential payouts…The transfer happened after police raided his office in the House of Lords”
This British farce knows no end. Alison Saunders, the director of public prosecutions, decided this week not to prosecute Lord Janner. Ms Saunders told the BBC that Lord Janner's dementia was so severe that he could "play no part in a trial." Bizarre: previously, Ms Saunders said that there was enough evidence to prosecute the 86-year-old peer for 22 sex offences but that he was too sick to stand trial and that she had determined that there was "no ongoing risk to the public."
Alison Saunders is correct. Lord Janner is probably too old to rape young boys. Perhaps he can’t ‘get it up’ while chasing minors at his stage in life. But shouldn’t the same rule apply to Oskar Groening? It is likely that the 93 year old German is also too old to serve as an ‘instrument,’ in a new Jewish holocaust.
April 23, 2015
Is Zionism Judaism?
If you ask Home Secretary Theresa May, the answer is yes!
In a unique performance of shameless pre-election arse-licking, our Theresa decided to celebrate Israeli independence day in a synagogue.
April 18, 2015
Don't Miss- International Jazz Workshop In Saarwellingen- August 8-15
http://www.international.jazzwerkstat...
International Jazz Workshop August 08 - 14 2015http://www.international.jazzwerkstatt.de
I would like to invite you to attend our 2015 “International Jazz workshop” in Saarwellingen, Germany. Last year I was appointed to be the artistic director of the course and I am very enthusiastic about this job. My approach is simple as it should be. We make music the way we hear it. Gathering some of the best teachers as well as performers in the world jazz and world music scene, we will produce music together, combining intuition and beauty.
The course is shaped as both intensive workshops and instrumental lesson during the day and a Jazz festival in the night. Jazz lovers and musicians of every level are invited to join. It is promised to be an unforgettable experience!!!
Gilad Atzmon (art director, saxophones)Sylwia Bialas (vocals)Barbara Bürkle (vocals)Pete Churchill (vocals)Kevin Dean (trumpet)Frank Harrison (piano)Chris Higginbottom (drums)Claus Krisch (piano)Johannes Müller (saxophone)Davide Petrocca (bass)Saul Rubin (guitar) Gwilym Simcock (piano)Asaf Sirkis (drums, konnakol)Yaron Stavi (bass)
