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Simon Schama’s The Story of the Jews – History Vs. Chicken Soup

Review by Gilad Atzmon

On the day we learned that the BBC’s new Middle East editor, Raffi Berg, urged colleagues to downplay Israel's siege of Gaza, the British broadcaster launched Simon Schama’s The Story of the Jews.  I have only watched the 1st episode of this new BBC 2 grandiose series. But I already learned from Schama about Jewish greatness, the formation of his people and the continuum between the ancient Israelites and their contemporary followers: Schama and his local reform Synagogue in North West London.  I also learned about Jehovah, the God that was invented by the Jews to choose them over all other people. 

Don’t miss: Gilad Atzmon at the LJF - 20 years in the UK @ The Queen Elizabeth Hall

21st November,  Gilad Atzmon 20 Years in Britain, London Jazz Festival, special concert at The Queen Elizabeth Concert Hall, London South Bank.

20 years after landing in the UK, saxophonist and composer Gilad Atzmon has become an intensely creative presence on the European scene, whether leading successive editions of his Orient House Ensemble, developing new work for string quartet alongside interpretations of the evocative Charlie Parker with strings project, or playing with the Blockheads and Robert Wyatt. 

This concert offers a journey through Gilad’s varied musical activity, including some very special collaborations.

The concert will feature The Orient House Ensemble (Frank Harrison, Eddie Hick & Yaron Stavi, The Sigamos Quartet led by Ros Stephen, Sarah Gillespie, Asaf Sirkis, Jennifer Bennett,   Yair Avidor and the legendary Norman Watt Roy.  

Don’t miss it, book now, the concert is selling out quickly: http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whatson/gilad-atzmon-74480

Coming gigs and tours, recordings & talks  (UK, Luxemburg, Cyprus, USA)

September

1 With The Power Cats, wall2wall Jazz Festival, Swan Hotel, Abergavenny

3 Gilad Atzmon Quartet, Wilmslow Conservative Club, Wilmslow

Labour in the Synagogue

The Jewish Chronicle reports today that Lawyer Sarah Sackman will be the Labour candidate in the Finchley and Golders Green constituency at the 2015 general election.

Apparently, “Ms Sackman was selected at a party meeting at Finchley Progressive Synagogue on Sunday.”

One may wonder why does the Labour select its candidate in a Synagogue?  Do they also select candidates in churches and mosques?

Israel and the Jewish lobby likely to get embroiled in Congress debate on Syria

 

Israeli writer Chemi Shalev predicts today in Haartez that Israel and the Jewish Lobby will be putting pressure on congressmen. In practice they will push for a war against Syria.

"Supporters of Israel will likely be told that at this critical juncture, neutrality is a luxury that neither the lobby nor the Administration can afford. Time to put up or shut up, get off the fence and spend some of the precious political capital that Israel supporters have amassed in order to fight in the Washington trenches for something that most Israelis contend is crucial to their national interests."

And the verdict is clear, if you have a powerful Jewish lobby in you country, you don't really need an enemy, you will end up fighting a war with no end...

Hot off the Press: Britain sold nerve gas chemicals to Syria

By Gilad Atzmon

If you want to know why PM Cameron was keen to launch an immediate attack on Syria while the UN mission was still collecting evidence on the ground,  but then was very quick to scrap the idea all together, dailyrecord.co.uk provides the answer. Britain and Cameron’s government may as well be complicit in the unfolding tragedy.

Seemingly, British firms sold Syrian companies the chemical components needed for the production of chemical weapons, long after the beginning of the civil war.

“BRITAIN allowed firms to sell chemicals to Syria capable of being used to make nerve gas”

“Export licences for potassium fluoride and sodium fluoride were granted months after the bloody civil war in the Middle East began.”

According to the Daily Record, “the chemical export licences were granted by Business Secretary Vince Cable’s Department for Business, Innovation and Skills last January – 10 months after the Syrian uprising began. They were only revoked six months later, when the European Union imposed tough sanctions on Assad’s regime.” However, it is far from being clear yet who is responsible for the attack. There is clear evidence that Rebel forces also possessed chemical weapons. One of the possible explanations for the recent tragedy is that Syrian artillery shells hit rebels’ WMD storage and it was the explosion that spread the lethal substance that killed so many innocents.  

“Yesterday, politicians and anti-arms trade campaigners urged Prime Minister David Cameron to explain why the licences were granted.”

In Case You Want to Learn Atzmonism in Indonesian

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I would love to have a copy myself..

http://atjeh.co/read/2013/09/01/64607/412/13/Gilad-Atzmon-mengkritik-zionisme-Israel

Book Title : Gilad Atzmon -Criticizing Zionism & Israel
 

Author: Ahmad Syafii

Publisher : Mizan , Bandung

 

 

Syrians In Ghouta Claim Saudi-Supplied Rebels Behind Chemical Attack

Introduction by Gilad Atzmon:  I do not posses the means to verify how credible the following report is. It suggests that it was actually Syrian forces’ conventional artillery and missiles that hit rebel’s WMD storage. If the report is genuine, it would be consistent with the  American intelligence account: Assad's forces indeed fired rockets and artillery at the time of the alleged chimical attack, yet the rockets were of a conventional nature.

The meaning of it is simple, the rebels posses WMD supplied by foreign agents and the conflict is about to escalate into a genocidal warfare, an unfolding tragedy.

What we need is divine intervention as opposed to Zionist immoral interventionist pathology.






Syrians In Ghouta Claim Saudi-Supplied Rebels Behind Chemical Attack

Source: http://www.mintpressnews.com/witnesses-of-gas-attack-say-saudis-supplied-rebels-with-chemical-weapons/168135/

Rebels and local residents in Ghouta accuse Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan of providing chemical weapons to an al-Qaida linked rebel group.

By Dale Gavlak and Yahya Ababneh

Ghouta, Syria — As the machinery for a U.S.-led military intervention in Syria gathers pace following last week’s chemical weapons attack, the U.S. and its allies may be targeting the wrong culprit.

Interviews with people in Damascus and Ghouta, a suburb of the Syrian capital, where the humanitarian agency Doctors Without Borders said at least 355 people had died last week from what it believed to be a neurotoxic agent, appear to indicate as much.

However, from numerous interviews with doctors, Ghouta residents, rebel fighters and their families, a different picture emerges. Many believe that certain rebels received chemical weapons via the Saudi intelligence chief, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, and were responsible for carrying out the dealing gas attack.

On Immoral Interventionism

By Gilad Atzmon 

As we are marching towards an imminent American attack on Syria, a conflict that can easily escalate into a regional disaster, it is embarrassing to recall that just four months ago some of our ‘leading’ political scientists were clumsy enough to lend their names to a pro interventionist petition. On April 8th we found out that Tariq Ali, Norman Finkelstein and Ilan Pappe, amongst others, demanded “that Bashar al-Asad leave immediately without excuses so that Syria can begin a speedy recovery towards a democratic future.”

I learned today that Tariq Ali confessed to friends that he regretted signing this interventionist petition, bless him.  However, I wonder where Ilan Pappe and Norman Finkelstein stand on the issue? Is the looming American attack what they had in mind?

Kosher PSC Exposed Once Again!

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A few days ago one of my readers posted a comment by me on PSC York' website. It was referring to BBC's censorship of Nigel Kennedy Apartheid comments .

 

Gilad Atzmon’s comment (originally published here ):

"The BBC was reportedly set to cut out remarks about apartheid in Israel made by world famous violinist  Nigel Kennedy two weeks ago at the Proms Music Festival. Would the BBC leave Kennedy’s comment in, no one would have noticed it. But now, we are all paying attention to Kennedy’s observation.  But we also learn a crucial lesson about Jewish power in Britain in general and within the BBC in particular!"

However, within a short while the message was removed by PSC York's local commissar.  The reasoning is given below.

It seems as if the UK PSC is operating shamelessly  as an extended progressive synagogue. Different kinds of politically identified Jewish groups (A.K.A AZZ) are deciding who is 'in' and who is 'out'. I can't decide whether this is amusing or tragic, yet one thing is clear, it has nothing to do with open discourse, freedom of thought or pluralism of any sort. It is a dead end. 

George Galloway HEATED Speech British Parliament Debate On Military Action Against Syria