Showing posts with label Jewish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jewish. Show all posts

Saturday, 30 May 2015

Solution to another big conflict: Israel, the Hebrew State

Is Judaism an ethnicity or a (political) religion?


The State of Israel's problem is its schizophrenic confusion when commonly called the Jewish State. Because  Jewish refers both to a religion (Judaism) and to an ethnicity (Jewish-hood).

You might call yourself Jewish by referring to your ancestry, even if you do not practice Judaism. Or, reciprocally, you might convert to Judaism - for whatever reason, without having any Jewish ancestor.

Solution is to stop calling Israel a Jewish State. To stop promoting either racism or religious bigotry. As a religion, Judaism should be enjoyed solely as a folklore, and not taken more seriously, not taken politically. It is too old and too weird to be promoted or even be politically acceptable in a civilized peace-loving post-modern society.

The Hebrew State is what we should call Israel in order to protect its people, most of them with Jewish ancestry but not bigots, to protect its singularity and its language-culture, positively. What is important is to preserve the language, not to take seriously that obsolete religious mythology, which instigates, encourages, and values conflicts and war.

In a TV program, Chanel 3, in mid May, Thursday (? date I failed to register), 10:30-11 am, the person talking was promoting the idea of Jerusalem belonging to the Jews, and only to the Jews, ignoring the fact that Christian and Muslims are also considering the city as sacred to them in their own religions perspective (Muslims call it Ghods). In support, he would give reference to the Torah: I Kings, 9:3:5, Joel, 3:3:2, and Zaccharia 3:12:1-2. Obviously, that doesn't help peace. The Program's name: The Prophetic Connection.

In the same program and discourse, the broadcaster ended in promoting the selling of DVDs on the topic: 3DVD, 13 episodes, for $75. To help Israeli children. One out of 3 children in Israel live in poverty, he said. Really? Perhaps change  is needed.


Monday, 23 February 2015

French President (François Hollande) pledges to protect Jewish community


French President pledges to protect Jewish community as anti-Semitism is on the rise: CP24, Monday February 23, 2015, News titles, 7:04 pm.

French President, François Holland, is acting foolishly (of course, he is not the only one).

Firstly, those who recently profaned Jewish cemetery in France shall not be called anti-Semite. Those Islamic extremists, some of them who recently killed Jewish in Paris, cannot be called anti-Semite for the simple reason that they were Arab Muslims, and Arabs like Jews are Semitics, not anti-Semitics.

Secondly, those committing acts of terror against Jews in Paris might also do it as a reaction to the blind support given by their French President to the state of Israel, and particularly to its extremely arrogant, anti-Arab, anti-Palestinian, anti Iranian, anti-Russian, Anti-Barack-Obama, prime minister Netanyahu. This friend of Holland, Netanyahu, is, no doubt, part of the problem. Therefore those Islamic killers should be called anti-Netanyahu or anti-Israel or anti-Zionist or ''people enraged by Holland's foreign policy of blind support to Israel, and of discriminating in favor of the Jews, whether French or Israelis''. They shouldn't be called necessarily ''anti-Jewish'' and certainly not ''anti-Semite''.

Thirdly, François Holland, as President of France, should pledge to protect all French people (including Jewish and Arabs), not only Jews. Why discriminating the Jews by pledging to protect them separately? Journalists in Charlie Hebdo who were the main target of the terrorist killings weren't Jewish.

Last but certainly not least importantly, everyone knows that these extremist terrorists are financed and supported by the wealthy rulers of Qatar and of backward Saudi Arabia, whom François Holland befriends (as do many others, e.g. prime minister of Canada Stephen Harper, Senator of Arizona John McCain, former US Secretary of State and presidential hopeful, Hillary Clinton, and, sadly, many other officials in the mercantile developed but corrupted Western society. Doesn't Monsieur Holland (M. Harper, Mrs Clinton, and others) realize that it makes him an accomplice to the crimes perpetuated everywhere by those Islamic terrorists, including in France and against Jewish French?

That is why Holland's words and actions must be called foolish, for making him (and many others) an accomplice to those crimes and acts of terrors perpetrated by Islamic extremists everywhere on this planet.