Nov 12 2009
Jewish style Al Qaeda theology
Published by mgopin at 2:16 pm under Israel,Judaism,settlements
I know that some Jews on my list find this painful and embarrassing, but this is the Jewish version of Al Qaeda. Just as embarrassed Muslims have to face themselves, so do Jews. I would love to hear rebuttals of this story, with evidence in hand. Finally, not everything has to be balanced in the shame game. Sometimes Muslims need to ‘take it in the chin’ like 9/11. Gaza? It is a prison of millions of real human beings, and 99% of the casualties were Palestinian men, women, and children. So you have to take it in the chin and just deal. How else can people improve themselves.
I would like to ask my Jewish listeners about the scandal in the past decades of child abuse and sexual abuse among Orthodox rabbis. So fine, it was and is a small minority, but the problem is that, as with the Catholic Church, many tried to hide it. Whole organizations popped up to expose this and fight this. Would you have said at the time, ‘why are you singling out Jews? Rabbis? Look at all the abuse in the Arab world?’ This is the kind of defense mechanism I hear from Jews who do not want to hear about Gaza. But the racism of it is that these same people never would have wanted to shove under the carpet the abuse of Jewish children in Orthodox institutions, no matter how embarrassing. Why? Because children come first. Right!!! Same in Gaza. Children come first, crime is crime, period. The sanctity of a child is non-negotiable. period. Self defense has limits, and one Jewish child does not equal a hundred Palestinian children. The politicians failed but that does not mean Gazan children can be the human sacrifice. The Jewish prophets outlawed child sacrifice thousands of years ago, and they warned severely of the consequences of abusing strangers, orphans, the weak.
These rabbis are a sickness born of the Occupation. Plain and simple.
See here.
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here is the original source of the article in the link above:
http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/more-on-kosher-sanctioned-murder/
(i traced through a series of racist, nationalist sites, including eutimes.net and buchanan.org that reposted it)
Agreed Marc. Certainly a sickness born of the occupation, in many ways. Not just in that perpetual violent conflict has the inherent potential to give birth to violent theology, but also in that occupation and conflict shift focus outward. Constant war from 1948-1967, and occupation from 67 to today have meant that we as a people have not yet been able to have the opportunity to seriously discuss how Judaism functions for a people in power. Most of our theological ideas were born in Exile and/or under hostile (or at least unfriendly) non-Jewish rule. As such, we were unprepared as a religion for existence in power. And to compound that problem, the only paradigm we have of how to act when in political and military power is the Tanach. And biblical notions of war and good governance are quite different than those that prevail today (at least in democratic societies). We are in great need of ending the occupation as a people, as a faith community. For we have a great deal we need to figure out about ourselves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC4q-dhaTYU
Amen, my brilliant friend.