End of the Year Jew Bash!

First, you need to get rid of your laptop. The Intel chip that allows it to run was developed in Israel. If you are really bent on taking down the awful war machine that happens to have the most museums per capita in the world, you must power down immediately. If you happen to have a PC, make sure it does not run a Windows operating system, because the three most recent were developed by Microsoft Israel.

If you are forced to use your computer, make sure you do not use AOL Instant Messenger, Gmail chat or any other instant-messaging system. The patents for these systems were developed in Israel, and we wouldn’t want to support that under any circumstances.

Next to go should be your cell phone. The first cell phones were developed in Israel, and it would be a tragedy if we made this a boycott of convenience. If we are really committed to bringing down the nation that produces more scientific papers per capita than any other country, we can’t be brought down by our imperialistic cell phones.

If you are concerned about the environment, boycotting Israel could be difficult. Many solar power plants use technology that was invented by Israelis, and many of them were even installed by these terrible people. On the upside, the increased fossil fuels you will use will support freedom fighters such as Hamas and al-Qaida who are dedicated to bringing down the evil country that has the most Ph.D.s per capita.

If you are a farmer, particularly in dry areas of Texas, do not use drip irrigation on your fields. This method of irrigation that saves thousands of gallons of water per year was developed in Israel.

If you go to a hospital, you are going to have to take many special precautions to ensure that you are not aiding Israel. If you have a gastrointestinal disease, make sure that the doctors do not use a “pill cam” to diagnose you, as these were developed in Israel. If you are going to be screened for breast cancer, make sure you request a method that uses plenty of radiation. The radiation-free scanning method was developed in Israel, and exposure to radiation is a small price to pay to take down the Jewish state.

If you are involved in any human rights issues on campus, boycotting Israel will be very difficult. Israel has the best women’s rights record in the Middle East and is the only country in the region in which gay marriages are recognized. Also, Israel is the only country in the region that offers asylum to Darfur refugees.

So there you have it. You are now armed with all the necessary information to destroy the country that has given us Bar Refaeli, Natalie Portman and voicemail. Good luck!

Under this principle, the first country studied would be Saudi Arabia. That tyrannical kingdom practices gender apartheid to an extreme, relegating women to an extremely low status. Indeed, a prominent Saudi Imam recently issued a fatwa declaring that anyone who advocates women working alongside men or otherwise compromises with absolute gender apartheid is subject to execution. The Saudis also practice apartheid based on sexual orientation, executing and imprisoning gay and lesbian Saudis. Finally, Saudi Arabia openly practices religious apartheid. It has special roads for “Muslims only.” It discriminates against Christians, refusing them the right to practice their religion openly. And needless to say, it doesn’t allow Jews the right to live in Saudi Arabia, to own property or even (with limited exceptions) to enter the country. Now that’s apartheid with a vengeance.

The second entity on any apartheid list would be Hamas, which is the de facto government of the Gaza Strip. Hamas too discriminates openly against women, gays, Christians. It permits no dissent, no free speech, and no freedom of religion.

Every single Middle East country practices these forms of apartheid to one degree or another. Consider the most “liberal” and pro-American nation in the area, namely Jordan. The Kingdom of Jordan, which the King himself admits is not a democracy, has a law on its books forbidding Jews from becoming citizens or owning land. Despite the efforts of its progressive Queen, women are still de facto subordinate in virtually all aspects of Jordanian life.

Iran, of course, practices no discrimination against gays, because its President has assured us that there are no gays in Iran. In Pakistan, Sikhs have been executed for refusing to convert to Islam, and throughout the Middle East, honor killings of women are practiced, often with a wink and a nod from the religious and secular authorities.

Every Muslim country in the Middle East has a single, established religion, namely Islam, and makes no pretense of affording religious equality to members of other faiths. That is a brief review of some, but certainly not all, apartheid practices in the Middle East.

Now let’s turn to Israel. The secular Jewish state of Israel recognizes fully the rights of Christians and Muslims and prohibits any discrimination based on religion (except against Conservative and Reform Jews, but that’s another story!) Muslim and Christian citizens of Israel (of which there are more than a million) have the right to vote and have elected members of the Knesset, some of whom even oppose Israel’s right to exist. There is an Arab member of the Supreme Court, an Arab member of the Cabinet and numerous Israeli Arabs in important positions in businesses, universities and the cultural life of the nation. A couple of years ago I attended a concert at the Jerusalem YMCA at which Daniel Barrenboim conducted a mixed orchestra of Israeli and Palestinian musicians. There was a mixed audience of Israelis and Palestinians, and the man sitting next to me was an Israeli Arab, who is the culture minister of the State of Israel. Can anyone imagine that kind of concert having taking place in apartheid South Africa, or in apartheid Saudi Arabia?

There is complete freedom of dissent in Israel and it is practiced vigorously by Muslims, Christians and Jews alike. And Israel is a vibrant democracy.

What is true of Israel proper, including Israeli Arab areas, is not true of the occupied territories. Israel ended its occupation of the Gaza several years ago, only to be attacked by Hamas rockets. Israel maintains its occupation of the West Bank only because the Palestinians walked away from a generous offer of statehood on 97% of the West Bank, with its capital in Jerusalem and with a $35 billion compensation package for refugees. Had it accepted that offer by President Bill Clinton and Prime Minister Ehud Barak, there would be a Palestinian state in the West Bank. There would be no separation barrier. There would be no roads restricted to Israeli citizens (Jews, Arabs and Christians.) And there would be no civilian settlements. I have long opposed civilian settlements in the West Bank, as many, perhaps most Israelis, do. But to call an occupation, which continues because of the refusal of the Palestinians to accept the two-state solution, “Apartheid” is to misuse that word. As those of us who fought in the actual struggle of apartheid well understand, there is no comparison between what happened in South Africa and what is now taking place on the West Bank. As Congressman John Conyors, who helped found the congressional Black caucus, well put it:

“[Applying the word “Apartheid” to Israel] does not serve the cause of peace, and the use of it against the Jewish people in particular, who have been victims of the worst kind of discrimination, discrimination resulting in death, is offensive and wrong.”

The current “Israel Apartheid Week” on universities around the world, by focusing only on the imperfections of the Middle East’s sole democracy, is carefully designed to cover up far more serious problems of real apartheid in Arab and Muslim nations. The question is why do so many students identify with regimes that denigrate women, gays, non-Muslims, dissenters, environmentalists and human rights advocates, while demonizing a democratic regime that grants equal rights to women (the chief justice and speaker of the Parliament of Israel are women), gays (there are openly gay generals in the Israeli Army), non-Jews (Muslims and Christians serve in high positions in Israel) and dissenters, (virtually all Israelis dissent about something). Israel has the best environmental record in the Middle East, it exports more life saving medical technology than any country in the region and it has sacrificed more for peace than any country in the Middle East. Yet on many college campuses democratic, egalitarian Israel is a pariah, while sexist, homophobic, anti-Semitic, terrorist Hamas is a champion. There is something very wrong with this picture.

How can charges of ethnic cleansing and apartheid by Israel be reconciled with a growing population of Arab-Israelis? Conversely, the numbers of minorities has steadily fallen in areas governed by the Palestinian Authority.

Israel has Arab citizens in the government, judges, army, police, business, arts, academia, and all sectors of society. Education and medical care are available to everyone and freedom of religion is a government policy. Arabic is an official language along with Hebrew and the number of all religious minorities is increasing.

I agree that Apartheid exists. Islamo-supremacist Apartheid has been suppressing the religion and culture of Jews, Berbers, Christians, Kurds, and others across the Middle East and North Africa since the onset of Arab invasions and colonization.

Read, “The Legacy of Jihad” @ http://www.andrewbostom.org/loj/

Today, Jordanian-Arabs of The Palestinian Authority demand that no Jewish communities be allowed wherever they hope to govern (aka, removal of “settlements”); and Egyptian-Arabs in Hamastan have ethnically cleansed Gaza of every ethnic Jew. It would appear that people demanding the ethnic cleansing of Jews from these disputed territories envision one country (Israel) where Jews, Muslims and others may live as equals and another (Palestine) where Jews are verboten. If that isn’t Islamo-supremacist Apartheid, I don’t know what is.

Victims of Arab propaganda have proven Joseph Goebbels right- if lies are repeated often enough, then people will come to believe them.

Those interested in exploring the history of apartheid Islamo-supremacism in a more scholarly manner may read, “The Legacy of Jihad” @
http://www.andrewbostom.org/loj/

St. Nicholas called— he’d like his cathedral back.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Nicholas_Cathedral_Of_Cyprus

Israel is the last apartheid state, and it deserves the same.

Did you notice the 1,400 Gazans massacred by Israel a year ago?

As philosophy professor Bernard Harrison notes, “Israel is in fact, for better or worse, almost a textbook example of a multicultural society.”

And that truth by itself exposes claims about supposed “Israeli Apartheid” as laughable and a big lie.

The Buddha called— he’d like his Bamiyan monuments back.

Plus you know if Richard Berthold (Mr. Comedian with all the friends at the Pentagon)is against Israel, heck it must be a good country.

There isn’t a single Jew remaining in Hamas-controlled Gaza. By what twisted logic does Israel “control” Gaza, professor?

Don’t be an ethnic-cleansing Hamas apologist your whole life, Berthold.

“Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.” [Matt 23:24]

another 50 Greek churches and monasteries have been converted into stables, stores, hostels, museums, or have been demolished

the cemeteries of at least 25 Greek villages have been desecrated and destroyed

innumerable icons, religious artifacts and all kinds of archaeological treasures have been stolen and smuggled abroad
illegal excavations and smuggling of antiquities is openly taking place all the time with the involvement of the occupying forces

all Greek place names contrary to all historical and cultural reason were converted into Turkish ones.

Why doesn’t Professor of Classical History, Richard M. Berthold, howl about the cultural rape and occupation of northern Cyprus? Precisely antiquities have been pillaged; Greeks have been driven out of their homes; ancient churches have been converted into mosques; and the thriving resort of Famagusta transformed into a ghost town. Nobody cares. Instead, academia obsesses over the trumped-up plight of “Palestinians”— an invented nationality, committed to eradicating a sovereign state in the name of Islamo-supremacism.

VIDEO: Famagusta, The Hostage Ghost City of Europe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcfBJ7DimB8

But Berthold here is demonstrably ignorant of such things and should know better than to embarrass himself by bloviating publicly and proving it.

which brings up another point: most of the israelis killed by the palestinians are settlers. that means that they are occupying stolen land. and how are they killed? with rockets that more resemble hand grenades in explosive capacity. and the israeli response? drop bombs from f-16’s, and drive tanks into refugee camps. its a little asymmetric. this probably wouldn’t be a problem if the palestinians weren’t going to be a vast majority of the population within 20 years. what does that mean?

When the palestinians become majority population, israelis will have three choices: 1. dismantle the settlements, and come to a two state solution, 2. incorporate the palestinian population and risk ceding power to a palestinian government that won’t really give a shit about jewish interests, and may even act against the jewish residents of israel; or 3. become an apartheid state in which a minority jewish population will rule over a majority palestinian population.

As we have seen in the past, the jews are pretty unwilling to dismantle the settlements as the zionist faction holds sway in the knesset, that probably wont happen. after kicking the shit out of the palestinians for 50 years, the jews will be skeptical of handing a government over to the palestinians (as they should be). so, the likely outcome will be that israel will become another apartheid state. not surprising seeing as the israelis don’t treat palestinians that well now.

the interesting thing will be to see if you who are so blindly in favor of supporting one militant israeli faction (zionist settlers) will be so supportive of that state when it becomes the next south africa.

the link is to a story in ‘the guardian’ about settlement funding through charity organizations in the US, and the goals of those organizations. it may interest you, but feel free to not read it and simply argue ‘principles’ ‘feelings’ and ‘morals’.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/dec/08/us-settlers-hebron-fund-israeli

“Did you notice the 1,400 Gazans massacred by Israel a year ago?” How many did Egypt massacre or jail or leave to rot in the arms smuggling tunnels? How many Gazans were killed by their own? Did any of those Gazans pour gasoline on their fellow Gazans and set on fire to be burned alive and all in public?

Berthold, quit drinking your bong water!

Even a professor of “classical history” should be capable of drawing distinctions (not blurring them) between archaelogical, cultural and historical evidence.

Berthold makes clear that there is at least one ignorant person at UNM. At least act like you’re part of an academic community, professor.

/dismissed