I Share the Blame. Our Hands Are Not Clean…
ed note–as always, an entire mountain range of important info that every war-weary Gentile with a vested interest in his/her own future survival needs to understand about all of this.
Firsto, ladies and Gentile-men, a few important quotes from the very same Torah that our deceptive ‘rebbe’ claims is being ‘abused’, ‘taken out of context’, and ‘misapplied’ in the violent behavior that the Jews and their Jewish state have been dishing out upon the Palestinians (and others) for the last century, to wit–
‘When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are to possess and drives out the 7 nations larger and stronger than you, and when you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, show them no mercy, and do not allow anything that breathes to remain alive, for you are a people holy to the Lord your God who has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession…’ Book of Deuteronomy
And…
‘Now go and attack Amalek and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them, but put to death all the men and women, the children and suckling infants, as well as their cattle, sheep, camels and donkeys…’ 1 Samuel 15:3
And…
‘When the Lord your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, he will give you a land with large, flourishing cities you did not build, houses filled with all kinds of good things you did not provide, wells you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant…’ Book of Deuteronomy
And, finalmente…
‘For the nation or people which will not bow down and serve you shall perish, they shall be utterly destroyed…’ Book of Isaiah
Now, the reason that the above quotes are important, ladies and Gentile-men, is that they come from the very same book, the very same Torah, that serves as the ‘beating heart’, (you’ll pardon the sick joke) of the very same Judah-ism which our deranged ‘rebbe’ claims is nothing but peace and love, along with a dash of ‘sugar and spice, and every thing nice’.
She goes to great lengths in saying that all of the apocalyptic violence which has been the calling card of the entire ‘Jewish State’ thing from the very beginning of this ugly affair (and the thousands of years preceding it) is taking place in contradiction and contravention to the ‘authentic’ teachings of Torah Judah-ism, and she makes this claim despite the fact that she, as not only a religious Jew, but as a REBBE (Rabbi) for yaweh’s sake, is probably better-versed on what is contained in that black book of magic spells than are the cross-eyed, inbred, stinking ‘hilltop youth’ who daily carry out its commandments in their terrorizing of the native Gentile Palestinian population.
So what’s ‘the rub’ here folks?
Is she right? Are all those commandments listed above concerning mass murder, ‘showing no mercy’, inheriting ‘cities’ and ‘vineyards’ owned by others, etc, etc, etc, being ‘taken out of context’ in order to justify something that yahweh, the violent deity worshiped by the Jews (like her) never intended?
No, she’s not right, fellow war-weary Gentiles…
Not only is she wrong, she’s lying, and, what’s worse, knows that she is, and better than the rest of us could ever hope to know.
As already stated above, she, moreso than the inbred, drooling, cross-eyed, stinking, violent ‘yoots’ who daily commit themselves to ‘Ju-had’, (i.e. the violent application of Torah Judah-ism’s violent commandment against Gentiles) knows full well what her Judah-ism teaches, and that at the end of each day, all the murder and mayhem that her co-religionists commit is not only perfectly acceptable, but as well–
ABSOLUTELY COMMANDED…
–under pain of ‘divine’ punishment.
So again, what’s ‘the rub’ here?
The ‘rub’, fellow Gentiles, is best summed up with the following pic–
–The clever alligator who dresses him/herself in human clothing so as to best insinuate him/herself closer to human beings so that the process of killing and eating them is made much easier.
And likewise with the deceptive Jewess and her ‘bleeding heart for Torah Judah-ism’ piece below. She knows that hers is a murderous religion, but in order to keep the Gentiles from doing the very simple math on all of this, (which they are doing right now MORE AND MORE EVERY DAY) she comes strolling onto the stage wearing her fancy human threads while hoping that those assembled for her sermon pay more attention to the fancy ‘duds’ she is sporting than they do her elongated nose and mouth full of sharp teeth.
It’s been said many times here, fellow Gentiles, AND it bears repeating, not just ‘often’, but CONSTANTLY, which is that
FISH SWIM, BIRDS FLY, AND JEWS LIE…
Sarah Segal Katz for Haaretz
At the end of the fall holidays in 2000, at the beginning of the second intifada, I spent Shabbat with friends at one of the farms on the other side of the Green Line. My hosts, longhaired and barefoot, sought to redeem the land and to implement the ‘Torat Eretz Yisrael’ (‘Torah of the Land of Israel’) in a reading devoid of interpretation and without regard to the diversity of opinions in Jewish thought.
They adhered to the literal meaning of the biblical texts: ‘an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth’ and ‘show them no mercy.’
Before the Shabbat eve kiddush, which took place in a tent on Friday night, the hosts expressed pride in the wine we would drink, which they had made themselves. After the blessing was recited, the goblet was passed among the guests, but not to me. The man who made the kiddush signaled to his wife to give me store-bought grape juice in a separate cup. After taking a sip, I expressed my surprise. My hosts told me it was clear to them that I wouldn’t drink the wine because it was ‘looted wine.’
As I mused over this odd turn of phrase, they explained that they made the wine from the grapes of a nearby vineyard – whose vines they had neither planted nor tended but that they saw as belonging to them by virtue of ‘zchut avot,’ or ‘ancestral right.’ They were only showing consideration for what they believed to be my ‘personal’ laws of kashrut, based on what they knew about me – even before I had a chance to weigh in.
I cannot overstate the tension of my consciousness in those moments. A tremendous sense of dissonance, of the ground erupting and giving way beneath my feet. All previous disagreements with my friends were dwarfed by the realization that the people standing before me take immense pride in themselves for having plundered fruit that belonged to others, that was cultivated with great effort, and even dare to invoke holiness and halakha into this act.
I shuddered. The breadth of language that I attempted to find in connection to them stood on the edge of an abyss. There was an enormous contrast between each person’s understanding of the sacred and its desecration. I felt there was no one to turn to so as to stop the injustice.
A few weeks later, I shared what had happened in a study group at the university. I said it appears that there are people who want to separate religion from that state – so that the state doesn’t stop religion from running riot. The group members struggled to believe what I had told them. The term ‘hilltop youth’ was not yet coined. I came to realize afterward that back then, I had been sitting in a tent with those who just a few months later were already being called ‘leaders of the hilltop youth.’
I certainly did not know that 25 years later, they would no longer be a ‘fringe’ group.
At the time, I was paralyzed by shock and I had a sense of foreboding. ‘We should have been as Sodom, we should have been like unto Gomorrah’ (Isaiah 1:9). Atrocities emerge from within our nation. The hilltop youth did not develop in a vacuum. The roads to the settlement outposts, the water and the electricity, the donations and financial help provided support. More than a few people in the settlement enterprise saw in these young men anarchists expressing youthful mischief and pure, authentic idealism, and gave them a wink of criticism mixed with leniency and perhaps also a hint of pride and envy.
From the heads of the settlement enterprise to generations of cabinet members, the establishment allowed the phenomenon to flourish. Even when there were dramatic evictions of settlements, alternative settlements were promised to their residents. It must be said that the violent arm that grew from within the settlements was not necessarily the movement’s intention from the beginning, but those who fed it for years by turning a blind eye cannot disavow it now, as a second and third generation of Jewish terror arises.
We shall cry out loudly: What was done in Khirbet Humsa, what was done in all the nighttime and daytime raids, in the desecration of mosques, in the torching of homes, in the looting of livestock and jewelry, in the running over of a child, in the stabbing of an elderly man, in the sexual assault of a man in front of his family, in the beating of girls and young women in the presence of their handcuffed parents and, according to witnesses, in the threat to kill children and rape women – all of these acts are crimes that contradict the values of Judaism. After two and a half years in which we have demanded that the world respond and not ignore a horrific combination of terror and sexual assaults, we cannot ignore it when such atrocities emerge from among us.
The appropriation of religious concepts for such atrocities desecrates the image of God and binds Judaism to its complete opposite, in the name of fundamentalism.
The verse that the Jewish pogromists cling to, ‘show them no mercy,’ is always a challenge to moderate Jewish thought. But it is clear that there is no interpretation that grants license to plunder, rape and murder nonJewish inhabitants of the Land of Israel. In the Tosefta – a compilation of Jewish oral law from the late second century C.E. – which interpreted the verse in three ways, the directive applies to the biblicalera seven nations, not contemporary nations, and it certainly contains no justification for violence when there is an established state and a commitment to international law. ‘Whoever is stronger prevails’ describes deplorable anarchy, not a value to be emulated.
Those who wrench the verse out of the longstanding interpretative tradition exploit the Torah in order to pick up a stick, a stone, a weapon and commit crimes, ostensibly in the name of God. In addition to the negation of the simple human morality toward which the Torah directs us, I am outraged by the simplistic interpretation of the text and the omission of the multilayered discussion of the verse by commentators, thinkers and halakhic authorities, even when it is challenging. It is appropriate to recall that ‘decency precedes the Torah’ and that ‘in the image of God He created him’ refers to the creation of human beings – all human beings, not only Jews.
When the Bible says, ‘neither shalt thou stand idly by the blood of thy neighbor,’ even if this opens the door to multiple interpretations, one cannot argue with the obvious: Those who can prevent injustice and do not do so are complicit in the crime. Those who know that harm is being done and permit it, or who fall silent in the face of such atrocities, stand idly by the blood of human beings. And those who claim that all Palestinians are enemies a priori and therefore the verse does not apply to them distort not only the Bible but also the threads of humane thought that are woven into the religious thinking of Judaism. ‘Justice, justice shall you pursue,’ the Torah demands as a condition for living in this land, and promises ‘that you may live,’ and only then ‘that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.’
We cannot treat the current Jewish terrorism as if ‘Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it,’ as if the rioters did not come out of schools and yeshivas that preach militant messages. The public nature of their actions indicates not a mindset of underground activity but rather one of authority. As a religious woman, even though I am not affiliated with this subgroup, I carry a heavy sense of responsibility in the face of these crimes that are committed in the name of my Torah.
The kiddush wine that was served at that Shabbat dinner was wine of sour grapes. A vineyard that was stolen 25 years ago has produced thorns and briars. In the wake of the terror in Khirbet Humsa two weeks ago, we must cry out, like the prophet Isaiah: ‘For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah the plant of His delight; and He looked for justice, but behold violence; for righteousness, but behold a cry’ (Isaiah 5:7).
Sarah Segal Katz is a rabbanit and one of the leaders behind the successful High Court of Justice petition that opened the rabbinical ordination exams to women.