Ed note–as always, lots of important protocols that every Gentile with a vested interest in his/her own future survival needs to know about this one.
Firsto, a lil’ quotational digression in getting this discussion started–
‘Dishonoring Christian religious symbols is an old religious duty in Judaism. For every Jew, spitting on the cross, and especially on the Crucifix, and when passing a church, all have been obligatory from around AD 200 for pious Jews. In the past, when the danger of anti-Semitic hostility was a real one, pious Jews were commanded by their rabbis either to spit so that the reason for doing so would be unknown, or to spit onto their chests, not actually on the cross or openly before the church. The increasing strength of the Jewish state has caused these customs to become more open again but there should be no mistake: Spitting on the cross is considered an act of traditional Jewish piety…’—Professor Israel Shahak, author of Jewish History, Jewish Religion
Nexto–
‘The Israeli soldiers took the two Palestinians, Firas Al-Bakri age 21 and Samih Rahal age 24 to a deserted hotel in the Southern part of Jerusalem and tortured them. They beat their victims and burned out their cigarettes on the victims’ bodies…Then one soldier held one victim, forced him to open his mouth and to close his eyes while the other soldiers urinated in his mouth and forced him to swallow it. The soldiers threw the victims ID’s into a hole full of urine and feces and then ordered them to crawl on their abdomens and to pick up their IDs with their mouths. The soldiers were spitting at the victims all the time while beating them with the butts of their rifles, all the while cursing Arabs, Muslims, and Palestinians. The Israeli soldiers put an end to their sadistic scene as they ordered their victims, under threat of shooting, to jump from the first floor of the Hotel. This caused the victims injuries and several broken bones. The Israeli soldier Mikael Merolofski asked journalists during a meeting in Jerusalem, ‘Why are you are making such a big deal and bothering us about this? We didn’t do anything, we just forced two Palestinians to drink urine, one of us beat a Palestinian, and the second beat the other one…’—excerpt of a news report concerning Israeli brutality against Palestinians authored by Palestinian journalist Kawther Salaam.
Nexto–
‘I still remember old Jews spitting while passing by a church, and cursing the dead while passing by a Christian cemetery. Last year in Jerusalem, a Jew decided to refresh the tradition. He spat at the Holy Cross carried in the procession along the city….Last year, the biggest Israeli tabloid Yedioth Aharonoth reprinted in its library the Jewish anti-Gospel, Toledoth Eshu, compiled in the Middle Ages. If the Gospel is the book of love, Toledoth is the book of hate for Christ. The hero of the book is Judas. He captures Jesus by polluting his purity. According to Toledoth, the conception of Christ was in sin, the miracles of Jesus were witchcraft, his resurrection but a trick…Even today, Jews in Israel refer to Jesus by the demeaning word Yeshu (instead of Yeshua), meaning ‘Perish his name’—Israel Shamir, Israeli Jew turned Christian writer
And, finalmente–
‘In the southern part of Hebron, the Israeli soldiers caught a Palestinian shepherd on the top of a hill. They checked his ID, and then they kicked and beat him. The Israeli soldiers then ordered the Palestinian man to bring his donkey, ordered the poor man to strip, and then they threatened to shoot him if he disobeyed their orders. The poor man stripped, and then the Israeli soldiers ordered him to have sex with the donkey. ‘I couldn’t refuse, the soldiers were ready to shoot me,’ he later reported. ‘The soldiers were spitting and cursing at me the whole time. I am so ashamed and disgusted,’ said the poor man…’—Excerpt of ‘Israel is an Anti-Semitic state…the Daily life of Kawther Salaam’ written by Palestinian journalist Kawther Salaam
Okay, now that all the ingredients for this little informational stew have been assembled, let’s put them all together, and we’ll start with a few statements of fact–
1. Politics is downstream of culture…
and–
2. Culture is downstream of moral values otherwise known as ‘religion’
In other words, religion (moral values) determines the culture, and that culture (the product of that religion) determines the politics.
Therefore, when you have a group of people whose culture tells them to spit at those they disdain, then the politics of it all is that when such a group of people get their hands on something such as this–
Or this–
Or this–
Or THIS–
Then everyone needs to worry…
Now, as far as some of the details found in the piece below, nota bene the following–
Substitively, there is little (NO) difference between a ‘Jew’ such as this–
And a Jew such as this–
–The former representing those ‘religious’ Jews–meaning followers of Judah-ism–who sport the pigtails off the sides of their heads, adorn their heads with flying saucers (for males) and hornet’s nests (for females) and who–in performing one of the most important ‘mitzvahs’ that their Judah-ism commands, spit when in the presence of Christians or at anything that is attached to the person of Jesus Christ…
Whereas the latter, the Sarah Silvermans of the world, who do not attend Sin-a-Gog but nevertheless who DO perform those mitzvahs commanding the ‘spitting’ at the person of Jesus Christ and at anything/anyone attached to Him through their position within media and/or the entertainment industry and who put out whoppers such as this–
Now, as far as those out-in-front-and-center Jews who operate in the area of public relations making the pretenses of condemning what is now the very commonplace act on the part of their co-religionists in spitting at Christians, keep in mind the fact that they are only engaged in ‘condemnation theatrics’ of this sort because they understand that if they don’t, then the black magic spell they have painstakingly cast upon those deluded Christians in America (whose money and political support represents a ‘sine qua non’ in keeping the doomed ‘Jewish state’ experiment alive and kicking) will begin to fade.
In other words, all the protesting in which these types engage is indeed–borrowing a lil’ bit o’ Shakespeare–a case of ‘they protesteth too much’.
One thespian in particular discussed in the piece, the state-appointed Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yonah Metzger who called the spitting attacks ‘an evil affliction’, did so ONLY because the ‘evil’ associated with this very Jewish practice is that it threatens to unveil before the eyes of Christians the true face of Judah-ism and the real opinions that this backwards and barbaric religion maintains towards Jesus Christ and His followers.
And, finalmente, ladies and Gentile-men, the age-old ‘excuse that the followers of Judah-ism utilize in ‘explaining’ why it is that they engage in the business of spitting at anything attached even remotely to the person of Jesus Christ, i.e. the ‘2,000 years of persecution’ they suffered at the hands of His followers, please note that the ‘persecution’ they received at the hands of Christians was not the action, but rather the REACTION of what it was that the Jews themselves did in their war against the enlightened and liberating message brought by the man whom they hate more than anything, to wit-–
‘…Then the high priest tore his clothes and said, ‘He has spoken blasphemy! What need is there of any more witnesses? Look, now you have heard the blasphemy, what do you think?’ And they answered him, ‘He is worthy of death,’ and then they spat in his face and struck him with their fists. Others slapped him and said, ‘Prophesy to us, Messiah. Who hit you?’
A very embarrassing and persistent problem has arisen in some of the sacred sites in Jerusalem where Christians and Jews cross each other’s paths. Teenagers from the city’s many Ultra-Orthodox (‘Haredi’) Ashkenazi Jewish communities have taken to spitting at clerics wearing prominent crosses and dressed in traditional garb.
Assaults have been recorded at the Jaffa and Damascus Gates of the walled Old City, an area with many historic churches and monasteries, including the Polish Church of St. Elizabeth. To address the problem a remarkable interfaith forum, appropriately titled ‘Why do Jews spit at Christians in the Old City,’ was held under the auspices of the Interreligious Coordinating Council in Israel and the Jerusalem Center for Christian-Jewish Relations.
These spitting assaults have been going on for at least a decade, and like many expressions of tension in Jerusalem, the attacks represent scores that many observers thought were settled long ago, as spitting at crosses and clerics was common in those parts of Christian Europe where Jews and Judaism were often persecuted and where this represented the only recourse for a powerless people to express their contempt.
In the thinking of many less-acculturated European Jews—particularly in Eastern Europe—spitting or cursing was a way to express disdain for a religion which sprang from Judaism and then persecuted it. The official Israeli Rabbinate (to whom the members of the Ultra-Orthodox communities don’t profess any loyalty) has condemned the assaults. Last year the state-appointed Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi, Yonah Metzger, called the spitting attacks ‘an evil affliction,’ though the Haredi rabbis refused to issue a similar condemnation.
Leaders from several Christian groups (among them Catholic, Armenian, and Greek Orthodox clerics and seminarians) have been complaining to the Israeli police about the assaults for years. But the police, who are very skittish about entering interreligious disputes, have done little to stop the assaults. Last September, after two Armenian seminarians were spat upon by two Haredim, they fought back—with their fists—and were subsequently arrested for assault. It was only after the highest Christian authorites in the city intervened that the Israeli government rescinded its order that the Armenian seminarians be deported from the country.
While Jewish-Christian relations in the city surely are in need of some repair, these problems seem small in the face of deteriorating Jewish-Muslim relations. But while Jewish-Muslim tensions dominate the headlines, most Israeli liberals feel that there is little that they can do to improve a situation that is enmeshed in political and military consideration.
The exacerbation of Jewish-Christian tensions on the other hand seems like a problem that ordinary citizens can address—and some Christians and Jews are doing just that.
The forum’s most impressive speaker, Armenian Bishop Shirvanian, is the designated leader of the procession from the Armenian monastery to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Perhaps the most shocking moment of the evening was the Archbishop’s statement that he had been assaulted by two Haredi teenagers on the very day of the forum while standing in front of the Armenian Cathedral of St. James. The Bishop told the audience that ‘I had hoped to come here this evening to tell you that the assaults on the clergy had stopped. But I’m afraid I can’t.’
What then, asked the forum’s organizers, was behind these assaults? Different opinions were offered. Some mentioned the reversal of the traditional Christian-Jewish power relationship. The centuries old-experience of European Jewry (in which Jews and Judaism were often denigrated) has in modern Israel been upended. In the historical past, Jews may have denigrated Christians and Christianity, but they had no way to publicly express their disdain for the dominant religion. And there was certainly no possibility of publicly expressing one of the prevalent Jewish ideas about Christianity: that it is a form of idolatry.
In Israel, Jews are in charge, and the Christian clergy, especially in East Jerusalem, are subject to the dictates of the Israeli administration. This new power relationship seems to have emboldened some Haredim to express their contempt for Christianity openly—and in a manner that is culturally familiar to them from other hostile encounters. When Ultra-Orthodox Jewish demonstrators objecting to government policies confront the Israeli police, for example, they often spit at them, as they did this past October when they took to the streets of Jerusalem to protest the opening of a local parking lot on the Sabbath.
Other speakers descried the growing xenophobia in Israeli Jewish society, especially among the young; one cited a recent Israeli public opinion poll that found that 56% of Israeli Jewish high school students polled did not think that Israeli Arabs are entitled to the full rights of citizenry.
But despite the pessimistic tone taken by many, the organizers—committed to peaceful conflict resolution—ended the forum by announcing a series of lectures, tours, and encounters that would introduce Israeli Jews to the lives and concerns of their non-Jewish neighbors. And, somewhat encouragingly, they informed the attendees that the Rabbinical Court of the Edah Haharedit (one of the more powerful of the ultra-Orthodox rabbinical authorities) had issued an edict condemning the spitting assaults. Thus a year after the ‘government rabbis’ tried to stem this obnoxious behavior, some Ultra-Orthodox rabbis followed suit. Whether this letter will have the desired effect on people’s behavior in this far-from-united city remains to be seen.