05-24-2013, 06:02 AM
I beg to differ, Bill.
Page upon page hammering the evils of Islam and venting bloodlust against Muslims, no problem here. BUT a couple of very mild mentions that Islam is not the only religion that teaches evil is "derailment." A glaring double-standard.
Here is a single standard. I condemn all evil, all genocide, all bloodlust. One standard for all mankind. No exceptions. So, let us put a sharp eye on Judaism.
When I first read quotes of the genocidal Torah imprecations, I was so skeptical of the authenticity of the quotes that I was outraged. I went down to the Judaica section of one of our local university libraries to prove the quotes were falsified. Imagine my chagrin when I discovered the quotes were accurate and quoted in correct context.
There are plenty of religious and non-religious Jews who thankfully eschew the genocidal orthodox imprecations. BUT from the Torah She Beal'peh ("Oral Torah" committed to writing as the Talmud and related "holy" books long after Christ) through the great "sages" like the "Great Rambam" (Maimonides) to influential contemporary rabbis like Ovadia Yosef and Eliyahu and large influential and global Hasidic groups like Chabad, Orthodox Judaism definitely does teach that only Jews are human and does teach that "Even the best of the Gentiles should all be killed."
I reiterate, plenty of Jews do eschew those racist and genocidal imprecations, but the genocidal exhortations are no vestigial anachronism relegated to a dusty corner of history. The roots are indeed ancient, but the Israeli press (quite unlike the US press) commonly reports on the activities of the current proponents of genocide. Those beliefs are the prevalent beliefs among the Likudniks and "settlers," just as those genocidal precepts were deeply ingrained in the Irgun and Stern Gang Zionist terrorists. The Master Race creed has inspired innumerable heinous terrorist acts that are sanitized or justified if they are even reported at all in the US press.
Here I will offer only a tiny fraction of the immense amount of proof texts showing that the Master Race creed is both ancient and current and influential and supported by the Israeli government. I provide references so that you may do as I did—check them.
The old:
"You are adam ["man"], but goyim [gentiles] are not called adam ["man"]." Kerithoth 6b
“The seed of the goyim is like an animal.” Sanhedrin 74b
“All Gentile children are animals.” Yebamoth 98a
God created them [goyim] in the form of men for the glory of Israel… for the sole end of ministering unto them [the Jews] day and night. Nor can they ever be relieved of this service. It is becoming to the son of a king [an Israelite] that animals in their natural form and animals in the form of human beings should minister unto him. Midrash Talpioth 225a
"...'living soul' designates Israel because they are children of the Almighty, and their souls, which are holy, come from Him. From whence come the souls of other peoples? R[abbi] Eleazar said: 'They obtain souls from those sides of the left which convey impurity, and therefore they are all impure and defile those who have contact with them.'...'living soul' refers to Israel, who have holy living souls from above, and 'cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth,' to the other peoples who are not 'living soul," but who are as we have said." Bereshith 47a
“Gentile souls are of a completely different and inferior order. They are totally evil, with no redeeming qualities whatsoever… their material abundance derives from supernal refuse. Indeed, they themselves derive from refuse, which is why they are more numerous than the Jews…” Abraham Foxbrunner. Habad: The Hasidism of Schneur Zalman of Lyady. Northvale NJ: Jason Aronson Inc., 1983. Pp. 108-109.
Chabad’s rabbis discuss Maimonides’ advice on killing Gentiles:
“…although our Sages declared, ‘Kill even the best of the gentiles,’ and that, as mentioned above, the Rambam [Maimonides] states in Hilchot Melachim 8:10 that any gentile who does not accept the seven universal laws commanded to Noah and his descendants should be slain. These directives, however. can be interpreted to apply only in a time of war or in a time when the Jews have control over the gentiles.”
Scroll down to the Commentary on Halacha 1:
http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cd...er-Ten.htm
"It is a mitzvah [religious duty], however, to eradicate Jewish traitors, minim [Christians], and apikorsim, ["heretics," i.e., sincere Judaic converts to Christianity] and to cause them to descend to the pit of destruction, since they cause difficulty to the Jews and sway the people away from God, as did Jesus of Nazareth and his students, and Tzadok, Baithos, and their students. May the name of the wicked rot." [Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Chapter 10]
The rabbis teach that Jesus Himself was an idolater [Sanhedrin 43a, 107b], claiming that Jesus even worshipped a brick. [Babylonian Talmud Sanhedrin 67a, 107b] There are, of course, other numerous scurrilous accusations against Jesus in the Talmud and rabbinical literature. Though the passages have been denied and expurgated Talmud editions have been published, often using code words for Jesus, Princeton Professor and Director of JUDAIC Studies Peter Schafer has examined dozens of Talmud editions in the original and vernacular languages. Schafer not only adduces the explicit references to Jesus of Nazareth, but he also traces the code words used in the Talmud editions expurgated and sanitized for Gentile consumption. Schafer traces from edition to tractate to folio how "Balaam," "that man," "the carpenter," "ben Pandera" (son of Pandera), the blank spaces, and the rest of the code words refer to Jesus of Nazareth. In his book "Jesus in the Talmud" (ISBN 13: 978-0691129266) Schafer has affirmed that the Talmud teaches that that Jesus was an idolater [Sanhedrin 43a, 107b], was a "mamzer" [bastard] conceived adulterously in "niddah" [menstrual filth] by a Roman soldier named Pandera [Kallah 51a] of a whore [Sanhedrin 106a] and that He is now in Hell boiling in feces and, in some editions because Jesus is accused of sexual perversion, semen [Gittin 57a]. Schafer documents much more, including the Talmud claim that the Sanhedrin justly executed Jesus because he was an idolater [Sanhedrin 43a, 107b] who worshipped a brick [Sanhedrin 67a], even boasting that the Sanhedrin overcame Roman opposition to the execution of Jesus [Sanhedrin 43a].
Why is this important? Because idolaters are liable for execution by beheading under halacha, Torah Law. The Jewish Encyclopedia affirms that the punishment for Christian "idolatry" is beheading. See:
"Laws, Noachian," Jewish Encyclopedia entry,
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.j...3&letter=L
The present:
The Complete Guide to Killing Non-Jews
Ma’ariv 09.11.09 (p. 2) by Roi Sharon
http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART1/964/1...1&tmp=3416
Here is a translation of report in the Maariv newspaper of Israel
http://didiremez.wordpress.com/2009/11/0...-non-jews/
funded by the Israeli government:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1128767.html
Rabbi Eliyahu exhorts the killing of women and children:
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=63137
“Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world – only to serve the People of Israel… In Israel, death has no dominion over them... With gentiles, it will be like any person – they need to die, but [God] will give them longevity. Why? Imagine that one’s donkey would die, they’d lose their money. This is his servant... That’s why he gets a long life, to work well for this Jew. Why are gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like an effendi and eat. That is why gentiles were created.”
“Yosef: Gentiles exist only to serve Jews” by Jonah Mandel, Jerusalem Post, 10/18/2010
http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishN...?id=191782
"I too, like Hitler, believe in the power of the blood idea" -Chaim Nachman Bailik, Israel’s national poet, in “The Present Hour” (1934).
Acting out:
"One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail." Rabbi Yaacov Perrin, Feb. 27, 1994 [N.Y. Times, Feb. 28, 1994, p. 1] at the eulogy for Dr. Baruch Goldstein, Kach Party terrorist who used a machine gun to murder at least 39 Palestinians worshipping at Cave of the Patriarchs mosque in Hebron. Rabbis praised his mass murder and then Prime Minister Yitshak Rabin gave permission for a memorial to honor Goldstein. Here's a picture of the shrine to the mass murderer:
http://pro.corbis.com/search/Enlargement...6545F0E%7D
"Children have been shot in other conflicts I have covered... but I have never before watched soldiers entice children like mice into a trap and murder them for sport," Hedges wrote. His account, coolly factual yet full of passionate intensity, was written not for his own paper but for Harper's Magazine, which sent Hedges to Gaza on his vacation." The Nation, March 11, 2002
Chris Hedges’ “A Gaza Diary: Scenes from the Palestinian Uprising,” Harper’s October 2001
http://harpers.org/archive/2001/10/a-gaza-diary/
Is sniping children for sport (and then sniping their medical rescuers) morally superior to beheading?
Keep your eye on the ball here. The point of this post is to underscore the hypocrisy of appropriately criticizing evil in one group while ignoring, even praising, another group who commit the same evils.
Page upon page hammering the evils of Islam and venting bloodlust against Muslims, no problem here. BUT a couple of very mild mentions that Islam is not the only religion that teaches evil is "derailment." A glaring double-standard.
Here is a single standard. I condemn all evil, all genocide, all bloodlust. One standard for all mankind. No exceptions. So, let us put a sharp eye on Judaism.
When I first read quotes of the genocidal Torah imprecations, I was so skeptical of the authenticity of the quotes that I was outraged. I went down to the Judaica section of one of our local university libraries to prove the quotes were falsified. Imagine my chagrin when I discovered the quotes were accurate and quoted in correct context.
There are plenty of religious and non-religious Jews who thankfully eschew the genocidal orthodox imprecations. BUT from the Torah She Beal'peh ("Oral Torah" committed to writing as the Talmud and related "holy" books long after Christ) through the great "sages" like the "Great Rambam" (Maimonides) to influential contemporary rabbis like Ovadia Yosef and Eliyahu and large influential and global Hasidic groups like Chabad, Orthodox Judaism definitely does teach that only Jews are human and does teach that "Even the best of the Gentiles should all be killed."
I reiterate, plenty of Jews do eschew those racist and genocidal imprecations, but the genocidal exhortations are no vestigial anachronism relegated to a dusty corner of history. The roots are indeed ancient, but the Israeli press (quite unlike the US press) commonly reports on the activities of the current proponents of genocide. Those beliefs are the prevalent beliefs among the Likudniks and "settlers," just as those genocidal precepts were deeply ingrained in the Irgun and Stern Gang Zionist terrorists. The Master Race creed has inspired innumerable heinous terrorist acts that are sanitized or justified if they are even reported at all in the US press.
Here I will offer only a tiny fraction of the immense amount of proof texts showing that the Master Race creed is both ancient and current and influential and supported by the Israeli government. I provide references so that you may do as I did—check them.
The old:
"You are adam ["man"], but goyim [gentiles] are not called adam ["man"]." Kerithoth 6b
“The seed of the goyim is like an animal.” Sanhedrin 74b
“All Gentile children are animals.” Yebamoth 98a
God created them [goyim] in the form of men for the glory of Israel… for the sole end of ministering unto them [the Jews] day and night. Nor can they ever be relieved of this service. It is becoming to the son of a king [an Israelite] that animals in their natural form and animals in the form of human beings should minister unto him. Midrash Talpioth 225a
"...'living soul' designates Israel because they are children of the Almighty, and their souls, which are holy, come from Him. From whence come the souls of other peoples? R[abbi] Eleazar said: 'They obtain souls from those sides of the left which convey impurity, and therefore they are all impure and defile those who have contact with them.'...'living soul' refers to Israel, who have holy living souls from above, and 'cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth,' to the other peoples who are not 'living soul," but who are as we have said." Bereshith 47a
“Gentile souls are of a completely different and inferior order. They are totally evil, with no redeeming qualities whatsoever… their material abundance derives from supernal refuse. Indeed, they themselves derive from refuse, which is why they are more numerous than the Jews…” Abraham Foxbrunner. Habad: The Hasidism of Schneur Zalman of Lyady. Northvale NJ: Jason Aronson Inc., 1983. Pp. 108-109.
Chabad’s rabbis discuss Maimonides’ advice on killing Gentiles:
“…although our Sages declared, ‘Kill even the best of the gentiles,’ and that, as mentioned above, the Rambam [Maimonides] states in Hilchot Melachim 8:10 that any gentile who does not accept the seven universal laws commanded to Noah and his descendants should be slain. These directives, however. can be interpreted to apply only in a time of war or in a time when the Jews have control over the gentiles.”
Scroll down to the Commentary on Halacha 1:
http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cd...er-Ten.htm
"It is a mitzvah [religious duty], however, to eradicate Jewish traitors, minim [Christians], and apikorsim, ["heretics," i.e., sincere Judaic converts to Christianity] and to cause them to descend to the pit of destruction, since they cause difficulty to the Jews and sway the people away from God, as did Jesus of Nazareth and his students, and Tzadok, Baithos, and their students. May the name of the wicked rot." [Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Chapter 10]
The rabbis teach that Jesus Himself was an idolater [Sanhedrin 43a, 107b], claiming that Jesus even worshipped a brick. [Babylonian Talmud Sanhedrin 67a, 107b] There are, of course, other numerous scurrilous accusations against Jesus in the Talmud and rabbinical literature. Though the passages have been denied and expurgated Talmud editions have been published, often using code words for Jesus, Princeton Professor and Director of JUDAIC Studies Peter Schafer has examined dozens of Talmud editions in the original and vernacular languages. Schafer not only adduces the explicit references to Jesus of Nazareth, but he also traces the code words used in the Talmud editions expurgated and sanitized for Gentile consumption. Schafer traces from edition to tractate to folio how "Balaam," "that man," "the carpenter," "ben Pandera" (son of Pandera), the blank spaces, and the rest of the code words refer to Jesus of Nazareth. In his book "Jesus in the Talmud" (ISBN 13: 978-0691129266) Schafer has affirmed that the Talmud teaches that that Jesus was an idolater [Sanhedrin 43a, 107b], was a "mamzer" [bastard] conceived adulterously in "niddah" [menstrual filth] by a Roman soldier named Pandera [Kallah 51a] of a whore [Sanhedrin 106a] and that He is now in Hell boiling in feces and, in some editions because Jesus is accused of sexual perversion, semen [Gittin 57a]. Schafer documents much more, including the Talmud claim that the Sanhedrin justly executed Jesus because he was an idolater [Sanhedrin 43a, 107b] who worshipped a brick [Sanhedrin 67a], even boasting that the Sanhedrin overcame Roman opposition to the execution of Jesus [Sanhedrin 43a].
Why is this important? Because idolaters are liable for execution by beheading under halacha, Torah Law. The Jewish Encyclopedia affirms that the punishment for Christian "idolatry" is beheading. See:
"Laws, Noachian," Jewish Encyclopedia entry,
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.j...3&letter=L
The present:
The Complete Guide to Killing Non-Jews
Ma’ariv 09.11.09 (p. 2) by Roi Sharon
http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART1/964/1...1&tmp=3416
Here is a translation of report in the Maariv newspaper of Israel
http://didiremez.wordpress.com/2009/11/0...-non-jews/
funded by the Israeli government:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1128767.html
Rabbi Eliyahu exhorts the killing of women and children:
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=63137
“Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world – only to serve the People of Israel… In Israel, death has no dominion over them... With gentiles, it will be like any person – they need to die, but [God] will give them longevity. Why? Imagine that one’s donkey would die, they’d lose their money. This is his servant... That’s why he gets a long life, to work well for this Jew. Why are gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like an effendi and eat. That is why gentiles were created.”
“Yosef: Gentiles exist only to serve Jews” by Jonah Mandel, Jerusalem Post, 10/18/2010
http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishN...?id=191782
"I too, like Hitler, believe in the power of the blood idea" -Chaim Nachman Bailik, Israel’s national poet, in “The Present Hour” (1934).
Acting out:
"One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail." Rabbi Yaacov Perrin, Feb. 27, 1994 [N.Y. Times, Feb. 28, 1994, p. 1] at the eulogy for Dr. Baruch Goldstein, Kach Party terrorist who used a machine gun to murder at least 39 Palestinians worshipping at Cave of the Patriarchs mosque in Hebron. Rabbis praised his mass murder and then Prime Minister Yitshak Rabin gave permission for a memorial to honor Goldstein. Here's a picture of the shrine to the mass murderer:
http://pro.corbis.com/search/Enlargement...6545F0E%7D
"Children have been shot in other conflicts I have covered... but I have never before watched soldiers entice children like mice into a trap and murder them for sport," Hedges wrote. His account, coolly factual yet full of passionate intensity, was written not for his own paper but for Harper's Magazine, which sent Hedges to Gaza on his vacation." The Nation, March 11, 2002
Chris Hedges’ “A Gaza Diary: Scenes from the Palestinian Uprising,” Harper’s October 2001
http://harpers.org/archive/2001/10/a-gaza-diary/
Is sniping children for sport (and then sniping their medical rescuers) morally superior to beheading?
Keep your eye on the ball here. The point of this post is to underscore the hypocrisy of appropriately criticizing evil in one group while ignoring, even praising, another group who commit the same evils.