UNaware
November 18, 2009 at 11:57 am | In Antisemitism / Antizionism, Arab-Israeli conflict, Israel, Palestinians | Leave a CommentI don’t get the UN. Everytime when Israel builds some houses on disputed land, the UN chief condemns that.
Yet, people in Sudan are murdered every day but he doesn’t talk about it. Is it really worse to build a house on land that – as many argue – belongs to the Palestinians than killing 300 000 Africans?
Does this bigotery have anyuthing to do with the fact that in one action Jews are involved?
A state
November 15, 2009 at 2:50 pm | In Arab-Israeli conflict, Israel, Palestinians, Uncategorized | Leave a CommentThe PLO has come up with the idea of declaring a Palestinian state. One should wonder, why it took them more than 60 years to come up with that, but that is an old hat.
But the questions remains: How can they declare a state without having sovereignty? Gaza is under the control of Hamas, and most of the West Bank is under the control of the Israeli Army.
In 1948 there was a chance to declare an Arab state in Mandatory Palestine. It was rejected, because the Arabs could not accept a Jewish state in Palestine. Eventually Gaza was ruled by Egypt and the West Bank by Jordan. No attempts by Palestinians were made to gain statehood, or even independence from these Arab states, not even some sort of autonomy. In the war of 1967 Jordan and Egypt lost these territories to Israel and Israel has now the problem that they bring with them.
The PLO can declare a Palestinian state. But what do they gain if this declaration will not be transported to reality?
Antisemitism and Antizionism: (3) Antisemitism without Jews
November 15, 2009 at 12:48 pm | In Antisemitism / Antizionism, Arab-Israeli conflict, Germany, Islam, Israel | Leave a CommentI talked about todays Antisemitism that seems to get along without Antisemites. At least if you would ask the latter. It is quite understandable that they do not want to be called Antisemites though they are.
One of the challenging phenomena of Antisemitism is Antisemitism without Jews. Apparently Antisemitism can emerge, exist without Jews. This is not a new phenomenon. Even Herzl wrote about that in Der Judenstaat. Arguing for the need of a Jewish State, stating that emigration to other countries is no solution. Since – even if there are no Jews living yet – the Antisemites are already living there. Continue reading Antisemitism and Antizionism: (3) Antisemitism without Jews…
International morals
November 12, 2009 at 11:26 pm | In Uncategorized | Leave a CommentI have some problems with international law. I do not see the system of international law meeting the basic standards a system of law requires to meet. It misses an executive branch to sanction illegal acts, an independent court and there a democratic body (although you do not necessarily need a democratic body) to produce laws.
Therefore I prefer to call it “International Moral”. In moral systems the violation of the moral code is not followed by sanctions sentenced by a body.
Religion and State I
November 1, 2009 at 11:45 pm | In Islam | 6 CommentsIt is amazing to see Westerners talk about Islam. It is interesting how they see Islam, from this very Christian perspective, although mostly they are probably atheists.
Westerners anticipate that there is a modern Islam somewhere, well at least they think, that there should be something like that. And if not than there should be a reformation in Islam like there was one in Christianity and out of this should follow a more modern Islam with a divison between Religion and State.
It shows how little they understand of Islam and even of Christianity and the Reformation.
“This is the end of the Jewish Diaspora of Yemen. That’s it.”
November 1, 2009 at 10:58 am | In Antisemitism / Antizionism, Islam | Leave a CommentI mentioned it some time ago: It is most likely that Yemen will soon be judenrein. Now some more Yemenite Jews have left Yemen – after 2500 years there – because life was made unbearable for them. Last year a Yemenite Jew was murdered because he dismissed demands to convert to Islam.
Islam used to do be a civilization that does not persecute religious minorities of the monotheistic religions. Whereas Christianity persecuted just everybody. Under Islam Jews and Christians were second class citizens, but they were in some way protected, although acts of violents were not uncommon, and they had to pay a special tex. I really wonder what happened, that all that changed. Why is Islam declining and declining and no end in sight?
What went wrong?
Violence toward the country’s small remaining Jewish community began to intensify last year, when one of its most prominent members was gunned down outside his house. But the mission also hastens the demise of one of the oldest remaining Jewish communities in the Arab world.
Jews are believed to have reached what is now Yemen more than 2,500 years ago as traders for King Solomon. They survived — and at times thrived — over centuries of change, including the spread of Islam across the Arabian Peninsula.
“They were one of the oldest exiled groups out of Israel,” says Hayim Tawil, a Yeshiva University professor who is an expert on Yemeni Jewry. “This is the end of the Jewish Diaspora of Yemen. That’s it.”
For some time …
October 23, 2009 at 7:42 pm | In Uncategorized | Leave a Comment… I have not written anything on this blog. One reason was that I spent a long summer outside of Israel and ignored almost everything that had to do with Israel in particular and the Middle East in general. Refreshing as it was I will not be able to go on with that for good. But I decided to make some changes concerning this blog. Meaning that I will focus also write about stuff that is not, or not only, or not directly connected to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
A trip through the West Bank
July 26, 2009 at 12:00 pm | In Uncategorized | Leave a CommentOn Shabes I got up really early, took a Minibus to Jerusalem and from Damascus gate a bus to Ramallah. And from Ramallah a Minibus to Yericho. We pretended to be tourist from Poland and Germany on a visit to the Holy Land.
In Yericho there is not so much to see. They have an old city, but that is not more than a few humps of sand and stones. Maybe interesting for archeologist. There were two Americans (I guess archeology students) who looked intensely on all that sand and apparently saw something in it. I heard one saying something about stairs…. Continue reading A trip through the West Bank…
Maping Palestine in minds
July 19, 2009 at 12:41 pm | In Antisemitism / Antizionism, Arab-Israeli conflict, Islam, Israel, Palestinians, The blogosphere | Leave a CommentI will present some maps and give a brief explanation, from a historical point of view.
The second map shows something that never existed in reality. It shows the political landscape according to the UN partition plan. The very plan that the Arabs did not accept and the Jews did accept. Two states. An Arab state for Arabs and a Jewish state for Jews and Arabs. Continue reading Maping Palestine in minds…
Human Rights patch
July 16, 2009 at 10:47 am | In Antisemitism / Antizionism, Israel | Leave a CommentHuman Rights Watch is often accused of being anti-Israeli, producing biased reports about Israeli actions and ingoring vast Human Rights violations in many other countries. Their reports on the last wars in Lebanon and Gaza or about Israel in general might show that or not – depending if you are willing to be critical about them. But now they themselves have done something point that out.
A fundraising group of HRW went to Saudi Arabia to meet state officials in order to make them become donors. Quite insane, isn’t it? A Human Rights Organisation meets with officials to one of the severe Human Rights violaters to get money from them to protect Human Rights. And what do they do there? Continue reading Human Rights patch…
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