Conquer Club

Dukasaur wrote:They don't look all that brown, really. No more so than the average Italian. Your attempt to paint this in racial terms is another of your dishonest dodges.

The Mideast conflict is a conflict between European civilization and the great darkness of Asiatic despotism, of which Muslim theocracy is merely the latest incarnation. The genetics of the Europeans and the Asiatics is really not that different. The divide is ideological, not racial.

Symmetry wrote:

Dukasaur wrote:They don't look all that brown, really. No more so than the average Italian. Your attempt to paint this in racial terms is another of your dishonest dodges.

The Mideast conflict is a conflict between European civilization and the great darkness of Asiatic despotism, of which Muslim theocracy is merely the latest incarnation. The genetics of the Europeans and the Asiatics is really not that different. The divide is ideological, not racial.

Racism is about a bit more than skin colour, Duk. It's also about, for example, what we perceive as typical. Say, having a fixed idea of what an "average Italian" is like.

As a side note, what are your thoughts on the European theocratic state in Rome, Italy? I think it may have some form in imposing conflict on the middle east.

mrswdk wrote:having a racist is a fixed abuse of the idea of word the not

saxitoxin wrote:GREAT NEWS!

By a vote of 528-124, the General Synod of the United Church of Christ has just voted to initiate an unrestricted boycott against "Israel." The UCC has now joined the Presbyterian Church and the Methodist Church in helping tie the noose around the Zionist neck.

Next up ... the Episcopalian Church later this summer.

United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2865, the union which represents over 13,000 student workers in the UC system; Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP); and Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) have publicly opposed the attempt to adopt the State Department definition.

In a message to UC President Janet Napolitano, who supports the initiative, UAW “voice[d] strong opposition to the proposed adoption.”

The definition is based on the concept of the “new anti-Semitism,” formulated by the pro-Israel Anti-Defamation League and other fervent supporters of Israel, which conflates Israel and Zionism with Jewishness and Judaism.

http://mondoweiss.net/2015/07/californi ... NXo8v.dpuf

Israel’s strictly Orthodox minister of religious services said Tuesday that he did not consider Reform Jews to be Jewish.

Mr. Netanyahu’s cabinet decided on Sunday that the country’s rabbinical courts would be transferred to Mr. Azoulay’s Religious Services Ministry from the Justice Ministry. The cabinet also rejected a proposal that was intended to make it easier to convert to Judaism in Israel by setting up local conversion courts; that initiative had been promoted by secular and liberal parties in the previous government.

The more liberal forms of Jewish practice advocated by the Reform and Conservative movements, to which most affiliated American Jews belong, have never taken strong root in Israel. Fewer than 10 percent of Israeli Jews are said to identify with those movements.

President Reuven Rivlin infuriated American Reform Jews with remarks he made in the 1980s, when he was a member of the Israeli Parliament. After attending a service at a Reform synagogue in New Jersey, he told an Israeli newspaper, “This is idol worship and not Judaism.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/08/world ... .html?_r=1

In relating the story in Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide, the former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. makes New Jersey seem like the Ukraine during the pogroms:

The only Jewish kid on the block, I rarely made it off the school bus without being ambushed by Jew-baiting bullies. Those fistfights left my knuckles lined with scars. One morning, my family awoke to find our front door smeared with racist slogans; one night our car’s windshield was smashed. Then, when I was a high school freshman, the phone rang with horrendous news: a bomb had blown up our synagogue.

Oren’s account leaped out as bizarre when I read it; that wasn’t the country I grew up in. So I looked into the bombing of the West Orange Jewish Center on April 18, 1971, and discovered that Oren leaves out the most important fact about the bombing, which you can see in the Daily News headline above: it was linked to an appearance at the synagogue of the Jewish extremist Rabbi Meir Kahane that was cancelled and rescheduled amid controversy.

In fact, Kahane himself was linked to several bombings the same year, and was convicted of making illegal explosives just three months later. Three days after the synagogue bombing, Meir Kahane was charged with rioting in New York in a scuffle involving police officers outside the United Nations. Eight months after the West Orange Jewish Center bombing, Kahane played a part in the smoke-bombing of Jewish impresario Sol Hurok’s offices in New York, because Hurok promoted Russian acts. A woman died in that attack.

Oren leaves all of that out. It doesn’t fit his narrative: that the United States was unsafe for Jews: “anti-Semitism was a constant.”
- See more at: http://mondoweiss.net/2015/07/misrepres ... qOufU.dpuf

riskllama wrote:do me a mitzvah and post these "marketing campaigns". there's a nice hot bowl of kreplach in it for ya...

Part of the agreement over Iran's nuclear weapons includes the lifting of sanctions against the country. Iran hasn't been able to sell oil to the U.S. since 1995 and has opted for markets in China, India and Turkey. If the agreement goes though and Iran is able to sell oil without restrictions, it will flood the international market and lower prices. Experts say the country could pump as 500,000 barrels of oil per day into the international market. Initially the drop in gasoline prices may be only a few cents but Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst with the Oil Price Information Service, told CNN many places will see gasoline at $2 a gallon or less by December.

http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/201 ... ry_package

WHY IRAN SHOULD GET THE BOMB

Israel’s regional nuclear monopoly, which has proved remarkably durable for the past four decades, has long fueled instability in the Middle East. In no other region of the world does a lone, unchecked nuclear state exist. It is Israel’s nuclear arsenal, not Iran’s desire for one,
that has contributed most to the current crisis.

Most U.S., European, and Israeli commentators and policymakers warn that a nuclear-armed Iran would be the worst possible outcome of the current standoff. In fact, it would probably be the best possible result.

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles ... d-get-bomb

Abe Foxman says goodbye to an America of secret Jew haters



Read this interview of Abe Foxman, the outgoing director of the Anti-Defamation League, and it’s a good thing he’s leaving. He is out of a different world, one of Jewish self-involvement. Jews are smarter and richer, we win Nobel Prizes and don’t do physical labor; and other people are just jealous. I say these attitudes are not sustainable in an era of diversity and mutual respect.

http://mondoweiss.net/2015/07/foxman-go ... Uoeuz.dpuf

Foxman's seeming tonedeafness to any group other than his co-religionists was on full display in a recent interview with Haaretz. Asked about Israel's occupation of Palestinian lands, he said, "If there is a clear violation of human rights, we will speak out." Then immediately queried about one such violation—the disenfranchisement of millions of Palestinians under Israeli military rule—he replied, "That’s not our decision to make," passing the buck to the Israeli government. In other departments, Foxman pointed to Latinos and American blacks as lingering bastions of anti-Semitism.

Foxman's become synonymous with the ADL since he took over 26 years ago. His drift from principled anti-bigotry into apology for discimination against Muslims—even by government authorities and in the halls of power—has brought the group ill repute.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... slims.html

saxitoxin wrote:

WHY IRAN SHOULD GET THE BOMB

Israel’s regional nuclear monopoly, which has proved remarkably durable for the past four decades, has long fueled instability in the Middle East. In no other region of the world does a lone, unchecked nuclear state exist.

mrswdk wrote:

saxitoxin wrote:

WHY IRAN SHOULD GET THE BOMB

Israel’s regional nuclear monopoly, which has proved remarkably durable for the past four decades, has long fueled instability in the Middle East. In no other region of the world does a lone, unchecked nuclear state exist.

lolwat. North America?

mrswdk wrote:

saxitoxin wrote:

WHY IRAN SHOULD GET THE BOMB

Israel’s regional nuclear monopoly, which has proved remarkably durable for the past four decades, has long fueled instability in the Middle East. In no other region of the world does a lone, unchecked nuclear state exist.

lolwat. North America?

Israel imports Iranian oil on a large scale even though contacts with Iran and purchasing of its products are officially boycotted by Israel. Israel gets around the boycott by having the oil delivered via Europe.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre ... connection

khazalid wrote:saxi, what do you make of ahmadinejad's statement (i paraphrase) that israel should be wiped off the face of the earth? doesn't that kind of rhetoric concern you? and if not, why?

saxitoxin wrote:Sure, there's always the risk a couple of Iranian warheads might hit Israel, but that's a risk I'm willing to take.

Serbia wrote:

khazalid wrote:saxi, what do you make of ahmadinejad's statement (i paraphrase) that israel should be wiped off the face of the earth? doesn't that kind of rhetoric concern you? and if not, why?

It doesn't concern him because he agrees with it. saxi doesn't recognize Israel as legitimate, and therefore would not just be fine with Israel's destruction; he's advocating for it. Have you been following this thread at all?

saxitoxin wrote:Sure, there's always the risk a couple of Iranian warheads might hit Israel, but that's a risk I'm willing to take.

Bollocks.

saxitoxin wrote:Plan A: For the privilege of obedience to a government that claims it has been magically created superior to all other humans (what it refers to as "goy animals") and is "Chosen" you can pay $3.45/gallon for gasoline, plus - as a bonus - you get to send them $1 billion/year in welfare and call them your close "allies" despite the fact they've never fought on your side in any single war you've ever been involved in.

Plan B: Or, you can tell them "thanks, but I don't believe you're superior to me or even all that close of an ally except when you're depositing my checks," spend your $1 billion improving bridges and roads and only pay $1.90 for gasoline.

khazalid wrote:saxi, what do you make of ahmadinejad's statement (i paraphrase) that israel should be wiped off the face of the earth? doesn't that kind of rhetoric concern you? and if not, why?