Ussama Makdisi:
Just heard from a very close friend that her direct relatives were killed in Gaza by Israel. Another family. Another heartbreak. Makes me despair at this monstrous state of affairs.

All this can be traced back to the 19th century when European Zionists insisted on creating an exclusionary ethnoreligious nationalist state in a multireligious land in defiance of its native population. Palestinians are still paying the price for Western racism.
@UssamaMakdisi Jan 9, 2024

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I. F. Stone 1945:
“No one likes to be ruled by an alien people, and though I, a Jew, found the friendliest sort of welcome visiting the Arabs, I found no Palestinian Arab in favor of a Jewish state. Relations on the day-to-day level between the two peoples are friendly and quite unlike what one expects. There is no sense of race tension as one feels it in our [American] South or in encounters with anti-Semites in the Western world. The Arab does not hate the Jew, but he fears being dominated by him, and this fear must be allayed… The Jewish State slogan has made political cooperation between Jew and Arab impossible…”
— I. F. Stone, journalist and author, Zionist who believed in one-state, 1945
Jehanzeb Ali @Jehanzebz

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Jews had – generally – a better life during the islamic caliphate throughout history.

By Brother Nathanael

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Does Judaism, as it is practiced today, have anything to do with the patriarchs and prophets of the Old Testament? Nothing. Nothing at all.

You see, I was raised in Judaism and we were under the authority of the rabbis whose formulation of God and the world around us was based not on the Bible but on the Jewish Talmud.

Indeed, the rabbinic authority gave the first and final word on Jewish attitudes, Jewish belief, Jewish practice, and Jewish behavior toward the Gentiles whom behind closed doors we called the goyim.

The rabbis put attitude before everything else that we Jews were superior to the Gentiles in intellect, in morality, and as a race, and this is all spelled out quite specifically in the Jewish Talmud.

The Talmud began as an oral law prevalent at the time of Christ, and it was Jesus Christ Himself who accused the Jewish leaders of His day of usurping the message of the patriarchs and prophets of the Old Testament by this oral law, which Christ labeled the tradition of the elders.

Enraged by Christ’s censure, the Jewish elders arranged for Jesus Christ to be crucified and ignoring the significance of His resurrection, committed their tradition to writing, which reached its final form in 800 AD in the multi-volume set known as the Talmud.

The Talmud first and foremost blasphemes the Lord Jesus Christ, calling Him a magician who is now in hell boiling in His own excrement.

The Talmud also blasphemes Christ’s holy mother, the Virgin Mary, calling her a hairdresser, a prostitute who had sex with carpenters.

Then the Talmud spews its venom on the Gentiles to be treated less than subhumans, defrauded, cheated, and even murdered as civilians in times of war, though they be innocent women and children.

Thus we find world Jewry condoning the atrocities committed against the people of the Gaza Strip by the Israelis. Why?

Because, as historian Israel Shahak points out in his book, Jewish Religion, Jewish History, Jewry’s disparaging attitude toward the Gentiles has been formed set in stone throughout the centuries by the writings of the Jewish Talmud.

Indeed, the Talmud, formative of Judaism since the time of Christ, is nothing less than a religion of a tribal crime syndicate.

The true followers of the patriarchs and prophets of the Old Testament are those who have embraced the hopes and predictions of those holy men, realized and fulfilled in the New Testament.

As a former Jew, now an Orthodox Christian, I am a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ. What about you?*

Islam: reformulation the divine message

*As a Muslim, I follow the Holy Quran, which reformulated and rectified the divine message, love and reverence for Allah (may His Majesty be exalted!), high respect for all prophets, including Jesus (`Isa) and especially for Prophet Muhammad (may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him!) and for the holy scriptures minus their falsifications and man-made additions (as explained in the Quran Sura 2).

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The Principle Of Separation At The Heart Of The Jewish Religion

The golden rule of Hillel

(The Jewish rabbi) Hillel the Elder stood upon one foot and said “what is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation of this—go and study it!”

Quote from Peter D Baker:
”(Both) Hillel and Jesus … embodied the holy writ of kindness to the stranger, [ □ comment: and the Islamic message brought by Prophet Muhammad ﷺ may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him!]

”And remember that it’s not too late to meet and be kind to your neighbor. No matter how different you are.
Hillel the Elder, Jesus Christ, and the Golden Rule: A Classic Tale 20 Jul 2018

Another Hillel’s famous saying

“If I am not for myself, who is for me? But if I am only for myself, what am I?”
Does this apply to contemporary Isra-l Jews?

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– Zionist Jewish supremacy and its roots in the Talmud

The genocidal war on Palestine will influence politics and expectations for years to come, (almost) everywhere.

Quoted from Jonathan Cook:

Israel is right about it being on the front lines – but not of a clash of civilisations. It is an exposed, precarious outpost of the liberal democratic order, where the brew of lies about democracy and liberalism are at their most toxic and unconvincing.

Israel is an apartheid state masquerading as “the only democracy in the Middle East”. Its brutal occupation forces masquerade as “the most moral army in the world”. And now Israel’s genocide in Gaza masquerades as “the elimination of Hamas”.

Israel has always had to obscure these lies through intimidation. Anyone daring to call out the deceptions is smeared as an antisemite.

But that playbook has sounded grossly offensive – inhuman even – when the matter at hand is stopping genocide in Gaza.

Where does this ultimately lead?

Nearly a decade ago, the Israeli scholar and peace activist Jeff Halper wrote a book, War Against the People, warning: “In an endless war on terror, we are all doomed to become Palestinians.”

Not just the West’s “enemies”, but its populations would come to be seen as a threat to the interests of a capitalist ruling class bent on its permanent privilege and enrichment, whatever the costs to the rest of us.

That argument – which sounded hyperbolic when he first aired it – is beginning to seem prescient.

Gaza is not just the front line of Israel’s genocidal war on the Palestinian people. It is also a front line in the western elite’s war on our ability to think critically, to develop sustainable ways to live, and to demand that others be treated with the dignity and humanity we expect for ourselves.

Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook
Read more from his latest article: ‘Are we the baddies?’ Western support for genocide in Gaza means the answer is yes – Middle East Eye