Date: Fri Oct 25, 2002 9:28 am
Contents:
1. Arabs
2. Remember Your Kin
3. Message from South AFRICA
4. increased anti-semitism around the
world
5. Memories from Sweden
6. Quotation
1. Arabs: Ishmael was the forefather
of leading lements amongst the Arabs
and the Islam world reflects the culture
of Ishmael more than anything else.
This is what it was said about Ishmael.
[Genesis 16:12] AND HE WILL BE A WILD
MAN; HIS HAND WILL BE AGAINST EVERY
MAN, AND EVERY MAN'S HAND AGAINST HIM;
AND HE SHALL DWELL IN THE PRESENCE
OF ALL HIS BRETHREN.
I have just lost my second portable
phone in a year. Both phones are now in
the possession of Arabs who will not
return them and cannot be reached. At
least one was stolen, the other either
dropped out of my pocket or I was
pickpocketed.
2. Remember Your Kin
[Genesis 37:16] AND HE SAID, I SEEK
MY BRETHREN: TELL ME, I PRAY THEE,
WHERE THEY FEED THEIR FLOCKS.
Joseph sought his brethren. Today,
the task of all of us is to seek our
Tribal brethren. An individual can
fulfill his inner self best by
identifying with his ancestors and
kin.
3. Message from South AFRICA
From: Peter McGregor <peterpeg@i...>
Subject: Re: "Brit-Am Now"-119
DEAR YAIR,
I thank you once againfor the very
interesting material you
send out concerning the lost 10 tribes.We
have been in touch before and
whenever possible I
will only be too pleased to make whatever
contribution I can. Perhaps you
can put me
in contact with other South Africans
on your mailing list. I stay in
Durban. Have
you seen or heard of the book written
by Rev. J. H. Allen entitled "Judah's
Sceptre
and Joseph's Birthright", published
by Destiny Publishers, U. S. A. and
first published in 1902.
The book consists of 3 parts; The birthright
(the promise of many nations to
Abraham), The Sceptre; (the promise
of a perpetuated house, throne and
Kingdom to
David) and thirdly, The veil lifted
from Abrahamic Nations. I can highly
recommend
it as it gives a lot of scientific
and biblical evidence in support of what
you are
saying.
May the Lord continue to bless you
in your work.
Peter McGregor, an adopted Scot in
South Africa.
4. increased anti-semitism around the
world
From: Chaim Sidman <yogurtwhip@h...>
Subject: semitism around the globe
Don't comfort yourselves with the illusion
that it can't happen again. Come
home before it is too late.
"Yidden there is a fire burning. Liquidate
the exile before it liquidates you."
From: A friend of mine who normally
sends humor
>>Subject: anti-
I know several of you are planning to
travel this Winter. I received this
today and am passing it along. Myrna
More proof of virulent anti-semitism
around the globe. Rocks have been lifted
all over Europe, and the snakes of
Jew-hatred are slithering free.
Belgium, thugs beat up the chief rabbi,
kicking him in the face and calling
him "a dirty Jew." Two synagogues in
Brussels were firebombed; a third, in
Charleroi, was sprayed with automatic
weapons fire.
In Britain, the cover of the New Statesman,
a left-wing magazine, depicted a
large Star of David stabbing the Union
Jack. Oxford professor Tom Paulin, a
noted poet, told an Egyptian interviewer
that American Jews who move to the
West Bank and Gaza "should be shot
dead." A Jewish yeshiva student reading
the Psalms was stabbed 27 times on
a London bus. "Anti-Semitism", wrote a
columnist in The Spectator, "has become
respectable . . . at London dinner
tables." She quoted one member of the
House of Lords: "The Jews have been
asking for it and now, thank God, we
can say what we think at last."
In Italy, the daily paper La Stampa
published a Page 1 cartoon: A tank
emblazoned with a Jewish star points
its gun at the baby Jesus, who pleads,
"Surely they don't want to kill me
again?" In Corriere Della Sera, another
cartoon showed Jesus trapped in his
tomb, unable to rise, because Ariel
Sharon, with rifle in hand, is sitting
on the sepulchre. The caption: "Non
resurrexit."
In Germany, a rabbinical student was
beaten up in downtown Berlin and a
grenade was thrown into a Jewish cemetery.
Thousands of neo-Nazis held a
rally, marching near a synagogue on
the Jewish sabbath. Graffiti appeared on
a synagogue in the western town of
Herford: "Six million were not enough."
In Ukraine, skinheads attacked Jewish
worshippers and smashed the windows of
Kiev's main synagogue. Ukrainian police
denied that the attack was
anti-Jewish.
In Greece, Jewish graves were desecrated
in Ioannina and vandals hurled paint
at the Holocaust memorial in Salonica.
In Holland, an anti-Israel demonstration
featured swastikas, photos of
Hitler, and chants of "Sieg Heil" and
"Jews into the sea."
In Slovakia, the Jewish cemetery of
Kosice was invaded and 135 tombstones
destroyed.
But nowhere have the flames of antisemitism
burned more furiously than in
France. - -
In Lyon, a car was rammed into a synagogue
and set on fire. In Montpellier,
the Jewish religious center was firebombed;
so were synagogues in Strasbourg
and Marseille; so was a Jewish school
in Creteil. A Jewish sports club in
Toulouse was attacked with Molotov
cocktails, and on the statue of Alfred
Dreyfus in Paris, the words "Dirty
Jew" were painted. In Bondy, 15 men beat
up members of a Jewish football team
with sticks and metal bars. The bus that
takes Jewish children to school in
Aubervilliers has been attacked three
times in the last 14 months. According
to the police, metropolitan Paris has
seen 10 to 12 anti-Jewish incidents
per day since Easter. Walls in Jewish
neighborhoods have been defaced with
slogans proclaiming "Jews to the gas
chambers" and "Death to the Jews."
The weekly journal Le Nouvel Observateur
published an appalling libel: It said
Israeli soldiers rape Palestinian
women, so that their relatives will
kill them to preserve "family honor." The
French ambassador to Great Britain
was not sacked -- and did not apologize --
when it was learned that he had told
guests at a London dinner that the
world's troubles were the fault of
"that shitty little country, Israel."
"At the start of the 21st century,"
writes Pierre-Andre Taguieff, a
well-known social scientist, in a new
book, "we are discovering that Jews are
once again select targets of violence.
.
. . Hatred of the Jews has returned
to France." But of course, it never left.
Not France; not Europe.
Antisemitism, the oldest bigotry known
to man, has been a part of European
society since time immemorial. In the
aftermath of the Holocaust, open
Jew-hatred became unfashionable; but
fashions change, and Europe is reverting
to type. To be sure, some Europeans
are shocked by the re-emergence of
Jew-hatred all over their continent.
But the more common reaction has been
complacency.
"Stop saying that there is antisemitism
in France," President Jacques Chirac
scolded a Jewish editor in January.
"There is no antisemitism in France."
The European media have been vicious
in condemning Israel's self-defense
against Palestinian terrorism in the
West Bank; they have been far less
agitated about anti-Jewish terror in
their own backyard.
They are making a grievous mistake.
For if today the violence and vitriol are
aimed at the Jews, tomorrow they will
be aimed at the Christians. A timeless
lesson of history is that it rarely
ends with the Jews.
Militant Islamist extremists were attacking
and killing Jews long before they
attacked and killed Americans on Sept.
11. The Nazis first set out to
incinerate the Jews; in the end, all
of Europe was ablaze Jews, it is often
said, are the canary in the coal mine
of civilization. When they become the
objects of savagery and hate, it means
the air has been poisoned and an
explosion is soon to come. If Europeans
don't rise up and turn against the
Jew-haters, it is only a matter of
time until the Jew-haters rise up and turn
against them.
French Anti-Semitism
Finally and long overdue, your people,
oppressed and disgraced by hatred and
maliciousness, have achieved justice:
now you enjoy full citizen's rights,
but you'll remain Jews nonetheless."
Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872), Austrian
author.
"That shitty little country, Israel."
Daniel Bernard, French Ambassador to
England (and former French ambassador
to the UN), December 2001. A brief
recap of recent events:
* April 3, 2002: Two molotov cocktails
were thrown at a synagogue outside of
Paris;
* April 2, 2002: Or Aviv Synagogue
in Marseille was burned to the ground;
* April 2, 2002: Arsonists struck a
pavilion in a Jewish cemetery in the
eastern town of Schiltigheim, France;
* March 30-31, 2002: Arsonists attacked
synagogues in Strasbourg, France
after an anti-Israel demonstration;
* Fifteen masked men drove two cars
through the gates and into a synagogue in
Lyon. They then set fire to one of
the cars in the prayer hall;
* A gunman opened fire on a kosher
butcher's shop (and, of course, the
butcher) in Toulouse, France;
* A Jewish couple in their 20s were
beaten up by five men in Villeurbanne,
France. The woman was pregnant.
* A Jewish school was broken into and
vandalized in Sarcelles, France. This
was in the past week.
According to the Anti-Defamation League,
from September 9, 2000, at the start
of the intifada, through November 20,
2001, there were some 330 acts of
anti-semitism just in and around Paris.
In addition to literally scores of
firebombing of synagogues, just before
Rosh Hashanah, 200 Arabs attacked Jews
on the Champs Elysees. The pace has
only picked up since then:
*In December, a French cinema in Paris
refused to allow a Hanukah showing of
Harry Potter to 800 Jewish children
because of French-Palestinian threats
(the threats were confirmed by French
police who then went on to do nothing,
not even giving details). It was one
incident in an eventful month when
synagogues continued to be firebombed
and a Jewish kindergarten was
vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti
and set ablaze. We can understand
anti-Semitism among the French people.
There is nothing the French love like
their traditions and, on the question
of hating Jews, they certainly have
tradition galore. What, however, can
explain the sometimes muted, sometimes
defensively outraged reaction of French
officials? Simple. There are
approximately 5,000,000 to 6,000,000
Muslims presently living in France and
many more arrive daily. There are only
about 600,000 Jews still living in
France. Moreover, France is the number
one European exporter to Iraq,
totaling over two billion dollars per
year in exports since 2000. To those
who are at a loss to explain why French
elected officials seem "helpless" to
stem the tide of anti-semitism, I say
that something smells awfully Vichy
around here. You already know that
Israel is at war against a fearsome enemy,
which has brought the fight to its
streets. Much of the civilized world
(well, at least on this side of the
Atlantic), finally understands this fact.
What is not being acknowledged, however,
is that this is not a war against
Israel, or as propagandists and demagogues
worldwide would have it,
occupiers. This is a war against each
and every individual, Israeli or not,
religious or not, zionist or not, right,
left or center, who identifies
himself or herself as Jewish. Israel
is only the publicized front line and if
you are not in Israel, and the fight
has not arrived at your front yard, just
wait.
5. Memories from Sweden
From: Örjan Svensson <orjan.svensson@m...>
Subject: Re: "Brit-Am Now"-122
Shalom,
Some memories from childhood that I
came to think of:
When I was in school and about 7-10
years old our teacher
taught us about the Biblical patriarcs.
A little later I read in
my History book in school about the
prophets and
about the fall of the northern kingdom.
I remember that
I read that the northern kingdom of
Israel ceased to exist
and that its people was exiled. I remember
that I felt a little
uneasy when I read that. This was probably
the first time
that I came to think about the lost
tribes.
When I was a kid a used to go with
my parents to a grove of
oaks one time each summer. Christian
out-door sermons were being held
there one particular day each summer.
This tradition ceased
about 10 years ago. I remember especially
one such sermon.
This was in the early 80s, I believe
just after Israel had
invaded Lebanon. The famous preacher
Mr. Gunnar Svensson was there.
I still clearly remember some of his
words. Translated to
English he said roughly, apparently
referring to the then recent
events in Lebanon: "Please remember,
that whatever
happens, be sure to always be on Israel's
side."
Orjan
6. Quotation
From: Verba Volant <quotation@v...>
Quotation of the day:
Author - Pierre Caron de Beaumarchais
French - prouver que j'ai raison serait accorder que je puis avoir tort
English - proving that I am right would be admitting that I could be wrong