The move by the Egyptian government comes just weeks before the fall holiday when the lulavs are in demand. In the past, Israel has imported about 700,000 palm fronds a year prior to Sukkot, representing about 40 percent of the total demand for them every year here.
No-Thing is different than nothing. Nothing is something. No-thing permits the spirit of the way to reveal itself to you.
Showing posts with label Jew. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jew. Show all posts
Monday, September 19, 2011
Monday, September 12, 2011
Silly Jews
Israel is a strange place full of silly Jews. When it comes to criticizing Israel on policy they demand that you separate Israeli and Jew into separate ideas. But they want Israel recognized as a Jewish country and is bound and based upon Jewish (religious) history and rules. Does anyone else see the problem here?
So an example of silly Jewish behavior: The Israeli society is based on a 6 day week with Saturday as the day off. Kids go to school sun-fri. Many people have Friday off work but many do not.
Here's what's crazy. Saturday, the one day off, just about everything is closed, except for specific spots and some gas stations and a few restaurants here and there. No public transport, no grocery stores just about nuttin.
I mentioned to a few people how crazy this situation is, that the one day people have off they can't get anywhere and do anything.
The response is: this guarantees that everyone gets a day off.
But that is a specious argument. Places are closed because god told these people to keep Sabbath and so they pass religious based laws forcing religion on people. Plenty of non-Jewish countries found ways to guarantee everyone gets a day off a week without shutting their country down for a day a week.
I really wish religious people would be honest. Instead of trying to find secular arguments to justify their religious behavior I'd rather they just say, we believe in god, our god said this, and we have the political power to make it happen.
Don't tell me you're forcing everything to close for my benefit, I don't need your help thank you very much. Don't tell me circumcision is healthy because that reason plays no part in why it is performed. You do it cause your god says so. If you're going to live like you're in the middle ages at lease have the balls to stand behind your actions.
So an example of silly Jewish behavior: The Israeli society is based on a 6 day week with Saturday as the day off. Kids go to school sun-fri. Many people have Friday off work but many do not.
Here's what's crazy. Saturday, the one day off, just about everything is closed, except for specific spots and some gas stations and a few restaurants here and there. No public transport, no grocery stores just about nuttin.
I mentioned to a few people how crazy this situation is, that the one day people have off they can't get anywhere and do anything.
The response is: this guarantees that everyone gets a day off.
But that is a specious argument. Places are closed because god told these people to keep Sabbath and so they pass religious based laws forcing religion on people. Plenty of non-Jewish countries found ways to guarantee everyone gets a day off a week without shutting their country down for a day a week.
I really wish religious people would be honest. Instead of trying to find secular arguments to justify their religious behavior I'd rather they just say, we believe in god, our god said this, and we have the political power to make it happen.
Don't tell me you're forcing everything to close for my benefit, I don't need your help thank you very much. Don't tell me circumcision is healthy because that reason plays no part in why it is performed. You do it cause your god says so. If you're going to live like you're in the middle ages at lease have the balls to stand behind your actions.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Forget about Pollard
Yes. That's right. Forget about Pollard, the man who is sitting in prison, quite possibly for the rest of his life, for having pled guilty to selling American secrets.
Let's take him out of the equation and look at the silly arguments people make in his defense.
There are really only 2 main arguments that I hear in his defense:
#1 It's discrimination. He's rotting in prison in the US because he's a jew. No other spy has been punished for these types of crimes, so it must be anti-semitism.
So the US is anti-Semitic, anti-jew, anti-Israel. Not any one president, but all the presidents in all the time Pollard has been in prison were all jew-haters. Disregard the tens of billions of dollars in aid they gave Israel during that time period, deep down they are happy to have a Jew in their clutches. Disregard that 2 of the US's largest cities have Jewish mayors. Disregard the numerous other jewish politicians of note, and jewish judges, and oscar winning jewish movie stars, and freedoms and unquestioned equality and safety that Jews have in no other place outside of israel; the US is really a jew-hating land and that's why Pollard is rotting in jail. Jew.
Or just maybe there is a difference when you catch an enemy spy or you catch a spy from a close ally. And then that ally plays games for decade(s) as to whether or not he was a spy for them in the first place. He's not our guy, they said, but it's really important to us that you free him. Perhaps when you catch an enemy spy you are less disturbed because you expect your enemies to betray you. Perhaps you expect spies from your enemy, or even from countries you have a cold peace with. But how many other freed spies came from a country that touts itself as America's biggest friend and ally and is the recipient of vast sums of aid?
#2 Look at all the famous people who are in support of Pollard.
Kissinger? a few weeks ago the same people praising Kissinger today for coming out, now, in favor of clemency, were blasting him as a self-hating jew when his own secrets were revealed.
Potential presidential candidates and other politicians who have their own hands out for votes and donations are hardly unbiased.
Should he be freed? I don't know. How many people really know what happened?
I do know that these arguments in his favor turn my stomach. So until someone can give me a reasonable argument why Pollard should be freed from the deal he signed, I'd rather just forget about him. There are plenty of Jews in far worse places than Pollard for far less reason who could use a bit of help.
Let's take him out of the equation and look at the silly arguments people make in his defense.
There are really only 2 main arguments that I hear in his defense:
#1 It's discrimination. He's rotting in prison in the US because he's a jew. No other spy has been punished for these types of crimes, so it must be anti-semitism.
So the US is anti-Semitic, anti-jew, anti-Israel. Not any one president, but all the presidents in all the time Pollard has been in prison were all jew-haters. Disregard the tens of billions of dollars in aid they gave Israel during that time period, deep down they are happy to have a Jew in their clutches. Disregard that 2 of the US's largest cities have Jewish mayors. Disregard the numerous other jewish politicians of note, and jewish judges, and oscar winning jewish movie stars, and freedoms and unquestioned equality and safety that Jews have in no other place outside of israel; the US is really a jew-hating land and that's why Pollard is rotting in jail. Jew.
Or just maybe there is a difference when you catch an enemy spy or you catch a spy from a close ally. And then that ally plays games for decade(s) as to whether or not he was a spy for them in the first place. He's not our guy, they said, but it's really important to us that you free him. Perhaps when you catch an enemy spy you are less disturbed because you expect your enemies to betray you. Perhaps you expect spies from your enemy, or even from countries you have a cold peace with. But how many other freed spies came from a country that touts itself as America's biggest friend and ally and is the recipient of vast sums of aid?
#2 Look at all the famous people who are in support of Pollard.
Kissinger? a few weeks ago the same people praising Kissinger today for coming out, now, in favor of clemency, were blasting him as a self-hating jew when his own secrets were revealed.
Potential presidential candidates and other politicians who have their own hands out for votes and donations are hardly unbiased.
Should he be freed? I don't know. How many people really know what happened?
I do know that these arguments in his favor turn my stomach. So until someone can give me a reasonable argument why Pollard should be freed from the deal he signed, I'd rather just forget about him. There are plenty of Jews in far worse places than Pollard for far less reason who could use a bit of help.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
I am a Jew
This was forwarded by e-mail and I felt worth posting.
| I am a Jew Written by an Israeli named Dan Sporn אני יהודי נכתב ע"י ישראלי בשם דן ספורן Our condition, in Israel , has never been better than it is now! Only The television and the media make people think that the end of the World is near.. Only 65 years ago, Jews were brought to death like Sheep to slaughter. NO country, NO army. Only 60 years ago, Seven Arab countries declared war on little Israel , the Jewish State, Just a few hours after it was established. המצב שלנו, בישראל, מעולם לא היה טוב יותר מאשר עכשיו! רק הטלוויזיה והתקשורת גורמים לאנשים לחשוב שסוף העולם קרב. רק לפני 65 שנים, יהודים הובאו למוות כצאן לטבח. ללא מדינה, ללא צבא. רק לפני 60 שנים, 7 מדינות ערב הכריזו מלחמה על ישראל הקטנה, מדינת היהודים, רק כמה שעות לאחר היווסדה. We were 650,000 Jews against the rest of the Arab world. No IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) or Air Force. We were only a Small group of stubborn people with nowhere to go. היינו 650,000 יהודים כנגד שאר העולם הערבי. ללא צה"ל (צבא הגנה לישראל) או חיל אוויר. היינו רק קבוצה קטנה של אנשים עקשנים עם שום מקום לאן ללכת. Remember: Lebanon , Syria , Iraq , Jordan , Egypt , Libya , and S Audi Arabia , they all attacked at once. The state that the United Nations "gave" us was 65% desert. We started it from Zero. זכרו: לבנון, סוריה, עירק, ירדן, מצרים, לוב וערב הסעודית, כולם תקפו בעת ובעונה אחת. המדינה שהאומות המאוחדות "נתנו" לנו הייתה 65% מדבר. התחלנו את זה מאפס. Only 41 years ago, we fought three of the strongest countries In the Middle East , and we crushed them in the Six Day War. רק לפני 41 שנים, נלחמנו נגד שלוש המדינות החזקות ביותר במזרח התיכון, וריסקנו אותם במלחמת ששת הימים. Over the years we fought different coalitions of=2 0Arab countries With modern armies and with huge amounts of Russian-Soviet Ammunition, and we still won. במהלך השנים נלחמנו בקואליציות שונות של 20 מדינות ערב עם צבאות חדשניים וכמות עצומה של תחמושת רוסית – סובייטית, ועדיין ניצחנו. Today we have a beautiful country, a powerful Army, a strong Air Force, an adequate Navy and a thriving high tech industry. Intel, Microsoft, and IBM have all developed their businesses Here. היום יש לנו מדינה יפיפייה, צבא רב עוצמה, חיל אוויר חזק, חיל ים הולם ותעשיית הי-טק משגשגת. אינטל, מיקרוסופט, ו- I.B.M פיתחו כולם את עסקיהם כאן. Our doctors have won important prizes in the medical Development field. הרופאים שלנו זכו בפרסים חשובים בתחום הפיתוח הרפואי. We turned the desert into a prosperous land. הפכנו את המדבר לאדמה פורחת ומשגשגת. We sell oranges, flowers, and vegetables around the world. אנחנו מוכרים תפוזים, פרחים וירקות בכל רחבי העולם. We launched our own satellite! Three satellites at once! We Are in good company; together with the USA (280 million Residents), Russia (220 million residents), China (1.3 Billion residents) and Europe ( France , England and Germany 35 million residents), we are one of the only countries in the World that have launched something into space! שיגרנו את הלווין שלנו! שלושה לווינים בעת ובעונה אחת! אנחנו בחברה טובה: יחד עם ארה"ב (280 מיליון תושבים), רוסיה (220 מיליון תושבים), סין (1.2 ביליון תושבים) ואירופה (צרפת, אנגליה וגרמניה 35 מיליון תושבים), אנחנו אחת מהמדינות הבודדות בעולם ששיגרו משהו לחלל! Israel today is among the few powerful countries that have Nuclear technology & capabilities. ( We will never admit it, But everyone knows.) ישראל היום היא בין המדינות הבודדות החזקות, שהיא בעלת טכנולוגיה ויכולות גרעיניות. (אנחנו לעולם לא נודה בזה, אבל כולם יודעים). To think that only 65 years ago we were disgraced and Hopeless. לחשוב שרק לפני 65 שנים היינו מבוישים וחסרי תקווה. We crawled out from the burning crematoriums of Europe . We won in all our wars. With a little bit of nothing we built An empire. Who are Khaled Mashal (leader of Hamas) or Hassan Nasrallah (leader of Hezbollah) trying to frighten us? They are amusing us. זחלנו החוצה מהמשרפות הבוערות של אירופה. ניצחנו בכל המלחמות שלנו. עם מעט מכלום בנינו אימפריה. מי אלו חלאד משעל (מנהיג החמאס) או חסאן נסראללה (מנהיג החיזבאללה) המנסים להפחיד אותנו? הם משעשעים אותנו. As we celebrate Independence Day, let's not forget what this Holy day is all about; we overcame everything. בזמן שאנחנו חוגגים את יום העצמאות, בואו לא נשכח מהי המהות של היום הקדוש הזה: התגברנו על הכל. We overcame the Greeks, התגברנו על היוונים, We overcame the Romans, התגברנו על הרומאים, We overcame the Spanish Inquisition, התגברנו על האינקוויזיציה הספרדית, We overcame the Russians pogrom, התגברנו על הפוגרום הרוסי, We overcame Hitler , we overcame Germany and overcame the Holocaust, התגברנו על היטלר, התגברנו על גרמניה והתגברנו על השואה, We overcame the armies of seven countries. התגברנו על הצבאות של 7 מדינות Relax chevray (friends), we will overcome our current enemies. הירגעו חבר'ה, אנחנו נתגבר גם על האויבים הנוכחים Never mind where you look in human history. Think about it, The Jewish nation, our condition has never been better than now. So let's lift our heads up and remember: לא משנה לאן שנביט בהיסטוריה האנושית. תחשבו על זה, העם היהודי, מצבנו מעולם לא היה טוב יותר מאשר עכשיו. אז בואו נישא ראשנו מעלה וזכרו: Never mind which country or culture tries to harm us or erase us From the world. We will still exist and persevere. Egypt ? Anyone Know where the Egyptian empire disappeared to? The Greeks? Alexander Macedon? The Romans? Is anyone speaking Latin Today? The Third Reich? Did anyone hear news from them lately? =0 D לא משנה איזו מדינה או תרבות מנסה לפגוע בנו או למחוק אותנו מהעולם. אנחנו עדיין קיימים ושמורים. מצריים? מישהו יודע לאן האימפריה המצרית נעלמה? היוונים? אלכסנדר מוקדון? הרומאים? האם מישהו מדבר לטינית היום? הרייך השלישי? האם מישהו שמע חדשות מהם לאחרונה? And look at us, the Bible nation – from slavery in Egypt , we are Still here, still speaking the same language. Exactly here, exactly now. והסתכלו עלינו, העם התנ"כי – מעבדות במצרים, אנחנו עדיין כאן, עדיין מדברים את אותה השפה. בדיוק כאן, בדיוק עכשיו. Maybe The Arabs don't know it yet, but we are an eternal nation. All the time that we will keep our identity, we will stay eternal. אולי הערבים עדיין לא יודעים את זה, אבל אנחנו עם נצחי. כל זמן שנשמור על זהותנו, נשאר נצחיים. So, sorry that we are not worrying, complaining, crying, or fearing… אז סליחה שאנחנו לא דואגים, מתלוננים, בוכים או פוחדים..... Business here is beseder (fine). It can definitely be much better, But it is still fine. Don't pay attention to the nonsense in the media, They will not tell you about our festivals here in Israel or about the People that continue living, going out, meeting friends. העסקים כאן בסדר. זה בהחלט יכול להיות טוב יותר, אבל זה עדיין בסדר. אל תשימו לב לשטויות בתקשורת, הם לא יספרו לכם על החגיגות שלנו כאן בישראל או על האנשים שממשיכים לחיות, לצאת ולפגוש חברים. Yes, sometimes morale is down, so what? This is only because we Are mourning the dead while they are celebrating spilled blood. And This is the reason we will win after all. נכון, לפעמים המורל נמוך, אז מה? זה רק בגלל שאנו מבכים את המתים בזמן שהם חוגגים על דם שנשפך. וזו הסיבה לכך שאנו ננצח למרות הכל. Please forward this e-mail to all of your Jewish friends Everywhere in the world. You are all part of our force to Keep our existence. בבקשה העבירו מייל זה לכל חבריכם היהודים, בכל מקום בעולם. כולכם חלק במאמץ שלנו לשמור את קיומנו. This e-mail may help some of us lift our heads up and be Proud to say: מייל זה עשוי לעזור לחלק מאיתנו לשאת את ראשינו מעלה ולהיות גאים לומר: I AM A JEW אני יהודי |
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