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Title: Where Was God When Israel Deported African Refugees?
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HuffPo
URL Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david ... html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592
Published: Jun 16, 2014
Author: David Sheen
Post Date: 2014-06-20 11:48:17 by X-15
Keywords: None
Views: 132
Comments: 9
How should religious institutions respond when the regimes that rule the territories they inhabit incite racism and carry out ethnic cleanings? Seventy-five years after Pius XII became pontiff on the eve of World War Two, his successor Francis is still wrestling with this question. In an interview last week with La Vanguardia following a visit to Israel, the reigning pope admitted that Pius made mistakes, but defended his record, as well. Although the wartime pope didn't speak out against anti-Semitic crimes committed by the fascists, he did hide dozens of Jewish babies from them, Francis insisted, and holding his tongue may have saved the lives of those infants. Was that enough? In Israel itself, the question of how institutions of faith should respond to a state-sponsored drive for racial-religious purity is also of great relevance today. While it is Palestinian Christians and Muslims who have traditionally borne the brunt of efforts to Judaize, or de-Gentile-ize the country, another ethnic out-group has competed with them in recent years for the wrath of Israeli ultra-nationalists: African asylum-seekers. After 60,000 sub-Saharan Africans, Christian and Muslim, sought refuge in Israel from political persecution and ethnic cleansing, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched a multi-pronged campaign to expel them all. After building a fence on Israel's border with the African continent to prevent any further entry by asylum-seekers, the government began rounding up those already living in Israel and sticking them in containment centers, to be detained there indefinitely. The stated intention of these spartan camps is to sap the Africans of any hope of achieving freedom in Israel, so that they will give up and grudgingly agree to go back to the horrors they fled from. Netanyahu's justification for their draconian treatment: the Africans' non-Jewishness "threatens the social fabric....and our national identity." While the government works to sweep asylum-seekers off its streets and decant them back into the interior of the African continent, the vast majority of Jewish religious institutions and lay leaders in Israel have not made any attempt to aid the Africans. Rather, many have drummed up support for the government's actions, and more have riled up their constituents to demand even more extreme action against them. Hundreds of rabbis on the state payroll signed edicts forbidding Jews from renting apartments to the asylum-seekers, and some even issued verdicts of "rodef", or death sentences, on those Jews who dare to do so. In other Western countries, the main complaint lobbed at immigrants by the reactionary right-wing is that they cling too much to their traditional customs and resist assimilation. In Israel, tellingly, it is exactly the opposite: the chief grievance of those who want all the Africans gone is that they do assimilate. Signs of successful absorption -- learning the language, intermingling with the local population -- trigger panic among many Jewish Israelis, and among religious Jews, even more so. Even when they want to convert to Judaism, every single African applicant is outright rejected. Just last week the cleric responsible for all conversions explained Israel's policy thus: "The government built a fence... on the state's border, and we built one here, at the entrance gate to the Jewish people."
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#1. To: X-15 (#0)
oops. Isaiah 60:11 Your gates shall be open continually; day and night they shall not be shut, that people may bring to you the wealth of the nations, with their kings led in procession. biblehub.com/isaiah/60-11.htm / biblehub.com/kjv/isaiah/60.htm must have been talking about someone else. "...as long as there..remain active enemies of the Christian church, we may hope to become Master of the World...the future Jewish King will never reign in the world before Christianity is overthrown - B'nai B'rith speech http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/luther.htm / http://bible.cc/psalms/83-4.htm
The Jewish and Christian gods have nothing to do with this. HuffPo is just prolonging belief in the "chosen ones" myth. That's how this thing got started, and it's how it keeps going.
You have a sense of humor !!! "Resolve to serve no more,” he says, “and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces.” Étienne de La Boétie
The ashkenazi khazars don't appreciate you pointing out their failure to adhere to their adopted religion!!
Even when they want to convert to Judaism, every single African applicant is outright rejected. Just last week the cleric responsible for all conversions explained Israel's policy thus: "The government built a fence... on the state's border, and we built one here, at the entrance gate to the Jewish people."
#2. To: X-15, AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt, Prefrontal Vortex (#0)
#3. To: AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt (#1)
must have been talking about someone else.
#4. To: AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt (#1)
-Alex Kurtagic
#5. To: X-15 (#4)
One should realize that these so-called "JEWS" are in actuality "GOYIM" ! Gentiles pretending to be Israelites and the sick joke is that most of the world has bought their BULL.
"Resolve to serve no more,” he says, “and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces.”
Étienne de La Boétie
#6. To: noone222 (#5)
From (south) Russia With Love....... OY VEY!!!!
-Alex Kurtagic
#7. To: X-15 (#0)
ironic... Netanyahu's justification for their draconian treatment: the Africans' non-Jewishness "threatens the social fabric....and our national identity."
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams 
#8. To: Rotara (#7)
ironic... Classic hypocrisy ! Netanyahu's justification for their draconian treatment: the Africans' non-Jewishness "threatens the social fabric....and our national identity."
"Resolve to serve no more,” he says, “and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces.”
Étienne de La Boétie
#9. To: X-15 (#4)
And the rabbi's singin' The ashkenazi khazars don't appreciate you pointing out their failure to adhere to their adopted religion!!
If you're white, you're alright.
If you're brown, stick around.
But if you're black, oh brother,
Get back, get back, get back, get back . . .
"If ignorance is truly bliss, then why do so many Americans need Prozac?" - Dave McGowan
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