The Good News and the Bad News, Vignettes
There is a lot of good news concerning Israel, the land and people, every day: they exist by miracles of faith, effort, devotion, applied insights, holiness and the divine promise. There is a lot of bad news every day about Israel because the sovereignty of the nation is tenuous, the hostility of the world powers is relentless as expressed by the UN, organ of the “world community”; there is bad news daily because of an autocratic often anti-Jewish government about which the Talmud and Mishna warn (eg. Avot 2:3). Israel is a miracle of existence because there are many powerful enemies without and weak spirit and identity confusion in many Jews within the Land that invites attack from Amalek (cf. Exodus 17; 1 Samuel 15; Esther).
And there is bad news because even when the major media unveil some of the implacable genocidal hostility and propaganda (masked as education) of Israel’s enemies they bury their minimal and belated revelations by not mentioning its most salient points.
This happened throughout the shoah; the lies of omission are if anything even more pronounced in recent years.
The good news for the evening of March 15, 2007 was that the Hannity & Colmes show on Fox News featured a five-minute segment with Brigitte Gabriel on the topic of female homicide-suicide bombers. In the major media they are, of course, referred to simply as
“Suicide bombers” or “killers”; in the Arab world they are termed “martyrs” (shaheeds) all misleading phrases. Since these “martyrs” purpose is to murder Jews, and that is the reason that jihadists term them “martyrs” than it is misleading and false not to term them murderers since that is their avowed purpose and what in fact they do, if they are successful.
To them success means murdering Jews, destroying the state of Israel and naming it Palestine as the perverted and genocidal Roman Emperor Hadrian did after his legions defeated the third Jewish war for independence and desolated the land and the people.
Jews speak truth to power…
During this five-minute plus discussion, the word “Jews” as in “kill” Jews was used only by Brigitte Gabriel (several times, but not several other times when the context demanded it for clarity); Sean Hannity used the term once; Alan Colmes, of course, did not used the hateful term “Jews” at all although it is for the purpose (and often with the result) of murdering Jews that these “martyrs” are dispatched. The term “murder” went unspoken.
One good thing, — truth is a good thing, obscuring it is evil – that was discussed was the brutality and injustice of Islamic treatment of and attitudes toward women. A Muslim women can give mortal offense to members of her extended family by talking, in person or on the cell phone to someone that some male members of her family do not wish her to talk; she can give mortal offense be being seen with someone a family member decides he does not wish her to be or be seen with. She can give mortal offense by being accused of adultery, a kind of hideous version of how the accusation of a man, husband, co-worker, friend, acquaintance – by a woman in Anglophone nations can result, the mere accusation alone in that man being treated by the judicial system as a violent criminal.
Maybe that’s why feminists like Colmes and legions of others do not so much or anything about Islamic “honor killing” of women, one form of which is ordering and equipping them to gain “atonement” by murdering JEWS by exploding themselves in the midst of Jewish men, women and children, including doctors and nurses giving them free medical care.
Maybe it’s because of the hatred of Jews that pervades western culture since its origin, a culture which is entirely indebted to the Jewish people whose principles it pillaged and deformed in establishing itself (and that’s why it’s been disintegrating ever since it was cobbled together, for all its wondrous accomplishments) that western mass media, despite the pitiless and unjust feminism they have promoted for forty years or more if one includes the push for legal and limitless abortion and female-initiated divorce that has destroyed this culture from within; maybe it’s because of this hatred of Jews and because of this feminism that western mass media don’t mention that it is legal in several Islamic states to punish women that offend male members of their family by gang-raping them. Why don’t the feminists who rule the western mass media make a big, big story about that? It’s the reason that gang-rape is endemic in Eurabian-ruled portions of Europe. Maybe that’s what feminists want here, too… the other side of the coin to what they are and what they have done.
One last word on this selective attention that numbs and conditions consumers of news: the ironies here described are treated in the opening discussion of the sages of the Zohar (193 on Exodus) re Torah portion Ki Tisa (Exodus 35-38:20). Among several salient lines of discussion the sages compare Israel, the nation that builds the sanctuary on this earth for its Creator Who designated them as His am segulah (“intimately beloved people”) to its two relentless opponents, Edom and Ishmael who have been entwined genetically via forbidden marriages since the days of Esau whose behavior “was a bitterness of spirit to his parents.” Esau, he is Edom it states thrice (Genesis 36) is Europe in its imperial sense, and the religion of Rome; Ishmael is Islam whose founder thence traced his descent.
Noting the insightful and timely metaphors of the sages, the big beautiful “cow” of Edom offers its rump to the per’adam, the wild ass, the human beastliness of the gangrapers of Kedar whose legal (by their law) brutality is the complement to the lawless law and engrained perversion of Edom as observed in the ideology, media, courts, academia and other institutions of the post-modern west. Together they generate Eurabia and postmodernism, monsters worthy of Ovid. The sages teach that the evil impulse for forbidden sex is particularly desirous of dwelling in Israel, the desirable land as embodied in the calves set up by Yeravam, the female one being in Dan toward which Israel tended (Zohar, ibid). We see this in the past two centuries in simple terms as many Jews are attracted to western (Edom’s) norms that themselves are deformations of Judaism. So Israel’s institutions and categories of thought in this century is doubly removed from itself, a mockery of mockery of itself, which explains much of the bad news. The goddess worship the pagan west, Amalek injected into Israel corrupts and cripples Israel and keeps it from being a Jewish state. The monstrously unjust condemnations of the UN commission thus has a bitter poetic justice. It is a wake-up call, a shofar in the city to suppress the evil impulse and engrave the “gook of remembrance,” the sign of the covenant (Zohar 200a on Exodus, portion Vayakel). This is the season when fathers teach their sons and the name of Hashem is exalted above and below.
When the UN Commission on the Status of Women issued its report, as Anne Bayefsky (eyeontheun.com) noted on March 20, the only nation in the world it condemned was Israel. The million female slaves, their passports confiscated in Saudi Arabia, the raped and mutilated women of Darfur; the forced abortions in China, the Christian women murdered in Nigeria all were ignored in order to demonize the Jews. At the very time that gangs of Israeli-Arab thugs were raping young Jewish women to ‘resist the occupation’ Euro-UN mouthpiece John Dugard was condemning Israel for racism and the Germans introduced a prissy qualification.
As long as it means alliance with those who want to murder Jews and call it “martyrdom” and “resistance to the occupation” Europe will join its jihadist enemy in every form of perversion, including those of language and thought the describe Jews living in the Israeli heartland as “occupiers” who must be expelled. But that’s another lie called the Road Map; bad news for other days.