June 29, 2012, 3:01 AM
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So it works out that Iran's vice president really hates Jews. In fact, he hates Jews so much that even The New York Times reported it. On Tuesday, the Times published an account of Iranian Vice President Mohammad-Reza Rahimi's speech before a UN forum on fighting drug addiction in Tehran.
Rahimi claimed that Jews control the illegal drug trade. We sell drugs, he said, in order to fulfill what he said is a Talmudic writ to "destroy everyone who opposes the Jews."
He said that our conspiracy is obvious since, he claimed, there are no Jewish drug addicts.
He went so far as to promise to pay anyone who can find a Jewish drug addict.
As he put it, "The Islamic Republic of Iran will pay for anybody who can research and find one single Zionist who is an addict. They do not exist. This is the proof of their involvement in drugs trade."
Oops, sorry, he doesn't hate Jews. He hates Zionists.
Some of his best friends are Jews.
At least that is what the Times would have us believe. As reporter Thomas Erdbrink put it, "'Zionists' is Iran's ideological term for Jews who support the state of Israel."
He also helpfully noted, "More than 25,000 Jews live in Iran, and they are recognized as a religious minority, with a representative in Parliament."
Aside from that, just so we don't get the wrong impression about the Iranian government, Erdbrink calmed us down by noting, therapeutically, "Several Iranian ministers gave politically neutral briefings on the impact of the drug trade on the country."
So aside from the fact that its vice president is a frothing-at-the-mouth anti-Semite, the Iranian regime is perfectly respectable. Nothing to see here folks, move on.
Except, of course, that this is not the case.
Iran's "Supreme Leader" routinely refers to Israel as a cancer. For instance, in a sermon before thousands of Muslim worshipers in February, Ali Khamenei said, "The Zionist regime is a cancerous tumor and it will be removed."
Then there's Rahimi's direct boss, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who can't ask what the weather is like without calling for the annihilation of the Jewish people.
But then he too usually calls us Jews "Zionists," (which most of us are), so his calls for the genocide of Jewry is really just a political statement and not proof that what moves him when he wakes up in the morning and goes to bed at night is a passionate, obsessive desire to murder an entire people.
Many commentators seized on Erdbrink's write-up of Rahimi's diatribe as further proof that the civilized world cannot permit Iran to acquire nuclear weapons. And that is fair enough.
Of course Iran cannot be permitted to acquire nuclear weapons. They are religious fanatics who rule under a deranged banner of messianic genocide.
BUT THE real issue here is that these commentators felt it necessary to seize on the Times' write-up of Rahimi's speech to make this obvious point. That is, the real issue here isn't the Iranians. The real issue is the Western media. From the New York Times to the BBC to the European media, Jew-hatred is the most under-reported - and arguably most important story - of our times.
No issue unites the Muslim world more than venomous, murderous hatred of Jews.
No single issue informs their foreign policies more than hatred of Jews. And yet, reporting - even biased, misleadingly understated reporting - of this massive, strategically pivotal phenomenon is almost nonexistent in most major media outlets. As a consequence, it is a major event when the Times finally publishes an anemic report about it. And again, even that report hides the real story.
Erdbrink ended his report by quoting an unnamed European diplomat who was in Rahimi's audience at the conference. The diplomat told him that on the one hand, "This was definitely one of the worst speeches I have heard in my life. My gut reaction was: Why are we supporting any cooperation with these people?"
But, lest we reach any policy conclusions from Rahimi's bigotry, the diplomat soothed, "If we do not support the United Nations on helping Iran fight drugs, voices like the one of Mr. Rahimi will be the only ones out there."
What both Erdbrink and his European interlocutor failed to acknowledge is that Rahimi won't be punished for his views. He was promoted because of his views. Helping Iran fight drugs doesn't encourage non-genocidal Iranian politicians. It legitimizes the regime that promoted Rahimi and Ahmadinejad and Khamenei and every other powerful politician and military commander because of their hatred of Jews.
The Western media has two basic approaches to their non-reporting of Islamic Jew-hatred and its significance for international security. The first approach is to ignore the issue because it is ideologically inconvenient.
The New York Times, like every other major Western media outlet except The Wall Street Journal, is of the opinion that the Islamic world should be appeased. The Muslim Brotherhood and Iran should be accommodated.
If they gave Islamic Jew-hatred coverage commensurate with its actual significance, they would be undermining their ideological agenda. In light of their ubiquitous and vituperative obsession with Jewish people, it is obvious that it is impossible to appease the Muslim world.
The second approach to contending with Islamic Jew-hatred is to justify it by claiming that Israel has earned all the hate coming its way. It's "political" they say. The Islamic demonization of Jews is understandable given the Palestinians and all that.
Obviously, both of these approaches to the story of Islamic Jew-hatred are appalling. The former approach involves a breach of the very concept of objective journalism. After all, the purpose of journalism is to report on the world as it is, not as we would like it to be.
And the latter approach is no less bigoted than the hatred it serves to whitewash. The European diplomat's gut reaction to Rahimi's speech, "Why are we supporting any cooperation with these people?" was entirely rational.
AND IF Rahimi's hatred had been directed against any other people, race, creed, state or color, no one would support cooperation with "these people."
No one would support the Palestinian national movement if its inherent, overwhelming hatred was directed, say, against the black state rather than the Jewish state.
Demonizing and delegitimizing Israel is the core goal of the Palestinian national movement.
To this end the Palestinian Authority's Information Ministry published a style guide to instruct Palestinians what terms they should use to avoid legitimizing Israel.
According to Palestinian Media Watch's report about the style guide, language must be chosen that will avoid presenting Israel's existence as "natural." As the book's introduction explains, using Israeli terminology "turns the essence of the Zionist endeavor (i.e., Israeli statehood) from a racist, colonialist endeavor into an endeavor of self-definition and independence for the Jewish People."
Among its other guidelines, the PA's style guide tells Palestinians to replace the term "Star of David," with "six-pointed star." And this makes sense. The term "Star of David" exposes the Jews' national rights to the Land of Israel. After all, this is the land of the Jewish King David who founded the Jewish capital of Jerusalem three thousand years ago.
But a central goal of Palestinian propaganda, and advanced by all relevant sectors of Palestinian society, is to rewrite history and erase the Jews from the history of the Land of Israel.
And rather than call them on this intellectual crime of literally biblical proportions, the Western media collaborates with them. For instance, on Tuesday, the New York Times published an article about the efforts of the Palestinians from Battir, an Arab village southwest of Jerusalem, to have their ancient terraced irrigation system recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. They claim the designation is necessary and urgent because if they don't get it, Israel may build a portion of the security barrier through the village and harm the irrigation system.
Isabel Kershner, the Times' reporter, referred to the irrigation system as "a Roman-era irrigation system."
But as the bloggers Yisrael Medad and Elli Fischer pointed out, it is a Jewish irrigation system from the Second Temple period. And while Battir is a reasonable candidate for World Heritage Site status, it is first and foremost a Jewish heritage site. Battir is the Arab name for the ancient Jewish village Betar, the site of Bar- Kochba's last stand against the Roman Empire.
It is the last place where Jews were sovereign until the establishment of the State of Israel.
But Kershner didn't mention any of that.
Doing so would lead to too many inconvenient truths - about the nature of Palestinian nationalism, about UNESCO, about Jewish rights to the land. So the historical significance of Battir was left unreported, and the nature of the irrigation system was reported incorrectly.
On the face of it, it can be argued that the Western media's willful blindness towards Islamic Jew-hatred and its influence on world affairs are part and parcel of the Western elite's collective refusal to recognize and contend with the implications of the phenomenon.
But this is too forgiving.
Policy-makers who ignore Islamic Jew-hatred are doing so because they are trying to sell their policies. What's the New York Times' excuse?
The media are supposed to report facts, not shape perceptions. The facts, not the perceptions are supposed to inform policy. That is, they are not supposed to collaborate with policy-makers, they are supposed to inform policy-makers and the general public.
And this leads us back to the well-meaning commentators who seized on Erdbrink's report about how Iran's vice president believes that Jews - sorry Zionists - are monsters, and used it as proof that Iran cannot be permitted to get the bomb. Yes, of course, they are right that it is worth re-quoting his vile remarks to make the point.
But by quoting the Times, they may be scoring a couple of tactical points today, but they are losing a long-term strategic battle. They are giving respectability to a media organ that is consummately unworthy of our respect. They are giving respectability to a news organ with an institutional policy of denying, underreporting, and misleadingly reporting about the most important issue that shapes events in the Middle East today: Islamic hatred of Jews.
Originally published in The Jerusalem Post.
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Israel has delegated it's God given responsibility to lead to others.
Because Israel has seen itself as small by forgetting God they have looked to and waited on what is false,the US and the international community to lead on Iran. (as if they were God)
This has been a fateful error and a grave sin on Israel's part.
Very soon God will correct the faith problem that infects His people who have chosen to believe con men and liars and not Him and what He said about Jacob.
Here is what the Holy One of Israel says in relation to the threats Israel now faces after chasing after her worthless Road Map peace idol on the Potomac.
Jeremiah 51
All mankind is stupid, devoid of knowledge;Every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols,
For his molten images are deceitful,And there is no breath in them.
They are worthless, a work of mockery;In the time of their punishment they will perish.
19 The portion of Jacob is not like these;
For the Maker of all is He,
And of the tribe of His inheritance;
The Lord of hosts is His name.
He says, “You are My war-club, My weapon of war;And with you I shatter nations,
And with you I destroy kingdoms.“With you I shatter the horse and his rider,
And with you I shatter the chariot and its rider....
Jeremiah 51
To say that Islamic Jew-hatred, or perhaps I should say Zionist-hatred is frightening in its intensity is alarming enough. The fact that the media chooses to all but ignore it gives it a certain legitimacy that is dangerous to our continued survival. That the Jewish Left is still unwilling to concede on anything, but a minor level, their complicity in this despicable state of affairs is disheartening. We are a nation and a people who do have some very good friends, but it is only G-d who ultimately is our salvation. As I have said before and will say once again, Caroline Glick, you are a true aishet chayil. Shabbat shalom and G-d's blessings on you and all those you hold dear.
Thanks for this excellent report.
Isn't it worth asking, why?? Why does the New York times and innumerable other publications seek to mislead the public about Islamic antisemitism?? Why do they seek to do this? Why are they enabling the Islamists against Israel, possibly resulting in genocide against it??
All the explanations put forward to date do not touch on the real reasons for their opposition. It's not "politically correct" to mention the fact, to relate it to past instances of mass antisemitism, whether in it's racist, religious, or ideological form.
Hitler's Pope seems to make clear the supposition that the papacy sought to enable the Nazi's against the Jews. Would that be any different from their 800 or so years of official papal policy?? Are they all of a sudden going to have a moral "epiphany" because "times have changed"; or are they rather acting pragmatically by denouncing replacement theology, anti-Judaism and a nominal support for Jewish nationhood???
Jew hatred exists, at bottom, for metaphysical, philosophical reasons that Islam, Christianity, Hinduism/Buddhism, and Marxism can equally find ideological issue with. Ze'ev Maghen partly touched on it in his "John Lennon and the Jews" and time and again it's touched upon. The scholar Eugene Narrett documents the antimony from the western perspective; but it is wider and deeper and more universal in it's reaches than he touches upon.
So there is a conspiracy against the Jews. Alan Dershowits types who support a two state solution are either entirely ignorant of this, or skeptical of it; in any case, it would be ludicrous on purely rational grounds to extend a fig leaf of peace to an enemy that even refuses your right to existence.
As for the Iranians, the shi'ite are even more up to their neck in metaphysical-mystical doctrine than the Sunnis. It is patently clear what their intentions are.
"a central goal of Palestinian propaganda, and advanced by all relevant sectors of Palestinian society, is to rewrite history and erase the Jews from the history of the Land of Israel." - Also advanced by Israel's spinelessness (as was Mubarak's indefatigable internal and international anti-Semitic campaign) at best and Israel's cooperation at worst. There's an old Yiddish proverb that a fish's rotten stink starts spreading from its head.
Because secretly and openly they all hate us for crawling from under the stones they put us and embracing life and succeeding to create something they envey.
The complete stupidity of these people makes for great comedy but then I remember that they are truly as insane as the words that proceed from their poisonous mouths and need to be watched like a dog infected with rabies. I was reminded this week what the fate of every Jewish woman will be when I heard about the savage attack on the British student Natasha Smith in Rape Square Cairo, if it were not for the courage and self sacrifice of your military, God protect you Israel you are always in my heart and thoughts even though I am not in a position of power to help you.
The plot thickens: Caroline Glick is awesome in many regards, but the crime against truth that she denounces stemming from the failure to report Jew-hatred in the Muslim world pales when compared with the much bigger, inexplicable and bizarre crime against Israel committed by pretty much every Jew: the failure to report that the Holy Quran is Zionist and it supports the exclusive right of the Jews to the land of Israel. From Wikipedia: ‘Prof. Khaleel Mohammed, Islamic Law scholar of the San Diego State University, noted that Sura 5 verse 21 of the Qur’an, and the medieval exegetes of the Qur'an, say that Israel belongs to the Jews. He translates it thus: “[Moses said]: O my people! Enter the Holy Land which God has written for you, and do not turn tail, otherwise you will be losers.” Mohammed here understands “written” to mean this is the final word from God on the subject. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Zionism‘ How can the Jews, the supposedly smartest folks on Earth, fail to use the Quran for their propaganda and scream wherever they are that the Quran is their best property title to the land of Israel? Or at least promote the few Muslims who are Zionists. No matter how few, Muslim Zionists could shame the rest of the Muslim world into accepting that all our misfortunes arise from defiling Allah’s will that Israel is for the Jews. Even Caroline Glick, the smartest of the smartest, is complicit in this non-reporting of the Jewish right to Israel under Islamic law. For most non-Jews to not care about Islamic Jew-hatred is somewhat logical. But for Jews to not care about Islamic Zionism is entirely illogical. Doesn' t matter the asymmetrical stats (billion plus Muslim Jew-haters against handful of Muslim Zionists), the Quran establishes that Israel belongs to the Jews and that's it. What's wrong with you folks? Scream it from every roooftop!
"If you keep telling a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can 'shield' the people from the political, economical and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes 'vitally' important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the 'TRUTH' is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the 'TRUTH' is the greatest enemy of the State." Joseph Goebbels
"Quid est veritas?" Pontius Pilate
Who is the father of lies?
My friends, my foes, therein between the lines "lies" the answer to answers. Choose now who and what you will follow. For you will follow something or someone, and your destiny is determined by 'YOUR' choice, the most powerful gift that was given to you by G-D and by the men and women who fought the enemies of the "TRUTH" from time memorial. Be of an discerning mind. Separate yourselves from evil thinking and you will be able to differentiate between the two at war..."TRUTH' versus the lie.
Thank you Caroline, as always continue to continue in the good fight.
There is a solution for Israel, but no human being can solve the problem.
First, Israel needs to identify the problem. There is nothing one can do in this particular situation to remove the hatred of those who deny your right to exist. God can & will solve that problem in time.
How will that happen?
Eventually God is going to change the hearts & minds of those who want to destroy Israel.
The people with the hatred cannot identify their problem. They are unaware that Satan is the god of this world & the prince of the power of the air. His influence over people will grow more intense - fanning the flames of hatred because he knows his time is short. He wants people (made in the image of God for a reason) to hate one another & destroy one another.
So God is going to teach all nations a lesson.
First - Israel, America & Britain must go through the time of "Jacob's trouble."
The biblical prophetic end time scenario reveals a sequence of events known as The Great Tribulation, The Heavenly Signs & The Day of the Lord. This time period from start to finish will last for three and one half years.
A United States of Europe will be created out of a crisis situation.
A strong man will suddenly appear to take control over ten nations which will be the final revival of the Holy Roman Empire.
This King of the North led by Germany will attack & destroy the King of the South (an Islamic power).
Egypt & it's Middle Eastern allies will be quickly defeated.
The abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet will be EU armies surrounding Jerusalem.
Although the city will suffer destruction, Jerusalem will not suffer a nuclear attack.
When the abomination of desolation is put in place, it is only days away from World War III.
Iran thinks it can guide & direct a war according to their own strategic plans.
Their fatal mistake is when World War III starts, it will quickly spiral out of control.
After two and one half years, God will punish the Gentile powers. The King of the North will suffer a devastating defeat from the Kings of the East (Russia, China & their allies).
With portions of their armies fighting just outside of Jerusalem; with massive death & destruction after taking place around the globe - divine intervention then takes place to prevent the complete destruction of the human race.
The survivors of World War III will be teachable after seeing such terrible suffering all around them.
The Kingdom of God will be established on this earth & for the first time in 6000 years people of all nations - many of whom were former enemies - will learn to live by God's law of the ten commandments.
They will learn to love one another & care for one another in the proper way.
This is how God is eventually, in time, going to change the hearts & minds of people in the world. No human being or government can do it - but God will do it relatively soon.
The blatant antisemitism of the New York Times is more than the passive acceptance of hatred in the pursuit of childish 'liberal' ideals. It is active, it speaks with the same voice albeit moderated by western tastes as that of Iran and Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. It is of the progressive ilk which for so long has seethed and raged against the west, against the US, in the mold of Zinn and Chomsky that it no longer pretends to not stand with fascists and maniacs who swore an oath to unwind the clock a thousand years. And if that means genocide then THAT is the appeasement that the NYT is willing to foist on us.
The current situation with Palestine is only an excuse. In fact, when it comes to Islam, hatred of Jewish people begins with Muhammad, the founder of Islam. Held up as the model for all Muslims, it is no wonder that his hatred of Jews is at the very core of Islam, a hatred that will not be quenched until everyone is either a Muslim or dead.
The Bible speaks of a coming evil empire in the last days that will seek to destroy all Jews. Islam has similar prophesies in the Qur'an and Hadiths, but in "reverse". That is, whereas the Bible calls this king evil, Islam calls him their deliverer.
Imagine that! Look it up for yourselves and let others know. Pray for Jerusalem and all God's people.
Shalom
'First Israel, America & Britain must go through the time of "Jacob's trouble."' alex
Caroline ,
I had to rebuke this lie.
God has a covenant with only 1 nation and that nation is Israel only !
Treacherous AMERICA & BRITAIN who have betrayed and divided Israel with their false peace lie, sacrificing them to their Islamic partners HAVE NO PART WITH ISRAEL ! They are doomed for their evil and treachery.
Jeremiah 30
The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, 2 “Thus speaks the Lord God of Israel, saying: ‘Write in a book for yourself all the words that I have spoken to you.
3 For behold, the days are coming,’ says the Lord, ‘that I will bring back from captivity My people Israel and Judah,’ says the Lord. ‘And I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.’”
4 Now these are the words that the Lord spoke concerning Israel and Judah.
5 “For thus says the Lord:
‘We have heard a voice of trembling,Of fear, and not of peace.
6 Ask now, and see,Whether a man is ever in labor with child?
So why do I see every man with his hands on his loinsLike a woman in labor,And all faces turned pale?
7 Alas! For that day is great,So that none is like it;
And it is the time of Jacob’s trouble,But he shall be saved out of it.(Not US & GB)
8 ‘For it shall come to pass in that day,’Says the Lord of hosts,
‘That I will break his yoke from your neck,And will burst your bonds;Foreigners shall no more enslave them.
9 But they shall serve the Lord their God,And David their king,Whom I will raise up for them.
10 ‘Therefore do not fear, O My servant Jacob,’ says the Lord,‘Nor be dismayed, O Israel;
For behold, I will save you from afar,And your seed from the land of their captivity.
Jacob shall return, have rest and be quiet,And no one shall make him afraid.
11 For I am with you,’ says the Lord, ‘to save you;Though I make a full end of all nations where I have scattered you,
Yet I will not make a complete end of you.But I will correct you in justice,
And will not let you go altogether unpunished.’“For thus says the Lord:
‘Your affliction is incurable,Your wound is severe.
13 There is no one to plead your cause,That you may be bound up;You have no healing medicines.
14 All your lovers have forgotten you;They do not seek you;For I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy,
With the chastisement of a cruel one,For the multitude of your iniquities,Because your sins have increased.
15 Why do you cry about your affliction?Your sorrow is incurable.Because of the multitude of your iniquities,
Because your sins have increased,I have done these things to you.
16 ‘Therefore all those who devour you shall be devoured;
And all your adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity;
Those who plunder you shall become plunder,And all who prey upon you I will make a prey.
17 For I will restore health to youAnd heal you of your wounds,’ says the Lord,‘Because they called you an outcast saying:
“This is Zion;No one seeks her.”’
18 “Thus says the Lord:
‘Behold, I will bring back the captivity of Jacob’s tents,And have mercy on his dwelling places;
The city shall be built upon its own mound,And the palace shall remain according to its own plan.
19 Then out of them shall proceed thanksgivingAnd the voice of those who make merry;
I will multiply them, and they shall not diminish;I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
20 Their children also shall be as before,And their congregation shall be established before Me;
And I will punish all who oppress them.
21 Their nobles shall be from among them,And their governor shall come from their midst;
Then I will cause him to draw near,And he shall approach Me;
For who is this who pledged his heart to approach Me?’ says the Lord.
22 ‘You shall be My people,And I will be your God.’”
23 Behold, the whirlwind of the Lord Goes forth with fury,
A continuing whirlwind;It will fall violently on the head of the wicked.
24 The fierce anger of the Lord will not return until He has done it,
And until He has performed the intents of His heart.In the latter days you will consider it.
Great article: many excellent, well-stated points.
How does one negotiate peace in the real world with people who believe in talking stones ('Oh Muslim, there is a Jew hiding behind me, so come and kill him') and whose claim to Jerusalem is a night time ride on a magic pony?? (The 'Hijra')
Never mind that they also believe you are the descendants of apes and pigs. (qur'an 2:65, 5:60, 7:166)
The silly things Muslims believe would be entirely laughable if it didn't motivate them towards a 'messianic genocide'.
I can provide a biblical explanation for my previous commentary where I included America & Britain in the time of "Jacob's trouble" if anyone is interested in hearing that explanation. If people don't believe it - that is fine. Everyone is entitled to their own beliefs & opinions.
I agree with the statement that God has a covenant with one nation only, & that nation is Israel. In order to clarify that, it would take a fairly lengthy explanation if anyone cares to hear it.
America & Britain will go down to defeat in World War III with the survivors taken into captivity.
If I had a magic wand, I would wave it and force Ahmanutjob to substitute the word "nigger" every time he said or wrote the word "jew". Then we'd see how the US press and intellectuals would treat him. How far would the world press go to alter, edit or hide what he said then instead of dropping him for not being politically correct?