Israel Thrives: Kasher me?

Saturday, September 1, 2012

Kasher me?

JayinPhiladelphia

This weekend signifies not only the end of the 2012 Philadelphia summer, but also the next step in my life, and my personal evolution.

I've never been religious, and really never will be, but I've become somewhat spiritual over the past year. I guess you could say. And therefore, I've decided I'm going to undergo a... conversion process.

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I didn't grow up in any religion, really, although I mainly associated ethnically with Irish Catholicism; and I even ended up with a visceral dislike of a certain strain of Evangelical Christianity (those who know me know what that is, and why, and that's all I'll say for now).

But I hold no grudges against anybody.

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At the York-Dauphin El on Wednesday afternoon, while waiting for the bus home, an African-American gentleman with only three teeth approached me to inform me that he believes in G-d and Jesus, and that even though I'm white, he sees me as his brother.

I didn't quite know what to say, aside from 'thank you, you too man.' He once again told me that he's my brother, and I thanked him again before things got a little uncomfortable.

I think he wanted me to ask him about Jesus.

I know all about that, and I'm not interested in ever learning any more. All power to him, however. I truly hope he's found peace. I'm searching for that myself.

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Underneath the Market-Frankford El in Philadelphia is one of the poorest and most down-trodden places in all of America, and there are at least half a dozen "Christian Rescue Missions" here in my part of Kensington.

I hope they rescue all they can. Watching my neighbors doing the doper dip at bus stops gets tired quickly, after all.

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I'm searching for peace, and I hope to find it soon. Perhaps I can even take youze along with me on my journey.

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Mike L.September 1, 2012 at 8:33 AM
Going Kosher, eh?

I suspect that's not quite as easy as it sounds. There must be varying degrees of kosher, obviously. How far do hope to take it?
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Barack Obama on the so-called "Arab Spring" (May 19, 2011):

"There are times in the course of history when the actions of ordinary citizens spark movements for change because they speak to a longing for freedom that has been building up for years. In America, think of the defiance of those patriots in Boston who refused to pay taxes to a King, or the dignity of Rosa Parks as she sat courageously in her seat."

The "Arab Spring" was the brutal rise of political Islam in the Middle East and this is what Obama compares the Civil Rights Movement to?

How's that for a kick in the head to Martin Luther King, Jr.?

The Fundamental Argument:

The progressive movement, and the activist base of the Democratic Party, creates and supports venues that demonize and defame the Jewish state, thereby also creating hatred toward the Jewish people.

Such venues include political journals, such as, but not limited to, Daily Kos, the Huffington Post, and the UK Guardian, numerous universities throughout the United States and Europe, various NGOs with an anti-Israel agenda, and the entire progressive-left movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction (BDS) the Jewish people of the state of Israel.

These venues and organizations do not generally criticize Israel, but dehumanize that country.

For this reason, among others, the progressive movement, and the activist base of the Democratic Party, undermines the well-being and safety of Jews around the world, sometimes resulting in violence toward us.

Therefore, as a matter of common sense and basic human decency, Jews should leave the progressive movement and the Democratic Party as we seek to build alternative political structures that are not home to toxic anti-Semitic anti-Zionists, who would see us robbed of self-determination and self-defense.

What You Can't Discuss:

This is a partial list of taboo topics within progressive-left venues around the Arab-Israel conflict. You cannot discuss this material because it undermines the "Palestinian narrative" of perpetual victimhood. This narrative is a club used by the Arab and Muslim enemies of Israel, along with their western progressive allies, to delegitimize that country in preparation for its eventual dissolution.

1) The centuries of Jewish dhimmitude under the boot of Islamic imperialism.

2) The recent construction of Palestinian identity, its connection to Soviet Cold War politics, and how this is an Arab people with a Roman name that refers to Greeks.

3) Arab and Palestinian Koranically-based racism as the fundamental source of the conflict.

4) The ways in which contemporary progressive anti-Zionism serves as a cloak for gross anti-Semitism.

5) The Palestinian theft and appropriation of Jewish history.

6) "Pallywood."

7) The historical connections between the Nazis, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Palestinian national movement.

8) The perpetual refusal of the Palestinian-Arabs to accept a state for themselves in peace next to the Jewish one.

9) The progressive portrayal of terrorists as those fighting a righteous war of "resistance."

10) The Arab-Palestinian indoctrination of children with Jew hatred.

11) Human rights violations against women, children, and Gay people in the Muslim Middle East.

12) The fact that violent Jihadis call themselves "Jihadis" and claim to love death above life.

This is only a partial list, so please let us know the many more that we are missing.

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Kasher me?

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