Straight Talk on Israel: Israeli Wall is “Hitler’s Posthumous Triumph”!
- Straight Talk on Israel: Israeli Wall is “Hitler’s Posthumous Triumph”!
by Stephen Lendman, http://www.globalresearch.ca/
Zygmunt Bauman is UK-based University of Leeds Emeritus Professor of Sociology. His work spans five decades. He’s now aged 87. His wide-ranging interests include consumerism, globalization, ethics, power, the status of workers, intellectuals in society, and nature of modern relationships.
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He’s best known for analyzing links between modernity and the Jewish holocaust, postmodern consumerism, and discussing broad moral/political perspectives. He distinguishes between earlier modernity forms (“solid modernity”) and what’s commonplace today. It’s characterized by fragile social relations, he believes. They’re created and broken by neoliberal harshness.
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His metaphorical use of “liquidity” captures the shifting character of individualized/globalized lives. His new book is titled “Culture in a Liquid Modern World.”
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Nothing prepared them for today’s reality. Hopes are frustrated and stillborn. University degrees once “promised plum jobs.” No longer. Once attainable dreams go unfulfilled. What’s true of Europe applies to Israel and much more. Bauman had his say. Haaretz discussed him.
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He has family in Israel. He once lived there. He was briefly a citizen. He taught at Tel Aviv University and the University of Haifa. Since then, he said, Israelis “expressed their approval of high-handedness over high-mindedness.” They “vot(ed) into power people who made sure that peaceful Israeli-Palestinian coexistence is not in the cards.”
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He last visited 20 years ago. He’ll return briefly. He accepted an invitation from the Ruppin Academic Center (RAC) and Israel Sociological Society (ISS). On February 18, he addressed ISS’ annual conference. He discussed inequality in Israel. More on that below.
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Sociologist Yehouda Shenhav said he wants “to return sociology to morality and morality to sociology.” He “seeks the moral and political sociologist.” He’s a “sociologist who does not frequent the corridors of power, who critiques war as immoral, who is not infected by the nationalist militancy that pervades his country, and who assails the disintegration of the welfare state, xenophobia, and the instrumentalization of the social discourse.”
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Israel mirrors the worst of Western societies. It’s one of the most unequal OECD countries. Its privileged do extraordinarily well. Most others fall far behind. The gap between rich and poor expands exponentially.
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“The number of people living below the poverty line rose rapidly – including among working people, whose wages stagnated or declined as pensions, unemployment benefits and income protection schemes, meant to defend them against falling into poverty, were all severely cut,” said Bauman.
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In 1971, he left Israel. He did so disillusioned and disappointed. He criticized Israel’s conquest of Arab territories.
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Before her death, his wife Janina called Israel a “nationalist country. We had just run away from nationalism,” she said. “We didn’t want to go from being victims of one nationalism to being perpetrators of another.”
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Bauman decries how Israel exploits the holocaust. It does so for political reasons. Jewish suffering isn’t unique. Calling it special belittles many other human tragedies. Some far exceed what Jews endured.
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Claiming Israel faces potential holocaust 2.0 leads to insularity and isolationism. It prevents reconciliation with Palestinians, other Arabs, and international community countries.
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Bauman compared Israel’s Separation Wall to how Nazi Germany ghettoized Warsaw. He did so in the context of separating one population from another. He called building the Wall “Hitler’s posthumous triumph.” It’s trying to accomplish what he failed to achieve – “to set Jews and the rest of the world at loggerheads and make their peaceful coexistence all but inconceivable or impossible.”
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“In our collective unconscious, the image of a wall is established as the archetype of exclusion, break of communication, degradation, denial of human rights.” Were that not the case, it is doubtful whether the idea of building a wall around Israel and its settlements on the occupied land would occur to Israeli leaders as the means to deal with a vicinity of undesirables, and become an ultimate symbol of unilateral but irrevocable separation and refusal to communicate.”
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“The higher and tighter the wall, the slimmer the chance of talking to each other, empathizing with each other’s pains and sufferings, and coming to terms with each other – let alone working toward a mutually agreeable and beneficial mode of coexistence.”
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Bauman today feels much like he did decades earlier. Israel goes out of its way to spurn peace. Protracted occupation morally denigrates the occupier. “Militarized political thought, debate and action” don’t work. Israel lost its moral bearings. It lost the capacity to deal with social problems.
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“It pains me, pains me tremendously, to watch the forgetting and abandoning of our collective mission and duty, imposed upon us by the tragic Jewish history: the duty to alert the world – lest it forget – to the evil endemic in all and any nationalist hatred, and to be in the forefront of the ongoing fight against its breeding.” “And of the ambition of the founders of Israel to serve as ‘a light unto the nations.’ ” It never was and isn’t now.
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Bauman spoke out earlier on the holocaust, Zionism, and Israeli belligerence. Its leaders prioritize conflict, not peace, he said. They manipulate holocaust memories to justify occupation harshness. They do unto others what they deplore having been done to them.
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Bauman is a holocaust survivor. He escaped Nazi-occupied Poland. He managed to get into Soviet Russia’s sector. He was forced out of Eastern Europe during Poland’s 1968 anti-Semitic purges.
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He calls today’s Israel a “belligerently intolerant, faith-driven ethno-state.” Peace is a non-starter. Advancing it never existed and doesn’t now. “It did not die. It was killed.” It was done so from inception.
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Occupation harshness is “toxic” and “corrosive,” he says. It corrupts the “ethics and moral scruples of the occupiers.” Challenging fortress Israel is considered “criminal and treason.”
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War and readiness for it erode democratic freedoms. Israeli leaders fear peace. Without conflicts they “don’t know how to govern.” They exploit holocaust memories as “a get-out-jail card for their own depravity and absolution of their sins.” They do so for ones they’ve “already committed and (others) they are going to commit.”
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Bauman’s “radically opposite way of ‘commemorating’ the holocaust can be summarized as follows: It is forbidden to stay silent in the face of Israeli crimes and their persecution of Palestinians exactly because the fate of Jews in Europe had similar beginnings – discrimination, pogroms, ghettoes, concluding with the Shoah.”
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Holocaust survivors have a mission, he added. They’re obligated “to prevent another disgracing of civilization.” Israeli leaders threaten one. It’s ongoing in slow motion. “Hurting people debases and morally destroys those who are doing” it.
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It initiates a process anthropologist Gregory Bateson called “schizmogenesis.” It’s a “sequence of action and reaction where each consecutive behavior” exaggerates another. Doing so causes “ever more deepening schism.”
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Israel’s been shooting itself in the foot for decades. What can’t go on forever won’t. Bauman is one of many Jewish intellectuals speaking candidly on today’s Israel.
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He wants views he considers vital heard and understood. He was invited to Israel to express them. Advanced age didn’t silence him. In November, he’ll be 88.
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“Shalom (Ex ShinBet chief) shocked viewers. He called Israeli occupation no different from Nazi occupied Europe.” – Quote
- The 13th Tribe of Khazaria! Ashkenazi Khazars Are Not The Jews of The Bible!
If almost 98% of JEWS we know today are NOT semitic, wouldn’t the term ANTI-SEMITIC be null and void? I made this video with 3 Jewish friends who admit they are not Semites!!!!
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“Many [modern-day Jews] of whom have clamored to go back [to Palestine] NEVER had antecedents [physical ancestors] in that part of the world …. The OVERWHELMING majority of Jews are descendants from the converts of Khazaria and elsewhere who ADOPTED Judaism…. This VIEW of the NON-ethnicity of the largest portion of Jewry IS SUSTAINED by such prominent anthropologists as Ripley, Weissenberg, Hertz, Boas, Pittard, Fishberg, Mead and others. . “
– Dr. Alfred M. Lilienthal
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“… Though many Jews are NOT of Semitic origin, we are the religious, spiritual, and national [but NOT genetic] descendants of those who first formed the early foundations of Judaism who were Semites”
– Rabbi Cyril A. Stanway in “Viewpoints,” Thursday, November 8, 1990, in the Sun-News (Las Cruces, New Mexico)
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“. . these Eastern European, Yiddish-speaking Jews who form the Zionist group practically in toto [almost entirely], have NEITHER a geographic, historic NOR ethnic connection with either the Jews [Israelite Judahites] of the Old Testament OR the land known today as Palestine. “
– Jewish Dr. Benjamin H. Freedman, published by the National Economic Council, Inc. as “Council Letter No. 177 (October 15, 1947)
– - Modern Judaism is not the religion of the Bible! See here!
- Modern Ashkenazi Jews are not the Jews of the Bible! God’s covenant was with Abraham and his biological descendents. Ashkenazi Jews are not semitic and their ancestors were never in Palestine. They are not the descendents of Abraham/Isaac/Israel. They have no right to stay in Palestine. What the Zionists are doing to the Palestinians is called: genocide and ethnic cleansing! Zionist ’666′ Israel is not the Israel of the Bible! It is a LIE!
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1980 Jewish Almanac
“Strictly speaking it is incorrect to call an ancient Israelite a ‘Jew’ or to call a contemporary Jew an Israelite or a Hebrew.” (1980 Jewish Almanac, p. 3)
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The Jewish Encyclopedia:
“Khazars, a non-Semitic, Asiatic, Mongolian tribal nation who emigrated into Eastern Europe about the first century, who were converted as an entire nation to Judaism in the seventh century by the expanding Russian nation which absorbed the entire Khazar population, and who account for the presence in Eastern Europe of the great numbers of Yiddish-speaking Jews in Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Galatia, Besserabia and Rumania.”
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The American Peoples Encyclopedia … for 1954 at 15-292 records the following in reference to the Khazars: “In the year 740 A.D. the Khazars were officially converted to Judaism. A century later they were crushed by the incoming Slavic-speaking people and were scattered over central Europe where they were known as Jews.
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According to the standard Jewish Encyclopedia 96% of all the Jews known to the world today are descendents of the Khazar tribes of Russia, Eastern Europe and western Mongolia.
– - The Bible specifically forbids the ill-treatment of people different from us ie: strangers. What Zionist ’666′ Israel does to the Palestinians is called: genocide and ethnic cleansing! Zionist ’666′ Israel is in total violation of God’s law!
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Exodus 22:21
“You shall neither mistreat a stranger nor oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.”
Exodus 23:9
“Also you shall not oppress a stranger, for you know the heart of a stranger, because you were strangers in the land of Egypt.”
Leviticus 19:33
‘And if a stranger dwells with you in your land, you shall not mistreat him.’
Leviticus 19:34
The stranger who dwells among you shall be to you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 23:22
‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field when you reap, nor shall you gather any gleaning from your harvest. You shall leave them for the poor and for the stranger: I am the LORD your God.’
Leviticus 24:22
You shall have the same law for the stranger and for one from your own country; for I am the LORD your God.
Ezekiel 47:22-23
22 It shall be that you will divide it by lot as an inheritance for yourselves, and for the strangers who dwell among you and who bear children among you. They shall be to you as native-born among the children of Israel; they shall have an inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel. 23 And it shall be that in whatever tribe the stranger dwells, there you shall give him his inheritance,” says the Lord GOD.
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The so-called Star of David is a Satanic symbol. Satanists and occult practitioners use it for calling Satan and demons!
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Former Satanist, Bill Schnoebelen (now born again Christian)
“A hexagram must be present to call forth a demon” and ” it is a very powerful tool to invoke Satan”. – “To the sorcerer, the hexagram is a powerful tool to invoke Satan.” In fact, the word “hex” — as to put a “hex” or “curse” on people — comes from this word. – If you examine the so-called “Star of David,” or hexagram, closely, you will discover something astonishing. It has six points, forms six equilateral triangles, and in its interior forms a six sided hexagon — thus it reveals the number of Satan’ antichrist beast, — 6 points, 6 triangles, and the 6 sides of the hexagram — 666 !!!
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Ashkenazis ‘Self Styled’ Jews Are NOT the Descendants of the Ancient Israelites!
The Holocaust ’6 Million’ LIE ! Population of Jews: 1938 – 15.748 Million, 1948 – 15.753 Million !
History of The “Six Million” Myth!
Bolshevik Jews Plotted The Ukrainian Holocaust!
The Jewish Genocide of 1.4+ Million Armenian Christians!
The Bolshevik Jews Behind The Deaths of 40+ Millions During The Communist Revolution!
YNET Israel News: Stalin’s Jews. We Mustn’t Forget That Some of Greatest Murderers of Modern Times Were Jewish!
Bolshevik Jews Plotted The Ukrainian Holocaust!
Mark Weber: The Jewish Role in the Bolshevik Revolution and Russia’s Early Soviet Regime! During Which 20+ Million Russians Died !
The Hidden History of Jewish Bolshevism & Freemasonry! How Masonic Wall Street Banksters Financed The Communist Revolution Which Killed Over 100 Million People!
Mark Weber: Wilhelm Höttl And The Elusive ‘Six Million’! Part 2 – How Many Jews Died?
Ashkenazi Khazars (90+% of modern Jewry) are not the Jews of the Bible!
Benjamin Freedman: Ashkenazi Khazars Self Style “Jews” Are Not Semitic And Not The Biological Descendents of The 12 Tribes of Israel !
The 2002 Jenin Holocaust of Palestinians By Zionist ’666′ Israel !
Deir Yassin Remembered ! The 1948 Holocaust of Palestinians by Zionist ’666′ Israel !
Jewish Historian Ilan Pappe: History of Zionism – Genocide And Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine!
Jenin Massacre
Jewish Historian Teddy Katz: 1948 Tantura Massacre of Palestinians! Genocide And Ethnic Cleansing!
Zionist ’666′ Israeli Apartheid and The Nakba!
Forget Deir Yassin: Its Victims Were “Unworthy”! The Holocaust of Palestinians by Zionist ’666′ Israel !
Holocaustianity: Zionism’s Big Lie!
Texe Marrs: Conspiracy of The 6 Pointed Star!
Repost: Holocaust, Hate Speech & Were the Germans so Stupid?
Jack Bernstein: The Life of an American Jew in Racist Marxist Israel !
Peace, Propaganda & The Promised Land ! US Media And The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict!
’666′ Star of David, Satanic Curse / Hex(agram) On Humanity! Occult Symbol.
The Historical Truth About Auschwitz!
Jewish Estimate Sees Number of Holocaust Dead Drop To 2.8 Million!
Fred Leuchter: The End of The Auschwitz Gas Chambers Myth!
Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.: Inside the Auschwitz ‘Gas Chambers’!
The Rudolf Report: Expert Report on Chemical and Technical Aspects of the ‘Gas Chambers’ of Auschwitz!
Barbara Kulaszka: What is ‘Holocaust Denial’?
How Many Died At Auschwitz?
How the Illuminati Manipulates Jews!
Hitler Was A Rothschild Jew?!
Norman Finkelstein on Zionism And The Holocaust Industry!
Holocaust Denier Death, Mossad Linked. How Many Jews Died in the German Concentration Camps?
Gideon Levy: Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians, Or, Democratic Israel At Work?!
Israel Admits It Covertly Canceled Residency Status of 140,000 Palestinians!
Flashback 1990: Holocaust Expert Rejects Charge That Nazis Made Soap From Jews!
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“ … it turns out the creation of Israel had not, after all, been a haphazard fight in which the Arabs fled their homes at the directives of their own leaders, but it had been an unprovoked, systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing by the Jewish militia involving massacres, terrorism and the wholesale looting of an entire nation.” – from 4:22 onwards
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