A continuation...
There is a myth, even believed to be true by most Jews, that the Ottoman Empire loved Jews. Yes, the Sultan did hold out a welcome mat when the Spanish Ethnically Cleansed us BUT he did so only because of the huge amount of money he would be able to extort from us. In general you hear people say that Jews fared much better in the Islamic World than they did amongst European Christendom. The only real difference is that in the first half of the 20th Century the Germans mechanised it and applied an efficient system to its mistreatment of Jews.
I often hear people say, why talk about the Jews and the Holocaust. The Nazis targetted many demographics, what is so unique about the Jewish experience in the Holocaust? Quite simply, only Jews were targetted for extinction. Roma and Sinti, so called "Gypsies," were only considered on a localised basis. Germany did not want them within its territory. There was no long term strategy aimed at erasing them from humankind. The Jews were targetted on a global scale. Had the Nazis triumphed in the Soviet Union and in North Africa they aimed to link up in Iran and at that point there were plans in place to repeat the pattern established in Europe.
I have often heard people- including Jews- say that Anti Semitism is a European invention. That is a tricky statement. In the absolutely literal sense, yes, it is true because the phrase "Anti Semitic" was invented by a German Eugenicist. However, when one makes that statement the natural inference is that Europeans invented the hatred of Jews simply based upon their being Jewish (as opposed to hating them for economic reasons, etc.). THAT is absolutely untrue.
European Anti Semitism began with the Greeks but they based that hatred over philosophical and spiritual reasons as did all Europeans up until the 19th Century. Islam enshrined the hatred of Jews on the rationale that all Jews are inherently evil by virtue of their very existence. Race-based Anti Semitism was "invented" by Arabs at the birth of Islam. Muhammad based his hatred on political and economic rationales but sold it to fellow Arabs on a rationale revolving around race.
I'm especially astonished at the ignoramuses who claim that prior to Zionism Jews and Arabs were at peace. When someone makes this statement I inevitably reply, "Right, the Safed Pofrom of 1834 was what? A love in? Safed 1838? Tiberias 1838? Damascus 1834? Hebron 1956? Jerusalem 1834? 1920? 1929? Even in the supposed "Golden Age of Islam" in al Andalus (Spain), Muslim Arabs and Berbers had pogroms and enforced conversions.
In day to day life our existence was hellish. The leader of each Jewish Community was given a hard slap in his face on a ceremonial basis each year in front of cheering throngs of Muslims. Islam dictates that Jews are classified as Dhimmi. Dhimmitude was a sub-human existence. Even in the "welcoming" Ottoman Empire one could not escape Dhimmitude. We were forbidden from wearing any colour other than black or grey. We had to wear blue shoes. We could not carry weapons in a society where this equalled emasculation. We could not strike a Muslim even if he was raping your wife or stealing your child. Each year we were forced to pay a special, very steep tax simply for being Jews. We could not build new houses or worship or even refurbish existing ones. We could not ride horses inside any municipality. We could not own property within site of Islamic houses of worship. We could not charge a non-Muslim with a crime unless we had 2 Muslim witnesses, and Islam specifically forbids Muslims testifying against other Muslims in the benefit of non-Muslims. Even small children regularly spat in our faces. If a Muslim charged us with disrespect, a crime, we had to pay him a steep fine because all schools of Islamic Jurisprudence hold that in cases where a Jew and a Muslim a Muslim are involved, the Muslim need only swear that he was being truthful. Obviously we were charged a lot of times for a lot of money. Failure to pay got us 40 lashes, even our children.
Both my parents' families lived under the Ottomans. Mum, as noted, in Trans- D'niester, a breakaway republic from Moldova today, on the border of the Ukraine (historically part of Bessarabia), and dad in Hebron, in the so called "West Bank," which until 1948 had simply been called Judaea. My father's family has 3 strands. The first, the main part, are Judaeans who never went into exile. The second group are like my mum's, refugees from the Spanish Ethnic Cleansing of fourteen ninety-two who migrated into Ottoman lands. The 3rd strand are from an area near Minsk in the former Soviet Union. They migrated to Hebron in 1843 and ended up marrying into our clan in eighteen sixty-three. That group from Minsk were Lubavitcher Chassidim but because Chassidim (Hassidic Jews) worship in the Sephardic (Jews from Iberia beforefourteen ninety-two) manner they were able to marry into my clan.
Just like Tristam Shandy I can take 6 entries just to offer background on a single sentence. At least now, if you haven't been lulled to sleep or else scared off, you will understand more about our protagonist, the "Hassidic Pablo Escobar" and his background as a Satmar Chassid.
The documentary I mentioned in my previous entry followed Leibowitz around as he re-entered the very small and perhaps claustrophobic world of the Satmar in London's Stamford Hill neighbourhood. Just as in any Jewish neighbourhood neighbours paid far too much attention to Leibowitz's comings and goings and he began chafing at it. Soon he had quit his job as a cook's assistant in a Satmar-owned nursing home and began working as a Stand Over Man (in American-speak, he began working as an Enforcer, hired muscle). A friend owned rental properties and when a non-Jewish tenant became delinquent Leibowitz would open the property's door and unleash a couple of hungry Alsatians. Needless to say this method was highly effective at evicting non-compliant tenants.
On camera Leibowitz admitted that he was a mule, bragging that his Chassidic garb nearly made him invulnerable to counter-narcotics measures in the world's airports. Of course in the late-1990s things changed in a huge way. Israel's very large Organised Crime "families" cornered the international MDMA (Ecstasy) Market. Smuggling large amounts of tablets they began recruiting Chassidic men to serve as mules. When law enforcement agencies got hip to yhis subterfuge word spread quickly and men like Leibowitz began falling like flies. In the end the suggestion given by the documentary was that Leibowitz would once again be jumping into the game, as his ankle monitoring device was removed. This was a far different impression than the one offered by the National Geograpic episode.
After watching that episode of "Banged Up Abroad" (the American version being "Locked Up Abroad") I watched a documentary by the seriously-retarded David Ickes. It never ceases to amaze me how otherwise intelligent people can warp their minds to the nth degree. Here is a bloke who played professional football ("soccer") and parlezed that into a sportscasting gig that evidently made him moderately well known in his native Great Britain. The walls suddenly came crashing down one day when he revealed that he had learned a great and awesome secret; the world is controlled by a tiny group of inter-dimensional shapeshifting reptillian beings. Hey, nothing strange there, right?
As time went on Ickes became more and more demented and combined the New World Order Conspiracy bullshit with his "shapeshifting reptillian" fantasy. Of course we Jews were bound to show up in such a loony tune worldview. Alas, Zionists ARE the most powerful of the shapeshifting reptillians. We Zionists control the media, the entertainment industry, most Western governments, create wars to line our pockets and discuss such things at Bilderberg. One might have imagined that shapeshifters who are able to traverse different dimensions MIGHT have no need for meeting in Switzerland but it makes no difference to such imbeciles.
Aaaah, the world as I know it.
There is a myth, even believed to be true by most Jews, that the Ottoman Empire loved Jews. Yes, the Sultan did hold out a welcome mat when the Spanish Ethnically Cleansed us BUT he did so only because of the huge amount of money he would be able to extort from us. In general you hear people say that Jews fared much better in the Islamic World than they did amongst European Christendom. The only real difference is that in the first half of the 20th Century the Germans mechanised it and applied an efficient system to its mistreatment of Jews.
I often hear people say, why talk about the Jews and the Holocaust. The Nazis targetted many demographics, what is so unique about the Jewish experience in the Holocaust? Quite simply, only Jews were targetted for extinction. Roma and Sinti, so called "Gypsies," were only considered on a localised basis. Germany did not want them within its territory. There was no long term strategy aimed at erasing them from humankind. The Jews were targetted on a global scale. Had the Nazis triumphed in the Soviet Union and in North Africa they aimed to link up in Iran and at that point there were plans in place to repeat the pattern established in Europe.
I have often heard people- including Jews- say that Anti Semitism is a European invention. That is a tricky statement. In the absolutely literal sense, yes, it is true because the phrase "Anti Semitic" was invented by a German Eugenicist. However, when one makes that statement the natural inference is that Europeans invented the hatred of Jews simply based upon their being Jewish (as opposed to hating them for economic reasons, etc.). THAT is absolutely untrue.
European Anti Semitism began with the Greeks but they based that hatred over philosophical and spiritual reasons as did all Europeans up until the 19th Century. Islam enshrined the hatred of Jews on the rationale that all Jews are inherently evil by virtue of their very existence. Race-based Anti Semitism was "invented" by Arabs at the birth of Islam. Muhammad based his hatred on political and economic rationales but sold it to fellow Arabs on a rationale revolving around race.
I'm especially astonished at the ignoramuses who claim that prior to Zionism Jews and Arabs were at peace. When someone makes this statement I inevitably reply, "Right, the Safed Pofrom of 1834 was what? A love in? Safed 1838? Tiberias 1838? Damascus 1834? Hebron 1956? Jerusalem 1834? 1920? 1929? Even in the supposed "Golden Age of Islam" in al Andalus (Spain), Muslim Arabs and Berbers had pogroms and enforced conversions.
In day to day life our existence was hellish. The leader of each Jewish Community was given a hard slap in his face on a ceremonial basis each year in front of cheering throngs of Muslims. Islam dictates that Jews are classified as Dhimmi. Dhimmitude was a sub-human existence. Even in the "welcoming" Ottoman Empire one could not escape Dhimmitude. We were forbidden from wearing any colour other than black or grey. We had to wear blue shoes. We could not carry weapons in a society where this equalled emasculation. We could not strike a Muslim even if he was raping your wife or stealing your child. Each year we were forced to pay a special, very steep tax simply for being Jews. We could not build new houses or worship or even refurbish existing ones. We could not ride horses inside any municipality. We could not own property within site of Islamic houses of worship. We could not charge a non-Muslim with a crime unless we had 2 Muslim witnesses, and Islam specifically forbids Muslims testifying against other Muslims in the benefit of non-Muslims. Even small children regularly spat in our faces. If a Muslim charged us with disrespect, a crime, we had to pay him a steep fine because all schools of Islamic Jurisprudence hold that in cases where a Jew and a Muslim a Muslim are involved, the Muslim need only swear that he was being truthful. Obviously we were charged a lot of times for a lot of money. Failure to pay got us 40 lashes, even our children.
Both my parents' families lived under the Ottomans. Mum, as noted, in Trans- D'niester, a breakaway republic from Moldova today, on the border of the Ukraine (historically part of Bessarabia), and dad in Hebron, in the so called "West Bank," which until 1948 had simply been called Judaea. My father's family has 3 strands. The first, the main part, are Judaeans who never went into exile. The second group are like my mum's, refugees from the Spanish Ethnic Cleansing of fourteen ninety-two who migrated into Ottoman lands. The 3rd strand are from an area near Minsk in the former Soviet Union. They migrated to Hebron in 1843 and ended up marrying into our clan in eighteen sixty-three. That group from Minsk were Lubavitcher Chassidim but because Chassidim (Hassidic Jews) worship in the Sephardic (Jews from Iberia beforefourteen ninety-two) manner they were able to marry into my clan.
Just like Tristam Shandy I can take 6 entries just to offer background on a single sentence. At least now, if you haven't been lulled to sleep or else scared off, you will understand more about our protagonist, the "Hassidic Pablo Escobar" and his background as a Satmar Chassid.
The documentary I mentioned in my previous entry followed Leibowitz around as he re-entered the very small and perhaps claustrophobic world of the Satmar in London's Stamford Hill neighbourhood. Just as in any Jewish neighbourhood neighbours paid far too much attention to Leibowitz's comings and goings and he began chafing at it. Soon he had quit his job as a cook's assistant in a Satmar-owned nursing home and began working as a Stand Over Man (in American-speak, he began working as an Enforcer, hired muscle). A friend owned rental properties and when a non-Jewish tenant became delinquent Leibowitz would open the property's door and unleash a couple of hungry Alsatians. Needless to say this method was highly effective at evicting non-compliant tenants.
On camera Leibowitz admitted that he was a mule, bragging that his Chassidic garb nearly made him invulnerable to counter-narcotics measures in the world's airports. Of course in the late-1990s things changed in a huge way. Israel's very large Organised Crime "families" cornered the international MDMA (Ecstasy) Market. Smuggling large amounts of tablets they began recruiting Chassidic men to serve as mules. When law enforcement agencies got hip to yhis subterfuge word spread quickly and men like Leibowitz began falling like flies. In the end the suggestion given by the documentary was that Leibowitz would once again be jumping into the game, as his ankle monitoring device was removed. This was a far different impression than the one offered by the National Geograpic episode.
After watching that episode of "Banged Up Abroad" (the American version being "Locked Up Abroad") I watched a documentary by the seriously-retarded David Ickes. It never ceases to amaze me how otherwise intelligent people can warp their minds to the nth degree. Here is a bloke who played professional football ("soccer") and parlezed that into a sportscasting gig that evidently made him moderately well known in his native Great Britain. The walls suddenly came crashing down one day when he revealed that he had learned a great and awesome secret; the world is controlled by a tiny group of inter-dimensional shapeshifting reptillian beings. Hey, nothing strange there, right?
As time went on Ickes became more and more demented and combined the New World Order Conspiracy bullshit with his "shapeshifting reptillian" fantasy. Of course we Jews were bound to show up in such a loony tune worldview. Alas, Zionists ARE the most powerful of the shapeshifting reptillians. We Zionists control the media, the entertainment industry, most Western governments, create wars to line our pockets and discuss such things at Bilderberg. One might have imagined that shapeshifters who are able to traverse different dimensions MIGHT have no need for meeting in Switzerland but it makes no difference to such imbeciles.
Aaaah, the world as I know it.