Liberal Montgomery County Drops Israel, Goes for FGM

Algemeiner ^ | February 16, 2012

[SJackson]

American Jewish liberals can congratulate themselves – finally, the boycott of Israel has gone mainstream with Montgomery County, MD, deciding to drop its “Sister City” agreement with the Israeli town of Beth Shemesh.

The reason for this unprecedented decision to stick it to a poor Jewish township within the “green line” has to do not with the Palestinians, but with the internal affairs of the Jewish state – namely, the recent spate of ugly attacks against women by some members of a local ultra-Orthodox sect. Celebrating this “brave” decision by his hometown, Marc Tracy pointed out in “Tablet” that Montgomery County is a “disproportionately Jewish liberal suburb”. He also used the opportunity to lecture Israel, that while it is fighting Iran it must not allow itself to be “overran by religiosity.” This is not surprising, as Montgomery County is a place where young Jews are brought up to believe that, when Iran-sponsored terrorists attack Israelis, Israelis “were asking for this”.

The formal reasoning of the Montgomery County officials (badgered by the usual crowd of anti-Israeli activists, some of them Jewish) is, to put it simply, quite insane. There’s no “systemic” policy of segregation against women in Beth Shemesh – simply because the Israeli law forbids this kind of thing. What happened in Beth Shemesh was an intrusion of (oh, the irony) an American-lead and inspired sect on a certain neighborhood. Since the Israeli municipalities do not control their police precincts, there wasn’t much the mayor could do, especially since the extremists are a self-organized community that strives to be left alone. While the violent attempts of the sect to impose their beliefs on others brought upon it well-deserved condemnation, it’s not entirely clear why the liberals of Montgomery County should punish the mayor Moshe Abutbul, who, while a strident Orthodox Jew himself, has condemned the attacks on women and instructed the city inspectors to act to prevent future violence.

It’s not as if the women of the Montgomery Country don’t have their own problems. According to the police statistics, during the first three quarters of 2011 there were 82 rapes in the county and only 17 arrests were made. Call me suspicious, but doesn’t that constitute clear evidence of a “systemic” problem?

But even more telling than the undeserved collective punishment that the liberals of Montgomery County had meted out to the people of Beth Shemesh is their chosen replacement as a new “sister city” – “the historic Ethiopian city of Gondar”, as the Washington Post called it. The other valid description for the picturesque Gondar would be “a place where little girls are traditionally mutilated to ensure male dominance”. According to a 2009 report by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, girls in Gondar “are cut between 7-10 days after birth and the labia minora with or without clitoris are excised” – and this is considered a “milder” form of the traditional Ethiopian FGM! Maybe the good folk of Montgomery County made the right choice after all. On the other hand, those girls do get married off at the tender age of nine, so there’s that.

So here’s a glimpse into the workings of the American Jewish liberal mind: between Beth Shemesh – a town under Israeli law which ensures safety and equality for women – and the Ethiopian FGM capital, they prefer Gondar. Is it because Ethiopians are Black and can do no wrong, and people in Beth Shemesh are religious Jews and can do no right?

The atrocious double standard of the Montgomery County officials could not prevail if not for the collaboration of the local Jewish “activists”. For the self-respecting Jewish liberal in America today, Israel is always in the dock, it is always guilty before proven innocent, it is a country of perennial sinners against the liberal catechism, who are too dumb to understand the Gospel of the Progressive Jew and cling to the outdated ideas of nation, homeland and faith. Fed on a steady diet of distortion and misinformation by their Israeli brethren (who are totally dependent on them for support and therefore eager to feed their paranoia), they are growing more and more detached from the reality of Israel in 2012, yet they expect Israelis to conform to their views and mores. If these people will be allowed to set an agenda for the relations between Israeli Jews and the greatest Diaspora on Earth, the end can be nothing but a tragedy of historic proportions.

Not so long ago, a respected American Jewish leader explained to a group of incredulous Israeli visitors that he prefers a Jew who is critical of Israel to a Jew who is apathetic. From his point of view, this was sound logic – better a Jew who can be engaged than somebody who has lost all interest. From the Israeli point of view, there’s absolutely no use for a Jewish second-guesser, backstabber and ankle-biter – in fact, he’s of a great value to the enemy, since a Jew who is willing to trash Israel is worth several Gentiles. Beth Shemesh will survive without the partnership with Montgomery County. About the survival of the Jews of Montgomery County, without Israel, I am not so sure.

[SJackson]

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[muawiyah]

More likely Montgomery County's leiders LIKE female genital mutilation.

I know that seems a bit hard to believe in modern America, but Montgomery County only pretends to be civilized.

When it comes to the types of criminals inclined to commit crimes against persons, they are soft on the perps and would like to have more of their kind.

If your local jail is full, feel free to send them to the welcoming arms of the folks in Montgomery county Maryland.

[montag813]

they prefer Gondar

Gondor would make more sense

[Albion Wilde]

Unbelievable, even for Monkey Canny. This is a new low.

[Albion Wilde]

ping

[mkjessup]

Oh you ain't seen nothin' yet, when 0bama sticks the knife in the back of Israel when the Israeli/Iran conflict reaches a head, the same anti-Semites in Montgomery County will be cheering 0bama while chanting "JUDEN!! JUDEN!!"

[muawiyah]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/montgomery-delays-partnership-with-israeli-city/2012/02/08/gIQAtj5O6Q_story.html?tid=pm_local_pop This is the story the cited story is based on. Even the WarshPost found it difficult to pull their punches ~ you do know most of the “newsies” at the Post live there!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks SJackson. Frightening.

[samtheman]

There are a lot of interesting comments at the end of the wapo article you linked to. A lot of people are disgusted by this story.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Liberals hate Ann Coulter, they hate Michelle Malkin, they hate S.E. Cupp. Why not go for female genital mutilation?

This state has to be the most f*cked up of the whole 57!

Maryland “Freak State” PING!

[itsahoot]

One might begin to think that the Jew has been blinded until the time of the Gentile be fulfilled. Naw, not likely. I now one Jewish convert and he voted for Obama, all the others I have had anything to do with were totally unbelievers.

[justiceseeker93]

Is it because Ethiopians are Black and can do no wrong, and people in Beth Shemesh are religious Jews and can do no right?

Sadly, that perverse world view is probably at the root of this decision to change the sister city of Montgomery County.

That being said, perhaps the writer of the posted article is taking his anger about this a bit too far. Is there anything substantial that the Beth Shemesh community loses as a result of its "sister city" breakup with Montgomery County?

I get the impression that just about all "sister city" arrangements between American localities and overseas ones are primarily ceremonial. (Of course, Montgomery County is not even a city.)

[Eleutheria5]

Bet Shemesh: You borrow my clothes and shoes without asking. You flirt with my boyfriends. You talk about me behind my back.

Montgomery County: Well, you’re not my sister anymore. Waaaah!

Beth Shemesh: Good.

[Viking2002]

I lived in MoCo for eleven long years. Freak State, indeed. Add me to your ping list. My wife and I drove into Cumberland via Canal Parkway for the holidays back in December, and the second we crossed the state line, there was, as bold as you please, a sign stating that using any cell phones while driving is now a primary offense. Along with seat belts. Another nice little social engineering construct that wasn't there in 2010. I also see that Annapolis is sandbagging - in every way possible - on approving fracking the Marcellus fields out there in Almost Maryland. I guess the regional ecoNazi korps haven't rewritten the science of it enough to ban it outright yet in a way it will stick with the equally-liberal court jester system in the state, so they're going to study it to death while the unemployment, crime, and welfare rates keep on climbing beyond what they've been for half a century. Nobody in Annapolis ever gave a hoot in hell about anything west of Hagerstown. Do you realize that Frostburg, MD, had 89 police calls in one four-day period this month? Not to mention two murders. Man, there aren't even 89 houses in Frostburg, for God's sake. And an increasing number of the perps involved are imports from those multi-culti environs of P.G. and Baltimore Counties, looking to expand and ply their trade into areas where Aunt Bea lives and Deputy Fife protects her. I told my mother that no matter how old she is, she's going to learn to use a damned gun. Fifteen years ago, I could pull up at 2 AM and walk right in the door if I wanted. Now she has a security system that alerts the cops via a NASA satellite.

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[PRePublic]

There's an anti-religious radical-lefty-secular war in Israel, headed by the horrific unreliable Haarertz with DISinformation about religion and religious people as a whole.