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Why Europe Hates Israel
FREEMAN E-MAIL LIST ^ | November 29, 2001 | By Bret Stephens, an editorial page writer for The Wall Street Journal Europe.

Posted on 11/29/2001 3:56:50 PM PST by dennisw

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To: God_isa_Jew
Good Lord! Where did you learn to hate [And spew lies] like that? In Temple?
101 posted on 11/30/2001 11:16:51 AM PST by Brian Allen
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To: Woodkirk
Thanks for the insight and history lesson.
102 posted on 11/30/2001 3:22:44 PM PST by dennisw
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To: Patria One
The propagators of the theory of British Israelism which include the royal family of Great Britain contend that the Coronation Chair at Westminster Abbey is the rightful throne of Israel's King David. In 1953 Elizabeth II was crowned as "Queen of thy people Israel". Legends have it that Jeremiah the prophet brought a 300 pound stone , Jacob's headstone, to Ireland, it went to Scotland, and was stolen and taken to London and coronations take place up on it. The stories of the Sorcerers Stone are intended to lend credence to the magical power of the stone that supposedly gave the British Kings and Queens their power of divine rule. The Queen and her court and knights actually believe that she sits on David's Throne and it will never fail. You can see how Israel's very existence as a state and Jerusalem as its capitol is a great threat to British royal claims, and why many contend that the PLO is really creation of British European royalists who hope to use it to wipe the state of Israel off the map. But they imagine a vain thing because God has other plans.
103 posted on 11/30/2001 3:40:14 PM PST by Woodkirk
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To: Woodkirk
I never in my life imagined that Israel was a threat to the British throne.
104 posted on 11/30/2001 3:48:57 PM PST by Patria One
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To: Woodkirk; tonycavanagh
I'm still struggling with the information. Who are these people_ the group_ that feels the throne of England has been threatened by Israel since 1948?
105 posted on 11/30/2001 3:52:57 PM PST by Patria One
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To: Patria One
Ask the Queen and Prince Charles, I'm sure they are teaching this to Prince Harry right now. It is hard to believe but it has been part of the lore of the British Throne for centuries.
106 posted on 11/30/2001 4:57:32 PM PST by Woodkirk
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To: Woodkirk
Sometimes, I really DID have the last word on a thread, early on- even though it continued to sputter for another 100 or so replies. This is such a case!

"Well, considering that most Europeans couldn't wait to help the Nazi's round up their Jews and ship them off to death camps (especially the French!), it is not a mystery why "Europe hates Israel". Let's not make this more complicated than it is, folks! 5 posted on 11/29/01 5:09 PM Pacific by RANGERAIRBORNE

107 posted on 11/30/2001 5:28:06 PM PST by RANGERAIRBORNE
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To: Patria One
"Along came the myth of British Israelism..."

I Never heard of that. You mean they think the throne of David is in London?

British Israelism's shining moment was in the 1890s when all of the European intelligentsia were so very keen on Darwinianism, and the landed gentry were absolutely appalled that PUBLIC EDUCATION was seriously being considered. 'Educate the peasants? The non-landed, the
c o m m o n e r s??' Teach THEM to read???!! Heaven forbid! LOL! Do remember, if you decide to research this outrageous movement that phrenology was all the rage, concomitantly, okay? *grin*

OKAY, now... British Israelism is based upon this belief:

The lost ten tribes of Israel are Northern Europeans, particularly so the British. There were antecedants to British Israelism, but it was "all the rage" [lol] in the last quarter of the Nineteenth Century. Actually, an interesting place to read about it, would be in a college library containing extensive resources about the history of journalism - textbooks will sometimes have reproductions of some of the original tracts.

Now, British Israelism goes all the way back to the Puritans, but let's contain ourselves to something CLOSER to the topic of this thread...

Did you not know that Chamerblain claimed that JESUS was NOT semetic, that Jesus was an aryan, and that "true" Jews were NOT semetic, they TOO were aryan. That last sentence gives you a tiny bit of the lingering influence into the middle of the 20th Century that these exceptionally outre ideas had. The British, you see, were the TRUE JEWS who were A R Y A N.

It has VERY strange mutations... even unto the Christian Identity movement in modern America which Charles Manson was enraptured with, and which provide the basis for his group murdering Hollywood celebrities, in an attempt to create a race war.

The British Israelites are NOT political, and so their movement is regarded as passive, benign, and eccentric. NOT so their American counterparts, who are virilantly ANTI-SEMETIC and use such terms as "mud people" or "zionist"... these caucasian Americans believe, too, that the "real" Jews are strictly Northern European Aryan, and .... I hope you get the general idea...

I really find CULTS to be so tedious and so almost furiously mundane in their weird coalition of beliefs.

British Israelism gets very complex, as it is all entertwined with their Grail Legend... and also, with the belief that Briton was originally populated by the refugees of Troy. That's about all I know off the top of my head.

108 posted on 11/30/2001 6:19:05 PM PST by meridia
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To: AGAviator
Yet suicide bombers "only" kill two or three Israelis and that makes all Palestinians supposed to be evil incarnate.

NO, YOU B$ST$RD!!! Islamic suicide bombers killed 6000 AMERICANS, AFTER murdering hundreds of Jews. YES!!! They ARE evil incarnate, and for you to say otherwise makes you either the world's biggest idiot or just another psychopath.

109 posted on 11/30/2001 6:45:06 PM PST by NixNatAVanG InDaBurgh
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To: AGAviator
You must be a terribly sad and bitter individual. Closing your eyes to the truth because it offends your prejudices lessens you as a person. Trying to rationalize hatred is ridiculous as your posts have so aptly shown. *Everyone hates us because everyone hates Israel* is stupid and an unworthy argument to try and absolve Islam from its deadly roots...
Everyone hates Israel because it is freer and more westernized than most or all of Europe AND Asia.
Europe hates Israel because they have an ingrained hatred from the Early Church that accused Jews of being *Christkillers*, never realizing that their own religion was the real Christ killer as they swallowed cultures, stole their traditions, incorporated them into a collage of deadly proportions, so that what Christianity has become is a charicature of what it started out as.
Europe disses Israel because their greed for the oil beneath the sand on the Arabian Peninsula blinded them to the future, now ever-so-present, danger from a fundamental misunderstanding of Islam that is poised to murder anywhere and everywhere around the world. All of that is paid for by OUR money, Europe's money, Japan's money, and so on down the line. NONE of that had to do with Israel, but Israel is a most handy scapegoat. So chicken-sh*t as they are, they are more afraid of offending murderous Muslims that there is no common sense being applied to any of this, and they stand to be murdered anyway.
110 posted on 11/30/2001 6:53:11 PM PST by NixNatAVanG InDaBurgh
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To: NixNatAVanG InDaBurgh
Islamic suicide bombers killed 6000 AMERICANS, AFTER murdering hundreds of Jews. YES!!!

Not so fast, dummy.

Before 1948, there were no Islamic suicide bombers. Nada, nothing, zip. There were Jewish and Arab terrorists in about equal proportions. Then, fifty years after the US takes sides in a tribal war, and 12 years after the US leaves a ruined country where 2 million Islamics died for America's geopolitical objectives, some suicide bombers come to this country.

The bombings did not happen instantly. It took several generations of a completely one-sided foreign policy to create (1)A cause for them to rally around, and (2) A country where they could receive basic indoctrination without the least concern that America would take any steps to curtail these activities, because America just couldn't bothered with that part of the world.

111 posted on 11/30/2001 11:02:08 PM PST by AGAviator
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To: NixNatAVanG InDaBurgh
You must be a terribly sad and bitter individual

Hahahaha.

You must be are a terribly confused individual.

Jews have been waging war against the inabitants of all the Middle Eastern countries for at least 4,000 years.

Islam only came along in 700 AD, 1300 years ago.

This leaves 2,700 years where Jews were attacking any and all Middle Easterners, without there being any Islam whatosever.

Zionists do this because they believe their scriptures give them the right to murder other people and take their land,

This is the exact same thing they accuse Muslims of doing.

They started it, they and their religion.

You can't deal with this simple fact, so instead come up with some delusional psychological projection of your own innner state.

112 posted on 11/30/2001 11:16:23 PM PST by AGAviator
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To: dennisw; AGAviator
Underlying European policy is an uneasy sense of guilt. In the immediate postwar period, Europe's guilty conscience worked in Israel's favor. But in the postcolonial spirit of the '60s, the balance of guilt switched to the Arab side

The overall balance is still in favor if Israel, no matter how you cut it. One can argue that Europeans are only being consistent. Besides, if you kill their guilt, they may turn away from both Arabs and Israelis and stop paying attention to multicultaralism and charges of racism and anti-semitism, which are a tool to affect their policies.

The argument that liberals are better than neocons because neocons are the same liberals but less honest and consistent ones and therefore more dangerous is certainly attractive. Neocons are those Israel-firsters who decided that they can lobby for Israeli interests more effectively once principles of liberalism are discarded. Of course, with their being conservatives in name only, their ideology is an inconsistent mix of ideas that favor their agenda only. This is similar to the sentiment that European guilt was once good for the Jews, and now it's not.

113 posted on 11/30/2001 11:17:13 PM PST by madrussian
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To: Malesherbes
... the world's greatest opportunist, the German Green Joschka Fischer, leftist street rioter and associate of known terrorists, now turned smarmy-mouthed Foreign Minister.

Now don't hold back - tell us what you REALLY think of him.

114 posted on 11/30/2001 11:21:03 PM PST by bets
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To: AGAviator
This leaves 2,700 years where Jews were attacking any and all Middle Easterners, without there being any Islam whatosever

Man, you are out of your freakin' mind. There WAS Islam before there was Mohammed...and guess what. The Muslims and Jews DID live in peace. Then along came Pervoslammed the Psychoprophet. End of all that and the end of a huge number of Muslims too.
Part one of a long story, is that the Hebrews never attacked anyone unless attacked first. They asked permission to pass in peace through different city states or kingdoms, but because they were so many, they were feared. So instead of being allowed to pass through, they were ambushed time after time. That is actual history, written in the Old Testament, and followed up by much archeaological evidence.
I will even go as far as to tell you that when they DID reach Jericho, the city was already abandoned because of an earthquake. Embellishments, much like those in the Illiad, were not uncommon. So facts are at anyone's disposal. You have simply chosen not to avail yourself of them.
European cultures were very diverse. They did not suffer oppression from Jews anymore than India did. They were opressed by dogma and their uniqueness was considered sinful by the RCC. Don't BE blaming the Jews for thousands of years of corrupt and sadistic RCC bullying on every continent under the sun except for maybe Antactica. Jews didn't try to eliminate entire cultures from off the planet, but they certainly suffered because of it, as did Great Britain, Europe, South America, North America, the Orient, Africa, Arabia, AND those Polynesian Islands you seem to have a fondness for.
Do you know who the Luciferians were? Why don't you try to get untwisted instead of burning out your braincells trying to claim the factually impossible?

115 posted on 12/01/2001 1:26:38 AM PST by NixNatAVanG InDaBurgh
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To: hogwaller; Brian Allen
FYI
116 posted on 12/01/2001 1:31:57 AM PST by NixNatAVanG InDaBurgh
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To: NixNatAVanG InDaBurgh
Part one of a long story, is that the Hebrews never attacked anyone unless attacked first

Your nose is getting longer.

Read Deuteronomy and Judges, and stop insulting my intelligence by expecting me to believe your whoppers.

117 posted on 12/01/2001 1:34:27 AM PST by AGAviator
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To: AGAviator
It is difficult to insult what isn't there. Pardon me for trying to offer you reason when you prefer to remain unreasonable. It will not happen again.
118 posted on 12/01/2001 2:02:21 AM PST by NixNatAVanG InDaBurgh
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To: Patria One
Perhaps this will help you: Zechariah: Chapter 12
119 posted on 12/01/2001 7:39:22 AM PST by Woodkirk
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To: Woodkirk; tonycavanagh
I just can't imagine the Brits or Europeans are much of a threat to the Israelis.

Seems to me all their problems go to their treatment of the Palestinians and their continued settlement building on the West Bank and Gaza.

120 posted on 12/01/2001 8:08:06 AM PST by Patria One
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