Memo to Jostein Gaarder:
As a great lady at Free Republic said on another thread yesterday "NIDFOK OTCHA"! And as the same great FR lady said on another thread a few weeks ago:
Such stuff like this Jostein Gaarder writes comes from the pit of hell!
Posted on 08/10/2006 8:12:09 AM PDT by Basel2005
Israel is now history. We no longer recognize the State of Israel. There is no way back. The State of Israel has raped the world's recognition and will not achieve peace until it lays down its arms. The State of Israel, in its present form is history, writes Jostein Gaarder.
There's no turning back. It's time to learn a new lesson: We no longer recognize the State of Israel. We could not recognize the apartheid regime of South Africa, nor did we recognize the Afghani Taliban regime. Then there were many who did not recognize Saddam Hussein's Iraq or the Serbs' ethnic cleansing. We need to get used to the idea: The State of Israel, in its current form, is history.
We don't believe in the notion of God's Chosen People. We laugh at this people's capriciousness and weep at its misdeeds. To act as God's Chosen People is not only stupid and arrogant, but a crime against humanity. We call it racism.
Limits to tolerance
There are limits to our patience, and there are limits to our tolerance. We do not believe in divine promises as a justification for occupation and apartheid. We have left the Middle Ages behind. We laugh uneasily at those who still believe that the god of flora, fauna and the galaxies has selected one people in particular as his favorite and given it silly, stone tablets, burning bushes and a license to kill.
We call baby killers "baby killers" and will never accept that people such as these have a divine or historic mandate excusing their outrages. We just say: Shame on all apartheid, shame on ethnic cleansing and shame on every terrorist strike against civilians whether carried out by Hamas, the Hezbollah or the State of Israel! Unscrupulous art of war
We acknowledge, and pay heed to, Europe's deep responsibility for the plight of the Jews, for the disgraceful harassment, the pogroms and the Holocaust. It was historically and morally necessary for the Jews to get their own home. However, the State of Israel, with its unscrupulous art of war and its disgusting weapons, has massacred its own legitimacy. It has systematically flaunted International Law, international conventions, and countless UN resolutions and can no longer expect protection from the same. It has carpet bombed the recognition of the world. But fear not! The Tribulation will soon be over. The State of Israel has seen its Soweto.
We are now at the watershed. There's no turning back. The State of Israel has raped the recognition of the world and shall have no peace until it lays down its arms. Without defense, without skin
May the spirit and the word blow the apartheid walls of Israel down. The State of Israel does not exist. It is now without defense, without skin. May the world therefore have mercy upon the civilian population; for our prophecies of doom are not aimed at the civilian individuals.
We wish the people of Israel well, nothing but wellness, but we reserve the right to not eat Jaffa oranges as long as they are foul tasting and poisonous. It was endurable for some years to live without eating the blue grapes of apartheid.
They celebrate their triumphs
We don't believe that Israel grieves any more for the forty killed Lebanese children than it has wailed over the forty years spent in the desert three thousand years ago. We note that many Israelis celebrate such triumphs in the same manner they once cheered the plagues of the Lord as "fitting punishment" for the people of Egypt. (In that tale, the Lord God of Israel appears as an insatiable sadist.) We ask ourselves if most Israelis think that one Israeli life is worth more than the forty Palestinian or Lebanese lives.
For we've seen pictures of little Israeli girls writing hateful greetings on the bombs about to be dropped on the civilian populations of Lebanon and Palestine. The little Israeli girls are not cute when they strut with glee at the death and torment on the other side of the fronts. The retribution of blood vengeance
We do not recognize the rhetoric of the State of Israel. We do not recognize the spiral of retribution and blood vengeance that comes with "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth." We do not recognize the principle of ten or a thousand Arab eyes for one Israeli eye. We do not recognize collective punishment or population thinning out as a political weapon. Two thousand years have passed since a Jewish rabbi criticized the ancient doctrine of "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth."
He said: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." We do not recognize a state founded on anti-humanistic principles and on the ruins of an archaic national and warlike religion. Or, as Albert Schweitzer expressed it: "Humanitarianism consists of never sacrificing a human being for a cause." Compassion and forgiveness
We do not recognize the old Kingdom of David as a model for the 21st century map of the Middle East. The Jewish rabbi claimed two thousand years ago that the Kingdom of God is not a martial restoration of the Kingdom of David; the Kingdom of God is within us and amongst us. The Kingdom of God is compassion and forgiveness.
Two thousand years have passed since the Jewish rabbi disarmed and thoroughly humanized the old rhetoric of war. Even in his time, the first Zionist terrorists were operating.
Israel doesn't listen
For two thousand years, we have rehearsed the syllabus of humanism, but Israel doesn't listen. It wasn't the Pharisee who helped the man who lay by the wayside, having fallen prey to robbers. It was a Samaritan; today we would say, a Palestinian. We are humans firstly - then Christian, Muslim, or Jew. Or as the Jewish rabbi said: "And if you greet your brethren only, what more do you do than others?" We do not accept the kidnapping of soldiers. But neither do we accept the deportation of whole populations or the abduction of legally elected parliamentarians and government ministers.
We recognize the State of Israel of 1948, but not the one of 1967. It is the State of Israel that fails to recognize, respect or defer to the internationally lawful Israeli state of 1948. Israel wants more - more water and more villages. To obtain this there are those who want, with God's assistance, a final solution to the Palestinian problem. 'The Palestinians have so many other countries', certain Israeli politicians have argued; we have only one.
The U.S. or the world?
Or as the foremost protector of the State of Israel puts it: "May God continue to bless America." A little child took note of that. She turned to her mother, saying: "Why does the President always end his speeches with 'God bless America'? Why not, 'God bless the world'?"
Then there was a Norwegian poet who let out this childlike sigh of the heart: "Why doth Humanity so slowly progress?" It was he who wrote so beautifully of the Jew and the Jewess. But he rejected the notion of God's Chosen People. He personally liked to call himself a Muslim.
Calmness and mercy
We do not recognize the State of Israel. Not today, not as of this writing, not in the hour of grief and wrath. If the entire Israeli nation should fall to its own devices and parts of the population has to flee their occupied areas into another Diaspora, then we say: May their surroundings stay calm and show them mercy. It is an eternal crime, without mitigating circumstances, to lay hand on refugees and a stateless people.
Peace and free passage for the evacuating, civilian population no longer protected by a State. Shoot not at the fugitives! Take not aim at them! They are vulnerable now -- like snails without shells, vulnerable as slow caravans of the Palestinian and Lebanese refugees, defenseless as the women, children and elderly of Qana, Gaza, Sabra and Shatilla. Give the Israeli refugees shelter; give them milk and honey!
Let not one Israeli child pay with his life. Far too many children and civilians have already been murdered.
This article has caused a storm in Norway.
And this article is the most anti-Semitic thing I've read since Mein Kampf. Quite seriously.
Various reactions can be found on the frontpage of Aftenposten's English edition:
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/
If this b**** is so tough, let him try to stop Israel. I think there's something the in the Bible about God not allowing Israel to be destroyed before He returns...
The left is finally taking off it's mask to reveal its real face of evil. If a European Jew happens to read this post.... GET OUT OF EUROPE. It's only going to get worse for you and your family.
And we will watch it spread - sadly.
Holy crap...
Another DS speaks.
This writer is evil and this article is an abomination. Having never read Mein Kampf I can't compare its anti-semitism -- but this ranks right up there. The KKK, Nazis and anti-semities of all eras would be proud.
Take his "eye for a eye" diatribe. It is a total lie from start to finish. The whole idea of an "eye for an eye" was introduced to make sure punishments were not disproportionate.
This article is an example of why Europe is about to get razed by likeminded Islam. It is not Israel that is history - it's Norway.
Ironically, it's writers like this guy who will be at the head of the line when Europeans are offered the "convert or die" option.
European antisemitism rearing it's rather ugly head again. I guess the collective guilt is wearing off of some people over there, and they can now come out in full light as Jew haters. Look no further than the skewing of the news to see plainly that the world has lined up against the Jewish state. God bless Israel in it's struggle against evil and darkness.
Limits to tolerance
There are limits to our patience, and there are limits to our tolerance. We do not believe in divine promises as a justification for occupation and apartheid. We have left the Middle Ages behind.
Famous Norwegian author? Sounds like a brain-addled pervert.
What is most risible about this entire article is summarized in the emphasized sentences above:
This mental midget does not realize that every one of those statements apply to islam --- in spades!
Jostein Gaarder, is an ANTI_SEMITE, and is on the side of Moslem's who call for genocide of Israel.
Hitler did the same, so Jostein, if the shoe fits, you get wear it.
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He's got it all wrong. It's simple really.
If the Arabs lay down their weapons, there'd be no more violence.
If the Israelis lay down their weapons, there'd be no more Israel.
(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em Down Hezbullies.)
How soon do the "camps" open up in Norway?
The current war is a litmus test, and most people in most countries are failing it. People are being led to choose sides, and most are choosing the wrong side.
The moral stakes could not be more clear. That these people can no longer distinguish good from evil is a sickness. At its root, at least in many cases, is simple cowardice. If you recognize that free people are being murdered in their homes and cafes by a psychopathic blood cult, you not only must grant their right to defend themselves, you must also recognize your obligation to stand with them.
By a moral sleight of hand, however, the writer and people like him must pretend an equivalence between the warring parties, or worse, lay the blame at Israel's feet. In so doing he relieves himself of any responsibility and any personal risk.
Remember, it isn't the jews who attack writers and kill them in the streets. Jews are a safe target.
Israel has been under unrelenting attack since the moment of its birth; it has found itself surrounded in a sea of hostile nations who have given it not one moment's rest in 60 years; every battle it fights is for it a fight for survival, it can't afford to lose even one. And yet, over all, Israel has conducted itself with a surprising moral clarity even as their existence is threatened.
The writer was right to recall the parable of the Good Samaritan. The problem is that he entirely missed who is playing the role of Pharisee, and who is refusing the role of Samaritan as this story is worked out in flesh and blood right in front of us.
I guess there are still some nazis left alive in Norway. They kept their mouths shut for a long time, but finally they couldn't stand it anymore.
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