800 Pound Gorilla

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:16:54 +0100

Israel announces 50 new settler homes, land seizure

Associated Press
June 30, 2009

Israel on Monday approved construction of an initial 50 new homes at a West Bank settlement and announced plans to expropriate West Bank land between Jerusalem and the Dead Sea shore.

The decisions drew immediate criticism from Palestinians as Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak flew to New York for talks with George Mitchell, President Barack Obama's Middle East envoy, to narrow a rift with Israel's key ally over its settlement projects. [Obama, like his Middle East envoy, is a Zionist agent. For proof of this, see ZioBama at the 800lb Gorilla. Washington's 'rift' with Israel is little more than theatre -- 800]

A spokesman for Israel's Civil Administration, which reports to Barak and is involved in both moves, said it had placed ads in the Arabic al-Quds newspaper on Friday inviting Palestinians who object to the move to file appeals within 45 days....

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:52:28 +0100

A CALL FOR COORDINATED ACTION

At the risk of incurring the wrath of those pushing the “Free Gaza” campaign, we’re going to say what no one else wants to admit: that up until this point, Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney has given the anti-Zionist movement absolutely nothing.

We believe that her current Gaza activity is a controlled-opposition operation aimed at giving her undeserved credibility within anti-Zionist circles and establishing her as a potential leader of the movement. 

Instead of mobilizing our combined resources behind the theatre unfolding in the eastern Mediterranean, let’s instead strike them where they're weakest: on Israel’s central role in the 9/11 attacks.

We propose a coordinated, 48-hour campaign beginning on July 2 at 6:00am GMT, with one objective and one objective only: to get the word out about the Zionist danger -- with an emphasis on the real issues, especially 9/11 -- to as many people as possible, in a single, coordinated blitzkrieg.

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:18:00 +0100

Red strings, holy water, talismans and other New Age Kabbalistic paraphernalia may seem like so much spiritual mumbo jumbo to some, but a growing number of university scholars are beginning to acknowledge modern expressions of Kabbalah.

In the past, university scholars in Jewish Thought departments in Israel and abroad scoffed at phenomena such as the Kabbalah Center, Madonna's interest in Kabbalah, and the New Age attraction to Jewish mysticism. If these phenomena were researched, the people doing the research were sociologists, anthropologists and ethnographers, not Judaic studies scholars. The focus was primarily on the sociological phenomenon of learning Kabbalah, not the new works produced by contemporary Kabbalists.

In recent years, however, more and more dissertations and scholarly books are being written on contemporary Kabbalistic and Hassidic thought, and their impact on those who study them.

The latest example of this burgeoning interest in contemporary Kabbalah is a three-day series of lectures and workshops at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba this week titled ‘Kabbalah and Contemporary Spiritual Revival: Historical, Sociological and...