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 Israel’s Holy WarriorsPosted on Sep 7, 2009
Changes in Israeli policy have military rabbis joining combat troops at the tip of the spear. Ostensibly there to boost morale, critics worry that the rabbis are turning soldiers into Jewish jihadis. One rabbi says he was ordered to blow a ram’s horn like Joshua, because “It makes the war holier.” During the Gaza war, the military’s religious leaders distributed propaganda under the army’s official seal, casting that conflict in biblical terms. All this has created an environment more attractive to fundamentalists and less appealing to Israel’s moderates and secular citizens. The military is drawing in settlers and zealots and transforming into something that doesn’t quite reflect the rest of the country. —PS
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By PatrickHenry, September 8, 2009 at 1:15 pm Link to this comment
By Howard, September 8 at 1:47 am #
Howard, I found a reference to Catholics and organ Harvesting. See response #12 in the listed website.
http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2009/08/29/the-new-blood-libel-what-others-are-saying-about-israeli-organ-harvesting/
Report thisBy Folktruther, September 8, 2009 at 8:52 am Link to this comment
Nigtht-Guant is quite right. What is happening in Israel is also happening in the US. Just the religions differ, but they both support homicidal policy. Fundimentalism is strongly intreanched in the US Air Force Academy and perhaps other places as well. That high ranking general who proclaimed that his god was bigger than their god is part of religius hysteria and delusion that is becoming widespread among both militaries, and ideitify with holy massacres.
And both power systems have theromnuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction. And an identification with power and a contempt for people.
Report thisBy omop, September 8, 2009 at 5:40 am Link to this comment
Night - Gaunt.
Its time to add Israeli/Jewish “business opportunities” (in organ trade in New
Jersey, Israel, and unknown locals) in Rumania to wit:-
http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/lets-see-if-we-can-go-one-
Report thisday-without-a-new-israeli-scandal/
By PatrickHenry, September 8, 2009 at 2:21 am Link to this comment
Howard, I didn’t know Dr. Hiss was Catholic.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/90518
Report thisBy NZDoug, September 8, 2009 at 12:02 am Link to this comment
I like holiness of weapons.
Report thisThis just might be a reason why people strap bombs to themselves.
What else can they do?
Disco?
You reap what you sow, but not with aquifiers, in the long run TYVM!
By purplewolf, September 7, 2009 at 10:59 pm Link to this comment
Religious insanity at its finest.
Report thisBy Howard, September 7, 2009 at 5:47 pm Link to this comment
Ahh, the story was wrong. Just the catholics harvest organs. awsome stuff.
Report thisBy Night-Gaunt, September 7, 2009 at 5:23 pm Link to this comment
Just saw a news story of the black market in human organs and its happening in Israel. It seems that the Kosher Laws haven’t been updated for human organ transplantation. That I saw on the report anyway. The results aren’t that good since they use illegal and dubious surgeons in filthy abandoned hospitals to make their money. The endings aren’t that promising. Any Jews out there who have any data on it? Or anyone else involved or in-the-know on the situation?
Once part of Science Fiction but has been real, if crude, for some 30 or more years starting with reports in Mexico and Central America.
Report thisBy PatrickHenry, September 7, 2009 at 2:28 pm Link to this comment
I wonder how that will affect the harvesting of non-kosher body parts?
Report thisBy Night-Gaunt, September 7, 2009 at 11:03 am Link to this comment
In many ways Israel is a microcosm of what is happening in our own country with its share of Christian soldiers and working to make them holy warriors too. Not a good sign at all.
Report thisBy Jean Gerard, September 7, 2009 at 10:51 am Link to this comment
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All wars are unholy, hysterical, fraudulent, destructive, cause more wars, and are anti-human. Add to that the fact that modern technology creates more disastrous weapons. People—particularly soldiers—know the above statement is true. That’s why they get PTSD, which is the normal—repeat, normal—response to too much violence. Humans are geared toward peace, family, community, nation, and eventually a world society, and their struggle toward fulfilling that destiny has been long and harsh. But they have come a long way.
They have survived to the degree that they have conquered fear and hate and have avoided violence.
Report thisWar is an unhealthy aberration and the human psyche knows it instinctively and responds with protest, one way or another, sooner or later. Nobody ever made war to stop peace, but always we make peace to stop war. So . . . . . .