Is it "racism"? Selfies and symbolism (photos)

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Israeli Jew spills truth about Israel (video)

Wisdom Quarterly; Miko Peled speaks to Christians in U.S., Dec. 2012

Palestinian boy tries to defend family from genocidal, invading Israeli militants (EOI).

 

I'll gladly kill every last d*mn Palestinian

Miko Peled was born into a famous and influential Israeli Jewish family in Jerusalem, who like others did his compulsory military service for Israel. His father was a prominent general in the Israeli Army exterminating Palestinians. Another relative of his was a close personal friend and schoolmate of right-wing extremist [and U.S.-groomed CIA operative] Bibi Netanyahu. 

When Peled's famous niece was killed by desperate Palestinian suicide bombers, the family may have been expected to place the fault on Palestinians. But surprisingly they blamed the "State of Israel," which violently tortures, persecutes, and pulls every dirty trick of imperial rule to drive the indigenous people from their houses and homeland. The Palestinians are so mistreated that in their sadness and desperation they would take their own lives to strike back.

I'm just following orders to attack Arabs.

Through his father's deep knowledge of the Israeli military's terrorist tactics, together with his own research, Peled realized the myths Israelis are fed about their own special history. The stories they are told make no sense under closer examination. Peled ruins the myths surrounding the supposed birth of Israel and the destruction of Palestine. He delivers truth so damning that many Jews and rabid Israel supporters in the USA are not able to bear it. The truth must not be revealed because it would make Israel the war criminals, the propagandists, the invaders and occupiers in collusion with the West laboring under a false history shrouded in Christian distortions.

Looks like a new Berlin Wall, but it's a "fence"

He reveals such things as the fact that the original Jews expelled are not the ones claiming a "right of return," nor their descendants. He covers the double standard regarding the right of return, which is not allowed to apply to Palestinians, and dispels the myth that there has been a conflict for ages by producing proof that it was peaceful for all up until 1947, when Israel launched their illegal attacks heavily subsidized by the U.S. and UK.

Miko Peled is right...He must be silenced!

Peled is just one of the many modern-day Jews who refuse to be complicit in Israeli crimes against humanity. He has turned against Zionism and the State of Israel, and with the information he delivers in this astounding talk, it is easy to see why more and more Jews are rejecting Zionism and calling for the dismantling of Israel.

It is a true eye-opener for anyone who has for too long been blinded by the disinformation reported without question by the mainstream U.S. media. Here the truth comes straight from the heartland where he has spent many years documenting the real story.

Not in Our Name: JEWS for Justice in Palestine

Ashley Wells, Pat Macpherson, Pfc. Sandoval, Sheldon S. CC Liu,, Wisdom Quarterly; Amy Goodman, Producer/Co-Host Nermeen Shaikh (democracynow.org, July 23, 2014)

 

Restoring our faith in Jews and Judaism are the heroic acts of a very few Jews -- some in Israel but most in America -- who decry the Israeli government's crimes against humanity, its incremental genocide, its dispossession of Palestinian land, its ethnic cleansing of Arabs, Muslims, and the indigenous population of a land the CIA and British government regard as the "State of Israel."

Protests in response to Israel’s assault on Gaza have drawn hundreds -- in some cases thousands -- around the world. 

Palestinians in ghetto? Ask Diane Sawyer

Yesterday [July 22, 2014], members of Jewish Voice for Peace and Jews Say No! occupied the New York City office of the "Friends of the Israel Defense Forces" [technically a state-sponsored terrorist organization friendly to strategic U.S. interests].

The office is a front for the nonprofit group that raises money in the U.S. to send to the Israeli military to kill, oppress, imprison, humiliate, drive out (dispossess), and commit atrocities in the name of Jews, Jewish people worldwide, and the "State of Israel," the official name for what is not a state but aims to be, even if that means creating a holocaust  (systematic ghettoizing and planned annihilation/ethnic cleansing) for Palestinians.

Illegal  Jewish settlements are "suburbs"

For about an hour, activists read the names of the more than 600 Palestinians murdered by the Israel "Defense" Forces (IDF) and demanded the support organization stop its fundraising for the outlaw government Jewish terrorists and Jewish militants engaged in war crimes attacking Gaza.

Nine American-Jewish protesters engaging in peaceful civil disobedience were arrested when they refused to leave the premises. We get a video report from the protest. More

• PM Bibi Netanyahu and his brother were made in America (by the CIA)
• Tzipi Llvni [sippy livni] is Israel's current peace negotiator who says, "Our troops behaved like hooligans, which I demanded of them."  - Investigative Journalist Max Blumenthal (Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel)

Hate-filled, right wing Netanyahu

Jewish Israeli writer Gideon Levy: If Prime Minister Netanyahu wants to stop Hamas "rockets," he and Israel need to accept a JUST peace [which, of course, they have no interest in since these "rockets" are used to justify the annihilation of Palestinian civilians]  

  

"Jews of Justice in Palestine": Not In Our Name: Jewish activists arrested during sit-in at Friends of Israel Defense Forces' NYC office, which collects money to kill Palestinians

"Growing Humanitarian Crisis": Palestinian toll tops 6[71] as Israel attacks Gaza’s only  power plant

MSNBC’s sole Palestinian voice [Jewish] Rula Jebreal takes on extreme pro-Israel bias at supposed "liberal" network & in mainstream US media

A Debate on Gaza: Ali Abunimah of Electronic Intifada vs. J.J. Goldberg of the Jewish Daily Forward

Christian God had a wife: Asherah

Dhr. Seven, Crystal Qutinero, Wisdom Quarterly; Jennifer Viegas (news.discovery.com)

God has a wife? Wife, what wife? The Bible says so? Maybe it's wrong. I mean...

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The divine consort Radha (WQ)

God, also known as Yahweh [YHWH], had a wife named Asherah, according to a British theologian.

Amulets, figurines, inscriptions and ancient texts, including the Bible, reveal Asherah's once prominent standing.

God's wife, whom the Book of Kings [a part of the Christian Bible] suggests was worshiped alongside Yahweh in his temple in Israel, according to Oxford scholar.

Meet God's Judeo-Christian Wife, Asherah

No to Asherah: religious sexism (gophoto.us)

In 1967, Raphael Patai was the first historian to mention that the ancient Israelites worshiped both Yahweh and Asherah. The theory has gained new prominence due to the research of Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Religion Francesca Stavrakopoulou, who began her work at Oxford and is a senior lecturer in [UPDATE: she is now Head of] the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Exeter.

Ishtar and Mary used to matter

Information presented in Stavrakopoulou's books, lectures, and academic journal papers has become the basis of a three-part documentary series, now airing in Europe, where she discusses the Yahweh-Asherah connection.

 

"You might know him as Yahweh, Allah, or God. But on this fact, Jews, Muslims, and Christians, the people of the great Abrahamic religions, are agreed: There is only one of Him," writes Stavrakopoulou in a statement released to the British media. "He is a solitary figure, a single, universal creator [like Great Brahma in Hinduism and Buddhism], not one God among many [like the devas]...or so we like to believe." More

• Jesus' great-grandmother identified
• PHOTOS: People claiming to be Jesus
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How Christianity SPREAD so far (film)

Pat Macpherson, Pfc. Sandoval, CC Liu (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly; Americans United for Separation of Church and State, O.C. Chapter (AU-OC.org) JUDEO-CHRISTIAN IMPERIALISM

 

Garuda and Naga on Mex flag and his palace

(History) Using war to create one world-religion: Saint, Roman Emperor "Constantine the Great" (Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus Augustus, 272-337 AD) converted many to Christianity by killing those who refused. Co-Emperor Licinius issued the Edict of Milan in 313, proclaiming religious tolerance for the empire. Constantine vanquished Licinius during a civil war and went on killing. He replaced the capital of Byzantium with Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey), later the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire for over 1,000 years.

 

SEE IT: Sat., April 12, 2014 1:30 pm, Irvine: AU-OC.org: Constantine's Sword (@ IRWD Community Mtg Rm, 15500 Sand Canyon Ave.) uncovers the roots of war and uncovers the ongoing evangelical infiltration of the U.S. military.
 

Nazi insignia embraced by Catholic Church

The story revealed in "Constantine's Sword" is shocking. It reveals the Holy Roman Catholic Church's involvement in Germany's attempted take over of the world.

Within two weeks of Adolf Hitler coming to full power in March 1933, the Vatican's Foreign Minister Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli (Vatican Secretary of State, who went on to become Pope Pious XII) sent the new Fuhrer warm greetings.

 

Bringing Catastrophe to Palestinians like...

Treaty negotiations began between the Church's Pacelli, Secretary of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs Giuseppe Pizzardo, Cardinal Eugenio, and Germany 's Vice Chancellor under Hitler Franz von Papen.

By July they signed the Reichskonkordat (Vatican-Nazi treaty), and the Vatican became the first foreign power to enter into a bilateral treaty with Hitler. 

Was the murderer "Saint Constantine" really a saint?

The accord included a secret provision that the Church defend Jews who converted to Catholicism, but it indicated that it would have nothing to say about Nazi assaults against Jews who remained Jews.
 

Jesus' robe, the Messiah's Magic Tunic, in Trier

A few days after signing the treaty for Hitler, former German Chancellor and Hitler's Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen represented the Fuhrer at the unveiling of Jesus's seamless tunic, the Holy Robe of Trier, which would not be shown again until 25 years later. The same robe that had come into the Gospels as proof that the Messiah had come. That robe had become the centre of the celebration of the church's treaty with Hitler.

Over the next three weeks more than two million pilgrims poured into Trier to see the robe, now the symbol of the Nazi alliance of church and state. Cardinal Pacelli went on to become Pope Pious the 12th. Whereas it may be unfair to call him "Hitler's Pope," it is fair to call him "Hitler's Cardinal (who became a pope)."

Vatican documents reveal Hitler's Pope: Pius XII (John Cornwell)

"NO WAR IS HOLY"

"Constantine's Sword" is a historical documentary on the relationship between the Catholic Church and the Jews. Directed and produced by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Oren Jacoby, the film was inspired by former priest James P. Carroll's 2001 book Constantine's Sword.

It is the story of author and former Catholic priest James P. Carroll's journey to uncover the roots of war. Carroll, whose father Joseph Carroll was a famous U.S. Air Force general, implies that there has been a relationship between religiously-inspired violence and war.

This has been taking place beginning with the adoption of Christianity by the genocidal Holy Roman Emperor Constantine I in 312 AD.

Constantine was convinced that he had won a battle because he had followed the instructions of a vision to inscribe a sign of the cross (labarum) on the shields of his imperial Christian soldiers. In Carroll's view, this event marked the beginning of an unholy alliance between the military and the Church.

Carroll focuses on Catholic and evangelical anti-Judaism and invokes the cross as a symbol of the long history of xenophobic Christian violence against Jews and non-Christians, from the Crusades through the Roman Inquisition and the creation of the Jewish ghettoes, to the Holocaust (the "whole burnt," which some deny, not to be confused with the Israeli Catastrophe, which no one denies).

Carroll also charges that there is an ongoing evangelical infiltration of the U.S. military (Church supported military-industrial complex) and that this has had negative consequences for U.S. foreign policy.

 

The film's final chapter, "No War is Holy," concludes with views of military cemeteries as Aaron Neville sings "With God On Our Side." [Perhaps the film budget did not allow for "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition."]

• Constantine's Sword (Greek Orthodox Christian TV)
• VIDEO: Interview with filmmaker former Fr. Carroll
• Jesus was born, lived, and died a Jewish (PBS) except for the ~18 years he was a Buddhist in India (BBC)
• Passover 2014 begins next week (The World, PRI)
• VIDEO: Hitler's Pope Pius XII, Nazi collusion
• VIDEO: Understanding Christian Anti-Semitism
• Jews for Judaism (Why Jews say NO to Jesus)

(PPB) Christianity took Egyptian and Osiris symbolism, mythic stories, and iconography.

The Real and Fairytale "Jesus" (video)

Wisdom Quarterly; Mitch Jeserich ("Letters & Politics," Dec. 24, 2013, KPFA.org, Berkeley), Dr. Reza Aslan (rezaaslan.com, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth)
Fox News' Lauren Green attacks historian Prof. Reza Aslan, Ph.D., why a former Christian and current Muslim would write about Jesus. It's reactionary, Islamophobic FOX "News" at its best.

BESTSELLER: Zealot (amazon.com)

Religious scholar Dr. Reza Aslan has discusses his fascinating, provocative, and meticulously researched biography about the historical Jesus [Yah'shua].

It calls into question everything Westerners in Judeo-Christian societies thought we knew about Jesus of Nazareth.

 

Two thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher (rabbi) and miracle worker [siddha] walked across the Galilee, gathering followers [as an anti-imperial rebel like many modern Palestinians] to establish what he called the “Kingdom of God.” 

Good St. Issa as a bodhisattva

The revolutionary movement he launched was so threatening to the established order that he was captured, tortured, and executed as a state criminal.

 

Two decades after his shameful death, his followers would call him God. 

 

Sifting through centuries of mythmaking, Dr. Aslan sheds new light on one of history’s most influential and enigmatic characters by examining Jesus through the lens of the tumultuous era in which he lived: first century Palestine, an age awash in apocalyptic fervor. 

• Letters and Politics, Dec. 24, 2013, 10:00 am
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Jesus became a Pagan Roman god

Scores of Jewish prophets, preachers, and would-be messiahs [which always simply meant someone aiming to save Jews from Roman rule] traipsed through the Holy Land, bearing messages from God. 

 

This is the age of zealotry -- a fervent nationalism that made resistance to the Roman occupation a sacred duty incumbent on all Jews. And few figures better exemplified this principle than the charismatic Galilean who defied both the imperial authorities and their allies in the Jewish religious hierarchy.

 

Fairytale: white savior like Thor

Balancing the Jesus of the Gospels against the historical sources, Dr. Aslan explores this diverse and turbulent age and, in doing so, challenges the conventional portraits of Jesus of Nazareth. He describes a man full of conviction and passion, yet rife with contradiction:

• a man of peace who exhorted his followers to arm themselves with swords;
• an exorcist and faith healer who urged his disciples to keep his identity a secret;
• and ultimately, the seditious “King of the Jews” whose promise of liberation from Rome went unfulfilled in his brief lifetime.

Aslan explores the reasons why the early Christian church preferred to promulgate an image of Jesus as a peaceful spiritual teacher rather than a politically conscious revolutionary.

• [Biblical scholar Allegro points out that the Jesus cover-story came from an entheogen-using Jewish cult, possibly the Essenes, whose sacrament and "cross" was the magic mushroom. It provided them direct mystical experiences. The BBC documents that Jesus was a Buddhist monk. He returned from 18 lost years in India with long hair to continue his rebel and messianic activities to free the Jews.]

Vishnu, I'm going back to Palestine. - Good luck.

And he grapples with the riddle of how Jesus understood himself (as a Jew, a "messiah," a "god," and a man), the mystery that is at the heart of all subsequent claims about his divinity.

Zealot questions what we thought we knew about Jesus of Nazareth -- even as it affirms the radical and transformative nature of his life and mission. The result is a thought-provoking, elegantly written biography with the pulse of a fast-paced novel: a singularly brilliant portrait of a man, a time, and the birth of a religion.

 

“Riveting...Aslan synthesizes Scripture and scholarship to create an original account.”

—The  New Yorker

“A lucid, intelligent page-turner.”

—Los Angeles Times

“Fascinatingly and convincingly drawn.”

—The Seattle Times

“[Aslan’s] literary talent is as essential to the effect of Zealot as are his scholarly and journalistic chops. . . . A vivid, persuasive portrait.”

—Salon
“This tough-minded, deeply political book does full justice to the real Jesus, and honors him in the process.”

—San Francisco Chronicle

Christianity was invented as Roman psy ops

Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly; Travis Gettys (RawStory.com, Oct. 10, 2013); Slate.com

The Holy Roman Empire still rules but now as a religion (Observatore Romano/Reuters)

Bust of Julius Caesar found at the bottom of the River Rhone in Arles in2008 (AFP)

   

Christian scholar claims Christianity invented as part of ancient Roman psy-ops campaign

The make believe Jesus Christ

The Christian faith is the result of the most successful psy-ops program in history, according to a self-professed American Bible scholar.

 

Joseph Atwill will present his controversial theory Oct. 19 in London: the New Testament was written by first-century Roman aristocrats as part of a sophisticated government project to help pacify Jews in occupied territories.

 

Atwill, author of Caesar’s Messiah, claims he’s found ancient confessions by the scriptures’ authors that they invented Jesus Christ and his story as basically a form of propaganda.

 

Women pray at Western Wall with armed guards (Gali Tibbon/Getty Images/Huff Post/AFP)

 
“Jewish sects in Palestine at the time, who were waiting for a prophesied warrior Messiah [kshtriya Maitreya], were a constant source of violent insurrection during the first century,” Atwill said.

 

“When the Romans had exhausted conventional means of quashing rebellion, they switched to psychological warfare ["psy ops," psychological operations]. They surmised that the way to stop the spread of zealous Jewish missionary activity was to create a competing belief system. That’s when the ‘peaceful’ Messiah story was invented.
 

Priests molesting kids? Sure, why not?

[In fact, it was borrowed wholesale from ancient Eastern lore, the expectation talked about by the Buddha about the arising of the next world teacher, the Buddha Maitreya, far in the future. And most catholic or "universal" teachings are borrowed piecemeal from Buddhist, Vedic, European Pagan, Egyptian, and Sumerian sources. Since the leadership does not really believe what it teaches, why not molest children, embezzle Church funds, and live like Roman royalty?]

“Instead of inspiring warfare, this Messiah urged turn-the-other-cheek pacifism and encouraged Jews to ‘give onto Caesar’ and pay their taxes to Rome.”

 

He says that Jesus was not based on an actual historical figure, but Atwill argues that the events of his life were overlaid on top of actual events from the First Jewish-Roman War, waged by Emperor Titus Flavius in Palestinian territories.

 

A history of suffering that will not end

“The biography of Jesus is actually constructed, tip to stern, on prior stories, but especially on the biography of a Roman Caesar,” he says.

 

Atwill said he understands that his theory is bound to upset Christians, and he’s hoping skeptics will come to challenge him after his lecture as part of a symposium, “Covert Messiah,” along with Kenneth Humphreys, author of Jesus Never Existed.
 

“Although Christianity can be a comfort to some, it can also be very damaging and repressive, an insidious form of mind control that has led to blind acceptance of serfdom, poverty, and war throughout history,” Atwill says. “To this day, especially in the United States, it is used to create support for war in the Middle East.”

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