It has come down to pure insanity. Tomorrow is my big day. Tomorrow's exam will be the hardest one of my life so far. It's the reason why I've barely left the house since early November, except to go to class or work. It is the reason why I feel so completely and utterly caught up in the liminal phase of the isolated university student, just waiting for reintegration into society.
So no blogging for a day or two, but I'll see you again when it's all over!
Here are some good news for all of us who miss Reb Lazer. He will be writing guest posts at Hasidic Gentile's site.
So be sure to visit HG's page to keep up. (Which is something you should do anyway).
Everybody who knows me even the slightest bit, should be aware of the fact that since I can remember my mind first beginning to develop rashional thoughts, I have hated animal rights associations with a passion. So for those of you who for some reason do not know, let it be known that I, Maria Susanna Hiller:
* Enjoy using products that are tested on animals (I don't want animals to be mistreated for no reason. But better a guinea pig goes blind than somebody's child!).
* Frequently write hateful mail to Greenpeace to remind them that they have no clue what they're talking about.
* Have also written letters of complaint to PETA (what a bunch of losers) on several occasions
* Have no problem with McDonalds at all. Go McDonalds!
* Have an extensive collection of leather shoes, that I am extremely fond of.
* Don't like animals much generally, except, for dinner!
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So Israellycool's Dave was writing about how Bruce from PETA was harassing him again. I wish there were more people in the world like Dave, and fewer like Bruce! Dave's post just completely describes how I feel, so I'm gonna post the whole thing. As usual, it's hilarious.
Bruce from PETA has sent me yet another email regarding kosher slaughterhouses, despite having not yet replied to my own email to him. Talk about chutzpah.
Does he not know who he is dealing with here? Does he honestly think I am one day going to wake up and say "You know what? I was wrong about PETA. They are so nice and care so deeply for all living things. G-d bless them!" (LOL)
Not bloody likely.
If all of my readers write to Bruce (brucef@peta.org), and ask why PETA care more about animals than humans (see my email to him if you need inspiration), chances are he will stop sending me (and I assume others) junk mail.
You just don't mess with bloggers.
Update: Yesterday, 20-year-old IDF Staff Sergeant Nadav Kudinsky was killed, along with his bomb-sniffing dog, when a bomb planted by PLO Arab terrorists exploded. I am still waiting for PETA's condemnation of the act, and regret over the dog's death.
I cannot express how glad I am that Bush is still in the White House.
I was touched by reading this article about a true hero over at Hasidic "G" (that's his new gangsta name!).
A unique Chanukah candelabra is to be lit this evening at the White House in Washington, DC at the request of US President George Bush.
The menorah was built by a Florida congregation in memory of Noam Apter, a 23-year-old student at the Otniel Yeshiva in the Hevron Hills region who was murdered by terrorists. Apter saved the lives of tens of his fellow students when, after two Islamic Jihad terrorists dressed as IDF soldiers infiltrated his school building, he locked himself inside the kitchen together with the Arab terrorists and hid the key - preventing the terrorists from entering the dining room where 70 yeshiva students were eating their Sabbath meal.
This was clearly a remarkable young man. Few people would have done what he did, even if they had wanted to. Few would have had the guts. I can't really express all the thoughts this evokes in me, but they are a mixture of grief, bitterness, confusion, an awful lot of anger, and perhaps something undefined.
A christian inscription, indeed. But notice something fishy there? Who's clever enuff? (Not yiddishe-kop, I already told you!).
Oh I love uncovering things!
By the way, the reason why I have not been answering any of your most appreciated and intelligent comments is not because I am an insensitive and stuck up bitch, but rather because blogdrive has not been functioning properly. I hope it will start to work again soon.
Did you guys know that during the middle ages, molesting a child was a crime that earned the offender the death penalty? But did you also know, that the child was also executed. No judicial authority ever had the thought "hey, maybe the fact that the child was forced into it, makes the child innocent". Well speaking of which...
You think you've heard it all? Guess again. (Hat tip: Smooth Stone)
ABU QASH — Rofayda Qaoud — raped by her brothers and impregnated — refused to commit suicide, her mother recalls, even after she bought the unwed teenager a razor with which to slit her wrists. So Amira Abu Hanhan Qaoud says she did what she believes any good Palestinian parent would: restored her family's "honor" through murder.
Well I mean it was for the sake of the family honor, so of course you'll kill your victimized, pregnant child...
Armed with a plastic bag, razor and wooden stick, Qaoud entered her sleeping daughter's room last Jan. 27. "Tonight you die, Rofayda," she told the girl, before wrapping the bag tightly around her head. Next, Qaoud sliced Rofayda's wrists, ignoring her muffled pleas of "No, mother, no!" After her daughter went limp, Qaoud struck her in the head with the stick.
Killing her sixth-born child took 20 minutes, Qaoud tells a visitor through a stream of tears and cigarettes that she smokes in rapid succession. "She killed me before I killed her," says the 43-year-old mother of nine. "I had to protect my children. This is the only way I could protect my family's honor."
What is interesting (although certainly not surprising) is the fact that the mother saw no reason to punish the brothers who were guilty of rape, incest, and well.. dishonoring the family! What I also found interesting was that while she saw pregnancy as unacceptable, she figured that murder would be all right...
I got this from my most adoreble (and informative) blogbuddy yiddishe-kop:
Sign posted outside a Denver
church in February 2004 (AP)
Now, as many of you may know, the phenomena of anti-semitism, and its roots, is something that interests me.
Next semester I will be taking a course on anthropology and religious symbolism, and I am already preparing myself for it, and for the lecture I will probably be holding. I am very excited about it. (I'm a nerd like that, I don't get excited about parties, I get excited about, well, learning).
What I decided to do was to discuss how "The passion of the christ" is a distortion of the truth. So I ordered a book by a professor of religious studies online. I'll show you what was written about it.
*Btw* At first I thought I might not publish this because offending christian friends of Israel is the last thing I want to do, but my blog is first and foremost about telling the truth, and I don't force anybody to read what I have to say.
Who Killed Jesus? : Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus by John Dominic Crossan
From Publishers Weekly In a book sure to generate both conversation and controversy, John Dominic Crossan, author of two well-regarded books on the historical Jesus, names the New Testament Gospels' insistence on Jewish responsibility for Jesus' death as Christianity's "longest lie." Crossan argues particularly against many of the theories posed in Raymond Brown's The Death of the Messiah. While Brown finds that many of the events in the stories of Jesus' last days are plausible historically, Crossan claims that almost none of the events are historical. According to Crossan, they are "prophesy historicized," accounts written by looking back at the Old Testament and other early materials and then projecting those prophecies on whatever historical events occurred.Because many of those early writers were persecuted by the Jewish authorities, they threw in a heavy dose of propaganda against the Jews. As Crossan aptly states, these gospels were relatively harmless when Christians were a small sect. When, however, Rome became Christian, those anti-Semitic narratives became, and continue to be, lethal. Well argued and highly readable, Who Killed Jesus? also includes an important epilogue stating Crossan's own faith perspectives on the divinity and resurrection of Christ. Scholars rarely go this far, yet such a confession provides another valuable entry into this fascinating material.
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Product Description:
The death of Jesus is one of the most hotly debated questions in Christianity today. In his massive and highly publicized The Death of the Messiah, Raymond Brown -- while clearly rejecting anti-Semitism -- never questions the essential historicity of the passion stories. Yet it is these stories, in which the Jews decide Jesus' execution, that have fueled centuries of Christian anti-Semitism.
Now, in his most controversial book, John Dominic Crossan shows that this traditional understanding of the Gospels as historical fact is not only wrong but dangerous.Drawing on the best of biblical, anthropological, sociological and historical research, he demonstrates definitively that it was the Roman government that tried and executed Jesus as a social agitator. Crossan also candidly addresses such key theological questions as "Did Jesus die for our sins?" and "Is our faith in vain if there was no bodily resurrection?"
Ultimately, however, Crossan's radical reexamination shows that the belief that the Jews killed Jesus is an early Christian myth (directed against rival Jewish groups) that must be eradicated from authentic Christian faith.
Here is yet another biased reporter, Molly Moore (Moore's are up to no good!).
Check out this link to some of the headlines of Moore's article's, indicating her biased writing.
She writes's for Washington post, who are known for their anti-Israel articles. Molly Moore gets her resources from the hamas, palestinemonitor, etc. After doing a little checking I noticed that her articles are being published on "from an occupied palestine". I think it speaks for itself. Washington Post's e-mail is listed below, and I encourage everybody to write and complain.
The WashPost reporter's checkpoint story lacks essential context and accepts dubious claims as fact.
The Israeli military, like its American counterpart, has recently faced public scrutiny for alleged ethical violations. When reporting such allegations, the media can play a constructive role by conveying information in a balanced manner.
But much of the media coverage of alleged IDF wrongdoing does not meet that standard of objectivity. Rather, media outlets often take a tendentious line against the IDF by (1) omitting essential context for IDF actions, and (2) treating accusations of wrongdoing as accepted fact.
Case in point: A Nov. 29 front-page Washington Post article by Molly Moore addressed alleged IDF abuse, describing checkpoints as
concrete lanes resembling cattle shutes... [Palestinians] jammed against a narrow turnstile... a thin man... gripping his whimpering child by one arm...
At least 83 Palestinians seeking medical care have died during delays at checkpoints, according to the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group.
But as media monitor EyeOnThePost found, the report that Moore cites (itself emerging from a dubious source) does not in fact claim that this number of Palestinians died 'during delays at checkpoints.' Rather, the PHRMG report contains a list of 83 deaths
anecdotally associated in any imaginable way with checkpoints and not necessarily by virtue of any delay in seeking medical care.
For example, the PHRMG list includes a 78-year-old man who 'died at al-Hamra military checkpoint in the Jordan valley, coming back from Jordan,' and a 25-year-old Gazan who died 'as a result of being shot at by an Israeli tank.' The first death was likely from natural causes, and the second was clearly due to armed conflict. Neither appears due to 'delays at checkpoints,' as Moore states.
Major media outlets such as the Washington Post should know by now that Palestinian spokespeople have a record of fabricating Israeli 'outrages.' In one high-profile case early in this terror war, several media outlets amplified Palestinian claims that Issam Judeh Mustafa Hamed was 'tortured and burned to death by Israelis.' Pathologists brought in by the Palestinian Authority later concluded that Hamed died in a traffic accident, and Physicians for Human Rights declared that
Inaccurate information about injuries and death has the possibility of inciting more violence and further prolonging the move towards peace.
Yet Moore continues to lend credence to such allegations. In January, Moore cited the Hamas website claiming without substantiation that 'Israeli soldiers began firing weapons in the direction of Palestinian workers.' Upon realizing that it should never have drawn news from such an unreliable source, the Washington Post removed the reference from its website.
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Moore also allows a fringe Israeli protest group's accusation of abusive IDF behavior appear as accepted fact:
This month, soldiers at the Beit Iba checkpoint... ordered a Palestinian to open his violin case and play for them while the lines behind him grew.
In this incident (pictured at right), the IDF at first said that soldiers asked the man to open the case and play the instrument to verify it didn't contain explosives. [It's important to recall that the terrorist who perpetrated one of the most heinous attacks ¯ the bombing of Jerusalem's Sbarros pizzeria in 2001 ¯ used a guitar case to transport his bomb.]
Yet Moore gives readers the impression that soldiers not only ordered the man to play for their own amusement, but did so as part of a larger pattern of abuse. But a video of the event, showing soldiers calmly going about their work while the man calmly plays, clearly documents that no such abuse occurred.
The IDF has since found that the man's fiddling was not upon soldiers' orders at all, but rather of his own volition.
All right. I remember how one of Hasidic Rebbele's joke's went like this: "G-d must love idiots, He made so many of them!".
But I think this is taking it a little far, don't you?
LONDON - Nearly half of Britons in a poll said they had never heard of Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp in southern Poland that became a symbol of the Holocaust and the attempted genocide of the Jews.
The results of the survey conducted by the BBC were released Thursday, as Britain's public broadcaster announced it will show a new series next January to mark the 60th anniversary of the concentration camp's liberation.
"We were amazed by the results of our audience research," said Laurence Rees, a producer on the series, "Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution."
"It's easy to presume that the horrors of Auschwitz are engrained in the nation's collective memory, but obviously this is not the case," Rees said.
The survey found that 45 percent of those surveyed had not heard of Auschwitz. Historians estimate that anywhere from one million to three million people, about 90 percent of them Jews, were killed there.
Among women and people younger than 35, 60 percent had never heard of Auschwitz, despite the recent popularity of films such as "Schindler's List," "Life is Beautiful" and "The Pianist," which depict the atrocities of the Holocaust.
"The name Auschwitz is quite rightly a byword for horror, but the problem with thinking about horror is that we naturally turn away from it," Rees said.
The BBC said the research was based on a nationally representative postal survey of 4,000 adults 16 and older.
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I'm sorry for what I am about to say but there is only so much my tolerance can stand.. Those idiots, those fools! I mean, I realised a very long time ago that the average person is very ignorant when it comes to history, geography and just basically facts concerning science and the world, but this is too much, just too much. I'm lost for words.
But much of the media coverage of alleged IDF wrongdoing does not meet that standard of objectivity. Rather, media outlets often take a tendentious line against the IDF by (1) omitting essential context for IDF actions, and (2) treating accusations of wrongdoing as accepted fact.
Moore also allows a fringe Israeli protest group's accusation of abusive IDF behavior appear as accepted fact:
