Israeli Ingenuity Applied To Organ Transplants

As a capitalist, I want people to be free to sell their body parts. As a convert to Judaism, I notice that Jews are often willing to engage in work that non-Jews detest such as risky financial instruments, pornography, rap music, etc.

When it comes to body organs, why put a Jew at risk when you can buy from a goy?

The following New York Times story runs true to my experience with the less polite parts of Jewish life:

The men were, The New York Times learned during an investigation of the global organ trade, among the central operators in Israel’s irrepressible underground kidney market. For years, they have pocketed enormous sums for arranging overseas transplants for patients who are paired with foreign donors, court filings and government documents show.

But a Times analysis of major trafficking cases since 2000 suggests that Israelis have played a disproportionate role. That is in part because of religious strictures regarding death and desecration that have kept deceased donation rates so low that some patients feel they must turn elsewhere.

Orthodox Jewish law as interpreted by the leading rabbis requires that a Jew be dead before his organs can be harvested.

Kevin Sack writes for the New York Times:

The sages could not have anticipated that their writings would provide the underpinnings for cultural resistance to organ donation from the deceased in 21st-century Israel. But their definition of mortality, which can conflict with modern acceptance of brain death, is cited among several reasons Israel has among the lowest rates of deceased organ donation of any developed country.

The resulting five-year waits for a kidney from a cadaver help explain why this tiny nation has played an outsize role in the global organ trade, experts say…

“The general mentality of the public, and of many rabbis, is that they don’t see why people should risk their lives if there is somebody in Ecuador willing to sell them a kidney,” said Dr. Yechiel Michael Barilan, an Israeli physician whose book, “Jewish Bioethics,” was published this year. “There is no sensibility about the social dynamics of exploitation.”

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WP: Jews and Arabs in Israel more estranged after war

In short, more Jews will think Kahane was right, that a state is weakened, not strengthened, by the presence of different races and religions, that Israel, for example, would be better off if it had no Arabs. The average IQ would skyrocket and crime would fall. So too, the United States would be stronger if it were the historically white Christian nation (meaning 80-90% of the citizens) it once was.

Nature has color-coded people so that you can see at a glance what you are likely to confront.

The Washington Post reports:

“What we’ve seen in the last two months are ugly expressions of hyper-nationalism,” said Tamara Hermann, a political scientist who said that “some people think all Israeli Arabs are a fifth column.”

Hermann works for the Israel Democracy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank that has run ads urging Jewish Israelis to be more tolerant of Israeli Arabs who have expressed sympathy for the suffering of Palestinians during Israel’s military operation in the Gaza Strip.

Talal says he is afraid to visit the Jewish towns and neighborhoods he used to frequent, because he has heard tales of Arabs being subjected to insults, discrimination and even beatings by Jews.

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String Of Armed Robberies In And Around 90035

I don’t know if this is a trend or just the same old news, but I keep hearing about armed robberies in and around 90035, usually committed by young black men with guns. I wonder if many of these are gang initiations? Many times, the robbers are so stupid that they do not realize that Orthodox Jews don’t carry money on the Sabbath. The last crimes I heard about were committed on La Cienega Blvd near midnight and I believe the kids were caught.

I blame these crimes on the paucity of midnight basketball leagues.

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How To Destroy An Ant Hill

I learned in today’s portion of the Daf Yomi (page of Talmud, Moed Katan 6b): Rabbi Shimon Gamliel said: “One brings dirt from this ant hole and places it in that ant hole, and the ants choke each other to death.”

According to Rashi: “When the ants smell foreign soil, they panic and kill each other.”

The same dynamic occurs among people. Put two different people in one location and the result will be conflict until one group strangles the other.

As Jared Taylor wrote about the history of race relations in the United States: “And this is the story of the conquest of the continent. The intentions of whites—sometimes good, often bad—really did not matter. The fundamental fact is that one people had the land, and another, more advanced and powerful people wanted the land. The result was dispossession, and even now, despite a great deal of intermixing, Indians are a distinct people with a distinct identity that shows how difficult assimilation is across racial lines, even after 400 years. Race relations mean conflict.”

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WP: China promotes mixed marriages in Tibet as way to achieve ‘unity’

The Washington Post reports:

BEIJING — During their controversial six-decade-rule of Tibet, China’s Communist Party leaders have been accused by human rights groups of trying to tame the restive region by imprisoning Tibetan political prisoners, keeping in exile their leader the Dalai Lama and repressing Tibetan religion and culture.

Now, China has turned to interracial marriage in an apparent attempt to assimilate Tibetans and stamp out rebellious impulses.

In recent weeks, Chinese officials in charge of the Tibetan Autonomous Region have ordered a run of stories in local newspapers promoting mixed marriages. And according to newly published government reports, the government has adopted a series of policies in recent years favorable to interracial couples.

Urging officials to push mixed marriages harder, China’s highest official in the Tibetan region, Chen Quanguo, recently staged a photo op with 19 mixed families.

“As the saying goes, ‘blood is thicker than water,’ we should make our ethnic relationship like that,” Chen said at the meeting in June, according to the state-run Tibetan Daily. The government must “actively promote intermarriages.”

…The government has sold the effort in state-run media as a way to achieve ethnic unity, but critics argue that its true aim is to further weaken Tibetan culture….

For weeks, government-run newspapers in Tibet have featured happy mixed couples in which the children love both cultures and equally speak Tibetan and Mandarin.

But among Tibetans, there is great fear about losing their culture and traditions.

Jews have long known that intermarriage means the destruction of your way of life. If a Jewish man marries a non-Jewish woman, it tells his children that being Jewish is not important (not to mention that according to Jewish law, only those born of a Jewish mother are Jewish, or if they convert to Judaism).

Whites have long had an abhorrence of intermarriage and shunned those who did, but there’s been a media onslaught against this way of thinking and few whites talk against inter-racial marriage anymore.

In the news media in the First World, racial inter-marriage is almost always portrayed as a wonderful thing. The children of such marriages can get many affirmative action benefits by claiming to be whatever race offers the most goodies. By identifying as black, even though he is half-white, Barack Obama got into Harvard Law School and became president of the United States. That would not have happened if he had identified as white. As a result, we have the first Affirmative Action President.

Intermarriage on a large scale means the decimation of the group that intermarries, whether that group is whites, Jews, Christians, or Tibetans.

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Riding The Subway In Los Angeles

From talking to people who do it regularly, I understand that riding the subway in Los Angeles is a depressing experience mainly shared with low-class Mexicans and a few blacks. As opposed to New Yorkers, Los Angelenos exhibit little concern with proper subway etiquette. It is not unheard of to find the results of somebody’s massive dump on the stairs. Most people don’t bother to pay for their fare. A lot of people stink. Many of the Mexicans and blacks on the subway show little concern for the welfare of their children.

My friends have not seen aggressive panhandling and display of knives.

Every day, the future of Los Angeles and of the United States looks increasingly grim.

Steve Sailer writes: In the optimistic days after WWII, big cities built giant urban housing projects to accommodate the poor. For example, Pruitt-Igoe in St. Louis was designed by Yamasaki, architect of the World Trade Center, on the most advanced principles of modernism. Obviously, taking poor blacks out of their lead paint-encrusted tenements and raising them in advanced Bauhaus designs would prove the bigots wrong.

Pruitt-Igoe went on to be home to the future Heavyweight Champs Leon and Michael Spinks, before it was blown up in 1972.

These days, big cities don’t want to accommodate the black poor anymore; they want then to leave. The powers that be prefer for poor blacks to leave town with Section 8 rent subsidy vouchers that go further in declining suburbs like Ferguson. For example, Hanna Rosin’s 2008 Atlantic cover story American Murder Mystery documented how homicide rates were declining in central Memphis and rising in inner suburbs due to demolition of old housing projects and subsidized relocation of their tenants out of the city.

The same dynamic is at work in Ferguson in relation to St. Louis.

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Are Police Anti-Male?

On his radio show today, Dennis Prager said: “Are black males disproportionately involved [in crime]?

“All we’re told is how many black men are in prison. Are they in prison because they are black or because they committed a crime?”

“If there was a moral renaissance in the inner cities, would there be that many arrests? If the majority of men were studying the Bible and becoming pastors?”

“If the USA Today published statistics on male-female like it did black-white. If it were males 99% arrested, females 1%. Males shot 99%, females 1%. Would you conclude that the police in Ferguson were anti-male? Why not? According to the logic of the liberal world, that should be the case. Since the disproportionate number of blacks arrested and shot exists and shows that the police are anti-black, then the disproportionate number of males shows the police are anti-male.”

Steve Sailer writes:

Have you ever noticed how in election years, some local police blotter item that can be spun as supposedly proving a vast national crisis of white racist violence against innocent blacks seem to become the most important new event of the century for awhile? For example, in 2006 there was the Duke Lacrosse Case, in 2012 12-year old Trayvon Martin was wantonly gunned down by a white man from across the street, and in 2014 there’s Ferguson, MO, a place I have to admit to never having heard of before this month.

It’s almost as if the national media and the Democratic Party naturally work together to try to boost black turnout in November by stoking racial hatred against whites.

What’s particularly striking is what a low batting average America’s liberal elites have in choosing an incident to go to war over. America is a huge country and bad things happen all the time, so you might think that just by random luck, the national press would manage to light upon a case that doesn’t unravel upon them. But they seldom seem to learn from all their previous travesties. In fact, conspicuously not learning anything is proof of moral and class superiority.

One telltale sign that it’s an election year is that data redolent of Blacks Behaving Badly gets brought up over and over in the press as simple-minded proof of White Racism, because having a more sophisticated understanding of the implications of the numbers is just evidence that you are a White Racist.

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Clerics Plead For Peace

The Los Angeles Times reports:

In the midst of horrific attacks that killed thousands and caused an exodus of Muslims from this African nation, clerics such as Nainangue reached across the sectarian divide to shelter those in danger and to preach reconciliation. Churches in remote towns threw open their doors to fleeing Muslims.

There was little open conflict between the faiths in the Central African Republic, where most people are Christians or animists, until a rebel coalition made up mostly of Muslims from the neglected and deeply impoverished northeast seized power last year. They unleashed a reign of terror; everyone suffered.

While for those people whose lives are saved, the clergy’s appeals are monumental, but in the end, either Islam or Christianity will win in Africa and the loser will be destroyed. In the end, it doesn’t matter much to plea for peace and to do kind things for outsiders. Life and evolution are ruthless. The fit will survive and losers will be wiped out. Currently in the world, Islam is winning and Christianity is losing.

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NYT: A Rabbi’s Decision to Step Down Touches on Questions of Jewish Identity

Notice in this story that pondering what it means to be Jewish and organizing Jews and promoting Jewish interests is a wonderful thing, but if whites were to do this, they would not get such respectful treatment from the MSM.

“Leafy, affluent Park Slope embodies the challenge facing modern American Jewry: Though many Jews live there, few are observant. So it was no small feat when Rabbi Andy Bachman took the helm of Congregation Beth Elohim in the Brooklyn neighborhood eight years ago and began attracting a vibrant congregation of Jewish atheists and agnostics, as well as the more traditionally religious.”

Can you imagine such a story about whites? “Leafy, affluent Beverly Hills embodies the challenge facing modern American whites: Though many live there, few are racially conscious. So it was no small feat when John Smith took the helm of the local European Heritage club and began attracting a vibrant group of previously racially blind whites as well as the more traditionally conscious whites.”

I went to Google News and found 1370 results for “Jewish identity” (none of them negative) and over 536,000 results across the web. “White identity” produces 31 (none of them positive) and 150,000 results respectively.

As Steve Sailer points out, “Jewish guilt” means not being ethnocentric enough while “white guilt” means being too ethnocentric. In other words, as a Jew, you can’t be too ethnocentric but any white ethnocentrism is unacceptable.

“The Reform synagogue drew young literati like Jonathan Safran Foer and catapulted to national attention as a model for what might bring some of the nation’s millions of Jews who are unaffiliated with synagogues back to the fold.”

Can you imagine the New York Times praising an intellectual such as Jared Taylor for bringing whites back into the fold of their identity as white?

“Drawn by big-name book talks, family-oriented religious classes and the rabbi’s teaching that to be Jewish is to do good in the world, membership doubled to more than a thousand families.”

There’s no reason white organizations should not do similar things. The goyim (whites) have as much of a right and a reason to organize in their group interest as do Jews. I don’t spend much time thinking about white identity and white interests because I primarily identify as an Orthodox Jew and I primarily think about Jewish concerns, but anyone who wants to learn about white identity should read Jared Taylor’s book White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century.

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Israel-Gaza Social Media Ceasefire?

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