What Syria’s refugees think about Israel might surprise you

Jews and Muslims are antagonists. Why would you expect anything else?

Imagine looking at the world if your IQ was 83. You’d be suspicious and surly too and prone to conspiracy theories.

Do you think Europe and America and Australia and Canada are going to more or less friendly to the Jews as their Muslims populations increase?

From The Jerusalem Post:

BERLIN: Israel’s government is in cahoots with Syrian President Bashar Assad. America wants to keep the Syrian civil war going for as long as possible. Russia is outmaneuvering the United States on the global stage.

Those are some of the viewpoints you’re likely to hear if you talk politics with Syrians pouring out of their war-torn country and into Europe.

When I went to Berlin recently to write about the wave of migrants arriving in Germany, one of the questions I was most curious about was something that had nagged at me since the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad began bombing its own people back in 2011: Now that you see the true face of your government, do you look at its longtime adversary, Israel, any differently? Could the enemy of your enemy be your friend?

But when it came to their views on Israel, there seemed to be more conspiracy theory than political theory. And I was surprised (though I probably shouldn’t have been) that for many Syrians, the defining element of their identity is sectarian rather than national, and therefore they’re more concerned with the divides among Alawites, Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds than the divide between Arab and Jew…

To my Western ear, many of the Syrians’ convictions sounded outlandish, incoherent or ignorant.

COMMENTS AT JP:

* Where are all the “Muslims for Peace” rallies? Why aren’t they protesting all the acts of terrorism? Why aren’t they telling ISIS to leave the Christians and Jews alone? Why aren’t they saying, stop raping and killing children? Why?

* Good for them…. still trying to throw the responsibility for what happened to their country to anyone else but themselves. And of course Israel will be guilty of whatever.

* There are 7 billion souls on this planet.
It is unrealistic that Europe can actually take in endless waves of people.
It is puzzling to me why so many of Europe’s elite are willing to commit national suicide.

* Has anyone in Israel considered the implications for the future when Germany and France are under a Muslim majority?

* The cheap teaser in this article is, “What Syria’s refugees think about Israel might surprise you”

There’s of course nothing surprising about these eternally Jew-hating vermin accusing Israel of being in “cahoots,” with Assad, as it is the best way to vilify the Syrian president. It’s a tactic that’s been used by one Muslim group against another many, many times in the past; there is no greater smear than to suggest that a Muslim or Muslim nation is engaged in anything with Israel other than the Jewish nation’s destruction.

The two things that are surprising about the refuges is that (1) they’re completely correct in their contention that Russia is outmaneuvering the United States on the global stage and (2) that they have been welcomed into Western nations, where they will undoubtedly contribute expeditiously to the destruction of those Western nations.

* Muslims/arabs are never ever responsible for their fate, or their situation. It’s always always some other nation, religion, or government that intentionally deliberately caused their predicament.

* No one is still surprised by what Arabs/ Islamist think about Israel. Anything they deem bad is the fault of Israel. Only the ignorant of reality in the Middle East are surprised.

* Why not just put a gun in the hands of the young people in the migrant flood, return them to Syria, and tell them to fight for their homeland if they really value it? Arabs seem incapable of taking care of themselves. Those that have great wealth are reluctant to share it, those with massive territory refuse to take in a single refugee, those with large armies refuse to use them. Is this what an admirable culture looks like?

* This article should be taken as a warning for the Jewish people. The Syrian refugees will spread their anti-Semitic and ant-Israel garbage in every country that lets them in. Germany taking in 800,000 thousands is especially ominous.

* This article is a very good example of several things:
1) lack of education in the ME,
2) Western superiority — no, wrong word — arrogance,
3) although acknowledging that we are all ‘kids of Adam and Eve,” strongly indicating that you think that ‘your’ kids are superior, while your kids sit in heated rooms watching flat-screen TVs and ours just watched their parents or brothers shot by terrorists who just raped their mother and sold their sisters. Terrorists whom the US is supporting, training, and arming, and
4) no solution to the problem — only finger-pointing.

So tell me, with no solution, why do you think are you superior? Your president has not only enabled Daesh to grow (and presented a hefty, illogical bill to US taxpayers), but trained Daesh, AND even given them weapons. It seems that most al-Nusra (al-Qaeda) terrorists (same guys responsible for 9/11 – remember that?) get trained by the CIA, then turn over to Daesh, while the US lets Turkey into the anti-Daesh ‘war’ — only so the US can turn their backs while Turkey kills the Kurds.

* I don’t want refuges from the Middle East because their view of life is so much different than mine that they will change our way of life permanently.

* If the Germans are to survive, they had better exterminate those traitors in power at present and place a Putinesque type in power and start building the infrastructure for a hi-tech Final Solution Mk2 . This time get the RIGHT race

I live in hope that there is some fact behind this;” Israel is Developing ‘Ethnic Bomb’ for Growing Biological Weapons Arsenal” and the program is well under way.

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NYC mayor urges Syrian Jews to empathize with refugees

Who wants to empathize with Americans?

I suspect that Syrian Jews in America don’t feel great ties to Syria. The country was never that wonderful to them.

REPORT: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio in a Sabbath address to a Syrian Jewish synagogue called on congregants to empathize with Muslim refugees from their shared homeland.

The Shabbat worshipers at the Orthodox Congregation Shaare Zion in Brooklyn appeared to disapprove with the mayor’s address, the New York Post reported Sunday, noting that the congregants murmured uncomfortably as he compared Syrian refugees fleeing their country’s civil war with Jews fleeing the Nazis.

“I know this community understands deeply the pain of any family that must leave a homeland they love because they were forced away by violence and discrimination,” said de Blasio, calling on people to “look at history.”

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Refugees In Israel

From the African Refugee Development Center:

Israel is a reluctant host to 46,437 African asylum seekers predominantly from Eritrea (73%) and Sudan (19%) and a small minority (8%) arriving from several other African countries. The state policy toward asylum seekers (particularly Eritreans and Sudanese) is one of temporary non-deportation, officially referred to as “group protection.” Asylum seekers in Israel are denied basic rights and access to social services and the government of Israel has employed various policies to pressure asylum seekers to leave – including indefinite arbitrary detention, refusal to accept and review asylum claims, limitation of access to basic state-sponsored services, incitement and coerced repatriation. The Supreme Court of Israel has, in two distinct decisions, affirmed that the State’s treatment of African asylum seekers is unacceptable and violates fundamental laws concerning human dignity and liberty. The Court insisted on a comprehensive policy that seriously tackles this issue, but the government remains noncompliant.

Prevention of Infiltration Law

The Prevention of Infiltration Law was passed and implemented in the 1950s, to address Palestinian refugees who re-entered Israel after the establishment of the state of Israel. Whether seeking to return to their homes or to commit terrorist attacks, these individuals were identified as “infiltrators,” highlighting the illegal nature of their border-crossing and the perceived danger they posed to national security. Since 2008, the government of Israel began to apply this term to African asylum seekers and actively sought to utilize the Law against them. In the subsequent years, the Israeli Knesset worked diligently to draft a new amendment to the Law that would officially include African asylum seekers. In 2011 the Knesset successfully passed Amendment III (Amendment I and II referred to Palestinian populations) and implemented it in 2012.

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Newsweek: To Undermine ISIS, We Should Welcome Syrian Refugees

I see no place to comment on this essay.

I am surprised by the number of Republicans who echo these talking points.

The essay does not mention the low average IQ of Syrians (about 83).

By Kim Cragin and Ben Connable of Rand Corporation:

It will take some time to parse all of the events in the Paris attacks, but reporting indicates that at least one of the suicide bombers used a stolen Syrian passport and followed the refugee path to France via Turkey and Greece.

This one attacker now has politicians on both sides of the Atlantic calling for moratoria on Syrian refugee programs.

We argue that the opposite approach—taking in even more Syrian refugees—is not only humane but could bleed the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) dry and deliver the kind of “strategic messaging” victory sought by the U.S.-led coalition.

The United Nations has registered 4.3 million refugees from the conflict in Syria and an additional 370,000 from Iraq. Approximately 123,000 of these refugees have sought asylum in Europe. Together, Canada and the United States have taken in about 5,400.

The international media have documented their journeys. These refugees have risked hypothermia, starvation and death. Families have been separated, and many loved ones have been lost. Yet they keep leaving their homes in search of a safer, better life.

These people deserve compassion for what they have experienced and admiration for their bravery. Of the 123,000, just one has so far been implicated in an attack.

The humanitarian crisis, by any measure, outweighs the risk. But that was known before the attacks in Paris. The challenge is that these attacks have increased pressure on government officials to do more. The calls for action are drowning out the cries for compassion. Instead of blocking Syrian refugees, more should be done. Taking in more Syrians could help defeat ISIS.

After all, what good is an Islamic caliphate if nobody wants to live there?

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The Neocon Takeover Of The Conservative Movement

Paul Gottfried and Pat Buchanan don’t make the list. Nobody from Chronicles magazine (paleo-conservative). Ann Coulter and Mark Steyn are near the top, but their foreign policy has been largely neocon.

From RightWingNews:

50) Katie Kieffer
49) Thomas Purcell
48) Rachel Alexander
47) Kathy Shaidle
46) Susan Stamper Brown
45) Debra Saunders
44) Ben Domenech
43) Daniel Greenfield
42) Jeff Jacoby
41) John Fund
40) David Harsanyi
39) Cal Thomas
38) Jamie Weinstein
37) Mike Adams
36) Jack Kelly
35) Michael Barone
34) Doug Giles
33) Erick Erickson
32) Ross Douthat
31) James Antle
30) Philip Klein
29) Andrew McCarthy
28) John Ransom
27) Glenn Reynolds
26) Charles Cooke
25) Charles Krauthammer
24) Larry Elder
23) Dennis Prager
22) John Nolte
21) Megan McArdle
20) Matt Lewis
19) David Limbaugh
18) Todd Starnes
17) Rich Lowry
16) Kevin Williamson
15) John Stossel
14) Ashe Schow
13) Walter Williams
12) James Pethokoukis
11) Michelle Malkin
10) Victor Davis Hanson
9) Byron York
8) Milo Yiannopoulos
7) Ben Shapiro
6) Jonah Goldberg
5) Kurt Schlichter
4) Thomas Sowell
3) Ann Coulter
2) Mark Steyn
1) Matt Walsh

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Us Vs Them

Anybody can understand the mentality of “us vs. them.” It’s the most basic divide.

The stronger your group identity, the more likely you are to have negative views of outsiders.

Nationalism is the most powerful political force in the world. It’s like fire. Very dangerous and very powerful.

There’s a tremendous dark side to “us vs. them” thinking but there is a tremendous dark side to avoiding “us vs. them” thinking. The West has been overrun with pathological altruism.

The audio montage in the following report? I love it!

The New York Times says:

The most striking hallmark was Mr. Trump’s constant repetition of divisive phrases, harsh words and violent imagery that American presidents rarely use, based on a quantitative comparison of his remarks and the news conferences of recent presidents, Democratic and Republican. He has a particular habit of saying “you” and “we” as he inveighs against a dangerous “them” or unnamed other — usually outsiders like illegal immigrants (“they’re pouring in”), Syrian migrants (“young, strong men”) and Mexicans, but also leaders of both political parties.

At an event in Raleigh, N.C., on Friday evening, his voice scratchy and hoarse, Mr. Trump was asked by a 12-year-old girl from Virginia, “I’m scared — what are you going to do to protect this country?”

“You know what, darling? You’re not going to be scared anymore. They’re going to be scared. You’re not going to be scared,” Mr. Trump said, before describing the Sept. 11 terrorists as “animals” who sent their families back to the Middle East. “We never went after them. We never did anything. We have to attack much stronger. We have to be more vigilant. We have to be much tougher. We have to be much smarter, or it’s never, ever going to end.”

While many candidates appeal to the passions and patriotism of their crowds, Mr. Trump appears unrivaled in his ability to forge bonds with a sizable segment of Americans over anxieties about a changing nation, economic insecurities, ferocious enemies and emboldened minorities (like the first black president, whose heritage and intelligence he has all but encouraged supporters to malign).

“‘We vs. them’ creates a threatening dynamic, where ‘they’ are evil or crazy or ignorant and ‘we’ need a candidate who sees the threat and can alleviate it,” said Matt Motyl, a political psychologist at the University of Illinois at Chicago who is studying how the 2016 presidential candidates speak. “He appeals to the masses and makes them feel powerful again: ‘We’ need to build a wall on the Mexican border — not ‘I,’ but ‘we.’”

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Afghan Migrant Brutally Raped And Burnt To Death Young European Because She Wanted To Break Up

From Breitbart: An Afghan migrant has been sentenced to life imprisonment in Finland for brutally murdering a teenage lover ten years his junior because she didn’t want to continue the relationship.

The 17-year-old Finnish girl had only dated Ramin Azimi for a month before she tried to end their relationship. The court heard how she had wanted to see another man, but Mr. Azimi demanded marriage and children of her. When she wouldn’t cooperate, Mr. Azimi attacked the young woman while she was out jogging.

Equipped with spare clothing, rope and gasoline, the Afghan asylum seeker raped his former lover in revenge for leaving him. Having completed this act, Mr. Azimi then tied the girl to a chair in an abandoned shed, poured petrol over her, and set her alight.

The body of the young woman was later discovered by dogs after her disappearance had been reported to police by her parents.

When arrested Mr. Azimi told police he had tried to commit suicide by burning himself, and his girlfriend had rushed to his aid. In doing so she herself was caught in the burning building but he escaped unharmed. The court rejected this version of events.

The prosecutor said Mr. Azimi killed because he was consumed with jealousy, and even said his struggles with obtaining Finnish citizenship had played a part in driving him to kill.

Judged sane by a court psychiatrist, the perpetrator — a long-time resident of Finland but without Finnish citizenship — has now been sentenced to life imprisonment for the sadistic killing.

Although this is his first criminal offence, he has not been averse to creating trouble. The court heard how he had recently knocked his own mother to the floor, fought with siblings, and punched a friend in the nose so “blood was pouring hard”, reports Iltalehti.fi.

Bizarrely, while Mr. Azimi was ordered to pay €60,000 to the parents of the deceased girl in compensation, he was ordered to pay an even larger amount — €69,000 — to the insurance company responsible for the building he burnt down with his victim inside it.

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Harvard On Jews (1922)

From The Nation Sept. 6, 1922:

There is unanimous agreement in this group that a college education is more than a matter of “academic knowledge,” rather, it consists of “social, intellectual, and athletic achievement. Admission to the college cannot be based on mere knowledge”; “personality must be taken into account.” “Were it only a matter of scholarship, there would be no objections to Jews at all.” But “they do not mix. They destroy the unity of the college. They are distasteful to the men who have made Harvard what it is today, and if we do not look out, these men will not send their sons to Harvard.”

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This argument reminds me of the 1940 essay “The Reasoned Case Against Semitism” by Australian nationalist P.R. Stephensen:

Essentially, Jews are a minority, self-differentiated as such, a Race Apart not only from the rest of mankind, speaking generally, but also from any particular community in the midst of which they may reside. This fact makes the usual postulates of political discussion—namely, universal humanitarianism, or, alternately, the welfare of a National Unit, considered as a Whole—inapplicable to the Jewish Question. It is absurd for Jews to preach (as many of them do) that men are all of one Kind, while this preachment is belied by the fact that the Jews themselves, by their own Choice, remain a different Kind from all other kinds of men. Similarly it would be absurd for Jews to preach the welfare and advancement of any one nation as a paramount political consideration, while holding themselves racially apart from the majority in that nation. It can never be true that “all men are brothers,” either within one nation or in the world at large, while Jews continue to practice an extreme form of biological differentiation through rigid selective breeding.

Jews cannot “have it both ways.” They cannot expect to be listened-to with respect when they preach to Gentiles the Universal Oneness of Mankind, while at the same time they, as Jews, remain a Race Apart. It is when this discrepancy between their words and their actions is recognized, that Jews become disliked by non-Jews. Nobody likes to be humbugged, either by financial confidence-tricks, or by metaphysical and political verbal play. In brief, if Jews are going to persist in keeping themselves racially apart from the rest of mankind or from a particular nation, then they should also keep themselves politically apart. The Antisemite brings this point of view to the fore. He starts from the same premise as the Jews themselves—namely that the Jews, by their deliberate practice of Racialism, are differentiated from non-Jews. But, as soon as this differentiation is accepted as an unalterable fact, and is brought to the full consciousness of non-Jews, a prejudice is created against Jews, in the minds of non-Jews, which makes a further dispassionate or detached discussion of the entire topic virtually impossible. The implication of the Jewish practice of Racialism is unmistakably Themselves First—Themselves versus the Rest. Once understood, that constitutes a challenge to the Rest of Us which cannot conscientiously be disregarded.

The discussion, then, comes down to prejudice versus prejudice, the result of a clash of interests which cannot be resolved by any form of words. Carried further, this means propaganda versus propaganda—a process termed, by both sides, “enlightenment.” The most honest thing to do is to avow the prejudice, and stand on it. As a non-Jew, I avow that my prejudices are non-Jewish; and this means that, in any conflict of interests between Jews, on the one hand, and non-Jews on the other, my instincts place me naturally in the non-Jewish camp. When I see an organized minority of Jews, actuated by their self-interest, engaging in operations for their own sectional self-aggrandizement as against the interests of the community-as-a-whole or of the non-Jewish majority in it, then, as a non-Jew, I claim the same right to organize non-Jews as the Jews have claimed and obtained to organize themselves. The political validity of Antisemitism is thus on a plane no higher, or no lower, than that of Antisemitism; for, if there were no Semitism, there would be no need of Antisemitism to counteract it. While organized Semitism operates as a political activity in Australia, there can surely be no logical objection, among “Liberal” political thinkers, to the existence of the counteracting, or counter-balancing, activity of Antisemitism—provided always that the antidote is merely of sufficient strength to neutralize the irritant, and does not in itself become toxic.

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Hitler On America’s Immigration Policy (1933)

From The New Republic Feb. 15, 1933:

His greeting, when I was introduced to him, was perfunctory, suggesting latent hostility, and my first question brought this forth into full flame. I had asked him whether his anti-Semitism concerned Jews everywhere or whether he had something specific against German-Jews as such.

“In America you exclude any would-be immigrants you do not care to admit,” he said emphatically. “You regulate that number. Not content with that, you prescribe their physical condition. Not content with that, you insist on the conformity of their political opinions. We demand the same right in Germany. We have no concern with the Jews of other lands, but we are very much concerned about the anti-German elements within our country. We demand the right to deal with these elements as we see fit. Jews have been the intellectual proponents of subversive anti-German movements, and as such they must be dealt with.”

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Newsweek: Non-Jewish Refugees Get a Cold Shoulder in Israel

I admire how Israel protects itself despite world pressure to diminish its Jewish state.

All nations should protect themselves from the importation of people who are not a good fit.

No country has a moral obligation to destroy itself (aka import the world’s trash).

Newsweek: Usumain Baraka was 9 when Arab Janjaweed militants destroyed his village in Darfur in 2004, killing his father and brother. After four years in a Sudanese refugee camp, Baraka says, he wanted a better future.

At the time, he says, he thought “Israel was the only democracy in the Middle East…. I really related to the Jewish people because of the Holocaust and thought they would identify with me because of the genocide in Darfur.”

At the age of 13, Baraka trekked from Sudan into Egypt, and then over the Egyptian border into Israel. Instead of a safe haven, he found himself in a country that wanted nothing to do with him. “They don’t even check our refugee requests,” says Baraka, who is now 20 and lives and volunteers in a youth village in northern Israel.

He is one of the nearly 65,000 Africans who, according to Israeli government figures, crossed into Israel illegally between 2006 and 2013. Approximately 45,000 remain. More than 33,000 of the asylum seekers in Israel are from Eritrea, while 8,500 are from Sudan—countries the UNHCR says are, respectively, the 10th and fourth largest sources of refugees in the world. Israel has granted refugee status to just four Eritrean refugees and not a single one from Sudan.

As European governments grapple with how to handle hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants, mostly from Syria but also from Sudan, Eritrea, Afghanistan and other troubled countries, some in Europe are now looking to Israel for lessons in how to keep out asylum seekers.

The irony here is that it was the international failure to assist Jews during the Holocaust that led to the 1951 United Nations Refugee Convention, the first international agreement addressing the rights of refugees and states’ obligations to them. Today, 148 nations are signatories to this legal document, vowing to never again turn their backs on those fleeing persecution and genocide.

That tragic period also led to the establishment of Israel, a safe haven for oppressed Jews around the world. The Jewish state was among the first countries to sign the U.N. Refugee Convention, as its people, perhaps more than anyone, knew what it was like to be unwelcome.

While Israel remains a haven for Jewish refugees, Israeli officials and the media routinely disparage non-Jewish African asylum seekers. In August, Israeli Interior Minister Silvan Shalom declared, “I will not relent until we reach a framework that will allow the removal of the infiltrators from Israel.”

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