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January 05, 2009
The Unbearable Lightness of the Blood Libel
In the middle-ages, Christians in Europe routinely accused Jews of killing Christian children in order to use their blood to bake the Passover matzo.
This was a Blood Libel. And it usually resulted in pogroms where entire Jewish communities were given the choice of converting or having their throats slit. Often, entire Jewish communities were martyred.
The Blood Libel was not only a lie, but it turned reality on its head in the most gruesome fashion, for Jewish law is meticulous in forbidding the eating of blood, in any form.
The classical Blood Libel has virtually disappeared from the European Christian world—the Blood Libel never made any headway in America, American Christians have always been deeply anchored in the Jewish bible.
But the Blood Libel lives on in the Arab world, literally. It was dramatized in an Egyptian multi-mini-series Horseman Without a Horse, with a scene of a Jew slitting the throat of an Arab child, perhaps the gruesome scene I have ever had the misfortune to screen. This mini-series remains the most watched and most popular drama in the Arab world.
The Blood Libel has mutated into general and vicious attack on the Jewish State, whereby every action taken by Israel is condemned through a series of vile lies and distortions.
Currently, Israel is accused of the massacre of citizens in Gaza—patently untrue. Ignored is the fact that Israel, more than any other country under arms, goes to the greatest lengths to avoid civilian casualties. In fact, the IDF sent thousands of text messages, plus 90,000 phone calls to the residents of Gaza warning them to vacate homes that were used by Hamas as weapons depots, 90,000 warnings on how to avoid being a casualty.
Further, precision bombing has minimized civilian casualties.
Ignored by the world is the fact that Hamas have been firing missiles into Israel for years. In fact, as soon as the Israeli government expelled 9,000 Jews from Gaza, Hamas declared victory and commenced their brutal missile offensive on Israeli civilians. Since the Hamas aggression began 25% of the residents of S'derot have abandoned that unhappy city. How long can one endure when the sky is screaming and the earth is on fire?
In truth, Hamas are responsible for every civilian death in Gaza for they use civilians as human shields.
Most perverse is that the world relentlessly accuses Israel of crimes that are, in fact, widespread in the Arab Muslim world—the murder and torture of civilians, a savage disregard for human life, and a casual acceptance of cruelty and murder.
Indeed, a death cult grips the Arab Muslim world, personified by the beheadings of so-called infidels, and homicide bombings carried out as regularly and casually as reruns of an old TV show.
That the dinosaur media focuses exclusively on so-called civilian casualties in Gaza—Hamas terrorists on a gurney are invariably counted as civilians because they are not wearing uniforms—is proof that the media are either stupid or willing dupes of Islamic terrorists.
The world-wide demonstrations against Israel are a massive blood libel.
The round the clock reports on CNN and other networks, where moral idiots called anchors and journalists, count dead Arabs as a proof of Israel's “war crimes,” are a blood libel.
The sophisticates in the U.N. routinely engage in the blood libel.
The leaders of the European countries have returned to their comfortable Jew-hating roots by coddling up to Arab Muslim terrorists—first it was Arafat, now it's Hamas, Hizbullah and Iran—and roundly condemning Israel for having the temerity to exercise national self defense.
The sacred Hamas Covenant, ratified in 1988, is a proudly Jew-hating document that revives The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, calls for the complete elimination of the State of Israel and of Jews everywhere, is a classic blood libel.
And of course, the greatest blood libel of all is that the Western media never, but never cites this frankly genocidal document as the founding constitution of the Palestinian State—Gaza.
The hard-working Jack is up with Gaza Update #9.
Seraphic Secret is busy, busy, busy today—conference call, screenplay to polish—but we will try and update as often as we can. And please forgive our tardiness in responding to comments. We are just buried. Also, our spam filter is having a nervous breakdown and spamming legitimate e-mail.
Aussie Dave and The Muqata continue to live-blog the war. These two bloggers are an invaluable source of information and impressions.
Seraphic Secret took part in a conference call for bloggers with the San Francisco Israeli Consul-General. Omri, of the most excellent Mere Rhetoric, sums up the conversation here.
Hey, how about a morale booster? Okay, if you insist.
Brigitte Bardot says: “Go IDF.”
My good friend Dirty Harry has been tapped by Andrew Breitbart as Editor-in-Chief of the exciting new blog Big Hollywood.
I've been asked to be a regular contributor, a great honor, for the list of contributors is long and impressive.
My first article is "The Real Battle of Algiers," a two part essay that illuminates the skillful jihadist propaganda that is Gillo Pontecorvo's film, The Battle of Algiers. I examine the true historical record, the inconvenient facts excluded from the film, including the horrifying Muslim Jew-hatred that helped fuel the battle of Algiers, and the eventual expulsion of Algeria's entire and ancient Jewish community by the Algerian terrorists after the French surrendered.
As I've said many times, movies are a moral landscape.
The Battle of Algiers is a movie that inhabits a deeply immoral and dishonest landscape. It's a beautifully crafted film, but at the core it is a stealth piece of Jihadist propaganda. Like Leni Riefenstahl's work for the Nazis and Sergei Eisenstein's films for the Soviet Communists, Pontecorvo's movie is in service to a totalitarian and genocidal ideology.
Big Hollywood makes its debut tomorrow, Tuesday January 6, 2009.
And here's Big Hollywood founder Andrew Breitbart on this much-needed new corner of the blogosphere:
On Tuesday, I launch Big Hollywood (bighollywood.breitbart .com), a big group blog that will feature hundreds of the big minds from the fields of politics, journalism, entertainment and culture.
Big Hollywood is not a “celebrity” gabfest or a gossip outpost - it is a continuous politics and culture posting board for those who think something has gone drastically wrong and that Hollywood should return to its patriotic roots.
Big Hollywood’s modest objective: to change the entertainment industry. To make Hollywood something we can believe in - again. In order to give millions of Americans hope.
Until conservatives, libertarians and Republicans - who will be the lion’s share of Big Hollywood’s contributors - recognize that (pop) culture is the big prize and that politics is secondary, there will be no victory in this important battle.
To read the complete article, please go to Dirty Harry's:
Staged Photos are pouring out of Gaza. The Arab Muslim world understands that truth matters little to the mainstream media, image is all, and so they shamelessly stage false scenes to increase the public perception of the Arabs as eternal victims. And the Western press, slaves to Hamas in Gaza, or their kneecaps will be blown off, cooperate in this terrorist enterprise.
The Persians—what a shock—are volunteering to go to Allah, by slaughtering Jews, natch. The Iranians are yapping away because their proxy army in Gaza, Hamas, are collapsing, taking massive casualties. The IDF have captured numerous terrorist prisoners—that will result in piles of intel that will lead directly back to Tehran. The IDF has displayed most excellent intel-gathering in the Gaza and the Persians must know that the Israelis will, any day, come screaming across the sky and reduce the Nantaz Nuclear facility to nothingness. Anyhoo, most anxious to see how the Mullahs plan to get these 70,000 volunteers to Israel. Perhaps El-Al. As my friend Omri comments: Whatever.
3:34 pm PST Jack, Jack, Jack, don't you ever sleep? The man is a marvel. Here he is with Gaza War Update 9.5.
3:45 pm PST Seraphic Secret has quite a few loyal readers in Melbourne, Australia. We'd like you to know that your lovely city is home to Jew-hating Islamists who would gladly slit your throat if they knew that you were friends with yours truly, a Zionist, and hey, a Hollywood Jew. Here are a few pictures of your peace loving Muslim neighbors from yesterday's rally.
4:07 pm PST Okay, time for a much needed break from the war in Gaza for a totally random bit of Hollywood trivia. This is one of my favorite true Hollywood stories.
Joan Bennett
In 1951, Hollywood star Joan Bennett met with her agent Jennings Lang to discuss a project. In fact, they were having an affair. Bennett's husband, producer Walter Wanger—at the time his brilliant career was sort of in the toilet—spotted his wife and Lang parked in her convertible. Wanger walked up, pulled a gun and blam! blam! fired twice, hitting Lang in the groin and the hip. Thankfully, the wounds were not mortal and Lang survived. Later, Bennett delivered one of the greatest lines in Hollywood history when she told her husband: “Walter, he was only an agent!”
10:18 pm PST IDF troops training for war in Gaza. Good stuff.
10:25 pm PST I don't think you'll see this story in the dinosaur media because, y'know, it reveals Hamas as utter and complete barbarians. Hamas Declares Open Season on Jewish Children.
10:34 pm PST Jew-haters here, Jew-haters there, Jew-haters in Anaheim. Notice the forward fashion sense of this Jew-hating jihadist female/whatever. The Black burqua is the new, um, black burqua. And get a load of the official “Hey I'm the Next Homicide Bomber Headband.” Very Woodstock. And the Lone Ranger mask is, well, mysterioso, right? Just hints at the hidden depths of Jihad Jane.
10:46 pm PST Joshua Pundit was in on the Consul-General conference call this morning and when I heard his voice I wanted to blurt out, real fan boy style, “Love your blog. Can I puh-leese be a member of Joshua's Army.” But yours truly managed to keep mouth firmly shut. Anyhoo, here's Joshua Pundit with the Latest From the Gaza Front.
10:59 pm PST Okay, gotta go. I DVR'd the season premiere of The Bachelor. I just gotta find out what happens with Jason. This show is ultra brilliant, Hitchkockian (suspense) meets Busby Berkeley (endless babes.) Hey, even Seraphic Secret does not live by classic Hollywood films alone.
Say good night, BB.
Posted by Robert J. Avrech at January 5, 2009 08:48 AM
Comments
Seraphic Secret is private property, that's right, it's an extension of our home, and as such, Karen and I have instituted two Seraphic Rules and we ask commentors to act respectfully.
1. No profanity.2. No Israel bashing. We debate, we discuss, we are respectful. You know what Israel bashing is. The world is full of it. Seraphic Secret is one of the few places in the world that will not tolerate this form of anti-Semitism. That's it. Break either of these rules and you will be banned.
One wonders why Egypt doesn't bring medical supplies, medivac helicopers, mobile hospitals to their border with Gaza to help treat the wounded.
Posted by: Adam at January 5, 2009 10:41 AM
It's because Egypt, to their credit, know what scum Hamas are.
I just wish they had the courage to say so more plainly.
Posted by: Kent G. Budge at January 5, 2009 11:18 AM
Well said, Robert.
Posted by: kishke at January 5, 2009 11:42 AM
Excellent blog Robert and thank you for your faithful effort in keeping it so active. I simply want to register support for you and for Israel. My husband and I are as sickened by media bias as you are. As an aside, I learned of your blog through Jackie Danicki's blog.
Keep up the great work and know that there are supporters out here.
Posted by: Melinda at January 5, 2009 12:25 PM
It is shameful that the IDF whilst trying to be humanitarian and sometimes putting its own soldiers at risk in the pursuit of civilian safety, is condemned by much of the world.Our enemies do not believe anybody would risk themselves in such a way as they have no concept of honour or decency...we fight savages.
Posted by: thud at January 5, 2009 01:55 PM
This might sound like a very naive thought, but since most of the world would love it if Israel would just disappear, I wonder what WOULD happen, if G-d forbid, there were no Israel. What would all of these countries/entities be able to accomplish if the 'evil Zionists' were no longer 'in their way'. I'm sure they'd eat each other for lunch until there was nothing left. Is there an end goal to their quest for Judenrein or do they even know what it is?
Posted by: Rachel at January 5, 2009 03:07 PM
Shock and Horror: Hamas Says Assoud the Jihad Bunny Mortally Wounded in Israeli Airstrike.
Farfour (the martyred mouse) eagerly awaiting his arrival in paradise.....
Posted by: Lance at January 5, 2009 03:35 PM
Adam:
Egypt are most anxious for Hamas to be destroyed. Hamas is an off-shoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, whose stated goal is the overthrow of the Egyptian government, to be replaced by a sharia ruling Islamic tyranny.
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at January 5, 2009 05:45 PM
Kent:
Courage is not a quality easily found in the Arab Muslim world.
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at January 5, 2009 05:54 PM
Kishke:
What, no haiku:-)
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at January 5, 2009 05:57 PM
Robert:
A lot of us at Dirty Harry's Place look forward to reading you at Big Hollywood as well as here.
The fact that Egypt is not helping Hamas when they share a border just as Israel does proves what a lie it is that the evil Jews are starving Gaza of food and medicine and deserve to have rockets fired on Sderot. If even Egypt doesn't want to help Hamas, it tells you something about the people in charge of Gaza.
Does the story about Joan Bennet mean that agents are lower on the Hollywood pecking order than writers?
Posted by: Johnny at January 5, 2009 06:08 PM
Jack, Jack, Jack, don't you ever sleep?
Not nearly enough. I burn the candle from both ends and the middle. ;)
Posted by: Jack at January 5, 2009 07:13 PM
Congratulations on the Big Hollywood blog! So nice to hear good news on a day when we hear about the loss of 3. Unlike those who cheer for their homicidal "Martyrs", each of our deaths is a profound grief. May G-D protect all IDF and civilians.
Thank you for your posts.
Posted by: Katherine at January 5, 2009 07:45 PM
Heard you on the conference call today. Just FYI, I linked to your article from Sometimes You Just Can`t Change A Mind.
Posted by: bernieg2 at January 5, 2009 09:38 PM
Johnny:
Any friend of Dirty Harry...
Hey, have you heard the story about the Polish actress?
She slept with the screenwriter.
Ba-dam.
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at January 5, 2009 11:09 PM
Lance:
What a link! Depressing and infuriating.
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at January 5, 2009 11:12 PM
Melinda:
Thanks so much for dropping by and commenting. Jackie urged us to start Seraphic Secret back in '04. She is our blogmother. A great and fine lady.
Do stay in touch.
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at January 5, 2009 11:16 PM
Thud:
I believe that intolerance of Israel's humanitarian efforts is proof positive that almost all all anti-Zionism is Jew-hatred in disguise. This includes CNN and the BBC.
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at January 5, 2009 11:22 PM
Some post. Great work.
Yesterday I did the modern version of rolling bandages.
Posted by: Batya at January 6, 2009 12:24 AM
Most of the arguments against Israel say that the rockets are sent because of the blockage.
They fail to mention that the blockage was done because of the rockets in the first place.
IOW, Israel put off this military offensive in the hopes that there was some humnanity in Hamas that would want to end the suffering of their people.
One thing about the suffering of civilians. They voted for Hamas two feet first.
They knew that this day might come, including their children suffering. But they were hoping to throw the Jews into the sea.
This reminds me of the criminal in jail, who tells the warden that he hates having a roommate who raped, killed and then butchered a 9 year old girl.
The warden said, you should have thought of that when you committed crimes.
Posted by: Adam at January 6, 2009 06:30 AM