1. Hajo Meyer on Jews and Palestine (must see video)
Gilad Atzmon: I think that this film is very effective, the message is clear and transparent.
I salute Dr Hajo Meyer and the person behind this short video.
However, Dr Meyer whom I admire says, "Jews were pioneers of inter-human ethics"
Though I agree and support Meyer's stand against Israel I also think that Meyer may be slightly wrong here. The Old Testament certainly contains some isolated patches of ethical insights. However, the vast majority of Jewish teaching, the Jewish Bible and the Talmud are anti humanist, non ethical, racially supremacist and tribally orientated.
I could agree with Meyer that Jesus Christ can be seen as the last Jewish prophet, and yet Christ's attempt to universalize Judaism was rejected by the Jews of his time. The rabbinical authorities have also rejected Jesus and his teaching since then.
As devastating as it may be, Israeli brutality is consistent with a very unfortunate yet common interpretation of Judaism and the spirit of the Old Testament.
Meyer ends up saying that "Israel destroys the Jewish world and the Jewish heritage."
Again, unlike Meyer I think that Israel is actually consistent with Jewish heritage. Within this very heritage, the voices of reason and universal ethics are always silenced by a brutal call for conformity. We do not know whether Israel is going to succeed in "destroying the Jewish world", however, we certainly witness an Israeli attempt to destroy the Palestinian people (in particular) and the Muslim world (in general). I guess that it is the Palestinians we should care for rather than the Jews or their heritage. I am sure that Dr Meyer would agree with me about that.
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3. Gilad Atzmon: WikiLeaks's Document suggests that Mossad Chief wanted to topple Iranian regime
Sunday, November 28, 2010 at 10:11PM Gilad Atzmon 
"According to a memo from August 2007, Dagan described to Under-Secretary of State Nicholas Burns the five pillars of Israel's Iran policy, among them the desire to spark a revolution.
The memo, says Dagan, wanted to enlist the student unions supporting democratic views in order to undermine the government's rule.
The Mossad chief also wanted to enlist local ethnic minorities to the task, including the Kurds and Balochis. These groups – especially the Balochis – have carried out terror attacks in Tehran for which the Islamic Republic has consistently blamed Israel. Seemingly, the Iranian regime was telling the truth all along.
As we all remember, last year thousands of Iranian students took to the streets to protest against the 'falsification of polls results'. I guess that by now the smoke starts to clear, we see who stood behind the riots in Iran. We also learn once more who are the real enemies of democracy.
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