-"Israel has become a routine destination for the global trafficking of women," noted Leonard Fein in a 1998 Jewish Bulletin,
"women coerced into prostitution. The thousand such women brought into Israel annually derive principally from the countries of the former Soviet Union, and the way they get to Israel is that they are 'purchased,' each one costing between $10,000 and $20,000. And they are, of course, expected to repay the cost to their masters through what amounts to indentured servitude -- or, if you prefer the simpler and more straightforward, slavery ... Some [are] as young as 15, and even 12 ... Each woman earns between $50,000 and $100,000 for her pimp. The turnover of the prostitution trade in Israel comes to some $450 million a year." [FEIN, 1998, p. 21]
- One Hundred and fifty brothels in Israel alone
"The situation," wrote Jewish author David Weinberg in an 1998 article about prostitution in Israel entitled Not So Holy Land, "is enough to make you cry in despair, or vomit from shame." [WEINBERG, D., 1-18-98, p. 8]
Is this what Jews are fighting for? Seems to me like what is now Israel was better off before 1948.
Now lets look at Jewish geneology:
Jews are so proud to be the so called descendants of the ancient Israelites. First of all, the first Jew, Abraham, did not come from Israel and the land was already settled when he came there. Also-they have done studies on Jews today and it is very unclear how many modern day Jews have any significant lineage to Biblical Jews. Throughout the last two thousand years they have been mixing with groups from every nation. Thats why Russian Jews look like Russians, Iranian Jews look like Iranians etc. Palestinians have more of a connection to the orginal Jews than do the Ashkenazi or the Sephardic Jews since the Palestinians have lived on the land CONTINUOUSLY since ancient times and were most likely Judeans who later converted to Islam or Christianity. That is why Palestinian Arabs are genetically closer to Jews than other Arabs according to many studies.
In history as well there have been thousands and thousands of converts to Judaism in the Slavic lands, Europe, and the Middle East. It is possible that most of todays Jews are only the "spiritual decendants" of the ancient Judeans and have no blood conection.
Now back to Abraham: Since the first Jews came from the North ,which is today around the area of Northern Iraq and Armenia, Jews are not a semetic people. Based on a study done on the skull of Jewish people ( the skull is a very acurate way of determining ethinicity, it was found that the ancient Jews were more similar to todays Kurds of Nothern Iraq as well as todays Armenians who have been living in the area of what is today Eastern Turkey for three thousand years, as well as to the before mentioned Palesinians.
So basically Jews have a very unclear connection to the ancient Judeans who were also not originally from Israel!
Now lets look at Jewish crime in the world:
-The Russian Jewish Mafia is Huge
- Jews have started many sin citys in the World including Las vegas
- The proportion of Jews in the US porn Industry is ridiculous. Now thats quite a contribution to our society.
and the list goes on and on
I really feel sorry for the Jews out there who still have dignity.
And what is your point here? Have you taken a look at your beloved country America?
I don't subscribe to everything that Israel is doing, however this stuff you're spewing reeks of anti-semetics probably from some anti-Jew website.
Can you express something of substance instead of this garbage? Increasingly intelligent debate is becoming as distinct as the dinosaur around some of these forums.
There is a difference of being anti Jew and of being critical of Israeli policies and of the situation there.
I never said America was perfect. Was there any part of my post that compared America to Israel? My point was that Israel is not exactly the Holy Land that some people living in a dream world think it is. These days it is so taboo to think critically and question what goes on in the Jewish world that most people today are brainwashed like I used to be.
No offense to you but it is so typical for people to cry anti semetism when someone points out some of the problems in Jewish society.
And no my post didn't come from one website. Most of what I posted came from a variety of different sources. For example what I wrote about Jewish ancestry comes from different studies, one of them which is called the Kevin Brook study and it is totally neutral to the whole Israel -Palestine garbage.
There are few people with Jewish background like me (my father's side is Jewish) who have oppened their eyes to the realty of what is going on. I have respect to the others on this board who think critically. In addition my grandmother was a survivor on Schindler's list. She suffered worse than many Jews in the US who bought their way out of Europe before ww2 started or were already living here and came from old money. Believe me I have grown up with Jews my whole life and know what is going on. There are many a great Jews who I have met and who I would die for but there are also too many livining in a fantasy about what Judaism is.
It's a joke to cry anti semetism whenever someone brings up valid points.
What is the point in bringing up how many brothels are in Israel? They are a free society like the US is and that’s a lot more than you can say about most Arab populations who critique every thing Israel does and say little to their own who commit much worse atrocities.
Now I can respect a reasonable position Mr. P, however pointing out how many brothels are in Israel and pointing out “Jewish crime” around the world? In my opinion it reeks of anti-Jew not criticism.
What you’ve posted here about Abraham not coming from Israel, how could he since he was their father? Israel wasn’t even in existence then. Abraham is the father of both Hebrews (Israelis/Jews) and Arabs and they are indeed related in bloodline to Abraham however this is the only point in your post worth replying to. The rest of it is nonsense as it serves little for critique and much for accusation.
Every nation on earth and their land have changed hands over the centuries a dozen times over, that’s just was the way of the ages. Facts are there is a lineage tie to Israelis as well as Arabs in that land period, regardless of who Jews or Arabs mixed their blood with over the centuries.
You want to argue about the Jews and Palestinian crisis ok then let’s do so, that is what this particular forum is about. However pointing out “Jewish crime” or “Jewish prostitution” serves little in my opinion but to denigrate instead of educate. This is why I believed your post is anti-Semitic in nature not because you have some valid points but because it does little in the way of “constructive” criticism.
The character of Israel is relavant here. The part about the brothels is just one example of what Israel has turned into.
Israel's relationship with Turkey is another important issue as well. Turkey has more human rights violations than any other country in the world and the common people in Turkey have anything but love for Jews.
Turkey is responsible for the first Genocide of this century, the Armenian Genocide, where 1.5 million Armenians and also hundreds of thousands of Assyrians and Greeks were killed inside their own homeland.
"Who today remebers the Armenians" is what Adolf Hitler said before he embarked on the killing of European Jewry. Because of this it is so important that we commemorate the Armenian Genocide along with the Holocaust.
Shimon Peres shamefully denied the Armenian Genocide despite the fact that most countries of the World and the New York times officially commemorate it. No country should go that far to appease a military ally like Turkey.
The director of the Genocide Museum and center for Holocaust studies in Jerusalem wrote a letter of sincere disappointment to the Israeli president for denying a historical fact.
If Israel wants to prove something to the world they can start by being righteous. Again I am obviously not talking about all Jews here. Clearly many Jews in the world have good morals.
If Israel can survive where it is now and maintain high ethics then God Bless. If she has to deny Genocide than is it worth it?
The entire world is jacked up. If you want to see crime, just look out your window, watch the evening news. Show me a country that doesn't have prostitution, vice, murder, rape. You can't.
sowhatsthetruth said this in post #7 : The entire world is jacked up. If you want to see crime, just look out your window, watch the evening news. Show me a country that doesn't have prostitution, vice, murder, rape. You can't.
What does my home time have to do with anything??? First of all today is my first day using this site and when I registered I paid no attention to which time was written. Clarify what you mean?
Is pointing out my home time all that you have in response to what I've said? No mention of the Armenian Genocide? Hmmm it's the first day he's heard of it.
In the short while I have been reading debate here I've realised that whenever some one, Jew or non- Jew is critical of Jewish people today (which by the way can be very constructive for us) the zionists right away scream anti semetism. It's the trump card that they always play.
And when someone of Jewish origin quotes facts written in Jewish journals he is "spewing" anti Israel info.
Or maybe they wont say anti semite- first they will say he is a deceiver- well I guess the truth hurts because I have not said one false fact about my life. My life experience encouraged me to do research on the problems facing us now. Problems some people are not man enough to face.
Are you happy now- I figured out how to set the time to be accurate. Do you really think I would pay attention to what default time was set on my PC when I registered?
And by the way I travelled to Israel in 1993. The kindest people who I remember were an Arab family in the old city of Jerusalem who I will never forget. They treated my whole family with hospitality and kindness. Many Jews there in general were arrogant to me, my parents, and my grandmother. Anyone who has flown on the Israeli airline El Al knows they are the most arrogant airline in operation.
More on my experiences later.
The only way we can improve as a people is to be self critical. That comes before anything else. How can we improve if we don't point out our problems??
Trump card must go. Wont get us anywhere that much longer.
Ever hear about genocide of the American indigenous peoples?
Squanto threw a party for my forefathers, showed them how to grow corn and squash... and guess how they eventually paid him back?
How about South Africa, Australia? How did they treat the indigenous peoples there?
You want to throw the word genocide around, you better be ready to explain a whole lot of mess.
As for Israel, that land is paid for fair and square. Moslems have land from Morocco to Indonesia. These "Palesinians" as they were termed by the British in the early 1900's, are Arabs...an influx of Arabs. They can live in Jordan, that's Palestinian land. They can live anywhere. In fact the majority of them came from somewhere else.
No, instead this genetically altered, inbred hysteria and hatred of the Jews wants to wipe out anything that belongs to the Jews.
Adolph Hitler had the same hysteria and hatred. Hitler inflicted genocide on the Jews. What about that? (You probably believe in revisionist history dont you?) Look what happened to Hitler. He proved it's just not a good idea to mess with God's chosen people.
Arabs had the opportunity to make something out of the desert that became Israel, but they couldn't---either they were too stupid, or just too plain lazy.
Then Israel starts blooming flowers in the desert, actually makes something of the land, and these "Palestinians" claim its their land taken illegally.
Nothing but petty jealousy motivated by hate and fear.
MrPearlman said this in post #11 : In the short while I have been reading debate here I've realised that whenever some one, Jew or non- Jew is critical of Jewish people today (which by the way can be very constructive for us) the zionists right away scream anti semetism. It's the trump card that they always play.
And when someone of Jewish origin quotes facts written in Jewish journals he is "spewing" anti Israel info.
Let me get into this a bit. According to Pearman, When someone Jew or non Jew is critical of Jewish people the ZIONISTS right away scream antisemitism. He doesn't say the JEW screams antisemitism but the ZIONIST. Zionists obviously are not real Jews to Pearlman. The facts are nearly all Jews are Zionists. You are just another in a long line of antizionist Jews who can't sell your views to the Jewish community. Jews can be antisemitic just as well as non Jew. Usually they start by attacking other Jews and then deny they are antisemitic. Funny how the whole world agrees that antisemitism exists yet you can't find one person who admits to being an antisemite. But you do the math.
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And when someone of Jewish origin quotes facts written in Jewish journals he is "spewing" anti Israel info.
What Jewish journals are those? You haven't linked to any. Why not link to them and let us decide what they are?
You're a bit of hypocrite Pearlman. You come here bashing Israel and Jews yet you don't want to be attacked. You want a free ride to attack Israel and Jews. You're really not interested in anything but posting your disgust for Israel and Jews - At least for the majority of Jew who are Zionists.
We've seen your kind before. You have nothing to offer.
"Arabs had the opportunity to make something out of the desert that became Israel, but they couldn't---either they were too stupid, or just too plain lazy."
Now here we see a Jew Arab bashing. It's perfectly ok to put down Arabs but putting down Jews is a no no. We'd all better kiss up to them.
Jews put down other cultures so much that they even have a specific derogatory term for non Jews. They call them "Goyim". It's a perfectly acceptable term for them. I know this from family experience as well as from many Jewish circles. The one member of my dad's side of the family who I really respected was my grandmother but I did not respect her because she was Jewish. I respect her as a human being.
So its ok for us to bash everyone else for not being Jewish, "G-d's chosen people" which they have so modestly proclaimed themselves to be, but if someone else criticizes them they are brushed aside. Did you ever even stop to think why so many people around the world have had issues with Jews?? No it wasn't just the cosmically evil Nazis who you conveniently compare everyone to. Can we brush aside beautiful minds like Ghandi or the famous write George Orwell to name a very small few?
"Then Israel starts blooming flowers in the desert, actually makes something of the land, and these "Palestinians" claim its their land taken illegally."
Well I guess "flowers" here is a relative term open to much debate. Is a flowering land a land that many Jews in America are too scared to visit? They could have visited any Moslem or Jewish Holy site safely in 1947.
"As for Israel, that land is paid for fair and square. Moslems have land from Morocco to Indonesia."
Another fallacy. Just because Palestinians are Moslem by religion it doesn't mean that you can conveniently group them with other distinct ethnic groups. Palestinians are ethnically separate from other Middle Eastern cultures. What you are saying is like saying "why should the Italians be able to have Italy when there are so many other Christian nations in Europe. How selfish of them. It doesn't matter that they've been on that land for thousands of years."
" Squanto threw a party for my forefathers......You want to throw the word genocide around, you better be ready to explain a whole lot of mess."
Americans have admitted to the Genocide of Indians, Germans have admitted to the Holocaust. You still haven't answered my question about why Israel and Turkey are the only two countries in the World who blatantly deny the Armenian Genocide.
Oh and here is a classic from Israelis4ever
"Funny how the whole world agrees that antisemitism exists yet you can't find one person who admits to being an antisemite. But you do the math"
You define to me what an anti-semite is first and then I will tell you if I am one or not. First of all I think we need to change the term a little bit since it is becoming well known that most Jews are Caucasian and not "semites". They imigrated from the the Caucuses Mountains to Israel.
We could use the word anti- Jew to be more accurate. According to you an anti semite is anyone who criticizes any problem within the Jewish diaspora or any Israeli Policy. Yes, Israel, then the world is filled with us.
Just as many Jews conciously or subconciously think of "Goyim" as inferior and not G-ds chosen people so do we have a right to bring up the many hypocrisis in Judaism. Why should it be as taboo of a word as you have created it to be?
Israel it will take any one 30 seconds to find the information I quoted in my first post. here is one from the Factbook on Global Sexual Exploitation. http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/israel.htm
Did you also not notice that I cited the author and page numbers of who I was quoting?
When I post facts here I am doing so for the purpose of intelligent discussion. There they are in plain view. Calling someone a deceiver and ignoring them for posting a fact or statistic is just running away. If you want to have a real exchange of ideas then either refute what has been posted or say why it is irrelevant. I do think people have a right to know about what goes on in Israel.
You will notice that all the info in this fact sheet that I linked to you is all from main news sources in Israel and the United States.
If you read the article you will see how crimes such as forced prostitution of minors in Israel go unpunished. This couldn't happen in a country populated by "God's chosen ones"? Could it? Actually some people here cant seem to see anything that might be wrong with it. I hope that we can have a discussion about the facts as opposed to someone coming in here and saying this is anti-semetic. That is the same thing like barking that everyone who has their own political opinion is anti-american.
Imagine how frustrated you would be, if every time you brought up a point for the Israeli side against the Palestinians, someone called you anti-arab and pushed you away. Would not that be a little bit condecending as to imply that they are beyond critique?
Apparently Jews think they are so unique.
Ok Israel4ever, I'll play your ball game for a minute, you admit to me that you are anti-arab and I will tell you that I am Anti-Jewish.
Now lets cut the nonsense and talk about what people are posting and only reply to what they have written. Any smart person from any nation in the world, when faced with criticism, should defend and debate. If I criticize Germany, for example, I expect a response other than you "anti German". What a self fulfilling prophecy that would be! Or if I express my opinion of who I'd like to vote for I would much rather enter a civilized debate with the other side than to be called anti-american.
No Israel I do not want a free ride. I am answering and responding to what people write here. Sometimes you do as well although you have said the word anti-Jew here more times than I can count.
There is another quote from sowhatsthetruth
"No, instead this genetically altered, inbred hysteria and hatred of the Jews wants to wipe out anything that belongs to the Jews."
What?!? Did I say that Jews were genetically altered? Does that mean the same thing to you as one group who mixes with another? There is nothing wrong with the fact that Jews have mixed with Europeans and other nations. My father is Jewish from Slovakia and my mother is of English backround from the midwest. You guys are just the ones who use your direct linkage to Abraham and the "Chosen People" to try and justify the conquest of Israel.
Pearlman
I see you have difficulty following a sentence, so I will help you out.
Genetically altered is used here as an intense decription of hysteria toward and hatred of the Jews. I wasn't talking about the Jews being genetically altered.
I am saying antisemitism, antizionism seems particularly inbred in the majority of Arabs. Arabs who are not antizionist are a rarity and have been touched by the hands of God.
Im beginning to have a real problem with you, Mr p.
First off, im ignoring your irrelevent prostitution story.
Let's start with the geneology crap. You claim phrenology is avalid science, which is simply stupid. Southern slave owners used head shape to validate their claims that blacks were inferior.
i know you will disagree with me, so let's pretend that phrenology works. "northern Iraq" and other places you mentioned are part of the fertile crescent, which stretched all the way around to the nile river valley. these people were constantly moving within this huge area. Secondly, 4 "claims to the land" before the jews, show me one Canaanite and ill concede israel to him. a "palestinian" refugee is defined as somebody who only had to live in palestine 4 two years before Israeli independence. During the aliyot, jews were importing MANY arabs to work the fields. They have no ancient claim. to argue otherwise is fallacy at its best.
as for "goy," it stems from "ger" which means stranger. Look at jewish history to see how bad newcomers were to the jewish people. it evolved into a derogatory term as more of a desperate joke than a real insult.
please do not give us biased personal experiences. I have plenty that will refute them, and they get us nowhere.
as for "arrogance," i went over it before my trip to israel this year. Israel is a completely different culture. They are no-nonsense people who are upfront in anything they do. if u r doing something they dont like, they will let you know. Americans find them rude sometimes, and also arrogant. Israelis in turn, find americans untrue to their feelings, and very timid. IT's a simple differnce of culture, not a widespread arrogance against others.
Arandomguy said this in post #17 : Im beginning to have a real problem with you, Mr p.
First off, im ignoring your irrelevent prostitution story.
Let's start with the geneology crap. You claim phrenology is avalid science, which is simply stupid. Southern slave owners used head shape to validate their claims that blacks were inferior.
i know you will disagree with me, so let's pretend that phrenology works. "northern Iraq" and other places you mentioned are part of the fertile crescent, which stretched all the way around to the nile river valley. these people were constantly moving within this huge area. Secondly, 4 "claims to the land" before the jews, show me one Canaanite and ill concede israel to him. a "palestinian" refugee is defined as somebody who only had to live in palestine 4 two years before Israeli independence. During the aliyot, jews were importing MANY arabs to work the fields. They have no ancient claim. to argue otherwise is fallacy at its best.
as for "goy," it stems from "ger" which means stranger. Look at jewish history to see how bad newcomers were to the jewish people. it evolved into a derogatory term as more of a desperate joke than a real insult.
please do not give us biased personal experiences. I have plenty that will refute them, and they get us nowhere.
as for "arrogance," i went over it before my trip to israel this year. Israel is a completely different culture. They are no-nonsense people who are upfront in anything they do. if u r doing something they dont like, they will let you know. Americans find them rude sometimes, and also arrogant. Israelis in turn, find americans untrue to their feelings, and very timid. IT's a simple differnce of culture, not a widespread arrogance against others.
Please think before oyu write.
It's good to see some intelligent, unbiased, posting.
Mr Pearlman your one honest Jew and I respect you for that..
and it is evident by the way that the only person debating with evidence to back his arguments up, is Mr Pearlman. The rest are just aggrevated and responding negatively to the reality of life and the situation that Israel has got itself into....
Israel claim that they want Israel as it is thier Holy land, well if it is your Holy land then treat it as Holy land, why are you making your Holy land into a dirty land full of prostitution and homosexuality....
I mean the first time Israel won the European Song contest was with a Gay transexual......
What has Israel left Holy of the Land in which Moses brought them........
Its all very shameful and at least people like Mr pearlman can admit it, if only more people were like him...
Are you kidding me raven? You actually cosign Pearlman’s foolishness? I challenge you to show me one nation on earth that is perfect. Every single nation has issues such as you mention above. How can you cosign a sweeping indictment on all Israelis because of an Israeli transsexual?
There are thousands in that land that do not subscribe to such a lifestyle. How would you like to bear the blame for the IRA bombing half your country? Or how would you like to be lumped in with those that kill or prostitute or steal in your land?
It’s a totally ridiculous argument that serves nothing but to lend validity to inbred prejudices. Everyone living in Israel is not practicing Judaism just as everyone in your country isn’t practicing Christianity so why hold them to its religious standards?
One only has to look at the two threads Mr. Pearlman started in this forum to know exactly where he’s coming from. The fact that you subscribe to it also casts doubt on your ability to reason justly without impartiality or bias as well.
Good stuff? On the contrary it’s garbage and it serves little in contribution to constructive well balanced criticism.