Story of Our Lady statue in Bethlehem destroyed by the Jewish Army and its universal meaning. Ideas are not less important than material things; oil does not provide the whole explanation of the war in the Middle East, faith is not dead and can't die as long as mankind exists. Even the belief in the Market forces is just another faith, an old established cult of Mammon. Faith is not only a personal affair; religion still matters, probably more than we think.
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Beautiful writings on the Holy Land,
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This review is from: Our Lady of Sorrow: The Collected Essays from the Holy Land (Paperback)
Stories about the Holy Land, from an Ex-Jew who noticed the wisdom of Jesus and converted to Christian. Surely anyone can see the moral superiority of the New Testament (over the old). It was an improvement. Islam was a further refinement. If you are still reading, perhaps you are ready for Shamir: "...the Wall is the utmost manifestation of the Jewish spirit ... is eruv, a symbolic Wall to separate them fro non-Jews ... built by the sweat of impoverished Palestinian workers, guarded by Russians, paid for by Americans to jail their brothers ... the Holy Land has become a high security prison for all its dwellers, Jews and non-Jews alike ... The Jewish state is enactment of the paranoid Jewish fear and loathing of strangers, while the Cabal policies of Pentagon are another manifestation of the same fear and loathing on global scale."
Shamir is a fantastic writer, and he cuts to the real meat of the matter. Don't be afraid of being called a racist for being a goy who dares to read about internal Jewish policies (openly debated and reported in Israel). I don't believe in the concept of "race" in the least bit - however, when there is a Jewish State for Jews Only and all others may be deported at the whim of a Jew...I think they have earned the right to be criticized, and yes - even be talked about as Jews. "Jewish Spirit" - as coined by Shamir - is a spirit that can descend on any of us. Any time an American decides that the Iraqi dead are not worth counting... Racism in any form, really. But we all can escape from this spirit with Paul's message: We are ALL brothers. Shamir calls the Master-Slave Society as "Jewish" only because it is a large part of the Torah and other writings of the Rabbis. We are all guilty of it on some level.
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A journey to the troubled Holy Land,
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Fredrick Töben reviews
Israel Shamir Our Lady of Sorrow - The Collected Essays from the Holy Land INTRODUCTION While the deconstructionists, in their final gasping moments still attempt to discuss away the actual object of their contemplation, any serious literary criticism still retains the basic elements of form and content,. The equivalent is outside-inside, or personal appearance and character. Remember The Rocky Horror Show's >>...don't judge a book by its co-o-ver...<<? I recall that one of Oxford University's colleges has as a motto: Manners maketh man. To that we could add: Clothes maketh man. The successful person-art work should ideally balance the two categories where neither form nor content predominates. For example, excessive physical beauty often comes with a mental deficiency - as most of us know from experience! Shamir's book is undoubtedly the product of the quick print, limited run publication era, something that Revisionist publisher Germar Rudolf knows only too well. Thanks to the computer age and the Internet it is now possible to get any book printed without going through mainstream publishing houses. While postage rates rise it is now possible to print locally worldwide, often at reduced rates. Publishing has been democratized and the free flow of information is - still - a reality. Official lies and cover-ups are difficult to sustain in a chaotic electronic world - but information overload has created the conscious >Hollywood< effect, e.g. 911, where blatant controlled demolitions are sold to the world as a >terrorist< event when in fact such are self-inflicted wounds that aim to sustain and justify a specific political power base. This makes it all the more important that anyone publishing and airing a view-point has credibility - moral and intellectual - and is not just a talker who pontificates and smart-arses, usually after an event. The title of Shamir's book alone suggests its contents will take the reader on a journey to the troubled Holy Land, and this means that for any reader of Shamir's book there will be lots of accompanying baggage of the prejudiced kind. Further, anyone on the Internet email service will feel some affinity with the author because he is not an unknown entity - who has not heard of Israel Adam Shamir, the Jewish Russian-Israeli who converted to Christianity, and now supports the One State solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict? FORM While flicking through the pages to get the technical aspect of the review right, I noted that this 288-page paperback is published by BookSurge, dated 3 May 2005, ISBN 1-4196-0835-5. There is no physical or postal address given, and the website address is [...] Two unusual notes appear on the technical details page: Disclaimer and Reader Agreement and Reader Agreement for Accessing This Book. The contents of both paragraphs essentially distances the author from any possible action that may flow from a reading of the book, and the emphasis is that a reader must >>bear sole responsibility for your own decisions to use or read any of this book's material<<. Some readers will find such cautionary advice a little amusing and may now expect to read something revolutionary if not an outright incitement to violence and terrorism. The photograph on the book's front cover features the Our Lady of Sorrow Chapel. It well symbolizes the struggle for Palestine as Judaism, Christianity and Islam renew their battle for the Holy Land. That, in essence, is what the book is about, so according to an anonymous endorsement of it on the front cover, above the photograph: >>The Companion Volume to his bestselling Galilee Flowers, Shamir's book connects politics and theology of the War for Palestine in one compelling narrative. A great intellectual and spiritual adventure into uncharted waters by the Khalib Gibran of our time, >a wonderful Hebrew Prophet<.<< The two-page Contents divides the book into four parts: Part One contains ten stories; Part Two, 25 stories; Part Three, six stories; Part Four, seven stories. This is fittingly followed by ten pages of additional information about the book and its author: Acknowledgements - where Shamir thanks the individuals who made his work possible. I appreciate such candour where an author unflinchingly thanks those many individuals who make it all possible, often the unsung heroes who usually stand behind those men and women at the battlefront. I pity those who believe their work output is theirs alone, and where the implication is that in >>cracking the myth<<, for example, it is the work of one individual only. Surprisingly I note that Shamir thanks Sophie Johnson of Australia as the editor of the essays. I say surprisingly because I know Sophie, and surely there is only one Sophie Johnson in Australia! The Shamir Legend - in essence offers a four-page biographical sketch of Shamir where the man's erudition is celebrated and his danger to the State of Israel is pointed out: >>But when a Jew, steeped in the Bible and Talmud criticizes not only the state of Israel but the very concept of >the Jewish People<, the familiar world around us collapses and the situation requires immediate re-interpretation<<. Reviews of Israel Shamir's writing - where Shamir's numerous fans endorse his courageously adopted stance on the Palestine-Israel conflict. This endorsement is continued on the back cover of the book where a small colour picture of the author reveals his black hair, wearing sunglasses and sporting a graying moustache, and puckering his lips into a possible whistle, perhaps befitting a man reaching the three score years. The watch on his left wrist indicates it is either 12.30 pm or 6pm. The book does not have an Index for either subject or names, something that busy readers would appreciate. A friend of mine whom I had sent my last tome to read almost scoffed at the thought of reading the whole book, and was pleased that he could just look up the index to see what I had written about him. I appreciated his honesty! CONTENT There is a thematic unity within each of the 48 stories that reveals to the reader the mind that created them. That is good because I am interested in both the subject matter of the book as well as the value system of its author. In The Wall, the reader is introduced to the basics of the Zionist state's ghetto mentality. It began in 1948 when the Jews ethnically cleansed Semadar of the Templar Germans who had built the thriving settlement. The Jews also strangled an Armenian village with a wall, and from which the last resident after selling his house fled in the 1950s. This apartheid mentality extended to Jews-only roads whereby >>...every Arab village has a bypass: a broad highway encircling and limiting its development.<< This by-pass road system then did not make sense on its own, but now with the wall in place it certainly does as >>Stage One of devastation and imprisonment<<. Shamir points to something well known to Revisionists who intimately know the >Holocaust< myth: >>...the Wall is the utmost manifestation of the Jewish spirit ... is eruv, a symbolic Wall to separate them fro non-Jews ... built by the sweat of impoverished Palestinian workers, guarded by Russians, paid for by Americans to jail their brothers ... the Holy Land has become a high security prison for all its dwellers, Jews and non-Jews alike ... The Jewish state is enactment of the paranoid Jewish fear and loathing of strangers, while the Cabal policies of Pentagon are another manifestation of the same fear and loathing on global scale.<< In the final sentence, above, Shamir's English reflects his Russian background where definite and indefinite articles are not so often used as in English, a recurring habit throughout the book. Concluding the six-page essay, Shamir makes a courageous stand, and spells out his desire: >>Sharon's Wall, this unmitigated disaster, provides a rare opportunity to observe the true nature of the Jewish State, and to call for its dismantling. Not the wall, silly! The Jewish State.<< His next article about the Road Map introduces the essence within the first sentence with such precision that it is difficult to summarize it here: >>The Road Map is not a compromise between Palestinians and Jews, but between Jews and Jews, none of whom lives in the Middle East, namely, between Jewish liberals of New York and Jewish neo-cons of Washington.<< He likens the acceptance by Palestinians of the Road Map to the sodomite prince in one of Marquis de Sade's stories, and he calls it a fictitious peace plan, and >>It appears the American Jews decide not only who is an antisemite (one who calls for equality of a Jew and non-Jew) but who is a liar, too.<< The connection is also made between what is going on in Israel, the US invasion of Iraq and the expected attack on Iran. Just as the Crusaders turned out to be nasty neighbours, so now the >>Jews were given a good chance to strike root in the land of Palestine and make peace with the native population. But they blew it ... the fifth column of Israel-supporters instigates wars all over the world, from Chechnya to the Phillipines, from North Korea to Cuba. They push the world straight into Armageddon. John Bolton calls for the takeover of Iran... Israel is a safe haven for criminals ... Israel's behaviour is partly connected to the Jewish superiority complex, and its consequence, the apartheid structure ...<<... Read more ›
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