and progressive left Forget for a moment to go to China to the Jews and the Arab-Israeli conflict. A few days ago 'and' dead in 86 years Flies Hirsch, the chief rabbi of the movement Neturei Karta. This event gives me an opportunity to reflect on this movement and how it is idolized by some "progressive" pro-Palestinian.
For years I've heard of this small group of extremists known as Neturei Karta in all sorts of articles and anti-Israeli websites, including those which should be progressive and leftist, and it bothers me a lot. According to me the way some people are ready to idolize uncritically a similar group says a lot about how the left is totally acceccata by anti-Israeli fervor, to the point of betraying his ideals.
First of all, what is' Neturei Karta? This is an organization of ultra-Orthodox Jews who reject Zionism and the existence of the state of Israel. Itself 'is not a strange thing, for those familiar with Judaism. There have always been groups of very orthodox Jews who reject Zionism because 'according to their interpretation of Judaism Jews should never return to the "promised land" of Israel until the coming of the messiah. They argued that Jews were esilitati and around the world because of their sins, and any attempt to recover the land of Israel before the coming of the Messiah and 'an affront to the will' of God. When the Zionist movement was in its infancy, much of the orthodox Jews took this position and distanced himself from the Zionist movement, a nationalist movement led by lay people. After the creation of the State of Israel most of the Orthodox Jewish world change 'position gradually, or at least accept' a fait accompli, and today the majority of Orthodox Jews accept the existence of Israel. That said, 'remains a minority of ultra-Orthodox or Haredi which maintain their rejection of Zionism. Some of them even live in Israel, especially Jerusalem, and placed apart from the rest of society 'Israeli. Like the rest of the ultra-Orthodox Jews are exempted from military service in the Israeli army. Some of them even refuse to communicate in the official language of Israel, the Hebrew, which they regard as a holy language to be used only for liturgical purposes, and they continue to speak Yiddish.
There 'to say that these positions are very minority within Judaism, and are due to a literal interpretation of the Jewish religion, and a rejection of Israel was seen as too secular and not Jewish. Neturei Karta
was born in the thirties, created by descendants of Orthodox Jewish Hungarians and Lithuanians who settled in Jerusalem in the nineteenth century, before the Zionist movement. The name means "the guardians of the city 'in Aramaic, and derives from a biblical verrso that the Rabbis and the soldiers are the guardians of Jerusalem. This movement has a few thousand people.
The rabbi just died, Flies Hirsch, was the leader of faction 'radical Neturei Karta, and you' note made by the international press for some sensational acts: in 2006 some of its representatives attended the conference organized international Holocaust revisionism by Ahmadinejad in Iran. The conference was' kept under the euphemistic name of "International Conference for the revision of the global vision of the Holocaust", and it 'served as a platform for Holocaust nagazionisti all latiduni. Even a few months before the representatives of Neturei Karta had gone to Iran to congratulate Ahmadinejad for saying Israel should be wiped off the map. In 2004, the Neturei Karta's rappresenatanti had participated in a vigil of prayer for Arafat in front of Parisian hospital where the Palestinian leader was' dying. Rabbi Hirsch had also been appointed "minister for Jewish affairs" by 'Palestinian National Authority, to give the idea. The international anti-Israeli demonstrations can often find men of Neturei Karta completely dressed in black ultra-Orthodox and raise good signs with anti-Israeli slogans. Of course these are always ready to be filmed by photographers always excited to photograph an Orthodox Jew who chanted slogans against Israel.
Actually 'this extreme fringe, which has at most a few hundred active members, it is absolutely not' the majority of ultra-Orthodox Jews who oppose Zionism, who would not dream even 'to side with Arafat or go to conferences on the Holocaust organized by Iran to give voice to Holocaust denial. After the visit of Neturei Karta at the conference last named, other anti-Zionist rabbis have distanced themselves publicly from their actions, including the Rabbinical Council of Edan Hachareis, the Orthodox anti-Zionist movement more 'rappresentatvo.
short, it is a little extreme fringe of fanatics ready to take the side of anyone who opposes Israel, no matter who or which has locations on the Jews, and that probably only want to attract attention. I would not rule that are directly paid by forces hostile to Israel. In 2002, the Israeli army announced 'that he had discovered several documents at the headquarters of the Authority that Arafat conproverebbero' Palestinian Authority had paid $ 55.000 to Rabbi Hirsch (which his son deny ').
However, in the case of people driven by a fundamentalist and literal view of the Jewish religion, which are opposed to the basic state of Israel on grounds of reasonable principle, but because ' its creation would be contrary to the ancient covenant between God and the Jews (though often rails against the oppression of the Palestinians, but deep down their position does not derive from this). Among other things, many other Orthodox Jews have found some good theological justifications for the creation of the state of Israel, but it 's an argument that as a layman I do not care.
Those of Neturei Karta are the same types of people who probably would not see even 'the most Jewish Israelis as the real Jews,' cause they are not Orthodox. These religious fanatics that the vast majority of Jews see it as a phenomenon of the clowns that are ultra-minority.
course, this small group of fanatics is used constantly by the anti-Israeli propaganda to give credit to the slogan that "Zionism is not 'equal to Judaism." The left pro-Palestinian and not 'the least, and many Internet sites in support of Palestinians contain information about them, presented as the courageous few samples of authentic Judaism pledged to fight the nasty "Zionists." This confirms' that the liberal left has completely lost the plot about the Israeli-Palestinian issue. 'Cause the left should support a number of religious fanatics in search of publicity' that go to a conference in Iran of Holocaust deniers chock full of probable Nazi sympathies? 'Cause rather not support the industry's most' progress of society 'Israeli, that I am not sure these? Why 'not to seek dialogue with Meretz, for example, the most' left of the Israeli political spectrum? Sure, they have extreme views such as those that appeal to certain claims hardline supporters of Palestinians around the world. Not welcomed Ahmadinejad when he said he wanted the end of Israel, do not use the word apartheid in reference to Israel, and they themselves do not want an end to Israel (maybe 'cause we live). But still represent the most 'secular and progressive society of' Israel. Or there would also Hadash, the grouping together of communist and socialist parties and groups within Arab and Jewish Israel.
Instead of "left" pro-Palestinian is not 'nothing but offer support to anyone who opposes Israel is total, which are ultra-Orthodox Jewish fundamentalists or Islamic fundamentalists as fundamentalists. The positions of most anti-Israeli 'unreasonable and extreme will always be accepted by any party they come from, and dialogue with the Israelis more' progressive becomes impossible, while a partial view of history and totally preventable, and the worst misinformation about Israel and the Jews is gradually strengthened.
(Pictured above, some representatives of Neturei Karta meet with Ahmadinejad)
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