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British Jews: Don't celebrate Israel's 60th
Hagit Klaiman
Published: 30.04.08, 20:11
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61. British Jews don,t celebrate 60
Ashmen ,   sydney Australia   (05.01.08)
To those so called acedemics i say pull you head from where the sun dont shine , now that you have highlighted israels misgivings ,do you think Ynet would have enough space should you endevour to highlight the palestinian misgivings,I THINK NOT
62. 100 British Jews
NYC Girl   (05.01.08)
These British Jews are so utterly loathsome that I'm virtually speechless. But if that nightmarish scenario ever occurs where another Hitler comes to power, it'll be interesting to see where all these British vermin will go scurrying off to in order to try to save their sorry asses.
63. Reality Check for our Arab cousins and Lefties here
GZLives   (05.01.08)
From the "The Declaration Of The Establishment Of The State Of Israel" May 14, 1948 "WE APPEAL — in the very midst of the onslaught launched against us now for months — to the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to preserve peace and participate in the upbuilding of the State on the basis of full and equal citizenship and due representation in all its provisional and permanent institutions." And what DID they choose? War
64. what a nut job. oy vey.
hanan ,   ottawa, canada   (05.01.08)
65. ibrahim #53....go ride a camel
yaron ,   montreal, canada   (05.01.08)
66. #47 Thanks!There is hope for the World yet
lydia ,   Brisbane, Australia   (05.01.08)
One man one vote whether Palestinian or Jew is an excellent starting point. It would have prevented these 'chosen ones' from descending into barbarity, drowning in Palestinian blood to establish apartheid and death camps in a vain attempt at establishing jewish supremacy.
67. I'm celebrating!
Elianah ,   London, UK   (05.01.08)
I'll celebrate Israel's 60. I think I'll even use my government salary to buy some Israeli products for the occasion.
68. The 100 are more British than Jewish
Don ,   California USA   (05.01.08)
Recall in 1947 that the British empire was crumbling all over the world, including in Palestine. The British got out because they couldn't put a lid on separate Jewish and Arab aspirations. The Arabs lost. Now deal with it, Arabs. Then you expelled your Jews from Iraq to Morocco and so there was a population exchange much less bloody than India-Pakistan. And you Arabs no longer in Israel, go live in Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Syria, and Iraq. The world really cares very little about you, as much as they care very little for the Jews who left Arabia.
69. #60, it was 1% and wounded was another 2%
Danny   (05.01.08)
were seriously wounded. Thats roughly equivalent to 35,000 dead Palestinians and 70,000 seriously wounded in one year. Compare that to 4,000 dead in 7 years.
70. UK Jewish antisemites. Why don't they convert to Islam*
carlos ,   San Diego, U.S.A   (05.01.08)
71. I got news for anti-semetic jews
joshua ,   canada   (05.01.08)
Real people living in the real world arent falling for anti-semetic ideology or the lies.Maybe if people would look at the world picture and news instead of relying on one source of info they would be better off.Look back through our own bloody history and youll find a pattern.A terrible pattern at that.The arguement is always the same as is the hate.Hate relies heavily on ignorance,as does racism to succeed.Sorry to say but the world isnt falling for anti-semetic crap this time around.Funny how these neo-nazis cry racism and are racist themselves.Hypocrites.
72. they are hardly Jewish
eddie ,   london UK   (05.01.08)
These pigs only come out of the woodwork when they wish to denounce Israel . They usually have nothign to do with the Jewish community in the UK. They are mostly intermarried, with no connection to the Torah, or even other jews. Similar to the assimilated Jews of Germany before the war, who claimed that Berlin was the new Jerusalem! And, FYI, British Jews are very Zionistic, and we loathe these scumbags!
73. List of prominent Jews against Israel
Adam ,   Ramat-Gan   (05.01.08)
One again I see a person whose intellect I admire as a prominent name on this anti-Israel list - Stephen Fry. How a man with such education, knowledge and mastery of the English language can add his name to this list is beyond me. This is especially confusing after his episode of, "Who do you think you are?" charted his investigation into the genealogy on his mother's side of the family who are Jewish. He discovered that many of them are of Austro-Hungarian decent and thus perished at Auschwitz - only his grandfather made it out. I can't understand why he doesn't see the connection of the Holocaust and Israel and doesn’t support Israel accordingly OR at least read up about its history to get a balanced, unBBC approach.... Secondly, on the opposite side of the coin, the thing that galls me is the fact that Stephen Fry, who despite knowing his mother's roots all his life, was never brought up as a Jew, never acknowledged or celebrated his Jewishness yet claims to be a "Jew' for this list...... For me it shows that the laws on who is and isn't a Jew are far too narrow, discriminatory and outdated. I know of people who seriously want to be Jews, to have Jewish kids and support Israel but cannot endure the strict and often unreasonable rules that come along with it. (By the way, I have no problem with people criticizing/against Israel as long as their reasoning has fact and knowledge of both sides - I don't believe that Stephen Fry has either....its trendy to be anti-Israel at the BBC).
74. I agree with the Brits !
B.Knoblauch ,   Zürich   (05.01.08)
SWISS JEWS UNITED WITH THE BRIT JEWS ! I think these Brits had an excellent idea and i will recommend that Swiss Jews also sign such a statement and boycott Israel's 60th anniversary.
75. They are a statistical flaw
Gilad ,   London UK   (05.01.08)
nearly 300,000 UK Jews, 100 signatories. Thats 1 in every 3,000, or 0.0003% of the Jewish population. I think thats well within the acceptable stats for "crazies per 1,000". Not that doctors and judges are usually crazy, just that it's not uncommon for there to be a small % who .. how should I say? have a 'creative', 'alternative' understanding of events (note the use of ' '). They are a statistic anomoly. The so-called "one every million". Insigificant X amount of people that for every opinion there's one like them. I also love how they used the uppermost range available of estimates (Since many are much lower) of refugees etc to further their point. They clearly have more invested in using the extrememost estimates in order to justify their view, rather than form a view based on the real stats since most are much lower.
76. A day will come that will turn their insides out.
yeroshalmi ,   usa   (05.01.08)
YOU CANNOT FIX STUPIDITY!!! THESE TRASHY BRITS CAN KISS MY ASS!!!
77. I am celebrating
Naftali Nakhshon ,   Toronto, Canada   (05.01.08)
In May, as every year for 59 years now, the Jews around the world will be celebrating the founding of the state of Israel – the achievement of the millennial dream of the Jewish people. But this year’s celebration will be somewhat different: Jews had dreamt of having a normal state, with their own leaders, academics, scientists, farmers, even prostitutes – as one the Israel founders famously quipped. This year, outside of Israel, in Britain, we have got our own Nazis – a whole hundred of them. But we shall still be celebrating. Indeed, after several thousands years of the eventful history of our people and country – Judea and Israel, nothing can surprise us, anymore. We shall be celebrating the creation of our kind, and peaceful, and flourishing, and strong country - Israel. Our enemies noticed only – from outside - that it is strong. We Jews know from inside that it is warm and kind to everyone, Arab and Jew. No wonder our Nazis don’t know that – like the enemies, they look from outside. Last year, I was walking around Dresden, in Germany, mourning the loss of treasures of the great German culture in the Second World War. Shall I now stop celebrating the Victory Day? No, no Nazi will ever convince me that fighting the evil is wrong. Furthermore, the Allied victory was not their Naqba. Germany as a nation benefited from it as much as the victors. Shall I still feel pain at the loss of innocent German, Arab, Ukrainian, and Lithuanian lives, despite all the massacres they committed against Jews before 1945? Of course, I shall. And so we shall proceed, celebrating our holidays when it is time, and mourning the losses of innocent fellow humans, when it is time. Now is our celebration time. Let all the friends, Arabic or others, join. Let all the Nazis, Jewish or others, mourn. Naftali Nakhshon,
78. Question to 'Blumentahl'
Naftali Nakhshon ,   Toronto, Canada   (05.01.08)
Arab and Jews are equals - you said. So why there can be an Arab (22), German, French, Italian, Russian, Albanian,...... country, but not Jewish?
79. #57, yeah because the occupation only
Danny   (05.01.08)
affects christians and Hamas hugs and kisses christians....
80. It's shameful
Max ,   England   (05.01.08)
I'm ashamed my countrymen turn a blind eye to the facts of Arab violence against the Jews from the 1920s onwards, their signing-up to the Nazi cause during the Second World War and their propagation of Nazi anti-semitic stereotypes through the education and entertainment media to this day. "Palestinians" could have had their own states covering most of what had been mandated Palestine, had the Arab states supported the UN resolution. Instead they consistently chose the path of war and have created and kept in being a "refugee" problem. The Left has always had "useful idiots" to propagandise on its behalf, but it's sad to see people so intelligent showing themselves as wilfully ignorant as this bunch, suicidally aligning themselves with those who regard them as "apes and monkeys". Others, like me, will celebrate 60 years of Israel's survival against the odds and wish the State a peaceful, healthy and happy future.
81. #47 Israel already has one man one vote.
Danny   (05.01.08)
that's how come 10% of the Israeli Parliament is Arab, and we have arab ministers and mayors and professors and supreme court judges and generals. As I have said before, Israel must truely be a blameless state if you have to lie in order to attack it.
82. Much Worse than Kapos
guy ,   los angeles   (05.01.08)
The excuse the Kapos had was that they wanted to stay alive in the concentration camps. These "Jews" knew the truth and have purposely twisted the facts---on their deathbeds they may repent...
83. Why NOT have a Party to celebrate the 60th?
Rivkah   (05.01.08)
There is a problem if the anniversary becomes too grand. Remember the 2500th Anniversary of the Persian Empire caused a lot of envy and led to the downfall of the Shah. Too many gold faucets glued in too tightly to be stolen by guests, etc.
84. STUPID Brit & Swiss Jews
yerushalmi ,   usa   (05.01.08)
Where are you gonna go when the anti-semites come for you? All your goyish friends would be first to turn you over. Imagine what they think of you right now! STUPID WE CANNOT FIX!
85. Publish their names. Let's see who they are.
Roger ,   USA   (05.01.08)
86. these Jews are afarid of antisemitism in England.
Asher ,   Ny, USA   (05.01.08)
87. rocked your cradle, over did it
to all these self ,   hating jews, who   (05.01.08)
88. BBC-brainwashed idiots...
Neil Kuchinsky ,   Colonial Heights, US   (05.01.08)
Totally lacking in self-respect; consumed with self-loathing. But then, we've often found our worst enemies amongst ourselves, haven't we?
89. What painkillers are these people taking?
Kyle ,   Southpark, CO, USA   (05.01.08)
This much stupid has to hurt.
90. Jewish by surname
Stan ,   Johannesburg   (05.01.08)
Any bets that they: 1. Never go to Shul 2. Are married to Shiksahs 3. Their children never had Barmitzvahs 4. Their contribution to humanity comprises a set of contravershal political statements 5. Believe Zimbabwe is a success
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