{"id":190492,"date":"2019-06-25T06:12:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T06:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=190492"},"modified":"2019-06-29T05:58:03","modified_gmt":"2019-06-29T05:58:03","slug":"on-chosen-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=190492","title":{"rendered":"On Chosen-mess"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Gilad Atzmon \u2013 gilad.co.uk June 24, 2019<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Chosen-mess.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-190493\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Chosen-mess.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Chosen-mess.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Chosen-mess-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5>A few days ago the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-48510027?fbclid=IwAR0v7zhyrNf95k-nI0Nsm3WkeXQOMq3EplJ9s3aa0RdfDd16woP4yJZDDXI\">BBC\u00a0reported<\/a><\/span> on an extraordinary French identity theft scam.\u00a0\u00a0For two years starting in late 2015, an individual or individuals impersonating France&#8217;s defence minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, scammed an estimated \u20ac80m from wealthy French patriots.<\/h5>\n<h5>The victims of this fraud were tricked into believing that they were being contacted by France\u2019s Defence Minister who was requesting money to help pay ransom for journalists held hostage by Islamists in the Middle East. Since France officially does not pay ransom to terrorists, the fake minister assured the victims that payments could not be traced and asked for the funds to be wired to a bank in China.<\/h5>\n<h5>The BBC deemed the operation \u201cone of the most outlandish and successful rackets of recent times.\u201d<\/h5>\n<h5>You may not be surprised that the accused evil genius behind this con is a French-Israeli character of Tunisian Jewish background named Gilbert Chikli. Chikli grew up in the working-class Belleville neighbourhood of northeast Paris.<\/h5>\n<h5>In 2015, Chikli was found guilty of scamming money from French corporations by pretending to be their chief executive. By the time the verdict was reached, Chikli was safely ensconced in the Jewish State, which refuses to extradite its nationals.<\/h5>\n<h5>Chikli&#8217;s luck ran out in August 2017 when he made the mistake of travelling to Ukraine where he was arrested at the request of the French police. Chikli told police he was on a pilgrimage to the tomb of a well-known rabbi. But a search into his phone\u2019s communication revealed that he went to Ukraine to buy a silicone mask<\/h5>\n<h5>The alleged crime saga didn\u2019t end there. Recently reports began to arrive at French embassies around the world that once again a fake Le Drian, now French foreign minister, was trying to squeeze money out of influential \u2018friends of France\u2019. In February, three French-Israeli citizens were arrested near Tel Aviv in connection with this new swindle.<\/h5>\n<h5>Chikli\u2019s racket is astonishing, creative; criminologists may decide that it borders on genius. Although Chikli didn\u2019t invent the art of the swindle, he ratcheted it up to a higher level.<\/h5>\n<h5>What I find remarkable\u00a0about Chikli\u2019s operation is not the stunning amounts of money, the sophistication, or even the chutzpah involved: it is the fact that Chikli \u2019s scam was dependent upon the humane compassion of others. He banked on the fact that humans feel and care for each other.\u00a0\u00a0We are dealing with a disgraceful blow against the most precious aspect of humanity, that which sustains kindness and brotherhood.<\/h5>\n<h5>It is not surprising that some very wealthy and influential people fell for Chikli\u2019s racket and for the obvious reason: decent humans would find it hard or even impossible to imagine the extent of Chikli and his friends\u2019 deception.<\/h5>\n<h5>And Chikli is not alone in his practices. In recent years we have seen a number of instances of gross misbehavior and abuse and on a spectacular\u00a0scale. And as is the case of Chikli we find Jews and Israelis at the centre of these embarrassing\u00a0\u00a0sagas.<\/h5>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/1.5135080\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">In 2010<\/span>\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0an Israeli court ruled that\u00a0seven Israelis suspected of scamming tens of millions of dollars from U.S. pensioners in a so-called \u2018Nigerian scam\u2019 could be extradited to the United States to face trial there.\u00a0Israel has bought itself a reputation as the location of some of the most horrendous crimes such as organ trafficking (look\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2018\/01\/08\/a-cruel-harvest-of-the-poor-israeli-allegedly-behind-human-organ-black-market-arrested-in-cyprus\/?utm_term=.897930cc5c47\">here<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2009\/dec\/21\/israeli-pathologists-harvested-organs\">here<\/a><\/span>), and is notorious as a hub of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Tags\/human-trafficking-in-israel\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">human trafficking<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/1.5235797\">blood diamond<\/a><\/span>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/topic\/cryptocurrency-fraud\/\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">crypto currency criminals<\/span><\/a>,<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evemykytyn.com\/writing\/2019\/3\/16\/the-scam-of-binary-options\">the binary options scam<\/a><\/span>, and the scope of gross unethical behavior extends well beyond the borders of the Jewish State.<\/h5>\n<h5>In 2012\u00a0\u00a0Britain was shocked to discover that one of its most popular TV stars was a serial pedophile who had committed sex crimes against children throughout his 50 year career.\u00a0\u00a0Jimmy Savile raped children in the BBC\u2019s dressing rooms, in orphan homes and in institutions that cared for the disabled. No one bothered to defend Jimmy Saville. Yet\u00a0when\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2016\/mar\/09\/lord-janner-faced-allegations-of-abuse-against-30-victims-hearing-told\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Lord Janner<\/span><\/a>\u00a0faced similar allegations, the British establishment\u00a0was somehow hesitant and confused. Despite the fact that Lord Janner was suspected of sexually abusing more than 30 children from the mid-1950s until the late 1980s the British judicial system found itself struggling.<\/h5>\n<h5>Janner, a former Leicester MP (Labour) was the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bod.org.uk\/greville-janner\/\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">chairman of the Board of Jewish Deputies (BOD)<\/span><\/a>, a body that claims to represent British Jewry and the founder of the Holocaust Educational Trust (HET). To date, neither the BOD nor the HET has expressed any regret for its past association with Janner who died at age 87 before a trial could take place.<\/h5>\n<h5>Lord Janner\u2019s family is taking good care to restore their father\u2019s reputation.\u00a0\u00a0Soon after the Lord passed away we learned from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-38669540\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">British press<\/span>\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0that Janner\u2019s\u00a0three grown-up children asked \u201cto take part in the investigation into his alleged crimes.\u201d<\/h5>\n<h5>Outside the investigation\u2019s London headquarters, Lord Janner&#8217;s son, Daniel Janner QC, attacked the &#8220;shambolic and discredited inquiry&#8221; (into his father alleged crimes).<\/h5>\n<h5>He claimed there had been a &#8220;total failure&#8221; to acknowledge &#8220;our late father&#8217;s good character and legal status as innocent&#8221;<\/h5>\n<h5>In February 2018 we learned that\u00a0Lord Janner\u2019s son vowed to bring a private prosecution against the man who initiated the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2018\/feb\/07\/lord-janner-son-urges-cps-to-prosecute-nick-over-allegations\">Westminster child abuse claim<\/a>s<\/span>, who has himself been charged with paedophile offences.<\/h5>\n<h5>I am not in a position to verify whether Lord Janner was guilty of the crimes he was accused of but I can confirm that the enquiry into his suspected sex abuse has collapsed. In all, 33 men and women accused Lord Janner of abusing them. Their plight has been forgotten. One of the most embarrassing chapters in Britain\u2019s past remains untouched.<\/h5>\n<h5>Lord Janner is hardly alone as a suspect in an abusive sex scandal.\u00a0For the last two years we have been learning about another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6pwQwY_TqDQ\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Zionist enthusiast<\/span><\/a> who left more than 80 victims traumatized, abused and humiliated.<\/h5>\n<h5>In October 2017,\u00a0The New York Times\u00a0and\u00a0The New Yorker\u00a0reported that tens of women came forward and accused Harvey Weinstein, formerly head of\u00a0Miramax Films\u00a0and\u00a0The Weinstein Company\u00a0(TWC), of\u00a0rape,\u00a0sexual assault\u00a0and\u00a0sexual abuse\u00a0over a period of at least three decades. More than 80 women in the\u00a0film industry\u00a0have since accused Weinstein of such acts. Weinstein denied &#8220;any non-consensual sex&#8221;.<\/h5>\n<h5>Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s story is similarly abusive. The\u00a0convicted sex offender prostituted dozens of underage girls and should have spent the rest of his life in jail. Again this is no \u2018one-off\u2019 abuse of an underage child, he was a serial sex predator.<\/h5>\n<h5>According to Joseph Recarey, the lead Palm Beach detective on the case, Epstein was essentially operating a \u201csexual pyramid scheme.\u201d<\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2018\/12\/3\/18116351\/jeffrey-epstein-trump-clinton-labor-secretary-acosta\">The Vox<\/a><\/span>\u00a0writes that the girls and women who reported abuse by Epstein, meanwhile, were markedly powerless. Most of them \u201ccame from disadvantaged families, single-parent homes or foster care,\u2026 Many of the girls were one step away from homelessness.\u201d<\/h5>\n<h5>In November 2017 the genius comedian Larry David was criticized in the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/forward.com\/fast-forward\/386918\/larry-david-crosses-snl-line-with-jokes-about-sex-harassment-jews-and-the-h\/\">Jewish press<\/a><\/span>\u00a0for admitting on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/G0eeNijdv3I\">Saturday Night Live<\/a>\u00a0that\u00a0many of those accused of sexual harassment in Hollywood are Jewish.<\/h5>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G0eeNijdv3I\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><br \/>\nJews often brag about their genius gene pool and about the fact\u00a0that so many\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/opinion\/.premium-the-real-reason-jews-win-so-many-nobels-1.5276705\">Nobel Prize winners are Jewish<\/a>\u00a0(20%). Jews frequently boast about their power in politics, media and finance.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cJews must never be afraid to use their well-earned power\u201d was the title of a recent article by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/13960\/dershowitz-jews-power\">Alan Dershowitz<\/a>, who was a member of Epstein\u2019s legal team and was later accused by one of the victims\u2019 lawyers of himself participating in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/jeffrey-epstein-alan-dershowitz-and-pals-accused-of-sex-trafficking-ring\">sex trafficking ring<\/a>.This raises the obvious question of whether the same \u2018gene-pool\u2019 that created so many spectacular Jewish minds is also responsible for the list of gross misconduct as illustrated above. I am not a biologist nor an evolutionary scientist, but I admit I am not a great believer in the notion of a \u2018Jewish gene.\u2019I contend that\u00a0Chikli, Janner, Weinstein and Epstein have something else in common. Their actions display a dismissal of others that verges on complete contempt for humanity. This is the crux of choseness. <strong>To be chosen is to see oneself as an exceptional creation. It entails blindness to otherness. It is a form of impunity. To be chosen often involves a near or total lack of empathy.\u00a0\u00a0Such lack is often defined in terms of acute narcissism and psychopathy.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Chikli is clearly\u00a0aware of the human inclination for empathy, it is that impulse that he allegedly exploited to his own benefit, he just lacks that empathic quality himself.Not every Jew identifies him or herself as chosen. None of the Jews in my social circuit displays any of the horrid symptoms described above. As a reader of early Zionist texts, I know well that Zionism was born to emancipate Diaspora Jews from their exceptionalist cultural traits and to make them \u2018 \u00a0I am also aware\u00a0\u00a0that some rabbinical\u00a0Judaic interpretations of choseness are somehow different from the contemporary Zionist secular Jewish political interpretation of Jewish exceptionalism. Nor is choseness limited to Zionists or Israelis.\u00a0\u00a0Choseness has become the pillar of Jewish self identification. Choseness is what binds Jews together.\u00a0This includes anti Zionist Jews boasting about the precious contribution of the so-called \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xLL-CITMu5M\">Jews in the movement<\/a>\u2019 and the Israelis and Zionists\u00a0who celebrate their choseness at the expense of the indigenous people of Palestine.Like an early Zionist, I would have liked to see Jews liberate themselves from the choseness prison but I accept that such a shift can not occur in the form of a collective or political movement. The escape from choseness to the ordinary must be an individual struggle, a surrender to self-contempt that eventually matures into a genuine search for peace and harmony with the universe, with the soil and with one\u2019s neighbours.To assist Gilad in his work go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gilad.co.uk\/writings\/2019\/6\/24\/on-cohsenmess\">foot of the source page<\/a> to make a donation.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gilad.co.uk\/writings\/2019\/6\/24\/on-cohsenmess\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">\n<h5>Jews often brag about their genius gene pool and about the fact\u00a0that so many\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/opinion\/.premium-the-real-reason-jews-win-so-many-nobels-1.5276705\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Nobel Prize winners are Jewish<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(20%). Jews frequently boast about their power in politics, media and finance.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cJews must never be afraid to use their well-earned power\u201d was the title of a recent article by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/13960\/dershowitz-jews-power\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Alan Dershowitz<\/span><\/a>, who was a member of Epstein\u2019s legal team and was later accused by one of the victims\u2019 lawyers of himself participating in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/jeffrey-epstein-alan-dershowitz-and-pals-accused-of-sex-trafficking-ring\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">sex trafficking ring<\/span><\/a>.<\/h5>\n<h5>This raises the obvious question of whether the same \u2018gene-pool\u2019 that created so many spectacular Jewish minds is also responsible for the list of gross misconduct as illustrated above. I am not a biologist nor an evolutionary scientist, but I admit I am not a great believer in the notion of a \u2018Jewish gene.\u2019<\/h5>\n<h5>I contend that\u00a0Chikli, Janner, Weinstein and Epstein have something else in common. Their actions display a dismissal of others that verges on complete contempt for humanity. This is the crux of choseness. <strong>To be chosen is to see oneself as an exceptional creation. It entails blindness to otherness. It is a form of impunity. To be chosen often involves a near or total lack of empathy.\u00a0\u00a0Such lack is often defined in terms of acute narcissism and psychopathy.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Chikli is clearly\u00a0aware of the human inclination for empathy, it is that impulse that he allegedly exploited to his own benefit, he just lacks that empathic quality himself.<\/h5>\n<h5>Not every Jew identifies him or herself as chosen. None of the Jews in my social circuit displays any of the horrid symptoms described above. As a reader of early Zionist texts, I know well that Zionism was born to emancipate Diaspora Jews from their exceptionalist cultural traits and to make them \u2018 \u00a0I am also aware\u00a0\u00a0that some rabbinical\u00a0Judaic interpretations of choseness are somehow different from the contemporary Zionist secular Jewish political interpretation of Jewish exceptionalism. Nor is choseness limited to Zionists or Israelis.\u00a0\u00a0Choseness has become the pillar of Jewish self identification. Choseness is what binds Jews together.\u00a0This includes anti Zionist Jews boasting about the precious contribution of the so-called \u2018<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xLL-CITMu5M\">Jews in the movement<\/a><\/span>\u2019 and the Israelis and Zionists\u00a0who celebrate their choseness at the expense of the indigenous people of Palestine.<\/h5>\n<h5>\u00a0Like an early Zionist, I would have liked to see Jews liberate themselves from the choseness prison but I accept that such a shift can not occur in the form of a collective or political movement. The escape from choseness to the ordinary must be an individual struggle, a surrender to self-contempt that eventually matures into a genuine search for peace and harmony with the universe, with the soil and with one\u2019s neighbours.<\/h5>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5>To assist Gilad in his work go to the<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"> <a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gilad.co.uk\/writings\/2019\/6\/24\/on-cohsenmess\">foot of the source page<\/a><\/span> to make a donation.<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gilad.co.uk\/writings\/2019\/6\/24\/on-cohsenmess\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The deeds of Weinstein, Epstein and others have one thing in common. Their actions display a complete contempt for other\u2019s humanity. 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