{"id":37827,"date":"2011-11-15T16:10:13","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T16:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=37827"},"modified":"2011-11-18T09:10:35","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T09:10:35","slug":"ynet-news-the-protocols-of-gilad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=37827","title":{"rendered":"YNET NEWS: The Protocols of  Gilad"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Introduction by Gilad Atzmon \u2013 gilad.co.uk November 15, 2011<\/h2>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Protocols-of-Gilad-Atzmon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-37831\" title=\"Protocols of Gilad Atzmon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Protocols-of-Gilad-Atzmon-272x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"272\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Protocols-of-Gilad-Atzmon-272x300.jpg 272w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Protocols-of-Gilad-Atzmon.jpg 291w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gilad.co.uk\/the-wandering-who\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Wandering Who<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/em><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u00a0<\/span>made it to Israel. Three days ago, Yediot Aharonot, the largest Israeli paper published a three pages\u00a0article about\u00a0<em>The Wandering Who<\/em>\u00a0and myself. And as one may imagine, the patriotic Israeli media giant wasn\u2019t very happy about the\u00a0book, or my views.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">But Yediot\u00a0was at least brave enough to include an interview with me in Hebrew.\u00a0\u00a0 In the interview I said many things that wouldn\u2019t see daylight on any of our Western Zionised papers. The Zionist paper allowed me to say all those things that our Jewish anti Zionists (AKA AZZ Anti Zionist Zionists)\u00a0 insist to shove under the carpet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">For instance, I compared Israel with Nazi Germany &#8212; I even told Israelis that from some perspectives, Israel is actually worse than Nazi Germany.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">I told Israelis that an Israeli attack on Iran would lead to a\u00a0shift in the vision of Jewish past and the Holocaust in particular. I believe that repeating these ideas\u00a0 in Israel in Hebrew in\u00a0 the current climate is my ethical duty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">I told Israelis that the holocaust must be opened to historical scrutiny.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Would the Guardian or the New York Times allow me to say it? Certainly not, or let us say, not yet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Ynet, The Israeli patriotic ultra Zionist\u00a0paper admitted that the book is a best seller and that it is praised by some\u00a0 of the most influential and distinguished academics around. Seemingly, our so called\u00a0Jewish \u2018anti\u2019 Zionists are way behind such reasoned debate. They still pray for the book to evaporate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Needless to say that the Israeli article provoked some Israelis to share\u00a0with me their most violent fantasies &#8211; but interestingly enough\u00a0 -many more Israelis contacted me to thank me for telling the truth; and some even sent me\u00a0 very interesting documents which I will certainly use in the near future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/dersho-liar-320x239.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-37832\" title=\"dersho-liar-320x239\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/dersho-liar-320x239-300x224.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/dersho-liar-320x239-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/dersho-liar-320x239.png 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>As I mentioned once before, \u2018The People Of the Book\u2019 is not the appropriate description \u00a0of the contemporary political Jew. \u2018The People Of the Cut &amp; Paste\u2019 is much more suitable. Yaniv Halily, the paper\u2019s correspondent in London didn\u2019t actually\u00a0read the book: instead he copied quotes from discredited Zionist mouthpiece, Alan Dershowitz, who also didn\u2019t read the book but copied from others. And as we all know, Dershowitz is notorious for being a\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2008\/02\/11\/the-case-against-alan-dershowitz\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">plagiarist<\/span><\/strong><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">So in fact, part of the Yediot\u2019s article is an embarrassing\u00a0chain of Zio-centric plagiarists drivel.\u00a0 Seemingly, none of the plagiarists\u00a0read my original work. They are clearly driven by a phantasmic trauma. Interestingly enough,\u00a0<em>The Wandering Who<\/em>\u00a0describes this very trauma in details.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">I already addressed Dershowitz\u2019 clumsy\u00a0drivel\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gilad.co.uk\/writings\/dershowitz-lies-and-glitches-by-gilad-atzmon.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">here<\/span><\/strong><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">. Since Ynet, copied and pasted Dershowitz\u2019 misquotes. There is no reason to deal with the matter once again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">As far as I am aware, the article didn\u2019t make it to the Hebrew online Ynet, but yesterday it found its way to the English website\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/articles\/0,7340,L-4147243,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Ynetnews<\/span><\/strong><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span>\u00a0 I guess that someone in Israel must have realised that it may be too dangerous to let Israelis grasp the truth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The article in English contains some gross mistranslations. It seems as if the Israeli English translator didn\u2019t know how to handle \u2018self hatred\u2019, and instead\u00a0 came up with some very creative ideas, such as \u2018a Jew who hates Judaism\u2019, and \u2018Jew Hater.\u2019 I will point at these mistranslations in the body of the article.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">The protocols of Gilad Atzmon<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Yaniv Halily \u2013 YNET News<\/h3>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">LONDON \u2013 &#8220;We must take the accusations that Jews are trying to take over the world with utmost seriousness.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/articles\/0,7340,L-3284752,00.html%20\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Israel<\/span><\/strong><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u00a0<strong>is the Nazi Germany of our time. In fact, Israel today is worse than Nazi Germany.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">These harsh statements are not the beliefs of a German neo-Nazi, but rather of an Israeli living in London. The speaker is Gilad Atzmon, an Israeli jazz musician performing around the world, whose new book &#8220;The Wandering Who?&#8221; deals with world Jews and the State of Israel, and includes some very disturbing sayings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Atzmon, 48, was born in Jerusalem and has been living in Britain since 1994. He is considered a gifted musician who performs in Europe&#8217;s best jazz clubs, but also one of his homeland&#8217;s most serious critics in Britain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">He has published quite a few books and articles blasting Israel in the past, but this time it seems he has crossed all red lines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Some-will-say-Hitler-was-right-after-all.jpg\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-37834\" title=\"Some will say Hitler was right after all\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Some-will-say-Hitler-was-right-after-all-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Some-will-say-Hitler-was-right-after-all-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Some-will-say-Hitler-was-right-after-all.jpg 408w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In his new book he states that he is &#8220;proud to be a self-hating Jew&#8221;, and says that his &#8220;insights&#8221; are based on the writings of Jewish Austrian philosopher Otto Weininger, who he describes as &#8220;an anti-Semite who loathed almost anything that wasn&#8217;t Aryan manhood.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Atzmon says he is a strong opponent of &#8220;Jewishness&#8221; and clarifies, &#8220;I despise the Jew in me.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;To be a Jew is a deep commitment that goes far beyond any legal or moral order,&#8221; he explains in the book, a commitment which he says draws an increasing number of Jews into a dangerous, unethical and vague partnership.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5>(GA: misquote taken from Alan Dershowitz&#8217; article. discussed\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gilad.co.uk\/writings\/dershowitz-lies-and-glitches-by-gilad-atzmon.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>)<\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Eventually, he writes, a nuclear war will erupt between\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/articles\/0,7340,L-3284215,00.html%20\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Iran<\/span><\/strong><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u00a0and Israel, which will lead to the killing of tens of millions of people. &#8220;Some brave people will say that Hitler was right after all.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<h5>(GA: this is a mistranslation of a double misquote. here are my original words: &#8220;We, for instance, can envisage a horrific situation in which an Israeli so-called \u2018pre-emptive\u2019 nuclear attack on Iran escalates into a disastrous nuclear war, in which tens of millions of people perish. I guess that amongst the survivors of such a nightmare scenario, some may be bold enough to argue that \u2018Hitler might have been right after all.\u2019<\/h5>\n<h5>The above is obviously a fictional scenario, and by no means a wishful one, yet such a vision of a \u2018possible\u2019 horrific development should restrain Israeli or Zionist aggression towards Iran.&#8221; The Wandering Who Pg 191)<\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">His reference to Hitler is not accidental. Atzmon often compares the Holocaust to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Holocaust, he writes, is &#8220;an ancient religion as old as the Jews themselves&#8221;, and &#8220;even if it is accepted as the new Anglo-American liberal-democratic religion \u2013 people should be allowed to be atheists.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The text also includes some of the most classic anti-Semitic accusations. Atzmon claims that American Jews are trying to control the world, blames them for the global financial crisis, and rules that high-ranking Jewish officials in the United States \u2013 like Rahm Emanuel and Paul Wolfowitz \u2013 &#8220;stayed abroad instead of moving to &#8216;Zion&#8217; in order to serve the Zionist interest in the best way possible.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">He even accuses American media of failing to &#8220;warn the American public of the danger from within.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Moreover, Atzmon even addresses the classic blood libel, claiming that children should be allowed to ask their school teachers &#8220;how do they know that the accusations that Jews used the blood of gentile children to back matzot are indeed empty or groundless accusations.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<h5>(GA: misquote taken from Alan Dershowitz&#8217; article. discussed\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gilad.co.uk\/writings\/dershowitz-lies-and-glitches-by-gilad-atzmon.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>)<\/h5>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Jesus hated Jews too<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Asked why he hates Jews, Atzmon stresses that he is in good company. &#8220;The Jews who ultimately contributed to humanity are those who hated themselves,&#8221; he says in an interview. &#8220;Jesus was a Jew who hated Jews, and so did Spinoza and Marx.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<h5>(GA: Clear mistranslation here. the reference\u00a0 is to &#8216;self hatred&#8217;. accordingly Jesus was a &#8216;self hater&#8217;.\u00a0 Instead of &#8220;Asked why he hates Jews&#8221; it should be &#8220;Asked why is he a self-hater&#8217;. it should read &#8220;Jesus was a self hater, and so were Spinoza and Marx.&#8221;\u00a0 )<\/h5>\n<h3>Albert Einstein did not hate his Jewish identity.<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;Einstein didn&#8217;t contribute to humanity. He contributed to physics and was the person who started the Manhattan Project which led to the atomic bomb. When you talk about humanity, you talk about a universal system of values promoting love for one another \u2013 Einstein didn&#8217;t contribute anything to that.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">He defines himself as a &#8216;Jew hater&#8217;. Do you think your identity allows you to be Impartial?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;Of course. As a Jew who hates Judaism, I put myself under a magnifying glass and examine every Jewish aspect in me. I don&#8217;t see any problem with it, and everything I say is subject to the readers&#8217; review. By the way, the book has already sold 6,000 copies on the first month of its publication, which is a significant achievement.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<h5>(GA:\u00a0 For some reason, the translator couldn&#8217;t handle the notion of &#8216;self-hatred&#8217; it must have felt like a cognitive dissonance. It should read as &#8220;He defines himself as a &#8216;self hater&#8217;. and consequently &#8220;Of course. As a &#8216;self hater&#8217;, I put myself under a magnifying glass.)<\/h5>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Are Jews responsible for the global financial crisis?<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;When I diagnose the lobby which led to the global financial crash, I can\u2019t ignore these two people, Paul Wolfowitz and Alan Greenspan. In 1994, Wolfowitz wrote that Israel is an important strategic asset, and he was also the architect of the Gulf War \u2013 I have no doubt he&#8217;s a Zionist.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">You have also voiced harsh claims against the Holocaust narrative accepted by the Western world today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Einstein-didnt-contribute-to-humanity.jpg\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-37835\" title=\"Einstein didn't contribute to humanity\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Einstein-didnt-contribute-to-humanity-300x247.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Einstein-didnt-contribute-to-humanity-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Einstein-didnt-contribute-to-humanity.jpg 408w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;I find this narrative unacceptable. History should be subject to criticism as part of a dynamic process of understanding. Holocaust museums perpetuate Jewish suffering, preventing Jews from reaching such an understanding.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Holocaust issue is subject to an ongoing research process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;This process institutionalizes the Jewish suffering and doesn&#8217;t impress me. I heard about Holocaust deniers who were forced to sit in jail just because they wouldn&#8217;t fall for the Holocaust narrative as described by the Zionists. Holocaust denial laws are the worst \u2013 they prevent Jews from understanding their own history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;Take the death marches issue, for example. It&#8217;s clear to everyone that at the beginning of the war the Nazis wanted to clear the Reich of Jews. If that&#8217;s the case, why did the lead the Jews at the end of the war into the Reich in what people refer to as &#8216;the death marches&#8217;? If the Nazis wanted to destroy the Jews, the last thing they should have done was lead them to Germany.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<h5>Jews were an essential labor force.<\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;Jews were no longer a labor force. They were too weak and therefore died in the marches. Jews say the Nazis wanted to conceal evidence, but that&#8217;s an idiotic response because the Nazis left Jews behind in the camps.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<h5>Okay, so you tell me why the marches took place.<\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;According to one interesting answer, the Jews preferred to stay with the Germans than fall into the hands of the Russians. There was a typhus outbreak and the assumption was that if the Jews were taken to Germany, the Americans and Britons could deal with the disease.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;So the death marches were actually humane. This is a very consistent ruling.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">So the marches were a demonstration of humanity. You also claimed that Israel is worse than Nazi Germany. Do explain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;Both Nazi Germany and Israel are driven by ethnocentrism. They are both racist countries with a tendency to expand. Israel and the Nazi movement are similar in many categories. But since Israel is a democratic country, each of its citizens is responsible for its crimes, while in Nazi Germany only the F\u00fchrer and his party members were responsible for the war crimes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;Moreover, the Zionist movement was born before the Nazi movement. The Nazis disappeared, but the Zionists remain \u2013 and today they are even stronger than America.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Something very Jewish<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Atzmon&#8217;s statements are not troubling just because of their content, but mainly because of their surprising approval. Researchers from leading US universities, including Richard Falk of Princeton and John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago, have adopted the book and saluted Atzmon for his &#8220;courage&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">James Petras, Bartle Professor of Sociology Emeritus at Binghamton University, praised the text, calling it &#8220;a series of brilliant illuminations&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Mearsheimer, who is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, concluded that Atzmon &#8220;has written a fascinating and provocative book on Jewish identity in the modern world&#8221;, which he said should be read by both Jews and non-Jews.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">This troubling popularity is also expressed in the fact that the book can be purchased on Amazon, a website with a clear policy of not selling books promoting open racist opinions or any type of anti-Semitism. In case you were wondering, you won&#8217;t be able to buy &#8220;Mein Kampf&#8221; there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">All this is naturally joined by Holocaust deniers and anti-Israel protestors, who have been praising the book and quoting from it. The fact that the text was written by an Israeli makes many of them accept it as legitimate and address it as a scientific document.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Yardena-Arazi.jpg\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-37836\" title=\"Yardena Arazi\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Yardena-Arazi-300x276.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Yardena-Arazi-300x276.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Yardena-Arazi.jpg 408w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Atzmon, by the way, says he has a loyal audience in Israel too. &#8220;Quite a few people in Israel agree with what I&#8217;m saying, he states.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/articles\/0,7340,L-4136509,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Yoram Kaniuk<\/span><\/strong><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u00a0asked to remove the Judaism classification from his identity card, and I&#8217;ve heard that hundreds of Israelis are following suit. It&#8217;s a simple conclusion: Many have decided to become like me, to ask questions and wander, at least spiritually.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;My mother agrees with my ideas, and my father said recently that for the first time he understood where I was coming from. I had tears in my eyes.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;I read the book even before it was put to print and I think it&#8217;s wonderful,&#8221; confirms the mother, Ariella Atzmon. &#8220;It&#8217;s a very important book, which was a best-seller and analyzes our existence in a very intelligent way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s not at all anti-Semitic. Gilad has a problem with Jews, he talks about three categories of Jews, but you have to read everything to understand \u2013 rather than bring quotations and take them out of context.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s time for people to start thinking about the situation we are living in and about our past in a realistic manner, instead of living by myths. I am very proud of my son.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Israeli singer Yardena Arazi, who worked with Atzmon in the past as a musician, producer and player, is not so proud.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;He is extremely talented, really gifted, but I&#8217;m not surprised by his statements,&#8221; she says. &#8220;He is a provocative and witty person, with a lot of humor, and when he first started talking like this \u2013 I thought he was joking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;After he went to London I visited him there once with my daughter Alona, but over time he became even more radical, and it eventually ended between us when we slammed the phone in each other&#8217;s face.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;I took a step back from him. He wrote very painful things, and I don&#8217;t agree with any of his statements of course, but arguing with him is pointless. He is entrenched in very radical opinions, and there is no way of communicating with him on this level.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;He is an argumentative person and an outsider, and there is something very Jewish about him, even though he denies his Jewishness. I once told him that one day he would become a believer and a great rabbi, but I guess I was very wrong.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is the book they don&#8217;t want you to read: The Wandering Who-A Study Of Jewish Identity Politics, available on\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Wandering-Who-Gilad-Atzmon\/dp\/1846948754\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1312891740&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon.com\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Wandering-Who-Jewish-Identity-Politics\/dp\/1846948754\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1312891884&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon.co.uk<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gilad Atzmon continues to question the very foundations of modern Israel, which may explain why YNET News went out of its way to twist his words     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37827"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37965,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37827\/revisions\/37965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}