{"id":45480,"date":"2012-03-21T12:38:54","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T12:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=45480"},"modified":"2012-03-24T08:31:05","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T08:31:05","slug":"baroness-ashton-and-jewish-sensitivities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=45480","title":{"rendered":"Baroness Ashton and Jewish Sensitivities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gilad Atzmon \u2013 gilad.co.uk March 21, 2012<\/h2>\n

The European Union\u2019s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy was criticised yesterday\u00a0 for \u00a0comparing the killing of three children and a rabbi in a shooting attack in France to the situation in Gaza.<\/h5>\n
At the \u201cPalestine refugees in the changing Middle East\u201d conference in Brussels, Baroness Ashton, described the murders in Toulouse as a \u201cterrible tragedy\u201d, but \u00a0she then added: \u201cWhen we see what is happening in Gaza and in different parts of the world \u2013 we remember young people and children who lose their lives.\u201d<\/h5>\n
Seemingly some prominent Jewish and Israeli leaders couldn\u2019t agree less. For them Jewish suffering exceeds all other suffering and Palestinian\u2019s in particular.<\/h5>\n
The London Jewish Chronicle<\/span><\/a> quoted some of the outraged critics.\u00a0 \u201cEven when read in context, Ashton\u2019s words are beyond unacceptable,\u201d said Oliver Worth, the British chairman of the World Union of Jewish Students. He said they were \u201ctruly outrageous and revolting\u201d and called for her to resign because she had \u201clost all credibility\u201d.\u00a0 And yet, Mr Worth fails to explain why is it \u201coutrageous and revolting\u201d to equate Jewish suffering with Palestinian one.<\/h5>\n
\u201cBaroness Ashton\u2019s remarks were both crass and wholly inappropriate,\u201d said \u00a0the chief executives of the Board of Deputies, yet he also fails to provide any reasoning.<\/h5>\n
\u201cThere is absolutely no equivalence between the situation in Gaza and the cold and callous murder of Rabbi Jonathan Sandler and the three children,\u201d said Stefan Kerner, director of public affairs for the Zionist Federation. And I wonder why there is no \u2018equivalence\u2019, \u00a0is it because the Jews are yet to withdraw from Toulouse? \u00a0Or may be Mr Kerner actually expects the French to withdraw from Toulouse and to leave it to Rabbi Sandler and a few other Jews. I obviously find it really difficult to follow the Zionist logic anymore.<\/h5>\n
The Rabbi added: \u201cFor a person in Baroness Ashton\u2019s position to even consider her comments appropriate is disgraceful. She should withdraw her statement immediately and apologise unreservedly for the offence that she has caused.\u201d\u00a0 And I wonder why is it offensive to Jews when someone equates their grief with Goyim\u2019s suffering. Does the Rabbi really believe that Jewish suffering is somehow superior?<\/h5>\n
Avigdor Lieberman, Israel\u2019s Foreign Minister, said he viewed her remarks as \u201cinappropriate\u201d. He said he hoped that she \u201cre \u2013 examines and retracts them\u201d. And I wonder, what kind of a retraction would please the Israeli Government. Do they really expect Baroness Ashton to \u00a0accept\u00a0 that Jewish suffering is the ultimate form of human grief?<\/h5>\n
Israeli war criminal as well as Opposition leader Tzipi Livni also, \u00a0attempted to offer some reasoning. She \u00a0described Ashton\u2019s remark as \u201creprehensible, infuriating, and wrong\u201d to draw any link \u201cbetween the murder of children in Toulouse and the massacre Assad is leading in Syria and the situation in Gaza\u201d. Livni may be right for a change, the crime committed in Gaza by the Jewish State in the name of the Jewish People is indeed unique in the history of brutality. Also the fact that 94% of the Israeli Jewish population supported IDF genocdial tactics at the time of operation Cast Lead is also very unique. Israel\u2019s war crimes are indeed uniquely cruel and beyond comparison.<\/h5>\n
But Livni didn\u2019t just stop there, she tried to qualify her statement. \u201cA hate crime or a leader murdering his people is not like a country fighting terror, even if civilians are hurt.\u201d According to Lvini, the Baroness had failed to make \u201cthe appropriate moral distinction\u201d. To start with we do not know yet what led to the tragic event in Toulouse. However, \u00a0the fact that Israel defines the Palestinians as \u201cterrorists\u201d is yet to provide the Jewish State with an moral excuse to slay the indigenous people of the land \u00a0and to abuse every possible human right.<\/h5>\n
I guess that we are all becoming impervious to Jewish political logic. But maybe this is another symptom of the Zionification of our reality. From now on we are expected to obey.<\/h5>\n

Source<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gilad Atzmon\u2019s New Book: The Wandering Who? A Study Of Jewish Identity Politics Amazon.com <\/span><\/a>or Amazon.co.uk<\/span>.<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The controversy over Baroness Ashton remarks may be another symptom of the Zionification of our reality, writes Gilad Atzmon. From now on we are expected to obey<\/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-45480","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\/45480","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=45480"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45595,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45480\/revisions\/45595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}