The downloaded books are a revisionist history and even a tell-all of traditional rabbinic Judaism. They tell a revealing story.
Quote:Israel Shahak was born Israel Himmelstaub, in 1933, in Warsaw, Poland, and was the youngest child of a cultured, Zionist family of Ashkenazi Jews.[SUP][a][/SUP][SUP][b][/SUP] During the Second World War, the Nazi Occupation of Poland (193945) interned the Shahak family to the Warsaw Ghetto; yet his elder brother escaped Poland to Britain, where he joined the Royal Air Force. Meanwhile, life in occupied Poland forced Shahak's mother to pay a Roman Catholic family to hide Israel, whom they returned when she could not afford their safe-keeping him from the Nazis.In 1943, the Nazis sent the Shahak family to the Poniatowa concentration camp, to the west of Lublin, where his father died. Fortuitously, the ten-year-old boy and his mother escaped from the Poniatowacamp, and returned to Warsaw; yet, within a year, whilst emptying the city of Jews, the Nazis recaptured Israel and his mother, and imprisoned them in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they survived for 2 years,[SUP][4][/SUP][SUP][5][/SUP] until the camp and its inmates were liberated in 1945 by the British Army. Age 13, in 1946, he reexamined the idea of God's existence and concluded evidence for the theory was lacking.[SUP][4][/SUP] As displaced persons mother and son managed to emigrate to the British Mandate of Palestine, where Shahak's application to join a kibbutz was denied, because he was judged to be physically too slender.[SUP][c]
[/SUP] Post-war, the twelve-year-old Israel worked and studied and supported his sickly mother: surviving Bergen-Belsen had broken her health. After a religious Jewish education at boarding school, in the village of Kfar Hassidim, Israel and his mother moved to the city of Tel Aviv. Upon graduation from secondary school, Shahak soldiered in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF); after military service, he earned a doctorate in chemistry, at Hebrew University.[SUP][4]
[/SUP] In the course of his professional career as a scientist, Shahak's work in organic chemistry produced science about organic compounds of the element fluorine (F), contributed to cancer research, for which he gained an international reputation[SUP][5][/SUP] and included posting as an assistant to Ernst David Bergmann, the nuclear physicist who was chairman (1952) of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC).[SUP][4][/SUP][SUP][2][/SUP] In 1961, Shahak pursued post-doctoral studies at Stanford University, in the U.S.; in 1963, he returned to Israel, where he became a popular lecturer and researcher in chemistry, at Hebrew University; moreover, by 1965, Prof. Shahak actively participated in the Israeli politics of the day.[SUP][6]
[/SUP] In 1990, the academic Shahak retired from the faculty of Hebrew University, because of poor health (diabetes mellitus) and greater interest in research work in other fields of intellectual enquiry.[SUP][7][/SUP] For most of his adult life, Prof. Israel Shahak, Ph.D., resided in the Rehavia neighborhood in West Jerusalem; at the age of 68 years, he died of diabetic complications, and was buried in the Givat Shaul cemetery.[SUP][4]
[/SUP] Shahak had a deep affinity with Spinoza:[SUP][d][/SUP][SUP][e][/SUP]}he always packed a copy of The Ethics in his suitcase for reading during his periodic stints of service in the Israel Defense Forces,[SUP][9][/SUP] and had been writing a book on the philosopher before death intervened.[SUP][4][/SUP] His activities as a public intellectual fighting for human rights causes and for a secular state earned him a reputation for controversy, and frequent abuse. He was regularly spat on,[SUP][4][/SUP] frequently given death threats,[SUP][4][/SUP] and decried variously as an Israel basher, self-hating Jew, traitor, and enemy of the people....
In 1994, Shahak published Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years, about Jewish fundamentalism, which history professor Norton Mezvinsky, at Central Connecticut State University, said is a:
Scathing attack upon Classical Judaism and its more modern outgrowth, Orthodox Judaism.... As a lover of prophetic Judaism and as a disciple of Spinoza, Shahak, in a learned and rational manner, condemned the parochialism, racism, and hatred of non-Jews, which too often appeared in the Judaism that developed during and after the Talmudic period, and which, to a goodly extent, still exists.[SUP][7]
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That the initial history of most nations is ethnocentric, and that, in time, by way of a period of critical self-analysis, the nation incorporates the social perspectives of the Other, of the ethnic groups living among them. That, after the Age of Enlightenment, the Jewish emancipation from legal and religious social subordination was a dual liberation from Christian antisemitismand from the rabbinate of Conservative Judaism, and their "imposed scriptural control" upon daily Jewish life.[SUP][24][/SUP] The journalist Robert Fisk said that the examination of Jewish fundamentalism is invaluable, because Shahak concludes that:
There can no longer be any doubt that the most horrifying acts of oppression in the West Bank are motivated by Jewish religious fanaticism." He quotes from an official exhortation to religious Jewish soldiers about Gentiles, published by the Israeli army's Central Region Command, in which the chief chaplain writes: "When our forces come across civilians during a war, or in hot pursuit, or a raid, so long as there is no certainty that those civilians are incapable of harming our forces, then, according to the Halakhah (the legal system of Classical Judaism) they may and even should be killed... In no circumstances should an Arab be trusted, even if he makes an impression of being civilised.... In war, when our forces storm the enemy, they are allowed, and even enjoined, by the Halakhah to kill even good civilians, that is, civilians who are ostensibly good.[SUP][25]
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In his foreword to the second edition (1997), Edward Said said that Shahak was "one of the most remarkable individuals in the contemporary Middle East."[SUP][26][/SUP] In his book review, Werner Cohn said that Shahak was making "grotesque charges" and that specific passages in Jewish History, Jewish Religion are without foundation:[SUP][27]
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Some are just funny. He says (pp. 23-4) that "Jewish children are actually taught" to utter a ritual curse when passing a non-Jewish cemetery.[SUP][i][/SUP] He also tells us (p. 34) that "both before and after a meal, a pious Jew ritually washes his hands....On one of these two occasions he is worshiping God... but on the other he is worshiping Satan..." I did take the trouble to question my orthodox rabbi nephew to find what might be behind such tall tales. He had no clue. If orthodox Jews were actually taught such hateful things, surely someone would have heard. Whom is Dr. Shahak kidding?.[SUP][27][/SUP][SUP][j]
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The remark regarding children passing a cemetery occurs in Shahak's discussion of passages modified by rabbis who, under pressure from antisemitic Christian authorities such as those in Tzarist Russia, altered the texts, while keeping private copies of the originals which, according to Shahak were restored as the proper manuscript readings and published in Israel after the founding of the state of Israel.[SUP][30][/SUP]
Another new article on the Tippit shooting. This one has new info about a possible fight in which everyone disappeared that Tippit might have been responding to, and an unmasking of Mr Tatum.
You know, the Frontline witness, who Milo does not find credible. Neither does the author of this essay.
Harris is not AOC. In an era more liberal than at anytime since JFK took office it would be a mistake to settle for her.
She is really HRC/Obama all over again except she disguises herself as something she is not. I did a 7 page study of her career, including that shameless piece of race baiting at the debate.
Just remember, she helped cover up the the murder of RFK against Bill Pepper and Laurie Dusek. That is all you need to really know about who she is. But there is much more.
Sticky Wicket is a series on NPR that explores controversial political issues in Louisiana state history. Therefore one segment is devoted to Jim Garrison and JFK.
With Alecia Long and Rosemary James as the main talking heads, it was bound to be a hatchet job, and it was. I could detect not one mention of the ARRB during the show. Which is stunning considering the amount of material the ARRB declassified on New Orleans. There is no discussion of Oswald in New Orleans, and they do not even mention the death of David Ferrie. Alecia Long is becoming the new Hugh Aynesworth.
The following review exposes the rubbish for what it is and tries to educate the reader by showing how much new and important ARRB material was left out:
Douglas Valentine just mentioned on Facebook right now that he's been informed that H.P. Albarelli just passed away in Florida. Very sad news obviously. It's not known what if anything will happen with Albarelli's upcoming book.
Library and Archives Canada have digitized 6 letter books from the Bloomfield collection. The link below will has the letter books.
How to download:
The first file on the page is letter book 25. The letter book 25 link, not the PDF icon, will take you to another page. On the next page you will see a warning that the files may not be ready, ignore it.
You will see another link Online Mikan Number 4068837 (1item). That link will take you to another page where there is a PDF icon from which you can download the file. Files are large so the download will take a while.
The archives are going to digitize all files in the Bloomfield collection that have files that are subject to solicitor-client privilege. Project will be complete sometime in 2020. If you return to their website at a later date you may find more of Bloomfield's files will be available for download.
The University of North Carolina Press have published an interesting volume in their ongoing 'New Cold War History' series. The full title of Kyle Burke's new book is REVOLUTIONARIES FOR THE RIGHT: ANTICOMMUNIST INTERNATIONALISM AND PARAMILITARY WARFARE IN THE COLD WAR. Here's the publisher's blurb.
Quote:Freedom fighters. Guerrilla warriors. Soldiers of fortune. The many civil wars and rebellions against communist governments drew heavily from this cast of characters. Yet from Nicaragua to Afghanistan, Vietnam to Angola, Cuba to the Congo, the connections between these anticommunist groups have remained hazy and their coordination obscure. Yet as Kyle Burke reveals, these conflicts were the product of a rising movement that sought paramilitary action against communism worldwide. Tacking between the United States and many other countries, Burke offers an international history not only of the paramilitaries who started and waged small wars in the second half of the twentieth century but of conservatism in the Cold War era.From the start of the Cold War, Burke shows, leading U.S. conservatives and their allies abroad dreamed of an international anticommunist revolution. They pinned their hopes to armed men, freedom fighters who could unravel communist states from within. And so they fashioned a global network of activists and state officials, guerrillas and mercenaries, ex-spies and ex-soldiers to sponsor paramilitary campaigns in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Blurring the line between state-sanctioned and vigilante violence, this armed crusade helped radicalize right-wing groups in the United States while also generating new forms of privatized warfare abroad.
The Introduction to the book begins with an account of John Singlaub addressing a WACL meeting, and the book as a whole looks like a sequel to Russ Bellant's OLD NAZIS, THE NEW RIGHT AND THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION. An Amazon link for Burke's book is below.
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Progressive Press have published Thierry Meyssan's most recent book on geopolitical events in the Middle East, and like a lot of his stuff it looks of interest. That said, I haven't checked Voltaire.net recently but I suspect Meyssan likely isn't as thrilled with Trump - and Trump's recent joining up with idiots like John Bolton - as he was when he wrote this book a year or more ago. It's an early 2018 volume and Progressive Press finished the new translation and published it earlier this year. It's a 285 page paperback and the Kindle version is just a few bucks.
John Leonard, the publisher, recently mentioned on the site something that I've just noticed myself. Google has changed the results that you will get if you type in the phrase 'Progressive Press'. It used to bring up the Progressive Press book site on the first page within the first few entries. Now the phrase gets you five or six pages or more of links to machine presses and metalwork equipment. Type in 'Progressive Press books' though and you'll get the expected links to John's website.
This is a deliberate suppression by Google. You can test this by going to DuckDuckGo and typing in the same phrase. Progressive Press is the first link mentioned at the top of the page, above all the metalwork and machine building nonsense that Google now prioritises over a mention of the Progressive Press website.
Progressive Press are now also preparing an edition of the suppressed Udo Ulfkotte book on the CIA and journalists. A Patreon page asking for folks to chip in to help finance the ongoing translation is here. That said, the book will likely be out later this year.
