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Jewish Family Values
Jewish Family Values An unknown writer explores one of the most visible Jewish contributions to Western society The Jew never tires of telling anyone willing to listen that he has made many valuable contributions to civilisation. Lately, many people have been asking, "What contributions? When? Where?" Can anyone name just one Jew to whom children ever looked up to as a hero? To be fair, there is one field in which the Jew has made such a wonderful "contribution" that it must be admitted that this field has become a Jewish monopoly. For lack of a worse term, this category is often referred to as "Jewish Family Values." Below are listed some Jewish heroes and heroines and brief details of their valuable "contributions" to society. According to Time magazine of 9 May 1983, the inventor of telephone sex lines is Gloria Leonard. Miss Leonard was one of 21 lucky winners in New York Telephone's lottery for Dial-It services. She used this opportunity to profit from her experience as a star of countless hard core pornographic films and as the founder and editor of the hard core porn magazine High Society. Miss Leonard often refers to herself as "A nice Jewish girl from the Bronx." Time Out magazine of 6-12 May 1983 reported the visit to Britain of Al Goldstein, who is the founder and editor of Screw magazine and the host of the cable television chat show 'Midnight Blue.' Journalist Steve Grant noted Goldstein's "Brooklyn-Jewish forthrightness" and described him as looking like "an oddball Israeli ambassador." Said Goldstein: "British Customs raided me again. They ripped up the magazine. If they do it again I'm gonna move here permanently. How would that effect your neighbourhood? Boy, you thought the Indians were bad, wait until a Jewish pornographer turns up. I'll probably start a cartoon strip with Margaret Thatcher and Reagan f---ing. Wow!On the 13th of October 1982, the National Film Theatre presented "Sluts and Goddesses â Annie Sprinkle", a series of films described in the NFI brochure as "shocking but true videos... an absurd, heartfelt and worshipful look at sex, challenging the boundaries of femininity and myths of sexual norms." Annie Sprinkle often refers to herself as "A nice Jewish girl from Brooklyn." Sprinkle's real name is Ellen Steinberg. The Sunday Express of 6 December 1992 reported that the Ann Summers chain of sex shops is owned by the Gold brothers, Ralph and David. They also own 50% of Sullivan's Sport Newspapers and publish Bite, a soft porn magazine for women. The managing director of Ann Summers is David Gold's daughter, Jacqueline. Ms. London magazine of 4 October 1993 reported that Miss Gold, now 33 "came into daddy's company... when she was 19." She is "the astute businesswoman who created the Ann Summers parties based on the Tupperware parties." Said Miss Gold: "When I first started, the business was male oriented. The parties excited me so much because I saw a whole new avenue for women." The February 1992 issue of Harper's and Queen reported on the family values of Sigmund Freud's descendants. Grandson Lucian is a painter who "lays bare his wives, his lovers and his children in his portraits." Journalist Raffaella Barker commented: "No artist in the world has painted his daughters naked as many times as Lucian Freud." His daughter Esther has written a novel based on life with her sister, Bella, and their unmarried parents. The title of the novel is Hideous Kinky. Evelyn Kaye has made a special study of "Jewish Family Values" in her book The Hole in The Sheet: A Modern Woman Looks at Orthodox and Hasidic Judaism, Lyle Stuart Publishers, 1987. Mrs Kaye describes "The Doctrine of Anti-Goyism" as being "The mark of a truly devout Hasidic or Orthodox Jew, as well as many other Jews, is an unquestioned hatred of non-Jews. This is the foundation of ultra-Orthodox and Hasidic philosophy." The book's title is based on the following Jewish law: "In order to protect the modesty of the wife during intercourse, a sheet is kept between her and her husband, with a hole at the appropriate place for the correct connection to be made." Chaim Bermant, writing in the Jewish Chronicle of 15 January 1993, drew attention to the cemeteries for Jewish prostitutes in Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aries. Apparently, these are the only Jewish cemeteries which "anti-Nazi" Jewish vandals have failed to desecrate. Bermant also noted the contributions the Jew made to English society at the beginning of this century: "In the same period (1903-1909), 151 aliens, most of them Jewish, were convicted for keeping brothels, and 521 for soliciting... Rabbi Avigdor Schonfeld... protested that to draw attention to the existence of Jewish prostitutes harmed the good name of the Jewish people." Another painter who has applied Jewish family values to his "art" is Robert Lenkiewicz, who was profiled by Paul Pickering in the Sunday Telegraph of 28 November 1993. Reported Pickering: "Lenkiewicz was born in 1943 of Jewish parents... Some of his best work comes within a skinfold of Lucian Freud... His Jewish upbringing and the Holocaust are the continuing motivation for his interest in obsessive behaviour. In particular, Nazism... 'That is one of my themes. In all I've done 18 projects to date which are an attempt to define obsessive behaviour.'... Lenkiewicz appears prominently in his paintings. On occasions a little too prominently: in one picture he is seen copulating with a goat... He came west (to Plymouth) 20 years ago after the police threw him out of Hampstead. 'They were quite right. I seemed to be a focus for the wrong sort of people. They told me to get out of town and not come back.'" Perhaps because Lenkiewicz has sired at least 15 illegitimate children with several women, Pickering concludes, "Robert is exactly the sort of artist that fathers warn their daughters about." Robert J. Stoller, M.D. in his 1991 book, Porn: Myths for the Twentieth Century, sought to understand the mentality of the people involved in the hard core pornography business, which is centred in California's San Fernando Valley. Whilst interviewing some of the actors and actresses, he was told, "If you're welcomed into the porn scene, it's unbelievable. It's an extended family... In fact, she almost feels like she's going to an X-rated country club. So many Jewish people involved with it." The Guardian's New York correspondent Mark Iran reported on 4 January 1994 in an article entitled 'Mean Streets of New York Become Cleaner', "In Chelsea, lower Manhattan, Israelis run the porn business..." The Guardian of 22 April 1992 carried an article entitled 'The Language of Lust', in which Geraldine Bedell told of the career of Isabel Koprowski. Reported Miss Bedell: "Koprowski, 36, is a pornographer. It is her own definition of what she does as managing editor of Forum and Penthouse, and... a new top-shelf magazine, For Women, which she promises will be 'a cross between Penthouse and Marie Claire.' Miss Koprowski told Tony Parsons of the London Evening Standard on 13 April 1992, "Our aim is to push back the boundaries of women's magazines." Miss Koprowski has been described by the Jewish Chronicle as "A nice Jewish girl." George Orwell, in his first book, Down and Out in Paris and London, recorded a conversation he had with his Russian flatmate: "I will tell you what Jews are like. Once, in the early months of the war, we were on the march, and we had halted at a village for the night. A horrible old Jew, with a red beard like Judas Iscariot, came sneaking up to my billet. I asked him what he wanted. 'Your honour,' he said, 'I have brought a girl for you, a beautiful young girl only 17. It will only be 50 francs.' 'Thank you,' I said, 'you can take her away again. I don't want to catch any diseases.' 'Diseases!' cried the Jew, 'mais Monsieur le capitaine, there's no fear of that. It's my own daughter!' That is the Jewish national character for you." AUTHORSHIP UNKNOWN http://www.heretical.com/miscellx/jewporn.html
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Israelis may stay home to avoid arrest in Europe
Israelis may stay home to avoid arrest in Europe
Disputed U.N. report on Gaza war puts officials at risk
By Eli Lake
October 15, 2009
Israel is seriously considering restricting travel to Europe by its senior
officials and military officers, fearing they might be arrested in the wake
of a disputed U.N. report that accuses the Jewish state of targeting
civilians in its Gaza war earlier this year.
Avital Leibovich, a spokeswoman for the Israel Defense Forces, told The
Washington Times on Monday, "Currently there is no specific advisory and
different senior officers are continuing their travel as planned. However,
we are in touch and we are discussing with the foreign ministry and other
legal authorities whether we need to take additional steps like potential
restrictions of travel."
Moshe "Bogie" Ya'alon, a retired Israeli general who now serves as minister
for strategic affairs, canceled a trip to London out of concern that he
might face an arrest warrant, said Jonathan Peled, a spokesman for the
Israeli Embassy in Washington.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday harshly criticized the U.
N. report, written by a team headed by South African Judge Richard Goldstone,
"as distorted" and vowed not to permit the Israeli officials who launched
the Gaza war "to arrive at the International Court in The Hague." The U.N.
Security Council will discuss the report on Wednesday.
Israel launched the offensive to stop the militant Palestinian group Hamas
from firing rockets on Israeli cities from Gaza, which Hamas controls. While
the war is viewed in Israel as a tactical success, its large civilian death
toll - estimated at 926 by Palestinian rights groups and at least 295 by
Israel - has created significant diplomatic fallout.
Not only do Israeli leaders and senior military officers face potential
legal problems in Europe, but Israel's long-held goal of normalizing
relations with Arab and Muslim states has been set back.
On Sunday, Turkey - a rare Muslim country with close military ties with
Israel - canceled an annual air force drill that would have included Israel.
Qatar, a Gulf state that kept an unofficial embassy, known as an interest
section, in Israel long after most Arab states closed theirs, shuttered it
in January, citing the Gaza war.
In March, the queen or sheikha of Qatar, Mozah Bint Nasser al Missned, hired
a U.S. public relations firm, Fenton Communications. According to the
contract filed with the Justice Department, Fenton will support an
"international public opinion awareness campaign that advocates for the
accountability for those who participated in attacks on schools in Gaza."
The Gaza war also has hurt ties with Arab countries that have signed peace
treaties with Israel.
Nabil Fahmy, a former Egyptian ambassador to the United States, said,
"Middle Easterners are fed up with Israel's excessive use of force, most
recently in Lebanon and Gaza. This anger has now extended beyond the region
to the international community because the Israeli practices are recurrent
in flagrant violation of the rules of war and basic human rights."
While the Goldstone report accuses both Israel and Hamas of suspected war
crimes, Israeli officials see themselves as the biggest targets and charge
that Mr. Goldstone's findings effectively deprive the Jewish state of the
right to self-defense.
One of the report's recommendations is that countries that have signed the
Geneva Conventions "start criminal investigations in national courts, using
universal jurisdiction, where there is sufficient evidence of the commission
of grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 1949. Where so warranted
following investigation, alleged perpetrators should be arrested and
prosecuted in accordance with internationally recognized standards of
justice."
This concept was tested last month when 16 Palestinians in Britain asked a
London court to issue an arrest warrant for Ehud Barak, the Israeli defense
minister who also served in that position during the Gaza war in December
and January. Deputy District Judge Daphne Wickham ruled that Mr. Barak had
diplomatic immunity.
Nevertheless, Mr. Ya'alon last month "decided not to go to Britain because
he learned that there was an attempt in the United Kingdom to try to press
charges against him for war crimes following the attempt with Defense
Minister Ehud Barak a week earlier," Mr. Peled said.
The Goldstone report was commissioned by the U.N. Human Rights Council, a
body that includes many authoritarian states, such as Cuba, China and Saudi
Arabia. The U.N. panel has focused much attention on Israel in recent years,
with no similar investigations into abuses such as Sudan's campaign against
Darfur, Iran's execution of minors or the Sri Lankan campaign against the
Tamil Tigers.
Israeli and many Western critics of the Goldstone report say it ignores the
fact that Hamas sought to increase civilian casualties by launching rockets
and placing military positions amid the civilian population.
Ms. Leibovich said the Israel Defense Forces sought to minimize those
casualties and consulted attorneys when decisions were made about targeting
specific buildings in Gaza from the air. Given that Gaza is one of the most
densely populated regions in the world, however, civilian casualties were
inevitable.
A senior Israeli official, who asked not to be named because he was
discussing ongoing diplomacy, warned that there could be repercussions for
Israeli relations with European countries that seek to arrest Israeli
officials because of the Gaza war.
"There is ongoing work with Spain, Norway, Britain and other countries," the
official said. "It is an ongoing effort to explain the dangers of universal
jurisdiction [allowing third parties to take court action involving disputes
to which they were not a party]. This should be about Somalia and Sudan who
have no ability or interest to investigate themselves."
This official added that there also could be implications for Israeli
cooperation with the Palestinian Authority on the West Bank.
Earlier this month, Shalom Kital, an aide to Mr. Barak, said Israel would
deny the necessary portion of the radio spectrum for a cell phone company
contract in the West Bank if the Palestinian Authority did not drop its
request to bring Israel before the International Criminal Court in light of
the Goldstone Report.
The report gives Israel six months to investigate the charges before
recommending that the matter be sent to that court.
Mr. Netanyahu also warned Monday that Israel would be less prone to restart
peace negotiations with the Palestinians if its officials face prosecution
over the Gaza war.
"Israel will not take risks for peace if it can't defend itself," he said.
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