Parisians Unite, Politicians Stay in Background

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1. 

   Oui on January 11, 2015 at 11:17 am

   Creation of the ‘Je suis Charlie’ slogan

   The weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo  got its name in November 1970 after the French government had banned a satirical magazine titled Hara-Kiri which had joked about the death the World War Two hero, General Charles de Gaulle, who held the office of President of France twice in the period from 1959/1969. Some of the staff of Hara-Kiri then launched another satirical magazine with the title Charlie Hebdo. The ‘Charlie’ derived both from Charlie Brown and General Charles de Gaulle. Hebdo is short from hebdomadaire – weekly.

   (As I find that Hara-Kiri cover despicable I will not reproduce it here or even tell you about it – Marilyn Z. Tomlins.)

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   Oui on January 11, 2015 at 1:04 pm

   Mussoline justifies war against Ethiopia of Haile Selassi – 1934

   Black Shirts of the revolution! Men and women of all Italy! Italians spread throughout the world, beyond the mountains and beyond the seas! Hear me!  A solemn hour is about to sound in the history of the fatherland. At this moment twenty million men occupy the public squares of all Italy.

   Never in the history of mankind has there been seen a more gigantic spectacle. Twenty million men, but one heart, one will, one decision. Their demonstration must and does show the world that Italy and Fascism constitute a perfect, absolute, and unalterable identity.

   For many months the wheels of destiny have been moving toward their goal under the impulse of our calm determination. In the latter hours their rhythm has become more swift and by now cannot be stopped.

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   Us against the barberians - air power in 1934

   It is not only an army that strives toward its objectives but a whole people of 44 million souls against whom an attempt is being made to consummate the blackest of injustices that of depriving us of some small place in the sun.

   What has the world learned in the last 80 years? Mussolini, the League of Nations, Abyssinia, emperor Haile Selassi – Statement of Communist League of Struggle. Obama, the United Nations, Abyss in Ukraine, ‘czar’ Putin. In both eras Britain and France playing a major role as their colonial empires were faltering. Fascism leads to a great World War. Is this once again an irreversible process going through today’s fascism, propaganda, mass rallies unto yet another devastating war?

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   Oui on January 11, 2015 at 4:03 pm

   Just a few moments ago, I watched and listened to the commemoration broadcast from the Grand Synagogue of Paris. As the ceremony ended, Benyamin Natanyahu took center stage and made a speech. He started with a few words in broken French but spoke in Hebrew with a translator at his side. None of the TV channels were prepared and there was no English translation on CNN, BBC and France24. I turned to Al Jazeera which did an adequate job of translating Hebrew to English. The PM spoke quite well in the first 6-8 minutes but then he changed the subject to terror and counterterror. He started with the personal tragedy of the loss of his brother Yoni during the daring raid on Entebbe airport in Uganda. It was a hijacked Air France passenger jet. As he moved along, it became an election speech with the usual propaganda. I had taken some notes, but I won’t bother you with his words.

   He made allowance for ‘normal’ Islam and separated the ‘radical’ Islam of Hamas, Boko Haram, al Nusra, Al Qaeda,  Al Shabaab and the Islamic State. In the translation I didn’t hear AQAP or AQIM, nor the mention of Hezbollah and Iran. I will look for a transcript to get the exact speech.

   ○ Netanyahu speaking at Paris synagogue – ‘Enough with terror’ | JPost |

   Posted earlier @TikunOlam – Charlie Hebdo Massacre: a Tragic, Universal Failure.

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   Oui on January 12, 2015 at 5:59 pm

   … the idea of a security threat didn’t make sense either: After all, the security in the area met the standards of so many other leaders, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, combined.

   Far-right politician Marine LePen was urged to stay away from the Paris march, and she did. However, Netanyahu is in an election fight with the extreme [!] right-wing leaders Avigdor Lieberman and Naftali Bennett and had to show up when these two invited themselves at the last moment. Netanyahu was rebuffed by president Hollande as he was about to make his (election) speech in the Grand Synagogue of Paris. A real shame.

   Netanyahu wasn’t invited to Paris unity march meant for the French citizens …

   Bibi’s Insult to France | Tikun Olam |

   Haaretz reports the astonishing news that Francois Hollande, France’s president, asked both Israel and Palestine not to send representatives to today’s march in memory of the Charlie Hebdo and Jewish terror victims.  The French wished to confine the march and political discussion surrounding the terror attacks to the victims and the suffering nation.  They wanted to avoid having the complicating issues of the Israeli-Palestine conflict muddy the waters.

   Hollande was also reacting to Netanyahu’s previous act of bad faith after the Toulouse terror attack, when he joined the funeral service and publicly called for French Jews to leave for Israel before it was too late.  Political leaders don’t forget when foreigners insult their nation, nor did Hollande.

   A small, violent minority who wish to hijack the Paris unity march  h/t MoA – A Photo-Op For the Hypocrites

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     Oui on January 12, 2015 at 6:00 pm

     Not wanted at march of Parisians, just like Marine LePen.

     ○ Netanyahu ‘was not wanted’ in Paris march | AFP |

     Netanyahu’s conduct was widely criticised by Israeli commentators.

     “It was embarrassing, not to say disgraceful, to see Israel’s prime minister yesterday trying to push his way onto a bus that he was not supposed to board, making his way determinedly from the second row (where he was placed) to the row of leaders walking in front (which he took over), behaving in a mourning parade as in an election rally,” Ben Caspit wrote in the rightwing Maariv newspaper.

     “The reprisal was not late in coming. President Francois Hollande fell on Abu Mazen’s (Abbas’s) shoulders in a close embrace but greeted Netanyahu with a frozen hand.”

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   Oui on January 13, 2015 at 5:22 am

   ○ Security?

   Hollande deploys 10,000 soldiers on the streets of France to protect synagogues, schools and sensitive places. Soldiers armed with machine-guns creates a sphere of anxiety, children will grow up in a climate of violence and insecurity. Awaiting the French ‘Patriot Act.’

   France’s Ministry of Interior wouldn’t confirm or comment on any of the reported mosque attacks, saying local police were handling the cases.

   1. A explosion occurred near a mosque in the eastern French town of Villefranche-sur-Saône, about 250 miles from the French capital. The blast occurred at around 6 a.m. local time (midnight ET) and destroyed the glass front of a cafe attached to the building. A police source confirming the explosion, and said the cafe was a kebab shop. {Le Progres / ParisMatch]
   2. A mosque in Le Mans, about 130 miles southwest of Paris, was attacked and shots fired just after midnight. Investigators found an exploded grenade inside the mosque and two other grenades intact. [Le Maine Libre/ France3-Pays de la Loire]
   3. A mosque in Port-la-Nouvelle, in southern France on the border of Spain, reported shots fired at a prayer room. [Midi Libre]

   A total of 20 incidents were reported and another 30 serious threats.

   Paris shooting: ‘We vomit’ on Charlie Hebdo’s sudden friends, says staff cartoonist Bernard Holtrop.

6. 

   Oui on January 13, 2015 at 6:08 am

   If Yoav had been Arab, he would have been a legitimate target of IDF terror? Terror from all sides destroys our youth and its hope for living life to the fullest.

   Yoav Hattab, one of four victims murdered in the terrorist attack on a Kosher supermarket in Paris, was the son of the Chief Rabbi of Tunis and the director of the Jewish School, Benjamin Hattab.

   Hattab, 21, hailed from La Goulette, a coastal town in the suburbs of Tunis. He had moved to Paris to study marketing and international trade. He passed his baccalaureate degree at the Tunis French lycee, and augmented his studies by working as a small business sales manager in France.

   Yoav will be laid to rest in his beloved Israel.

   In Tunis, the persecution of Jews has reached its zenith of the past 2,000 years! Building a ghetto called Israel.

   ○ History of Tunesian Jewish population

7. 

   Oui on January 13, 2015 at 2:50 pm

   Yair Rosenberg   @Yair_Rosenberg

   A Hasidic paper edited Angela Merkel
   out of the world leaders photo in Paris.
   Men only: http://judaism.walla.co.il/item/2819142  

    16:27 - 12 januari 2015

8. 

   Oui on January 17, 2015 at 9:00 am

   Hollande and the principles of France’s colonialization: Algeria and Niger (Aréva) …

   France’s Hollande defends freedom of speech after anti-Hebdo clashes abroad | Reuters |

   A cartoon image of Mohammad on its front page outraged many in the Muslim world, triggering demonstrations that turned violent in Algeria, Niger and Pakistan on Friday.

   [Ultimate sneer based on hypocrisy by Hollande! – Oui]

   “We’ve supported these countries in the fight against terrorism,” Hollande said during a visit to the southern city of Tulle, traditionally his political fiefdom.

   “I still want to express my solidarity (towards them), but at the same time France has principles and values, in particular freedom of expression.”

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   University students hold placards during a demonstration against satirical French weekly Charlie Hebdo in Somalia's capital Mogadishu. (Reuters)

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9. 

   Oui on January 17, 2015 at 11:35 pm

   More great stuff from Bibi’s mouthpiece on Arab affairs …

   ○ #JeSuisJuif

   Ofir Gendelman – The official account of the Israeli Prime Minister’s spokesperson for the Arab media.

   “PM: I expect all of the world leaders,
   w/ whom I marched, to fight terrorism
   wherever it is, also when it is directed
   against Israel & Jews”

   Furthermore, Bibi let the world know he’s not amused with Abbas’ request to the ICC in The Hague:

   “ICC’s decision is a complete reversal of the
   goals that were at the basis of its founding
   following the murder of 6million Jews by the
   Nazis”

   Sorry Bibi but Israel and the US are not partners in the founding of the ICC!

   The International Criminal Court (ICC), governed by the Rome Statute, is the first permanent, treaty based, international criminal court established to help end impunity for the perpetrators of the most serious crimes of concern to the international community. The ICC is an independent international organisation, and is not part of the United Nations system.

   Cross-posted from TikunOlam – Bibi: Il N’est Pas Charlie.

10. 

    Oui on January 18, 2015 at 2:49 pm

    Were the Jews exceptional in New Amsterdam? No they were not.

    Dutch (in)tolerance in colony of New Amsterdam

    The Dutch had a longstanding tradition of religious toleration (they had supported the Pilgrims back in 1620), so Long Island was home to many refugees from Puritan Massachusetts where no form of dissent was tolerated.

    …
    The other three (Sarah Gibbons, Richard Doudney, and Robert Hodgson ) went to Long Island, and were warmly received. However Hodgson stayed on after the others left for Rhode Island, and was suddenly arrested, sent to New Amsterdam, imprisoned, and very badly treated. He was eventually released without charge and sent to Rhode Island, after pressure on Governor Stuyvesant from many Dutch colonists.

    There were soon several Quaker groups on Long Island. They experienced some persecution, notably fines, despite the Dutch principle of religious tolerance. It seems that the pressure from the large Massachusetts colony to the north was too much for the Governor to resist. This did not prevent several further Quaker missionaries from visiting, or deter the new Quakers from their faith. On the contrary, so many Dutch colonists objected to any persecution that in 1663 the colony proclaimed a principle of complete religious toleration. `The consciences of men should remain free and unshackled’.

    ○ 1657 Flushing Remonstrance urged tolerance, foresaw modern religious rights

    Fleeing Brazil, 550 Jews arrived in New Amsterdam without identification papers which led to harsh anti-semitic remarks by Peter Stuyvesant en requested the Dutch West India Company not to permit this group of immigrants the same rights as in Amsterdam, Holland. The company rescinded the request as large shares of the Company were in the hands on influential Jews in Holland who had fled Portugal.

    Portugese Synagoge in Amsterdam – 1672

    This beautiful house of worship symbolizes the ties of Spanish and Portuguese Jews with Amsterdam, Holland. Unfortunately, the Dutch do not have that same tolerance today for the immigrants as a whole and Muslims in particular. But neither does Israel display any form of tolerance expected by a civilization.

    At the end of the sixteenth century Jews of Spanish-Portuguese origin (known as Sephardim) started to arrive in Amsterdam, a thriving city of trade. Ever since the Jews in Spain and Portugal were expelled and forced to convert to Catholicism in 1492 and 1497, respectively, and after the Inquisition began, targeting Jews and those referred to as new Christians, living safely become virtually impossible for Jews in these countries.

    Especially the elite among the Jewish population with international contacts fled the Iberian Peninsula. They sought refuge in Italy, Morocco, the Ottoman Empire, the South of France and the Southern Netherlands, establishing Jewish communities there or joining existing ones. From the late sixteenth century Amsterdam became a new sanctuary as well, where outsiders could settle in peace.

    The Edict of Expulsion of the Jews – 1492

11. 

    Oui on January 18, 2015 at 3:10 pm

    Dutch colony New Holland 1624-1654

    About 1600, the Dutch decided that they needed a West India Company.  They had been running the very successful and profitable East India Company, which specialized in spices and exotic products from the Far East and Oceania, These were stock companies, meaning that shares were sold to interested investors. The records show that one-tenth of the subscribers to the West India Company had Portuguese Jewish names.

    Maurice, the prince of Nassau, was chosen to head the Dutch expedition.  He was joined by about 200 Jews who saw in it a golden business opportunity. The Dutch soldiers succeeded in defeating the Portuguese and thus began the Dutch presence in what is today the state of Pernambuco in northeastern Brazil.

    The Jews who came with the invading expedition and on subsequent trips, established a variety of businesses in New Holland, which is what the Dutch called their new territory. Many became owners of sugar mills. However, sugar cane harvesting is very intensive labor and Brazilian Indians turned out to be unreliable workers.  To find the necessary workers, the mill owners turned to Africa for slaves. The West Indies Company controlled the shipment of slaves because it owned the ships. But once on the ground in Brazil, Jews were responsible for the selling and buying of black slaves.

    The Dutch in New Holland continued to allow religious freedom, as in The Netherlands. As a result of this policy, many Portuguese conversos  who lived in the Portuguese controlled areas of Brazil moved to New Holland and dropped their forced conversion to become full-fledged Jews once again.

    One Dutch survey during those years listed the New Holland population as 12,703. Of these, 2,890 were white and half of them were said to be Jews in the city of Recife.

    …
    Some of the emigres from Brazil moved northwestward to the Caribbean, where they were soon joined by Jewish and Marrano entrepreneurs from Holland, some of whom had lived in Dutch Brazil. And it was in Curacao, which Marranos had helped found in 1651, that Jews found their main outlet for selling Dutch manufactured goods and slaves along the Spanish Main.

    [The role of Jews in the slave trade on Curacao was insignificant due to their small presence – Yale historian David Brion Davis – Oui]