Russia was and is a part of the world cpaitalist market system, though is was a backward country that had lots of feudal aspects. It was drawn into a global catastrophe called World War One that cost millions of its people's lives. Russians who wanted to end this disaster and who wanted the majority to have "bread peace and land" overthrew the regime that was committed to continue the slaughter. Those who participated in trying to end the slaughter of WWI were doing something commendable.

Cuba today has better medical care for its working class than has the Untied States for its own workers. Cuba has a higher adult literacy rate. In the United States, if you are a shareholder in a company that was given virtually for free license to broadcast over the airwaves you have "free speech" and you are able to confuse, confound, flummox, panic and manipulate everyone else. That's exactly what this "freedom" is and what it's used for. US policy towards Israhell is a noteworthy fruit of this state of affairs but it isn't the only one.

In general in the USA every dollar has an equal vote. In Cuba there are elections and money plays no role in them. One could argue about how democratic these elections are, but one cannot dispute that around half of US voters don't think it's worth their time to bother voting and policial candidates routinely nmake promises they do not keep, often knowing well ahead that they don't intend to keep their promises. Lied to routinely by every voice that "counts", stampeded into panics, manipulated- that's the American public. Awe of things Jewish is pushed in the media in many ways.

Jewish Israelis have higher standards of living than many US citizens, yet US citizens through their taxes supplement Israel's budget with billions every year. US diplomats and media defend and shield Israhells most blatant ly illegal acts against the Palestinian people.

The Black Muslims used to say "a white man's heaven is a black man's hell." Israeli occupied palestine has a majority of non- Jewish people and I think it can be said that for them, and for any Israeli Jews of conscience, it's got to be some sort of a hell.

To Suck but not to Swallow!!!

All historians know that Jews suffered the most under Stalinism.
The biggest murderers were Hitler and Stalin and neither was Jewish. (Or do you also think Hitler was Jewish?)

It concerns me when a number of educated Palestinians and their supporters rely on promoting the Jewish "enemy" to a higher super evil status. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is an anti-Semitic forgery written in Czarist Russia is still published in Egypt and accessible to the Arab world. The individuals who promote this perpetuation of dangerous myths are lost. One can only hope they are an impotent minority.

Palestinians need to rise above and take the moral high ground if at all possible. Where is the Palestinian Gandhi? This person or movement will frighten all the generals and reach the hearts and minds of Israelis and the world.

Ezekiel 9:5-6 is a vision. Not a command of God. It's kind of a doomsday vision about the destruction of Jerusalem. All these dead people are Jewish. It is very clear if you read the whole chapter and not only 2 sentences.

Deuteronomy 2:34, yes, we know, it's the old conquest of the land war. Gods command to this very specific war at this very specific place: Not rules of war everywhere. Please note that it took place, *if it took*, more than 3,000 years ago, and that most researchers thinks it never happened and is only a myth. Anyway, it doesn't have any archaeologic evidences.

Deuteronomy 20:10-17 – same story, only please note that the forced labor thing was very common in wars and conquests during that era, all nations in the middle-east did it.

In fact, same for all Deuteronomy and Numbers quots. and
1 Samuel 17:46 – David vs. Goliath story! Come on! It was a war between two nations, and let's remind you, David was the weak of the two.

If you search in all nations' mythology, I assure you you'd find enough bloody stories. Iceland (all these who-killed-who sagas), Ireland (their mythology is full of wars), Germany (shall we start?)… Pre-columbian south and central American nations had extremely bloody religions — I could go on and on. So what?

All of these quotes you gave prove nothing about medieval (and modern) blood libels, since what Shai meant is there is no record of *use of blood* in any mainstream Jewish religious text – in fact in ANY Jewish religious text .
Because BLOOD ISN"T KOSHER.
The whole idea of Kosher slaughter is to pull the blood out of the meat. That's why the meat is saltened, that's why you souldn't eat liver at all unless it had been roasted on open fire. You don't use blood at all.
Certainly you don't use blood of humans, humans are not Kosher at all too.
Certainly you don't use blood to bake your Matza bread.

Originally Posted By Shai@Philip –
There is no record of blood in written mainstream Jewish religious text. I am not defending Judaism since I do not practice any mainstream faith.

, Shai

What shall we call this then,genocide, ethnic cleansing, holocaust or what?

“And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and woman: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.” (Ezekiel 9:5-6)

“And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain.” (Deuteronomy 2:34)

When you approach a city to fight against it, you shall offer it terms of peace. If it agrees to make peace with you and opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall become your forced labor (aka slaves) and shall serve you. However, if it does not make peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it. When the LORD your God gives it into your hand, you shall strike all the men in it with the edge of the sword. Only the women and the children and the animals and all that is in the city, all its spoil, you shall take as booty for yourself; and you shall use the spoil of your enemies which the LORD your God has given you. Only in the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you shall not leave alive anything that breathes” (Deuteronomy 20:10-17)

“This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down, and cut off your head; and I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, Then David ran and stood over the Philistine, and took his sword and drew it out of its sheath, and killed him, and cut off his head with it…. And David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his armor in his tent. And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.” 1 Samuel 17:46

“at Jezreel by this time tomorrow…And when the letter came to them, they took the king’s sons, and slew them, seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him at Jezreel. When the messenger came and told him, “They have brought the heads of the king’s sons,” he said, “Lay them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning.”. (2 Kings Chapter 10 verse 6) “God has now fulfilled the prophecy of the prophet Elijah. So Jehu put to death all who were left of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, as well as all of his close friends and priests, until he had left not one single survivor.” (2 Kings Chapter 10 verse 10) “He put to death all of Ahab’s house, who were left there and so blotted it out, in fulfillment of the word which YAHWEH had spoken to Elijah.” (2 Kings Chapter 10 verse 7)

“When the LORD your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you. And when the LORD your God delivers them before you and you defeat them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them and show no favor to them.” (Deuteronomy 7:1-2)

“I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.” (Exodus 23:27)

And the LORD our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people. At God’s instructions, the Israelites “utterly destroyed the men, women, and the little ones” leaving “none to remain.” 2:34 And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain. (Deuteronomy 2:33-36)

Joshua said to the people of Israel, “The Lord has given you the city of the all silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated unto the Lord: They shall come into the treasury of the Lord. The people utterly DESTROYED ALL THAT WAS IN THE CITY, BOTH MAN AND WOMAN,YOUNG AND OLD, AND OX AND SHEEP, AND ASS, WITH THE EDGE OF THE SWORD. (Joshua 6:21,23)

“And he should go and worship other gods and bow down to them or to the sun or the moon or all the army of the heavens, …..and you must stone such one with stones and such one must die.” Deuteronomy 17:3-5

“Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man intimately. But all the girls who have not known man intimately, spare for yourselves.” (Numbers 31:17-18)

"In Deuteronomy 7:1-36, ".the Lord thy God shall have destroyed many nations before thee, the Hethite, and the Gergezite, and the Amorrite, and the Chanaanite, and the Pherezite, and Hevite, and the Jebusite, seven nations much more numerous than thou art,…thou shalt utterly destroy them. Thou shalt make no league with them, nor show mercy to them: and shall slay them until they are utterly destroyed.and thou shalt destroy their names under heaven: no man shall be able to resist thee, until thou destroy them."

In Samuel 15:3, "Now therefore go, and smite Amalec, and utterly destroy all that he hath; spare him not, nor covet any thing that is his; but slay both man and woman, child and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass."

In Numbers 31:1-35, ".the Lord spoke to Moses saying: Revenge first the children of Israel on the Madianites. when they fought against the Madianites and had overcome them, they slew all the men. Therefore kill all that are of the male sex, even of the children: and put to death the women that have carnally known men. But the girls, and all the women that are virgins save for yourselves .and the spoils which the army had taken, was. thirty two thousand persons of the female sex that had not known men."

In Numbers 33:50-52, ".the Lord said to Moses: Command the children of Israel. When you shall have passed over to Jordan, entering into the land of Chanaan, Destroy all the inhabitants of that land: beat down their pillars and break in pieces their statues, and waste all their high places."

In Samuel 27:8-9, "And David and his men went up, and pillaged Gessuri, and Gerzi, and the Amalecites; for these were of old the inhabitants of the countries. David wasted all the land, and left neither man nor woman live."

In Isaiah 13:15-18, "Every one that shall be found shall be slain; and every one that shall come to their aid, shall fall by the sword. Their infants shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes: their houses shall be pillaged, and their wives ravaged. with their arrows they shall kill the children, and shall have no pity upon the sucklings of the womb, and their eye shall not spare their sons."

“If there is found among you, in one of your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, and transgresses his covenant by going to serve other gods and worshipping them-whether the sun or the moon or any of the host of heaven, which I have forbidden-and if it is reported to you or you hear of it, and you make a thorough inquiry, and the charge is proved true that such an abhorrent thing has occurred in Israel, then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has committed this crime and you shall stone the man or woman to death." (Deuteronomy 17:17)

And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them: 3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son." (Deuteronomy 7:2-3)

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First off, Russia wasn't freeing itself from Capitalism. Tsarist Russia was still in the feudal system, having not even reached mercantilism yet. World War 1 was caused by nationalism, not capitalism. Furthermore, I will take you at your word and assume that capitalism is responsible for all those deaths, even though that's ridiculous, especially considering the paucity of capitalist countries in the world, but I will also add that Communism has produced misery everywhere it has touched. Sure, Cuba made some progress, as if it could get any worse after Batista, but compare Cuba in terms of freedom, wealth, and growth to Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, etc. Cubans are unnecessarily oppressed, and for what? Democracy has finally taken a foothold in Latin America. The Gini index is dropping most countries.

As for "Israhell", the name you chose for it provides the irony on its own. Life in Israel is far from hell. It vastly better than any other Middle Eastern nation. Muslims in Israel can vote. That's more than can be said about Muslims Saudi Arabia or Syria, or sham democracies like Iran and Egypt, and Palestinians have more rights than non-Muslims in most of the Middle East, with a few exceptions like Lebanon, which is obvious because Lebanon is some 40% non Muslim.

You are wrong though in my opinion to object to Jews being pointed out for doing negative and horrenduous things. Americans and I think westerners in general are awe struck by Jewishness and are constantly fed the line that Jews are God's chosen, that they are long suffering and always wrongly persecuted, that they have suffered more than any other group of human beings, etc. Not only does this awe strengthen Israhell, but "The Jews" as an entity are a major prop, voice and part of the very capitalism that ruins so many people's lives. It is healthy to point to this Emperor's lack of clothes.

There is no doubt that the Jewish settlement in Palestine has fostered ongoing tragedy for the earlier inhabitants. I lived in Israel and left primarily because of my conflict with this issue. I did serve in that army but chose to leave before I found myself in Ramallah or Gaza. The issue being made in the article is a hyperbolic description of Jews as the "worst people who ever existed in the Universe and beyond" Propagandists can also can make a "big deal" about the cruelties of the Syrian government towards its own people (such as the massacre at Hama – an estimated 7,000 to 40,000 people were killed – or how the Kurdish people suffered not only under Saddam Hussein but by other Arab regimes.
The point is that WE cannot look indifferently at tragedy period. We cannot lose our humanity and overwhelm our senses in wild accusations and hate. You need to search your soul and determine what kind of person you really want to be.

Something you need to think about in the context of Palestine, where not only "could" the Israeli be accused of "blood libel" against the Palestinians but are and should be.

" I will not doubt that there are some psychopaths to found within the Jewish people just as there are in Palestinian society or any other group."

Hmmm, remind me again, of the two who has the boot on the neck of the other?

The whole point is that while, for example, white Europeans are prepared to expose the horrors inflicted by their kind on those of another kind, Jews, with some notable exceptions, are not.