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Recruiting American Jews for Israel
The U.S. government funds Israel's ongoing program to remove the native population of Palestine, primarily Muslims and Christians, and supplant them with European-American Jewish colonists. Our tax dollars facilitate this ethnic cleansing and colonization of Occupied Palestine.
Why do seemingly normal, middle class Jewish American families take part in genocidal ethnic cleansing?
While some sick individuals might get a "thrill" from moving into property stolen from a family expelled from their home at gunpoint by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), our observations indicate that fun and profit serve as the primary motivation for relocating to Occupied Palestine.
The Israeli government offers American Jews subsidized mortgages at interest rates far lower than anything available to non-Jews. The subsidies are funded by Israeli bonds and underwritten by U.S. loan guarantees. The new mortgage holders are allowed to sink their credit card debts into Israeli mortgages valued in shekels, which are practically guaranteed to depreciate relative to the dollar. (See http://www.tehilla.com/homes).
While these "ethically challenged" American Jews stay in Israel, they are offered free Hebrew classes and living expenses for up to one year, paid by the Israeli government.
The cost of “doing business” with Israel is not only financial but moral.
The system creates suburban sprawl in the Holy Land, environmental devastation and mass homelessness of the original, rightful non-Jewish property owners. Most Palestinians under Israeli government control are not citizens and have no rights under Israeli law. Lands to which the Jewish Agency holds title are only leased or deeded under conditions that prevent transfer or use by non-Jews. Such discrimination would be illegal in the USA.
The Israeli government organizes the eviction (nishul) of Palestinians (usually uncompensated) through transfers of the land to specialized organizations like the Jewish Agency or the Israel Lands Authority (ILA), or Israel discovers military or security requirements that "necessitate" the transfer of property from Palestinians to the Army.
Eventually, the ILA develops the stolen land to create or expand Jews-Only settlements. The contractors employed by the ILA and its helper organizations build the homes and necessary infrastructure. They are typically connected to government and military officials and all profit tremendously from the US-financed plunder and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian population.
Local travel agents often double as recruiters and real estate brokers for Israel. American Jews willing to relocate to stolen properties are not usually subject to credit checks when they seek an Israeli mortgage because the Israeli government subordinates its fiscal responsibility to the goal of overwhelming the Palestinians demographically.
Most American olim (immigrants) do not settle permanently in Occupied Palestine. They live there for a couple of years and then sell their house when the value goes up and come back debt free. They enjoy a nice vacation and make a profit as well.
Here's how it works:
Jewish aliyah (immigration to Israel) organizations engage in ongoing campaigns to recruit American Jews. They advertise in the Jewish media, through Jewish run travel agencies, and on college campuses.
Suppose you are an American Jew with $60,000 in educational or credit card debt. You might attend a class at the local Jewish Community Center or take part in some organized pro-Israel activity. At some point you will meet an official or semi-official shaliah (recruiter/emissary) who will explain the deal to you.
- You can purchase a home, with no down payment, in a new settlement with a subsidized mortgage of up to $300,000. You will only pay interest (usually 3% or less) on half the mortgage. The other half is interest-free. You can buy a new house for $100,000— comparable to a $750,000 house in Brookline.
- Say you have a $60,000 debt, are paying $2,000 a month rent and you owe another $1000 in various loan payments and other expenses. You can get a $160,000 mortgage in Israel for less than $400/month. Try getting that from Fannie Mae!
- You and your family get free health insurance. Can't get that in America!
- The Israeli government will pay your living expenses for at least 6 months. What a deal!
- You get Israeli citizenship and all the rights the native population does not have.
- Settlers in the more recently ethnically cleansed Occupied Territories get lower tax rates and other special benefits than those settling in "Israel Proper."
- Qualified individuals may receive free plane tickets to Israel from organizations like Birthright Israel.
- You can apply for an additional $5,000 - $25,000 stipend from organizations like Nefesh b'Nefesh (Soul to Soul - i.e. Jewish souls)
You should be able to live for one year without working, at which point your home has accrued in value as the settlement has expanded and amenities have improved. You should be able to sell your home at a profit, pay off your debt and return to the USA debt free. Once back home you will be strongly encouraged to contribute generously to your local Congressmen. Doesn't it sound like payback for the pleasant vacation and good fortune made possible by the U.S. government simply because you are Jewish?
The Obsessions of Jon Haber
The only source of information for Jon Haber's accusations are his own fictional writings in which he attempts to discredit me as a David Duke supporter and a homophobe. This is no doubt part of his job with the JCRC to try by any means necessary to prevent Arabs from gaining equal rights in historical Palestine. Very few people take him seriously. If you read Haber's article about me, you will find that he cleverly spliced partial sentences in different paragraphs to come up with his "homophobic" quote in my article.
The source of his imaginative writings are my report on the Palestine Solidarity Conference at Rutgers, where I mentioned that in building a mainstream political movement it is important to make Christians and "regular Joe" types feel welcome. I found that most pro-Palestine events are overwhelmingly attended by fringe members of society such as homosexuals and Jewish Marxists. In fact I made it clear in my article that I'm not discouraging homosexuals and Marxists from participating in pro-Palestine activities, but they should be part of a larger mass of people, not defining its perimeters. I also noted in my article that leftist extremists despise their potential allies against Zionism such as Pat Buchanan. These rifts are a real problem to the growth of the movement because it does not include the mainstream.
I am sure that you read in the Somerville Journal my letter suggesting that perhaps the treasonous mayor of Somerville was being poked from behind by a Zionist agent, as was the case with the governor of New Jersey, who gave away security secrets to an Israeli agent with whom he was having an adulterous and homosexual relationship. I am not sure why Jon Haber feels comfortable defending treason and adultery committed by government officials. Since he works for the JCRC, undermining US democracy is no doubt his goal too.
Jon Haber discredits himself again by saying I am connected with David Duke. The source of this insinuation is that I posted on the message board of the David Duke website a long time ago an essay on why white people should not hate Muslims, and why Islam is not a threat to the white race. There was certainly nothing in the article which denigrated non-whites. Other than this one message that was posted (which received a number of negative responses from David Duke's supporters) I have no contact with this organization. Connecting pro-Palestine activists with unsavory social groups is typical of Zionist hate-mongers who have very little else to go on, to explain why they deny equal rights to Palestinians and to their fellow Americans.
Karin Friedemann
[Joachim's notes.
1967 Syndrome: I believe Ilan Pappe coined the phrase. It is a delusional belief that all Zionist evil begins with the Occupation in 1967 and that it was a good thing for murderous genocidal racist Eastern European invaders and interlopers to steal 80% of Palestine in 1947.
David Duke has almost a Zionist essentialist primordialist view of "the Jews." Zionists like Jon Haber and the ADL need him to validate their sick and twisted worldview.
Duke tries to create a white ethnic fundamentalist ideology that seems comparable to the various ethnic fundamentalist ideologies (e.g., Zionism, German Nazism, Greater Serbianism, Endeks politics, etc.) found in Central and Eastern Europe during the 30s. Karin is overly optimistic and has expressed the belief that explaining why Islam is no threat and why Zionism is evil might have a positive effect on people attracted to such ideologies.]
Was it something I said?
And while I'm sure your husband is a very attractive fellow, I did find it telling that you chose to use implications of homosexuality as a slur in your response to me. Please continue to post your open-minded views on this subject since I'm sure readers of "The Bridge" will be interested to know how your 8th century view on gays and lesbians fits with their progressive agenda.
I should also point out that at last count, the World Wide Web consisted of over one trillion Web pages. Given that at least half those sites seem to have to do with race, religion and the Middle East, I will leave it to BridgeNews readers to guess why – from these billions of potential sites - you chose to post your outreach piece to the Web site of the former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
I'm not sure which is more amusing, your accusation that Israeli "agents" obtained vital national security information by sleeping with the governor of New Jersey, your repeated attempts to portray me as a paid JCRC employee with an official Zionist Lobby web site and satanic powers over the Somerville Journal, or your flattering notion that I am "well known" for anything (other than, perhaps, my photographic memory of every "Lost in Space" episode).
In light of the magnitude of divestment's defeat with the aldermen last year, I suppose it gives you comfort to dwell in paranoia where your opponents are as conspiratorial as your allies. Unfortunately, you'll just have to live with the fact whatever small contribution my www.somervilleMEjustice.com Web site contributed to that defeat, it was created not by a vast and sinister army of well-funded Zionists, but by a guy with a word processor, a few things to say, and a Webmaster buddy who works for beer.
Finally, I do need to apologize since when I dashed off an essay for that site on you and Joachim, I had no idea it would end up consistently showing up second or third in a Google search of your names. I assure you that this was not my intention, and that it has nothing to do with Ashkenazi control over the Internet. Rather, it simply reflects the lack of importance and relevance of anything else you have ever done with your lives.
The greatest threat to the Palestinian movement
"Muslims ... are not seeking peace. We get peace from Allah. In Palestine, we will stop only at victory, which will be, inshaAllah, in the end, a just implementation of Islamic religion. We have to guard against the Palestine movement being represented primarily by homosexuals and feminists."
Guarding against homosexuals and feminists? Is this a sentiment MRGRA finds common cause with, or have you chosen to provide a forum for a bigot only as long as she keeps her comments focused on Israelis and Jews? (Letting her practice homophobia on her own time.)
As noted in a comment regarding the writing of Ms. Friedemann's husband, Joachim Martillo elsewhere on your site, I'm curious as to why MRGRA has developed such a comfort level with racists and homophobes, so long as they prove their "progressive" credentials by vilifying the Jewish state? Is there something I'm missing?
More on this unique couple at www.somervilleMEjustice.com/marriage.html