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Mistranslating peaceful Rabbi Yosef – anti-religious Haaretz’s bigotry

March 8, 2011


Mistranslating peaceful Rabbi Yosef – anti-religious Haaretz’s bigotry


How anti-religious-Jews, the radical Haaretz has mistranslated [again] R. Ovadia Yosef when he spoke about Arab terrorists.


Haaretz in “translating” the speech, used the term: “haters of Israel” in an attempt to translate “Sonei Israel” which was always (even before the re-creation of the state of Israel) and is really Jew-haters or ‘haters of the people of Israel’ – referring to the Jewish people, not connected to the state of Israel – which misinformation portal Haaretz makes it so erroneously sound.


True, the above terminology is used by religious Jews, some ignorant secular Israelis tend to mistranslate it, but one would expect more from such a [sadly] well known and recognized media outlet.


Had Haaretz properly translated the original speech, it would come out clear that R. Yosef was referring exclusively to Jew haters among the Arabs, not all Arabs. As well as the proper context – his reference to murder and terror within that speech, the unfair generalization of Arabs would then be avoided, and subsequently the demonization of religious Jews.


The sad part is that international media outlets like the BBC relies so strongly on Haaretz, especially in its anti-Jewish rant, which is why neither Haaretz nor the BBC have published R. Ovada Yosef’s own declaration on the Arab press that he clearly meant only Arab terrorists and murderers, and had included by no mean ‘Arabs’ per se.


So far, neither the BBC nor Haaretz, had publish R. Yosef’s declared clarification.


It’s just another cheap, yet vile attempt by anti-religious radicals in an effort to “equalize” the sides in [supposed] extremism, (Haaretz, caught up in major anti-Israeli Arab propganda, is also champion in Israeli media, to pull out -so irresponsibly- the term “racism” out of its sleeves, a lot, so quick to define any discomfort from the lack of security stemming from Arab attacks targeting Jews as “racist”, yet, will still hesitate to define the racism-motivated Arab attackers, in that fully deserving term) while the sad uneven reality is that the radical Mullahs preaching annihilation of Jews and glorifying mass murder in ‘jihadism’ are paraded routinely on “moderate” media of Palestinian and other Arab mainstream outlet, just look them up on PalWatch and on Memri.



Rabbi Yosef clarified that his sermon was misquoted, that he was referring to annihilation of Arab terrorists and not of all Arab people, and caled upon his party to look for peace and security…
http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-1224628,00.html
 
 הרב עובדיה מסביר בראיון, המובא כאן במלואו, שכאשר כינה את הערבים “נחשים”, “נמלים” והציע להשמידם, התכוון רק לטרוריסטים. הוא אומר עוד: “הוריתי למנהיגי מפלגתי לחתור לשלום ולביטחון”


(In an interview published in 2001 in London-based al-Sharq al-Awsat and Kuwaiti paper al-Watan, he said, “I deeply regret the human suffering caused to innocents, but the source of this should be pinned on the Palestinian leadership.)



Rabbi Ovadia Yosef clarified the Arab press the “speech snakes”


הראיון נערך לאחר מגעים ממושכים עם העיתונים. The interview was conducted after lengthy negotiations with the newspapers. הרב עובדיה מסביר בראיון, המובא כאן במלואו, שכאשר כינה את הערבים “נחשים”, “נמלים” והציע להשמידם, התכוון רק לטרוריסטים. Rabbi Ovadia explains in an interview, presented here in its entirety, when he called the Arabs “snakes”, “ants” and offered to destroy them, meant only to terrorists. הוא אומר עוד: “הוריתי למנהיגי מפלגתי לחתור לשלום ולביטחון” He says further: “I told the party leaders to seek peace and security”


אבישי בן חיים ועלי ואקד Avishai Ben Haim and Ali Waked פורסם: Released:  22.10.01, 13:58 22:10:01, 13:58 


פרסום ראשון: מנהיגה הרוחני של ש”ס הרב עובדיה יוסף העניק ראיון רחב היקף לעיתונות הערבית העולמית. הראיון התפרסם היום (ב’) בעיתון הלונדוני “א-שרק אל אווסט” ובעיתון “אל ווטן” הכוויתי. (לראיון המלא ראו קישור מימין) First Published: Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef gave an extensive interview in the international Arab press. The interview was published today (Monday) in the London [based] newspaper A – Sharq Al Awsat  and in the  Kuwaiti Al Watan. (Full interview, see link right)



הראיון נערך בשבוע שעבר, יומיים לפני רצח השר רחבעם זאבי. The interview was conducted last week, two days before the assassination of Minister Zeevi. עורכי העיתונים שלחו את שאלותיהם בפקס והרב עובדיה יוסף כתב את תשובותיו בכתב ידו, התשובות תורגמו, הודפסו ונשלחו אל מערכות העיתונים הערביים. Newspaper editors send their questions by fax and Rabbi Ovadia Yosef wrote his answers in his own handwriting, the answers were translated, printed and sent to Arab newspapers systems.


לריאיון הנדיר קדמו מגעים שנמשכו חודשים בין דובר תנועת ש”ס איציק סודרי לבין עורכי העיתונים עבדול רחמן אל רשיד ומוחמד אל ג’זים באמצעות צד The rare interview was preceded by negotiations that lasted months between Shas spokesman Itzik Sudri and newspaper editors Abdul Rahman Al Rashid and Mohammed Al-gill by side
 
שלישי. Tuesday. הרב עובדיה יוסף נתן את הסכמתו כבר בחודש ספטמבר, אולם פיגועי הטרור בבנייני התאומים דחו את ביצוע הראיון עד לשבוע שעבר. Rabbi Ovadia Yosef gave his consent already in September, but the World Trade Center terrorist attacks postponed the execution of the interview until last week.


בהנהגת ש”ס ראו חשיבות רבה בקיום הראיון וזאת בשל סדרת ההתבטאויות של הרב נגד ערבים בשנה האחרונה, התבטאויות שגררו איומים על חייו. בין היתר כינה הרב יוסף את הערבים “נחשים”, “נמלים” ואמר כי “צריך להשמיד אותם ולתת להם טילים על הכיף כיפאק” (ראו קישור מימין). Shas leadership saw the conducting of the interview of great importance due to the rabbi’s remarks series against Arabs in the past year, statements dragging death threats. Among other things, Rabbi Yosef called the Arabs “snakes”, “ants” and said that “We must destroy them.. “(see link right).


בראיון מסביר הרב יוסף שבדבריו אלו התכוון רק לטרוריסטים הערביים ולא לציבור הערבי כולו. In an interview with Rabbi Yosef explains his words are meant only to Arab terrorists and not to the entire Arab public. לדבריו, סולפו דבריו: “וכל מה שרציתי לומר הוא שהתכוונתי לאותם שפלים האחראים לשפיכת דמם של ישראלים ואחראים להתקפות שביצעו רוצחים מהשטחים הפלסטינים”. He said that his words were distorted: “all I wanted to say is that I referred to those  responsible for spilling the blood of Israelis and are responsible for attacks committed by killers from the Palestinian Territories.”


לדברי מנהיג ש”ס, כל ממשלות ישראל, כולל ממשלת שרון, רוצים להגיע להסכם עם הפלסטינים, “בתנאי שאלו יפסיקו את פעולות הטרור והשנאה”. עובדיה מוסיף: “הוריתי למנהיגי מפלגתי לחתור לשלום ולביטחון, גם אם הדבר כרוך בויתור על אדמות הכלולות בהבטחת אלוהים לבני ישראל”. According to the leader of Shas, all Israeli governments, including the Sharon government, want to reach an agreement with the Palestinians, “provided that these [Palestinians] end their terrorist acts and hate”. Ovadia adds, “I instructed party leaders to seek peace and security, even if it means relinquishing land included in God’s promises to the children of Israel. ”


מנהיג ש”ס מביע צער על כך שההנהגה הפלסטינית חסרה את האומץ להגיע לשלום עם ישראל. לדבריו, הדת היהודית מעדיפה את ערך האדם על פני כל דבר אחר, כי ליהדות ולאיסלאם היסטוריה מפוארת של חיים משותפים. Shas leader expresses regret that the Palestinian leadership lacks the courage to make peace with Israel. He said that the Jewish religion would prefer the human value over anything else, that Judaism and Islam glorious history of living together.


הרב סיפר בראיון כי חלק מהספרות היהודית נכתבה במדינות המוסלמיות במהלך תור הזהב של השפה והספרות הערבית. The Rabbi said in an interview that some Jewish literature written in Muslim countries during the golden age of Arabic language and literature. מנהיג ש”ס קרא לשיפור תנאי החיים של הערבים בישראל ואמר כי נתן הוראה ברוח זו לשרי ש”ס. Shas leader called for improving the living conditions of Arabs in Israel and said that this spirit has ordered Shas ministers.


בעקבות הריאיון צופים בש”ס שיתקיימו מגעים בין הרב עובדיה יוסף לבין מנהיגים דתיים איסלאמיים. Following the interview, expect to be held contacts between Shas Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and Islamic religious leaders.


 http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=iw&u=http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-1224628,00.html

Humane – Jewish – Charity and Giving for All

January 7, 2010

Jewish Donations to Humanitarian Causes
According to research conducted by the non-profit Institute for Jewish and Community Research, 25 percent of the largest donations that are received by educational institutions are from Jewish donors. More than 70 percent of grants that Jewish foundations make for humanitarian needs go to non-Jewish causes. Tzedakah as a Jewish ethical and religious principle has a profound effect not only on the survival and success of Jewish charities, but upon the health of North American humanitarian causes in general.
[…]
Why Charity by Jews is Important to World Causes
http://judaism.suite101.com/article.cfm/bernie_madoff_versus_the_legacy_of_jewish_giving#ixzz0biuxNyVE

Survey which estimated 62 percent of U.S. Jews give to non-Jewish causes, …

http://www.jewishachievement.com/domains/phil.html

Why Aren’t Jews Giving to Jews? | Los Angeles | Jewish Journal 26 Jun 2003 … of America’s biggest Jewish and non-Jewish givers over a six-year period. …. Even among the most substantial donors to Jewish causes, far larger sums go to general universities and museums, Wertheimer noted. …

http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=10744

Charity Hits Back in Feud Over Arab Aid – Forward.com, Ripped by Right for Postwar Help To Non-Jews, Ruskay Cites Values … most Israeli Arabs showed disloyalty to Israel during the war and … At least one major donor to Jewish charitable causes, Gary Erlbaum, …

http://www.forward.com/articles/5943/

“The highest form of charity is to take a poor person into partnership”

Jewish traditions teach us to see the world globally in ever-widening ripples of responsibility. Our family lies closest to us, our community next, and so on. Tzedek believes that the ripples don’t stop rippling at a certain point beyond which we have no responsibility. Our belief in Tikkun Olam, repairing of the world, stretches beyond racial or religious boundaries.

http://www.tzedek.org.uk/about_us/jewish_values/

UK Jews help Kashmir relief | Human Aid Focus has so far raised £90000 – including the £35000 pledged by the World Jewish Aid charity. It is hoped that the bulk of this money will be …

http://www.somethingjewish.co.uk/articles/1686_uk_jews_help_kashmir.htm

The Jewish Response to Hunger It is the fulfillment of a mitzvah, a commandment, to a fellow human being, … So important was the giving of charity by Jews that Maimonides was able to …

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/hunger.html

http://www.ajws.org
Big Medicine by Team EMS.American Jewish World Services (AJWS) [Jan 12 06 New York NY]–AJWS is an … of the poor and needy, Jews and non-Jews, and even enemies who are in need. … of human suffering, the development of people and the fostering of charity…

http://www.bigmedicine.ca/faith.htm
American Jewish World Service – CVC 2009 Charity Profile… American Jewish World Service works in partnership with local grassroots … to help heal the world; reaches out to affiliated and non-affiliated Jews … As both an international development and a Jewish organization, AJWS
http://www.cvc.vipnet.org/cgi-bin/cvc-view.cgi?org_id=1a091111545072d7801

Jews and non-Jews often comment on the fact that “Jews give a great deal to charity”. What compels Jews to “give a great deal to charity”? What is the mainspring of this belief, and does it have a place in our larger society?

http://www.njop.org/html/ask_the_rabbi.html

Bostoner Rebbe, the ultimate bridge builder10 Dec 2009 … The Rebbe had no formula for reaching out and touching people.
[…]
He redoubled his efforts on behalf of the ill through ROFEH (Reaching Out — Furnishing Emergency Healthcare). He and the rebbetzin had always taken in the sick, but now he hired a staff and raised funds to buy apartments so that more people, for longer periods of time, could receive medical treatment in Boston. He galvanized volunteers — this one, a driver, that one, a translator, a third one, a medical contact person. This free service was (and remains) for Jews, observant and non-observant, and for non-Jews. The mitzvah is to save a life, anybody’s life, the Rebbe said.

http://www.ijn.com/editorial/1375-bostoner-rebbe-the-ultimate-bridge-builder

Brazilian Jews’ Ad Campaign Shows They Care About Society… to form human chains spelling out the words “Judaism feels good and does good.” … “We wish to reach those who are distant from any kind of Jewish life by … do as Jews not only for Jews, but for everyone who needs charity,”

http://www.jewishfederations.org/page.aspx?id=47200

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Israeli – Palestinian Relationship… Hadassah treats all people, regardless of ethnicity or religion. In fact at the start of the recent cycle of violence, HMO Director, Professor Avi Israeli, extended Hadassah’s assistance to several local Arab hospitals, including to Al-Makasid hospital in East Jerusalem.

Last week, a top ranking Palestinian official brought his son to Hadassah Hospital for treatment of meningitis.

Hadassah continues to receive inquiries from the American Red Cross about treating injured Palestinian children from the West Bank and Gaza Strip. If the parents agree to treatment, HMO will arrange for transportation and provide treatment.

http://www.hadassah.org/education/content/HotTopics/Isr-Palst/tpioh.html

Amid the Killing, E.R. is an Oasis – TIME At Hadassah, Jews save Arabs… Though the hospital … her for abandoning needy Palestinians to treat Israelis and kept the news of her …

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030623-458754,00.html

Seeking to Rob Israel of Good PR, PA Sentences Its Sick to Die

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/130500

FactsOfIsrael.com: Israeli Hospital also treats Palestinian terrorists, 18 May 2002 … Israeli hospital treated both sides during Jenin battle … Israeli hospitals continued to treat sick and wounded Israelis and Palestinians, civilians, soldiers and …
http://www.factsofisrael.com/blog/archives/000048.html

Israeli doctors continue to treat Palestinian children | opinion, Palestinian children with severe health problems receive free treatment at Israeli hospitals. I recently visited the Sheba Hospital in Tel Hashomer to meet …

http://www.israel21c.org/opinion/israeli-doctors-continue-to-treat-palestinian-children

Technorati –

Exposed: Among the Nazis, Adolph Hitler’s idol-worshippers posing as “jews”:

November 23, 2008

 

Exposed: Among the Nazis, Adolph Hitler’s idol-worshippers posing as “jews”:

Joachim Martillo’s http://eaazi.blogspot.com/  (ethnic ashkenazim (???) against zionism)

http://jewssansfrontieres.blogspot.com

Philip Weiss – http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/

Israel Shamir who is a native European (non Jew) convert to Christianity, neo nazi a contibutor to nazi pages such as “jewishtribal”

Israel Shamir, a Nazi posing as an “Israeli writer”

November 22, 2008

Israel Shamir (AKA: Adam Ermash, Jöran Jermas), a diabolical Nazi, posing as an “Israeli writer”

Israel Shamir is an infamous (non Jew) Nazi who resided in Israel for a short time and preaches hatred and LIES.

Any wonder he appears on all hate – grabage sites like KKK’s davidduke, [Hitleristic and ‘idol worshippers of A. Hitler’ pages:] vanguard, stormfront, zundel, philipweiss, comeandhear, humanbeingsfirst, adelaideinstitute, nationalsocialistworkersparty, christianparty, biblebelievers, revisionisthistory, jewishtribal, and other nazis’ sites (or Islamic militant’s radioislam)?

AKA: Adam Ermash, Jöran Jermas.

Searchlight Magazine: A man who claims to be one of Israel’s leading intellectuals is also a Swedish antisemitic writer. Israel Shamir presents himself on his website as a leading Russian-Israeli intellectual and a writer, translator and journalist. But in 2001 he changed his name to Jöran Jermas and has surrounded himself in Sweden and Norway … (An empty bag cannot stand) and was published by the openly nazi publisher Nordiska Förlaget.
http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/index.php?link=template&story=6

MOONBAT CENTRAL: London Times Exposes Columnist “Israel Shamir” as Swedish neo-Nazi. For many years the most openly anti-Semitic “Jew” filling the web with columns, …
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/moonbatcentral/2005/04/london-times-exposes-columnist-israel.html

Israel Shamir as an open anti-Semite. Russian-born Shamir lives in Israel, but almost no Israelis have heard of him. He is an open neo-Nazi who …

http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/Read.aspx?GUID=0AD07886-75AF-411A-A664-EE6EFC600CD9

Israel Shamir’s Antisemitic “book” with the Arab radical “activist” using information and “ideas” created by Neo Nazi groups
http://timesonline.typepad.com/oliver_kamm/2005/09/israel-shamir-a.html

I make no comment here on the rights and wrongs of the Israeli-Arab conflict, or the appalling historical episode of which Mrs Allaf writes; I merely refer you to the source whose judgement Mrs Allaf proffers. “Israel Shamir” is the nom de plume of a writer whose real name is Jöran Jermas. So far from being, as he claims, a leading Israeli intellectual and translator, Shamir is of Russian origin, and has lived in Sweden for the past 20 years. His writings, which are widely circulated on the Internet, are unambiguously antisemitic.
http://oliverkamm.typepad.com/blog/2005/08/chatham_house_o.html

9 Jul 2007 … “Shamir”, a regular on Counterpunch, is so openly pro-Nazi that even European anti-Israel activist groups repudiate him as an embarrassment …
http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/3664

ISM… a Swedish antisemite (See: “Israeli writer is Swedish anti-Semite”) who also passes himself off as a “Jew” (all the better to make propaganda).  Known widely as the “toxic dwarf” (extreme antisemite plus low intellect), Israel Shamir (also known as Joran Jermas) is such an awful antisemite that even some pro-Palestinian Arab/anti-Zionist activists have rejected him.  Read “Sue has seen the light” for more details.  According to the now infamous Marxist anti-Zionist Dr. Sue Blackwell, Shamir is a Nazi
http://universityracism.multiservers.com/Text/AntisemSWE.htm

Shofar FTP Archives: Nigel Parry who runs ‘The Electronic Intifada exposes Israel Shamir (wha was posing as a “jew”) …a neo-Nazi
http://www2.ca.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/people/s/seredin.alex/2007/seredin.200705

“Israel Shamir” is, in fact, a Swedish-domiciled anti-Semite also known as Jöran Jermas.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article378140.ece

Hesham Tillawi… Israel Shamir…convert to Christianity, has alleged that Jews are somehow aligned with demonic forces …
http://www.adl.org/Learn/Ext_US/hesham_tillawi/affiliations.asp?LEARN_Cat=Extremism&LEARN_SubCat=Extremism_in_America&xpicked=2&item=tillawi

hate… as well as Duke, French Holocaust denier Serge Thion and Israel Shamir, …
http://www.adl.org/main_anti_semitism_international/maup_ukraine.htm

…informed about the antisemitic book “Flowers of Galilee” of a swedish-russian antisemite who converted to be a greek orthodox and spreads his poison under the name of Israel Shamir, he changed in few years in Sweden his name twice. He was called Jöran Jermas, now his name is Adam Ermash.

http://www.spme.net/cgi-bin/articles.cgi?ID=3266

Israel Shamir, the “Israeli-Jewish” enemy of Zionism (and now of Judaism too) has a secret identity which he won’t deny or speak about. He just smears his critics. Here is photgraphic evidence that Shamir, the darling of White Supremacists… and other racists is a Swedish bloke called Joram Jermas.

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/04/309818.html

responses to racism and antisemitism…
In early February, the extreme left-wing party Rød Valgallianse (Red Electoral Alliance − RV) demanded that one of its local politicians, the teacher Hans Olav Brendberg, withdraw from the party due to numerous antisemitic statements he had made on the Norwegian Internet discussion forum KK-forum and to his close ties with Israeli anti-Zionist Israel Shamir.
http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/asw2004/norway.htm

Shamir also once tried to sell Nazi memorabilia to David Irving, a famous British Holocaust denier. Even Palestinian activists Ali Abunimah (who has his own pro-Palestinian website) and Hussein Ibish have denounced Shamir as an anti-Semite.
http://media.www.mcgilltribune.com/media/storage/paper234/news/2001/11/26/Oped/Stop-The.Press-151236-page2.shtml

Israel Shamir… is a fringe character who apparently once tried to enter into a business arrangement for the sale of Nazi memorabilia with the notorious British Holocaust denier David Irving. Irving’s web site includes his very curious correspondence with Shamir, and there is independent confirmation that Shamir was indeed involved in such schemes. (London Times, September 1, 1998; Evening News (Edinburgh), September 1, 1998)
If that were not enough, Shamir, who usually adopts a left wing persona for his harangues against Israel, has also written for extreme right-wing periodicals in Russia under the name Robert David, even denouncing Andre Sakharov as a “Zionist agent.” Thus, according to the late Israeli Sovietologist Mikhail Agursky, a right wing Russian journal known as Politika featured an article:
.. written by one Robert David denouncing [Andre] Sakharov. The article is full of allegations that Sakharov was a harmful Zionist agent. Robert David is presented as an “Israeli”. His identity is well known. As Israel Shamir (Shmerling), he came to Israel in the late 1960s from Novosibirsk and soon became an extreme leftist.
.. Shamir now lives in Moscow under the name Robert David; and, under his own name, he now loses no opportunity to claim that Zionists are the worst enemy of the Russian people, and to call Russian liberals Zionist agents.. He glorified Saddam Hussein and indirectly calls for the destruction of the State of Israel.
.. Shamir is not only in open friendly relations with Iraq and Arab terrorist organizations, but also actively participates in the campaign to delegitimize Israel. (Jerusalem Post, August 15, 1991)
http://camera.org/index.asp?x_context=8&x_nameinnews=92&x_article=154

It’s not the first time Israel Shamir has been promoted by an extremist self-styled “traditionalist” Catholic. Back in July we had noted E. Michael Jones’ “Culture Wars’ Troubling Praise of Israel Shamir” (Fringewatch July 3, 2006) and Shamir’s own controversial reputation among the left. Apparently once a darling of the Palestinian cause, his anti-semitism proved so toxic that he was deemed a public relations disaster and eventually disowned by his comrades (See Nigel Parry’s The Israel Shamir Case and Roland Rance’s Israel Shamir: Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing?, from the Socialist Viewpoint). One might get a sense of Shamir’s worldview by his conclusion from his recent essay that:
Armed with Schmitt’s thesis and Bauer’s testimony, we may conclude: “the ‘liberal democracy and human rights’ doctrine carried by the US marines across the Tigris and the Oxus is a form of secularised Judaism. Considering the predominance of Jews…
Shamir’s writings are similar to that of other anti-semites: society’s ills perceived through the lens of a global Zionist conspiracy, “Talmudic” (or in some cases, secular) Judaism set against Christian civilization.
http://www.ratzingerfanclub.com/blog/2007/01/carl-schmitt-israel-shamir-and-robert.html

Holocaust Denial on Display For example, he was one of the first to aggressively promote Israel Shamir, whose writing imitates that of Nazi Alfred Rosenberg.
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/articles/pumphrey/Srebrenica.html