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“the Jew” as Christian reification: Israel as Jewish reification

David Turner — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:25:06 +0000

In my recent contribution to my blog, Antisemitism and Jewish Survival, Who is a Jew” and the Conversion Problem, a responder moved the discussion from Israel as Zionist to Halacha and Jewish identity, an issue of internal Israeli debate with potentially disastrous consequences for Israel in her obligations as refuge. As background to my response [...]

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Truth, Lies and Stereotypes: Christian Denial – Jewish Denial

David Turner — Fri, 10 May 2013 12:19:21 +0000

In my recent discussion of Antisemitism and Jewish Denial my readers often see issues more starkly than I. “John” is a Christian and clearly from his entire challenge (appearing is a brief excerpt) supportive of Israel and the Jewish People. His comments to my most recent article, An American Holocaust? Assessing the threat, reflect a [...]

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Law of Return denies refuge?

David Turner — Wed, 01 May 2013 14:02:22 +0000

A survivor now living in France, “Marcel”, expressed serious concerns regarding the plight of French Jewry. He implies that Israel’s Law of Return limits their options regarding refuge. I consider his concerns not factually-based and, with slight revisions for clarity, I attach my understanding of the Law, and his misunderstanding of its application: “You repeatedly [...]

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The fallacy of proving antisemitism wrong

David Turner — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 12:59:40 +0000

In my recent article, An American Holocaust? Assessing the threat a Christian correspondent who regularly exchanges ideas insisted that the only way to overcome antisemitism is to take on the lies by which it is expressed. Of course this has been the preferred approach of Jews over several centuries, to educate our neighbors regarding the [...]

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Pollard revisited: Why the life sentence?

David Turner — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 17:20:27 +0000

Jonathan Pollard hits a nerve among American Jewry, and for good reason: his arrest and continuing punishment open us, at least those of us less secure about our position in the US, to the charge of “dual loyalty.” Although I am not aware of any other “hyphenated” Americans threatened by the “hyphen (German-, Italian-, Irish-,)” [...]

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The Inevitability of the next Shoah

David Turner — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 12:28:39 +0000

In my present JPost blog, The past and future Holocaust, a reader questioned my use of the word, “victim” as applied to the Jewish people. Follows is my response, raw and unedited but expressing why the Holocaust represents a harbinger of things to come, the inevitability of the next and final Final Solution to Christendom’s eternal [...]

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The past and future Holocaust, a Christian-Jewish dialogue

David Turner — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:03:51 +0000

In response to, The past and future Holocaust a Christian commentator whom I assume to be an evangelical minister by his discussion, expressed concern and asked for clarification to those concerns. Below is his Comment in full, followed by mo response. “Mr. Turner, I have mixed feelings about this thesis. You are correct in regards to the [...]

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Shalom l’Galil: Israel in Syria

David Turner — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:37:15 +0000

Two weeks ago Israel’s Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, warned that, The situation in Syria has become exceptionally dangerous and unstable. Although the probability of a conventional war against the Syrian army is low, the terrorist organizations fighting Assad may yet set their sights on us. The Syrian army’s tremendous strategic resources [poison [...]

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Obama: flip-flop or zig-zag diplomacy?

David Turner — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 16:56:35 +0000

In politics “flip-flop” is a well-worn description for a politician who at best can’t make up his mind, or continuously changes his mind. “Zig-zag” is far more insidious (regarding Iran’s bomb project), hiding intention behind “flip-flop. The reason this presents a problem is because it was Bush, not Obama, who introduced appeasement into the dialogue [...]

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The Holocaust and the eternal Jewish Problem

David Turner — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 17:35:49 +0000

In addition to my occasional contributions to TOI I also host a weekly blog on JPost, Antisemitism and Jewish Survival. That column represents a an organized discussions surrounding the survivability of the Jewish People in the Diaspora, and begins with a discussion of Christian scriptural writings which inspire what is an eternal Christian Jewish Problem [...]

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Why Iran Should Get the Bomb, revisited

David Turner — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:32:33 +0000

Jaques Hyman, “eminent” nuclear weapons expert, returns to Foreign Affairs with his update of an article that appeared nearly a year ago. According to the scholar in his sequel article, Iran Is Still Botching the Bomb, If only the US and Israel would just leave the ayatollahs alone, Iran would no more likely achieve the [...]

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Will China replace the US as regional hegemon?

David Turner — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 20:58:05 +0000

It appears that there is an increasing consensus among Middle East watchers that the United States is yesterday’s news. So who will step in to fill the vacuum by America’s retreat into isolationism? A recent JPost article, China’s power plays in the Middle East observes that, “OPEC is about to collapse… The new rules of [...]

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The Final Solution, The Decision is made

David Turner — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:39:09 +0000

“Don’t be misled into thinking you can fight a disease without killing the carrier, without destroying the bacillus,” (Hitler, 1920) “Once I really am in power, my first and foremost task will be the annihilation of the Jews.” (Hitler, 1922) Background: Even as the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union and the Vatican were busy hustling [...]

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American isolationism: Will Israel adapt?

David Turner — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:46:07 +0000

Introduction: Whether due to the constraints of the long-term recession/Congressional Tea Party veto, or a strategic global shift to counter the perceived emerging “China Threat;” whether, as I have written in the past, America is returning to Isolationism as described in the Debka article referred to below; whatever the reason Israel will be facing new [...]

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“America the Quitter”: Let Israel deal with our mess

David Turner — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 16:21:52 +0000

Two days ago, on 11 January, defense secretary Panetta, accompanied by General Dempsey, JCS chairman gave a press conference in the DOD press room. Mostly devoted to Afghanistan and the budget the question of America’s role in the Syria conflict was raised minutes before the conclusion. Q: Mr. Secretary, did you just rule out putting [...]

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