RUTHFULLY YOURS

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/No-Holds-Barred-Roger-Waters-unnatural-preoccupation-with-Jews-432204
The essence of anti-Semitism is the attempt to defame the Jewish people as a murderous, bloodthirsty nation that is deeply immoral. :by Shmuely Boteach.

“Waters would accuse the Jews, who give complete control of their holiest site in Jerusalem to the Muslim Wakf, of being like the Germans who snuffed out six million Jewish lives.Only a wretched, pitiless, cold-blooded ignoramus could make such a fraudulent allegation. Only a man whose breast swells with hatred of Jews could fabricate so sinister a blood libel. And only a first-class fraud like Roger Waters would believe that he could lie so viciously to an educated public and get away with it.”

“In a lengthy interview with Rolling Stone magazine this week, former Pink Floyd front man and Israel-hating obsessive Roger Waters demonstrated his all-consuming preoccupation with the Jews.

He speaks about watching Jewish Life Television late at night and reading about “old local Jewish ladies” who organize protests against him. Like most anti-Semites, he peddles central Jewish coordination theories, asserting that pro-Israel efforts, such as this very column, are organized by the prime minister of Israel’s office. “Hasbara, the arm of the Prime Minister’s Office that we all know starts with Netanyahu in Tel Aviv. It’s very organized, and I see it all over my Facebook page all the time. It’s this hugely organized thing.”

But for all his loathing of Israel, including flying pigs with Mogen Dovids on them as his concerts, comparing Israel to Nazi Germany and Israel’s policies to the Holocaust, and publicly condemning far more successful performers such as Jon Bon Jovi for performing in Israel, Rogers insists he is not a Jew-hater. “It’s not the Israeli people, not Jews, not Judaism. I would never dream of attacking them.”

For three years now the European Union has been threatening to publicize guidelines on the consumer labeling of Israeli products produced over the pre-1967 lines in parts of Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, and the Golan Heights.

This week sources in Jerusalem said they had received signals the Europeans would soon make good on this threat – possibly within days.

The Europeans for their part have in the past attempted to play down the issue, claiming that labeling does not constitute a boycott. As EU spokesman in Israel David Kriss told Bloomberg in June, “The main principle here is simply that consumers in Europe should not be misled about the origin of products.”

Kriss and other European officials would like us to believe that labeling is just a way of providing European consumers with information and has nothing whatsoever to do with nasty boycotts.

Such attempts to dissemble are hardly convincing. After all, what precisely will be written on the labels? “Made by Israeli settlers in Occupied Palestinian Territory”? Even the more innocuous “Produce of the West Bank (Israeli settlement produce)” that already appears on products in some British supermarkets is enough to deter European consumers already prejudiced by slanted news media.

Dayna is a passionate Christian Zionist who yearned to go to Israel “someday,” but real life kept getting in her way.Well, last month she finally got her wish…and she sent me this remarkable, passionate and encouraging letter which I am urging you to send out to as wide an audience as possible……Joan Swirsky (Author of “The Cargiver Survivors Guide”)

Dear Joan,

As I sit, safe and sound, on my living room sofa in my condo in Naples, FL, it’s been less than two weeks since I toured Israel and walked the streets in the Old City of Jerusalem. I’m thankful that, as a tourist, I was not personally confronted with the deadly violence that Israelis are experiencing these days, in a Palestinian “knife intifada.”

We spent a day at a ministry center in Haifa. I met Russian Jews who came to the center to receive practical goods that were being gifted to them by The Joshua Fund. The grateful looks on their faces were priceless. There were incredulous tears of joy as they received a decorative canvas wheeled cart, kitchen knives, a wireless electric tea pot, laundry detergent, dish towels, a cutting board, a vegetable peeler, a can opener, a pot with a lid, a glass bowl, a ladle, a decorative mug, and a pillow––items that you and I take for granted.

One sweet, gray-haired lady whom I greeted and assisted, really touched my heart. I couldn’t hug her or help her enough! I got choked up just wondering how she happened to be there at that time in her life.

Two hundred people (men, women and their children) had been selected to participate in this event. Fortunately, not everything that’s going on in Israel is violent or deadly!

Joan, everywhere we went, there were tour groups of Christians and Jews from all over the world in Israel! Not even the threat of Palestinian Islamic terrorism kept us away from our quest to experience Israel!

I felt safe from the moment I arrived at Ben Gurion Air Port in Tel Aviv. As a visitor in Israel, when I was standing on the Golan Heights hearing gunfire fire coming from Syria, that’s when I was confronted with the reality of war. It was surreal.