Islamized State Department: Israel Intolerant Society

There is an all-out attack on Israel being perpetrated by Obama's America. No country is more open, equal, and democratic in the Middle East and the world (save America B.O. [before Obama]) than Israel.

This is another Islamic libel against the Jews. There is no pluralism in islamic countries. No freedom of religion. Honor Killings, clitorectomies, forced marriages, child marriages, Christian persecutions, beheadings, the evil list is endless. This is shameful.

U.S. State Department: Israel Intolerant Society

The 2009 International Religious Freedom Report issued by the U.S. State Department says Israel is not a tolerant society. The report, issued last week, accuses Israel of "governmental and legal discrimination against non-Jews and non-Orthodox streams of Judaism." It charges that "Some individuals and groups committed abusive and discriminatory practices against Israeli-Arab Muslims, evangelical Christians, and Messianic Jews at the same elevated level." Its criticism includes citing the case of three Messianic Jews being denied citizenship under the Right of Return. It also charged that, "While the law safeguards the 'holy places of all religions,' the Government provides significantly greater levels of legal protection and government resources to Jewish holy places than to those of other religious groups and to Orthodox Jews over non-Orthodox Jews."

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[JamestheFin]

I could have sworn Samantha Power had written that but at this point with so many anti-Israel ideologues within the White House and now placed throughout Washington DC, it's hard to say. I just hope Israel can hold on until 2012.

[PersonOfTheBook]

Did the report mention Egypt, and how they treat the Coptic Chritians? Or Saudi Arabia, which does not allow any Jew in the country? Iran? Syria? Any other muslim-occupied country?

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So, Israel is bad, but worse things happen in some Muslim countries. Therefore, Israel is not bad.

Of course, we don't send billions of dollars in aid and arms to any of these Muslim countries, do we? Even though our government (BO) openly said that Israel's foreign policy is harmful to American security, we send them money and arms without restrictions. Even though Israel is an outlaw, rogue nuclear state, we send them money and arms.

And when someone tries to criticize Israel, all you here is how Muslim countries behead everyone, and how it's anti-semitic to criticize Israel.

If Israel dropped a nuclear weapon on Iran, would you criticize them then? What about France? They have lots of Muslims. Maybe Indonesia? They have the largest Muslim population on earth?

Is there anything, anything, that we are allowed to criticize Israel for? This is not a rhetorical question. Someone please answer this.

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[Yeze]

Ms Geller, didn't you even read the report on Iran, Saudi Arabia, etc? Why have you focused on Israel? So in your eyes Israel can do what it likes so long as it stays ahead of Muslim countries?

[Yeze]

"Did the report mention Egypt, and how they treat the Coptic Chritians? Or Saudi Arabia, which does not allow any Jew in the country? Iran? Syria?"

Yes, yes, yes and yes.

[CTYankee]

On the other hand, some "Palestinians" have willfully desecrated some of the holiest sites of Judaism and Christianity. Jacob's Tomb and the Church of the Nativity come to mind.

[Laura Liebman]

The point is that Israel is NOT bad, muldoon you dick. We don't simply send money to Israel, we provide loans on the condition that Israel buys military equipment from America. The money can only be spent here. Israel being a free democratic state has every right to have nuclear weapons as much as the other democratic nuclear armed nations like America, France, England and India. I wouldn't expect a moral degenerate such as yourself to distinguish between true rogue states like Iran and NK having nukes and a free democratic Israel. I've had my fill of degerate skunks like you muldoon.

[Laura Liebman]

I'm really tired of know-nothing punks who demonize Israel and claim our relationship with Israel is a burden:

Start-up Nation: The Story of Isreal's Economic Miracle (http://www.amazon.com/Start-up-Nation-Israels-Economic-Miracle/dp/044654146X), published in 2009 by the Council on Foreign Relations and authored by Dan Senor and Saul Singer: "In 2008 – a year of global economic turmoil – per capita venture investments in Israel were 2.5 times greater than in the US, more than 30 times greater than in Europe, 80 times greater than in China and 350 times greater than in India.

Israel still boasts the highest density of start-ups in the world – a total of 3,850 start-ups, one for every 1,844 Israelis…. Israel is the world leader in the percentage of the economy that is spent on R&D.

But, the real turbocharger has been its universal military training and national service program… Israel's equivalent of Harvard, Princeton and Yale are the the IDF's elite units…Nowhere in the world, where people work in a center of technology-innovation do they also have to do national service… According to the OECD, 45% of Israelis are university-educated, which is among the highest percentages in the world…Innovation often depends on having a different perspective, which comes from experience. In Israel, you get experience, perspective and maturity at a younger age…in the military, you're in an environment where you have to think on your feet. You have to make life-and-death decisions. You learn about training your mind to do things…and that is good and useful in the business world…" (Saul Singer & Dan Senor, The Daily Beast, Oct. 25, 2009).

2. The Israel Test, published in 2009 by Richard Vigilante Books and authored by George Gilder, founder of Gilder Technology Associates: "The most precious resource in the world economy is human genius…. Cities and nations rise and thrive when they welcome entrepreneurial and technical genius…. An astounding proportion of geniuses have been Jewish, and the fate of cities and nations has largely reflected how they have treated their Jews. When Jews lived in Vienna and Budapest, these cities were world centers of intellectual activity and economic growth…. When Jews came to NY and LA, those cities towered over the global economy and culture. When Jews escaped Europe for Los Alamos and for Silicon Valley, the world's economy and military balance shifted decisively….

"Israel has recently become a center of innovation, second in absolute achievement only to the US, and on a per-capita basis dwarfing the contributions of all other nations, America included. How Israel is treated by the rest of the world thus represents a crucial test for civilization…. [Israel was] the emerging world leader, outside the US, in launching new companies and technologies…. outperforming European and Asian Goliaths 10 to 100 times larger…. launching far more high-tech companies per year than any country in Europe…. Israel is a prime source not only of free-space optics, but also of ultra-wideband technology.... not millions of hertz wide at relatively high power, but billions of hertz wide - gigahertz – at power too low to be detected by ordinary antennas…. enabling counterterrorist fighters to see through walls [and bunkers] and identify armed men within…. changing the balance of power in urban guerrilla warfare to the advantage of the civilized and the dismay of the barbarians…Israel's technology leadership has made it a vital ally of the US against a global movement of Jihadist terror…

"It was an Israeli engineer, Dov Frohman, who invented electrically programmable read-only memory, a chip-based permanent memory that could retain a personal computer's core programming even when the power was off…. [It] contributed some 80% of Intel's profits over the next decade and sustained the company's growth to become the world's leading semiconductor company…. Flash memories are a forte of Israel's microchip industry and lie behind many American miracles of miniaturization, from thumb drives to Apple's newer iPods to HP Mini netbooks…. From Intel's Israeli design centers, emerged several generations of the Pentium microprocessor, as well as the Centrino low-power processor that integrated Wi-Fi wireless capabilities into portable PCs…. Immigrant from the former USSR [many of whom honed the instruments of algorithmic science, engineering and mathematics] constitute fully half of Israel's high-tech workers….

"A 2008 survey of the world's venture capitalists by Deloitte & Touche showed that in 6 key fields – telecom, microchips, software, biopharmaceuticals, medical devices and clean energy – Israel ranked second only to the US in technological innovation. Germany, 10 times larger, roughly tied Israel…. At a time when American venture capital is flagging under the financial crisis, the emergence of a comparable venture scene in Israel, linked closely to Silicon Valley, is providential for both the American economy and its military defense. This development makes Israel one of America's most important economic allies…. Early in 2009, Intel celebrated its most important advance since the invention of the microprocessor chip some 40 years ago: "Nehalem" – the new Core i7 device, designed in Israel…" (City Journal, Autumn 2009,

http://www.city-journal.org/printable.php?id=5105).

[Sarastro]

The Iraqi government forbids Iraqis to visit Israel. However, an Iraqi named Jadem Wali, who escaped from Saddam and now lives in Germany, decided to go to Israel and see for himself what the situation was. He spent several weeks, talked to intellectuals, taxi-drivers, artists. those in the administration, Palestinians, waitresses and the ordinary man in the street. He wrote about his conclusions in a book called "Into the Heart of the Enemy". The Israeli critics found that what he wrote was almost too good to be true. He said that Arabs living in Israel are better off than Arabs living anywhere else in the world, they have more rights and a higher standard of living. All the criticism and whining by Hamas-minded hate-filled leaders who pump out their unfounded lies are to be pitied. Of course, Wali's book is officially banned in Muslim countries --- the leaders are terrified that their undertroddden people will find out the truth and start asking questions , why they can't live like the Israeli Arabs??? Privately, many intellectuals and writers from these countries contacted Wali and congratulated him --- they know the truth. But the Israel haters just keep pumping out their lying propaganda. Mr. Wali was here in Munich and spoke about his book, I met him, what a gentleman, and what a friend of Israel's. I recommend that before critising Israel point blank and from a viewpoint of ignorance, one should go to Israel and see for yourself.

[Sarastro]

There is no country more tolerant than Israel. For one thing, the headquarters of the Baha'i religion is there in Haifa. I visited the exquisitely beautiful shrine built to honor the Bab. The Bab [Siyyid 'Ali-Muhammad,1819-1850] was a young merchant in Persia when He announced in 1844 that He had been sent by God to prepare humanity for a new age and the imminent appearance of another Messenger even greater than himself. He is considered by Baha'is to be an independent Messenger of God and the Herald of Baha'u'llah, the Founder of the Baha'i Faith.
Because of his challenging teachings, which called for spiritual and moral renewal, the Bab was publicly martyred in 1850. His remains were preserved and concealed for almost 60 years, and eventually transferred to the Holy Land, and in 1909 interred in a mausoleum on the slopes of Mount Carmel. The colonnade and golden dome over this shrine were completed in 1953, and in 1987, i8 monumental, landscaped terraces, stretching for a kilometer up the
mountain, were installed to make a path of approach for those Baha'is coming on a holy pilgrimage to this shrine. This is all very beautiful and is lit up at night.

[Sarastro]

The founder of the Baha'i Faith, Baha'u'llah, [Mirza Husayn-Ali 1817-1892], declared that humanity's long awaited age of maturity was at hand. Among his principles were the equality of men and women and the right and responsibility of each person to independently search for the truth. Because of his religious teachings, He was imprisoned and banished from Persia to Palestine, which then functioned as a kind of Siberia where criminals and unwanted persons were sent. In Acre, then a prison-city under Ottoman rule, he was condemned to perpetual confinement in 1868. The Turkish governor of Acre took an interest in his case, and after 9 years in prison, he arranged for Baha'u'llah to be removed to a country estate belonging to him, where he lived until his death in 1892. He is buried in a small building adjacent to this mansion,which has been beautified with formal gardens.
So this is why the headquarters of this religion is to be found in Israel. It was not tolerated in Persia, and the Baha'is who are now living in Persia are persecuted. Israel is perhaps the most tolerant country in the world, perhaps too tolerant when it comes to whining Arabs --- if I had the say, I would not let them get away with all their crimes.