2014-2015

To the ones, left behind

I cannot speak to look forward, because I do not what is forward.

I can speak what I left behind, memories hopes, desire or dreams.

But, at this point does not matter, because what we have left behind, I just can say is over.

What is forward, I cannot say, not one ever has come to tell us what is forward.

The actions and regrets, of many hope, but whether was early or late does not matter.

I will like to see the forward, but the walls between unknown and the forward is too big, our hope and desires, what left dream.

Stop for a moment, and choose the dream we left, all the materials thinks are just dust on the wind, and with the time, come back to the start dust the one time was, so what we left, act of kindness, lost in time, and maybe this one will give and lift hope, or a though which will give hope, a path to the starts, where we will have a chance.

We cannot take our cloths or hope, dreams, desires, but we leave is our hopes and dreams, desires to the one we left behind.

Art Deco 2014 (Riga)

A Case for Equality

The first expulsion of the Jew from Spain was carry on by revival of Almohad Caliphate in 1172, while even under peace period, the Jewish community of Granada in December 30, 1066, the Pogrom razing the entire Jewish Community, Muslim mob stormed the royal palace in Granada, which was at that time in Muslim-ruled al-Andalus, assassinated the Jewish vizier Joseph ibn Naghrela and massacred the Jewish population.

During the Catholic Reconquista, in appeal to the Sunny Ottoman from the Shia Andalusian, request was deny for any help to hold the Catholic King.  The same Ottoman carries the first scale industrial mass murder against the Armenians in WWI. In some level the way we treat the ones close to us speak volumes. Eugenics advocated in US, by, William Goodell (1829-1894), but the modern used of Eugenics was prescribed by Francis Galton, half cousin of Darwin. Eugenics took a strong root in US, because from the inception was created a race is an economic tool, the only historical parallel Rome, used prisoners of wars as Slaves and Greeks use the concept of the Barbarian to create an economic slave.

Because the race inequality in US has (and still) manifest is an economic tool, and the first Genocide base on Religion was carry by the Othman Sunni Empire, but to use race is political act, German original program to eliminated any they consider not genetic in the Program T4, which eliminated any one they consider medical defected (The program is described by Robert Jay Lifton in The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychological of Genocide, 1986—Basic Books; Richard J Evans in The Third Reich Power, 2005, Allen Lane).

Biology by his logic, sometimes are simple rules, sometime complex rules, but because the interactions is very complex, many have extrapolated some of our knowledge so far just by speculation, Biology, while is a old knowledge, but the Evolution with the Genetics has rejuvenated Biology as new science, some have so far proclaim the selfish gene following the Darwin Natural Selection, up to the 1990s we consider Human genes at 100,000 to found actually the Human Gene is only 30,000 (approximation) or idea Natural selection only promoted selfishness, but in the 20 Century Kropotkin by observation (similar Darwin Analysis) in Mutual Aid A factor of Evolution propose the cooperation is a the factor or least a great factor in Biology and Human Evolution, in 2009, Frans De Waal (a primatologist and ethologist) show the cooperation is major factor not just in human evolution, but any biological system. 

The brain is one of the most complex system, while Biology is descriptive the tendency of reduction view in Biology, sometime we will like to believe the just by simple reduction to describe the system, this tendency is found in groups working in Artificial Intelligence, which are which full thinking or projecting their desire, with 100 Billion Neuron Trillions connections, which are continuously transforming, make a difficult problem, we just to start to look into,  because environment and cultural defined behavior, believes, the understanding is compound, is too early to give any definitions. Now the DNA show the closes we are by family or groups, also shows we are come from the same lines, not better or worse, with the limited resources we have, and desire of continue, we need to think in cooperative way to each other, sharing, so far the rules and gate keepers is to maintain a vertical system, which is not functioning, and we are going from conflict to conflict, and we have devise some nay ways to destroy our selves, what is sad we are share our destiny, sometime our close to us we heard the more, 2014 is a great example from the inequality in US (in US due to race) and Europe with the 2,000 years of the outsider, the Religious conflict of the Middle East, Russia delusion of Empire in Ukraine, and forcing herself to Europe, China due to their population a need for Order, depriving the individual, the inequality in India base on Cast, the Fanatics of Islam  Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, Saudi, economics and health issues, 2014 was record, like in beginning of the 1900 a change, we lost prospect and committed horrendous crimes against each other, against our Human Family, and destroying our own environment. Institutions like UN are just political tools of power plays.

Winter Prelude

delegitimization as propaganda

A tool of propaganda is delegitimization, and we can reduce the conflict in the Middle East, especially, the Palestinian and Israeli conflict is war of propaganda in delegitimization.  The conflict origin is a religion ownership of god.  Imperial Rome, destruction of the temple and the Jewish revolt in 66-73 CE, started 64, CE two years, before of the revolt, when Galicula, due to the tensions in Alexandria between the Jews and the Greeks, and the Pogrom against the Jewish by the Egyptians and Greeks, Galicula order a statue in the Jewish Temple, and the aftermath of the revolt, Rome wanted to delegitimize the Jewish to any claim, for started, Philistine in the north of the Sinai was extended as political name  to deny the existence of Judea, with Rome Imperial Christianity becoming the official religion by Constantin, and the nature of the conflict of the ownership of God, between Christianity and Judaism, the Judea despaired in the lexicon of territory and rename Palestine [Most of the Historical record of the revolt is recorded in Josephus and 2014, the stone of the dedication to Hadrain visit to Jerusalem, visit and rebuilt Jerusalem is a pagan city-causing the next revolt- Bar Kohva revolt].

With the conquest by the Arabs of Jerusalem in 637 (two years after the death of Mohammad) from Byzantine Empire the military success due to the light horses, the Byzantine army use to heavy horses against the Parthians [Infidels, A Wheatcroft, Pengiun Books, 2003; Islamic Imperialism, E Karsh, Yale University Press, 2007]. The conquest had effect to conquest people specially the Abbasid Caliphate with the introduction of distinct clothing to identify Christians and extended to Jews (Christians the Blue and Jews Yellow color) , [Under Cresent & Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages, m R Cohen, 1994]. For any rationalist Islamic thinking ended with the Abbasis in 11 Century. In the Holy Land, besides the restrictions, at work, land, but the time of Imperial Rome a 1.5 Million Samaritans,  Islam and persecution by Islam has reduced the Samaitans today to 15,000 between Israel and Occupy territories. The brunt of the persecution was done by the Ottomans not only physical persecution, but they were deny the worship (lamb scarified in Passover) in Mount Gerizin [Political History of the Samaritan, An Najah University January 2005].

The Ottomans Imperialism, twice on the doors of Vienna [The Enemy at the Gate, A Whaetacroft, Basic Books, 2008] and in 20 century, the first industrial scale mass murderer of 1.5 Million of Armenians, perpetrated by Sunni Ottoman Empire [Anbassador Morgenthaus Story, 1918, Garden City New York Double Date], to today is against the Turkey to speak against and penalty of jail for defamation [IP Deplores Callous Murder of journalist in Istanbul, International Press Institute, 22 January 2007].

While, the most aggressiveness in delegitimization action, in Islam is the massacre carry by the Prophet where 900 Jews of Banu Qurayza where decapitate, in act of revenge for taken sided with Mecca, according to Tarek Fatah, in The Jew is not my Enemy: Unveiling the Myths that Fueled Muslin Anti-Semitism, 2010, Ancient Forest Friendly, the story originate during Abbasis Caliphate as copy of the story of Masada, but the Koran itself with 33 Sura (Verses) advocated the genocide of Jews, while for Christianity and Islam do not take place during WWII, where 65,000 Muslims fought under banner of Nazi Germany and 5,000 under Allies [The Arabs and the Holocaust, G Achar, Saqi, 2010] . The instigator was the Mufti of Jerusalem, who requested from Hitler action, Tel Aviv was bomb twice by the Italian Air Force, in 1944 (Haifa in July 29 1940), the relationship between the Nazis and Islam, not just SS units of Muslims, but Islam in Germany come from the Munich Islamic Institute influence to Mohmad Atta and   events of September 11, 2001 [Der Mufti von Jerusalem Amin el Husseini und die Nationalsozialisten, K Gensicke, 1988, Martin].

With the importance of the DNA is the blue print and in late in the 1880s  Renar speculated the Ashkenazi Jews were from Kazar, in the Jewish history the story by Judah Halevi in the Kuzari, give story of the conversion of the Kazars to Judaism. Elhaik work to bring the theory into a fact, but Hammer [Hammer et al, 2009. Jewish and the Middle Eastern non-jewish population share a common Pool of Y-chromosome bialleic haplotypes, PNAS 97: 6769-6774] and Felman shows the Elhaik work did not pass the basic statistical work, 2013 Behar et al, No Evidence from the Genome-Wide Data of Khazar origin for the Ashkenazi Jews in Human Biology: The International Journal of Population Genetics and Antropology, Vol 85;  Behar et al, 2008. Counting the founders: the matrilineal genetic acenstry of the Jeiwsh Diaspora PloSOne 3:e2062; Shen et al, 2004. Recosntruction of patrilineages and matrilieages of Samarians and other Israeli population from Y-Chromosome and Mitochondrial DNA Sequence variation, Human Muatation 24: 248-260; Daron et al, 2010. The genome-wide structure of the jewish people Nature, 466: 238-242.

Ecco Hope

Fall

Meditation

A moment

The Roots of Europe Antisemitism

Europe Antisemitism have a face of total intolerance, the root can be trace to the first rupture in happen in first council convey by Constantine I in 325 AD, where two set of rules created a differentiation between Christianity and The Jews, Christian did not required the circumcision to be part of Christianity, and second to deny any hope: Jews cannot own slaves, up to this time, Rome was built on the shoulders of Slaves, moreover, not peasant from the Jewish fate could compete with such free labor cost.

On the other hand Julian of the Apostate or Julian the Philosopher (361-363), wanted to return Rome to previous Pagan, by them it was obvious to Julian, the Bishop of Rome, was collecting power, and Christianity, to stop the natural intolerance of Christianity, Julian wanted rational and tolerance society, Julian took advices from Philosophers and to destroy the Myth of Christianity the exile of the Jews from Jerusalem was a sign God rejection (Julian death from combat wounds by Sassanid forces. Julian Tomb as located in Tarsus today Syria) . Julian in his conflict with Persia, began the Temple foundations in 363, the  work stop due to the Galilee Earth Quake in 363.

The physical legalization of creation of the other, took place not but Christianity but, by the Umayyad Caliphate, give Christians, Jews and Zoroastrian a legally protected status as second-class citizens as long as they accepted and acknowledged the political supremacy of the ruling Muslims, a dhimma contract was created, besides of the Poll Tax or Jizya tax. To differentiate an introduction of colors in 717 by the Pact Umar stipulated the Christians need to be identify using the blue color, and 850 a decree of the Abbassid Caliph Al-Mutawakkil, reported by the 10th century historian Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari, requires Christian and Jewish subjects to wear honey-coloured hoods and belts of a particular type.

Fourth Council of the Lateran headed by Pope Innocent III ruled in 1215 that Jews and Muslims must wear distinguishable dress. In German-speaking Europe, a requirement for a badge was less common than the Judenhute or Pileum cornutum (a cone-shaped head dress). In 1267, in a special session, the Vienna city council required Jews to wear a Judenhut; the badge does not seem to have been worn in Austria. There is a reference to a dispensation from the badge in Erfurt on 16 October 1294, the earliest reference to the badge in Germany.

Today, Iran and other Islamic countries have or trying to introduces or reintroduce the Poll Taxes, Iran have a Poll Taxes since 1980s and Islamic Stated in Iraq and the Levant introduced the  dhimma contract, and the Taliban force the Hindu minority in Afghanistan to used Yellow color to be identify is non-belivers.

Summer End 2014

Anti-Semitism in Antiquity and the Other

The problem of being up-rooted from one place to another, whether through war, political or economic, is the initial settlers created the myth of the other, up to the destruction of the first temple, a sense of the identity and belonging is created, Derrida in Written and  Difference: “madness made into the objective of the exile”; Walter Benjamin (Marxist with libertarian tendencies): “Messianic intensity of the heart, of inner man in isolation, passes through misfortune, as suffering; Martin Buber in Path in Utopia describing Gustav Landauer in his inside about state: “ The state is not an institution can be destroy is mention by Kropotkin, bua human a condition”. The exile is a condition, uprooted and creates the other, if a sense of real or imaginary exists before the other, then the other need to be created.

Anti-Semitism is a condition to delegitimize, for Christianity and Islam; it’s needed because both of them need to delegitimize the covenanted between Israel and their God. For the left especially the authoritarian Marxist left, the other cannot exits, because the patriarchal control is not room for poets and dissenters.

Hebrew tradition is rooted in the land, and the not just religious, but a political social. In the first exile, because outside their stable control environment, and now your believe is challenge and question, more important outside of the power of the exile. The first description in the mythology is book Esther, where the Judah and Benjamin was to suffer a completed genocide, and the tradition said the book need to need to read is letter, because you never know what will happen (you never have control of your own destiny). 

Another recorded incident in the Elephantine Island existed a Jewish Garrison under command of the Egyptian Pharaoh (after to serve the Persian Empire),  (a Temple similar to the Jerusalem, was build, where the sacrifices perform in Jerusalem were done on this place) from the time of the first temple in the year 410 BCE,  the local priest of the God Chum and the Persian commander Vidagraph with a small army Native Egyptians enter the temple and burn the roof, destroy the gates, columns and candles, the reason of the attack, because the sacrifices of the lambs in Passover, since for the Egyptians the lamb was a holy Animal. There was a Jewish revolt and the Persian allots to rebuild the Temple in 470 BCE. 

 The next incident is story of the Maccabees, where the Hellenistic philosophy (Internationalisation of Greek philosophy, which was exclusive only to the Greeks) in the Zealotry not native challenge was allot.

  By 286-246 BCE, about 150,000 Jews live in Alexandria, in 217 BCE a legend tells story Alexandria visit Jerusalem were impress with the Temple wanted to build a similar structure in Alexandria, they were told if the will sacrifices to Dionysus will be allot, they refuse, the story tell 500 Jews were taken and toppled by Elephants, whether was truth or not, in 38 Ce after 70 years after Egypt was part of the Roma Empire, the Jewish according to Philo of Alexandria (20 CBE-50 CE), declare loyalty to Caligula (38 Years old)  when become Emperor, the Greeks despise the Jews (because the Loyalty to Rome, the Jewish under the Greeks, did not wanted to assimilated to Hellenism and Greeks resented the unwilling of assimilation, and gave loyalty to Rome) and Egyptians because the loyalty to Rome gave the Jews certain privilege which Egyptians did not have, the Jewish King Herod Aggripa visited Alexandria on a mission on behalf of the Roman Emperor, the population demanded the statue of Caligula should be place inside of synagogues, the Roman Governor encourage the population ended with a plan assault to the Jewish population , at the time Jewish population leave in 5 quarters, is prescribes by the Romans. The Jewish population was trap and club, burn, Philo Flaccus the Rome Governor did nothing the Jewish council was arrested and some crucifies as Roman tradition after the assassination of Galicula, Cladius stop the persecution, but this incident open to the next situation after the destruction of the Temple 70 CE, Rome wanted to delegitimize the Jews to any claim to Jerusalem become Aelia Capitolina (the new city was dedicated to Jupiter Capitolinus: the supreme Gd of the Jews was now under the supreme god of Rome), the colony build under Hadrian, based on the ruins of Jerusalem, but the more important factor in the delegitimize was change from Judea name to Palestine, Rome name for the Phoenicians (in Hebrew story, Philistine--people of the sea, where the descents of the Crete and Tyros) , so the Jews and his dependent will not have a political claim to the Judea.