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	<title>Comments on: Israeli Interior Minister: Illegal Immigration Threatens Israel’s Jewish Identity</title>
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		<title>By: Lion</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lion</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s just common sense to look after your own and protect your identity as much as possible, agreed, there will always be migration of people around the globe, but our government will not put strict limits on this, it is totally gutless, BRITAIN IS FULL </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#039;s just common sense to look after your own and protect your identity as much as possible, agreed, there will always be migration of people around the globe, but our government will not put strict limits on this, it is totally gutless, BRITAIN IS FULL</p>
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		<title>By: spitfire</title>
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		<dc:creator>spitfire</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nothing new going on here people only good old common sense. Simples. </description>
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		<title>By: eddie UK</title>
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		<dc:creator>eddie UK</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I can&#039;t speak for all Jews in UK, but here is my own personal view. I respect the British people, and the historical relgiions, be they Christianity or Druidism. I also respect British culture and values, freedom, and democracy. Jews have a specific fear of some old BNP policies, the leftovers from the NF. I know that the vast majority of BNP voters are  good, law abiding British people, who are scared of the Islamic threat, and rightfully so. When I  was a kid in the 70s, the NF would focus on Jews and &quot;zionists&quot;.  Let me make it clear that there is no Jewish plot to take over Britain, or to covnert it to a Jewish Theocracy. In fact, the only claim Jews have is to the Biblical land of Israel. next, If Jews ever are angry with something, they don&#039;t go and blow up tube trains like Islamic cowards. They might debate you death, and write some smart articles, but that is the only thing people should fear from Jews.   
There is also a philosophical question about democracy and its limits. I respect Geert Wilders for example.  If immigration continues, then Europe will be minority white and Christian within a couple of generations. The Islaimic caliphate, which will then take over, will make the rest of us into second class dhimmis. In places such as Iran, the indigenous religion was Zoroastrianism, and they were actually a white race. Jews lived peacefully in Iran for thousadns of years, before Islam was even born. It was taken over by Arab islamists, and today, the Zorastrians number a few thousand, and are a trampled upon minority. The Jews were regulary massacred by hte muslims, and were not allowed to defend themselves. In the Islamic caliphate of Eurabia, the white minority will not be allowed to defend themselves or bear arms.  
Now, here is the last point, which was raised on QT. Holocaust denial is not only a dumb thing and a lie, it is also something that the maniac leader of Iran is promoting. I know that the good people Britain do not need to deny  the atrocites if WW2, it was the good people of Britain who defeated the nazis.  And it is not racist to stop immmigration or letting in asylum seekers. There is also the issue of defense of the realm. The Monarchy , under Islamic rule, will be deposed, for an Islamic caliphate. This is somehting that Britain has always fought for. I am not inciting violence, but I share my fate with the British people, and not with the Islamic quest for world domination. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can&#039;t speak for all Jews in UK, but here is my own personal view. I respect the British people, and the historical relgiions, be they Christianity or Druidism. I also respect British culture and values, freedom, and democracy. Jews have a specific fear of some old BNP policies, the leftovers from the NF. I know that the vast majority of BNP voters are  good, law abiding British people, who are scared of the Islamic threat, and rightfully so. When I  was a kid in the 70s, the NF would focus on Jews and &quot;zionists&quot;.  Let me make it clear that there is no Jewish plot to take over Britain, or to covnert it to a Jewish Theocracy. In fact, the only claim Jews have is to the Biblical land of Israel. next, If Jews ever are angry with something, they don&#039;t go and blow up tube trains like Islamic cowards. They might debate you death, and write some smart articles, but that is the only thing people should fear from Jews.<br />
There is also a philosophical question about democracy and its limits. I respect Geert Wilders for example.  If immigration continues, then Europe will be minority white and Christian within a couple of generations. The Islaimic caliphate, which will then take over, will make the rest of us into second class dhimmis. In places such as Iran, the indigenous religion was Zoroastrianism, and they were actually a white race. Jews lived peacefully in Iran for thousadns of years, before Islam was even born. It was taken over by Arab islamists, and today, the Zorastrians number a few thousand, and are a trampled upon minority. The Jews were regulary massacred by hte muslims, and were not allowed to defend themselves. In the Islamic caliphate of Eurabia, the white minority will not be allowed to defend themselves or bear arms.<br />
Now, here is the last point, which was raised on QT. Holocaust denial is not only a dumb thing and a lie, it is also something that the maniac leader of Iran is promoting. I know that the good people Britain do not need to deny  the atrocites if WW2, it was the good people of Britain who defeated the nazis.  And it is not racist to stop immmigration or letting in asylum seekers. There is also the issue of defense of the realm. The Monarchy , under Islamic rule, will be deposed, for an Islamic caliphate. This is somehting that Britain has always fought for. I am not inciting violence, but I share my fate with the British people, and not with the Islamic quest for world domination.</p>
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		<title>By: spitfire</title>
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		<dc:creator>spitfire</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hypocrisy springs to mind. </description>
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		<title>By: Keith Mc Farlane. </title>
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		<dc:creator>Keith Mc Farlane. </dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You are living in cloud cuckoo land if you think Phillips will show sympathy with us!  </description>
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		<title>By: TWN</title>
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		<dc:creator>TWN</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As a fellow commentor posted already saying why should all developed european countries put up with all this immigration. Africans, Asians, Eastern europeans if you don&#039;t have the resources to support your own people stop reproducing like cockroaches and learn how to use contraception, and don&#039;t try and live off our people&#039;s hard work and stay in your own country and try and develop them instead of been such lazy parasites   </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As a fellow commentor posted already saying why should all developed european countries put up with all this immigration. Africans, Asians, Eastern europeans if you don&#039;t have the resources to support your own people stop reproducing like cockroaches and learn how to use contraception, and don&#039;t try and live off our people&#039;s hard work and stay in your own country and try and develop them instead of been such lazy parasites</p>
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		<title>By: Israeli</title>
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		<dc:creator>Israeli</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That&#039;s a great article. Thank you very much. 7.5 million Israeli nation cannot accept millions of potential refugees from Africa. Be sure, Israeli ruling leftist elite calls Yishai &quot;extremist&quot;, &quot;fascist&quot;, &quot;imbecile&quot; etc.  
 
Long live Great Britain!  
Greetings from Israel. </description>
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<p>Long live Great Britain!<br />
Greetings from Israel.</p>
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		<title>By: Weepixie</title>
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		<dc:creator>Weepixie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great news and more power to their elbow for it. Now, I wonder who will be the first to start yelling &quot;Fascist, Racist, Nazis at them. </description>
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		<title>By: Gano</title>
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		<dc:creator>Gano</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s laughable isn&#039;t it?, yet we don&#039;t see this all over the Press and TV do we?. Sinn Fein are treated better than the BNP yet they are killer&#039;s and terrorist&#039;s (fact), who is calling Israel a racist country?, nobody!. The people need to know that we are being &#039;brainwashed &#039; by our media  due to liberal agenda&#039;s, wake up before it&#039;s too late. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#039;s laughable isn&#039;t it?, yet we don&#039;t see this all over the Press and TV do we?. Sinn Fein are treated better than the BNP yet they are killer&#039;s and terrorist&#039;s (fact), who is calling Israel a racist country?, nobody!. The people need to know that we are being &#039;brainwashed &#039; by our media  due to liberal agenda&#039;s, wake up before it&#039;s too late.</p>
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		<title>By: IRISH BROTHER</title>
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		<dc:creator>IRISH BROTHER</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>good leadership 4rm israel as usual,strong realist approach,something the governments in power over here lack,real threats needs real solutions,vote the bnp,the foreigners dont belong over here an need 2 be controld,because give them an inch they take a mile,vote bnp </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>good leadership 4rm israel as usual,strong realist approach,something the governments in power over here lack,real threats needs real solutions,vote the bnp,the foreigners dont belong over here an need 2 be controld,because give them an inch they take a mile,vote bnp</p>
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		<title>By: drdeeselixir</title>
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		<dc:creator>drdeeselixir</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I agree with you 100%. </description>
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		<title>By: kazzy</title>
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		<dc:creator>kazzy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi ngu, 
When I read this post, I felt so sorry for all us indigenous peoples of all the different countries. Its such a damned shame that this is being done to us all. This persons post, is from the heart, and you can feel the emotion.. </description>
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When I read this post, I felt so sorry for all us indigenous peoples of all the different countries. Its such a damned shame that this is being done to us all. This persons post, is from the heart, and you can feel the emotion..</p>
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		<title>By: pauljames</title>
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		<dc:creator>pauljames</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I bet Rudd depends on the immigrant vote there! Sounds a lot like our treacherous tosser,Straw! </description>
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		<title>By: Jane</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>they haven&#039;t been corrupted by liberal/left views!  They deliberately spout these views in order to corrupt US!  They want us to die.  And if we resist then we are &quot;racists&quot;. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>they haven&#039;t been corrupted by liberal/left views!  They deliberately spout these views in order to corrupt US!  They want us to die.  And if we resist then we are &quot;racists&quot;.</p>
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		<title>By: Jane</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In this country, bodies such as the Board of Jewish Deputies are set against the BNP and while they want Israel to be protected from immigration they actively encourage such immigration into Britain.   </description>
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		<title>By: Agent Chameleon</title>
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		<dc:creator>Agent Chameleon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Will people giving me a thumbs down try debating me? </description>
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		<title>By: SheriffofNottingham</title>
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		<dc:creator>SheriffofNottingham</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Part 3 
It therefore seems to me that the recent history of mass immigration is following a similar historic pattern, although on a much larger and faster scale. Jews have over the centuries become more integrated into European society and are now experiencing the same cultural bewilderment in their own country as Europeans did with them previously. The main difference is that Jewish integration occurred after millennia and Europe and Israel are now expected to adjust to the same process concertina-ed into decades. It is my contention that this is not humanly possible. A safety valve is required and Israel and India are simply activating one before the whole pot explodes. 
 
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It therefore seems to me that the recent history of mass immigration is following a similar historic pattern, although on a much larger and faster scale. Jews have over the centuries become more integrated into European society and are now experiencing the same cultural bewilderment in their own country as Europeans did with them previously. The main difference is that Jewish integration occurred after millennia and Europe and Israel are now expected to adjust to the same process concertina-ed into decades. It is my contention that this is not humanly possible. A safety valve is required and Israel and India are simply activating one before the whole pot explodes.</p>
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		<title>By: mmedefarge</title>
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		<dc:creator>mmedefarge</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Like the Muslim-licking Ken Livingstone </description>
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		<title>By: SheriffofNottingham</title>
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		<dc:creator>SheriffofNottingham</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Part 3 
It therefore seems to me that the history of Muslim immigration is following a similar historic pattern, although on a much larger and faster scale. Jews have over the centuries become more integrated into European society and are now experiencing the same cultural bewilderment in their own country as Europeans did with them previously. The main difference is that Jewish integration occurred after millennia and Europe and Israel are expected to adjust to the same process concertina-ed into decades. 
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It therefore seems to me that the history of Muslim immigration is following a similar historic pattern, although on a much larger and faster scale. Jews have over the centuries become more integrated into European society and are now experiencing the same cultural bewilderment in their own country as Europeans did with them previously. The main difference is that Jewish integration occurred after millennia and Europe and Israel are expected to adjust to the same process concertina-ed into decades.</p>
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		<title>By: SheriffofNottingham</title>
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		<dc:creator>SheriffofNottingham</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Part 2 
Thus we see a pattern emerging from very early on of immigrants unwelcome because they were so unassimilable and because their very skills redounded harshly on the native populations. In 1010, Jews were persecuted for the first time in France. However, English king William II encouraged Jewish immigration, protecting rich moneylenders for a price. With the Crusades came the demand of money for the regal warchests and this is where the Jews came in very useful as they not bound by the Church&#039;s strictures on usury. Their rates of interest were high at over 40% pa and consequently they became very unpopular, a feeling exacerbated by the fact that the Christian world was so very Christian that there was really no room in it for non-Christians. In 1276 Edward I made it mandatory for Jews to wear a distinguishing yellow badge and emperor Rudolf I cancelled their political freedom, forcing many to leave Germany. 
 
In 1306 came the first expulsion of Jews from France. In 1394 Charles VI of France again expelled Jews from most of his kingdom. In 1395 all Jews were expelled from Venice and in 1492 Queen Isabella of Spain issued the Alhambra Decree whereby 15,000 Jewish subjects were either to convert to Christianity or face expulsion. Strangely enough, her consort Ferdinand V was the Catholic son of Jewess Juana Henriquez. Grand inquisitor Torquemada drove 300,000 Jews and converted Moors (Moriscos) out and in 1496 Jews were expelled from Portugal. Sephardic Jews migrated to the Ottoman empire where they introduced printing. Others settled in Algeria and took up piracy. Most of us are familiar with the later history of the Jews and the eventual creation of the National Jewish State of Israel on May 15th, 1948. (Cont.) 
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Thus we see a pattern emerging from very early on of immigrants unwelcome because they were so unassimilable and because their very skills redounded harshly on the native populations. In 1010, Jews were persecuted for the first time in France. However, English king William II encouraged Jewish immigration, protecting rich moneylenders for a price. With the Crusades came the demand of money for the regal warchests and this is where the Jews came in very useful as they not bound by the Church&#039;s strictures on usury. Their rates of interest were high at over 40% pa and consequently they became very unpopular, a feeling exacerbated by the fact that the Christian world was so very Christian that there was really no room in it for non-Christians. In 1276 Edward I made it mandatory for Jews to wear a distinguishing yellow badge and emperor Rudolf I cancelled their political freedom, forcing many to leave Germany. </p>
<p>In 1306 came the first expulsion of Jews from France. In 1394 Charles VI of France again expelled Jews from most of his kingdom. In 1395 all Jews were expelled from Venice and in 1492 Queen Isabella of Spain issued the Alhambra Decree whereby 15,000 Jewish subjects were either to convert to Christianity or face expulsion. Strangely enough, her consort Ferdinand V was the Catholic son of Jewess Juana Henriquez. Grand inquisitor Torquemada drove 300,000 Jews and converted Moors (Moriscos) out and in 1496 Jews were expelled from Portugal. Sephardic Jews migrated to the Ottoman empire where they introduced printing. Others settled in Algeria and took up piracy. Most of us are familiar with the later history of the Jews and the eventual creation of the National Jewish State of Israel on May 15th, 1948. (Cont.)</p>
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