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New Revelations Reveal Same Old Problem

 

New Revelations Reveal Same Old Problem (Randyjw; September 9, 2019)

 

Terrorism reveals its continued perpetration, from the same old perpetrators, with its same old mindset, against the same old (ancient) community:

 

Cohen, Ben. “Former French Intelligence Chief Alleged to Have Made Secret Pact With Palestinian Terrorists Behind 1982 Kosher Restaurant Massacre”. algemeiner.com; August 9, 2019:

(https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/08/09/former-french-intelligence-chief-alleged-to-have-made-secret-pact-with-palestinian-terrorists-behind-1982-kosher-restaurant-massacre/)

 

 

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(Tribute to Nice) Randy’s Recipes (Mom’s): B.F. Onion Soup, Served With Jewish Six Toast-Points Of Light

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Our hearts are with you, France

(In-Memoriam July 14, 2016)

 

This recipe makes the best french onion soup I have ever had. It was created by a Jewish gourmet home chef, whose professionalism entailed installing commercial quality appliances in his home kitchen decades before it became popular. They are his initials, but I’m sure you will insist it means “Best French”, no?

 

Because this recipe serves twelve, and I am only one, the soup you see in the accompanying picture is a singular adaptation made with ingredients on-hand (I had no sliced cheese, an absolute imperative for the top!).

 

As a Jewish person, myself, I know only too well the sorrows left behind in the wake of a terrorist’s attack. Our people, and the world, stand along with you, France, in remembering and paying homage to the innocent victims of this attack.

 

This recipe from a Jewish chef is presented from another Jewish person. The toast-points were created in the shape of the Jewish Star, with its six points, to show Jewish solidarity with France in her time of need. The Jewish Six Toast-Points Of Light sit on a tempered glass dish, shaped in the form of a fish, from Arcoroc France. It, like the Jewish people’s support, has stood the test of time and has remained as true and strong as ever.

 


 

(Tribute to Nice) Randy’s Recipes (Mom’s): B.F. Onion Soup, Served With Jewish Six Toast-Points Of Light (July 15, 2016)

Ingredients:

8 Large Spanish (Vidalia) Onions

1/4 lb. (1 stick) margarine

15 beef bouillon cubes

Worcestershire sauce, two dashes

Tabasco sauce, a couple of drops

Kitchen Bouquet-brand Browning and Seasoning Liquid, dash or two

Garlic Powder, good shake for soup, and also sprinkled on Italian bread

Black pepper, small shake

1 Tablespoon Flour

Sherry wine, shake or two

Grated Parmesan, good shake for soup, and also sprinkled on Italian bread

Italian Bread Slices, for each bowl

Sliced Swiss Cheese, for each bowl

Sliced Mozzarella Cheese, for each bowl

Bread Crumbs, a sprinkle on top for each bowl

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Cut eight (8) large Spanish (Vidalia) onions into pieces (not rings) and sauté, uncovered, in 1/4 lb. margarine, until soft and golden brown. Set aside.

Dissolve 15 beef bouillon cubes in 1 quart (= 4 cups) hot water. Mix with: Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco sauce, black pepper, garlic powder, and Kitchen Bouquet.

Mix flour into sautéed onions. Add the hot water mixture and then add another quart of water. Put on high heat. Boil, covered, for 10 minutes, then simmer for 30 minutes.

Add sherry wine.

Cool “a little” and add a good shake of Parmesan cheese.

Smear Italian bread slices with margarine, garlic powder, and Parmesan cheese, and toast until very lightly browned.

Place into individual crockware bowls in the following order:

Bread (on the bottom)

Soup (leave room for expansion in bowl)

Cheeses: sliced Swiss and Mozzarella

Bread Crumbs

Bake at 450°F for 10-15 minutes. Remove and place under broiler element, watching carefully not to burn the topping, to melt the cheeses and brown, slightly, the top. Remove with potholders; it will be broiling hot. Enjoy.

10 Yums Up

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Randy’s Recipes: Jewish Six Toast-Points Of Light

Ingredients:

Bread of choice, sliced

Softened Butter or Margarine

Garlic Powder

Grated Parmesan, or other, Cheese

Spices of your choice


Spread softened butter or margarine on a plate. Sprinkle spices and cheese on top. Fold in and stir, to mix well. Spread on open bread slices. Toast until lightly browned. Remove and cut into triangular pieces. Form into six-pointed Jewish Star around plate. You can make a dip and serve it in a bowl in the middle of the Star.

4 Yums Up

 


 

This is the drawing I made for the one-year anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo and subsequent HyperCacher terrorists attacks in Paris, France, which began on January 7, 2015. It is a Jewish tribute to the terror victims, and features symbols of solidarity between the cultures: symbols of Judaism under terrorism: foreground, coiled and barbed wire; the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, Israel; symbols of America under terrorism: the World Trade Center’s twin towers; French symbol of fraternity with the United States: the Statue of Liberty; lightly drawn symbol of France: aforeground to the Statue of Liberty, the Eiffel Tower. The Hebrew message, in show of solidarity with France, and in “reverse copy” of France’s message to the Jews, “Je Suis Juif”, in solidarity: “Gam Ani Yehudi” (“I Am Also Jewish”).

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Super-Caliphate, Fragilistic, Expectantly, Al-a-DAESH-ious

 

If the United States is the “Great Satan”, and Israel is the “Little Satan”, at least according to the outpourings of Arab national media worldwide, does this mean that France, according to size, should be accorded the designation, “Mid-Sized Satan”? (Sounds like the latest in car models, no?)

 

According to Islamic justification, the state fits the bill: they are colonial occupiers, having invaded the Muslim territory of Algeria in North Africa, sending French settlers to occupy and take over the country with a foreign culture.

 

Territories in the Middle East were held for some time by the Ottoman Empire (Turkey), though they are not indigenous to the specific land-holdings they occupied during this time period. In the loss of empire in the 20th century, due to wars for landgains and prominence, the land was given over to Mandatory powers to control and provide stewardship over. These Mandatory assignees, made thus by the League of Nations, the previous name of the similarly-embodied United Nations, were England and France, as they had contributable stakes in the matter.

 

England, in direct contravention in undertaking to establish the parameters set forth to settle the land with Jewish inhabitants to Israel, countermanded the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and acquiesced to Arab demands to limit Jewish immigration to Israel, despite guarantees otherwise. Additionally, land which had been lost in war from the Ottoman Empire, was restored to them, just under the control of princes they favored of mostly Saudi clans and powerful Arab family scions, instead.

 

Nothing was really lost; instead, everything was gained — at least for the making of an extended Caliphate. The division of land into these new countries gave the Arabs representatives in world government for each of the countries now with a new land. Far from being a negative thing, as they claim it to be (wink, wink), it all gives them practically veto power and control over every decision made at bodies such as the United Nations. It does not mean that a United Nations Resolution against Israel is just: it only means that the majority Muslim bloc have intimidated the others into compliance with its point of view.

 

So, is the New World Order a Jewish conspiracy? Certainly not. Considering that secret societies, and other such venues, such as the famed Skull and Crossbones society, coming out of Yale and found supposedly within the Council on Foreign Relations and other places, and supposedly implicit in this whole thing, were often anti-Semitic, it would seem that perhaps others should be considered the progenitors of this supposed ideology. I think I’ve just debunked this whole myth.

 

Meanwhile, France was also given a Mandatory assignment in the generic time-frame of these couple of decades to rule over a part of Syria that had been ripped away from Israel, called “Palestine” at that time. But, you never hear anything from the Arabs about it, because it would defeat their purpose. Only “The Jews”/”Israel” can be the bad guys, because it fits their narrative — related matters be darned.

 

So, let’s see… We have: 1) colonial “occupier”; check. We have: 2) Stole land from “Palestine”; check. And, we have: 3) a country which spurred the Enlightenment: Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite! All anti-thetical to the patriarchical, authoritarian, male-dominated society of Islam. Wine? Mainstay of French life? Verboten/Forbidden in Islam. Boudoir fashion on the streets of “gay Paris”? Make that head-to-toe coverage for Muslim women — maybe a peek-slot for the eyes. Black full-length robes in the 114°F heat of the desert, if you don’t mind… And even if you do…

 

All the makings for the perfect subjects of Jihad. Yet, you don’t hear it. Despite the Charlie Hebdo/HyperCacher recent attacks, those were commited against a definite Jewish target (Hyper Cacher, the kosher market) and against “blasphemers”, satirists at Charlie Hebdo magazine, who poke fun at everything, and who also happen to have “slandered” the person they consider to be the Prophet of their religion. Does this justify or validate the attacks? By no means, whatsoever.

 

But the lack of constant Arab vitriol against France, for actually having, indeed, done the things for which they accuse innocent others of doing the same, comes to naught. There is none, so to speak. I guess they’ve been properly “dhimmi-fied”.

 

Wow, isn’t that just Super-Caliphate, Fragilistic, Expectantly Al-a-DAESH-ious?

 

Hum-Dil-ll-ll-lla-ll-lla; Hum-Dil-ll-LIE!

Hum-Dil-ll-ll-lla-ll-lla; Hum-Dil-ll-LIE!

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Precis of Emile Zola and the Dreyfus Affair

In 1894 in France, Jewish artillery captain, Alfred Dreyfus, was found guilty by court-martial of treason for allegedly selling French secrets about their military placements and weaponry to the German enemy, for which he was placed in Devil’s Island the following year. The next year, further investigations were made into this incident due to flimsy evidence, at which it was determined that a virulent anti-Semite, one Major Esterhazy, was actually the spy. The enquirer of these matters, Colonel Picquart, was then quickly re-assigned by his superiors to North Africa. Eventually, Captain Dreyfus was cleared in 1899.

Although it has been widely reported in other sources, the information for the above account, and for what follows below (in addition to my own opinions), comes from author Stuart Kelly’s interesting creation, The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You’ll Never Read, copyrighted 2005 by Stuart Kelly and copyright illustrated 2005 by Andrzej Krauze, originally published 2005 in U.K. by Viking, a division of the Penguin Group, London, and published in U.S. by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

Kelly states: “The Jews, it was whispered in print, had a syndicate to fund Dreyfus’s appeal. They were profiting from both sides of the conflict (pg. 290).” Is the second sentence a conclusive statement of Kelly’s, or is this statement one made supposedly by the press, as per the preceding first sentence? It is hard to tell.

Emile Zola, an author/writer living in France who was nominated twice for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1901 and 1902 (per Wikipedia), respectively, published an account of the conspiracy against Dreyfus in the January 13, 1898 edition of L’Aurore. In the by-now famous article, J’Accuse, Zola sought to uncover the perpetrators by publishing the names of those he thought were responsible for the cover-up and conspiracy. He was brought to court for doing so, was found guilty, and wound up fleeing the country to England, where he continued to write under the assumed name of M. Jacques Beauchamp.

He was free to return to France when Zola was cleared in 1899 of the charges. Three years later, Zola was found dead in his apartment, after having complained of nausea, headaches and dizziness at three in the morning on September 29, 1902. Stuart Kelly recounts that the coroner had declared Zola’s carbon monoxide poisoning an accidental death. Not even demolishing the flue from the fireplace in his bedroom, reconstructing the conditions under which his room existed when he perished, and subsequent testing with guinea pigs (who safely survived) could reveal the actual turn of events which were related by M. Haquin in 1953 to have transpired on that fateful day.

The anti-Semitic feelings and activities continually bubbling under the surface of many a Frenchman, as well as those across Europe and elsewhere, often expressed itself in pogroms, attacks against Jews and their businesses, exclusive laws and policies against them, and scapegoating against the Jews with false accusations, such as that which befell Captain Dreyfus, a man innocently and honorably defending France’s citizens against attack by enemies. That these same citizens should turn around to foist their prejudiced hatred against Dreyfus belies the pervasive effect milennia of teachings have had, to deleterious effect, in heinous acts committed upon the Jewish people.

The slander perpetrated against innocent Jewish Captain Alfred Dreyfus spread like a wildfire, concentrating into absolutes the inner constitutions of all whose lives were touched by this incident. For those with a propensity towards anti-Semitism, it hardened their hearts against the Jews, collectively condemning them as a race and singularly perpetrating actions to discredit, disgrace, dehumanize, and deprive them of the means to life which were given them by G-d.

Some of them, like Zola’s so-called “friends,” belied their true constitution. Despite the evidence clearing Dreyfus, the incident would remain forever cemented in their minds, wrongly accusing Dreyfus, the Jew, as a traitor, and all those even suggesting the possibility of his innocence, condemned via guilt by the intimation of even a glimmer of sympathy, even after revelation of the true facts in the case.

Although France would be the first to repeal its governmental decree declaring Jews as persona non-grata in their country, the old prejudices just never seemed to die off, even in the supposed, so-called “Enlightenment” and “Reformation” of all of Europe.

The distillation of these views perpetuated over time created lingering resentments against the Jews. In 1953, a reader of the Liberation newspaper named M. Haquin revealed that a chimney sweep had allegedly confessed: “I and my men blocked the chimney while doing repairs next door. There was a lot of coming and going and we took advantage of the hubbub to locate Zola’s chimney and stop it. We unstopped it the next day, very early. No one noticed us.”

The apparent implications in this statement may have afforded its alleged perpetrators a stay of justice in an earthly-based existence, but the ramifications of the Dreyfus affair had even further marked consequences, as its result.

It inspired the Jewish people to become more proactive in taking control of their destiny. Although there have always been Jews living in Israel since G-d commanded Abraham to move there, the rest of the nations have attempted to thwart these plans throughout the thousands of years since.

From the Babylonian exile where our most learned sages continued studying and transmitting G-d’s law with the rest of the Jewish communities worldwide (such as those that remained in Jerusalem, as evidenced by the two Talmuds — Babylonian and Yerushalmi), through the Inquisitions and expulsions from Spain and England, and our ghettoization in places like the Pale of Settlement in the Ukraine, killed in the gas chambers of Germany, our graves the mass pits of the forests and the crematoria of the enemies of Jews, the ground of our spilled blood and the souls of our people cry out to the L-rd who has heard —

We are not witnesses to a self-deluded mantra of vitriol purposing our destruction, but a witness to the One whose promises are revealed in every generation. We are reminded of and prompted to the fulfillment of these promises in each generation upon the earth, that every generation might know that the word of the L-rd is true.

The Dreyfus Affair prompted the assimilated journalist, Theodor Herzl, of Austria, out of his reverie of trying to blend into and become like the nations around him (an act actually prohibited of us by the L-rd) and to begin to form concrete plans to promote the return of Jews to the homeland, Israel (known to others as various names, including Palestine). In turn, this led to the first Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, where Jews got together to find ways to return to our land.

The so-called resultant movement, called Zionism, which others purport to be a recent 19th Century invention, is actually a several thousand year old decree by G-d. Zion is one of the older names for the land of our home, the proof of which can be found in the pages of the Bible, if only one would actually deign to look there.

That fact is written there as plainly as one can see.

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