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Jerusalem News-761
Jerusalem News-761
Date 27th April 2008, 22 Nissan 5768
1.
Beware
of Hoax Videos on YOUTUBE
defaming President Bush and Besmirching the USA
2. Portugal marks 500-year anniversary of massacre
of Jews
3. US Spies: What Israel Should Do
1.
Beware
of Hoax Videos on YOUTUBE
defaming President Bush and Besmirching the USA
We received the following letter from someone who was TAKEN IN by a wicked video
hoax:
At 06:04 AM 4/27/2008,
EB
wrote:
About the
U.S
Elections???
Go to view
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeaFXaPx11A&feature=rated
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fws4RxWtnOg&NR=1
See the slimy bastard make his speeches.
<<He is nothing short of being a Demon
Brit-Am Comment:
The above letter was sent to us by someone who is otherwise informed and
intelligent.
If such a person was taken in by the video hoaxes so could others.
We looked at the video clips in question.
They portray President Bush making speeches that are like those of a
pathological monster and the USA
as a horrible beast.
These are not real speeches. They are cut and paste forgeries presenting
President Bush as having said the opposite of
what he actually did say or intend.
Should there not be some kind of law against such forgery and misrepresentation?
2. Portugal marks 500-year anniversary
of massacre of Jews
Camila Wilkinson and Nuno Martins
http://www.ejpress.org/article/7500
Excerpts:
Historians estimate that between 2,000 and 4,000 "New Christians" -- Jews who
were forced by the state to convert in 1496 -- were thrown into pyres set up
across the city centre before authorities regained control of the Portuguese
capital.
The violence erupted on April 19, 1506 after a man believed to be a "New
Christian" suggested that a light emanating from a crucifix at a chapel was
likely caused by natural causes instead of divine intervention as thought by
many Christians.
He was dragged from the church by a group of women who beat him to death,
according to several historical accounts.
A priest then made a fiery sermon against "New Christians" while two other
priests, crucifix in hand, marched through the cobblestoned streets of Lisbon
inciting people to kill them.
In the ensuing violence even Catholics who were thought to look like "New
Chistians" were killed or saw their homes destroyed.
King Manuel, who was outside of the Portuguese capital when the massacre began,
ordered the ringleaders rounded up and hung while those convicted of murder or
pillage received various corporal punishments.
When the king forced the Jews to become Christians, many of them decided to
leave the country, including a number of highly educated people, such as the
astronomer and mathematician Abraao Zacuto, who went to Turkey, and Baruch
Espinosa's (Spinoza) parents, who went to Holland.
The massacre highlights the growing unease in Portugal at the time with "New
Christians."
Spain had launched its Inquisition in 1492 which aimed to expel or forcibly
convert to Christianity all Jews and other non-believers, prompting thousands to
cross the border into Portugal where they sought shelter.
But nearly five decades later Portugal launched its own Inquisition which led
hundreds of Jews to be tortured or burned at the stake in the 16th and early
17th century after being accused by church tribunals of being heretics.
Some historians estimate that 20 percent of Portugal?s population, or 200,000
people at that time, before the start of the Inquisition were Jewish.
Many were successful traders and scientists whose international visibility made
the term "Portuguese" be synonymous with "Jew" at the time.
Today there are just some 3,000 Jews in Portugal, a nation of just over 10
million people. Most are concentrated in Lisbon and the majority came to the
country after Portugal's Inquisition was officially abolished in 1821.
3. US Spies: What Israel Should Do
From: imra@netvision.net.il
The first thing it should do is arrest officials suspected of transferring
classified materials to the US without authorization. It should then publish
the names and details of US spies whom Israel previously caught and treated
with kid gloves. Then it should publicly demand that Bush release Pollard
from the prison where he rots, while the likes of Hizbullah agent Nada
Prouty - who penetrated both the FBI and the CIA - is expected to receive a
six-month prison sentence for her crimes.
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