Be honest, David Burman.  Your posting was merely a pretext--and a weak one at
that--for slipping on to the list some political commentary, ostensibly to alert
list members to yet another "health issue."  But I'll take the bait.  Those
Israeli soldiers are very lucky that they are, indeed, citizens of Israel.  What
do you suppose would happen to Saudi troops who refused service?  More to the
point, since you're so very concerned about peace as a determinant of health,
perhaps you'd like to take a look at the website for the Middle East Media
Research Institute (www.memri.org), which offers translations of Arabic and
Farsi media material.  And perhaps you'd like to read one of its latest
postings, fresh from the Saudi presses, in which a Saudi writer describes how
Jews use blood for the baking of "Purim pastries" (hamentaschen, as you may
know).  Yes, the medieval blood libels are alive and well in the Arab media.
This story has also been covered in today's National Post at
http://www.nationalpost.com/commentary/story.html?f=/stories/20020315/344961.html
(the article is titled "Blood Libel, Arab Style").  This kind of viciously
anti-Jewish material is widely circulated in the Palestinian territories in hate
literature that also describes a world-wide Jewish conspiracy to rule the world
(they already control the banking system, of course), and that describes Jews as
pigs and monkeys.  None of this can be very good for peace, can it?  Is an
absence of racism a determinant of health?  How about an absence of
state-sanctioned hate-speech?

Read the article reprpoduced below and then we'll talk more about peace and health.
_________________________________________________________________________________

Posted: Wednesday, March 13, 2002
Special Dispatch No. 354: Saudi Government Daily: Jews Use Teenagers' Blood for
'Purim' Pastries

In an article published by the Saudi government daily Al-Riyadh,(1) columnist
Dr. Umayma Ahmad Al-Jalahma of King Faysal University in Al-Dammam, wrote on
"The Jewish Holiday of Purim." Following are excerpts of the article:

Special Ingredient For Jewish Holidays is Human Blood From Non-Jewish Youth

"I chose to [speak] about the Jewish holiday of Purim, because it is connected
to the month of March. This holiday has some dangerous customs that will, no
doubt, horrify you, and I apologize if any reader is harmed because of this."

"During this holiday, the Jew must prepare very special pastries, the filling of
which is not only costly and rare - it cannot be found at all on the local and
international markets."

"Unfortunately, this filling cannot be left out, or substituted with any
alternative serving the same purpose. For this holiday, the Jewish people must
obtain human blood so that their clerics can prepare the holiday pastries. In
other words, the practice cannot be carried out as required if human blood is
not spilled!!"

"Before I go into the details, I would like to clarify that the Jews' spilling
human blood to prepare pastry for their holidays is a well-established fact,
historically and legally, all throughout history. This was one of the main
reasons for the persecution and exile that were their lot in Europe and Asia at
various times."

"This holiday [Purim] begins with a fast, on March 13, like the Jewess Esther
who vowed to fast. The holiday continues on March 14; during the holiday, the
Jews wear carnival-style masks and costumes and overindulge in drinking alcohol,
prostitution, and adultery. This holiday has become known among Muslim
historians as the "Holiday of Masks."

How the Jews Drain the Blood From Their Young Victims

"Who was Esther, and why the Jews sanctify her and act as she did, I will
clarify in my article next Tuesday,(2) Allah willing. Today, I would like to
tell you how human blood is spilled so it can be used for their holiday
pastries. The blood is spilled in a special way. How is it done?"

"For this holiday, the victim must be a mature adolescent who is, of course, a
non-Jew - that is, a Christian or a Muslim. His blood is taken and dried into
granules. The cleric blends these granules into the pastry dough; they can also
be saved for the next holiday. In contrast, for the Passover slaughtering, about
which I intend to write one of these days, the blood of Christian and Muslim
children under the age of 10 must be used, and the cleric can mix the blood
[into the dough] before or after dehydration."

The Actions of the Jewish Vampires Cause Them Pleasure

"Let us now examine how the victims' blood is spilled. For this, a
needle-studded barrel is used; this is a kind of barrel, about the size of the
human body, with extremely sharp needles set in it on all sides. [These needles]
pierce the victim's body, from the moment he is placed in the barrel."

"These needles do the job, and the victim's blood drips from him very slowly.
Thus, the victim suffers dreadful torment - torment that affords the Jewish
vampires great delight as they carefully monitor every detail of the
blood-shedding with pleasure and love that are difficult to comprehend."

"After this barbaric display, the Jews take the spilled blood, in the bottle set
in the bottom [of the needle-studded barrel], and the Jewish cleric makes his
coreligionists completely happy on their holiday when he serves them the
pastries in which human blood is mixed."

"There is another way to spill the blood: The victim can be slaughtered as a
sheep is slaughtered, and his blood collected in a container. Or, the victim's
veins can be slit in several places, letting his blood drain from his body."

"This blood is very carefully collected - as I have already noted - by the
'rabbi,' the Jewish cleric, the chef who specializes in preparing these kinds of
pastries."


"The human race refuses even to look at the Jewish pastries, let alone prepare
them or consume them!"(3)


Endnotes:

(1) In an October 24, 2001 online article, "Saudi mufti bans killing
non-Muslims," the BBC referred to Al-Riyadh as a "government-controlled newspaper."

(2) In the second part of the article (March 12), the columnist tells the story
of the Book of Esther and concludes, "Since then, the Old Testament, the Jewish
holy book, requires the Jews to glorify this holiday and show their joy. This
joy can only be complete with the consumption of pastries mixed with human blood."

(3) Al-Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), March 10, 2002.




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> Israeli soldiers are refusing to serve in the occupied territories is a
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