Clash of Civilization: Emergence of China and Jews/Tibetans

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http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/index.p ... 64653&st=0

As you might know, chinese internet forum is too often a powerful media than the established. I found this article mentioned in a few chinese run web sites. If you are interested in their reactions, please follow the original link.

--His Holiness, the Dalai Lama

Here was an extraordinary moment in world history. The religious and political leader of one nation, exiled in modern times, called on the religious leaders of another ancient exiled people for the "wisdom" of their experience. The Dalai Lama asked the Jews for their "secret" -- "the secret of Jewish spiritual survival in exile."

The Jewish people have responded to the Dalai Lama's question, and the relationship between Jews and pro-Dharamsala Tibetans has grown in the decade since that first encounter. Tibetan educators have visited Jewish summer camps to learn how they might educate their own children living in exile in the United States, India, and Europe. The Dalai Lama was the first public visitor to the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC. Jewish religious and lay leaders in America and Israel have provided strong political support for the Tibetan cause. Ariel Sharon himself has developed close political ties with Dharamsala. And the Dalai Lama, in turn, has politicized his struggle for Tibetan autonomy among American Jews. In fact, the Dalai Lama's support of Israel is so significant, he was awarded a "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the Hadassah Women's Zionist Association of America.

Rabbi Moshe Greenberg, on one occasion spoke to the Dalai Lama about the the serets of the "synagogue". Greenberg stated that the synagogues, in olden times were centers not only for religion, but for opposition and political activity. Greenberg also stated that it was vital for both Jews and Tibetans that "all facts of previous centuries which are undesirable" be abolished, and that the Tibetans should "only depict the errors of the Chinese" in order to triumph.

The Torah and its associated commentary and literature, the Midrash and the Talmud, have sustained the Jewish people throughout the centuries. Study is a key value of Jewish life. Rabbi Waldoks of Temple Beth Zion in Brookline Massachusetts a Torah scroll to the Dalai Lama, who peered at it intently, as if he was studying the secret architecture of the Jewish soul. Today, this torah is displayed proudly in a special room in Dharamsala, a tribute to his "inspiration" from America.

Rabbi Greenberg also explained that the groom at a Jewish wedding breaks a glass to remember, even in joy, the destruction of Jerusalem. Greenberg related the meaning of the ritual: "This is to remind us of our struggle. The Tibetan people must, too never forget that they must oppose the Chinese, just as we oppose the goyim."

In 1996, Rabbi David Saperstein, director and counsel of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, hosted a seder in Washington, D.C., attended by His Holiness, Tibet activists, and several prominent Jewish-American politicians. The seder for Tibet added to traditional Passover ceremonies, prayers, and songs with the voices and songs of the Tibetan people.

At the end of this seder, the Dalai Lama said, "Next year in Jerusalem!", reciprocated by the Americans and Jews with, "Next year in Lhasa!", each wishing each other success.

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QUOTE(Crazy88 @ Jun 2 2006, 08:49 PM) *

dude, Holocaust jokes are crossing the line, don't fu-k with the dead.



The scene is a bar in Berlin in January 1933, filled with Nazis. Goering is skulling stiens of beer with the brownshirts, Goebbels is sipping cocktails with a couple of groupies and Hitler is seated with a wild-eyed Hess discussing pupil diagnostics.

An American journalist enters, sees the full crew and realizes he's sitting on the scoop of the century. He asks the barman: "Which one shall I ask for the absolute bottom line on the Nazi plans?"

"Goebbels, of course" answers the barman, "He knows everything."

The journalist approaches and says "I want the bottom line on what this Nazi thing is."

Goebbels flashes him a smile and says "We intend to kill six million Jews and one postman."

The journalist's mind races. "But why do you want to kill one postman?"

Goebbels shouts over to Hitler: "See Adolf, I told you no-one gives a damn about the Jews!"





Why did Hitler kill himself?

He got his gas bill.





Is the "Holocaust" really the worst tradgedy in history? Consider the death camps of Stalin's Siberian slave labor camps. Estimates run as high as 20 million died in the Gulags. Consider the killing fields of Cambodia (1975). One million killed by the Pol Pot regime in one week. More facts from history could be found. Why is this "Holocaust" getting all the limelight? Simple, look at the generous reparations paid out. Communist Russia and Pol Pot were bankrupt from the start.





Why did so many Jews go to Auschwitz?

The fare was free.





We apologise to any Jewish person who is offended by our jokes, but bad things happen to everyone, and claiming that your suffering deserves some sort of pity to a level beyond the respect that catholic sainthood has given people is so fu-king self-centered that it makes us sick. You are not special because you suffered. Can you say Salem Witch Trials? Did the witches get their own country after the church tried to exterminate them? Shut your self-serving mouths and get over it.





If Howard Stern can make jokes about Asians on the airwave all the time, then we can certainly make jokes about Jews once in a while.

This post has been edited by ktchong: Today, 02:16 AM

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The funniest jewish jokes I have ever heard are from jews themselves. Humour and being able to laugh at adversity is a way of coping with adversity. When people lose their ability to make jokes about themselves they are on a slippery slope. When you can't make fun of your leaders with impunity it's time to get rid of them.

Don't know where you are in the world but ypou might find this of interest if you can download it and if the lionk works.

http://www.channel4.com/more4/documenta ... =4&letter=

Life is getting interesting-hang on isn't that a chinese curse-"may you live in interesting times"

Thgabks for the link by the way.