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Scurrilous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-05-09 10:32 PM
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Not all Jews appreciate Israel's new anti-assimilation campaign
Edited on Sat Sep-05-09 10:35 PM by Scurrilous
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"A day after mounting a scare-tactic campaign to prevent the assimilation of Diaspora Jews, the Prime Minister's Office and Jewish Agency received some 200 calls, most of them reporting names of Jews living abroad.

However, many callers also blasted the campaign - which describes assimilation as a "strategic national threat."

The campaign, which launched on Wednesday, urges Israelis to report the particulars of acquaintances living abroad so that these people, who are "in danger" of marrying non-Jews, can be persuaded to come to Israel.

The 10-day Hebrew-language campaign has been mounted by MASA, a partnership between the Jewish Agency and the Israeli government that helps finance and market Israel programs for Diaspora Jews.

It features images of missing-person posters, with Jewish-sounding names written along the bottom. The message is that assimilated Jews are "lost" persons who must be brought home, to Israel."

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Masa TV Commercial: Intermarried Jews are Lost

http://jewschool.com/2009/09/03/17696/masa-tv-commercial-intermarried-jews-are-lost/

(video at link)
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-05-09 10:41 PM
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1. Sigh.
:popcorn::popcorn:
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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-06-09 04:48 AM
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2. That's putting it mildly.
And the government of Israel has no right to call whatever non-Israeli Jews do 'a strategic national threat'.

There are some people in the current Israeli government who are quite, quite, loony.
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-06-09 08:19 AM
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4. Yeah, you just don't know where to start.
If anyone is the "strategic national threat", it's them.
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-06-09 06:14 AM
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3. That's a new twist on "Just Say 'No'".
How about Jews spying on other Jews to keep them from getting too friendly with the Goyim? That's spooky. Bad enough when family does it.
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Crunchy Frog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-07-09 12:04 AM
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5. Sounds just like something any other Western democratic government would be involved in.
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UndertheOcean Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-07-09 12:42 AM
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7. Except Israel is not such a country , it is an Ethnocentric Theocracy
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UndertheOcean Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-07-09 12:41 AM
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6. Oh My , creepy.
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azurnoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-07-09 02:30 AM
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8. So who could not have predicted this?
is it racial or ethnic purity that the Israeli government is trying to preserve here?
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Alamuti Lotus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-07-09 02:33 AM
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9. both, or neither..
merely preserving the future supply of potential cannon fodder, like most any other warlike clique would dream up.
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