Why I “arrested” von der Leyen for aiding Gaza genocide | David Cronin | ELECTRONIC INTIFADA | 17 April 2024
I have attempted to put Ursula von der Leyen under citizen’s arrest for aiding the Gaza genocide.
My attempt was made as the European Commission’s president began her speech to a conference on strengthening the weapons industry.
Aiding and abetting genocide is a very serious matter.
The 1948 Genocide Convention places an obligation on governments around the world to prevent and punish that crime.
All 27 countries in the EU have signed and ratified that convention. On paper, the EU regards the prevention of genocide as an “integral part” of its foreign policy.
Von der Leyen reneged on that commitment when she visited top-level Israeli figures in the early stages of the Gaza genocide.
On 13 October, she told Isaac Herzog, Israel’s president, that “we stand by you.”
One day earlier, Herzog presented Israel’s war against Gaza as purely a response to the Hamas operation of 7 October.
Herzog contended there was “a whole nation responsible” for the Hamas operation. He alleged that “this rhetoric about [Palestinian] civilians not aware, not involved” was “absolutely not true.”
The same week that von der Leyen gave her assurance, Yoav Gallant, Israel’s defense minister, ordered a “complete siege” of Gaza, insisting there would be “no electricity, no food, no fuel.” Gallant announced that he had “released all restraints” because Israel was, in his words, “fighting human animals.”
The International Court of Justice formally took note of the comments by both Herzog and Gallant in January. The court cited those comments when deciding there is a plausible case that Israel is committing genocide.
It must not be forgotten that von der Leyen publicly gave her full backing to Israel soon after its leading politicians had displayed a clear genocidal intent.
By doing so, she bought valuable time for Israel. It could inflict massive destruction on Gaza, without facing any serious international pressure to stop.
Business as usual
While von der Leyen has subsequently voiced unease about some images from Gaza – notably images of people being massacred as they wait for food aid – she and officials working for her have generally adopted a business as usual approach toward Israel while it continues carrying out a genocide.
Through a freedom of information request, I recently obtained an internal paper on trade with Israel prepared by the European Commission, the institution which von der Leyen heads.
Stating that Israel is the EU’s largest trading partner, it gives every impression that the Brussels bureaucracy is striving to maintain extremely close economic ties with Israel.
The document (see below) is dated 15 February – more than two weeks after the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to halt its genocide in Gaza. The document does not mention the court’s order.
That is despite how the EU’s entire relationship with Israel is nominally based on the respect of human rights.
Scientific research is another priority area in cooperation between the EU and Israel.
Against the backdrop of the genocide in Gaza, von der Leyen’s European Commission has approved a huge number of new research grants for Israel over the past six months. The weapons maker Israel Aerospace Industries – which has boasted of playing a “pivotal role” in the war against Gaza – is among the recipients.
Before becoming president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen held several posts in the German government.
She was part of the government in Berlin when Angela Merkel, then the chancellor, declared in 2008 that Germany’s very existence (or Staaträson) was tied to Israel’s security.
Approximately 30 percent of all arms imported by Israel over the past decade have come from Germany. That makes Germany second only to the US as the top external supplier of weapons to Israel.
The EU theoretically forbids the sale of weapons if there is a clear risk they will be used for violating international law.
Although Israel abuses international law routinely, von der Leyen has no apparent problem with how it does so with the help of weapons from her beloved Germany.
When von der Leyen sided so decisively with Israel in October, she made the EU’s embrace of Israel tighter than it had ever been before. She conveyed the impression that there is now no difference between the German position toward Israel and that of the EU collectively.
Her enabling of genocide is despicable.
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Children who through rote repetition know the Siddur by heart … know nothing at all. Failure to address the subject of the Siddur as the codification of זימן גרמא מצוות = pie in the sky, pie in your eye, nonsense/narishkeit. Why did the Israel say מעשה בראשית as their portion of Avodat HaShem when the Cohonim dedicated a sworn oath korban upon the altar? The repetition of מעשה בראשית a kabbalah סוד for the dedication of tohor time-oriented commandments which require as an absolute bear minimum — k’vanna.
The Kabbalistic term “Shekinah”, a סוד reference to זימן גרמא מצוות which require k’vanna ie blowing tohor spirits which reside within our Yatzir within our heart, as the eternal definition of “avodat HaShem” – meaning doing mitzvot לשמה.The חמץ משל teaches the prophetic mussar נמשל – remove assimilation and intermarriage with Goyim from among all Jewish communities. Herein defines the k’vanna of the 42 letter Divine Name and the purpose for counting the Omer which joins Pesach with its zivug partner Shevuoth. Clearly no person can accept the Torah revelation at Sinai while clinging to avoda zarah within his/her hearts.
What is the purpose of Mezuzah and Tefillin? Why are they important? The role of women in the Torah. Observance of time oriented tohor commandments a רשות for women. Compare rabbi Yehoshua’s opinion of תפילת ערבית. He argues that this third tefillah – a רשות. What defines רשות? The dedication of defined tohor middot holy to HaShem לשמה. Women in the T’NaCH, they define רשות expressed through the stories of D’vorah going to war against Sisera and HaDassah pleading mercy for her people before the king. Both cases represent a רשות.
Signs of the brit. Mezuzah the brit of קידושין by which a man “cuts” a brit alliance with his wife through swearing an oath in front of 10 Jews. The oath of קידושין concerns the obligations: children, and education of these children, raised to understand the oath brit faith. Tefillin, like a Sefer Torah, in that a person sits and swears the oaths sworn by the Three Avot. The two boxes of tefillin validate the oaths sworn at Gilgal and Sh’Cem, in the days of Yehoshua the prophet. The מאי נפקא מינה between the Orders of Rashi and Rabeinu Tam tefilln, remembers the oath sworn by Israel at Gilgal, as opposed to the oath sworn by Israel at Sh’Cem.
To do mitzvot regardless their origins straight from the Torah or straight from the rabbis, a רשות to do this or that mitzva with k’vanna. The k’vanna of dedicating defined tohor middot לשמה. Doing mitzvot לשמה, such a dedication of k’vanna, transforms mitzvot whether דאורייתא או דרבנן unto טהור זימן גרמא מצוות דאורייתא. To dedicate mitzvot לשמה, a רשות which learns from the obligation of קום ועושה ושב ולא תעשה מצוות neither of which requires k’vanna. Therefore the רשות מצוה of dedicating defined tohor middot לשמה, elevates any and all mitzvot דאורייתא או דרבנן to mitzvot דאורייתא.
Muslims- If I admit to the flaws and racism in Zionism, will you admit to the flaws of honor killings and misogyny?Moshe KerrZionism – Israeli nationalism. Humanity has its flaws and racism. Islam just flat out avoda zarah -worship of other Gods.
Eric Nissani
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Idolatry? I’m not a Muslim but I guess they could return the judgement back to you since most despise Zionism and Zionists.I don’t despise zionism ( most of my family is Jewish) however i recognize that israeli nationalism has problems. Although Israelis and Israel have the right to exist. What I disagree with is the jewish law of return to haaretz- prejudiced and outdated. I also disagree with the occupations that started in 1967 and I disagree with people who claim it is Jewish land first. It is Jewish and Christian and Muslim land. All deserve it equally.
Moshe Kerr
Idolatry a Xtian mistranslation (bad translation) for avoda zarah. The 2nd Sinai commandments which both Xtian and Islamic faiths rape … Monotheism explicitly violates the commandment against the worship of other Gods. Pesach approaches, the spilling of the 10 drops of wine a משל to the plagues. The נמשל of the plagues??? The Gods worshipped by Par’o and Egypt.
The avoda zarah of Monotheism in its multiple facets: (Let’s Make a Deal) Curtain #1 Xtianity with its Trinity mystery. Curtain #2 Islam with its strict Monotheism of Allah. Curtain #3 Hinduism with its multiple and or multitude of Gods. All three options – avoda zarah Av Tumah death.
The 30-year war which culminated in 1648, the same year as the Cossack pogroms in the Ukraine and Poland Catholics slaughtered Goyim & Jews living in Germany (cause they were there) because they called the cruxifics of JeZeus on the cross – an idol. And Germans slaughtered Goyim & Jews (cause they were there) in France, Spain and Italy because they adored “idols” of JeZeus on the cross and statues.
The Torah defines the 2nd Sinai commandment as: A)) assimilation to the cultures and customs of Goyim (Like as did the Jews living in Spain during the ‘Golden Age’.) B)) intermarriage with Goyim who never accept to this day the Revelation of the Torah at Sinai. [Neither the Xtian bible abomination nor the Muslim koran abomination brings the שם השם. Translating the רוח הקודש שם השם to words, duplicates the sin of the Golden Calf!
The so called 10 commandments, the Torah speaks in the language of Man. After the 2nd Commandment Israel (They ignored the warning of Moshe and had sex with their wives prior to the revelation of the Torah at Sinai. Hence they feared they would die.) demanded that Moshe rise up and receive the rest of the Torah! So why the 10 commandments in the 2nd and 5th Books of the Torah?
Torah Law – Common Law. The Hebrew for Common Law: משנה תורה, the name for the 5th Book of the Book of דברים! Common Law stands upon a case comparison study of precedents. The Hebrew for precedents: בנין אב. A key set of middot in the 13 middot of Rabbi Yishmael’s logic. (After reading the korbanot in the Siddur you will see rabbi Yishmael’s 13 middot which include two references to בנין אב.) The Rambam code did not know the kabbalah of Rabbi Akiva’s פרדס. This logic system affixes to the loom of the Talmudic fabric – the warp/weft threads of halacha and aggada which intrinsically relies upon the 13 middot rules of rabbi Yishmael’s logic system/format.
The Torah defines prophesy as mussar commanded by prophets. Tumah witchcraft predicts the future. Tohor prophetic mussar applies straight across the board to all generations of Israel. Prophets command mussar they do not predict the future as the gospel roman counterfeit declares.
The koran avoda zarah, Muhammad wrote prophet about every 7th word! Yet that book of avoda zarah failed to know how the Torah defines “Prophet”.
The mesechta of בבא קמא refers to religious rhetoric as a mountain hanging by a hair. Specifically, all the Torah commandments דאורייתא ודרבנן they all hang upon the first two opening commandments of Sinai which Israel accepted and thereafter demanded that Moshe rise up the Mount and receive the rest of the Torah. (עיין הבה’’ג, in his intro to the Torah commandments he includes 100 blessings, tefillah, ner shabbat, ner Channukka, Megilat Esther etc as mitzvot from the Torah! The Rambam condemned the B’hag in his introduction to his Sefer Ha’Mitzvot!
This latter רשע failed to grasp that doing טהור זימן גרמא מצוות elevates not only קום ועושה ושב ולא תעשה commandments but all the halachot within the Talmud unto זימן גרמא מצוות דאורייתא!
Assimilated Rambam did not understand the kabbalah of Rabbi Akiva’s פרדס. Hence he organized and prioritized his codification of the halachot learned from the Talmud based upon the logic of Aristotle as explained by the Arab scholars of Aristotle’s’ logic. His perversion of Talmudic common law unto Roman statute law caused a Jewish Civil War that destroys our g’lut refugee populations across Europe and Russia to this very day!
This Torah curse known in Hebrew: ירידות הדורות. The English equivalent – “domino effect”. An idea opposite and contradictory to the Xtian dogma of “Free Will”.Publication of the Rambam avoda zarah statute halachic code 1185. That רשע died in 1205. About 10 years later the Court of Rabbeinu Yonah condemned that רשע, placed him in נידוי, and burned his statute law perversion of T’NaCH and Talmudic common law. (The T’NaCH rabbi Akiva’s פרדס explanation of the Oral Torah revealed at Horev/Sinai equally interprets T’NaCH common law through aggada sources and Midrashic sources, as it does Talmudic halacha common law/משנה תורה.)
The arrogance of the Rambam, that fool did not know that משנה תורה means “Common Law”!The flames of Jewish Civil War ie the burning of the books of Rambam in Spain in about 1230, spread to Paris France in 1242; the Goyim king of France and poop Pope burned all the hand written manuscripts of the Talmud (the printing press not invented for some 200 years into the future). In year 1290 culminated that king’s “taxation without representation” of all Jewish refugees in England. Having robbed “his” Jews of all income and wealth, the king expelled the Jewish paupers to other countries. In 1306 the king of France likewise did the same. The expulsion of the Jews of France destroyed the Rashi/Tosafot common law commentary/school which studied the Talmud as common law.
The Rambam perversion won the Civil War and prevailed over the נידוי of Rabeinu Yonah’s court. In contrast to the victory of Yechuda Maccabee over the assimilated Tzeddukim who sought to “convert” Jerusalem unto a Greek polis/city state; remembered and celebrated by the mitzva of lighting the lights of Hannukah.
Other than the Rosh common law commentary on the Talmud halachot, written after publication of the Rambam’s statute law perversion, starting with his son – who wrote the Tur, all Reshonim and Acharonim scholars learn the T’NaCH and Talmud unto this very day as assimilated Roman Statute Law. In effect Orthodox rabbinic Judaism blows out the candles of Hannukka ever year.
The Germanic kingdoms copy-cat of Taxation without Representation likewise pauperized the Jewish refugee populations scattered across all the kingdoms of Germany. German kingdoms one after another then expel the Jewish refugees from their lands. 1492 all the Jews of Spain and Portugal expelled. In 1516 the poop Pope decreed the 3 Century ghetto war-crime! A huge population transfer immediately followed. Jews fled the oppression of Western Europe to the Ukraine and Poland lands. In 1648 the Cossack revolts slaughtered some 1.5 million Jews!
Civil War, the Bain-curse of avoda zarah, imposed upon the kingdom of David following the murder of the husband of Bat Sheva by the command of the king. The first rule of Jewish governance of the lands of Israel: to prevent the outbreak of Civil War among our divided people.Common law has two basic rules which assimilated Statute law rapes and murders like as did Hamas on Oct 7th 2023.
1) Never divorce a Gemarah (its halachot) from its Home Mishna. Gemara common law makes a Case/Rule study of precedents by which to interpret the intent/k’vanna of the language of its Home Mishna.
2) Never divorce the Aggadic portions learned to the Home Mishna from its Halachic precedent Primary Sources to interpret the k’vanna of Mishnaic intent.
Eric Nissani
Interesting. You are definitely a scholar of Judaism. I posted the question originally to Muslims, as I wish to find common ground of fault within both peoples. Jews are too dominant in Israel, and Muslims are too antagonistic. But I got mixed results in that people who hate Zionism (Muslims and leftists) will continue to do so, and people who support it are usually unwavering.
Moshe Kerr
Israel: the Jewish state. For what purpose does commandments, mitzvot, & halachot serve? The opening first two commandments define the whole of the Torah. A)) Faith defined as: Following the judicial common law pursuit of justice among our People לשמה. B)) Rejecting the cultures, customs, mannerisms and ways of all Goyim in all generations who reject the revelation of the Torah at Sinai; who establish culture, customs, ways, and mannerism which have nothing to do with the revelation of the Torah at Sinai.
What defines the plague/Torah curse\ of antisemitism? Jewish worship of avoda zarah; the 2nd Sinai commandment. The Golden Calf serves as the classic definition from the Torah of avoda zarah. Ignorant child like reading/translating of the prophetic mussar, which the Torah commands throughout the generations “interprets” the Aggada story of the “Golden Calf”, based upon the Oral Torah revelation taught through the kabbalah of rabbi Akiva’s פרדס logic format. This logic system stands apart from Plato and Aristotle and Hegel’s logic formats as accepting the Torah at Sinai,,, from not accepting the Torah at Sinai; bi-polar opposites, Yes-No.
The Torah speaks in the language of Man. The metaphor of avoda zarah told through the aggada of the sin of the Golden Calf. This דרוש (comparison of Case/Law to similar but other Case/Law) known as בנין אב in Hebrew and understood in English as “precedents” which establish “Common law” judicial rulings, with the aim and purpose to resolve Jewish disputes of damages inflicted upon our people by our people.
Goyim, people/nations which do not establish law through judicial courtroom rulings but rather through statute law – Legislative and/or Executive decrees. Goyim do not accept the revelation of the Torah at Sinai; not in the days of Moshe Rabbeinu and not today. Worlds of separation and distance distinguish living under the rule of our own Jewish people from living under the tyranny of Goyim who govern Jews as stateless refugee/dhimmi populations which have no rights.
The Political Zionism of Hertzl stands on the foundations of the antisemitic Alfred Dreyfus Affair of corrupt judicial injustice by vertical French “star courts” (The British infamous “star courts” validated British impressment of American sailors on the High Seas/international waters). [The difference between lateral courtrooms from vertical courtrooms: the State pays the salary/a bribe\ to the Judges and Prosecuting Attorney; lateral courtrooms the State does not pay the salary, not of any Judge of the Courts]. And the Russian pogroms which made a forced population transfer of millions of Jews from the Pale of Russia to the Golden Medina of the United States in the early years of the 20th Century. The defining transformation of that Jewish refugee “assimilation” (Golden Calf), these Russian Jews became English speaking Americans within a generation! Contrast the dhimmi 1948, & ’67 Arab refugee populations which according to the corrupt UN remain as stateless refugees to this very day.
Jewish worship of the Golden Calf דרוש resulted in a Torah curse. A generation following WWI Adolf Hitler and the Nazis came to power. The English imposed the White Paper in 1939, which made it illegal for Jews to flee to the Palestine Mandated territories — the opposite of the Balfour Declaration Promise made in 1917. And FDR closed the borders of America, which likewise sealed the fate of 75% of European Jewry slaughtered in less than 3 years.
The question why did the Allies refuse, a conscious Government decision made by the Allied Governments, to not bomb the rail lines leading to the Death Camps??? By 1942 both Washington, London and Rome knew of the Nazi policy: to exterminate the Jewish people.
Viewed from the perspective of the Torah: the answer to this question simple. Jewish worship of the דרוש Golden Calf! A concrete precedent of the Golden Calf; neither the Xtian Bible nor the Muslim Koran ever once brings the שם השם revealed in the First Sinai commandment. (The Greatest commandment of the Torah. The “Mountain hanging by a hair” which explains this metaphor employed in mesechta בבא קמא.)
The aggada story of the Golden Calf, Israel declared: “these Gods brought Israel up out of Egyptian bondage.”How does this clause explain avodah zarah for all generations of Man-Kind upon this Earth? אלו אלהים/these Gods\, translate the שם השם a רוח הקודש (translated into English, as Divine Presence Spirit) unto words which the lips of Man can easily frame and pronounce.
The translation of the 1st Sinai commandment Name: perverts/corrupts\defiles/rapes\humiliates/amputates etc the רוח הקודש שם השם like as does the Xtian Nicene Creed which transforms “Holy Spirit” into the Trinity God-Head. Never once do the Goyim (as expressed through the Universal God religions of Xtianity and Islam) bring within the pages of their bible and koran abominations of avoda zarah the שם השם Name revealed in the 1st Sinai commandment. Hence these theological belief systems which dictate belief in some Universal God of monotheism, ipso-facto worship other Gods — the 2nd Sinai commandment.
The Torah refers to antisemitism through the eternal דרוש commandment “remember Amalek”. The NaCH story of Purim, tells the story of Amalek. Antisemitism roars like a hungry lion whenever the Jewish people worship the Golden Calf — we assimilate and embrace the cultures, customs, manners and ways practiced by the Goyim who reject the revelation of the Torah at Sinai.
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Remember how the so-called Jews, as a tribe, couldn’t integrate with anyone else so always got kicked out of countries over and over?
Well, where do you think they’re at in the historical cycle right now?
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How likely is it that ziocolony Israel can continue to exist in its current format, given its inability to coexist peacefully, to accommodate Palestinians equitably and unrestrained land-thievery and genocidal ziopathy – which collectively are draining the US (itself teetering on bankruptcy and credibility shredded) hence isn’t it hastening its own demise?
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The economy has tanked plus the neighbours are fed up to an unprecedented level and, in particular, the Iranians, the descendants of the Persian Empire, have reasserted their natural dominance after their patience snapped at your bombing their consulate in Damascus, so I estimate 2 years maximum, do you agree and where will they go next?
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What do you think?
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Jack off has no shame. He has a tiny wiener and still parades around as a dumb-ass nudist.
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2 years – if that, right?
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