NEWS DIGEST: Palestinians to Sue Israel for War Crimes
Maisoon ميسون
Silence, they say, is the voice of complicity. But silence is impossible. Silence screams. Silence is a message, just as doing nothing is an act. Let who you are ring out & resonate in every word & every deed. Yes, become who you are. There's no sidestepping your own being or your own responsibility. What you do is who you are. You are your own comeuppance. You become your own message. You are the message. In the Spirit of Crazy Horse" - Leonard Peletier
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Justice sadly is not a word the ICC understands or holds true to when it comes to Palestinians due to the Zionist nature of the ICC itself, led by an avowed Masonic Zionist [Jew] Ocampo whose appointment to the position of Chief Prosecutor was very questionable] going after Israel is a NO NO - they much prefer African leaders etc., not precious little Israel!. I can also envisage a long line of Jewish Judges in Court as the Judges for the war Crimes against Israel. Hamas of course would be found guilty doe again to the ZIONIST NATURE of the ICC [just like the UN]
Palestine to Sue Israel for War Crimes, Gaza Massacre: -
The Palestinian Authority is going to sue Israel at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for its war crimes against Palestinian civilians in its nearly one-month terror campaign on the Gaza Strip.
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most of these Signatories appear to be Jewish which means they will control the legal proceedings. Plus Hamas should not be accused of any war crimes at all- it does not have an army, navy, Air force and it is part of the besieged civilian population of Gaza who they were defending with all the meagre means at their disposal. To take action against them is nonsensical. And just as nonsensical is Netanyahu seeking USA's help for any War Crimes accusations levelled at Israel when the USA itself is in fact COMPLICIT, having supplied the Weaponry, the cash to assist Israel.
Windowintopalestine.blogspot.co.uk
Posted: 06 Aug 2014 10:54 AM PDT
(Meanwhile, I suspect the PA is waiting for a clearance from the US/Israel to apply for membership of the ICC! In disgust, Sami]
By Owen Bowcott, The Guardian Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Senior British lawyers have written to the international criminal court (ICC) in The Hague, urging it to investigate “crimes” committed in Gaza, including the destruction of homes, hospitals and schools.
The letter was sent by Kirsty Brimelow QC, the chair of the Bar Council’s human rights committee, and was signed by a host of senior British barristers and law professors. Addressed to the ICC prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, it calls on the court to launch a preliminary inquiry into abuses committed during the conflict.
“The initiation of an investigation would send a clear and unequivocal message to those involved in the commission of these crimes that the accountability and justice called for by the United Nations on the part of victims are not hollow watchwords,” the letter states. “It would bring about an end to the impunity which has prevailed in the region to date, fuelling ever increasingly brutal cycles of violence.
The international community cannot continue to act simply as witness to such bloodshed and extreme civilian suffering.”
The lawyers say that it is within the ICC’s jurisdiction to act because the government of Palestine made a declaration in 2009 accepting the court’s role and the UN has since acknowledged Palestine as a non-member observer state.
The request is “in response to the extreme gravity of the situation in the Gaza Strip, including spiralling civilian deaths and large scale destruction of homes, hospitals and schools”, the letter says.
It refers both to attacks by Israeli forces and the firing of rockets into Israel by Palestinian militants.
“United Nations reports record that an estimated 23,304 air-to-surface missiles, tank shells and naval shells have been fired by Israel at the Gaza Strip since Israel launched its latest military assault on the territory on 7 July 2014,” the letter says. “During the same period, 3,008 rockets have been fired by Palestinian armed groups at Israel, according to Israeli military sources, in addition to over 886 mortars, reported by the United Nations.
“The fatalities include entire families killed in their homes, patients killed in their hospital beds, doctors, paramedics, United Nations humanitarian workers and members of the press … Reports produced by non-governmental organisations following preliminary investigations strongly suggest that crimes within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court have been and are being committed.”
Among the many other signatories are Baroness Helena Kennedy QC; Sir Geoffrey Bindman QC; Roy Amlot QC, the former chair of the Bar Council of England and Wales; Professor Bill Bowring of Birkbeck College; Edward Fitzgerald QC and Philippa Kaufman QC. http://windowintopalestine.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/british-lawyers-urge-international.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+blogspot/LkRU+(Window+Into+Palestine)#sthash.d1dXOSiv.dpuf
Gaza: There can be no peace without justice. Former NDP MP Jim Manly makes the case for boycott and sanctions against Israel
Posted: 06 Aug 2014 06:03 PM PDT
After weeks of the Israeli assault on Gaza, people in Canada and around the world have been shocked into a state of awareness. They have seen images of mutilated children, a father carrying parts of his son’s body in a plastic bag, whole neighbourhoods reduced to rubble and hospitals and schools used as UN refugee centres being bombed.
Protests against this war are a global phenomenon. In the UK, a government minister has even resigned to protest British complicity and called for a ban on weapons exports to Israel. The world is crying out: This carnage must stop. Everyone is holding their breath now, in the midst of a 72-hour ceasefire.
Many people also find it deeply distressing that in spite of the slaughter and mayhem, most people in Gaza support the Hamas position that there can be no permanent ceasefire until Israel ends its blockade; they are upset to learn that support for Hamas is growing, rather than diminishing, as the death toll mounts. Hamas has been consistently dismissed by Western leaders as nothing but a terrorist organization. These leaders and their followers should consider the claim of Jimmy Carter, former US president, and Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland and United Nations high commissioner for human rights, that they should recognize the legitimacy of Hamas “as a political actor—one that represents a substantial portion of the Palestinian people.”
The conscience of the world would be greatly eased by a truce, any kind of somewhat permanent truce, so that people could forget this tragic business and move on. However, Palestinians in Gaza say, in a voice of quiet desperation, We cannot agree to any ceasefire that abandons us to the slow but sure strangulation of the blockade. There can be no ceasefire and no peace until the blockade is lifted.
In other words, there can be no peace without justice.
Making Gaza unlivableThe Palestinians realize that the eight-year blockade of Gaza and the present military assault are simply different aspects of the same struggle, as were the military offensives of 2008-09 and 2012. Netanyahu and his government also know this, even if many people in Israel don’t know or don’t care. Netanyahu is probably just as happy to keep his people in ignorance, and he would like nothing more than for the rest of u s to remain unaware as well…………..’
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Posted: 06 Aug 2014 10:57 AM PDT
By Glenn Greenwald at The Intercept
The U.S. government has long lavished overwhelming aid on Israel, providing cash, weapons and surveillance technology that play a crucial role in Israel’s attacks on its neighbors. But top secret documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden...
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Posted: 06 Aug 2014 10:43 AM PDT
– Israeli forces in the southern Gaza town of Khuza’a fired on and killed civilians in apparent violation of the laws of war in several incidents between July 23 and 25, 2014. Deliberate attacks on civilians who are not participating in the fighting are war crimes. Gaza: Israeli Soldiers...
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Posted: 06 Aug 2014 10:32 AM PDT
... If you listened to some leaders, you'd think Gaza & the rest of Palestine (what's left) was occupying Israel! As I write this, I am hoping the temporary truce between Hamas and Israel will become permanent, but I know that either way, our work is just beginning. The first delivery of our...
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Posted: 06 Aug 2014 08:17 AM PDT
By Scott Jaschik
Many faculty job offers (which are well-vetted by college officials before they go out) contain language stating that the offer is pending approval by the institution's board of trustees. It's just a formality, since many college bylaws require such approval. Not so with a job offer...
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Gaza conflict: 360-degree panorama of flattened town of Khuza'a, Gaza:
A special 360 camera captures the impact Israeli air strikes and tanks on Khuza'a, Gaza ahead of Tuesday's 72-hour ceasefire
The Tyrannical State of Israel should be Vanquished from the pages of history
Like many Americans, I was indoctrinated from childhood through my religious faith to believe that Israel had the right to exist, and that any threat to the Jewish nation deserved the United States full protection from all existential harm.
After 40 years, I am no longer a slave to that illusion.
Over and above the valid, historical reasons why Israel never had the right to exist – period, which I will address later; I want to focus on this tyrannical state’s recent atrocities still ongoing in Gaza.
Since becoming aware of the true state of the world after 9/11 and Israel’s involvement with the complicity of the U.S. government that murdered nearly 3000 American Gentiles, I have dedicated hundreds of hours of my personal life to understanding the reasons behind the USI/Israeli Coalition that is causing major chaos around the world on a continual basis.
As with most tragic events that now occur worldwide inevitably we learn that the horrors produced are based on lies, subterfuge and obfuscation of the truth mostly from the mainstream media, that are irrevocably joined at the hip to AIPAC, which protects the interests of dual Jewish Americans and their Gentile lackeys, which also includes every politician in the District of Columbia.
But thanks to scores of websites based in the middle east the truth about Israel’s blatant, evil brutality against the indigenous Palestinian people was provided a massive spotlight, which has illuminated just how grotesque and psychotic the Israeli government acts towards their fellow countrymen.
It wasn’t until the 2006 Lebanon War with Israel that I began to comprehend in-depth how the Jewish Knesset and acting Prime Minister operate in the most egregious manner, that most civilized people would term “barbaric.”
Growing up during the Vietnam era in America I witnessed the ravages of war on that tiny nation, and watched nightly as our soldiers were being ripped to shreds in the jungles, but nothing I saw as a child prepared me for what was to come in Lebanon in 2006 at the hands of the Jewish Israeli Defense Forces, or for the images of burned, maimed and dead little children lying in the dirt, some of them beheaded.
The atrocities that Israel inflicts upon its perceived enemies is beyond comprehension. It is evidently obvious that they desire nothing more than to dispense as much pain and suffering upon neighboring non-Jews as is humanly possible, and the more the better.
But what is far worse than the human casualties are the reasons that Israel commits these heinous acts to begin with. From what I have gathered over the years these little wars lasting a few days or even a few months are predicated on nothing but lies and subterfuge out of the mouths of Israeli warmongers one of the biggest being the utterly wretched Benjamin Netanyahu. He is a fawning narcissist and a raging sociopath who has no empathy or respect for non-Jewish life.
How can Israel be threatened by a civilian population that they cordoned off from the world as in Gaza? That tiny piece of land on the Israeli coast houses or did house 1.8 million people. For nearly a decade Israel has blockaded and sanctioned Gaza to the point of extinction that it’s a wonder there are any living people there at all.
Regarding Hamas, it is the only democratically elected government in Gaza at present, but according to Haaretz, ” Israel must on no account recognize the Hamas government because Hamas is a terror organization, which does not recognize the Jewish democratic state. This is complete – and fatal – nonsense. Hamas really is this and that, but it is the only government in Gaza. We tried to bring it down and as a result it grew stronger. Moreover, secret WikiLeaks documents recently published reveal that a senior Israeli defense official told an American diplomat Israel is interested in maintaining Hamas’ rule in Gaza in the short term, because any alternative reign would be worse.” That was in 2011.
According to Ed Morrissey in another 2011 article;
After 40 years, I am no longer a slave to that illusion.
Over and above the valid, historical reasons why Israel never had the right to exist – period, which I will address later; I want to focus on this tyrannical state’s recent atrocities still ongoing in Gaza.
Since becoming aware of the true state of the world after 9/11 and Israel’s involvement with the complicity of the U.S. government that murdered nearly 3000 American Gentiles, I have dedicated hundreds of hours of my personal life to understanding the reasons behind the USI/Israeli Coalition that is causing major chaos around the world on a continual basis.
As with most tragic events that now occur worldwide inevitably we learn that the horrors produced are based on lies, subterfuge and obfuscation of the truth mostly from the mainstream media, that are irrevocably joined at the hip to AIPAC, which protects the interests of dual Jewish Americans and their Gentile lackeys, which also includes every politician in the District of Columbia.
But thanks to scores of websites based in the middle east the truth about Israel’s blatant, evil brutality against the indigenous Palestinian people was provided a massive spotlight, which has illuminated just how grotesque and psychotic the Israeli government acts towards their fellow countrymen.
It wasn’t until the 2006 Lebanon War with Israel that I began to comprehend in-depth how the Jewish Knesset and acting Prime Minister operate in the most egregious manner, that most civilized people would term “barbaric.”
Growing up during the Vietnam era in America I witnessed the ravages of war on that tiny nation, and watched nightly as our soldiers were being ripped to shreds in the jungles, but nothing I saw as a child prepared me for what was to come in Lebanon in 2006 at the hands of the Jewish Israeli Defense Forces, or for the images of burned, maimed and dead little children lying in the dirt, some of them beheaded.
The atrocities that Israel inflicts upon its perceived enemies is beyond comprehension. It is evidently obvious that they desire nothing more than to dispense as much pain and suffering upon neighboring non-Jews as is humanly possible, and the more the better.
But what is far worse than the human casualties are the reasons that Israel commits these heinous acts to begin with. From what I have gathered over the years these little wars lasting a few days or even a few months are predicated on nothing but lies and subterfuge out of the mouths of Israeli warmongers one of the biggest being the utterly wretched Benjamin Netanyahu. He is a fawning narcissist and a raging sociopath who has no empathy or respect for non-Jewish life.
How can Israel be threatened by a civilian population that they cordoned off from the world as in Gaza? That tiny piece of land on the Israeli coast houses or did house 1.8 million people. For nearly a decade Israel has blockaded and sanctioned Gaza to the point of extinction that it’s a wonder there are any living people there at all.
Regarding Hamas, it is the only democratically elected government in Gaza at present, but according to Haaretz, ” Israel must on no account recognize the Hamas government because Hamas is a terror organization, which does not recognize the Jewish democratic state. This is complete – and fatal – nonsense. Hamas really is this and that, but it is the only government in Gaza. We tried to bring it down and as a result it grew stronger. Moreover, secret WikiLeaks documents recently published reveal that a senior Israeli defense official told an American diplomat Israel is interested in maintaining Hamas’ rule in Gaza in the short term, because any alternative reign would be worse.” That was in 2011.
According to Ed Morrissey in another 2011 article;
Hamas developed from a network of Muslim Brotherhood charities in Gaza in the mid-1980s. The Muslim Brotherhood was one of the most notorious of anti-Israeli organizations in the region, formed in the 1920s in opposition to the collapse of the Caliphate and the British Mandate that followed. At the founding of Hamas, it called for “jihad” to seize Israel and create an Islamist state from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. They formed in direct opposition to the PLO (now called Fatah in the Palestinian Authority government), to some extent because Yasser Arafat was negotiating with Israel, albeit in bad faith while trying to drum up financial and political support in the West. Hamas gets its funding from Iran, hardly a disinterested third party in this conflict — and the main engine of radicalizing Muslims, eclipsing the Muslim Brotherhood ever since the Iranian revolution of 1979.
However, not all Palestinians living in Gaza are Muslim or even radical in nature. Most are just people, like you or I, trying to live in a fragile state of peace within a tyrannical regime that desires their utter annihilation from the land Israelis believe is theirs based on yet more invented lies and deceit.
From the mouths of other Israeli Jews in the past few years we learned that Jews were an invented tribe/nation which hailed from the steppes of Russia in a land named Khazaria. They were considered Indo-Turkic and this is where the Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews came from. They have no relation to the ancient Hebrew Israelites or the lost 10 tribes of Israel. And now DNA tests performed in the past few years further confirm these facts, however, devout Jews have turned away from the science refusing to believe the results of the biological evidence flowing in thier veins.
The Palestinians have suffered under the yoke of a 66 year lie perpetrated upon them and their indigenous homeland by a greedy, ruthless, bloodthirsty tribe and their bribed allies that wanted the riches and resources for the taking, not to mention, a place where the Jews could murder, rape, and pillage with impunity all with the blessings from the United States and Great Britain that were part of the conspiracy.
I’m not going to discuss the holocaust myth in this article, but if any nation ever deserved reparations from an enemy within their borders – it is Palestine. However, until the world accepts the truth about the apartheid, tyrannical state of Israel, the poor Palestinians have little hope of ever regaining a foothold over their homeland, which is why Israel needs to be vanquished from the pages of history.
I never thought I would witness or even know of a true tyrant in my own time, but they still walk among us and are still just as evil as any that walked the earth before them. But instead of one, we walk with a horde of tyrants on this planet.
Israel has crossed one too many lines because they just could not leave the Palestinian people alone as it was their mission from before the formation of the Israeli state to ethnically cleanse the region no matter how long it took.
But tell me this; how can this little child be a threat?
Be forewarned – very graphic -
From the mouths of other Israeli Jews in the past few years we learned that Jews were an invented tribe/nation which hailed from the steppes of Russia in a land named Khazaria. They were considered Indo-Turkic and this is where the Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews came from. They have no relation to the ancient Hebrew Israelites or the lost 10 tribes of Israel. And now DNA tests performed in the past few years further confirm these facts, however, devout Jews have turned away from the science refusing to believe the results of the biological evidence flowing in thier veins.
The Palestinians have suffered under the yoke of a 66 year lie perpetrated upon them and their indigenous homeland by a greedy, ruthless, bloodthirsty tribe and their bribed allies that wanted the riches and resources for the taking, not to mention, a place where the Jews could murder, rape, and pillage with impunity all with the blessings from the United States and Great Britain that were part of the conspiracy.
I’m not going to discuss the holocaust myth in this article, but if any nation ever deserved reparations from an enemy within their borders – it is Palestine. However, until the world accepts the truth about the apartheid, tyrannical state of Israel, the poor Palestinians have little hope of ever regaining a foothold over their homeland, which is why Israel needs to be vanquished from the pages of history.
I never thought I would witness or even know of a true tyrant in my own time, but they still walk among us and are still just as evil as any that walked the earth before them. But instead of one, we walk with a horde of tyrants on this planet.
Israel has crossed one too many lines because they just could not leave the Palestinian people alone as it was their mission from before the formation of the Israeli state to ethnically cleanse the region no matter how long it took.
But tell me this; how can this little child be a threat?
Be forewarned – very graphic -
To even look at these horribly graphic images takes a bit of one’s soul each time, but I had to endure images of this nature to understand and fully comprehend that any nation that perpetrates this type of human atrocity on a defenseless population, especially children, with no standing army and no weapons to defend themselves must be put down and ended at any cost.
Whatever AIPAC and the paedophiles in the Israeli Knesset are paying the criminal paedophiles in the District of Columbia isn’t worth the life of this one poor disemboweled child. And there are many, many more images of Palestinian children under the age of two-years old terminally wounded, suffering, and dying.
Northerntruthseeker and I believe the actual death toll in Gaza right now to be over 100,000 considering the places of the bombardment and the probable size of the population in these dense areas, yet, the true figures of loss of life will probably never be revealed to the media to save Israel’s little ass.
How would you feel Mr. or Mrs. America if this were your child? Would your feelings about Israel be altered, or, would these non-Christian children provoke any empathy in your soul at all?
The only way I would ever alter my opinion about Israel at this point is if they decided to dispense with their hatred and inhumanity toward all non-Jews and their apartheid treatment of the Palestinians allowing for the right of return, and finally making the conscious decision to join the human family and be part of this extraordinary world.
But like the Israelis thought the Palestinians would finally give up and concede to their demands, my wish is but a pipe dream.
One way or another Israel is coming down, it will fall and be over, and I truly believe I will witness the event in my own lifetime. It’s obvious – the world has had enough of Israel’s brutality and slaughter of the innocents.
Karma is coming to Israel and it will pay for its crimes against humanity, as will the United States for aiding and abetting that criminal piece of putrid real-estate.
Whitewraithe~
References:
http://www.kawther.info/wpr/
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/israel-must-recognize-hamas-government-in-gaza-1.355882
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/12/27/paul-hamas-was-encouraged-and-really-started-by-israel/
http://www.texemarrs.com/092013/jews_deny_being_khazars.htm
http://www.khazaria.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Lebanon_War
Whatever AIPAC and the paedophiles in the Israeli Knesset are paying the criminal paedophiles in the District of Columbia isn’t worth the life of this one poor disemboweled child. And there are many, many more images of Palestinian children under the age of two-years old terminally wounded, suffering, and dying.
Northerntruthseeker and I believe the actual death toll in Gaza right now to be over 100,000 considering the places of the bombardment and the probable size of the population in these dense areas, yet, the true figures of loss of life will probably never be revealed to the media to save Israel’s little ass.
How would you feel Mr. or Mrs. America if this were your child? Would your feelings about Israel be altered, or, would these non-Christian children provoke any empathy in your soul at all?
The only way I would ever alter my opinion about Israel at this point is if they decided to dispense with their hatred and inhumanity toward all non-Jews and their apartheid treatment of the Palestinians allowing for the right of return, and finally making the conscious decision to join the human family and be part of this extraordinary world.
But like the Israelis thought the Palestinians would finally give up and concede to their demands, my wish is but a pipe dream.
One way or another Israel is coming down, it will fall and be over, and I truly believe I will witness the event in my own lifetime. It’s obvious – the world has had enough of Israel’s brutality and slaughter of the innocents.
Karma is coming to Israel and it will pay for its crimes against humanity, as will the United States for aiding and abetting that criminal piece of putrid real-estate.
Whitewraithe~
References:
http://www.kawther.info/wpr/
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/israel-must-recognize-hamas-government-in-gaza-1.355882
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/12/27/paul-hamas-was-encouraged-and-really-started-by-israel/
http://www.texemarrs.com/092013/jews_deny_being_khazars.htm
http://www.khazaria.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Lebanon_War
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'Tel Aviv out to turn Gaza into Israeli city'
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Inside Israel's Pro-War Nationalist Camp : Video -
The Real News looks into who are the groups chanting "death to Arabs" throughout Israel and attacking anti-war demonstrators.
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The EU Thursday welcomed all initiatives which would be designed to address the root causes of the Palestine question.
"The status quo ante in Gaza is not an option," Sebastien Brabant, a spokesman for EU High Representatie Catherine Ashton, told a news conference.
He underlined the importance of improving the living conditions of the population in Gaza including by opening the crossing points.
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Obama Signs Funding Package For Israel's Iron Dome:
President Barack Obama signed a bill Monday granting an additional $225 million in U.S. taxpayer dollars for Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system.
President Barack Obama signed a bill Monday granting an additional $225 million in U.S. taxpayer dollars for Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system.
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Israel withdraws troops from Gaza as 72-hour truce begins:
Israel on Tuesday completed the withdrawal of all troops from Gaza as a 72-hour humanitarian truce went into effect following intense global pressure to end the bloody offensive.
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Peace Laureate: Nato must be abolished:
NOBEL Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire has criticsed the EU and called for the abolition of Nato following three weeks of war in Gaza.
NOBEL Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire has criticsed the EU and called for the abolition of Nato following three weeks of war in Gaza.
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Voltaire on the jewish nation:
.... la nation juive ose étaler une haine irréconciliable contre toutes les nations; elle se révolte contre tous ses maîtres. Toujours superstitieuse, toujours avide du bien d’autrui, toujours barbare, rampante dans le malheur, et insolente dans la prospérité.
... the Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for the well-being enjoyed by others, always barbarous — cringing in misfortune and insolent in prosperity.
Essai sur les Moeurs et l'Esprit des Nations (1753), Introduction, XLII: Des Juifs depuis Saül.