Israeli Health Minister Yakov Litzman has been updating a nervous public on the swine flu epidemic – and he started by renaming it for religious reasons.
“We will call it Mexican flu. We won’t call it swine flu,” said Mr Litzman, who belongs to the ultra-religious United Torah Judaism party.
Pigs are considered unclean under Jewish dietary laws. Muslims also do not eat pork for similar reasons.
Israel has yet to confirm a case of the flu which has claimed 100 lives. Read the rest of the article on the BBC website
I myself have been weary about all the talk of the swine flu, I have yet to believe that all this fuss is necessary for the general population or just keeps newspapers with something to write about, and TV stations with fodder to broadcast about. I guess my conspiracy theory side is raging because 100 people died and all of the sudden the NYPD is wearing masks and people are being put in this uncalled for state of fear.
I am discounting those that have died, but it just doesn’t seem like a big deal they are making it. I am excited that the Israelis have renamed the disease, thats funny!!!
over 200000 people die from the common flu every year, that doesnt make national headlines
do you know the average age of these 200000?
It is probably way more than 80
The world is undergoing one of the largest movements towards tyranny it has experienced, worldwide. When that happens, it is essential that the population be kept in a constant state of fear. At the same time, the object of the fear must constantly change. Thus, we are made to fear, in rapid succession, Middle Eastern terrorists, domestic terrorists (right-wing or libertarian), domestic terrorists (left-wing and environmental), pirates, and now flu, which is working better than bird flu last year. I’m expecting that the next fear will be ninjas.
This fear also serves specific purposes – closing the border, allowing FEMA to build camps without people freaking out (as they should), justifying government takeover of healthcare, and allowing for quarantine policies. They are purposely creating a crisis so that they can take advantage of it (remember Rahm Emanuel saying “never waste a crisis.”)
That Litzman is an idiot, when he reads in the Torah where it says “Veis Hachazir” he replaces it with Veis Hamexico”.
This article lead to a hilarious flame thread on FARK last week. I’m pretty sure no one else here comments on FARK, or at least not under the same user ID you use here.
Puzzled,
I think your tin foil kippa needs some adjustment, seems like they got to you.
For the record, I am way ahead of my time: I am in morbid fear of Ninjas already. As in Alert Level: Extreme.
As for the flu, even the pork industry has gotten into the name game. They now want it renamed to Influenza A . Influenza A is a rather generic term for any flu that can turn into a pandemic rather than the plain old flu that doesn’t scare us, which is named Influenza B.
I reckon that people believe they can get Influenza A from eating pork and the pork meat industry has suffered enough with us Jews breeding so well.
I get my info from my daughter, the scientist, so I know it is true. Of course, I also add a bit of flash, as she is a nerd, so my facts may be a bit blown out of proportion.
Not in this case, though.
😉
its kind of like them renaming lady fingers baby fingers.
Every since SARS, the WHO and all the big public health ministries in the West have been geaering up for the next “big crisis”. This flu, for lack of anything serious, is it.
How does they justify their budgets as the memory of SARS fades into the past? By hyping a case of flu that hasn’t killed anyone outside of Mexico (except one girl and she was Mexican) or hospitalized anyone because they were too sick to stay at home.
As for renaming it, the WHO has also called for renaming it Mexican flu because
a) Flus are traditionally named after their country of origin (eg. Spanish flu of 1918)
b) The North American pig producers want to get the heat off their meat.
Chris – is the government not saying that they’re getting quarantine plans in place? Is FEMA not building camps to deal with this “crisis”? Did the Senate not fast-track socialist healthcare? Or is it easier to just call names?
Actually, considering that you don’t get it from pigs, and people who have gotten it have a connection with Mexico, he’s right!
Think about it! And I don’t usually find something positive about chareidim.
Young children (up to age 3) are also at risk, especially toddlers who don’t drink fluids when they feel sick.
Influenza A virus subtype H3N2, also known as the Hong Kong Flu, derives from swine.
So if we are not contracting it through swine directly, but from person to person indirectly. The highest concentrating population, carrying the current strain being Mexican, Central and South American nationals. What is the potential of coming into indirect contact with said nationals? In New York City?
Puzzled,
Read again. No names called, just some chain yanking. If you dont get the joke, just say so, its OK. And as far as your claims, as they say on Wikipedia {citation needed}
When the SARS outbreak hit Toronto in 2003, it was just like it is now: people were freaking out left and right. But just like SARS, I’m sure swine flu will die down soon enough….
The rabbi @ our shul likened swine flu as something physically damaging correlating to something spiritually damaging because of its relation to pigs (even though the flu doesn’t come directly from pigs.)
Puzzled, if you could unwrap your mouth from Limbaugh’s limp little cigar for a moment you’d know…
1) The FEMA Concentration Camps were built by Kellogg, Brown and Root – a Halliburton subsidiary – in secret by your Decider George “Dick Cheney’s Sock Puppet” Bush
2) Our health care system is among the worst in the developed world. It is the most inefficient in terms of money wasted on overhead and profits. It has by far the largest percentage of people uncovered. We are the only modern country where the insured regularly go bankrupt because of catastrophic health care problems.
I think the soundtrack should be the disco song Freakout
When “dayanim” and “rabbis” use the Torah for their own power and commercial profit, this is the behaviour of a swine i.e. a Pig.
No other “rabbi” will ever act against another “rabbi”, even when he knows his colleague is clearly desecrating the Torah. Each rabbi is only worried about the possibility of losing his own position in such a case.
Therefore, the “rabbi” and “dayan” will never effect justice. And he will never stand for the Torah or the Honour of Hashem when pushed. His pocket will always prevail.
The “dayanim” and “rabbis” are constantly desecrating the Torah with impunity, each in his own way. They are therefore equal to Swines And Pigs.
The Torah must never be used for commercial gain and profit. And Am Yisrael can only be lead by those who have the necessary love and respect of Hashem and the Torah.
1. The “dayan” and “rabbi” may use lies. They turn the innocent into the guilty. While they make themselves, the guilty party, look innocent. They will even not hesitate to tell lies in the Synagogue, where the Shechinah resides, the Presence of Hashem.
2. The “dayan” and “rabbi” may steal. They steal and siphon off money for themselves from the community and individuals.
3. The “dayan” and “rabbi” may commit murder. They repeatedly may shame a fellow Jew in public. This is one of the most vile acts of murder in Jewish law – and they know this.
4. The “dayan” and “rabbi” will not hesitate to use Lashon Hara (the “Evil Tongue”) to suit their own ends. Slander and gossip. This too, is one of the worst acts of murder, short of the physical act. Their slander is never challenged by the community, because they hold positions of power. And the slander may begin with the Rebbetzin herself.
5. The “dayanim” and “rabbis” worship idols and other gods. Their only god is Money. What goes into their pockets. This is more pronounced with the Dayanim – the “Judges” who sit on a Beit Din. They only care about their high incomes and retirement packages. They do not care about correct and true justice. And they have little or no love of the Torah or Hashem.
In the case of Chabad, all the Chabad rabbis are carrying out a form of Avodah Zarah – strange worship. They are praying to a man, who was a Tzaddik a”h, and to pictures of him, although he has passed on. This is completely forbidden, and against the Torah. We are only allowed to pray to Hashem, directly ourselves. We do not need anyone to intercede for us. And certainly not by someone who is no longer physically alive in the world.
6. When the Name of Hashem has been Taken in Vain, repeatedly, by reshaim (breach of the 3rd Commandment, for which there is NO forgiveness) – the “rabbi” will turn a deaf ear and blind eye if it suits him.
This is the abhorrent behaviour of a Pig. The “rabbi” will not act to protect the Honour of Hashem or the Torah – because he has no love for either. His only love is for the money in his own pocket, and his position. So the “rabbi” or “dayan” would keep very silent in such a situation.
7. The “dayan” and “rabbi” may also offer large bribes, tell lies and bring False Witnesses – when he in fact has committed the crime. These are heinous acts of the most despicable kind. This is especially vile when the “dayan” is sitting on a “Beit Din,” and is supposedly “carrying out justice”. Yet – he will attempt to completely evade justice and prison for himself.
8. The rabbi may commit adultery. And when he gets divorced, he may spread slander about his own ex-wife, blackening her name – when in fact he was at fault.
9. The “dayan” and “rabbi” may also desecrate Shabbat – if it suits him. He will use physical violence as well, against another Jew or Jewess at any time, if it suits him, which is completely against the Torah.
10. And they have also carried out the evil acts of kidnapping and assault-which are against the Torah they profess to live by-but they do not go to prison. Charges are not brought against them. Why not?
Considering that the USA had a thing against Mexico and the USA had been run by extremist Zionist Jews, which also in Isreal, have had a thing against Mexico, well.. it’s a no brainer why they’d been focusing on bashing Mexico. To me, it should be called the BAXTER FLU. Plain and simple.
Those concentration camps should be destroyed. Have not the people learned from history? 9-11 was the same thing as Reichstag. Then the concentration camps? It is time to awaken and arise.
If flu’s are traditionally named after their country of origin, then should it not be called the Austrian Flu? That’s where the Baxter lab is, that”accidentally” sent it out. So in all fairness, the Austrian Flu would be the correct name, yes?