Posted 6/30/2004 01:53:00 PM

1. Some of Kerry's Best Friends are friendly to Jews:
http://jewishworldreview.com/0604/chafets_2004_06_29.php3

2. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1088486386301&p=1006953079865
Put ISM on trial


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JUDY LASH BALINT Jun. 29, 2004

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A 20-year-old IDF private in handcuffs is led into a military court on a
base near Ashkelon. Some 80 supporters are there to greet him, waving
Israeli flags and carrying signs reading: "Save Our Soldiers" "Free the
Soldier," "Prosecute the ISM" and "No Human Shields in War Zones."

The soldier, son of a poor Beduin family from the north of Israel, is
accused of manslaughter in the death last year of British International
Solidarity Movement member Tom Hurndall.

Hurndall, product of a British public school education, was shot in Rafah
in April 2003. He was making his way to an area where the IDF was
operating to uncover tunnels used to convey arms and ammunition from
Egypt.

IDF officials say that an initial investigation, based on soldiers'
accounts, indicated a Palestinian fired on a watchtower and that soldiers
returned fire, hitting someone believed to be the gunman.

Hurndall deliberately put himself in the area of known military
operations, and took a bullet intended for a terrorist. His supporters say
Hurndall was simply attempting to shield Palestinian children. But the IDF
noted that ISM activities were "illegal, irresponsible, and dangerous" and
led to Hurndall's "tragic death."

Hurndall must have been aware of the risks inherent in his activity in
Rafah. In one diary entry he wrote: "A few hundred meters away there are
army snipers, and each one of us can appear in a sniper's telescopic
sight. It is possible to say with certainty that they are watching us, and
my life is in the hands of an Israeli marksman or settler. I know that I
will probably never know what hit me, but that is part of my role to be
as exposed as possible."

We'll never know why Hurndall viewed his exposure as a crucial factor in
bringing about peace in the Middle East, but this upper-middle-class lad
from north London, before arriving in Israel, first tried his hand at
being a human shield in Iraq.

Hurndall had joined a group of international volunteers who wanted to put
themselves in front of Iraqi schools and hospitals; but when they arrived
it soon became apparent that sites would be selected by Iraqi government
officials. After two weeks of heated discussion, the shields were given a
list of seven sites and an ultimatum to "start shielding or start
leaving." Hurndall left, passed through Jordan, where he heard about the
activities of the ISM, and entered Israel on a tourist visa.

It's worth noting that a number of ISMers seem to be the well-educated
offspring of well-to-do parents. Hurndall attended Winchester College, one
of England's most venerable and prestigious boarding schools. Tuition at
the 600-year-old school is around $30,000 per year.

Tom's father, Anthony Hurndall, is a well-known London property lawyer.
Mother Jocelyn, who says she is proud of her son, is head of a learning
support unit.

Fellow ISM volunteer Radhika Sainath is a US citizen who has been arrested
three times for violating Israeli law during repeated entries into the
country between 2002-3. She is the daughter of two California physicians
and plans on attending graduate school at Columbia University.

In Hurndall's case the resources and prominence of his family enabled them
to hire a high-profile British attorney to realize their efforts to
prosecute an Israeli soldier for the death of their son. They chose Imran
Khan, a controversial high-powered lawyer who tried to prevent then chief
of staff Shaul Mofaz entering Britain for an official visit in 2002
because of "war crimes."

Khan and the Hurndalls ran an effective public campaign that led to
British pressure on Israel to finger an Israeli soldier for the
unfortunate death of young Tom.

The young Beduin soldier his name has not been released arrested in
January 2004 after Hurndall's demise in a London hospital was serving his
country and tried to do his part to smash terrorism. Now he too is paying
the price of the ISM's unconscionable efforts to encourage their
volunteers to violate closed military zones.

The accused has spent the last six months in jail. His family is so
poverty-stricken that they have been able to afford the bus fare to visit
him only once during his incarceration. So far his legal representation
has been court-assigned, although Nitsana Darshan-Leitner of the Shurat
HaDin Law Center has undertaken a campaign to assist the family.

In court the other day, the accused, a stocky, dark young man dressed in a
plain military green uniform, sat silently as his defense attorney
addressed the court. His eyes didn't engage anyone in the room neither
the witness nor the dozens who had come to support him seemed to be of
interest.

The three judges in the small, wood-paneled courtroom listened intently as
a military interrogator answered questions about the interrogation and
confession extracted from the accused.

How could the court take this written, six-page confession seriously,
asked the attorney, when the defendant neither reads nor writes Hebrew?
Why did interrogators have the defendant sign the confession at night, at
the end of more than nine hours of interrogation, when he was tired and
hungry, after he had allegedly stated: "Give me a cup of coffee and a
cigarette, and I'll sign anything."?

"The soldier is being scapegoated by the prosecution to appease the
British Foreign Office," charged Darshan-Leitner.

Worse than that, noted Shimon, one of the supporters who had bussed down
from Jerusalem. "It's the wrong entity on trial here. It's the ISM who
should be sitting there accused, not this soldier, who was doing his best
to defend us from terrorist evil."

The writer is author of Jerusalem Diaries: In Tense Times.


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3. Campus Fascists:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=14021

Posted 6/29/2004 11:05:00 AM

If there were any longer any doubt as to the inability of the "Security
Wall" to protect Israeli children from Palestinian terror and fascism,
yesterday removed it. After some 300 attacks on Israel by the PLO using
Kassam rockets, none of which previously killed anyone, yesterday's attack
murdered a four year old toddler in the Negev town of Sderot and the
child's grandfather.

Such is the reward for Israel having exercised "restraint" and turning the
other cheek after each of the previous 300 rocket attacks. Thus goeth
the ridiculous leftist canon holding that the PLO will reach some sort of
emotional catharsis by firing rockets at Israel for a while and then
cooling down to make peace. SO much for the view that Israel can just
build a wall and then forget about them, without utilizing military
control of the ground on the other side of the fence.

I have argued for years that Israel should massively
retaliate for each and every ATTEMPTED murder by the PLO as if the murder
actually "succeeded". My government thinks that would be insensitive and
offend the politically correct folks.

So what is my government offering instead? More talk about the RRH
doctrine. RRH stands for "realy really hard". After each atrocity, my
government threatens that if the attacks do not stop, Israel will respond
"really really hard". Apparently my government wants to defeat the
terrorists by making them laugh themselves to death.

SO how is the government responding to yesterday's double murder? By
threatening a RRH retaliation soon. Get ready for a new attack on an
empty PLO building at night.


1. Refugee Yuppies:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13977

2. Taking Orders from Yassir:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=14006
(open web page to see accompanying photos)

Taking Orders From Arafat
By Steven Plaut
FrontPageMagazine.com | June 29, 2004


In recent days, the pro-terror far-leftists and self-proclaimed
"anarchists" from the ISM, or International Solidarity Movement, have been
making both increased trouble and headlines here in Israel. They have
repeatedly attacked Israeli police and soldiers, using violence, as part
of their campaign to show their support for the violent Palestinian
terrorists. They attempt to vandalize and sabotage Israel's security
fence, to show their opposition to all attempts by Israel to protect its
children from mass murderers and suicide bombers.

Israelis have long been at a loss to explain the reluctance of their
government to send these Western pro-terror "peace activists" packing or
to imprison them. In the past, some pro-terror "activists" have gone so
far as to hide wanted terrorists in their offices and to hide arms used by
them.

This week, in an uncharacteristic decision but hopefully one showing a new
direction, the Tel Aviv District Court ordered American leftist activist
Ken O'Keefe deported for trying to enter the Gaza Strip illegally.

O'Keefe was caught trying to cross the separation fence into the Gaza
Strip near the settlement of Dugit after arriving in Israel three weeks
ago, and after having signed a statement pledging not to enter the Gaza
Strip. District Court Judge Sarah Gadot determined, based on intelligence
reports, that O'Keefe was a security risk and had violated military orders
by infiltrating an area controlled by the army, after he had been warned
against it and stated his intention to retry. The judge also determined
that O'Keefe had ignored a sign in English indicating the location of the
border. O'Keefe claimed that the border was not a recognized
international frontier and the sign was misleading. In other words, he
was of the rather common opinion that leftists should be exempt from
obeying the law.

O'Keefe claims he had organized hundreds of Americans and citizens of
other Western countries to act as "human shields" in Iraq. O'Keefe said
he had come to Israel at the beginning of the 2003 Iraq war to advance
"peace" (or at least the leftist interpretation of the term) between
Israelis and Palestinians. His attorney, Yael Barda from the Far-Left
anti-Zionist organization Gush Shalom, claimed that although her client
was eccentric, he was not a security risk.


But the true face of these "caring peace lovers", in the Middle East to
support the terrorists, was unmasked this week in a different development.
According to a news story in the Israeli leftist daily Haaretz this week,
it was revealed that the "international solidarity protesters" and the
rest of the Far-Leftist demonstrators, in town trying to sabotage Israel's
security fence, are taking their orders and directions directly from
Yassir Arafat. They met with Arafat this week in his terrorist
headquarters in Ramallah to hear his orders and instructions for them
regarding how they should run their "peace" protests against Israel's
security fence. Arafat ordered them to escalate the violence of their
demonstrations, especially at two locations, near Jerusalem and near the
Jewish town of Ariel, and to escalate the level of the protests just
before the "World Court" in the Hague is to meet to discuss Israel's
fence. In sum, the terrorist Arafat is dictating tactics and timing to
the Western peace poseurs and solidarity-meisters for the Islamic
revolution.


On the other hand, this week witnessed one of the most successful
anti-terror actions by Israel to date, and it was one that will have a
greater impact on the terror and on the pro-terror leftists than the
construction of the security wall itself. Israel carried out a sort of
Godfather-movie set of hits on the number-one leaders of all three major
terrorist organizations in Nablus. Not only were the three terrorist dons
all killed in a single day, but so were seven other terrorists with them;
several were also in leadership positions.

The peace-loving and caring Left of course will be outraged and will
escalate its violent protests against Israeli self-defense. After all,
how dare Israel assassinate the Palestinian terrorists instead of
capitulating to them?

Protesters scuffle with an Israeli soldier during a demonstration against
the construction of the Israeli security barrier, near the West Bank
village of Iskaka, June 17, 2004. Part wall and part fence, the barrier,
if completed, will run for 640km (397 miles) through the West Bank. Israel
hopes the barrier will prevent suicide bombings. REUTERS/Ammar Awad.

Arab protester punches soldier during a demonstration against the
construction of the Israeli security barrier.

"Peace protester" kicks soldier's knee during a protest against the
construction of the Israeli security barrier.

Arab "peace protester" kicks soldier who refuses to use his gun.

Arab protesters attack soldiers while European ISM members push attackers
forward.

Arab peace protestors attack soldiers trying to protect civilians.

Foreign ISM activist arrested by Israeli police during a protest in the
West Bank village Iskaka against the construction of Israel's separation
barrier.


3. Dan Pipes is a great Jewish natural resource:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=14004

4. Chomsky News:
http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/media1.htm

5. What happens when the US implements Peresism:
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0%2C4057%2C9975925%255E401%2C00.html

Posted 6/27/2004 04:37:00 PM

1. According to a news story in Haaretz today, interestingly NOT in
the English web site run by the Palestinian newspaper published in Hebrew,
it is revealed that the "solidarity international protesters" an dth erest
of the Far-Leftist demonstrators trying to sabotage Israel's security
fence to make it easier for the PLO to murder Jewish children, are taking
their orders and directions directly from Yassir Arafat. Yes, they met
with Arafat yesterday to hear his orders regarding how they should run
their "peace" protests against Israel's security fence. Arafat is
dictating tactics and timing. Yesterday he told them to escalate the
sabotage and violence of their protests.

What this means is that the "ISM" International Solidarity Movement
to which arch-bimbo Rachel Corrie belonged before becoming pancaked, (its
name should really be "I Support Murderers") is nothing more than an
appendage of the PLO, and the same is true of the Israeli local
home-grown "peace groups" attacking the wall.

Meanwhile, yesterday saw one of the most successful anti-terror actions
by Israel to date, and it was one that will have a greater impact on the
terror and on the pro-terror leftists than the construction of the wall
itself.

Yesterday Israel carried out a sort of St. Valentine's Day hit on the
number one leaders of all three major terrorist organizations in Nablus.
Not only were the three terrorist dons all killed in a single day, but so
were seven other terrorists with them, several of these also being
terrorist leaders
(http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1088143074422).

The peace-loving and Caring Left of course
will be outraged and will escalate its violent protests against Israeli
self-defense. After all, how
DARE Israel assassinate the mass murdering Palestinian nazis instead of
capitulating to them?

2. Haaretz Sanitizes His Ugliness: Jun. 26, 2004

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1088231179041
INSIDE ISRAEL - THE OSLO WAR NOTWITHSTANDING, RADICAL LEFT POLITICS AS
USUAL

A squeaky clean Arafat emerges from a Ha'Aretz rehab


By EFRAIM INBAR

JERUSALEM POST
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"It requires an incredible amount of self-delusion, or hutzpa, to try
today to sell the Israeli public the story that Arafat remains the
right
partner for peace. The intellectual arrogance of messianic doves and
their condescending attitude toward the rest of us assumes we all are
limitlessly gullible."


Ha'aretz [Israel's radical Left daily newspaper] has adopted an
uncharacteristic dose of "religiosity" by becoming the vehicle for a
pathetic attempt by the Israeli radical Left to politically resurrect
Yasser Arafat.
The newspaper claims that Arafat was not the instigator of the
September
2000 intifada but has consistently searched for a two-state solution in
his quest for peaceful coexistence. Haaretz also published an interview
with the Palestinian leader which refrained from posing difficult
questions. Arafat was allowed to portray himself as a man of peace.
Israeli messianic doves have repeatedly saved Arafat from oblivion.
Yossi Beilin and the crowd around him saved Arafat in 1993 at a time
when the PLO was weak due to its strategic blunder of supporting Saddam
Hussein in the 1991 Gulf War. The group, isolated in Tunis, was on the
verge of bankruptcy.
But Beilin et al persuaded Yitzhak Rabin - against his better judgment
-
to enter into a deal with the PLO, which brought Arafat to the White
House, allowed the PLO to regain its dwindling international status,
and
gave it a territorial foothold in the territories.
These same doves never stopped advocating - as if out of religious
conviction - increasingly larger Israeli concessions and a policy of
turning a blind eye to the Palestinian violations of the Oslo
agreements. The failure of Arafat to honor his pledge to Rabin and
desist from terrorist activities was invariably explained away.
The PLO chief's repeated calls for jihad were belittled as
insignificant
rhetoric. Early Israeli casualties resulting from Palestinian terrorism
were seen as "sacrifices for peace."
But peace did not come. It took the majority of Israelis more than a
decade and over 1,000 dead to realize the murderous nature of the
Palestinian national movement. The swing in public opinion to a more
realistic assessment of the conflict is the reason for the recent
attempt by the radical Left to rewrite history.
The late-1990s evaluation by Israeli intelligence of Arafat's
intentions
on final status issues does not in fact matter very much. There was no
dispute within the Israeli intelligence community that Arafat had no
intention of keeping his promise to stop employing violence. Israeli
intelligence supplied information months in advance about Palestinian
preparations for armed conflict. Intelligence specialists thought
hostilities could be anticipated around September 2000.
In this respect Israeli intelligence functioned well and provided the
IDF with a strategic warning. The army consequently trained for the
expected low-intensity conflict and took several measures to contain
Palestinian violence.
Any attempt to rehabilitate Arafat's credibility runs against his
record
of behavior after September 2000. His speeches unequivocally laud the
suicide-bombers and armed struggle; he was personally involved in
funding terrorist cells; he consistently rejected numerous attempts to
implement a cease-fire; and he has continuously opposed any reform in
the security sector that might have reduced the violence.

In Arafat's recent interview with Haaretz he continued to demand the
"right of return" and refused to accept any historical Jewish claim
over
the holiest place to Jews - the Temple Mount.
It requires an incredible amount of self-delusion, or hutzpa, to try
today to sell the Israeli public the story that Arafat remains the
right
partner for peace.
The intellectual arrogance of messianic doves and their condescending
attitude toward the rest of us assumes we all are limitlessly gullible.
Another reason for the timing of the campaign to revive Arafat is
Sharon's success in marginalizing him. The common wisdom in Washington
and other important capitals - including Arab ones - is that Arafat is
an obstacle to peace, and ways need to be devised to neutralize his
negative influence. Radical doves understand that only Israel can
provide a "kosher certificate" to Arafat that might grant him
persona-grata status in the international arena.
Similarly to the early 1990s, it is Israeli leftists obsessed with the
Palestinian issue who are trying to bail Arafat out from a difficult
predicament. It is clear that Arafat's war, a colossal miscalculation
that brought the Palestinians in the territories a great deal of
suffering, has ended in failure.
There is no Palestinian state in sight. Much of the infrastructure for
such a state has been destroyed in the "armed struggle," leaving
Palestinian society fragmented and run by thugs and local warlords. In
addition, the international community increasingly views the
Palestinians as unable to govern themselves.
In contrast, Israeli society has shown greater resilience than expected
in the protracted conflict. The IDF has successfully overcome
international constraints on its freedom of military action against
targets in Palestinian-ruled territories, thus denying the enemy safe
sanctuaries.
Only the Israeli radical Left is misguided enough to try to resuscitate
Arafat. While it definitely deserves him, it is the rest of us who will
pay dearly if this foolish exercise is even marginally successful.
The writer is a professor of political studies at Bar-Ilan University
and director of its Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies.


3. Harassing Bay Area Jews:
http://web.israelinsider.com/bin/en.jsp?enPage=ViewsPage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enDispWho=Article%5El3773&enZone=Views&enVersion=0&
and see also
http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/22826/format/html/displaystory.html

4. Leftist Brownshirts:
http://www.midstreamthf.com/
The Brownshirts of Our Time


Phyllis Chesler


On Saturday evening, November 8, 2003, the eve of Kristallnacht, I
addressed a womans networking conference of mainly African-American and
Hispanic-American womanists and feminists at Barnard College. The
conference was described as a grassroots, multi-cultural,
multi-generational, and multi-disciplinary organization for women in the
arts. Indeed, the women seemed to range in age from 20 to 65 and were
dressed in corporate business suits, ever-colorful African/ethnic attire,
and youthful jeans. The conference was closed to men but one of the
organizers made a split-second decision to allow my adult son in and
seated him by himself at the very back of the room on a chair set apart.

In retrospect, I realized that I should have known what was coming. A few
days before the conference, I had the following conversation with one of
the organizers. She asked me what my most recent book was, and I told her
it was The New Anti-Semitism. I explained that Jew-hatred was a form of
racism only it was not being treated as such by anti-racist politically
correct people. The organizer did not say: I dont agree with you, or This
wont play well to our constituency. She only said: We need you to explain
the ways in which women sabotage each other and remain divided. We need
you to talk about your book Womans Inhumanity to Woman. Your speech will
precede our big Unity panel.

When I arrived, performers were rapping and singing and dancing, and the
energy was fabulous. I whispered to my son, Perhaps I have become too
obsessed with The Jewish Cause, with Israel. Maybe I need to remember that
I am also connected to more than one issue. I had been asked to talk about
what women can do, psychologically and ethically, in order to enact
sisterhood and to work in productive, even radical ways. As I spoke, the
women in the audience sighed, cheered, applauded, nodded in agreement,
laughed, groaned. It was a half hour of good vibes.

And then my first questioner blew it all to hell. All it took was The
Question, and it only required one questioner. I could not see who was
speaking. A disembodied voice demanded to know where I stood on the
question of the women of Palestine. Her tone was forceful, hostile,
relentless, and prepared. I could have said: The organizers have
specifically asked me not to address such questions. I could also have
said: I am concerned with the women of Palestine, but I am also concerned
with the women of Rwanda, Bosnia, Guatemala, who have all been gang-raped
by soldiers who used rape as a weapon of war; I am concerned with the
poverty and homelessness of women right here in America; I am concerned
with the women of Israel who are being blown up in buses, at cafes, in
their own bedrooms. I did not say this. Instead, I took a deep breath and
said that I did not respect people who hijacked airplanes, or hijacked
conferences, or who, at this very moment, were trying to hijack this
lecture. She grew even more hostile and demanding. Tell this audience what
you said on WBAI. I heard you on that program. Clearly, she wanted to
unmask me before this audience as a Jew-lover and an Israel-defender.

I took the question head-on. If youre really asking about apartheid, let
me talk about it. Contrary to myth and propaganda, Israel is not an
apartheid state. The largest practitioner of apartheid in the world is
Islam, which practices both gender and religious apartheid. In terms of
gender apartheid, Palestinian women and all women who live under Islam
are oppressed by honor killings, in which girls and women who are raped
are then killed by family members for the sake of restoring the family
honor; by forced veiling, segregation, stonings to death for alleged
adultery, seclusion/sequestration, female geni-tal mutilation, polygamy,
outright slavery, and sexual slavery. I continued, Islam also specializes
in religious apar-theid as well. All non-Muslims have historically been
viewed and treated as sub-humans who must either convert to Islam or be
mercilessly taxed, beaten, jailed, murdered, or exiled. The latest
Al-Qaeda attack in Saudi Arabia was primarily directed against Lebanese
Christians and Americans.

I further continued, Today, the entire Middle East is judenrein there are
no Jews left in 22 Arab countries. And, the Arab leadership has backed the
PLO strategy in which the 23rd state remains under constant and perilous
siege. Historically, in general, but specifically since 1948-1956, Arab
Jews were forced to flee Arab Islamic lands. Jews cannot become citizens
of Jordan, Egypt, or Saudi Arabia, for example, and yet no one accuses
those nations of apartheid.

I told the truth. Clearly, they had not heard it before. The audience
gasped collectively. Then, people went a little crazy. Someone muttered
darkly, coarsely, in a near-growl: What about the checkpoints? What about
the fence? I asked the audience if they thought that being detained at a
checkpoint was really the same as having your clitoris sliced off, the
same as being stoned to death for alleged adultery. The only response I
got was from the first questioner who demanded that I denounce Ariel
Sharon but not Yasir Arafat as a murderer. I absolutely refused to do
so.

As I left the podium, a young African-American woman stopped me to say
that Id hurt her by how I had disrespected a brown woman. What brown
woman? I asked. Your first questioner was a brown woman, she said, and so
are Palestinian women. I said: Jewish women, especially in Israel, also
come in many colors, including brown and black. She stopped me. But youre
a white Jew. As if this was proof of a crime.

The three young African-American women who had invited me were very
supportive of me. They hugged me and thanked me for coming and looked
rather embarrassed about what had happened. Whats important is this not
one of them tried to stop what was happening, not one stood up and said:
Something good has just turned ugly, and we must not permit this to
happen. Thus, the good people did nothing to disperse the hostility or to
address the issues. Perhaps they were simply unprepared on the issues.
Perhaps they agreed with the view that Israel is an apartheid state and
that anyone who would dare defend it was supposed to be treated as a
traitor and an enemy. Perhaps they simply lacked the courage to stand up
to the fundamentalists in their midst.

I couldnt help reflecting on my lifes work against racism. For example, in
1963, I joined The Northern Student Movement and tutored Harlem students.
In the late 1960s, I was involved with both the Young Lords and the Black
Panthers. I marched outside the Womens House of Detention when they jailed
Angela Davis. I was involved in the Inez Garcia case and have written
extensively about the cases of both Joanne Little and Yvonne Wanrow, two
women of color who, like Garcia, had killed (white) men in self-defense.
In the mid-70s, I interviewed Jews from India, Iran, Afghanistan, and
North Africa, and Jews who had fled Arab lands about cultural or ethnic
racism in Israel. By the early 1970s, I also began organizing against
Jew-hatred on the left and among feminists in America. For nearly 30
years, I taught working-class people and students of color at a public
university. I admired and loved them and was sometimes able to help them
in ways that changed their views and their lives.

Heres whats sad. Clearly, my speech touched hearts and minds; there was
room for common ground and for civilized discourse. But not once was the
word Palestine uttered not when Palestine is seen as a symbol for every
downtrodden group of color who are resisting the racist-imperialist
American and Zionist empires. Once the Palestine litmus test of political
respectability was raised, everyone responded on cue, as if programmed and
brainwashed. It immediately became a white versus brown thing, an
oppressed versus an oppressor thing.

These are the Brownshirts of our time. The fact that they are women of
color, womanists/feminists, is all the more chilling and tragic. And
unbelievable. And to me practically unbearable. Afterwards, my son, ever
wise, said, Well, mom, you have your answer. The Jew-haters will never
allow you into their wider, wonderful world. You cant go back.[

About the author
Phyllis Chesler, a prominent feminist intellectual, is the author of 12
books. Her most recent book, The New Anti-Semitism: The Current Crisis and
What We Must Do About It, is reviewed in this issue of Midstream on p. 40.
The above pieces first appeared online in FrontPageMagazine.com on
November 19, 2003 and December 4, 2003, and are reprinted by permission.

5. Prof. Ben Ami's Jihad:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArtVty.jhtml?sw=Avi+Garfinkel&update_date=25%2F06%2F2004++01%3A46&itemNo=443113

6. Poor poor terrorists:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13865

7. Meanwhile, back in the University of Duh:
Two Polls: Palestinians Support Fighting Israel Until It Is Destroyed
by Amira Hass
Ha'aretz
June 24, 2004



Two Palestinian public opinion polls published in the beginning of the
week confirm that most Palestinians support fighting Israel until it is
destroyed.

According to a Jerusalem Media and Communication Centre (JMCC) poll, 63.6%
either strongly or partially oppose ceasing all types of "militant
activity" inside Israel.

JMCC also found that 45.5% believe that the final aim of the intifada is
to "free all Palestinian land" (including Israel).

A poll by the Bir Zeit University's Development Studies Program found that
54% doubt the possibility of Israeli-Palestinian coexistence in the
framework of a peace agreement, and 61% support continuing the "armed
struggle" following an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.

The strong support for "militant activity," disregarding the facts on the
ground, reveals a political weakness camouflaged by hopeless "military"
dreams.

Posted 6/25/2004 01:56:00 PM

1. The Problem with Jewish Liberals:
http://www.intellectualconservative.com/article3539.html

2.
http://news.myway.com/top/article/id/411289%7Ctop%7C06-24-2004::18:06%7Creuters.html
Army Told Not to Use Israeli Bullets in Iraq

Jun 24, 5:56 PM (ET)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Israeli-made bullets bought by the U.S. Army to
plug a shortfall should be used for training only, not to fight Muslim
guerrillas in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. lawmakers told Army generals on
Thursday.
Since the Army has other stockpiled ammunition, "by no means, under any
circumstances should a round (from Israel) be utilized," said Rep. Neil
Abercrombie of Hawaii, the top Democrat on a House of Representatives
Armed Services subcommittee with jurisdiction over land forces.

The Army contracted with Israel Military Industries Ltd. in December for
$70 million in small-caliber ammunition.

The Israeli firm was one of only two worldwide that could meet U.S.
technical specifications and delivery needs, said Brig. Gen. Paul oblem with ,
the Army's program executive officer for ammunition. The other was East
Alton, Illinois-based Winchester Ammunition, which also received a $70
million contract.

Although the Army should not have to worry about "political correctness,"
Abercrombie was making a valid point about the propaganda pitfalls of
using Israeli rounds in the U.S.-declared war on terror, said Rep. Curt
Weldon, the Pennsylvania Republican who chairs the subcommittee on
tactical air and land forces.

"There's a sensitivity that I think all of us recognize," Weldon told the
Army witnesses, including Maj. Gen. Buford Blount, who led the U.S. Third
Infantry Division that captured Baghdad in April 2003.

als, now the Army's assistant deputy chief of staff, said the Army had
sufficient small caliber ammunition -- 5.56mm, 7.62mm and .50 caliber --
to conduct current operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.

But taken together with training needs, the United States had strained its
production facilities, he testified.

"To fight a major combat operation in another theater will require the
Army to impose restrictions on training expenditures and to focus current
inventory and new production on combat operations," Blount said.

As a result, he said the Army hoped to stretch U.S. supplies to supplement
the capacity of the government-owned Lake City plant in Independence,
Missouri, that currently makes more than 90 percent of U.S. small caliber
ammunition.

The Lake City factory, operated by Alliant Techsystems Inc., has nearly
quadrupled its production in the past four years. This year, it will
produce more than 1.2 billion rounds, Karen Davies, president of the ATK
arm that runs it, told the panel. Lake City provided more than 2 billion
rounds a year during World War II and Vietnam, she said.

The Army's needs will grow to about 1.5 billion to 1.7 billion rounds a
year in coming years, Blount said.

"In the near-term, balancing training requirements with current
operational needs is a manageable risk-mitigation strategy," he said.

The Army does not want to repeat its history of building capacity during
wartime "only to dismantle it in peacetime," Blount added.

3. Israeli Academics In Favor of Suppressing Israeli Sovereignty:
http://oznik.com/petitions/010427signers.html

4. Competing to see who can be the most anti-Israel:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040624/ap_en_tv/britain_bbc_arabic_channel

5. Ben Shapiro's latest:
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/bs20040623.shtml#

6. Campus Atrocities:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13913

7. Pity the poor terrorists:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13865

Posted 6/23/2004 03:03:00 PM

When challenged about their opening Felix Dzerzinsky College at Tel Aviv
University (Felix Dzerzinsky founded the KGB under Lenin), the campus
commissars will no doubt spout the usual "academic freddom" cliches,
although nothing in academic freedom means free unpaid use of taxpayer
financed campus facilities is an automatic entitlement for anyone off the
street.

But there is a more important point I should have mentioned.

A few years back we posted a story about a senior lecturer at the
business school at Tel Aviv University, associated with the
Chabad-Lubavitch movement, who petitioned the university
authorities on behalf of a group of religious women students to be allowed
to us empty classrooms in off-hours to study Talmud and the weekly Torah
portions. The university turned them down flat. THAT would have been
inappropriate use of campus facilities, unlike setting up a Stalinist
Indoctrination College on campus, run by the communist party apparatchiks.

Also, you may recall that when Tel Aviv University decided to accept a
large donation from a Swiss industrialist to build a synagogue building on
campus, some leftist faculty and students held angry protests aginst the
decision, maintaining that a synagogue would pollute the largely
secularist campus. I guess Judaism pollutes Tel Aviv University, but not
Stalinism.

Posted 6/23/2004 12:05:00 PM

1. It is conservatively estimated that communism directly caused about
100 million deaths in the twentieth century. These of course include the
millions starved to death by communist forced collectivization of
agriculture, by the intentional famines in the Ukraine and in China, and
by the massive shortages and upheavals and repressions, not to mention the
Gulags and mass murders. In China, massive cannibalism was produced by
communist food shortages, where families swapped children so parents would
not be forced to eat their own children.

A disproportionate number of those killed by communism were Jews. Jews
were always subjected to special venom and animosity by communists, and
the fact that some of the communist leaders and "thinkers" were Jews or
ex-Jews does not change anything, in fact it probably explains the
anti-Semitism that has always characterized both communism and some forms
of anti-communism.

Communists today lead the movement for a Second Holocaust of Jews. They
seek the annihilation of Israel and its population. The communist
countries have always been allied with Arab fascism and aggression and
today support Islamist terror.

All of which might have been regarded by most people as more than a
sufficient reason why a College of Communist Indoctrination should not
operate within the auspices of Tel Aviv University.

But they would be wrong.

Today is the inauguration ceremony of the opening of the College of
Communist Indoctrination at Tel Aviv University. Really. The official
name of the "college" is the "Socioeconomic College", and it operates on
the Tel Aviv University campus, although evidently not with direct funding
by the Israeli taxpayer, at least not yet. The comrades will, however, be
using the university facilities paid for by Israeli taxpayers.

The initiator of the College of Communist Indoctrination is Madame Gulag,
Tamar Gozansky, who was until recently the Stalinist Rent-a-Jew sitting in
the Knesset as representative for the Hadash Stalinist Party in the
Israeli parliament. Hadash is an Old-Left anti-Israel Arab-national
communist party, one that never quite got around to renouncing Stalinism.
Mademe Gulag has been unemployed, as are most people under communism, ever
since her own party got tired of her hogging one of its parliament seats.
So she and her fellow commissar, a lawyer named Aviv Wasserman, came up
with the idea. They decided they were sick and tired of the "capitalist
hegemony in Israeli academia" (in their words see Haaretz July 23, 04),
and you can see right away how someone who had spent the last few decades
in some other galaxy might not be aware of the Far-Leftist hegemony that
actually operates in Israeli academia.

Students in this new re-education Gulag center to open at Tel Aviv
University will be indoctrinated in the "theories" of Marxism that were
totally debunked more than 160 years ago. They will learn the communist
party's principles and its correct thinking about class struggle and other
"social issues". The "college" will be administered by a newspaper
journalist named Efraim Davidi. Its "degree" will not be recognized at
first as a bona fide academic degree, although it might be enough to get
you a job in a Cuban torture facility.

The "faculty" at the "college" will consist of the usual Israeli
Far-Leftist tenured radicals, including a Marxist economist from
Ben-Gurion University, the extremist "Post Zionist" Moshe Zuckerman from
Tel Aviv University, the Stalinist Dov Hanin who was supposed to replace
Madame Gulag as the Hadash Party Rent-a-Jew but the party decided to do
without further Jewish reps, some Arab non-academics whose academic
credentials are that they are anti-Israel, and others. They do not get
paid, I guess as there way of showing what happens to employees under
communist regimes.

If you think that Israeli taxpayer money should not be spent on
providing infrastructure for Stalinist indoctrination, please write to
Minister Limor Livnat at
Minister Limor Livnat
Ministry of Education Minister's Office
Kiryat Ben Gurion
Jerusalem
Fax 972-2-6753726
Email:
llivnat@knesset.gov.il


If you want to tell the heads of Tel Aviv University what you think of
this new "college" on their campus, contact:

President of Tel Aviv U:
Prof. Itamar Rabinovich

His fax and email are
FAX 03-6422379 itamarr@tauex.tau.ac.il

Here is a list of other university officers (you will need to look up
their addresses if you want to contact):
http://www.tau.ac.il/officers-eng.html

You may want to let any donors to TAU know about what is going on!


2. It has been a while since we told you about the Haifa Municipal
Museum. Under Comrade-Mayor Amram Mitzna's junta, the Museum took off in
a far-Left direction. It had an exhibit in which a work of "art" was a
portrait showing a yeshiva student being hanged from a gallows. Had the
portrait been of, say, a leftist politician being hanged, the artist in
question would be rotting in jail for incitement to murder as we speak.
Other manifestations of the Mapplethorpianism of Israeli art were also on
display.

But Mitzna is off warming a back bench in the Knesset. We got Mitzna out
of City Hall but did not get Mitznaism out of the Haifa Municipal Museum.

You may recall how a few months back a fanatic ex-Israeli anti-Semitic
leftist living in Sweden produced a work of "art" showing the woman mass
murder who blew up the Haifa Maxim restaurant as a pure Snow White?
Celebrating her act of barbarism, which murdered 23 people, including many
children and three generations of two families? The Israeli Ambassador
vandalized the "art" to the horrors of the artsy-phartsy crowd.

Well, now the Haifa Municipal Museum ran its own analogue to Snow White
the Pure Murderer of Jewish Children. A Bimbo "artist" named Deganit
Brest produced a work of "art" centered around a fine handsome smiling
face of the peace partner suicide bomber who murdered all the children a
few years back waiting to enter the Tel Aviv Dolphinarium for a dance
party. Twenty one people were murdered, most high school kids, many
recent immigrants from the ex-Soviet Workers Paradise that Tel Aviv
University is now trying to recreate.

The Museum saw nothing at all wrong with the "art" celebrating the nazi
murderer of children. The public however was nonplussed and now the
Museum is thinking of taking down the atrocity. Brest is outraged of
course, as are the usual Far Leftists. Maybe a new portrait of The
Suffering of My Hero Adolf Hitler, or maybe Eichmann the Misunderstood,
will replace it.

If you would like to tell the Haifa Muni reps what you think of this, go
to http://www.haifa.muni.il/Hebrew/ContactusHome.htm (you will see Hebrew
fonts or gibberish, but hit the first two "envelope icons" to set up a
page to contact them, and then hit send.

Also, try http://www.haifa.muni.il/English/Default.htm

Posted 6/22/2004 12:16:00 AM

1. As you robably know, the viciously anti-Semitic "International
Solidarity Movement", the pro-terror "anarchists" in their designer jeans
and Nikes, is planning a "summer of pro-terror action" in the
PLO-occupied Jewish lands of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The ISM,
which really should stand for "I Support Murderers", is the extremist
group of Rachel Corrie, who found herself flattened when protecting
terrorist smuggling tunnels into Gaza from Egypt, through which the
explosives are smuggled that blow up Jewish children - that is, protecting
the houses hiding the tunnels from an army bulldozer whose driver could not
see her. ISM openly endorses PLO terror and "armed struggle" against
Jewish children.

Here is a slice from the ISM call for action in support of the terrorists:

INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT
Join the Palestinian struggle for freedom and human rights
Freedom Summer Palestine
June 25 - August 19, 2004

We need you to help make this campaign a success!
Please join. For more information, see: http://www.palsolidarity.org/

Given the ISM determination to ship in loads of preppy cheerleaders
for terror, I was inspired to compose some new poetry about teh ISM campaign.
So here is:


Bulldozer Bill the Soldier
(the song of the International Solidarity Movement Maiden)

To the tune of Barnacle Bill the Sailor (clean version)

Who's defending terror gore?
Who's defending terror gore?
Who's defending terror gore?
It's the numbskull maiden!

Out of the way, you twit I say,
Said Bulldozer Bill the Soldier,
Out of the way, you twit I say,
Said Bulldozer Bill the Soldier.

I won't let you crush this house,
I won't let you crush this house,
I won't let you crush this house,
Said the dingbat maiden.

Beneath yonder house,
Run terrorist louse
Said Bulldozer Bill the Soldier,
The tunnel there runs
For bombers and guns,
Said Bulldozer Bill the Soldier.

I shall shield them with my bod,
I shall shield them with my bod,
I shall shield them with my bod,
Said the preppy maiden.

Solidarity, balls, they are murderers alls,
Said Bulldozer Bill the Soldier,
Solidarity, balls, they are murderers alls,
Said Bulldozer Bill the Soldier.

We will serve to help them kill,
We will serve to help them kill,
We will serve to help them kill,
Said the commie maiden.

While I get no real kicks, you to pancake mix,
Said Bulldozer Bill the Soldier,
While I get no real kicks, you'll be pancake mix,
Said Bulldozer Bill the Soldier.


2. In case you missed this first round:
http://www.acpr.org.il/english%2Dnativ/issue1/plaut-1b.htm

3. Excellent Backgrounder:
http://www.afsi.org/OUTPOST/2003SEP/sep3.htm

4. Defend the Rights of Israeli Gazelle Eaters!

What, No Whale Meat?
by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz
June 16, 2004

The inability of an Israeli to obtain a ham sandwich whenever he likes,
wherever he likes, is seen by Israel's Supreme Court as an unreasonable
violation of free trade and freedom of (from) religion. And now, Knesset
member Igal Yasinov, of the ultra-secularist Shinui party, intends to turn
to the Supreme Court once again, seeking a ruling permitting the sale of
pork in the Knesset cafeteria.

The Israeli High Court of Justice this week declared the national law
limiting the sale of pork products, forbidden according to Jewish
tradition, to be a matter for local municipalities to regulate, or not, as
they see fit. As long as whoever wants to obtain pork in a given "mixed"
religious-secular municipality (as most are) can do so without too much
difficulty.

Judicial interference with the status quo regarding the ban on pig
products was couched in terms reflecting the court's view that it was
performing a balancing act. The offense assumedly felt by religious Jews
when they see pig meat sold in their hometowns was juxtaposed with a
citizen's presumed right to buy a pork chop.

On the other hand, the inability of an Israeli to obtain a nice whale
steak, or gazelle burger, anywhere in Israel was never challenged as a
violation of anyone's rights by devout secularists or by free market
purists.

When Israel ratified the Convention on the International Trade In
Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, which strictly prohibited
trade in whale meat, among other endangered animals, there was no hue and
cry. When animals such as the leopard, gazelle, ibex and vulture were
declared protected species, there were no indignant petitions filed with
the High Court of Justice.

Yet, who says possible extinction is a reason to ban the sale of whale
meat? Who says preserving a life form is a value greater in importance
than free trade and freedom of conscience? No one even asked those
questions. There is a generally widespread conviction that contributing to
the extinction of a species is negative, and that conviction found
expression in Israeli law.

Similarly, the Jewish people - in the Jewish State - have declared,
through the democratic mechanism of legislation, that the sale of pig meat
also runs counter to widespread convictions.

Or, to view it from the flip side: If it is deemed unacceptable to have a
blanket ban on one food product because of a certain value system, then it
has to be unacceptable to ban a different food product because of another
value system, as well. Yet, is it conceivable that the High Court would
issue a ruling allowing the sale of the meat of endangered species "only"
in those towns where such sale is not offensive to the neighbors? And in
the event that the neighbors are against whaling, the Court would then
have to rule, as it did in the case of pork, that whale meat could only be
banned from the municipality if there was a way to obtain the product a
reasonable distance away.

On the other hand, why only pork? Is selling shrimps any better? From the
position of Jewish religious law, of course not. Shrimps - and whales, for
that matter - are just as unkosher as ham. Yet that is precisely the point
- the Knesset law banning pork is not a "religious" law, in the sense that
it is an application of Judaic law; rather, it is a law generally
reflecting the cultural values and convictions of the majority of Jews in
Israel.

The ban on pork - just like the ban on whale - is a cultural norm, and not
an issue of "freedoms" and such abstract principles. The people, through
the Knesset, expressed their will to put their cultural norms into law;
hence, the court's latest decision is amputated from the people's will to
preserve Jewish culture.

In yet another seriously flawed decision, the High Court has shown itself
removed from the Jewish consensus, by ruling in favor of Israel's
inconsistent, hypocritical, anti-religious and, ultimately, anti-culture
activists.

5. Right of Return Nonsense:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13819

6. The plagiarer, liar, and anti-Semite described in the following
article, defending the right of Palestinians to call Jews apes and pigs,
Michael Dahan, is currently employed teaching political science at
Ben-Gurion University:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13842

7. Arming the enemy:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13834

8. Palestinian "Take your Daughter to Work" Day:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1087364754987

9. Israel's Intifada Victory

By Charles Krauthammer
The Washington Post
June 18, 2004

While no one was looking, something historic happened in the Middle East.
The Palestinian intifada is over, and the Palestinians have lost.

For Israel, the victory is bitter. The past four years of terrorism have
killed almost 1,000 Israelis and maimed thousands of others. But Israel
has won strategically. The intent of the intifada was to demoralize
Israel, destroy its economy, bring it to its knees, and thus force it to
withdraw and surrender to Palestinian demands, just as Israel withdrew in
defeat from southern Lebanon in May 2000.

That did not happen. Israel's economy was certainly wounded, but it is
growing again. Tourism had dwindled to almost nothing at the height of the
intifada, but tourists are returning. And the Israelis were never
demoralized. They kept living their lives, the young people in particular
returning to cafes and discos and buses just hours after a horrific
bombing. Israelis turned out to be a lot tougher and braver than the
Palestinians had imagined.

The end of the intifada does not mean the end of terrorism. There was
terrorism before the intifada and there will be terrorism to come. What
has happened, however, is an end to systematic, regular, debilitating,
unstoppable terror -- terror as a reliable weapon. At the height of the
intifada, there were nine suicide attacks in Israel killing 85 Israelis in
just one month (March 2002). In the past three months there have been
none.

The overall level of violence has been reduced by more than 70 percent.
How did Israel do it? By ignoring its critics and launching a two-pronged
campaign of self-defense.

First, Israel targeted terrorist leaders -- attacks so hypocritically
denounced by Westerners who, at the same time, cheer the hunt for, and
demand the head of, Osama bin Laden. The top echelon of Hamas and other
terrorist groups has been either arrested, killed or driven underground.
The others are now so afraid of Israeli precision and intelligence -- the
last Hamas operative to be killed by missile was riding a motorcycle --
that they are forced to devote much of their time and energy to
self-protection and concealment.

Second, the fence. Only about a quarter of the separation fence has been
built, but its effect is unmistakable. The northern part is already
complete, and attacks in northern Israel have dwindled to almost nothing.

This success does not just save innocent lives; it changes the strategic
equation of the whole conflict.

Yasser Arafat started the intifada in September 2000, just weeks after he
had rejected, at Camp David, Israel's offer of withdrawal, settlement
evacuation, sharing of Jerusalem and establishment of a Palestinian state.
Arafat wanted all that, of course, but without having to make peace and
recognize a Jewish state. Hence the terror campaign -- to force Israel to
give it all up unilaterally.

Arafat failed, spectacularly. The violence did not bring Israel to its
knees. Instead, it created chaos, lawlessness and economic disaster in the
Palestinian areas. The Palestinians know the ruin that Arafat has brought,
and they are beginning to protest it. He promised them blood and victory;
he delivered on the blood.

Even more important, they have lost their place at the table. Israel is
now defining a new equilibrium that will reign for years to come -- the
separation fence is unilaterally drawing the line that separates Israelis
and Palestinians. The Palestinians were offered the chance to negotiate
that frontier at Camp David and chose war instead. Now they are paying the
price.

It stands to reason. It is the height of absurdity to launch a terrorist
war against Israel, then demand the right to determine the nature and
route of the barrier built to prevent that very terrorism.

These new strategic realities are not just creating a new equilibrium,
they are creating the first hope for peace since Arafat officially tore up
the Oslo accords four years ago. Once Israel has withdrawn from Gaza and
has completed the fence, terrorism as a strategic option will be
effectively dead. The only way for the Palestinians to achieve statehood
and dignity, and to determine the contours of their own state, will be to
negotiate a final peace based on genuine coexistence with a Jewish state.

It could be a year, five years or a generation until the Palestinians come
to that realization. The pity is that so many, Arab and Israeli, will have
had to die before then.

* Find this article at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50910-2004Jun17.html

Posted 6/22/2004 12:15:00 AM

1. For those who insist I am being too cynical when I say that Sharon
has a deal with the Leftist Ascendancy to free him and his son from
prosecution in exchange for his implementing the political agenda of the
Left, consider the following facts.

Sharon was just "freed" by the Attorney General he himself appointed. But
who is this Attorney General? He is not only a leftist, he is Yossi
Beilin's personal poodle:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/440470.html

Hannah Kim Haaretz: Mazuz "Beilin's man"
.
"The close ties between (Yossi) Beilin and (Attorney General Menachem)
Mazuz began when Beilin was serving as justice minister between 1999 and
2001. Relations between the two were so close, that Beilin tried at the
time to accelerate then attorney general Elyakim Rubinstein's elevation to
the Supreme Court, in order to appoint Mazuz attorney general. "That's
correct," confirms Beilin. "Unlike (Justice Minister Yosef) Tommy Lapid,
for whom Meni Mazuz was only a secondary candidate for the position, for me
Meni was the candidate."

Beilin had help from Mazuz in, among other things, the debate on the
question of torturing suspects by the Shin Bet security service. In
effect, Mazuz, along with his aide Yehoshua Schoffman, was considered
"Beilin's man" at the Justice Ministry.

"As justice minister I had many arguments with some of the prosecutors,
who evinced very conservative positions in the matter of Shin Bet torture
of suspects. Meni, however, agreed with my opinion against the system of
`shaking' and tortures. It is a blessing for the state that a person like
him is the attorney general," says Beilin."

2. Anna Lindh was the anti-Semitic woman member of the Swedish
parliament gunned down by a Swedish activist a while back. (Haaretz has
taken to calling all terrorists and mass murderers "activist" these
days. For example, in today's Haaretz headline, Hizbollah "activists" are
reported going to Iraq to murder Americans and maybe behead them. Yes,
Haaretz calls them "activists".) The "Anna Lindh" award has been awarded
to the extremist anti-Israel "journalist" from Haaretz, Amira Hass, on
record as favoring a single state with an Arab majority from Mediterranean
to Jordan River, replacing a liquidated Israel.

http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArtPE.jhtml?itemNo=441018&contrassID=2&subContrassID=21&sbSubContrassID=0
Hebrew
http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasen/spages/440864.html English

Last update - 04:37 20/06/2004
Haaretz journalist Hass awarded Anna Lindh award
By Anat Balint, Haaretz Correspondent


Haaretz journalist Amira Hass on Friday was awarded the Anna Lindh award,
created in memory of the slain Swedish foreign minister. Hass was the first
recipient of the award.

The $33,000 prize will be awarded annually by the Anna Lindh Memorial Fund
to an individual, organization, or project that operates in Lindh's spirit.
Lindh was stabbed to death in Stockholm in September.

Hass, who lives in Ramallah (but does not speak Arabic SP), was cited for
her "courageous reporting" from the West Bank and Gaza, which "contributes
to a better understanding of Palestinian life under Israeli occupation."

To read Hass' acceptance speech denouncing Israel, see
http://newiz.haifa.ac.il/pipermail/alef/2004-June/006026.html
Notethat this item was posted by a groupie of Hass, Dror Feiler. This
Feiler is the bloke who made a work of "art" in a Swedish museum
celebrating the woman suicide bomber who murdered 23 people in a Haifa
restaurant, many of them children, and including three generations of two
families, and he compared her to a pure Snow White. The local Israeli
Ambassador had vandalized the "art" to the horror of the pro-genocide
Caring Left.

Posted 6/22/2004 12:08:00 AM

1. The Ninth of Av and the Gaza Debacle


The Ninth Day of the month of Av in the Jewish religious calendar, or
"Tisha B'Av", is the day of serial tragedy in Jewish history.

It is the day on which the First Temple, the Temple of Solomon in
Jerusalem, was destroyed by the Babylonians. It was the day on which the
Romans decided to destroy the Second Temple. It was the date on which
Betar, the last fortress to hold out against the Romans during the Bar
Kochba revolt in the year 135, fell, sealing the fate of the Jewish
people. The expulsion of the Jews from England in 1290 is said to have
taken place on the day. In 1390 the Jews were expelled from most of
France on the Ninth of Av. In 1492, King Ferdinand of Spain issued the
expulsion decree, setting Tisha B'Av as the final date by which not a
single Jew would be allowed to walk on Spanish soil. World War I which
began the downward slide to the Holocaust began on Tisha B'av.

Religious tradition has it that the Ninth Day of Av was destined to
become the date for Jewish suffering and tragedies because of the sin of
the "Scouts". Moses had sent out a team of scouts to explore the Promised
Land, but they came back with nonsensical tales of giants and declaring
that it was a horrible place, one not fit for Israelites to live, one they
could never conquer. Their sin for "defaming the land", and NOT the sin of
the Golden Calf (as is often mistakenly presumed), was the reason why the
entire generation of those liberated from Pharaoh were condemned to die in
the desert, while only their children would be allowed to enter the
Promised Land. Jewish tradition has it that all episodes of Jewish
suffering and tragedy originate in the demonstration of indifference,
insolence, and mockery for the right and the claim by Jews to their own
homeland!

Ariel Sharon has struck his deal with the Israeli Leftist
Ascendancy. In exchange for his implementing the Mitzna Plan for Gaza,
the same plan Israeli voters rejected by a landslide, both in the last
general election and also in the Likud party referendum, Sharon and his
family will not be charged for election finance improprieties and for
accepting payoffs. Under the Sharon version of the Mitzna plan, the Gaza
Strip will be ethnically cleansed of Jews, as a reward for Palestinian
barbarism. The "settlers" will be marched out at bayonet point, and the
level of terror and violence coming out of the Gaza Strip will increase by
several magnitudes, no doubt to the astonishment of the Likud leadership.

Under the Sharon version of the Mitzna Plan, there is a timetable for
all Jews to be expelled from Gaza. The date from which no Jews will be
permitted to enter the Gaza Strip for any reason has been set at August 14,
2005.

August 14, 2005 is the Ninth Day of Av.

2. Was the Liberation of France from Germany a Mistake?
Former French PM: Creation of Israel by Balfour Declaration a Historic
Mistake

Former French PM: Creation of Israel by Balfour Declaration a Historic
Mistake
www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_e/ipc_e-1/e_News/news2004/2004_06/112.html
[IMRA: EUOBSERVER reported on 17 June that Rocard is in the running to
serve as president of the European Parliament for two and a half years in
a
deal between the socialist group (PES) and the European People Party's
(EPP)
www.euobserver.com/?sid=9&aid=16660 ]

GAZA, June 19, 2004 (IPC + Asharq Al-Awsat)-- [Official wesbite of the PA]
The former French Prime Minister and current member of the European
Parliament, Michel Rocard, blasted Israel as an "abnormal case in the
world", describing its creation by the 1917-Balfour Declaration as a
"historic mistake".

Rocard, who is also a well-known member of the French Socialist Party, was
delivering a lecture at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina on June 16, in which
he
said that the Balfour promise England gave to the Jews to create a
national
homeland for them in Palestine was a "mistake".

He also described the Israeli state as a "unique and abnormal condition
because it was created with a promise, and that millions of Jews gathered
from all around the world, creating an entity that continues to pose a
threat to its neighbors until today."

Rocard also drew attention to the fact that Israel was also historically
created on a racist basis, depending on armed conflict to set its borders.
Rocard referred to the colonization of the Arab world, of which his
country
was involved in, as the main reason behind the current state of violence
and
conflict in the Middle East.

However, Rocard warned that delaying a peace agreement between the Arab
states and Israel would "greatly increase violence in the region,"
pointing
out that the long-demanded reforms in the Arab states stemmed from the
inside, not imposed by outside forces.

"Peace must spring from a religious base . all reforms can be made
possible
through the teachings of our divine religions. To pray to God is accepted,
but violence is not," concluded Rocard.


3. Kerry - Second to Many:
http://jewishpress.com/news_article.asp?article=3837

4. Mazal Tov to the JWR:
http://jewishpress.com/news_article.asp?article=3823

5. Sisengagement Disenguity:
http://chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=8006

6. Dual First Amendement:
http://chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=7993

7. Does this man we can silence the Reform's "Religious" Action Center?
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell.html

8. Terror Chic in California:
http://chronwatch.com/link.asp?id=7997

9. The Un-Esther:
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/jonahgoldberg/jg20040618.shtml

Posted 6/22/2004 12:06:00 AM

1. Just when you think Shimon Peres could not possibly come up with
anything stupider than his "ideas" about peace, here comes today's banner
headline:

Peres blasts Netanyahu's `greedy capitalism'

Now actually that is not what he said. That is the way Haaretz cleaned it
up. What Shimon Peres really said is that Netanyahu is trying to create
"Piggy Capitalism" in Israel. Really.

You see, Netanyahu sometimes talks about competitive markets, busting
state-protected or state-erected monopolies, and the need for a market
economy. But Peres is an economic Luddite and one of those great
believers in the failed 18th century notions regarding "socialism". In
other words, Peres, and the rest of the Israeli Left, are at least as
dangerous and stupid when they speak about social and economic issues
as when they state their "ideas" about "peace".

Now you may recall how one of the Laborite lefties a few back referred
to non-Leftists as "rabble", and afterwards bumper stickers appeared
decalaring "I am Proud Rabble"? Well, I am a proud piggy capitalist.
Peres and his friends would like to restore the rigid socialist planning
that produced Third World deprivation in Israel in the 1950s, shortages,
and black markets, and kept Israel underdeveloped until the middle 1980s
and afterward, when the high tech revolution broke the socialist control
by the politicians over much of the economy. Peres' role models
are still the One-Meal-a-Day socialist paradises of Cuba and North Korea.

Meanwhile - I would like to start a new campaign whose slogan is
"Better to Eat Meals under Piggy Capitalism than to starve under Peacie
Socialism."

Peacie Socialism of course is the surefire recipe for the destruction
of Israel and for a Second Holocaust.

And to celebrate my new campaign, here is our marching song. It is to
the tune of "Piggies" by the Beatles, with a few minor adjustments:

The Little Peacies

Have you seen the little peacies
Crawling in the dirt?
And for all the little peacies,
Life is getting worse;
Cause all the little Jews,
Have food to eat of

Have you seen the bigger peacies
In their yuppie dives?
You will find the bigger peacies
STill preaching socialist lies
So all us little Jews
Won't have food to eat of

In their styes with Euro backing,
They don't care
About the terror all around.
In their eyes there's something lacking.
What they need's a damn good whacking.

Everywhere there's lots of peacies
Living yuppie lives.
You can see them out for dinner
With their piggy wives.
Clutching forks and knives to
Fry our bacon.


2. ISM Terrorist Lived with Suicide Bomber!!
San Francisco Examiner [SEE LAST PARAGRAPH]

Israel deports S.F. activist
Woman engaged in 'liberation struggle.'

By J.K. Dineen | Staff Writer
Published on Friday, June 18, 2004
URL: http://www.examiner.com/article/index.cfm/i/061804n_israel

A Mission District political activist who had traveled to Israel to
enroll in a Bethlehem-based Arabic school was deported from Israel
after the government there learned of her involvement in several pro-
Palestinian organizations.

On Thursday, after several days of trying to appeal her deportation,
Brooke Atherton, 26, was put on an Alitalia flight from the Israeli
Ben-Gurion Airport.

A native of Austin, Texas and a graduate of Stanford University,
Atherton made no apologies about her sympathy for what she
called "the Palestinian liberation struggle."

Atherton was active in the International Solidarity Movement, a pro-
Palestinian activist group, several members of which have been
killed in the West Bank and Gaza Strip while acting as "human
shields" in trying to protect Palestinians from Israeli troops.

Omer Caspi, a deputy consul for Israel's San Francisco consulate,
said he did not know the facts of the case.

"We're not going to prevent someone from entering [Israel] based on
membership with [those] groups," said consulate spokesman Jered
Bernstein.

In 2002, Atherton had lived for several months with a Palestinian
family, the son of which became a suicide bomber after his best
friend was killed by Israeli snipers. The Israeli government
ultimately bulldozed the home she had stayed in, Peter Atherton said.


3. The Feminazis and the Marxist Radio Station:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13825

4. Dangerous Peaceniks:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13845

5. Disingenuous Disengagement:
http://www.acpr.org.il/ENGLISH-NATIV/04-issue/barder-4.htm

Posted 6/17/2004 02:09:00 PM

1 Among the manifestations of Israel's dual justice system (one for
the Left and one for the not) is the fact that there is one separate set of
rules governing free speech for leftists and another for everyone else.
It is Israel's version of the First Amendment. Leftists may openly
endorse violence, anti-Semitism, and anti-Jewish terror. They may call for
Israel to be liquidated. They may denounce Israel in anti-Semitic
journals all over the globe as a nazi terrorist country. They may call
for wholesale violation of the law and may break the law itself. Arab
politicians may do all those things also. That is all protected speech.
But any statement of even lightly questionable taste or dubious
sensitivity by non-leftists is a felony, illegal under Israel's selective
laws against "racism" and "incitement".

Which brings us to football hooliganism. Israel has its share of
soccer (football) hooliganism, although it is considerably less ugly than
that of the British and some other Eurohoods. Israeli football yahoos do
not use violence, they only shout irritating cusses. Some of the worst
cussing is at matches between Arab and Jewish soccer teams. There a quite
a few top-rank Arab teams and one (from Sakhnin) just won the Israeli
national championship. Anyways, at Arab-Jewish playoffs, those cheering
on the Arab teams often scream anti-Semitic cheers, like "Death to the
Jews", or "Long Live bin Laden", and occasionally wave PLO or Hamas flags.
The Jewish rowdies yell things back, including "Death to the Arabs".
They all no doubt think this is harmless and playful. I personally would
take all football hooligans of all races and creeds and turn firehoses on
them, and then sentence them to 100 hours of nonstop listening to
sociology lectures.

Anyway, tasteless the chanting at soccer games is, without a doubt.
But criminal?

Well, it IS criminal, but only for the Jewish rowdies, not for the
Arabs. Jerusalem Magistrate Haim Liran yesterday convicted a Jewish
yahoo, one Yosef Cohen age 33 going on 12, for yelling "Death to Arabs" at
a soccer game, this as a violation of Israel's law against "racism".
Sentencing not yet announced. No Arabs have been indicted. No Arabs
have ever been indicted in Israel for anti-Semitism under Israel's
"anti-racism" law, ever. For anything.

When else are Israel's dual justices upset by "racism"? Well, the
prosecution can barely restrain itself over the arch-criminal and
terrorist David Ha-Ivri. What was Ha-Ivri's dastardly crime? Ha-Irvi
printed up and sold Tee shirts on which it was printed "Where there are no
Arabs, there is no terrorism." Really.

Now one can argue whether such a statement really constitutes "racism"
at all or merely a testable empirical assertion. The prosecutors claim
it implies Arabs should be expelled from Israel or PLO-occupied Jewish
lands, but that looks to me a whole lot like prosecutorial
deconstructionism. Whether or not the Tee shirt showed good or poor taste
is in the eye of the beholder. Meanwhile poor David Ha-Ivri is under
indictment and waiting to see whether he will be sentenced to hard labor
on a chain gang in the bayou for his dastardly deed.

More on the Tee Shirt Prosecution at
http://www.foundation1.org/papers-articles/democracy/haivri-freedom-speech.htm
and
http://www.israelnn.com/article.php3?id=3349
Stay tuned.

2. And he never even went to Iraq:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040615/ap_on_re_us/hollywood_homicides_3

3. ACLU's Jihad against the Poor:
http://www.naples-daily-news.com/npdn/pe_columnists/article/0%2C2071%2CNPDN_14960_2957144%2C00.html

4. Country Joe (60s rock druggie) having second thoughts about the Left:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13778

5. Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist. This is elementary common sense.
If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out
that of the other.
(George Orwell, Partisan Review, 1942)

6. Spook Spat:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/article.php3?id=3812

7. Ben Shapiro on why Jews should vote GOP:
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/bs20040616.shtml

8. Meanwhile, in the university of DUH:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38977

9. The Marxist-Islamofascist Alliance:
http://www.benadorassociates.com/article/5163

10. Nice pieces on Reagan:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1087368072291&p=1006953079865
and also
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1087368072294&p=1006953079865

Posted 6/16/2004 09:40:00 AM

Haaretz, the main Palestinian newspaper published in Hebrew, all this
week has been promoting it phony media hot air balloon about how
supposedly intelligence officers manipulated Sharon and his people into
thinking that Arafat and his stormtroopers were not interested in peace.
According to the New Journalism prevalent at Haaretz these days, 1400
murdered Israelis are not a sign of anything, anti-Semitic nazi propaganda
roadcast daily by the PLO does not tell you anything. Haaretz insists,
galaxies of evidence notwithstanding, that Arafat is still as devoted to
peace as Peres and Rabin convinced themselves he was back in 1993, and the
only reason things have gone haywire is that a senior intelligence officer
dared to state the truth. And how does Haaretz know? Because two other
senior intelligence officers from the Left gave interviews to al-Ard, er
I mean to Haaretz, and they said so.

Today the Haaretz Spin Doctors for Palestinian Liberation have a
follow up "scoop". They interview yet another Lefty, this time one Mati
Steinberg. Steinberg is a purported "expert" on Palestinians, at least
that is what Haaretz columnist Danny Rubenstein thinks. Rubenstein also
considers himself an expert on Palestinians. I do not know anyone else
who agrees. Steinberg might once have served as consultant for the
intelligence service head during the mind-numbingly stupid administration
of Haj Amin Ehud Barak, the gent who once said that if he had been born a
Palestinian he would have become a terrorist. The fact that Steinberg
could have been such a consultant may go far in explaining the singular
inability of the intelligence services to tell summer from winter and day
from night in those days (and these today). The fact of the matter is
that the intelligence services found out about the PLO what every Israeli
barber and gardener knew, only years after the former knew.

Haaretz scratches up Steinberg as someone giving artillery support to
the Haaretz fable that "inaccurate" intelligence assessments by officers
dissenting from the holy canon of Far Leftist evaluation of Arafat were
the ones responsible for the inability to strike a deal with Arafat.

The whole interview is at http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/439571.html
He is also a source for the previous pseudo-scoop at Haaretz
(http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=437895&contrassID=1
)

If Steinberg is such an expert, how come a web search did not turn up
a single reference to anything he ever published about anything?

Posted 6/16/2004 09:08:00 AM

The "Palestinian Refugees" ALREADY Got their "Right of Return"

By Steven Plaut




Try to imagine what the world would be like if Israel had granted the "Palestinian refugees" who fled from Israel in 1948-49 the right to return to Israel. Not to the West Bank. Not to the Gaza Strip. But to Israel within its pre-1967 borders.


Imagine a situation in which Israel agreed to allow tens of thousands of Arabs who fled from the battle zones of the Israeli War of Independence the possibility of returning to Israel, in many cases to the very homes they had abandoned during the fighting. Imagine how the same world, currently obsessed upon achieving a "right of return" for "Palestinian refugees" were forced to acknowledge that Israel had already granted the possibility for tens of thousands of these refugees to return to Israel, in many cases decades ago. What would the world then have left to bash Israel about? What would the anti-Semites have left to scream about, or the crowd claiming to be "anti-Zionists but not anti-Semites", who only enjoy seeing "Zionist" children mass murdered, or the self-hating leftist Jewish anti-Semites?


Well, hold on to your streimel. Cause I have a whopper of a
revelation to make to you. Israel DID grant the "Palestinian refugees" the right to return to Israel!


Let us back up a bit. In 1947-48, the UN proposed partitioning "Palestine" into a Jewish and an Arab state of approximately equal sizes. The Jews accepted the plan, and the Arabs rejected it. When the British Mandate over "Palestine" was ended under the UN decision, the Arab states attacked the newborn state of Israel, tried to annihilate it and its population, and at the same time gobbled up most of the territory that the UN had allotted to become a Palestinian Arab state. The territory that became Israel had NEVER been a Palestinian Arab state, ever. Most of the Arabs in "Palestine" had migrated in from neighboring Arab countries after the 19th century start of the Zionist Jewish immigration, taking advantage of the influx of capital, the availability of jobs and of services, like hospitals. In other words, the Arabs of "Palestine" in 1948, exactly like the Jews, were by and large people from families who had been in the country for three generations or less.


During the fighting in the 1948-49 war, thousands of Arabs living in the territory that became Israel fled. The main reason they fled was that they understandably wanted to put some distance between their families and the battle zones. At the same time, they were ordered by the Arab political leadership to leave the territory of Israel. Why take my word on this? Listen to Arab sources:


"The Arab States encouraged the Palestine Arabs to leave their homes temporarily in order to be out of the way of the Arab invasion armies."
- Falastin (Jordanian newspaper), February 19, 1949


"The Arab governments told us: Get out so that we can get in. So we got out, but they did not get in."
- from the Jordan daily Ad Difaa, September 6, 1954


""The Arab armies entered Palestine to protect the Palestinians from the Zionist tyranny but, instead, THEY ABANDONED THEM, FORCED THEM TO EMIGRATE AND TO LEAVE THEIR HOMELAND" (emphasis added), Abu Mazen, erstwhile "Prime Minister" of the Palestinian Authority, in "What We Have Learned and What We Should Do", published in Falastin el Thawra, the official journal of the PLO, of Beirut, in March 1976.

(there are scores of other Arab sources confirming this)


So how many Arabs fled? The number has become enormously distorted over time by the Bash-Israel lobby and by Arab propagandists and their apologists, who usually claim between 500,000 and a million. A more realistic estimate is between 300,000 and 450,000, based in part on Arab and UNRWA sources themselves (http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~samuel/refugees.html ). Most of these refugees ended up in some of the twenty-two sovereign Arab states, including those Arab countries from which they had migrated into "Palestine" in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the first place. In other words, the "refugees" went back to their earlier homelands in Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan. It was a sort of "right of return." At the same time, the Arab states carried out a near-total ethnic cleansing of around a million Jews, who had been living there since Biblical days and in many cases before these states had Arab populations (http://www.ajds.org.au/mendes_refugees.htm ). The Je
ws from
Arab countries left behind far more property than did the Palestinian Arab refugees (http://jewishrefugees.org/JusticeForJews.htm ). Most of these Jewish refugees were resettled in Israel


In the years immediately after World War II, there were more than 50 million refugees: Poles, Germans, Indians, Pakistanis, Hungarians, Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, etc. etc. They were all long ago resettled and forgotten, all except for the "Palestinian refugees". How come?


Because for decades, the Arab aggressor states found it convenient to utilize the "refugees" as a political and military weapon against Israel, not only of propaganda and spin, but of terrorism (http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~peters/resettlement.html ). "Palestinians" inside Arab states were trained as terrorists and sent out to murder. At the same time, there was enormous incentive for the Arab locals in the countries into which the refugees had entered to pretend also to be "Palestinian refugees" (http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=8650 ). After all, the UN and other agencies were handing out free food and perqs to anyone pretending to be a refugee from "Palestine". (For further information and documentation, see http://arabterrorism.tripod.com/FAQ/refugees.html )


Unlike all those many millions of other people considered refugees in the late 1940s, the "Palestinians" were the only ones for whom the "right of return" to their previous homes was considered an entitlement. The reason was not a selective affection for Palestinians, but a selective hostility towards Israel and Jews. Those demanding the wholesale "return" to Israel of Palestinian "refugees", including the countless thousands of non-Palestinians pretending to be Palestinian refugees, had one goal in mind, the eradication of Israel.


Israel would have been insane to allow itself to be inundated with real and make-pretend Palestinian "refugees", this in a tiny sliver of land the size of Maryland, at the same time that the 22 Arab states have territory-galore stretching from the Atlantic Ocean all the way to Central Asia! The Palestinian Arabs and their sponsors had tried to annihilate Israel and failed. Just like the infant United States, which refused to allow any of the tens of thousands of Tory Loyalists expelled by the patriots to "return" to the United States after the War of Independence, Israel was entirely in its rights to refuse to allow the "return" of masses of "Palestinians", whose migration was being demanded by those seeking to liquidate Israel via a demographic flooding.


There is just one little caveat though.


Israel DID let the Palestinian refugees return!! Tens of thousands of them were quietly allowed to return to Israel, in many cases to their original homes, once the fighting in 1949 subsided. Many continue to be admitted today within the framework of "family reunification" agreements.


From 1948 until 2001, Israel allowed about 184,000 "Palestinian refugees" or their families to "return" to Israel proper (Jerusalem Post, January 2, 2001; see also Ha'aretz 28 December 2000). These are in addition to about 57,000 Palestinians from Jordan illegally in Israel, towards whom the authorities are turning a blind eye (Ha'aretz, 4 April 2001 ). Not the West Bank, not Gaza, but Israel inside its pre-1967 "Green Line" borders! In the Camp David II meetings in 2000, Israeli leftist Prime Minister Ehud Barak rather insanely offered to allow another 150,000 "refugees" to enter Israel as part of a peace accord. The PLO's response was to launch pogroms and four years of atrocities, because the number was finite. (See also http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~jkatz/immigration-oslo.html )


The demand for a "right of return" by Palestinians to Israel is no doubt the most absurd political demand floating anywhere around the planet. There is already an Arab state in two thirds of Mandatory Palestine, named Jordan, and most of its population is Palestinian Arab. The Oslo Accords and Israel's Camp David II offer would have created a second Arab state in Palestine, in the West Bank and Gaza, as part of a comprehensive peace settlement. Any "Palestinian" from anywhere could have moved to "Palestine" or to Jordan, within the framework of such a peace, the same way any Jew who wishes to may immigrate to Israel, or any Armenian may immigrate to Armenia, and Greeks from the Greek Diaspora are automatically welcomed in Greece.


The PLO and the Islamofascist states backing it demand that in ADDITION to establishing a second Arab state in Palestine within the framework of any peace settlement, Israel itself must ALSO be converted into a third Arab Palestinian state, via unlimited massive immigration of people claiming to be Palestinians. Benjamin Franklin, who opposed granting even a dime in compensation to the Tory refugees expelled from the United States during the War of Independence, would be splitting his sides laughing.


But the most Orwellistic absurdity of all is that Israel long ago
DID grant the right to "return" to Israel itself to tens of thousands of "Palestinian refugees". Did this earn Israel the world's gratitude for its uniquely generous gesture? Did the world denounce the Arab fascist states who ignored this generosity and continued to seek Israel's destruction militarily and the genocide of its population? Do today's bleeding hearts and recreational compassion posturers, pretending to feel uncontrollable pain and caring for Palestinian refugees, even know about the limited "right of return" granted by Israel over the past decades?


Hindus have never been returned to Pakistan, Moslems from Pakistan have not been returned to India, ethnic Germans were not returned to their pre-war homes in Czechoslovakia, Poland, Russia or Romania, Japanese have not been returned to Manchuria, Greeks have not been returned to Anatolia, Jews have not been compensated for the billions they left behind when ethnic cleansing of Jews in Moslem countries took place, and Tory Loyalists were never returned to New England. But tens of thousands of "Palestinian refugees" were granted by Israel what none of these others received.


It is time to say enough is enough. The only remaining reasonable
plan regarding those still claiming to be "Palestinian refugees" is simply - Foggedaboutit.

Posted 6/15/2004 06:55:00 PM

1. Israel has a long tradition of having a dual judicial system. There
is one system that is a set of rules for courts, police and prosecution
and that operates for leftists, and another for everyone else. That, for
example, is the reason why Bibi Netanyahu and his wife were investigated
aggressively and persecuted on suspicion of taking some ashtrays and
trinkets from the Prime Minister's residence in Jerusalem when Netanyahu
had to crate things away in a hurry after losing the election. The
sleaze of Ehud Barak's campaign finance would be an embarrassment even in
a Third World country, but the prosecutors just never got around to
investigating any of that. And then there is the deafening silence by the
prosecution regarding the even worse set of slime that characterized Amram
Mitzna's ties with his building contractor friends. When it comes to
Mitzna sleaze, not a creature has ever been moving in the prosecutorial
house, not even a mouse.

But, as I said, the reason is very simple. It's the dual justice
system, again. That is why a Jewish fellow who made a T-shirt with a
slogan the Left thought was insensitive got prosecuted, but the worst
Leftists, openly endorsing destruction of Israel and supporting terrorist
atrocities, or Arab nationalists making little effort to hide their
support for genocide, just never seem to get investigated or prosecuted.
Actually they get tenured and promoted. Free speech absolutism holds for
leftist incitement and anti-Semitism, but denunciation of the Left is a
form of libel.

Now all of this is well known, but the sudden decision by the
Attorney General NOT to prosecute Ariel Sharon for his own election
finance sleaze just does not seem to fit into the pattern of the dual
justice system. It comes just hours after the same dual system passed a
court ruling that Israelis must not vote in favor of local municipal laws
outlawing sale of pork. The same court never ruled that it is a free
constitutional right to import KOSHER food!

Do not imagine the decision NOT to prosecute Sharon has anything to
do with the fact that the current Attorney General is himself a Sharon
appointment. That would show your unfamiliarity with Israeli politics.
In Israel the Likud always appoints leftists to public positions and
spends its time in office doing its best to help the Labor Party get
elected. The current Attorney General is a leftist. No exception.

SO how come the dual justice apparatchiks and nomenklatura are not
prosecuting Sharon and his kin? Was it because Sharon's sleaze was nickel
and dime stuff compared with the filth of the Barak and Mitzna campaigns?
Is it because the Attorney General thinks Sharon's penny ante
improprieties can wait till he finishes his term of office before being
investigated?

No, grasshopper.

The explanation is quite simple. The Left made Sharon an offer he
could not refuse. Sharon will implement the Left's political agenda,
including implementing the Mitzna Plan for the Gaza Strip, the same plan
rejected in a landslide by the Israeli voter. And in exchange the Left
will lay off Sharon and his family, the Left's pocket Attorney General
will dismiss the charges, the Left's Supreme Court justices will sit by
the sidelines in uncharacteristic humility, and the Labor Party and maybe
Meretz will back Sharon in the parliament when the handful of men and
women of principle and conscience in the Likud and in its coalition
partners abandon Sharon and vote against his appeasing the PLO, er I
meant the Israeli Left.


2. Politicalized Campus Hiring and Firing:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13765

3. Mikey Lerner's Comrades come out of their holes:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13750

4. Four Cheers for Ben Shapiro:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13764

5. Apologizing to the Arab World:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13767

6. Wall St Journal:
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110004022

The End of 'Arafat'
Even if he lives, the idea of him must die.

Wednesday, September 17, 2003 12:01 a.m. EDT

Reflecting the views of Israel's Cabinet, Vice Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
said publicly over the weekend that "killing" Yasser Arafat was "one of
the options." Secretary of State Colin Powell of course had to say that
exiling or executing Arafat would incite Arab rage, that it would be most
unhelpful to the peace process, etc., etc.

The truth is that Yasser Arafat's moment in history has ended. The world
would do well to think hard about how it came to pass, after so many years
and so much talk and blood, that the era of Arafat arrived at this
endpoint--with Israel saying that it may be worth the trouble simply to
kill him. How far we've come from the Rose Garden in 1993.

It is a fine irony that Mr. Powell spoke of the need to soldier on with
Yasser Arafat while the Secretary himself was standing in Baghdad for the
first time. Mr. Powell is in Baghdad because President Bush concluded
after September 11, and after the political failure of the first Gulf War,
that the years of Western self-delusion about the nature of global terror
must be brought to an end. Similarly, the delusions about Arafat also must
now end.

"Arafat" should enter history not merely as the name of one autocratic
man, but as the name we assign to an entire Western phenomenon of false
thinking. "Arafat," we now see, has come to represent the act of
self-delusion on a massive, international scale. "Arafat" is about
refusing to believe that an adversary is simply irredeemable. Most
importantly at this particular moment, "Arafat" is about allowing
barbarism, or its techniques, to challenge the political tenets of
civilized life.

For years the Western nations that emerged from World War II and the Cold
War have been playing with fire by pretending that their world and the
alternative world of "Arafat" could somehow coexist. More than anything,
this impossible notion reflected political and moral fatigue. Thus in the
1990s, the world came very close to letting "Arafat," this time in the
person of Slobodan Milosevic, achieve its logical end on European soil,
again. But the United States intervened and Milosevic is on trial for
crimes against civilized humanity. George W. Bush's decision to go to war
against the regime of Saddam Hussein was the opposite of "Arafat"
thinking; it was a decision to refute "Arafat."
If you look at the Nobel Prizes' own biography of Yasser Arafat, you find
this remarkable sentence toward the end: "Like other Arab regimes in the
area, however, Arafat's governing style tended to be more dictatorial than
democratic." That is to say, Arafat by his own choice of
governance--dictatorship over democracy--bears individual responsibility
for the legacy he leaves.

That legacy includes: the contemporary crime of hijacking and blowing up
civilian-filled airliners; the attempted destabilization of Jordan and
Israel and the successful destruction of Lebanon as a formerly sovereign
nation; and decades of violated international agreements, culminating in
the collapse of Oslo. Last year, in a perfect storm of bad faith, Arafat
was caught paying for the shipment of arms from Iran to the Palestinian
territories aboard the Karine A.

Across these years, the West, mainly the European nations, accomplished
the post-World War II feat of pretending that crime is not crime, so long
as the motives and politics for the crimes are moralized. The U.S. and
Israel participated as well in the pretense, bringing Arafat out of exile
in Tunis. The world has learned since that this apologetics (and much
direct funding) has made possible any crime, culminating in the anti-moral
act known as suicide bombers. Arafat most recently threw over Mahmoud
Abbas, and the fatigued West barely sighed in complaint.

This past September 3, in an article published in the Palestinian daily
newspaper Al-Ayyam, the Palestinian writer Tawfiq Abu Bakr wrote: "It is
difficult to find a greater and more deeply rooted culture of
self-deception than that in our Arab and Palestinian arena." But we in the
West fomented that culture of self-deception, by perpetuating the conceit
that Yasser Arafat--"Arafat"--was the singular vessel of peace for the
Palestinians. He manifestly is not.

The Israelis are in the best position to know what to do at this point,
though no option--seclusion, exile, trial or killing him--is particularly
attractive. But Israel has to live (or die) with Arafat. The U.S. for its
part, rather than sustain the Arafat conceit as it is doing now, should
say it is no longer going to be associated with Arafat and what he stands
for. As for the Palestinians and Arabs, the President of the United States
has said many times that he supports a Palestinian state. Now they too
have to decide whether the moment has arrived to get past "Arafat."

For those who will scream that this is more "unilateralism," we would say
that for some 30 years there were crucial breakpoints, most recently the
Oslo concessions and the Abbas opening, where credible pressure on Arafat
from important players in the West and Middle East might have avoided
arriving at where we are now. It never came. Not once.

Where Yasser Arafat spends the rest of his life is not important. What
matters is for the world to recognize that it is time to get rid of
"Arafat."

7. The Panty Jihad:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13779

8. Nice reference Tool:
http://arabterrorism.tripod.com/FAQ/refugees.html

Posted 6/14/2004 11:03:00 AM

1. Thomas L. Friedman, Anti-Semite

by Yashiko Sagamori


Imagine the outrage if the New York Times published an op-ed article that
would contain the following paragraph:

Yes, the race relations in the United States are still tense, but very few
African-Americans have been lynched here in four years. That's my idea of
racial harmony. There is no total victory to be had by the American Blacks
over racism in the United States, without total eradication of the KKK.
There is, though, the possibility of long periods without cross burnings
and lynchings, with the African American community holding the moral and
strategic high ground, so it can lead its life.

I didn't write the paragraph above. Thomas L. Friedman did. I only
replaced a few nouns in what he wrote in his column in the New York Times
on Sunday, June 13, 2004. Here it is, the way it was printed:

Yes, the Israel-Lebanon border is still tense, but very few Israelis have
been killed there in four years. That's my idea of peace. There is no
total victory to be had by Israel over Hezbollah or the Palestinians,
without total genocide. There is, though, the possibility of long
cease-fires, with Israel holding the moral and strategic high ground, so
it can lead its life.

It's not difficult to figure out why the New York Times decided to hire a
Jew to promote its consistently anti-Semitic views. It's hard to imagine
though how Mr. Friedman manages to look at his reflection in the mirror
without vomiting. Lots of practice, I guess.


The Cold-War origins of contemporary anti-Semitic terminology by Joel S.
Fishman
Fishman explains that the present surge in anti-Semitism comes from the
other end of the political spectrum.
Its contemporary manifestations are rooted in the ideology and political
culture of the former Soviet Union, whose legacy has survived its demise.
A special type of political language, which it devised, has served as the
bridge which links the earlier Soviet-styled anti-Semitism to that of the
present. By defining the terminology of political discourse about Israel
and the Jewish people in general, the Soviets set in place the cultural
foundations for a new type of political anti-Semitism that has penetrated
mainstream culture, particularly in Europe, and impaired the function of
international institutions such as the United Nations.
The essay can be found at: http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp517.htm
2. Language as a Tool against Jews and Israel, An Interview with
Georges-Elia Sarfati
Sarfati explains how the anti-Zionist ideology has developed into a series
of recognizable expressions, for example; occupied territories," "the
settlements," "Jewish settlers," "Israel's intransigence," "Israel,
theocratic and militarist state," "Solidarity with the struggle of the
Palestinian people," "The massacres of Sabra and Shatila."
Many of these appear in the Western media and often go unchallenged, and
we Jews, me included, have often used these expressions ourselves.
The essay can be found at:http://www.jcpa.org/phas/phas-17.htm
Both essays are published by the Jerusalem Centre for Public Affairs,
whose mission is to educate, inform and provide insights for the Jewish
world of every problem and potential threat to Diaspora Jewry and Israel.
Its website http://www.jcpa.org has a wealth of essays, discussion sheets
and other information.

2. Israel is not the only place where intelligence services are biased
and politicized. From today's Wall St Journal:
COMMENTARY








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Intelligence Tenets

By HERBERT E. MEYER
June 14, 2004; Page A16

The most dangerous spot in Washington is the intersection of politics and
intelligence; stand there long enough and -- as George Tenet recently
discovered -- you get run over. No one understood this better than one of
Mr. Tenet's more illustrious predecessors, William J. Casey -- the
brilliant, street-smart OSS veteran and Wall Street lawyer who managed
President Reagan's 1980 campaign and then served as director of Central
Intelligence. Indeed, one of the special pleasures of working for Bill
Casey was sitting with him at day's end while he wound down by musing
aloud about how politics and intelligence came together. Among the
priceless insights: "When you get elected president, you must move fast to
put your own people at Justice and CIA. In different ways, these are the
two bureaucracies that can destroy a presidency."

President Bush ignored half that advice. He moved fast to put his own
people at Justice -- and at the Pentagon, the State Department, even the
Agriculture Department. But he kept Mr. Tenet, a Clinton appointee, at CIA
and, worse, took no steps to bring in the kinds of outside talent the
agency sorely needed to shake things up in its collection division and
sharpen the agency's analytic skills. The result has been a cascading
series of intelligence failures and screw-ups that have hurt the country
-- and damaged the president's personal credibility to the point where it
may cost him re-election.

* * *
The 9/11 attacks were themselves the worst intelligence failure in our
country's history, caused largely by the CIA's inability to penetrate al
Qaeda, to track the 9/11 terrorists themselves as they traveled the world
to plan their deadly mission, and then to share whatever information the
agency did collect with the FBI. And whatever may turn out to be the truth
about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction -- whether they were destroyed or
moved to Syria or Iran before Saddam Hussein's overthrow -- it's obvious
that the CIA failed to provide an accurate assessment of what U.S. forces
would find in Iraq when they got there.

In addition, the CIA failed to project Saddam Hussein's war strategy -- to
melt into the population and then launch guerilla attacks rather than
fight our army head-on in the field -- failed to project the sorry state
of Iraq's physical infrastructure including its oil pipelines and electric
grids, and failed to accurately project the edgy, not-very-grateful
attitude of Iraq's political factions. And whatever may be going on with
Ahmed Chalabi, the CIA's clumsy efforts to discredit him through leaks to
selected news organizations have made the president himself collateral
damage.

One other intelligence failure, which has received less attention than
these but which may turn out to be the most serious of all, has been the
CIA's failure to draw an accurate picture of the prewar links between Iraq
and al Qaeda. While the CIA claims that Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden
had no more than an arms-length relationship, journalists including
Stephen Hayes and Laurie Mylroie have uncovered an overwhelming volume of
information which, when you pull the pieces together into a pattern, make
a persuasive case that Iraq and al Qaeda worked closely together in the
months and years leading up to 9/11. And as the information confirming
this linkage has piled up, the CIA has obstinately refused to reconsider
its judgment, preferring instead to trash the journalists who have so
obviously run circles around its own collectors and analysts.

(This is an eerie replay of what happened in the early 1980s, when the CIA
bureaucracy insisted -- in the face of all experience and common sense --
that the Soviet Union had nothing to do with the attempted assassination
of the Pope. When journalists including Claire Sterling and Paul Henze
uncovered powerful evidence of Soviet involvement, the CIA tried to
discredit the journalists rather than consider their information and its
horrifying implication. It took a special ad hoc team of agency officials
pulled together by Casey over the "intelligence professionals" objections
-- a word that doesn't begin to describe the Operations Directorate's
behavior; this was the nastiest, most vicious episode of CIA infighting
I've ever seen -- to finally figure out what really happened.)

Mr. Tenet's departure -- whether he jumped or was pushed doesn't really
matter -- gives the president a chance to correct his original mistake and
get the CIA going in the right direction. After all, the CIA is to our
government what radar is to the crew of a 747; it's the instrument they
rely upon to spot trouble up ahead, before it's visible, and in plenty of
time to deal with it. In other words, it's the CIA's job to project the
future, clearly enough and soon enough, so that the president can change
the future before it happens.

Push beyond all the bureaucratic gobbledygook, and you see that our
country's intelligence service does just two things with its $40 billion
budget: it collects information, then pulls that information together into
patterns, which take the form of National Intelligence Estimates that are
delivered to the president, his key advisers and members of Congress. More
than 90% of the intelligence budget and personnel goes toward "collecting
dots" and funneling them to the seventh floor of CIA headquarters -- keep
in mind that the "C" in CIA stands for "central" -- where the top-echelon
"dot connectors" work to see what patterns they form. When we have an
intelligence failure, by definition it's because one of two things went
wrong: We didn't collect the right dots, or we didn't connect them
properly.

During the Clinton administration, both parts of the CIA were allowed to
degrade. George Tenet has worked hard to improve the agency's collection
capabilities; if our espionage service is in good shape a decade from now
(it takes a long time to rebuild a spy service) he will deserve much of
the credit.

The big failure -- and the real source of all the failures in these last
few years -- lies in the agency's abysmal analytic skills. What's
happened, very simply, is this: The dot-connectors got shoved aside and
were replaced by bureaucrats, such as Mr. Tenet himself and his key
deputies. Think for a moment of our country's great scientific research
labs, such as the Salk Institute, Cold Springs Harbor Labs or Rockefeller
University. Each one, and others like them, are headed by world-class
scientists with proven track records of success (often with Nobel prizes
to prove it) and who have now reached that stage in their careers when
they can put aside their own research to manage teams of scientists who
will make the next breakthroughs. Because these leaders have themselves
succeeded so brilliantly, they have superb judgment on whom to hire, which
projects to back and which to set aside -- that priceless, unquantifiable
gut feel for where the big payoff lies -- what equipment to purchase and
how to structure the organization itself.

It's the same with intelligence. You cannot have a first-class
intelligence service unless you put at the very top of it men and women
with proven records of success at spotting patterns, at seeing where the
world is going and what the next threats are likely to be long before they
become visible. Intelligence isn't org charts; it's people. Get the right
ones in place and all the organizational problems somehow get resolved.
Indeed, the one quality all our great CIA directors have shared -- Allen
Dulles, John McCone, Bill Casey among others -- is this remarkable talent
for spotting patterns and connecting the dots.

* * *
In light of today's terrorist threat, President Bush might want to take a
page from President Reagan's playbook. When he named Bill Casey to head
the CIA, his orders were to get control of the agency -- fast -- and to
turn it from a lumbering bureaucracy whose judgments and predictions often
were flawed into a razor-sharp operation that was playing offense.

Knowing how long that would take -- and knowing that the country needed a
first-rate intelligence service right now -- Casey did something that to
this day few people understand. While striving mightily to improve the
CIA's collection and analytic divisions, he created virtually overnight
within the CIA an OSS -- a small cadre of operators and analysts brought
in from the outside, who knew their way around the world and could make
things happen, quickly and without a fuss, and who could pull together
information into patterns that eluded the CIA's career analysts.

While the CIA bureaucracy stumbled along as best it could -- and, in all
fairness, some of the agency's people were first-rate -- this "OSS within
the CIA" developed ideas for tripping up the Soviet Union no one else had
thought of. And it produced analyses, for instance about the Soviet
Union's looming economic implosion, that overrode the CIA's "official"
(and dead wrong) judgment that the Soviet economy was growing. All this
combined to give President Reagan the edge he needed.

The good news is that this country is filled with first-class
pattern-spotters with the talent and experience to do this again. You can
find them in politics, in business, on Wall Street, at leading think
tanks, in the high-tech corridors of Silicon Valley and Boston's Route
128, and in academia. Right now the president has an opportunity to reach
out and find the kind of CIA director with the brains and horsepower to
make the agency razor-sharp and playing offense. And he needs to move
fast.

We are at war, and our radar is busted. Indeed, it's fair to say we are at
war because our radar is busted. For the country's sake, we cannot
continue to fly blind.

Mr. Meyer served during the Reagan administration as special assistant to
the director of Central Intelligence and vice chairman of the CIA's
National Intelligence Council. His new video is "The Siege of Western
Civilization" (www.siegeofwesternciv.com).


3. Assessing Sharon's "Plan":
http://chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=7907

4. Mutilation in Islam:
MUTILATIONS AND MUSLIM LAW
By Jeff Jacoby
The Boston Globe

Sunday, June 13, 2004

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/06/13/mutilation_of_victims_and_muslim_law/

5. Animalist Kooks:
http://chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=7910

Speaking of animal nuts, pity poor Bridget Bardot. She is France's
;eading animal rights kook, but now she is being persecuted for "racism"
because she speaks out openly against homosexuality. Was I out of th
eroom when homosexuals became a race? Actually, she is just as outspoken
against teh Islamization of France, in her words. It is just getting so
hard to find people willing to be COMPLETELY politically correct about
EVERYTHING these days, and not just part of the PC agenda!

6. Academia - Detached from Reality, by Gerald Steinberg (MUST
READ!)
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1087100111415&p=1006953079865

For Academic kooks in the UK, see
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1233641,00.html

7. The Anti-Semitic Jihadist at the Phila. Inquirer:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1086934148827

8. The Difference between the Likud and the PLO is disappearing. Likud
leaders are trying to coopt Ami Ayalon into joining. Ayalon is slightly
more anti-Israel than is Arafat:
http://www.maarivintl.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=article&articleID=8514

9. Four cheers for Reagan:
http://www.maarivintl.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=article&articleID=8496

10. What part of the word "majority" doesn't the Left understand?
http://www.maarivintl.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=article&articleID=8436

11. A Real Peace Proposal:
http://israelnn.com/article.php3?id=3795

Posted 6/13/2004 10:35:00 PM

The Barking of the Intelligence Lapdogs
By Steven Plaut


"Israeli intelligence" has long been an oxymoron, and the Oslo
Disaster has been more than anything else a total failure of Israel's
intelligence services. Israeli intelligence services have been the very
last to understand what Arafat was up to when he started the "Oslo peace
process." Israeli intelligence officers were among the last people on
earth to understand that Arafat was using Oslo, not to reach a peaceful
settlement but rather, as a way to entrench himself in the West Bank and
Gaza in order to escalate terror and to prod the Arab states into war
against Israel. For 12 years Israeli intelligence services played lapdogs
for the Oslo political establishment and for the Leftist Ascendancy,
telling the politicians what they wanted to hear, preparing intelligence
reports that confirmed what the politicians were already mis-thinking,
refusing to point out to them their errors. Yitzhak Rabin, who had been
commander in chief of the military, demonstrably made clear to them in
1993 that it was not their place to point out where Rabin was in error in
his assessments of PLO intentions, but rather to back him up in his
"Conception" with their expert "artillery".

The entire senior officer corps of the Israeli military has long been
characterized by politicalization and bias, leaning towards the Left, not
to mention innate McClellenism and perpetual preference for finding
alternatives to fighting and to victory for Israel. But in many ways the
intelligence services are the worst of all. The idea that these
intelligence services are blind prisoners of their own misconceptions was
first born and manifested in their Pearl-Harbor-like failure to understand
what the Egyptians and Syrians were cooking up in October 1973, when they
launched the Yom Kippur War against a snoozing Israel. Completely
self-assured, completely self-persuaded, the spooks found out that their
absolute confidence that the Egyptians would never try a military assault
on the Bar-Lev Line died along with 2600 or so Israeli troops. They
discovered their complete misjudgment of the situation only when the
entire world learned the truth.

Some intelligence! Some early warning system! That 1973 Yom Kippur
War intelligence failure came close to producing a Second Holocaust.

But the total failure of the Israeli intelligence services starting
with the 1992 Oslo Initiative was in some ways even worse. Unlike the
1973 Debacle, any layman with eyes in his head and an ounce of common
sense could analyze in the early 1990s just what was wrong with Beilin's
and Peres' infantile "plans". Just six weeks after the 1993 White House
Oslo Pawshake, I published my first anti-Oslo article, in Midstream
magazine in the US, followed by other articles, and explained how in
spite of the Oslo Euphoria at the time Arafat would revert to terror,
would use the territories, arms and funding he was being granted to launch
war and atrocities, and I predicted that the PLO would fire rockets and
mortars from what were about to become the "Palestinian Zones" into
Israeli civilians areas. I predicted that Arafat would not respond to
Israeli generosity and goodwill with generosity and goodwill, but with a
very short period of quiet, during which he would pocket his gains,
followed by war and terror. I did not have access to any secret
intelligence sources. I did not have a professional staff of hundreds of
analysts working for me. I simply read the newspaper without blinkers.

At the time, the entire world was in the throes of Oslo euphoria.
It is hard to recreate for those who are too young to recall it or who
have forgotten how universal and overwhelming was the Oslo Euphoria,
especially in Israel. I was demonized and attacked as a fanatic for
expressing doubt about the genius of the Rabin-Peres initiative, for
claiming it would fail and produce a disaster. I was repeatedly
threatened and some attempted to sabotage my position in the University of
Haifa for my daring to express dissident thoughts about the "peace
process." The McCarthyism got far worse when Rabin himself was
assassinated, and every single Israeli who had opposed Rabin's "policies"
was being accused of collective guilt in Rabin's murder.

I was not the only person to see clearly in 1993 what was about to
transpire and do not claim to have any special talent or prescience.
There were plenty of people around who called things right on the mark,
and not just in Israel. (Norman Podhoretz of Commentary Magazine was the
second writer in the American media to call things correctly in early
1994, shortly my Midstream article appeared.) A minority of commentators
inside Israel also scored 100% in perfect foresight. At the time, though,
they were denounced as haters of peace and as fanatics who put land ahead
of peace. They were quiet heroes. Someday Israel will build a museum in
their honor, and a National Museum of Folly to document the insanity and
stupidity of their opponents. The Jewish people has a long collective
memory and there is no doubt about how things will eventually be
remembered.

But none of these dissidents worked for Israeli intelligence. Or to
be more precise the only one with correct foresight who DID work for
Israeli intelligence was General Yaakov Amidror, and he was ignored and
then forced into retirement. He still speaks out, but is dismissed by the
media, themselves under the near totalitarian hegemony of the Leftist
Ascendancy.

Throughout the 1990s Israeli intelligence was telling Rabin and Peres
what they wanted to hear. It refused to tell them that the Oslo Emperor
was naked. It refused to point out the existential dangers. It refused
to point out the astronomical stupidity of the "New Middle East"
preconception. It refused even to report accurately on the preparations -
and then on the perpetration - of atrocities by the PLO and its
surrogates. Daily snipings were minimized and pooh-poohed. The snoops
and spooks were often effective in catching the terrorist perps before
they carried out their intentions, but at the same time Intelligence
reports reassured the political leadership that Arafat would indeed
suppress the Hamas and the Jihad, not collaborate with and shelter them.
The intelligence community refused to speak out, while every day brought
new proof that Arafat had no intention of complying with anything at all
and was seeking nothing but escalation. Even after the fact, their vision
was 20-100,000,000, legally blind even in retrospect.

By the mid-1990s, one needed no special secret documents nor special
analytic skills to see what was before one's own face. One needed horse
sense. When Arafat ordered his stormtroopers to open fire on Israelis,
using the very same weapons Israel had provided the PLO, in the Tunnel
Pogroms under Netanyahu, the main people in Israel taken by total surprise
were those in the intelligence services.

There is an old quip that painters and intelligence officers both tend
to fall in love with their models. Year after year, the Israeli
intelligence services remained captives of the politicians' wishful
thinking, refusing to take heat from their nominal civilian bosses should
they dare to state the simple truth. When Israel under Ehud Barak's
people was prepared to offer Arafat absolutely everything he was
demanding, Arafat spit upon them and opened a new round of atrocities, the
misnamed "Al-Aqsa Intifada." Among those taken completely by surprise at
this were the intelligence services, once again.

The intelligence services turned in report after report searching for
the "half full glass of water", for signs of PLO moderation and
willingness to compromise.

But things have gotten completely Orwellian in the past few days.

Over the past few weeks, a media cat spat has broken out between a
handful of ex-intelligence officers. They have been accusing one another
in the media of misjudgment and of cooking up biased intelligence reports
to serve the political establishment. They accuse one another of being
captives of false preconceptions.

But they do NOT mean what you think!

The extent to which Israeli intelligence is STILL prisoner of its nave
delusions is in fact proved by this latest spook cat spat. What has been
happening is that several leftist intelligence ex-officers, and notably
ex-head of military intelligence Amos Malka and senior intelligence
officer General Ephraim Lavie, have been attacking another ex-intelligence
officer, General Amos Gilad, for his having dared to tell the truth.
Gilad, for his part, has denied the accusations vigorously! His two
critics are for all intents and purposes the Daniel Ellsbergs of Israel.

No, that was not a set of typos and misprints in the previous
paragraph. The problem is this. The Left is claiming that over the past
two years Israeli intelligence has misled the Sharon government by
providing it with intelligence reports indicating that Arafat is not
interested in peace, is interested only in escalation, is personally
behind the violence, and that Israel has no "partner" in Arafat or the PLO
with which it can pursue a negotiated settlement. In Leftist "minds",
these reports served to grant legitimacy to erroneous actions and
strategic notions of the Sharon government, and no they do not mean the
erroneous plan for expelling the Gush Katif settlers. In particular, the
Left is soiling itself in outrage because a while back Sharon's people
circulated a report in Washington prepared by the intelligence services
proving Arafat was behind the terror, bombings, and other atrocities, and
is in violation of every comma in the Oslo Accords.

The Left, and this includes the two ex-spooks who ran to the
Far-Leftist daily Haaretz with their accusations, are accusing General
Gilad of sucking up to the Likud political establishment and telling
Sharon's people what they want to hear. Gosh, when have intelligence
officers in Israel ever sucked up to politicians before and told them what
they want to hear? The Left claims this proves incompetence and
politicalization of the intelligence services. In a sense it does, but
not in the way they mean.

Israeli senior intelligence is so politicized and so incompetent that
here 1400 murdered Israelis later and tens of thousands of destroyed
Israeli families later they are still so passionately clinging to their
Oslo delusions that two of the highest are willing to go public in
denouncing anyone who dissents from the Grand Delusion. They are in
effect accusing General Gilad of telling the truth! How dare he? They
are outraged that he assisted Sharon's people in their Washington "public
relations" project in preparing documents proving Arafat was behaving
treacherously. Heavens to Mergatroyd. General Gilad, instead of telling
them to stuff it, has responded by protesting his own "innocence",
insisting he never bent intelligence reports in the direction of the
truth.

One of these days Israeli intelligence might discover that the
world is round. If it is up to these Ellsbergian leftist intelligence
"dissidents", then no one in intelligence should dare to report such a
truth or actual facts. And if anyone does report that the earth is round,
then they will be denounced by Haaretz. Just like Seven Up was once
calling itself the Un-Cola, Haaretz in this affair has behaved as the
Un-Newspaper. It makes less and less pretense to be reporting the news,
and more and more effort to distort the news as part of its systematic
campaign of anti-Zionist indoctrination. It runs a full-page scoop on the
ex-spooks today (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/438249.html and
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/438280.html ), in which it denounces
an intelligence officer for stating that Arafat is uninterested in
reaching any negotiated settlement. Such "journalism" sinks below the
level of Pravda under Khrushchev.

Haaretz wants a pure set of intelligence services, one which will do
nothing but serve as the lapdogs of the extremist Left, will continue to
throw sand in the eyes of the public, and will prepare Israel for future
Pearl Harbor surprises, or at least new Yom Kippur surprises.

Posted 6/13/2004 04:59:00 PM

1. "Stop being afraid. There is no danger that these guns will be used
against
us. The purpose of this ammunition for the Palestinian police is to be
used in their vigilant fight against the Hamas. They won't dream of using
it against us, since they know very well that if they use these guns
against us once, at that moment the Oslo Accord will be annulled and the
IDF will return to all the places that have been given to them. "
Israel's former Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin

2. Defend the Bedouin Soldier from the ISM Terrorists!
Mistrial, Israeli style
By Judy Lash Balint June 13, 2004


A 20-year-old Israeli Army private in handcuffs is led into a military
court on a base near Ashkelon. Some eighty supporters are there to greet
him, waving Israeli flags and carrying signs reading: "Save Our Soldiers";
"Free the Soldier"; "Prosecute the ISM"; and "No Human Shields in War
Zones."

The soldier, son of a poor Bedouin family from the north of Israel, is
accused of manslaughter in the death last year of British International
Solidarity Movement (ISM) agitator, Tom Hurndall.

Hurndall, privileged product of a British public school, was shot in
Rafiah in April 2003 as he was making his way to the front lines of the
area where the Israeli army was operating to uncover and destroy tunnels
used to convey arms and ammunition from Egypt into Israel.

Israeli Army officials told the Associated Press that an initial
investigation, based on soldiers' accounts, indicated a Palestinian fired
on a watchtower and the soldiers returned fire, hitting someone believed
to be the gunman. Hurndall deliberately put himself in the area of known
military operations, and took a bullet intended for a terrorist. The IDF
noted, "It is important to keep in mind the danger posed by the illegal,
irresponsible, and dangerous behavior of the ISM group that led to the
tragic death and sad results."

Hurndall was well aware of the risks inherent in his activity in Rafiah.
In one diary entry he wrote: "A few hundred meters away there are army
snipers, and each one of us can appear in a sniper's telescopic sight. It
is possible to say with certainty that they are watching us, and my life
is in the hands of an Israeli marksman or settler. I know that I will
probably never know what hit me, but that is part of my role - to be as
exposed as possible."

We'll never know why Hurndall viewed his exposure as a crucial factor in
bringing about peace in the Middle East, but this upper middle class lad
from north London first tried his hand at being a human shield in Iraq,
before arriving in Israel. Hurndall had joined a group of international
volunteers who wanted to put themselves in front of Iraqi schools and
hospitals, but when they arrived, it soon became apparent that sites would
be selected by Iraqi government officials. After two weeks of heated
discussion, the shields were given a list of seven sites and an ultimatum
to "start shielding or start leaving." Hurndall left, passed through
Jordan where he heard about the activities of the ISM, and entered Israel
on a tourist visa.

It's worth noting here that a number of ISMers seem to be the
well-educated offspring of well-to-do parents. Hurndall attended
Winchester College, one of England's most venerable and prestigious
boarding schools. Tuition at the 600-year-old school is around $30,000 per
year. Tom's father, Anthony Hurndall is a well-known London property
lawyer. Mother Jocelyn, who says she is proud of her son, is head of a
learning support unit. Fellow ISM volunteer, Radhika Sainath, a U.S.
citizen arrested three times for her violation of Israeli law during her
repeated entries into Israel between 2002-2003, now plans on attending
Columbia University graduate school, and is the daughter of two Orange
County, California physicians.

In Hurndall's case, the resources and prominence of his family enabled
them to hire a high profile British attorney to realize their efforts to
prosecute an Israeli soldier for the death of their son. They chose Imran
Khan, a controversial high-powered lawyer who tried to prevent then
Israeli Chief of Staff Shaul Mofaz from entering Britain for an official
visit in 2002 because of "war crimes."

Khan and the Hurndalls ran an effective public campaign that led to
British pressure on Israel to finger an Israeli soldier for the
unfortunate death of young Tom.

Hurndall had control over his fate and went with full awareness into a
battle zone. Tragically, he paid the price. The young Bedouin soldier
arrested in January 2004 after Hurndall's demise in a London hospital was
serving his country and tried to do his part to smash terrorism.

Now he too is paying the price of the ISM's unconscionable efforts to put
themselves in the way and encourage their volunteers to violate closed
military zones. The accused has spent the last six months in jail. His
family is so poverty stricken that they have been able to afford the bus
fare to visit him only once during his incarceration. So far, his legal
representation has been court-assigned, although Nitsana Darshan-Leitner
of the Shurat HaDin Law Center has offered to assist the family.

In court the other day, the accused, a stocky, dark young man dressed in a
plain military green uniform, sat silently as his defense attorney
addressed the court. His eyes didn't engage anyone in the room - neither
the witness nor the dozens who had come to support him seemed to be of
interest.

The three-judge panel in the small, wood-paneled courtroom listened
intently as a military interrogator answered questions about the
interrogation and confession extracted from the accused.

How could the court take this written six page confession seriously, asked
the attorney, when the defendant neither reads nor writes Hebrew? Why did
interrogators have the defendant sign the confession at night, at the end
of more than 9 hours of interrogation when he was tired and hungry, after
he had allegedly stated: Give me a cup of coffee and a cigarette and I'll
sign anything.

Neil Wiggan, political office for the British Embassy was present in court
with a Hebrew-English interpreter. He took a few notes, but spent most of
the time catching up on his reading.

"The soldier is being scapegoated by the prosecution to appease the
British Foreign Office," charged Shurat HaDin attorney Leitner.

Worse than that, noted Shimon, one of the supporters who had bussed down
from Jerusalem. "It's the wrong entity on trial here. It's the ISM who
should be sitting there accused, not this soldier who was doing his best
to defend us from terrorist evil."

3. http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13737That Right
Wing
Media Conspiracy?

4. Anti-Semite and Terrorist as "Victim":
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1086687048191652.xml

5. Grains of Reform?
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/stalinsky200406100907.asp

6. Interesting web sites:
http://dissectleft.blogspot.com/ and also
http://pcwatch.blogspot.com/

7. Anti-Semantites: http://www.sydneyline.com/Language%20Wars.htm

8. France, Land of Hatred:
http://www.americanthinker.com/index.php

9. European Anti-Semitism:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1086836427785&p=1006953079865

Nude Anti-Bush Calendar in Seattle:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/paynter/177316_paynter11.html

Posted 6/10/2004 08:22:00 PM

Subject: Madame Gulag's New Gig


Madame Gulag's New Gig





At the margins of Israeli politics, there has always been one or more hard-line Stalinist Communist Parties. The main one has gone by various names, including Maki (acronym for Israel Communist Party), RAKACH, and Hadash. Originally, back in the 30s and 40s, it was a tiny party mainly of hard-line Marxist Jewish ideologues, many who had grown up in Eastern Europe under Czarism and shared the animosity towards it of the commies in Russia. Over time, Arabs joined. The head of the party well into the period of statehood was a Jew, Meir Vilner (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A47192-2003Jun11¬Found=true ). Curiously, he was one of the signers of the Israeli Declaration of Independence, a matter of profound embarrassment for the Stalinists still in the party today. He signed it because at the time Stalin was backing Israeli statehood to embarrass Britain.



Anyway, over time the Arab and Jewish Stalinists in the party found they could not get along with one another, an interesting commentary on how well communism produces ethnic fraternity, and they split into two. The Jews at the time formed MAKI (Israel Communist Party) while the Arabs and a handful of the most anti-Semitic Jewish Stalinists around formed the "New Communist List" RAKACH. Over time, the former imploded, as its members all died off from old age or senility. RAKACH then changed its name to HADASH, technically a coalition of anti-Israel parties, but in reality it remained under the direct control of the communist central committee, which in turn reverted to using the older name MAKI once the Jewish version of MAKI had faded into geriatric oblivion. In other words, HADASH is a typical communist "coalition" controlled by the hard-liners, kind of like A.N.S.W.E.R. on the Left Coast of the US. HADASH today picks up a lot of Arab votes, mainly because voting
for it
is a nice way Arabs can show their contempt for Israel and Jews. Most Arab voters are not really hard-line Stalinists, and I suspect they would not believe you if you told them that communism loathes all religion. Most of the Arab students at my and at other Israeli universities are HADASH members and voters, as shown in student union ballots.

HADASH and its core group MAKI never quite got around to renouncing Stalinism, even after the Soviet empire collapsed. There are literally dozens of front groups, mainly "peace" and "women's" groups, usually each with a membership that could fit on a park bench, that are simply HADASH front groups. The commies never got any reps into the Israeli trade union structure, even back in the 30s. HADASH is generously funded by Guess Who. It is strongly anti-American, anti-West (see http://www.kke.gr/cpg/int_meet99/interventions/Israel.html and http://www.me-ontarget.com/archarticles/arch021112/021208lastcommi.htm ), pro-terror, anti-Zionist, and supports the few remaining commie regimes, in Cuba and North Korea. I am sure they are very unhappy with all those markets opening up inside Red China. Feeding "workers" has never been a very important communist agenda item.

Until very recently, the HADASH leadership, including its Knesset representation, always included one token Jew, and for most of the past two decades that token was Madame Gulag, also known as Tamar Gozansky. Madame Gulag was strongly convinced that Stalin's only mistake was he did not go far enough. The Arab leaders in the party liked having her as its Rent-a-Jew, and her presence allowed the party to continue to pretend to be a joint Jewish-Arab "peace and equality" party. A handful of other Jewish communists voted for it, and a few tenured commies, like Ilan Pappe, ran on its slate for the Knesset but did not get in.



A couple of years back, internal HADASH rules forced Madame Gulag to step down from her Knesset seat. There was talk that some other Jewish Stalinist might replace her (see http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=251274&contrassID=2&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y ), but in the end the real leaders of the party, the Arab pro-terrorists in it, decided to end the fiction and ran an all-Arab slate. Incidentally, many of the heads of the party are Arab Christians, not Moslems, and at the municipal level they control Nazareth, of all places, plus some other Arab towns.



SO what ever became of the lovely Madame Gulag? No she is not knitting shrouds like Madame DeFarge. And no she is not making commercials for shaving cream, which was my original suggestion ('if this cream can soften MY whiskers just imagine what it can do for YOU!"). She pretends to suddenly care about children and sits on assorted child welfare NGOs, no doubt all of them communist fronts. When she was in the parliament, they let her chair the Knesset Early Childhood Committee, I guess figuring she could not pass on any state secrets from there to North Korea or Syria. Her concern for children never made her have any regrets over the 30 or 40 million children killed by communism in the 20th century. Her two sons are also doctrinaire communists and active in commie activities (one runs the "Israel-Cuba Friendship Committee").



But other than posturing as a "care bear" about kids, what is she up to?



Well, hold on to your streimel!



Because it turns out that Madame Gulag has been hired to teach in the department of education at ?(drumroll) ? Ben Gurion University! Yes, the very same university - which has been in the news so much for its cotillion of far-leftist anti-Israel and anti-Semitic extremists - has now hired Madame Gulag as an adjunct in education. I guess she gives a seminar for all teachers interested in getting jobs in North Korean re-education camps or in Cuban Gulag torture facilities. Don't ask why she did not take a gig teaching at the University of Havana, by the way. I presume she could not make do on the $18 per month salary she'd get there.



Yes, the very same Ben Gurion University that produced convicted nuclear traitor and communist, Mordecai Vanunu, the university that has given us Lev Grinberg, sociologist who thinks killing terrorist leaders makes Israel a genocidal state, and Neve Gordon, whose articles are published by the neonazi Zundelsite and the anti-Semitic rag "Counterpunch" and who declares Israel a fascist, terrorist, apartheid country, and so many others of their genre ? is now employing Tamar Gozansky as an "expert" on education!



Makes you wanna pick up the phone and call some of the Zionist donors and contributors to the University in your town?


Old BG is no doubt having conniptions in his grave?

2. A sane voice at Berkeley:

http://www.calpatriot.org/article.php?articleID=8

Posted 6/10/2004 03:22:00 PM

1. The Only Good Infidel:
http://jewishworldreview.com/0604/chafets_2004_06_10.php3

2. Bengali Pro-Zionist Arrested:
http://web.israelinsider.com/bin/en.jsp?enPage=ViewsPage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enDispWho=Article%5El3715&enZone=Views&enVersion=0&

3. Reading the Bible is unconstitutional:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/06/08/bible.ruling.ap/index.html

4. Contact: Shurat Ha Din Law Center: 972-(0)8-973-3336

ISRAELI CIVIL RIGHTS GROUP TO PROTEST PROSECUTION OF IDF SOLDIER ACCUSED
OF HOMICIDE

Shurat HaDin - Israel Law Center will be holding a solidarity rally in
support of the IDF officer on trial for homicide in a military court near
Ashqelon this morning.

The rally will take place at 9:00A.M. at the Kastina Military Court,
where
the trial is due to commence. Dozens of IDF supporters are expected to
take
part.

Shurat HaDin is calling for the case against the soldier to be dismissed.

The 20 year old officer has been accused of killing Tom Hurndall, a
British
militant affiliated with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM).

It is alleged that the officer shot and seriously wounded Hurndall in the
Rafah Camp in Gaza in April 2003. Hurndall and other ISM members
infiltrated Gaza to serve as "human shields" and disrupt IDF
anti-terrorism
operations there. When Hurndall died this past January in a London
hospital,
the Israeli officer was indicted for the shooting.

Initially, the IDF conducted a thorough investigation, and ruled that the
officer acted correctly and lawfully. However, following an outrageous
campaign of pressure, intimidation and diplomatic threats by the British
government, the officer was arrested and is now falsely charged with
homicide.

The case against the officer has become a cause celebre for Israel's
opponents in the United Kingdom.

"The young officer is being scapegoated by the prosecution to appease the
British Foreign Office," said Shurat HaDin Director Nitsana
Darshan-Leitner,"Hurndall and the ISM had no right to infiltrate into the
Gaza camp and interfere with IDF operations. The security services have
identified close links between the ISM and terrorist organizations in the
Palestinian Authority. We intend to conduct our own investigation into the
circumstances of the alleged shooting and ensure that the officer receives
a
fair trial."


FOR MORE INFORMATION: 972-(0)8-973-3336
On-line: www.israellawcenter.org

5. Don't hold your breath for Arafat to be tried:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13704

6. The Tunnels of Gaza:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13697

7. Why anti-Zionism is a form of racism:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0%2C3604%2C1095694%2C00.html
See also http://sicsa.huji.ac.il/Antizionism.htm

8. The ACLU's Jihad against Religion:
http://www.metnews.com/articles/2004/seal060904.htm

9. French Punishment for Anti-Semitism: Write 100 times I must not
murder Jews:
http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?strwebhead=Attacks%20in%20France%20intensifying&intcategoryid=2&SearchOptimize=Jewish%20News

10. Anti-Semitism at the New Yorker
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1086577708814

Posted 6/08/2004 09:10:00 PM

1. A Victory for the Quota Strumpets!


Well, we've all been so busy with more important matters that we never
quite got around to discussing the latest victory for the quota strumpets.

Who are the quota strumpets? The quota strumpets are the extremist
radical feminizts. They are pledged to battle against all manifestations
of gender heterogeneity. They will not rest until all differences are
forcibly eliminated between men and women. Curiously, they have never
spoken out against the fact that prisoners in jails are so predominantly
male. Yet, they believe that the entire universe should be subjected to
gender quotas, all in the name of "affirmative action". And, like most
forms of politically correct stupidity, they are making great strides in
Israel.

It seems the quota strumpets, also known as the radical moustache
madams or bovine brethren, were
really upset because in the Ramat Hasharon suburb of Tel Aviv, the city
was underfunding the women's basketball team relative to that of the
chauvinist pigs. Such is the sort of injustice Israel's feminists are
pledged to suppress with all force necessary. Have you noticed that the
correlation between anti-Israel hatred or support for Islamofascist
terror - and radical feminism - is about 100?%

Now let me take a step or two backwards here. First, I happen to be
one of those males who has never in his pathetic sheltered life attended a
sporting event. I have no patience for sports. I could not care less who
wins the Euro-matches or the Super-Bowl. I would prefer that all sports
columns in newspapers be published in Aramaic or Latin.

Having noted that, I am also aware that I am not representative of the
rest of the emotionally-crippled patriarchy. My uneducated guess,
computed while trying to place a long-distance call to get in touch with
my inner bitch, is that for every 100 males who attend organized sporting
events or who wish to participate in such team sports, the number of
similar women is exactly zero, but I could be off by one or two.

Accordingly, I was not exactly moved to tears when I learned that in
Ramat Hasharon, the City was spending more money on male sports than
female sports. After all, locals, and that includes local women, no doubt
prefer watching male teams compute. I personally would have voted for
re-allotting all the money spent in the world on sporting events anywhere
to promoting bluegrass music and Talmudic study. But what do I know?

Now being one of the few guys around who believes in democracy, I have
no problem with other people attending and participating in organized sports,
just as long as they never report to me which soccer team got the most
home runs, or baskets or birdies, or whatever it is that soccer teams get.
I also really wish they would never ask me on Sunday mornings how I liked
the weekend game. (Game? There was a chess championship over the
weekend?)

Two local gyno-shysters from Ramat Hasharon, named Hila Nuller and
Rivka Muller Olshitzky (spelling?), filed a suit with the local court
against the City. It went all the way to the Supreme Court. Israel's
Supreme Court is a bastion of anti-democratic "judicial activism", so
gender equality of opportunity is one of the many concepts well beyond its
grasp. It has already approved of gender quotas and other forms of
arbitrary "affirmative action" racism and sexism. So this week, not only
did it grant the gyno-shysters their motion but it ordered Ramat Hasharon
to overfund women's sports until the Messiah shows up or until the Israeli
Supreme Court becomes democratic, whichever happens second. Yes, Ramat
Hasharon was ordered to spend a buck and half on women's team sports for
each and every buck it was allotting to local men's team sports. The two
lawyers involved are beside themselves in quota-rific bliss!

Sorry, I have to go now and wash the dishes. Coming, sugar plum!

2. Reagan and Israel:
http://web.israelinsider.com/bin/en.jsp?enPage=ViewsPage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enDispWho=Article%5El3720&enZone=Views&enVersion=0&

3. Meretz proposes new Israeli borders. Israel will redeploy to the
Kibbutz Nachshon Mini-Israel:
http://web.israelinsider.com/bin/en.jsp?enPage=ArticlePage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enDispWho=Article%5El3606&enZone=Travel&enVersion=0&

4. Yes Saddam was tied to al-Qaida:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=13679

Posted 6/08/2004 09:38:00 AM

1. I am sure you are sobbing as uncontrollably as myself over the fact
that a BBC journalist was killed in Saudi Arabia yesterday by al-Qaida
terrorists. Incredibly, the BBC described the kills as "terrorists", not
militants, not activists, not "people Israel considers to be terrorists",
but terrorists.

The report came right before the BBC report comparing Marwan
Barghouti, the mass murdering nazi just convicted and sentenced to five
life terms by an Israeli court, to Nelson Mandela. It is not clear why
the BBC did not compare him to Albert Schweitzer.

2. Have no fear that Barghouti will actually rot in prison, by the way.
Israel mindlessly has no capital punishment. That means that the next
time the PLO or its sisters grab some Israeli hostages, or the next time
Sharon wishes for a nice Kodak moment to take some prosecutorial heat off
himself and his family, Barghouti will be put back on the street, to
revert to his wholesome civics activities.

3. Survey: Palestinians want democracy 'like Israel'

Khaled Abu Toameh Jerusalem Post - Jun. 5, 2004

Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza strip view Israeli democracy as the
preferred model for a regime that they would like to see applied in a
future Palestinian state, according to a survey released at a conference
in Jerusalem last week.

The Palestinians rank Israeli democracy even before Western democracies
such as the US, France, Germany, and others, according to surveys
conducted by the Ramallah-based Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey
Research.

The findings of the surveys were presented by the director of the center,
Khalil Shikaki, during an international workshop for auditors of
democracies held at the Israel Democracy Institute in Jerusalem.

Shikaki said the surveys that his center has conducted since its
foundation in 1996 consistently show that a majority of Palestinians views
the structure of the democratic regime in Israel as a model that they
would like to institute in a future Palestinian state.

Participating in the international workshop on auditing democracies were
researchers and directors of research institutes who deal with democracy
audits from the US, Russia, Ghana, Slovakia, Serbia, India, Thailand,
Ukraine and Bulgaria.

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This article can also be read at
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1995-2004 The Jerusalem Post - http://www.jpost.com/


4. The Truth about Palestinians by an Israeli Arab:
http://www.meforum.org/article/604

5. Alain Finkelkarut is a prominent French intellectual and non-leftist.
Here is his view of Gibson's movie:
http://www.maarivintl.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=article&articleID=8217

6. Mikey Lerner's Afrofascist Friend:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13637

7. The Good Guys in San Fran:
http://chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=7789

8. Dersh on Human Rights Promotion of Terror:
http://www.aish.com/jewishissues/middleeast/Rules_of_War_Enable_Terror.asp

9. Moslem Professor for Zionism:
http://web.israelinsider.com/bin/en.jsp?enPage=ArticlePage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enDispWho=Article%5El3717&enZone=Diplomacy&enVersion=0&

10. I thought this was cute:
http://www.geocities.com/rachel_ism/wendy.htm

11. The New Yorker goes on a Jihad:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1086577708814&p=1006953079897

12. Battling against Illegal Occupation:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13654

Posted 6/06/2004 10:51:00 AM

1. The "Song of Peace" Redux

In the late 60s, well after the Six Day War, a whiney "peace song"
named Shir Hashalom (http://www.radiohazak.com/Shir.html ) became popular
among Israel's teeny-boppers. At the time it was not played on the
state-run radio because Golda Meir disapproved of its message, which
included the following stanza:

"Nobody will return us
from the dead dark pit.
Here, neither the joy of victory
nor songs of praise
will help.
So sing only for peace,
don't whisper a prayer,
it's better to sing a song for peace
with a giant shout!"

It was basically a song insisting that peace was there on the shelf
for Israel to pull out, and if there were no peace yet it was basically
because Israel did not want it enough. Back in those days the Israeli
Labor Party under Golda was still a Zionist party, although not
particularly democratic. Israel was still a one-party state under the
near-totalitarian rule of the Labor Party-MAPAI.

Anyway, the song quickly became a cliche and largely forgotten by most
people. But then in the early 1990s the Labor Party made a sharp turn to
the extreme Left, abandoning all pretense of being a Zionist party, while
the distinction between the Meretz (nee MAPAM) party and the anti-Israel
HADASH Arab communist party all but disappeared. And the Shir Hashalom
underwent a rebirth.

When Rabin started implementing the Beilin-Peres ideas about Israel
appeasing its way to peace with the PLO, the song became almost a second
national anthem, especially because Labor Leftists were increasingly
uncomfortable with the words of the actual national anthem Hatikva, with
its mentioning the yearnings of the Jewish soul and all. Anyway, at that
last "Peace" rally where Rabin spoke before he was assassinated by Yigal
Amir, it was sung and played. Right after the murder, the song became
associated in people's minds with Rabin himself and became a sort of
semi-official musical representation of the Oslo zeitgeist.

There is one interesting twist about the song. Namely, its writer.
Shir Hashalom was written by one Yaakov Rotblit. I am not sure what his
political ideas were back 35 years ago when the song was written and while
I was studying sociology (wince, grunt, gulp), but it turns out that the
very same Rotblit is today decidedly un-Left. Indeed, he is one of the
important figures fighting against the plan to cleanse the Gaza Strip
ethnically of Jews and expel the "settlers".

And as part of his current ideology, the very same Yaakov Rotblit has
now composed and released a NEW song. It is a song that mercilessly
attacks the Israeli Left, so you will not be surprised to hear that the
same state-run radio stations do not play it. It is called a Song of the
Land of Israel. Rotblit released it just before the Likud referendum a
few weeks back, in which 60% of the Likud members rejected Sharon's plan
for new appeasements. Right after the referendum, Sharon morphed into
the Israeli Mugabe, and insisted that Likud voters can go to hell and what
the heck do the voters know about anything anyway.

So if you read Hebrew and your computer has the fonts, you can see the
words at http://www.fresh.co.il/dcforum/Politics/8278.html.

Here is a translation of parts of the song (it is considerably longer):

"My life have I given for you, Eretz Yisael Land of Israel,
The mists of purity filled my head,
I had believed they were the will of God,
The Jewish nation, the return to Zion.

"Every single kibbutznik,
sitting in his kibbutz atop the ruins of an abandoned Arab village,
is suddenly a bleeding heart liberal,
while declaring that I am Public Enemy Number One,
building on 'occupied' land a new colonial empire.
They want to see me walking bare headed,
In a mourning sack after my home is destroyed,
While the poet from Sheikh Yunis, which is today Ramat Aviv,
Will write poems for the New York Times about 'justice.'

"Don't call it 'transfer' or expulsion,
Your spin doctor will find a new name for it.
And the Court will declare that human rights and civil rights
Just have no bearing on this,
Because the New Left and the Old One despise me
As do the media moguls and the industrialists,
The ones preach to the impoverished that they are poor because of some
settlers in Hebron.

"So when Jews hate other Jews,
Get the bulldozer running Arik,
Let's start the destruction."

Gosh, you think Aviv Gefen will sing it in the next Rabin Square
super-rally?


2. "Peace for Galilee" Historic Revisionism
by Steven Plaut

Israel's Left underwent a process of radicalization, de-Zionization, and
growing extremism, beginning with Israel's 1982 "Peace for Galilee"
invasion of Lebanon. It was a radicalization compared by many to that of
the American Left and its self-conversion into a movement of rabid
anti-Americanism and even pro-Saddam extremism. Few remember today how
popular the invasion of Lebanon had been in Israel in its early stages.
The PLO and its affiliates had been using Lebanon as a base for years, to
shoot rockets and mortars into Israel and from which to launch numerous
terrorist atrocities, including the Maalot and Avivim massacres of Israeli
children, and attacks on Nahariya and Kiryat Shmona. Menahem Begin and
his cabinet decided to end the situation. The attempted assassination of
Israel's Ambassador in London in 1982 was the last straw.

When Prime Minister Menahem Begin and Defense Minister Ariel Sharon
ordered the Israeli army to cross into Lebanon, they stated at first that
the army would only go as far as 40 kilometers, the range of Katyusha
missiles at the time (for a history, see
http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~samuel/lebanonwar.html and
http://www.adl.org/ISRAEL/Record/lebanon.asp ). Public opinions polls at
the time were showing a 92% support rate for the invasion, in polls that
included Israeli Arabs. But Israeli journalism was already under the
near-totalitarian hegemony of the Far Left, so Israeli Op-Eds were running
at about the same 92% AGAINST the invasion. These were the same media
that would shortly invent that 400,000 datum for the number of anti-Sharon
protesters turning out to oppose the war, for the now-famous and largely
mythical rally in the public square in Tel Aviv that at most holds 60,000
people.

What had begun as a military operation of near-universal popularity among
Israelis, however, deteriorated within a few months into a fairly
unpopular one, with Israelis about evenly split between supporters and
opponents. The military had gone well beyond the 40 kilometer line, and
indeed conquered all of Beirut. Inside Beirut, Arafat himself was lined
up in the sites of an Israeli sniper, but the foolish orders came down
from above not to finish him off. Arafat was expelled to Tunia, where he
would sit and rot until rescued from his oblivion by Shimon Peres.

Meanwhile, the Israeli Left started screaming that Sharon had told a fib.
How dare Sharon not let Arafat know the true extent of his plans up
front! The Left also claimed Sharon had lied to Begin himself, which
Begin denied.

The main reason for the conversion of the operation from popular to
unpopular, with maybe half the Israeli public opposed in its later stages,
was the unexpectedly large number of Israeli military casualties. The
total number of dead soldiers was over 700 and roughly the same magnitude
as those from the entire Six-Day War. The Left, in its usual revisionism,
has by now rewritten history so that the source of the opposition was
supposed Israeli shame over the Sabra and Shatilla massacres, in which
about 600 or so Palestinians were killed by the Lebanese Christian
Phalange militiamen. But at the time, few in Israel felt responsible for
those massacres, which were murders of Arabs by other Arabs, not exactly a
rare event in Lebanon. No Israelis had killed anyone in Sabra and
Shatilla. When Time magazine claimed Sharon had encouraged the Christian
militia to carry out he revenge, he sued it for libel and won. The
Christian militias had simply gone on a revenge killing spree after their
own leader was assassinated, probably by the PLO.

Nevertheless, the Israeli Left went on the war path against the Begin
government. How dare Sharon and Begin not prevent the Sabra and Shatilla
killings!, they bellowed. Those atrocities had been entirely predictable
and anticipated, insisted the Left and the Israeli media, and never mind
that not a single Leftist nor a single journalist had predicted them!
(For a fuller analysis of the operation, see "Peace for Galilee": Success
or Failure?," by Eliot A. Cohen, Commentary, November 1984
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/Summaries/V78I5P26-1.htm .)

The very same Israeli Left, which a few years later would be screaming
that irresponsible rhetoric caused the Rabin assassination ("Rabin was killed
by words"), felt not a smidgen of shame nor embarrassment in marching down
the boulevards with signs denouncing Begin and Sharon as "war criminals"
and "fascists." Seconds after the Israeli Left revealed its rhetorical
extremism, it was picked up by every anti-Semitic hooligan in Europe and
North America, who marched on campus with similar signs about Israeli "war
crimes." It did not take long for the Israeli Left to make the full
transition from hatred of the Begin-Sharon government to full
anti-Zionism, loathing of their own country, and Jewish self-hatred. It
would be difficult to explain the later Oslo debacle had not the Israeli
Left, including the Labor Party, made the metamorphosis into becoming
parties of Jewish self-loathing and self-embarrassment.

The demonization of Ariel Sharon by the Left has continued down to today.
The Left and much of the general Israeli public has never forgiven Ariel
Sharon for those 700 of so dead Israeli soldiers in the Peace for Galilee
Campaign. The Left has also tried to argue that Sharon is personally
responsible for all subsequent Israeli losses in the Southern Lebanon
Security Zone, which Israel maintained until the cowardly abandonment by
Ehud Barak in 2000. There a low-level guerilla war of attrition operated,
which I have dubbed "Controlled Carnage", with a few hundred additional
Israeli casualties. By mid-1985, the total number had risen to 1215.
Others were killed in clashes in the 1990s, during most of which the Labor
Party held power.

The losses in Lebanon were an excessive price for Israel to pay, believed
many Israelis, having grown accustomed to relatively low casualty levels
in Israeli wars (low at least compared with wars in other places), and
they were totally unforgivable in the minds of the radicalized Left,
convinced the entire campaign had been unjustified and that Israel should
have responded to the PLO's katyusha rockets by turning the other cheek.
Never mind that the losses were far lower than those in the 1973 Yom
Kippur War, whose casualties were so high as a direct result of the sheer
stupidity and irresponsible naivety of the Labor Party leadership at that
time.

But the absurdity of the "historic revisionism" of the Leftist Ascendancy
and its captive media in Israel is best seen in comparing its righteous
outrage over those losses in the "Peace for Galilee" campaign with the
carnage produced directly by the Left's own policies starting in 1993.
The Oslo "peace process" has by now produced about 1400 murders of
Israelis, and tens of thousands of maimed people, broken lives and
families. Those 1400 are about twice the losses in the initial Peace for
Galilee Campaign itself, and they are considerably higher than the entire
set of Israeli losses from 1982-85. No less important, the losses in the
Peace for Galilee Campaign were entirely soldiers. Most of those
murdered by the Oslo policies of the Left were civilians, and a great many
were children.

If the high number of Israeli losses in the Peace for Galilee campaign are
unforgivable in the eyes of many Israelis, and downright criminal in the
view of the radicalized Israeli Left, then what is the Oslo Carnage?

3. You know those tunnels into Gaza from Egypt, the ones the
Fundamentalist Left has been arguing are trivial and just don't matter and
Israel should just ignore them and leave them alone?

Well, a ship overflowing with state-of-the-art missiles and heacy
artileery was captured a few days agao when it tried to sail from Turkey
to Egypt. The materiel was intended for the PLO. And guess how the PLO
was planning to move it into the Gaza Strip?

4. The battle against Israeli
sovereignty and democracy: http://israelnn.com/article.php3?id=3760

5. Conservatives in Journalism are an endangered species:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0603/p02s01-usgn.html

6. Black Soul Brothers Protest against the Cloud Monkey:
http://chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=7763

7. The Terror for Jihad web site is now at
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0%2C4057%2C9751676%255E421%2C00.html?name=topstory

8. New Peace Rally:
FARS NEWS AGENCY:

Subject: Iran/Terror: First International gathering of candidates for
suicide bombers

As part of the anniversary ceremonies of Iman Houmeini's death, an
international gathering of candidates for suicide bombing will take place
in Tehran under the title " Suicide in Tehran" ..

The "Center for the appreciation of the Shahid" of the world Islamic
Movement, declared today that an international gathering of "Shahids"
(suicide bombers) is to take place with the object of presenting suicide
bombing as the most effective and influential method to compel occupying
forces to flee from Muslim territories.

The ceremony will include participants in various Jihad movements and

will take place on 02/06/04 in the AL-SHUOHADH HALL at 7th Batir square.

Among the speakers at the gathering will be ZAHRA Mustafaai the great
grand daughter of Iman Houmeini, Member of the Majles.

Mehdi Kushk, Sardar Salamati head of operations at the H.Q of the
Revolutionary Guards, Hassan Abbasi head of the Institute of the doctrine
of "Defense without borders" and Sardar Kassemi, a Veteran officer who
participated in the Iran Iraq war.

9. In my humble opinion, Ronald Reagan was the greatest American
President after World War II until now. Jimmy Carter was the very worst,
maybe the worst in all US history.

Posted 6/04/2004 02:29:00 PM

1. English Lit as Jihad:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13638

2. Pro-Jewish Moslems? They exist:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13587

3. Columbia University's Nuremberg Rallies:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13598

4. Those Pesky Israeli Leftists with their Holocaust Denial Connections:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13639
The Israeli Left's Holocaust Denial Connection
By Steven Plaut
FrontPageMagazine.com | June 3, 2004


Apparently telling the truth is a great injustice in the mind of Israeli
leftist Neve Gordon. He has filed a malicious SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit
Against Public Participation) suit against me for exposing his activities
as a contributor to an anti-Semetic internet site and his friendly
association with such Holocaust deniers as Norman Finkelstein and Nazi
Propagandist Ernst Zundel. He is apparently unhappy that I have criticized
his political opinions and his public political activities. He thinks I
should apologize for informing the world that Gordon became a human shield
for those who illegally entered Ramallah to interfere with the Israeli
army's siege against Arafat's offices, while Arafat was hiding the
murderers of an Israeli cabinet minister in those same offices.

The fact is that Gordons connections to anti-Semitism are well established
and easy to track. He is an extremist lecturer in political science at Ben
Gurion University in Beer Sheba, where he is best known for his
pronouncements that Israel is a fascist, terrorist, apartheid state.



In his lawsuit, Gordon complains that I have criticized him for praising
Finkelstein. Hes rightI did. Recently, Zundlesite (the website of Canadian
neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel) published Gordon's article
praising Norman Finkelstein, who is almost universally seen as a neo-Nazi,
Holocaust Denier and anti-Semite. In this article, the New York Times
compared Finkelsteins book to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Gordon,
however, ended his sometimes harsh, sometimes reverent review as follows:



His book is controversial not entirely because of his mistakes or his
piercing rhetoric but because he speaks truth to power. He, and not the
Jewish organizations he criticizes, is following the example set by the
great Jewish prophets.



I count comparing someone to great Jewish prophets as quite a compliment.



Zundelsite has also published another Gordon article. Which may lead
someone to ask; what exactly is Zundlesite, anyway? It is an internet news
site named for Ernst Zundel, a Germany-born Nazi, Holocaust denier, and
anti-Semite. He makes his living by selling Nazi military paraphernalia.
He moved to Canada from Germany when he was 19. In 1978, a Canadian
Broadcasting Company journalist revealed that under his middle names,
Christof Friedrich, Zundel had become Canada's leading Nazi and Holocaust
denial propagandist. Once exposed, Zundel continued his efforts under his
conventional name.



The principal outlet for Zundel's early activities was his Toronto-based
company, Samisdat Publishers, Ltd., which produced Zundel originals (like
The Hitler We Loved and Why) and Holocaust-denial "classics," (including
The Hoax of the Twentieth Century, by Arthur Butz; A Straight Look at the
Third Reich and The Six Million Swindle, by Austin App; and Auschwitz,
Dachau, Buchenwald: The Greatest Fraud in History, by Richard Harwood). He
produces books and articles with other anti-Jewish libels. He is also a
white supremacist. For his full bio by the Anti-Defamation League.



"Ernst Zundel epitomizes and sanctions the worst form of Holocaust
denial," contends Bernie Farber, a spokesman for the Canadian Jewish
Congress.



Zundel was arrested numerous times in Canada and is wanted for criminal
activity in Germany. He currently resides in Tennessee. He is fixated on
UFOs, believing them to be Nazi secret weapons based somewhere in
Antarctica. In 1985, Zundel was charged under Section 177 of the Criminal
Code of Canada for "knowingly publishing false news." Among those
testifying for the prosecution at the trial were Holocaust survivors, a
history professor and even a banker -- since Zundel had claimed that an
international conspiracy existed among Freemasons, Communists,
international financiers, and "Zionists" (Jews). Speaking for the defense
were such leading Holocaust deniers as Sweden's Ditlieb Felderer, France's
Robert Faurisson (a close associate of Noam Chomsky, the professor of
Cambodia genocide) and Canada's James Keegstra. Felderer, Faurisson and
Keegstra have all been convicted in their own countries under hate crimes
laws for their Holocaust-denial activities.



To win, prosecutors had the distasteful task of "proving" that the
Holocaust had occurred and the difficult task of proving that Zundel had
knowingly lied when he had written that it had not. Nonetheless, Zundel
was convicted on February 26, 1985. He was sentenced to fifteen months in
jail and three years probation, during which he was prohibited from
publishing anything on the subject.



Zundel did not serve his sentence. In January 1987, the Ontario Court of
Appeals overturned the 1985 conviction, citing procedural errors during
the trial. In June 1987, a new trial was granted. This time British
convicted Holocaust denier David Irving testified for Zundel. On November
13, 1988, Zundel was convicted and sentenced to a nine-month jail term.
When an appeals court upheld the conviction, Zundel reported to Toronto's
Don Jail on February 5, 1990, wearing a striped "concentration camp"
costume labeled "Political Prisoner Ernst Zundel." After spending a week
in jail, he was released on $10,000 bail pending an appeal to Canada's
Supreme Court. On August 27, 1992, the Supreme Court of Canada struck down
the law banning the spread of false news, saying it was unconstitutional,
and Zundel was freed. In February 2001, after being denied Canadian
citizenship, Zundel left Canada for the United States.



In August 1996, the Canadian Human Rights Commission opened yet another
chapter in Zundel's saga with the law. At issue was an Internet site that
bore Zundel's name -- the so-called "Zundelsite" -- which, since mid-1995,
had served as an electronic library of Holocaust-denial texts and which
incited hatred against Jews. The Canadian Human Rights Tribune ordered
that the site be shut down. However, because it was operating from a
computer server inside the United States, the Canadian order was not
enforceable. At the trial, evidence was presented that Zundel and his wife
personally control this website.



On February 5, 2003, officials from the U.S. Immigration and
Naturalization Service arrested Ernst Zundel at his home in Pigeon Forge,
Tennessee, for alleged immigration violations. He was deported to Canada
and has been in jail ever since. Mr. Zundel is confined to a Toronto
detention center because the government is holding him on a national
security certificate -- the controversial and Draconian procedure usually
reserved for terrorist suspects.



The "Zundelsite" continues to operate as the main vehicle for spreading
Zundel's Nazi doctrines. Zundel's wife also continues to send her daily
"Z-Grams," which are less devoted to Holocaust denial and more to
fulminations against "Jewish power," anti-Semitic and anti-Israel
conspiracy theories, and attacks on the U.S. government and the War on
Terror.



The Zundelsite isnt the only anti-Semetic and anti-Israel outlet which
publishes Gordon's works. Others include al-Ahram, Radio Islam and David
Irvings site. Gordon is also regular columnist for Counterpunch, an
extremist and anti-Israel web magazine that promotes Israel's liquidation.
Counterpunch is owned and edited by Alexander Cockburn, who has been very
widely denounced (including by the liberal New Republic magazine) as an
open anti-Semite.



The publication of Gordon's articles also comes against the background of
growing criticism of the activities of far-Left extremists at Israeli
universities, especially at Ben-Gurion. Israel's Minister of Education
recently announced she was boycotting Ben Gurion University because a
radical sociologist faculty member published articles declaring that
Israel was practicing genocide against Palestinians. The press in Israel
claims there is growing anger at Ben Gurion among Jews around the world.
Some have announced they are withholding financial support for the
university as long as the faculty extremists operate under university
auspices. Mordecai Vanunu, Israel's recently released nuclear spy and
traitor, had begun his activities while a member of a communist student
cell at Ben Gurion University.



A SLAPP is a harassment suit designed to suppress free speech of one's
critics. David Irving tried a similar tactic against Deborah Lipstadt and
her editors, when she exposed his anti-Semetic and Holocause denial
activities. But the plaintiff must prove that the criticism is false,
which Irving failed to do. Thus, Lipstadt was exonerated.



There are severe penalties against those who SLAPP frivolously in many
parts of the United States, and the world. Irving was ordered to pay
Lipstadt and her editors 150,000 British Pounds in damages.



I hope Neve Gordon is saving his pennies.

5. Israel's Dual Justice System:
http://www.maarivintl.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=article&articleID=8144
Guess who has never ordered revelations about Mitzna's corrupt ties to
building contractors to be published!

6. How to get your liberal friends really mad:
http://www.jpfo.org/

Posted 6/03/2004 10:12:00 AM

1. Ivory Jihad:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13550

2. Your New Israel Fund contributions at work:
Mossawa: Outlaw Talk of 'Transfer' - Expulsion of Jews Fine, Though
01:35 Jun 02, '04 / 13 Sivan 5764


An organization working on behalf of Israel's Arab citizens is calling
for legislation making the mere discussion of "transfer" illegal. INN
spoke with one of its representatives about the "transfer" of Jews from
Yesha.


The release of a new report today by the Mossawa Advocacy Center for Arab
Citizens in Israel regarding the treatment of Israeli Arabs was covered
extensively in the Israeli press. The report's authors accuse Israeli
authorities, the police and the judicial system of creating a climate of
violence and racism against Arab citizens of Israel.

Mossawas report comes days after Transportation Minister Avigdor Lieberman
(National Union) announced his plan for a "separation of nations," which
would transfer Israeli Arabs deemed disloyal to the State of Israel.
Mossawa called for new legislation making public discussion of such steps
illegal. The report also condemns Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's
contention that Israel's Arab citizens constitute a "demographic problem"
citing it as an example of discourse it wishes to make illegal.

The organization, finding that 22% of Israeli Jews would vote for the
outlawed Kach party - whose platform was the transfer of Arabs hostile to
the Jewish State - is promoting legislation that would make it illegal to
discuss the transfer or expulsion of Israels Arabs. However, the
organization told Israel National News that it sees no problem with the
transfer of Jews and does not wish to outlaw discussion of that.

Arutz-7s Ezra HaLevi talked to Mossawa spokesperson Abir Kopty, asking her
what the legislative goals of her organization are.

In an environment that is increasingly perceiving Arabs as a threat to the
state of Israel, we are calling on the Israeli government to make it
illegal to discuss transfer, said Kopty.

So you are against the transfer of any Israeli citizen? asked HaLevi.

That is correct, replied Kopty.

So you would agree that the forced transfer of Jewish citizens from Judea,
Samaria and Gaza is reprehensible as well, HaLevi asked.

That is different we dont call that transfer, that is dismantling of
settlements we are speaking about the forced removal of people who were
born here, said Kopty, audibly flustered.

So basically, Jews born in Judea, Samaria and Gaza can be thrown out of
their homes, but the mere discussion of relocating Arabs involved with
terrorism from within Israels pre-1967 borders should be made into a
crime, asked HaLevi.

Look, we deal with ensuring the equal rights of Arab citizens in Israel
it is not comparable to people living in illegally occupied territories
[sic], Kopty replied.

The report also claims that Israeli Arabs do not receive protection from
the police and are in fact targeted for violence, citing numerous cases of
illegal and unjustified police shootings of Arab citizens. They also claim
that there is a leniency for the police and the courts to be soft on
displays of racism against Arabs by private citizens and public figures.

An investigation by Haaretz, however, revealed that at least one of the 16
Arab citizens killed by gunfire from police and security forces since
October 2000 was not killed by security forces' gunfire, as was written in
the report, [but] actually killed in a motorcycle accident while being
chased by police.

3. Israel's totalitarian Hebrew media:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1086058008423&p=1006953079865

4. ACLU - Thou shalt not practice religion:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/South/06/02/baptism.ban.ap/index.html

5. Making Arabs Nervous:
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/chavez.html

Posted 6/02/2004 12:39:00 PM

1. Dated, but still good:
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-gross051302.asp

2. Jihad for the heck of it:
http://www.meforum.org/article/603

3. From the Wall St Journal:
COMMENTARY

'Elite, Arrogant, Condescending . . . '

By ROGER AILES
June 2, 2004; Page A14

John S. Carroll, the editor of the Los Angeles Times, recently gave a
speech at the University of Oregon, in which he attacked Bill O'Reilly,
Fox News Channel and me, the chairman of Fox News. However, Mr. Carroll
obviously did not feel particularly restricted by facts, truth or sources.
In an effort to use guilt by association, he compared me to Sen. Joseph
McCarthy without evidence, sourcing or analysis. An old, cheap trick used
by weak writers and thinkers.

Mr. Carroll essentially announced that the reason Fox News Channel is the
No. 1 cable news network and is gaining viewers is because the American
people are stupid and gullible. In addition, he deliberately confused our
highly rated news analysis and opinion shows like Bill O'Reilly with our
hard news coverage. Mr. Carroll cites not a single example of what he
calls "pseudojournalism" from our actual news coverage. He cites only Bill
O'Reilly's opinions and an old push poll that purports to show that more
Fox News viewers believed things that were not true about Iraq and the War
on Terror than did viewers of other outlets. But he cites no instance of
our having reported any of these things.

What the audience at the University of Oregon was not informed about are
the many firsts and exclusives that Fox News has reported. Fox News is the
network that broke George W. Bush's DUI four days before the election.
Greg Kelly rolled into Baghdad ahead of any other reporter, on the back of
a M-113 armored personnel carrier -- video of which was requested by news
organizations world-wide. Steve Harrigan ventured into danger zones from
Afghanistan to Iraq to Somalia and the Congo, to report on a genocidal war
largely ignored by other media. Jim Angle scooped the rest of Washington
on what Richard Clarke had said about the administration while he was
there, as opposed to what he wrote later in his book. Fox called every
Democratic primary race in 2004 first and accurately, and was praised by
the Congressional Black Caucus for partnering with them on producing two
Democratic primary debates. We have been the only network seriously
reporting on the Oil-for-Food program, where a corrupt U.N. appears to
have paid for anti-Americanism all over the world.

Our hard news at 6 in the evening with Brit Hume, one of America's finest
journalists, followed by Shep Smith at 7 p.m., a talented anchor, is
linked to breaking-news coverage throughout the majority of our 168 hours
on the air weekly. And of course, Mr. Carroll wants to talk about Bill
O'Reilly only because Bill O'Reilly has criticized John Carroll and the
Los Angeles Times for its well-known and admitted biased journalism.

Mr. Carroll's pathetic attempt to smear Fox News Channel will only drive
his paper's circulation down, as it should. Fox News Channel's audience in
Los Angeles is increasing daily. The Los Angeles Times is becoming less
relevant in people's lives, so Mr. Carroll is trying to flog health back
to a newspaper by attacking television news. Most Americans, of course,
get their news from television. In fact, the Fox News Channel today has
53% of the audience share of cable news. CNN and MSNBC divide up the rest.
According to Mr. Carroll, that proves most Americans are therefore stupid
and gullible. It's that elite, arrogant, condescending, self-serving,
self-righteous, biased and wrong-headed view of Americans that causes
viewers and readers to distrust media people like John Carroll.

He owes the fine journalists at the Fox News Channel an apology for his
insulting comments. However, we will never see that. He treated Fox News
Channel worse in his newspaper than he treated the terrorists who recently
beheaded an American. But of course, he sees Fox News as more dangerous.

Mr. Ailes is chairman and CEO of Fox News.

4. Sunday, May 23, 2004
Official IDF Source Confirms: Have Photos of Palestinians Killing 2
Palestinian Children

Official IDF Source Confirms: Have Photos of Palestinians Killing 2
Palestinian Children
Aaron Lerner Date: 23 May 2004

An official IDF source confirmed Amir Orens' 21 May story this afternoon
to
IMRA that two Palestinian children who died in the Rafah procession
incident
were murdered by Palestinian gunmen and that the IDF photographed the
shooting.

The official IDF source explained that the pictures have not been released
to the media because information derived from the photographs would
compromise security in the field at this time.

The following is a repeat of the excerpts from Oren's original article:

Inside Track / Rafah is a nightmare

By Amir Oren Haaretz 21 May 2004
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/430200.html

... When the procession with armed men in its midst set out in the
direction
of the forces, (the commander of the Gaza Division, Brigadier General
Shmuel) Zakaii tried to speak with the community leaders in Rafah. The
head
of the Liaison and Coordination Administration, Colonel Poli Mordecai,
phoned Nasser Saraj, the head of the Civil Committee in the city. Had the
Liaison and Coordination Administration sufficed, they would not have
needed
the tank commander. Saraj, a respected individual, formerly the
director-general of the Ministry of Trade and Industry in the Palestinian
Authority, listened to Colonel Mordecai's pleas, but took no steps to
prevent the disaster.

When men obeyed the calls over the loudspeakers to turn themselves in to
the
IDF authorities (and to the intelligence people who wanted to question
them), they were confronted by members of the terror organizations, who
opened fire on them and killed two children. A senior officer in Gaza
reported yesterday that the IDF have in their possession pictures of this
incident, of Palestinians killing their children. He expressed amazement
as
to why the army has refrained from publishing them.

5. http://www.koshertodaymagazine.com/newsletter/index.htm#6

Kosher Latest Hollywood Diet?
Los Angeles (www.koshertoday.com) Thanks to singer Madonna, pop singer
Britney Spear is eating kosher. Spear has given up the Atkins diet and
taken up kosher food, reports ratethemusic.com. The singer was very
impressed with Kabbalah, an aspect of Jewish mysticism, under the
influence of pop star Madonna. After coming under media scrutiny for
putting on weight, Spears decided to change her diet plan. "Britney is
following in the footsteps of Madonna and Winona Ryder, who all stick to
kosher food. She just feels so much healthier. As well as most of the
dishes being prepared with vegetable oil, Britney also avoids eating
gelatin. Britney did the Atkins diet for a while, but then thought better
of it. She just can't be bothered with serious diets and would much rather
stick to one routine when it comes to food," a source was quoted as
saying.

6. The Gucci Radicals:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13616

7. Ambulances for Terror:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13627

8. The Associates of Herr Zundel:
http://israelnn.com/article.php3?id=3744

Posted 6/01/2004 12:19:00 PM

1. http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13590
Making the Case for Israel
By Lee Kaplan
FrontPageMagazine.com | June 1, 2004


Alan Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard
University Law School. He is an internationally respected attorney and
human rights activist. At one time he was actively involved as an attorney
in the Soviet Jewry Movement and helped to free Natan Sharansky from the
USSR. He is recognized as a member of the liberal establishment yet a
strong supporter of Israel. He has also become aware of the continual
anti-Israel bias that is growing on college campuses in the United States.

Below is an edited transcript of his speech at UC Berkeley, one of the
most anti-Israel campuses in the United States. Dershowitz addressed an
audience of 1,200 people on April 29, 2004, about the growing problem of
anti-Semitism on U.S. campuses.

The Case For Israel

I remember so well the early days in the 1970's when I sat down in UC
Berkeley. I was there for a year. I was probably defending some of the
parents of the kids who are outside protesting tonight.

I defended Angela Davis and many of the people involved in the free speech
movement at UC Berkeley. But I was also deeply involved with the Soviet
Jewry Movement. Recently I was on a radio talk show and somebody asked me
what my biggest fee I ever earned was. Was it Michael Milken or Leona
Helmsley? I said it was Natan Sharansky.

"Sharansky?" they said, "We didn't know he had any money."

And I said no. He didn't have any money. I had to defend him at my own
expense. But when he walked over the Glienicke Bridge and he threw his
arms around me, and he whispered in my ear in Hebrew "Blessed are those
who help free the imprisoned." Tears came to my eyes, to his eyes -- I'll
never earn a bigger fee in my life than that.

When we were in Jerusalem, we said we'd look back at that time and
remember it as a wonderful point in history, when civil liberties, love
for Judaism and a love for Israel came together. This week marks the 56th
anniversary of Israel. And I'm reminded of myself in 1947 and 1948,
watching the UN on television, the division of Palestine into hopefully a
Jewish state and a Palestinian state. It was accepted by the Jews, but
rejected by the Palestinians.

And then Ben Gurion announced the statehood. It was such a joyous moment!
I remember when the director of my yeshiva came in and announced the words
from Hatikva [Israel's national anthem] were officially changed from
"going back to the land of our fathers" to "a free people in our land."

Those were the days. Those were the days when the Israeli-Arab conflict
presented a clear-cut conflict between good and evil. Israelis were
Holocaust survivors trying to build a Jewish democratic homeland that
would always be open to Jewish immigrants and refugees. Doors to the world
had been closed to so many refugees during the Holocaust.

On the other side were the Holocaust perpetrators. We forget too often
that the Egyptian army commanders in large part were former Nazis given
asylum by the Egyptian government. Amung them was the Grand Mufti of
Jerusalem, the recognized leader of the Palestinian people. These were
indicted war criminals who spent most of the war years with Hitler in Nazi
Germany.

This was a conflict between democracy and tyranny. A conflict between
those who wanted to accept the United Nations' plan of a two-state
resolution and those who rejected the existence of Israel. Those were the
days when it was so clear on which side civil liberties and human rights
and progress led and on which side tyranny and oppression lied. The sad
reality is that nothing has changed on the ground. These facts are still
the same today as they were in 1947 or 1948, yet the perspectives have
changed so dramatically. Even in 1956, even in 1967, even in the early
1970's, most progressive, liberal and centrist people supported the right
side of this struggle.

Sure, I favored a two state solution. I've always favored a two state
solution. Israel has always favored a two state solution, since 1937, when
they accepted the Peel Commission report which would have give the
Palestinians a long, contiguous state and the Jews a totally
non-contiguous state. The Jews said yes and the Palestinians and Arabs
said no.

In 1947, the Jews were offered a non-contiguous state in which Jerusalem
was separated from Tel Aviv and other Jewish cities, and the Palestinians
were offered a contiguous state. And the Palestinians said no. Ben Gurion
and the Israelis said yes. Nothing has changed. Not Israeli actions to be
sure.

What changed is the perception of the world. The United Nations tragically
has become a mega bomb for bigotry against Israel. If a space alien from
another planet were to come down to earth and land at the General Assembly
of the United Nations, or at some American college campuses, or many an
urban capital, and have to report back to the distant galaxy from which he
came, he'd have to report this is a wonderful planet with great countries
that love peace. Like Syria, which is on the Security Council. Or Libya,
that chairs the Human Rights Commission. But there's this one country,
this evil nation that's been condemned by the UN more than any other
country or all other countries combined. If the spaceship landed on the
Berkeley campus, all the canards and untruths about Israel--genocide,
apartheid, all the claims you hear so often, would be heard. And that's
the tragedy.

And that's why I had to write The Case For Israel. It's my least favorite
book, I have to tell you. It's the book nobody wants to write. Nobody has
to write the Case for Canada or the Case for Spain or the Case for
Australia. There's so much lying on college campuses today, so many
untruths, so many legalese falsities being directed against Israel. But
the impetus to write the Case For Israel came when the divestiture
campaign began at Harvard and Berkeley and many of our college campuses.
No members of the law school faculty, nor of the medical school faculty,
nor the business school signed, but many at the other schools and
departments signed the petition.

What did it call for? It called for no further investments in Israeli
industries. What are Israel's main industries? It's not Jaffa oranges,
it's high tech, life saving medical equipment, like kidney dialysis
machines. Israel per capita saves more lives than any other country in the
world.

I said cutting off this industry was immoral, so I challenged one of the
leading pro-divestment professors at one of the Harvard colleges to debate
me in front of his students. I challenged him to debate the morality of
signing the petition to divest from Israel, but not from North Korea, not
Cuba, not China, not Libya, not from Iraq in those days, not the Sudan --
only Israel. This was a man who taught the Christian approaches to the Old
Testament. He said to me "Professor Dershowitz, my knowledge of the Middle
East ended with the death of Moses." I invited those students to see me,
watch me debate him or a surrogate. When nobody showed to take his
position, I set the petition on a chair as a token surrogate and we had a
dialog.

Many of the students who attended were not Jews and held no firm views of
Israel. They all came up to me afterward and said the same three words:
"We didn't know!"

"We didn't know Israel first offered a two state solution, a Palestinian
state, but the Arabs rejected it!"

"We didn't know in 1967 Israel accepted Resolution 242, in which the
United Nations called for the return of territories captured in exchange
for full peace and secure boundaries."

All Arab states rejected it saying, "no peace, no recognition, no
negotiations," but students today said, "We didn't know!"

These Harvard students didn't know that in the years 2000 and 2001 Ehud
Barak along with President Bill Clinton had initially offered the
Palestinians everything they were asking for -- a state made up of 97% of
the West Bank and all of Gaza, a capital in Jerusalem, control of East
Jerusalem, control of the Temple Mount, 30 billion dollars in a
compensation package, and symbolic return of several thousand refugees.
Instead of accepting it or coming back to the negotiating table, Arafat
walked away and started the intifada and all the violence. The Harvard
students kept saying, "We didn't know!"

"We didn't know that Prince Bandar at Taba called Arafat's rejection of
the offer a crime against the Palestinian people and against all the
people of the region."

The students just didn't know.

I came away with a different view than my friend Natan Sharansky. He came
away with a sense of hopelessness. When he toured American campuses, he
believed that America was becoming like France [which is exceedingly
anti-Israel].

I came away with a very different, optimistic view. To be sure, 15 to 20%
of students on college campuses -- perhaps more at Berkeley, Michigan, or
Rutgers, fewer at Harvard and Yale -- you can't argue with them. It's like
putting a dollar in the soda machine and the soda doesn't come out and
neither does your dollar. You just can't argue with them. You want to kick
the machine but you can't do that.

You cannot convince people like Noam Chomsky. And there are 15% on the
other side who are clearly favorably disposed to Israel. But then there
are 70% on college campuses with open and unfortunately empty minds when
it comes to Israel. They take what their peers and professors say the
Gospel truth. It's crucially important to fill that information gap.

During the same divestiture campaign, a young student came to me from
Harvard College and asked me for forgiveness. I said, "What do I have to
forgive you for? I don't even know you."

He said, "I never speak up on campus, in my classroom, in my dormitory, at
dinner. I never speak up in favor of Israel even though I've been there on
Operation Birthright and I know the facts and hear the lies."

"Why not?" I asked.

He replied, "Because if I am perceived as pro-Israel, pro-Zionist, in
favor of Israel, I won't be able to get dates with young girls."

It was as simple as that. It's not cool to be a "Zionist." It's not cool.
I thought I should start a program at the Harvard campus: "Date a Zionist
Tonight!" That's the way he put it -- Not cool to be a Zionist. It's
really a problem.

I decided to make it cool again to support Israel and show you can support
Israel from a progressive, liberal perspective. Indeed, I support Israel
not in spite of my history as a human rights activist, but because of it.
I support Israel because I support female rights, women's rights,
feminism, and the Palestinian Authority does not.

I also support gay rights. I saw a student at a college campus hold up a
sign that said, "Gays For Palestine." I said to him "Imagine what would
happen if you carried that sign in Ramallah. You'd be killed." I support
Israel because I support gay rights. Recently a progressive congressman,
Barney Frank from Massachusetts, worked with me and Israel to grant asylum
for 40 Palestinian gays.

"Environmentalists For Palestine" is another ironic group. Palestinians
are utterly insensitive to environmental concerns. Israel is the most
environmentally sensitive country in the Middle East.

Israel is the only country in the Middle East in which an Arab can file a
case against his country in the Supreme Court. Israel's Supreme Court is
among the finest courts in the world today. It enforces the rule of law on
a daily basis against inevitable abuses that occur when a nation is at
war. As we look at the United States Supreme Court this week there are two
big cases -- the Hamdi case and the Padilla case. At question is if we can
detain and hold terrorist combatants at Guantanamo indefinitely, while
deciding if they are prisoners of war or common criminals. One has only to
look to Israel, which see resolved these things 20 years ago.

We see that the Israelis routinely decide in favor of the Palestinians
against their own government. In 1989, Justice Brennan, perhaps the most
liberal justice in America's court, went to Israel at the invitation of
Justice Aharon Barak of the Israeli Supreme Court. Brennan said, "God
forbid that terrorism should ever come to the shores of the United States.
At least we in America have the model to help balance the needs of
security against the needs of liberty. That model is Israel."

I think the American courts today will look to that model, just as the
United States Army looks to the Israeli army as a model to fight guerilla
wars against terrorists with "holiness of arms." I recently attended a
hearing of the Ethics Committee of the Israeli Army which decides when
it's appropriate to consider somebody a combatant and target him for
killing when he can't be arrested as a terrorist. The Ethics Committee
consisted of a professor of Philosophy from Tel Aviv University, a human
rights activist from Bar-Ilan University, several lawyers, mathematicians,
and experts on how to evaluate potential collateral damage -- civilian
deaths in numbers. They were debating how to value the life of a
Palestinian civilian against the life of an Israeli soldier. The Ethics
professor said the Israeli government has the right to balance and to
value the life of its own soldiers over enemy civilians. And the Israeli
general disagreed and said the Israeli soldiers must die to save the lives
of civilians even if they are enemy civilians.

Now, however you decide what is the right result, the interesting point is
Israel is debating these issues. The Israeli Supreme Court is debating
these issues. They're trying their very best to fight within the
constraints of the Rules of War. Laws are enacted that give terrorists an
advantage in this fight against democracy. You know, Israel has nothing to
be ashamed of in its general record. It's fought terrorism for over 56
years.

There was the massacre in Hebron in 1929 before the advent of Israel,
before the occupied territories, before the settlements. Hebron's Jewish
population was subject to a massacre at the whim of the Grand Mufti of
Jerusalem. The victims were not armed Zionists, but primarily yeshiva
students and rabbis and they were massacred because they were of the wrong
religion. In all its years, Israel has killed fewer civilians than any
other comparable country.

Israel is the only country in modern times that has never dropped bombs on
enemy capitols in retaliation for bombs dropped on its own civilians.
People forget that in 1948, Egypt dropped bombs on a Tel Aviv bus station,
killing many people. The '67 War began when the Jordanians lobbed 1600
bombs into downtown West Jerusalem. In the '73 War Syria tried to kill
civilians in Galilee. But Israel never bombed Cairo or Damascus. When
Israel did bomb on the outskirts of Beirut during the Beirut War, it tried
its best not to kill innocent civilians.

In fact, in order to destroy a terrorist base in the middle of Beirut,
Israel sent Ehud Barak dressed as a woman on a raft to eliminate the base
so as not to drop bombs from the air.

The United States today, when they go into Fallujah from the air or on the
ground they use Israel as the model. Israel went in on the ground in Jenin
and lost 23 soldiers, yet it's called a massacre: first they claimed 5,000
people were killed, then 500, then 100. In truth, 52 people, most of them
combatants, were killed. Twenty-three Israeli soldiers were killed in the
process. Israel can be really proud of the way it fought terror and
efforts to destroy it over the years. And Israel can be proud of the fact
that it has constantly been willing to support the creation of a
democratic, peaceful Palestinian state.

Look, I know there are people outside claiming they are Jews for
Palestine. I suspect many of you in the auditorium are Jews for Palestine.
We favored a Palestinian state in '37, in '47, and we favored Resolution
242. Many offers of statehood were made by Ehud Barak. It was not we who
turned them down. It was Yasser Arafat. It's not we who stole money from
the Palestinian people, not we who turn Palestinian children into suicide
bombers. Yasser Arafat's primary victims have been the Palestinian people.
He has stolen his people's lives from them.

There was a cartoon in the Berkeley Daily Planet. It shows a picture of a
man holding a Palestinian flag that says. " State of Palestine," and it
shows an American flag and a man with a Jewish Star of David stabbing him
in the back, as if Israel denied statehood to the Palestinian people.

Prince Bandar, the Saudi Arabian member of the peace delegation, said if
Arafat had accepted what was offered by 2001, we could be celebrating the
third year of Palestinian statehood. Palestine could have been one of the
wealthiest states in the Middle East, with all kinds of money pouring in
from Europe, with great medical care and good education.

The best thing that could happen to the Middle East would be the existence
of a democratic, economically viable Palestinian state. It is not Israel
that has prevented that from happening. It's the Palestinian leadership.
The Palestinians should value having their own state more than the
destruction of the Jewish state. But it cannot come without, it must be a
condition of, recognizing the existence of the state of Israel.

And statehood cannot come as a reward for terrorism. As Tom Friedman wrote
in the New York Times, if Palestinian statehood is a reward for terrorism,
then terrorism is coming to a theater near you. The world learned a
terrible lesson when it rewarded Palestinian terrorism at Munich in 1972;
when it rewarded Palestinian terrorism in Turkey and in France; when it
rewarded Palestinian terrorists in Italy and Israel, as well. Indeed, I
think Usama Bin Laden learned an important lesson from Arafat -- that
terrorism works because the United States doesn't have the backbone to
stand up to it.

Many European countries become complicit with terror by making deals with
the devil, like when Germany's Wily Brandt freed the murderers of Munich
after the fake hijacking that he arranged with the Palestinians. This is
the kind of cowardly act which results in spreading terrorism around the
world. And it's the United States that shares this same destiny with
Israel. Both are victims of terrorism against civilians. They fight for
the preservation of democracy in a world where terrorism is tolerated; a
world where terrorists think they can change the outcome of elections the
way they did in Spain, and hope to do in England, Australia, Untied States
and Israel. These democracies have to be able to stand up to the tyranny
of the world.

Israel can be proud of the way it stood up to terrorism. Israel should be
proud of the way it has fought the wars that were thrust upon it for so
many years. The last thing Israel wanted to do was fight the wars. Not in
1947, in 1948, not in 1956, not in 1967, not in 1973 and not in any era
since. All Israel wants to do is live in peace and prosperity and openness
and become a center of science, of intellectualism, of art and culture.

You know you hear excuses all the time that democracy is only for secure
nations. "It's only for rich nations. It's only for old nations. Don't
expect democracies too quickly in Iraq, don't expect it in other parts of
the world. Don't expect it in China. It's a luxury. The United States can
afford it, Western Europe can afford it." Israel puts the lie to that.

Israel has been a democracy since the day it was born. Israel never gave
up democracy even when faced with genocidal attempts to destroy it. Even
when faced with a war and the potential for major, major destruction, it
never gave up on democracy. There is no question Israel will remain a
democracy.

And as a democracy, Israel can take criticism. Israel is a country with a
thick skin. It has had to develop that thick skin over a number of years.
It will remain a democracy, believe it. That's a given. Just go online and
read the Israeli press. If you want to see criticism in Israel just read
Ma'ariv or Yediot Ahranot or Ha'aretz. They tell the joke of the Israelis
who were stranded on a deserted island. They were rescued after five years
and they had 15 political parties and several newspapers. And American
Jews shouldn't be timid to criticize policies of a particular Israeli
government. You hear Michael Lerner and others say that to criticize
Israel you are called an anti-Semite. That's just nonsense.

I have challenged Michael Lerner, I have challenged others both in the Bay
Area and other places too. Show me a single instance where a major Jewish
leader or Israeli leader has ever said that criticizing a particular
policy of Israeli government is anti-Semitic. That's just something made
up by Israel's enemies. It is not something that can actually be argued
today.

It is anti-Semitism to single out Israel -- to single out the Jewish
nation and blow its faults out of proportion and beyond any kind of
recognition, and it is anti-Semitism to continually compare Israel to
Nazism.

I was accused of carrying my own anti-Semitisic agenda the first time in
my adult life when I spoke at Fanueil Hall and received an award from a
Jewish organization for my work in human rights. As I walked out there was
a group from the hard Left chanting "Dershowitz and Hilter, it's all the
same, the only difference is the name!" and "Dershowitz and Goebbels, all
the same, the only difference is the name!" They were chanting that Jews
who support Israel are worse than Nazis. Norman Finkelstein has said he
doesn't understand why Israel isn't flattered by the comparison with
Nazis.

You'll notice these people never compare Israel to others -- to
dictatorships, to China, never to Pinochet, never to Cuba, never even to
Mussolini and never to solve anything. And that is anti-Semitism. To
compare a democratic state that is trying so hard to conform to the rule
of law and has never killed innocent civilians deliberately or willfully
to the Nazi regimes that killed Jews can only be motivated by hatred and
bigotry. So criticism is there. Criticism should be comparable,
contextual, constructive. Israel thrives on criticism and the Jewish
community thrives on criticism. All I want when I come to Berkeley is to
confront those people, those professors, those Israel haters.

Again, I say I'm pro-Palestinian. The only difference between me and other
pro-Palestinians is they are anti-Israel. I could debate them because my
goal is simply to bring more nuances in the discussion of the Israeli/Arab
Palestinian conflict to the college campus. Enough of the shouting, enough
of the polemics, enough of the extremism, enough of the ignorant
comparisons to Nazism or to apartheid. Enough of the thoroughly
non-intellectual sloganeering. Let's have a real intellectual discussion,
let's have a real conversation. Let's have a real case.

But you can't buy that case unless there's elimination of the extremist
rhetoric -- this sense that Israel is demonized, de-legitimized in the
world. In fact, the extreme criticism makes it hard to get the nuances of
criticism of both sides. And what happens is each side gets polemical
views and that doesn't make progress toward peace.

So I ask those in the progressive movement, who support feminism and civil
liberties, -- the kind of political theories I've supported all my life--
to come join an effort to support Israel and support Palestine. To support
a democratic Palestinian state to be sure. Take the position you want on
unilateralism, or on the fence; they are issues about which reasonable
people can disagree. Israelis disagree.

The fence case is now in the Israeli Supreme Court as well as the
International Court of Justice. The Israeli Supreme Court will resolve it
fairly. The International Court of Justice won't. Why? Because the
International Court of Justice is just like the Mississippi Supreme Court
in the 1930's.

There was a Mississippi Supreme Court that could do justice only for cases
of a White against a White. It was an all White court. It could in a
paternalistic way solve a case of a Black against another Black, but it
couldn't do justice in a case involving a Black and White. It would always
find in favor of a White in such a case.

The same goes for the United Nations General Assembly and the
International Court of Justice, which is a United Nations court. It can do
justice in some disputes, but when Israel is involved it is incapable of
doing justice. Like the Mississippi Supreme Court, it used its credibility
that existed in some cases to pretend it was doing justice, but no
perspicacious students of the International Court of Justice will be
fooled. But many people are not perspicacious. They'll see judges with
robes declaring the use of a fence to prevent terrorism not only a
violation of international law, but a grievous one!

Among cases now pending before the International Court, there are no cases
pending involving genocide or slavery, or oppression of women. There are
no cases of oppression of people because of their religion. There are no
cases involving events in Algeria or the Sudan or Rwanda. But Israel
builds a moveable fence, a fence that three times already has been moved
by order of the Israeli Supreme Court and by the Israeli government in
response to changes on the ground, and that seems to be the greatest
violation of international law.

There is a clear effort on the part of those who want to demonize and
de-legitimize Israel to win a struggle for the hearts and souls and minds
of the next generation of American leaders. The generation educated at
Berkeley, at Stanford, at the University of San Francisco, today's
students at UC Santa Cruz. Students from all over the state of California
and all over the United States. Fifteen to 20 years from now these will be
the congress people, the senators. These will be the judges and business
leaders. The President of the United States and international leaders as
well. The goal is to make these people so knee-jerk anti-Israel that they
will resemble typical French or most Western European leaders of today.
That's the goal of the divestiture campaign. The leaders of the
divestiture movement knew it couldn't work. Noam Chomsky knew it. He said
he never believed in divestiture, yet he supported it. Why? Because it
would cause students to be misled by the context of the petition, to
believe Israel deserved to be singled out as a great human rights violator
of the world.

So it is a struggle for the hearts and minds of the students. "College is
a dangerous place," Chomsky said. Your children and grandchildren and the
children and grandchildren of our friends, they come from high schools,
many from a Jewish education, and they are directed into classes that
present a totally one-sided perspective. And when somebody tries to speak
up for Israel they are demonized the way I have been demonized.

My book has been attacked viciously. I've been accused of plagiarism when
I have all my original hand written copies. Norman Finkelstein said I
didn't write it. People are prepared to make all kinds of false
allegations not only against Israel, but against any Israel supporters
also. Martin Gilbert, Stuart Eisenstadt, Debra Lipstadt, Elie Wiesel --
everybody who can speak in favor of the Jewish community -- is subjected
to a well-organized, well-orchestrated and well-financed attack.

But they cannot stop us. They know they are not going to stop us. They
know they aren't going to succeed in discrediting me, but they are sending
a message to young assistant professors that "if you write a book that is
pro-Israel or you write an article that is pro-Israel, we will savage you,
we will accuse you of plagiarism. We will savage you, we will call you a
fraud. And Dershowitz may be able to survive those charges, but you won't;
when your tenure comes up those charges will be there, they will be in the
air."

As Churchill said, "A lie can make its way half way around the world
before the truth can get its pants on."

That's the goal, that's the purpose. And let there be no mistake about it.
This is a battle for the hearts and minds for all of our future
generation. That's why you all have to become Op Ed writers, you all have
to become the people who call the TV and radio stations. You all have to
write letters to the editor. You all have to support your local federation
in the best defense of Israel.

2. The latest terrorism from Berkeley:
http://www.calpatriot.org/article.php?articleID=72

3. From the Discovering the World is Round Arena:
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/5/262004c.asp

4. Senator Bigot:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1085972009652&p=1006953079865

5. More Campus Totalitarianism:
http://chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=7692