Original articles on Israel and related issues written by Steven Plaut, a professor at an Israeli university.
![[Powered by Blogger]](http://buttons.blogger.com/bloggerbutton1.gif){kind=small}
"The Nation" Seeks to Deny Dershowitz Free Speech
For clean copy and links, go to http://moonbatcentral.com/wordpress/?p=601
It is always a matter of great amusement to see Far-Leftist moonbats,
those who support all the anti-American dictatorships on the planet, whine
about the "suppression of free speech" whenever a non-leftist criticizes
them. And it is particularly amusing to see the "The Nation" whine when
Alan Dershowitz dares to utilize his own freedom of speech.
Jon Wiener, writing in this week.s issue of "The Nation", can.t control
his bladder due to his outrage over the fact that Dersh wrote to the
Governor of California, yep - to the Ahnold Himself, to suggest that the
state-owned and state-financed publication house of the University of
California NOT publish a book by Norman Finkelstein.
Finkelstein is an anti-Semitic crackpot who has been described by the
Anti-Defamation League as a Holocaust Denier. Employed by DePaul
University as an assistant professor in political science, Finkelstein
regards Holocaust Denier and neonazi David Irving to be a great historian.
Yes, that is the same DePaul University that fired Professor Thomas Klocek
for daring to defend Israel in front of some campus jihadniks.
Finkelstein, when he is not bashing and libeling author/philosopher Elie
Wiesel and other people for daring to be survivors of the same Holocaust
that his mentor David Irving claims never took place, saves special spleen
for attacking Dershowitz for daring to support Israel. Finkelstein wants
Israel to be destroyed so that the world can have a second Holocaust of
the Jews that Finkelstein can claim never took place. The distinguished
historian Omer Bartov from Brown University compared Finkelstein.s
scribblings to the the old czarist forgery "Protocols of the Elders of
Zion". Our guess is that "The Nation" interpreted that as a compliment
for Finkelstein.
The Ahnold.s people turned Dersh down. Now while we suppose that even
crackpots like Finkelstein are entitled to the protections of free speech,
we see no reason why the innocent taxpayers of California should be raped
into paying for the proliferation of Finkelstein.s filth. Finkelstein can
get all the "free speech" he wants on the pages of "The Nation" and
"Counterpunch," as well as the many neonazi web sites who adore him.
Dershowitz has invested considerable energy in exposing Finkelstein as a
neonazi buffoon. The main reason for Dershowitz.s letter to the Governor
seems to be that Finkelstein libels him in the "book" in question.
Finkelstein has been claiming that Dershowitz plagiarized some material
from another writer, Joan Peters.s From Time Immemorial. He did not.
Wiener writes in .The Nation.: "The body of Beyond Chutzpah shows
Finkelstein to be an indefatigable researcher with a forensic ability to
take apart other people.s arguments. The core of the book challenges
Dershowitz.s defense of Israel.s human rights record by citing the
findings of mainstream groups, including Amnesty International, the
Israeli human rights organization B.Tselem and Human Rights Watch." In
other words, Finkelstein quotes from other discredited Bash-Israel
propagandists to prove his "case" against Israel and against Dershowitz.
Why not quote from Ward Churchill and Noam Chomsky to prove that America
is the aggressor against Islamic terrorists?
The main claim of Wiener and Finkelstein against Israel? "Since then
Israel has killed three Palestinians for every Israeli killed." Of
course, since the Americans killed far more Germans and Japanese in World
War II than the numbers of Americans killed by those two countries, then
the dimwitted duo no doubt regard the Americans as the real oppressors and
criminals in THAT war! "The Nation" had earlier run a sycophatic piece
praising Finkelstein.s scribblings and comparing Finkelstein ethically to
the Prophets of the Bible, written by an anti-Semitic lecturer from Ben
Gurion University in Israel named Neve Gordon.
It is all well and good that "The Nation" wishes to defend the free speech
of Holocaust Deniers and promote their point of view in the magazine, but
why are they not willing to extend that same right of free speech to
Dershowitz and allow him to express his opinion to the Governor of
California?
http://moonbatcentral.com/wordpress/?p=601
2. Trent University.s Self-Hating Moonbat
http://moonbatcentral.com/wordpress/?p=596
We figured it was only natural for the Cockburn team to have recruited
Michael Neumann as a Counterpunch Cockroach. Neumann is one of the worst
bashers of Israel in Canadian "academics" and he is a devoted member of
the Cockburn Cult, which believes that just because some people think that
all Jews should be murdered is no reason to label them anti-Semites.
Neumann dutifully turns out pro-anti-Semitism pieces that have appeared in
Counterpunch. Like the Cockburns, he regards Americans and Israelis as
barbarians.
His most memorable comment was: "I think we should almost never take
antisemitism seriously, and maybe we should have some fun with it." This
was followed by: "Israel has committed war crimes. It has implicated Jews
generally in these crimes, and Jews generally have hastened to implicate
themselves. This has provoked hatred against Jews. Why not? Some of this
hatred is racist, some isn.t, but who cares? Why should we pay any
attention to this issue at all?"
Ernst Zundel seems to have an academic follower north of the border! The
Canadian Jewish Congress wrote a letter of complaint to Neumann.s
employer, Trent University, about his naked anti-Semitism. As the matter
attracted greater attention, Neumann repudiated the statement (without
denying its authenticity), then apologized to the CJC. Neumann proudly
proclaims himself a follower of the Swedish nazi who sometimes calls
himself "Israel Shamir".
Neumann is a Jew-hating professor of Jewish extraction, just what the
Cockburns love. He teaches "philosophy" at Trent University in Canada.
He is also a close associate of "Rabbi" Moonbat, Mikey Lerner, the editor
of Tikkun magazine. We keep expecting the Tikkun people to discovery one
of these days that socialism does not work and so to change the name of
their trashy little magazine to "Tycoon" instead.
Anyways, Neumann.s new contribution to the Moonbatmosphere is a piece this
weekend in Counterpunch in which he bemoans the failues of the Left. We
thought his most laughable line was this: "Since the 1960s, most of the
silliness and snobbishness of the left has vanished: nowadays leftists
tend to avoid jargon and don.t carry on like a Che Guevara Mini-Me." We
suspect he is talking about a Left in some parallel galaxy.
He does accidentally get a couple of things right: "Given its current
message, the left has no plausible way to address these patriots: in fact
the left.s message gives them reason to support the war effort." We agree
entirely.
Last year Jonathan Kay from Canada.s National Post did a superb job of
"outing" the jihadnik from Trent. Here are a few citations:
Since the Al-Aqsa intifada broke out in 2000, hard-left academics and
activists have sometimes blurred the distinction between hatred of Israeli
policies and hatred of Jews. To excuse suicide bombings as a legitimate
option of the "oppressed" (so long as the victims are Jewish), to recycle
the lies of Jenin and other modern-day blood libels, to demonize Israel as
"genocidal" while ignoring the far worse calamities in Chechnya, Sudan,
Algeria and elsewhere . all these tactics reflect a mindset that many Jews
find indistinguishable from plain bigotry.
Exhibit A here in Canada is Michael Neumann, a philosophy professor at
Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. Since last year, the educator
has been posting his essays on the left-wing Web site Counterpunch.org.
The articles vary in subject: terrorism, U.S. foreign policy, the Middle
East, etc. But they are all soaked in a single, dominant motif: a shrill,
virtually pathological hatred for the state of Israel.
Israel, the Trent educator says, is "a growing evil" whose campaign
against the neighboring Arabs is "vengeful, relentless [and] sadistically
gradual." The country.s "crimes," he writes, reflect "a cold-blooded,
calculated, indeed an eagerly embraced choice of war over peace, and an
elaborate plan to seek out those who had fled the misery of previous
confrontations, to make certain that their suffering would continue."
Naturally, comparisons to the Nazis and their eugenics agenda abound.
Israeli settlers want peace "just as Hitler wanted peace," Mr. Neumann
says. The Jews see the Palestinians as "lice," and are seeking their
"extinction." The army, meanwhile, serves "the higher purpose of clearing
away the vermin who resist the implantation of superior Jewish DNA
throughout the occupied territories."
Are Prof. Neumann.s views anti-Semitic? The answer to this question does
not appear to trouble him much. His theory is that Jews bear a collective
responsibility to speak out against Israel. And if they fail to acquit
themselves of that duty, then they have fairly earned the world.s hatred.
As usual, he sees a comparison with the Nazis as apt: "If it is not
racist, and reasonable, to say that the Germans were complicit in crimes
against humanity, then it is not racist, and reasonable, to say the same
of the Jews."
http://moonbatcentral.com/wordpress/?p=596
Brits to Stage "Rachel Corrie Cantata"
http://moonbatcentral.com/wordpress/?p=594
What is it with those British Moonbats and Rachel Corrie? No sooner do
they stage a "play", which glorifies Corrie while ignoring the hundreds of
civilian victims of the terrorists that Corrie supported and helped, than
they also decide to warble the Rachel Corrie "cantata".
Rachel Corrie, you will recall, was the a clueless student at Evergreen
College in Washington State who decided to commit suicide on behalf of
Palestinian terrorism. She joined the pro-terror "International
Solidarity Movement", and - in beween burning American flags - went to the
Gaza Strip to try to interfere with Israeli forces destroying terrorist
infrastructure, and in particular to protect the smuggling tunnels into
Gaza from Egypt.
It is through such tunnels that the Palestinian terrorists import their
explosives and missiles. Because the tunnels are purposely built below
residences to hide them, the only way to destroy them is to demolish the
houses that hide them and then blow up the tunnels. The Corrie parents
are these days touring the US in a Bash Israel tour, together with the
"innocent" Palestinian owners of the house the bulldozer was removing to
get to the tunnels when Corrie jumped in its path.
An Israeli earth mover was attacking terror tunnels the morning Corrie
decided to challenge it to a game of chicken. Placing herself in a
position where the driver could not see her, the bulldozer crushed her.
She died later in a PLO-run medical facility and there is some reason to
suspect she actually died due to incompetent medical care there. (Her ISM
colleague Tom Hurndall, hit by a bullet when he tried to protect
terrorists in a firefight, similarly died from medical malpractice when he
was undergoing care back in a British hospital that is a part of the
socialized medical system in Britain. The second movement of the
"cantata" is dedicated to Tom Hurndall, but not to the British MDs who
killed him.
Corrie, like all the ISM hoodlums and useful idiots of the Islamofascist
terrorists, was in Israel to engage in violence, to assist terrorists, and
to serve as a human shield for Palestinian murderers. The ISM openly
endorses Palestinian terrorism against Jewish civilians, which the ISM
calls "armed struggle".
Sycophantic ravings about Corrie are increasingly passing for "art and
culture" among the fundamentalist Left. A while back one Philip Munger
from the University of Alaska in Anchorage (UAA), wrote a "cantata" about
Corrie. Munger used two "poems" written as "memorials" to Corrie but not
to any of the victims of the terrorists the ISM promotes, one by San
Francisco "poet" Phil Goldvarg and another by Sri Lanka "poet" Thushara
Wijeratna. We are not sure but we think that one of those may also have
composed the famous work of poetry, "Here I sit broken-hearted, paid my
dime."
The initial performance of the "cantata" was cancelled by UAA of Alaska
in Anchorage (UAA), wrote a "cantata" about Corrie. Munger used two
"poems" written as "memorials" to Corrie but not to any of the victims of
the terrorists the ISM promotes, one by San Francisco "poet" Phil Goldvarg
and another by Sri Lanka "poet" Thushara Wijeratna. We are not sure but we
think that one of those may also have composed the famous work of poetry,
"Here I sit broken-hearted, paid my dime."The initial performance of the
"cantata" was cancelled by UAA due to the outcry from the Alaskan Jewish
community, also sometimes known as the Frozen Chosen. So now Munger and
his gang are planning to inflict their "cantata" on Londoners. Munger
has been exposed by a real composer as a charlatan here:
http://www.williambowles.info/isrl-pal/corrie.html
1. http://moonbatcentral.com/wordpress/?p=569
Panty Bomber
Israel has long tried to end the Middle East war by being nice to
Palestinians. Peace through niceness is the foundation of the Oslo .peace
process.. One part of this niceness is admitting Palestinians from the
West Bank and Gaza into Israeli hospitals, often for free. The bleeding
hearts of the world have long demanded that Israel also stop searching
ambulances run by the PLO and simply allow them through checkpoints
without being searched, and never mind that they have long been used to
transport explosives and terrorists.
Yesterday, Israel.s obsessive niceness and generosity in allowing
Palestinians to use its hospitals was rewarded when a terrorist woman with
explosives hidden in her panties attempted to gain admission to an Israeli
hospital, where she planned to conduct a mass murder of Israeli children.
PLO leaders promised that even though this heroic attempt to protest
occupation failed, the next one will succeed.
The 21-year old Arab woman from Gaza, who had been treated in an Israeli
hospital for massive burns she received as a result of a gas tank
explosion, was apprehended yesterday at the Erez Crossing wearing
.explosive pants.. She said she had been directed to carry out her suicide
attack inside the crowded Israeli hospital.
The woman, Wafaa Samir Ibrahim Bass, had been given permission to cross
the Gaza lines yesterday for admission to Soroka Medical Center in Be.er
Sheva for continued medical treatment for her facial scars. .The terrorist
infrastructure took advantage of her medical condition,. read an IDF
statement, .in order to carry out a major suicide bombing attack inside
Israel..
The resident of Jabaliya aroused the suspicion of the IDF soldiers at the
crossing, who placed her in a side room for further checking via camera.
During her security check, when she realized that the soldiers had
discovered the explosive belt on her body, she attempted unsuccessfully to
detonate it. It did not go off.
The misnamed extremist pro-terror group Physicians for Human Rights , one
of the main critics of Israel.s checking PLO ambulances for bombs and
murderers, issued an insipid milquetoast statement in response to
yesterday.s thwarted Palestinian terror attack inside the crowded
hospital. The PHR in the past published openly anti-Semitic materials in
its campaign to demonize Israel, and has never condemned PLO use of
ambulances for terrorism, nor has it condemned PLO terrorism as a
violation of human rights. There is no evidence that the PHR believes that
Jews should be entitled to any human rights, such as the right to defend
themselves. While reminding people that the PHR .will continue to work
against the occupation. it stated yesterday that it .calls upon the
Palestinian society and its leaders to strongly condemn the use of
patients for violent purposes..
2. The Latest Leftist-Islamofascist Medieval Blood Libel
The PLO and its apologists have long been fond of spreading medieval bllod
libels about Jews, such as how Jews drink gentile blood for Passover and
poison the wells. Suha Arafat, wife of His Ugliness, made that latter
claim while Hillary sat in the audience and politely applauded. Medieval
anti-Semitism is quite common among the Moonbatocracy as well,
increasingly claiming with a straight face that it was actually Dem Joos
and not bin Laden who knocked down the World Trade Center towers to make
al-Qaeda look bad.
The latest blood libel being promoted by the Leftist-Islamofascist Axis of
Evil is the mind-numbingly stupid claim that Israel is sending foods with
carcinogens to Palestinians. The inventor of this story is terrorist Yusuf
Abu Safia, the chairman of the PLO.s .Environmental Authority. (EA).
Ordinarily the PLO does not exhibit great environmentalist concern, such
as for the need to prevent the polluting of the environment with body
parts of victims of PLO terrorism.
But Abu Safia is claiming that Israel has dumped into the Palestinian
market food and fruit laced with carcinogens. That story is this week
being carried by the pro-terror Islam Online web site and also is being
repeated by the Moonbat Left. Oh, and the carcinogen in the food?
Saccarine! Really! This, from an .Environmental Chairman. who has never
gotten around to suggesting an anti-smoking campaign among Palestinians.
Abu Safia is cited there as saying:
.This chemical (saccarine) is highly dangerous to public health and has
been banned since 1982 around the globe as studies held it as the main
culprit behind cancer. Frozen meat, summer vegetables and fruit have been
injected with chemicals and exposed to radition which mutated into double
of their size..
Abu Safia further went on to warn that Palestinian children .playfully and
unawaringly play with Israeli games that beam radioactive rays.. He said
Egyptian border authorities seized two shipments of carcinogenic and
radioactive Israeli games last month. Other PLO terrorists have long
claimed that Israel has used chemical weapons against the Palestinians.
The Holocaust Denying Egyptian al-Ahram, controlled by the goverment, has
repeated the lies. The PLO.s house journal claims Israel uses poison gas
against schoolgirls. Poisoned food has in fact been used in the Middle
East war against the Jews, but by the PLO .
The story is already showing up on those .Indymedia. Indymoonbat web
sites. We figure Alex Cockburn and his crew will be running it before the
week is up on Counterpunch.
http://moonbatcentral.com/wordpress/?p=568
3. Looking for an explanation for Sharon's Peresque behavior? Try this:
http://gamla.org.il/english/article/2005/june/g5.htm
4. Anti-Zionist Hebrew University Professor of Sociology Baruch
Kimmerling does not like free speech in the form of "Talkbacks":
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/590206.html
Are you surprised?
1. Another Counter-Punch Self-Hating Jew
By Steven Plaut
FrontPageMagazine.com | June 20, 2005
During World War II, there were Jewish "kapos" in Nazi concentration camps who were forced by the threat of immediate death to collaborate with the Germans and performs jobs involved in the murder of other Jews. We should not be too fast to judge them, given their dire circumstances and desperate desire to stay alive.
There are today, however Jewish leftists who would like nothing better than to assist Jew-hating Arabs in creating a Second Holocaust of Jews, and their slavish and servile collaboration with genocidal Islamo-fascists has nothing to do with threats to their own lives.
Almost every self-hating Jew on the planet capable of banging on a keyboard is today either a columnist for the anti-American web magazine Counterpunch, run by Alexander Cockburn, or is an object of Counterpunch?s celebration. Counterpunch runs Norman Finkelstein, whom even the Anti-Defamation League has declared a Holocaust denier. It regularly runs the anti-Israel lecturer Neve Gordon, a deep admirer of Finkelstein who has turned out dozens of articles attacking Israel for Cockburn, as well as Israel?s Lord Haw-Haw Uri Avnery, and dozens of other anti-Israel Jews.
Now Counterpunch has decided to celebrate Gilad Atzmon, proudly proclaimed by Cockburn to be a ?CounterPuncher?. Who is Atzmon?
Atzmon is a subliterate ex-Israeli saxophone player living in Britain, where he is active in numerous anti-Semitic organizations. He is one of the ultras in the UK trying to organize boycotts of Israel, and is well-known for his defense of the burning down of synagogues. He is a communist; the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) has just invited Gilad Atzmon to appear at their annual convention this July, "Marxism 2005". He has already spoken before the pro-Castro ?Trots? twice and tooted his saxophone for them. (Wouldn?t these ?Trotskyites? be surprised to hear that Trotsky?s own grandson is a militant Zionist ?settler? in the West Bank today?)
Atzmon's ravings are carried on the PLO-front web site "one-state.org,? devoted to solving the problem of Israel's existence with the formation of a single Palestinian state in which Jews are delivered to the supporters of Hamas and the al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade. Atzmon has turned out numerous anti-Israel articles for the Cockburns, and these have been run frequently on Counterpunch. There he has endorsed Islamofascist terrorism as a way to create a "balance of power" that can deter the US and has written: "If Islamic militants could practically endanger our existence we would have to listen to them with great respect. We would then have to look for a genuine means towards reconciliation."
Atzmon is so openly anti-Semitic that he has been denounced by the ordinary plain-vanilla anti-Zionist Leftists running around Britain. Many of these have demanded that the SWP renege on its invitation to Atzmon to speak before their convocation. A radical named Tony Greenstein has publicized demands on the forum of the so-called Just Peace UK for Atzmon not to appear at the Trotskyite cotillion. Greenstein has publicly declared that Atzmon is an open anti-Semite, that Atzmon is associated with open anti-Semites, and a Holocaust Denier or, at the very least, an apologist for them. In any case, the open Holocaust Deniers themselves proudly proclaim Atzmon to be one of their own. David Irving just loves Atzmon. It is always of interest to see Alexander Cockburn and David Irving, who has actually been convicted of Holocaust denial in a court of law, sharing the same affections.
Atzmon for his part has denounced his anti-Zionist Jewish critics on al-Jazeera. Atzmon insists that, ?every Israeli and Diaspora Zionist Jew is a potential zio-agent.? On al-Jazeera he has also attacked British Jews in general in an article entitled "Protocols of the Elders of London", a naked affirmation of the old Czarist forgery. Atzmon proudly declares: " Holocaust Denial is in itself a Zionist terminology and I refuse to accept it or to use it." Atzmon has personally circulated neonazi and Holocaust Denial materials, including materials that support Ernst Zundel, who was recently deported from Canada to Germany for his Nazi activities in North America. He is so openly anti-Semitic that he has attempted to recruit the medieval libels about Jews as Christ-killers as ammunition against them.
Atzmon has tried to fan anti-Semitism by repeating the urban legends about the supposedly all-powerful "Zionist Lobby", legends that one ordinarily has to go to neonazi web sites in order to read. He writes: "On reflection, it must be terrifying that such a small lobby from a tiny state is so eager to push the rest of the world into endless confrontation." Among the main "mistakes of Israelis" Atzmon has discovered for his Counterpunch readers, have been "To believe that the creation of the state of Israel was an outcome of the Holocaust; To be convinced that the 'Jewish state' is a legitimate concept; To regard themselves as humanists: To be sure that Israel is immortal." Atzmon certainly regards Israel as mortal and openly wants to see it destroyed. The genocide of Jews that would accompany its destruction is just one of those unfortunate minor side effects from doing what people like Cockburn and Atzmon think is the right thing to do.
The Guardian, which no one could suspect of having Zionist sympathies, quotes Atzmon in this way: "Gilad Atzmon, a pro-Palestine advocate, gave a talk to students this month, arguing: 'I'm not going to say whether it is right or not to burn down a synagogue, I can see that it is a rational act." That comment places Atzmon outside the circle of ordinary Jewish self-hating leftists merely seeking the destruction of Israel, and qualifies him for the title of Britain's leading kapo-wannabe. The only legitimate lesson of Auschwitz that Atzmon can see is that Israel needs to be destroyed and conservatives delegitimized:
"Auschwitz stands as a symbol of partnership between the European parliamentary left and the American expansionist right. For both, Auschwitz stands as an icon of threat against the image of open society, within the prospect of this fatal bond, any European genuine left is destined to be pushed to the margin. Any form of genuine left inspired by red aspirations is doomed to be presented as a subversive and radical outlook. In March 1998, Robin Cook, then the British foreign minister, paid a diplomatic visit to Israel. While there, Cook rightly refused to visit Yad Vashem (Holocuast Museum and Memorial), claiming that he was concerned with the future rather than with the past. It wasn't long before Cook lost his job. The refusal to bow to the Auschwitz tale cost Cook his job."
Cockburn just can't get enough of this crackpot and this week runs a piece by one Mary Rizzo, a moonbette who lives in Italy, who has written repeatedly in support of Atzmon, and who once again sings the praises of Atzmon for the Counterpunch crowd. Rizzo?s piece is devoted to defending Atzmon from the accusations against him of other Bash-Israel British Leftists who claim that he is a neonazi and is embarrassing the Left.
This was not the first such sycophant piece in Counterpunch celebrating the would-be synagogue-burner Atzmon. Jeffrey St. Clair, who co-authored with Alexander Cockburn a "book" devoted to the theme that it is unreasonable to call people anti-Semites simply because they want to see all the Jews murdered, has taken crayon to hand to sing Atzmon's praises as well.
Should new concentration camps for Jews ever be erected by the Islamofascists, with the help of their leftist allies, we expect to see Gilad Atzmon sitting there by the gate as the cattle cars are unloaded, playing his sax, with Alexander Cockburn dancing in the street.
2. Git(mo) yours now:
http://www.thecampaignstore.com/store/itemdetail.asp?id=227&rname=MAF
3. Disrupting the Campus Pogroms:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18486
Also, visit http://www.stoptheism.com/
4. Robert F. Maguire Jr., the chief pilot of Operation Magic Carpet,
which
evacuated more than 40,000 Jewish refugees from Yemen to the newly created
state of Israel between late 1948 and early 1950, died on June 10 at his
home in Northridge, Calif. He was 94.
He died of natural causes, said his son Robert F. Maguire III.
Starting in November 1947, when the United Nations voted to partition
Palestine, Arabs and Jews were at war. Pogroms against the Jews of Yemen
soon followed. In an operation that was arduous, dangerous and secret,
nearly the entire Jewish population of Yemen was evacuated beginning in
December 1948.
The flight from Yemen to Israel, a journey of more than 1,400 miles, was
almost entirely over hostile territory. Though the evacuation was kept
secret for fear of sabotage, the planes were routinely fired on by
Egyptian forces. Fuel was scarce. Pilots were warned that if they were
forced to land in enemy territory, the passengers, and perhaps the crew,
risked being executed.
Requiring a little more than a year and 380 flights, Operation Magic
Carpet evacuated 40,000 to 50,000 Yemenite Jews without loss of life.
David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, was reported to have
called Mr. Maguire "the Irish Moses." The writer Leon Uris based a
character in his 1958 novel, "Exodus," on him.
Robert Francis Maguire Jr. was born in Portland, Ore., on Jan. 7, 1911.
His father, Robert Francis Sr., was a lawyer who became a judge at the
Nuremberg war-crimes trials in the late 1940's. Robert Jr. began flying as
a teenager, later attending Reed College and the University of Oregon. He
enlisted in the Army Air Corps the day after Pearl Harbor, and flew in the
Pacific region in the war.
After the war, Mr. Maguire became a pilot for Alaska Airlines. With the
creation of the State of Israel in May 1948, the airline won a contract to
fly Jewish refugees there from around the globe. Mr. Maguire flew
thousands of Jews out of Shanghai before being sent to the Middle East to
help start Operation Magic Carpet in conjunction with the American Joint
Jewish Distribution Committee, a humanitarian organization.
An ancient, nomadic people, Yemenite Jews had been oppressed since the
advent of Islam in the eighth century. But their deliverance into Israel
was prophesied in a line from the Book of Isaiah: "They shall mount up
with wings as eagles."
When news of the planned evacuation reached them, they walked, sometimes
hundreds of miles, carrying Bibles and Torah scrolls, until they reached a
refugee camp at the British protectorate of Aden, on the southern tip of
Yemen.
The pilots left each morning from their base in Asmara, Eritrea, and
landed at Aden to pick up passengers. Few of the Yemenite Jews had ever
seen an airplane. But the airline painted an eagle with outstretched wings
over the door of each craft, and the Yemenites went aboard.
As many as 28 pilots at a time were involved in the operation, which
involved carrying the refugees to Tel Aviv, flying back to the safety of
Cyprus for the night, and returning to Asmara at dawn before starting over
again, a round trip of about 20 hours. When Alaska Airlines had to
withdraw a few months into the operation, Mr. Maguire started his own
company, Near East Air Transport, and hired planes and pilots to continue
the job.
The work cost him his career. In the region, Mr. Maguire contracted a
parasite that affected his heart and as a result he lost his commercial
pilot's license in the early 1950's. In later years he worked as a
pension-fund manager. Last year, Mr. Maguire, an Episcopalian, was awarded
a medal of valor by the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
Mr. Maguire's first marriage, to the former Jean Shepard, ended in
divorce. He is survived by their three children: Robert F. III, of Los
Angeles; Gilbert, of Ventura, Calif.; and Alix of Long Beach, Calif.; a
sister, Constance Wilson of Brookings, Ore.; eight grandchildren; and
eight great-grandchildren. Mr. Maguire's second wife, the former Edith
Barnick, died in 2002.
In Operation Magic Carpet, Mr. Maguire relied as much on his wits as on
his aviation skills. He once ran out of fuel and was forced to land in
Egypt. When airport officials rushed up to the plane, Mr. Maguire ordered
them to send ambulances immediately.
"What for?" they asked him.
"I have smallpox on board," Mr. Maguire replied.
He got his fuel, and flew on to Tel Aviv.
Robert Maguire Jr., the commercial pilot from Oregon who was dubbed the
"Irish Moses" for helping fly tens of thousands of Jewish refugees through
hostile territory from Yemen to Israel in 1949, died June 10 at his home
in Los Angeles. He was 94.
The World War II veteran was working for Alaska Airlines in late 1948 when
the company was contracted by the American Joint Distribution Committee to
fly Jewish refugees from Yemen, where they had been oppressed for
centuries, to the newly established state of Israel.
As the chief pilot of Operation Magic Carpet, Maguire helped transport
more than 40,000 refugees on nearly 400 flights, a successful airlift that
prompted Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion to call Maguire the
"Irish Moses."
The operation was a secret one because it was feared that the planes would
be shot down by Arab forces, who were at war with Israel. While they were
often shot at, none of the planes crashed and no lives were lost.
After Alaska Airlines withdrew from the operation, Maguire kept it going
by buying or leasing planes and setting up Near East Air Transport.
Not many of Maguire's Jewish passengers were aware that their pilot was an
American of Irish and British descent who had been raised an Episcopalian.
Over the years, Maguire never sought acknowledgment for his role in the
operation, modestly saying that he was "just doing my job."
In 2004, however, Maguire was awarded a medal of valor from the Simon
Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles for his "heroic efforts that helped
rescue tens of thousands of Jews."
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/11916006.htm
5. June 20, 2005
Ethnomathematics
By DIANE RAVITCH
June 20, 2005; Page A14
It seems our math educators no longer believe in the beauty and power of
the principles of mathematics. They are continually in search of a fix
that will make it easy, relevant, fun, and even politically relevant. In
the early 1990s, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics issued
standards that disparaged basic skills like addition, subtraction,
multiplication and division, since all of these could be easily performed
on a calculator. The council preferred real life problem solving, using
everyday situations. Attempts to solve problems without basic skills
caused some critics, especially professional mathematicians, to deride the
"new, new math" as "rainforest algebra."
In a comparison of a 1973 algebra textbook and a 1998 "contemporary
mathematics" textbook, Williamson Evers and Paul Clopton found a dramatic
change in topics. In the 1973 book, for example, the index for the letter
"F" included "factors, factoring, fallacies, finite decimal, finite set,
formulas, fractions, and functions." In the 1998 book, the index listed
"families (in poverty data), fast food nutrition data, fat in fast food,
feasibility study, feeding tours, ferris wheel, fish, fishing, flags,
flight, floor plan, flower beds, food, football, Ford Mustang, franchises,
and fund-raising carnival."
Those were the days of innocent dumbing-down. Now mathematics is being
nudged into a specifically political direction by educators who call
themselves "critical theorists." They advocate using mathematics as a tool
to advance social justice. Social justice math relies on political and
cultural relevance to guide math instruction. One of its precepts is
"ethnomathematics," that is, the belief that different cultures have
evolved different ways of using mathematics, and that students will learn
best if taught in the ways that relate to their ancestral culture. From
this perspective, traditional mathematics -- the mathematics taught in
universities around the world -- is the property of Western Civilization
and is inexorably linked with the values of the oppressors and conquerors.
The culturally attuned teacher will learn about the counting system of the
ancient Mayans, ancient Africans, Papua New Guineans, and other
"non-mainstream" cultures.
Partisans of social justice mathematics advocate an explicitly political
agenda in the classroom. A new textbook, "Rethinking Mathematics: Teaching
Social Justice by the Numbers," shows how problem solving,
ethnomathematics and political action can be merged. Among its topics are:
"Sweatshop Accounting," with units on poverty, globalization, and the
unequal distribution of wealth. Another topic, drawn directly from
ethnomathematics, is "Chicanos Have Math in Their Blood." Others include
"The Transnational Capital Auction," "Multicultural Math," and "Home
Buying While Brown or Black." Units of study include racial profiling, the
war in Iraq, corporate control of the media, and environmental racism. The
theory behind the book is that "teaching math in a neutral manner is not
possible." Teachers are supposed to vary the teaching of mathematics in
relation to their students' race, gender, ethnicity, and community.
This fusion of political correctness and relevance may be the next big
thing to rock mathematics education, appealing as it does to political
activists and to ethnic chauvinists.
It seems terribly old-fashioned to point out that the countries that
regularly beat our students in international tests of mathematics do not
use the subject to steer students into political action. They teach them
instead that mathematics is a universal language that is as relevant and
meaningful in Tokyo as it is in Paris, Nairobi and Chicago. The students
who learn this universal language well will be the builders and shapers of
technology in the 21st century. The students in American classes who fall
prey to the political designs of their teachers and professors will not.
Ms. Ravitch is a historian of education at New York University, a senior
fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a member of the Koret Task Force
at the Hoover Institution.
URL for this article:
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB111922877339463719,00.html
1.
http://discoverthenetwork.org/moonbatcentral/2005/06/neonazi-moonbat-embarrasses-rest-of.html
A Neonazi Moonbat Embarrasses the Rest of the Left
You know that the Bash-Israel web site calling itself "Deir Yassin
Remembered" is off the charts when a large group of OTHER Far-Leftist
Bash-Israel anti-Zionists are denouncing its director as an open neonazi
and anti-Semite!
Paul Eisen is London-based co-director of Deir Yassin Remembered, a web
site purporting to seek to commemorate the "massacre" of Arabs by Jews in
1948 at the village of Deir Yassin outside Jerusalem. The only problem is
that no massacre at all took place there, and the claim that one did is
little more than a medieval-style anti-Jewish blood libel. A battle did in
fact take place there, since the village controlled access to
then-besieged and starving Jerusalem, a battle in which some Arabs and
Jews died. The Far Left and the Neonazi Right have long tried to turn the
non-massacre of Deir Yassin into a bludgeon to demonize Israel and Jews.
Among the people on the board of "Deir Yassin Remembered" are a Swedish
Neonazi calling himself "Israel Shamir", convicted traitor and spy
Mordecai Vanunu, Saudi-financed ex-Congressman Paul Findlay, PLO
spokeswoman Hanan Ashrawi, and similar jihadniks of their ilk. The site is
a thinly-disguised front for the PLO. DePaul's Holocaust-Denier Norman
Finkelstein has evidently just been dropped from the board of the site,
being too much of an embarrassment even for them.
Paul Eisen has aroused the fury of the rest of the Bash-Israel Jew-baiters
by abandoning the common pretense of being "anti-Israel but not
anti-Jewish", a posture so beloved by most of the rest of the Left. He has
been publishing openly anti-Semitic materials, claiming that Jews are
plotting to take over the world, and openly supporting Palestinian
atrocities against Jews. When other anti-Israel Leftists were horrified by
this, they tried to get the web sites publishing Eisen to print their own
rebuttal of Eisen but they were refused.
Eisen's "analysis" has also been published by the "Zundelsite", the web
site of Ernst Zundel who was recently deported by Canada to Germany due to
his open nazi activities in North America. Eisen openly praises Zundel and
the adoration is mutual. Eisen openly collaborates with Swedish neonazi
Shamir, himself a close ally of Zundel. Eisen also writes anti-Jewish
pieces for the anti-Semitic Egyptian daily al-Ahram.
Anyway, Eisen is such an embarrassment for those anti-Israel leftists, who
prefer to perpetuate the myth of there being an anti-Zionism that is not
also anti-Semitism, that they have organized a petition against Eisen and
those who publish him. Among the signatories are people who are only
marginally less openly anti-Semitic than Eisen himself, and include some
of Israel's worst academic moonbats. Other neofascist leftists however are
rallying to Eisen's defense.
(see web site for clean copy and links)
2. Pet Murderers:
http://discoverthenetwork.org/moonbatcentral/2005/06/peta-murders-cuddly-pets.html
3. Dubya Dubbing Desert Dingbats:
http://discoverthenetwork.org/moonbatcentral/2005/06/dubya-is-dubbing-desert-dingbats.html
1. Sharon's Gift to Terror:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18412
2. Amnesty International Defends Communist Terrorists in Nepal
Just when we think that Amnesty International could not be further from
being a neutral objective human right watchdog group, along come the
Amnesty Moonbats to prove that they can. Anyone thinking that Amnesty
International is something other than a pro-communist anti-American
propaganda group - think again!
Amnesty's new cause, besides bashing America and Israel, is to help the
communist terrorists inside Nepal murder people. On June 6, Maoist
insurgents blew up a packed passenger bus killing 40 people and injuring
over 70 others. Over 12,000 people have been killed in the nine-year-old
Maoist insurgency. Communist insurgents inside Nepal routinely carry out
mass murderes and other atrocities. The Nepal Communist Party (Maoist)
recently dragged out wives and relatives of Nepalese Army personnel in
middle of the night to the jungle and cut them to pieces, including one
year child.
The Amnesty people demand that the West stop arming the Nepalese
government lest it defend its civilians from communist terrorism. Amnesty
reportedly has been awarded donations amounting to US $ 25 Million for its
"role" in Nepal, which is to help the Maoists.
"Arms should not be exported as long as there is a clear risk that they
might be used to commit serious human rights abuse," said Amnesty's
Asia-Pacific programme director Purna Sen. Huh? As usual, Amnesty has
things exactly Asia-backwards when it comes to who really is the terrorist
murderer and who is the victim, similar to its long track record in the
Middle East of reversing abuser and abused.
Amnesty, which wants Bush arrested as a war criminal, recently denounced
the US for making captured Iraqi terrorists listen to Sesame Street.
http://discoverthenetwork.org/moonbatcentral/2005/06/amnesty-international-defends.html
3. More on Jewish slave holders:
A Plaut Lister from the south has an interesting set of stories:
As long as you wrote this piece, I'll share with you a story which is
an exception to your conclusion about no Jewish slave trade, and is
therefore also instructive:
As the story in my family runs, we Sones' have been in the US for at
least 7 generations, and our fathers owned slaves in Louisiana.
Ignorant of Jewish law, but wanting to fulfill whatever ethical
aspects of which he was aware, my great great etc. grandfather would
free his slaves every seven years, even though this practice is
mandated for eved ivri (Jewish servant) alone.
This habit enraged the other slave owners, and when he once freed a
slave whom he owned in partnership with a gentile slave owner, he was
tarred and feathered and then ostracized, setting about a chain of
events that probably accounts for my sitting here and writing you this
today.
There is a sequel to the story: When I was seventeen I flew out to
Anaheim, California to pass out corruption-expose leaflets at a
financial guru's greed conference that was being held in a hotel
there. I reserved a room at a nearby motel through AAA, and had my
father's credit card with me to pay upon arrival.
I arrived around 1 or 2 in the morning. (Another time I'll tell you
the story of my encounter with the Breslover chassidim in LAX
airport..) The girl at the desk checked the reservation and gave me my
key. When I went to present the credit card, she said there was no
need, as it was all paid for. "How can that be? I have my father's
card right here - nobody paid you.." She said no, here it is, paid for
with the credit card of Ronald Sones, my father. "Let me see that.." I
said, puzzled, but then realized that it was just a freaky
coincidence, as my father is Ronald H. Sones, and this was a payment
made by one Ronald R. Sones.
It turned out that another Ronald Sones was staying in that motel the
same time as I was. Being that Sones is not that common a name, I
asked the girl which room he was in - maybe we are related and I could
discover a long lost family member.
"Well, I don't think you're related," said the girl.
"Why not?"
"Because he's black..."
4. David Hornik on Israeli cowardice:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18426
5. David Hornik on Dating in Jerusalem:
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=8300
6. More PLO Blood Libels:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18442
7. McMoonbats:
http://discoverthenetwork.org/moonbatcentral/2005/06/mcmoonbats.html
1. DePaul Gets Sued for Suppressing Free Speech
(http://discoverthenetwork.org/moonbatcentral/2005/06/depaul-gets-sued-for-suppressing-free.html)
The really interesting question we have is whether DePaul "University"
will hire the Michael Jackson Defense Team or the OJ Team.
Yes, DePaul "University" is getting sued by Thomas Klocek. We put the term
in quotes because we do not think the heads of DePaul have any interest in
maintaining academic standards, scholarly quality, or academic integrity,
and until they change their minds they should not be considered a real
university.
Just to remind you of the background to all this, DePaul is a Chicago
campus in which Norman Finkelstein, a notorious anti-Semite who has been
described as a Holocaust Denier by the Anti-Defamation League, a
pseudo-scholar whose anti-Jewish rants are carried by every neonazi web
magazine on earth, is retained as an assistant professor of political
science, but the very same university has fired Prof. Thomas Klocek
because he dared answer back to radical student jihadniks handing out
their propaganda on campus. Klocek was fired because the administration
believes that he holds "incorrect opinions" about the Middle East. Klocek
believes Israel has the right to exist and defend itself and that
"Palestinians" are an artificial construct.
Klocek was fired after talking back to anti-Israel campus activists in a
manner his Dean thought was impolite. Meanwhile, Finkelstein is almost
universally regarded as a Holocaust Denier, a Jewish traitor and
anti-Semite, and at the very least a fraud and quack. His charlatan
"scholarship" and neonazi ideas were recently documented at length by
Harvard's Alan Dershowitz. Klocek, in contrast, is a serious and popular
teacher, who was dismissed without a hearing because he offended some
campus extremists.
Depaul has some bizarre notions of free speech. While its President Dennis
H. Holtschneider publicly defends the employment of Finkelstein as a
professor, defends the operation on campus of a Bash-Israel propaganda
show dressed up as an art exhibit and the performance on the Catholic
University campus of the "Vagina Monologues", he has repeatedly denounced
Klocek and defended the firing of Klocek because Klocek expressed
politically incorrect views.
This week a defamation suit was filed in Illinois. Cook County Chancery,
charging that DePaul University and its leadership defamed Professor
Thomas Klocek when DePaul publicly characterized arguments he presented to
members of Palestinian and Muslim student groups as racist and bigoted.
The suit seeks damages against DePaul for maligning Klocek.s integrity and
professional competence. The defendants named include: DePaul University,
Rev. Dennis Holtschneider - President of DePaul, and Susan Dumbleton -
Dean of DePaul.s School for New Learning. The case was assigned to Judge
David Donnersberger.
Holtschneider has been denounced by David French, president of the
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE):
.DePaul has unquestionably violated Professor Klocek.s due process rights,
and the university did so because his statements were offensive to the
students. While DePaul may now argue that the issue is one of
professionalism, its public statements at the time of Klocek.s punishment
make it clear that Klocek.s real crime was offending students during an
out-of-class discussion of a controversial and emotional topic. Academic
freedom cannot survive when professors who engage in debate on
controversial topics are subject to administrative punishment without even
the most cursory due process..
Rev. Dennis Holtschneider contacted media outlets across the country to
slander Klocek and even publicly tried to make Klocek.s health an issue. A
letter of his was published in April 9, 2005 edition of The Rocky Mountain
News, where Holtschneider wrote,
.Last September, Klocek acted in a belligerent and menacing manner toward
students who were passing out literature at a table in the cafeteria. He
raised his voice, threw pamphlets at students, pointed his finger near
their faces and displayed a gesture interpreted as obscene.. DePaul
offered to give Klocek a spring quarter class assignment if he met with
the students to apologize for his behavior and if the program director
could drop by his class to ensure that the health issues that affected his
teaching were resolved. He refused..
We suspect the jury members from the Michael Jackson trial might believe
Holtschneider's version of the events. Funny how Holtschneider does not
think that Finkelstein should have his own (mental) health evaluated by a
good shrink before being allowed to abuse DePaul students with his
politicized in-class propagandizing against Jews.
For more details about the suit, visit our good friends at
http://marathonpundit.blogspot.com/. Wanna tell Holtschneider what YOU
think? His email address is dholtsch@depaul.edu.
2. New Orleans Hires a Racist in the name of Sensitivity:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18433
3. Pacifists for Genocide led by Ex-Israeli Moonbette and Pappette:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18410
Jewish Slave Owners and Similar Lies
by Steven Plaut
One of the more common claims by the Afrofascist wing of the Moonbat 'hood
and its leftist apologists is the claim that Jews were the main holders
and traders in African slaves. FPM recently ran a piece on one the main
inventors of the libel, Louis "Calypso Lou" Farrakhan, on the occasion of
his being honored by Bill Clinton. In late 1991, Farrakhan's Nation of
Islam published "The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews," to
indict, in effect, today's Jews for everything from the ownership of South
American sugar plantations three centuries ago to Jewish participation in
the Confederate war effort.
Similar claims have long been commonly made by people such as Leonard
Jeffries. A.M. Rosenthal of the New York Times wrote that Jeffries "says
in a public forum that the Jews financed the slave trade. That is not
quite the equivalent of [the accusation] Christ-killer, but coming close,
make no mistake." I asked Rosenthal too what actual role Jews played in
black slavery. "There was none," he replied. "Except for the most
peripheral way. If at all." Interestingly, similar claims have long been
made by white supremecist neonazi groups such as "Jewish Tribal Review,"
as a way to fan hatred of Jews. Without a doubt, the largest number of
slave holders in the Western Hemisphere were Hispanics! Interesting, isn't
it, how Farrkhan, Jeffries, and their apologists have never targeted
Hispanics in their campaign to demonize slave holders! How come they have
never demanded that HISPANICS pay reparations or at least lose affirmative
action preferences supposedly compensating victims of slavery?
Such claims have been fed inadvertantly by whining Jewish liberals such as
Prof. Ralph Austen from the University of Chicago, who writes about the
guilt of Jewish slave holder sin such arenas as Ultra-Moonbat Tikkun
Magazine. While conceding that the Jews were - at most - marginal in the
world of slavery, Austen nevertheless insiusts that Jews must feel guilty
and atone for that small role.
So just how many Jews were involved in the trade and ownership of African
slves in the New World? In his newest book, "Black Rednecks and White
Liberals," Stanford professor and Hoover Institute author Thomas Sowell
answers. The number of black slaves owned by Jewish slaveowners in the
American south was fewer than the number owned by free blacks or the
number owned by American Indians! (It goes without saying that it was far
smaller than the number of Jews murdered over the years by black street
criminals.) So much for the attempts to paint the Jews into the role of
the "enslavers" and blacks as their victims. Afrofascist rage would be
better focused against free-black and American Indian slave owners than
against Jews.
Others have shown that the Jews played practically no role in the slave
trade, such as "Jews, Slaves, and the Slave Trade: Setting the Record
Straight," By Eli Faber. In the Middle Ages, when slavery was common in
Europe (including enslaved Jews), some Jews did play a minor role as slave
traders for white European slaves who had been enslaved in war or due to
debts. They were sold mainly to other Europeans and sometimes to the
Ottomans.
http://discoverthenetwork.org/moonbatcentral/2005/06/jewish-slave-owners-and-similar-lies.html
1. A Bulldozed Mosque the Moonbats are Ignoring
The lib'ruh media have been having so much fun wringing their hands over
make-pretend and retracted stories about evil Westerners mistreating
Moslems and the Qoran that they have overlooked one fantastic story.
It seems that Zimbabwe's murderous moonbat dictator has destroyed a
mosque. Yes, Mark Steyn, in the Washington Times, reports that in his
campaign to bulldoze as many homes of Zimbabwe's population as possible,
Bobby Mugabe ordered that a mosque be destroyed, in Hatcliffe Extension, a
shantytown on the edge of Harare. It was razed by the "police." Mugabe
also bulldozed a Catholic-run Aids center.
Not a word from Newsweek. No Pakistani rioters trashing Westerners. No
calls from the Baathist URUKNET to destroy the "Crusaders". And only a
matter of a hours before Counterpunch blames Dem Joos for the destroyed
Zimbabwe Mosque. (We are waiting for Al Cockburn to take his whole crew to
Zimbabwe to experience "obesity tourism", enjoying the complete absence of
nutrition in the country! They can use the time off down there to denounce
capitalism.)
2. Washington Post - Al-Jazeera on the Potomac?
The Washington Post should really be renamed Al-Jazeera on the Potomac, at
least when it comes to the Middle East. Our good friends over at the "Eye
on the Post" blog have been doing an excellent job in documenting naked
bias at the Post.
But this weekend the Post outdid itself. As you recall, a few days ago the
PLO once again demonstrated its commitment to peace and tranquility and
democratization by executing a group of Palestinians it accused of
"collaborating with Israel." All those Moonbats who love to wail about
imaginary abuses of the human rights of Arabs by Israel had nothing to say
about this latest atrocity against innocent Arab civilians. How come the
ISM latte-sippers were not serving as human shields for the victims?
Now never mind that the whole Oslo peace process was supposedly about how
the PLO had agreed to collaborate with Israel to suppress terrorism and
calm the region. Even officials for the PLO themselves admitted that the
executed people were actually all innocent. They were executed by the
Palestinian Authority after Mahmoud Abbas gave his approval. But none of
that mattes for the Washington Post.
The Washington Post used an AP report on the story, but changed the
language to make it look like Israel was to blame for the atrocity! The
Post then went on to bemoan Israel's assassination of a leading Islamist
terrorist last week, but neglected to mention the sorts of atrocities the
perp had aleady committed and was still planning. The "Eye on the Post"
folks define their mission:
"EyeOnThePost.Org, the operating name for Eye On The Post, Inc., was
formed as a result of The Washington Post's skewed coverage of news in the
Middle East. The catalyst was The Washington Post's false reporting of a
massacre in Jenin by the Israeli Defense Forces following the Passover
bombings in April, 2002. Palestinians, aided by reporters looking for ...
indeed hoping for ... a story of mass atrocities committed by Israel's
military, fabricated a web of lies. Not only did all of these false news
articles prove to have been lies, but the truth that eventually seeped out
was that Israel's defense forces went out of their way to spare civilian
lives at a substantial cost of an excessive loss of their own lives. The
Post never effectively apologized, and it never adequately reported the
humanitarian measures actually taken by the IDF to avoid excessive loss of
Palestinian civilian lives. "
Meanwhile it was revealed that Arab terrorists are trying a new tactic -
wrapping explosives around the bodies of babies. Really. It was reported
that the leader of a Syrian terrorist cell who was killed in a
confrontation with security forces last week had planned to wrap
explosives around the body of a one-year-old baby before placing her in
the Justice Ministry, the girl's grandmother was quoted Sunday as saying.
The grandmother, identified only by her first name, Zarifa, said her son,
Ahmed, the baby's father, had died while planting a roadside bomb on the
Damascus-Zabadani road in late January, according to the Al-Thawra
newspaper.
The story did not interest the Washington Post.
3.
http://discoverthenetwork.org/moonbatcentral/2005/06/rabbi-moonbat-and-tikkun-cannabis.html
Rabbi Moonbat and Cannabis Zionism
4. T Rex and his SUV:
http://chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=15115
5. Arabs against Terrorism:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18401
1. The New Middle East version of the RCA Puppy and Gramophone
Ridiculous "rumors" believed in the Middle East about supposed mishandling
of the Koran are not restricted to the usual Islamofascists accusing the
"Crusaders" and the "Zionists" of plotting against the naby Arab fascist
regimes. (Come to think of it, the world would be a lot better off these
days with a lot more Crusaders and Zionists in the Middle East!)
Now Israeli Arabs are all suddenly excited over a story that is
circulating in the Arab press and television about a girl who was turned
into a dog by Allah for mishandling a Koran. Really.
A Muslim girl from Taibeh was punished by Allah and turned into a dog,
according to rumors that have been circulating in the Arab-Israeli town
this week, Arab-language newspaper Panorama reported. According to the
rumors, the harsh punishment was meted out after the girl, upset by her
mother.s request to bring her the Quran as she was watching television,
threw the holy Muslim book at the mother with disdain. Women in Taibeh
claimed they saw the story featured on Palestinian television.
Now - doesn't the very fact that no US troops in Gitma were turned into
puppies prove that the Newsweek story was hogwash? Even though the Moonbat
Left still insists the original Newsweek story, now retracted, was
correct?
Keep your eyes open for the first report of this exciting dog of a story
on Counterpunch and "The Nation"!
2. ISRAEL'S DEADLY DELUSIONS
By EDWARD ALEXANDER
THE OSLO SYNDROME: Delusions of a People Under Siege
By Kenneth Levin
Smith and Kraus, 352 pages, $35
IN this massively researched, lu cidly written and cogently ar gued
narrative, Kenneth Levin tells the appalling story of what has been
called the greatest self-inflicted wound of political history: Israel's
embrace of Yasser Arafat and the PLO in the Oslo Accords of September
1993 and its dogged adherence to its obligations under them even as its
"peace partner" was blatantly flouting its own.
The book is divided into two sections. The first recounts Jewish
political failure in the Diaspora, where Jews lived with a constant
burden of peril, as the background for the self-deluding rationales that
engendered Oslo. The second traces the same self-delusions in the history
of Israel itself.
Levin shows how a tiny nation, living under constant siege by neighbors
who have declared its very existence an aggression, was induced by its
intellectual classes to believe that its own misdeeds had incited Arab
hatred and violence, and that what required reform was not Arab
dictatorship and Islamicist anti-Semitism, but the Jews themselves.
Reversing cause and effect, Israeli leaders blinded themselves to the
(obvious) fact that it was Arab hatred and aggression that repeatedly led
to Israeli occupation, not occupation that caused Arab hatred and
violence.
Although Levin argues strongly that Israeli leaders like Yitzhak Rabin,
Ehud Barak and the ineffable Shimon Peres hallucinated moderation in a
murderous enemy, his book is not a polemic that excludes all opposing
points of view; on the contrary, we get the fullest possible account, and
"in their own words," of those Israelis (and their American-Jewish
supporters) who deluded themselves into believing that Oslo would bring a
new heaven and a new earth.
When the accords were signed in 1993, Minister of Education Shulamit
Aloni announced that "no more parents will go weeping after the coffins
of their sons" and Israeli novelist and "peace activist" Amos Oz said
confidently that "death shall be no more."
And all this because Arafat had . not for the first time . promised to
renounce terror and recognize Israel's "right to exist." It was the used
Buick he had already sold several times over.
By autumn 2000, and as a direct (and in Levin's view entirely
predictable) result of Israel's endless unreciprocated concessions to
Arafat's demands, the country was faced with Intifada II, "the Oslo War,"
in which all Israel became a battlefield, and getting on a bus or going
to a cafe or a disco meant risking your life.
One of Levin's central themes is the influence of Israel's cultural
elites on the governments of Rabin and Barak. In Israel as in America the
motto of many intellectuals is "the other country, right or wrong"; but
whereas in America leftist intellectuals now aspire only to take over the
universities, in Israel they aspired to (and in one sense did) take over
the government.
The consequence: Israel was soon reminded of Churchill's judgment of
England's intellectual appeasers: "Mr. Chamberlain was faced with a
choice between surrender and war; he chose surrender, and he got war."
Edward Alexander is author of "Irving Howe: Socialist, Critic, Jew."
E-mail: eaengl@u.washington.edu
Did you know that 3.8 million users visited New York Post Interactive at
www.nypost.com making it the 5th most popular online newspaper
nationwide?*
3. Rashid Khalidi - Plagiarist?
I think that we will never tire of laughing at the academic disgraces of
Columbia University, the Madrassah of the Upper West Side. The latest
matter of mortification for the home of Joseph Massad and the one-time
playground for Edward Said is the plagiarism of Rashid Khalidi .
Khalidi, you may recall, is the pro-terror 'Edward Said Professor of Arab
Studies' at Columbia University. Never mind that Edward Said knew nothing
about Middle East Studies besides how to throw rocks at Jews and, instead,
taught English at Columbia. Khalidi may be testifying on behalf of the
Florida terrorist Sami al-Arian. Khalidi was a major player in the
whitewash at Columbia of jihadnik professor Joseph Massad.
FPM's Stephen Schwartz recent told the NY Sun: "His (Khalidi's) rhetoric
is intemperate and extreme. I think the very idea of an Edward Said chair
speaks for itself." Khalidi makes no secret of his support for Palestinian
violence and his desire to see Israel's existence end. Khalidi also
dislikes free speech for critics of the academic Jihadniki. He described
Pipes. Campus Watch, which monitors and critiques Middle Eastern Studies,
as .a McCarthyite attempt to silence the very few voices that speak out
about the Middle East, and to impose by fear a uniformity of view on the
campus debate..
Khalidi's plagiarism has been exposed by the wonderful folks over at
Solomonia Blog. It involves an article that appears on the web site of the
American Committee for Jerusalem, now renamed the American Task Force on
Palestine. In 2001, the year the item was first posted, Khalidi was
President of the ACJ.
Entitled, JERUSALEM, A CONCISE HISTORY, it bore Khalidi's by-line for
about four years. But then suddenly a reporter who was researching a story
discovered the dirt. The article was retitled and the byline changed to
read "Compiled by ACJ from a variety of sources." In other words, it was
never Khalidi's own work to begin with! Gotcha!
You can still see the original version as it existed from February 27,
2001 to October 23, 2004 -- complete with Khalidi's byline.
The change, with no remark, explanation or trail left of the change, would
tend to indicate that there was something there over which Khalidi and/or
ACJ were concerned or embarrassed.
The Moonbatmosphere has been barking at Alan Dershowitz over the
discredited allegation that he had overused materials from another source,
a book by Joan Peters. Moonbats, including neonazi Holocaust Denier Norman
Finkelstein, have claimed that Dershowitz had "plagiarized" (this coming
from someone like Finkelstein who routinely relies on David Irving as his
source). So it will be interested seeing the response of the Moonbatorie
to the news of Khalidi's plagiarizing. Since Khalidi is on the Saudi
payroll, someone should warn them that they may be getting recycled
materials written by other people and so are not getting their money's
worth from Khalidi!
Go to Solomonia to read the "Khalidi" piece in full!
http://discoverthenetwork.org/moonbatcentral/2005/06/rashid-khalidi-plagiarist.html
4. Indecent Acts:
http://discoverthenetwork.org/moonbatcentral/2005/06/indecent-acts.html
5. Treason Chic:
http://discoverthenetwork.org/moonbatcentral/2005/06/new-yorker-magazine-celebrates.html
The Genocidal Phantoms of the Oprah
You know things are really getting out of hand when TV hostess Oprah
Winfrey decides to go jihad.
Yes, Oprah, the waddling guru of the bored middle-class at-home
housewives, has repeatedly taken time off from teaching her followers
about closet organization and thigh reduction, in order to promote the
Palestinian cause. She has run one-sided articles about the Middle East
conflict on her show and and in her O Magazine.
Whenever the subject of terrorism is broached on her show, Oprah
studiously avoids allowing anyone to link it to Palestinians or the
Hizbollah. She interviewed mothers of suicide bombers who were distraught
because their houses were bulldozed. There was no mention of Israeli
babies and their mothers being blown up in buses, pizza parlours blown to
smithereens, nor Jewish teens murdered while at the disco inTel Aviv. Not
even the Jews murdered when two guests of the International Solidarity
Movement blew up Mike's Place in Tel Aviv. Debbie Schlussel has dubbed her
the affable Joseph Goebbels of daytime talk TV. Columnist Naomi Ragen
demolished Oprah for her politicized bias. The Anti-Defamation League has
denounced her for bias, noting that 'Palestinian girls will be rescued
when their leaders say "No" to the incitement, hate and violence that has
permeated their political and cultural landscape for years now.'
In the June issue, a feature article tries to arouse sympathy for a an
18-year-old Palestinian terrorist, Yusra Abdu, who was tried, convicted
and is currently serving time in an Israeli jail for conspiring to perform
a suicide bombing. The article tries to make the Palestinian wannabe
mass-murderer appear humane and likeable.
The propaganda article is written by one David France. He quotes enemies
of Israel, leftists, and unidentified human rights activists, spouting
false statistics. In the piece he asks, 'What would make a girl take such
a radical and grisly step?' France "answers" himself when he quotes a
moonbatish university professor, who asserts that: "religion is not the
cause [of Palestinian suicide terror]... these are people who define their
situation as hopeless. They feel that they have no way to respond against
what they see as Israeli military aggression."
Frnace forgot to add a detail to the story. The real reason the Oprah
heroine set out to commit mass murder was that she was worried about
getting punished for participating in a date! Because a date would have
compromised Yusra honor and she might have found herself getting her
throat slit by her brother or father. Is it any wonder that, as France
himself writes, she confessed to Israeli security police that the real
reason she wanted to blow herself up was "boredom?"
Now in fact, the reason 18 year old Palestinians try to commit mass murder
is because they are driven by a genocidal neonazi Islamofascist ideology
instilled in them over decades by the PLO and its affiliates, all with the
blessing and cheerleading of the Western Left. Hard as it is for an Oprah
fan to understand, Palestinians want to mass murder Jews because they hate
Jews and want to annihilate Jews. Not because they are "occupied." (They
were mass murdering Jews long before any land was "occupied" by Israel in
1967.) And no one with an atlas can seriously suggest that Arabs murder
Jews because Jews have too much land and Arabs not enough.
Why would Oprah, who is not exactly hard up for cash, sell out and allow
her magazine to be hijacked on behalf of Palestinian violence?
Maybe Doctor Phil can tell us?
(For clean copy with links, go to
http://discoverthenetwork.org/moonbatcentral/2005/06/genocidal-phantoms-of-oprah.html)
1. Saddam's Worst Nightmare:
http://chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=15009
2. Purina:
http://discoverthenetwork.org/moonbatcentral/2005/06/successful-israeli-resistance-against.html
3. Visit:
http://www.worldjewishnewsagency.org/
4. Leftist Rules of Debating:
http://discoverthenetwork.org/moonbatcentral/2005/06/leftist-rules-of-debating.html
5. Letterman's "Top Ten Ways to Cheer Up Saddam Hussein"
10. Let him oppress just one Kurd a few hours a week
9. Surprise him with a year's supply of mustache dye
8. Bring him his old "World's Greatest Dictator" mug
7. Laugh at his impression of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad
6. Give him a collection of hilarious "Yo mullah's so fat" jokes
5. Remind him his one permitted phone call saved him 15% on his car
insurance
4. Membership in the "Falafel of the Month Club"
3. Show him some of them "Hey, Vern" movies
2. Package of new underpants
1. Three words: Los Angeles jury
DePaul's Resident Nazi Exposed by Dershowitz
(for clean copy and links, go to
http://discoverthenetwork.org/moonbatcentral/2005/06/depauls-resident-nazi-exposed-by.html)
Professor Alan Dershowitz from Harvard has decided to expose some of the
lies and the barely-hidden neonazi political agenda of "professor" Norman
Finkelstein, an untenured assistant professor at DePaul University, the
same school that this year fired Professor Thomas Klocek for daring to
tell the truth abvout the "Palestinians" and Israel. Finkelstein has been
defined as a Holocaust Denier by the Anti-Defamation League. Like so many
neonazis, Finkelstein is a regular Cockburn Cockroach over at
Counterpunch.
Dershowitz has set up a site to "out" DePaul's Holocaust Denier. It is
called 'The Committee to Expose Norman Finkelstein.s Close Connections to
Neo-Nazism, Holocaust Denial, and His .Big Lie. of an .International
Jewish Conspiracy.'
The document's name is a bit long, but its contents are definitely worth
reading through. Dershowitz made the mistake of debating Finkelstein a
couple of years back, giving Finkelstein some exposure and making him
appear as a legitimate "alternative researcher," which he decidedly is
not. . While Dersh wiped the floor with Finkelstein, the latter and his
neonazi followers have been spreading the version that Finkelstein "won"
that debate. Now Finkelstein has crayoned a new "book" attacking in
infantile terms Dershowitz's own fine book about Isreal.
Dershowitz's exposure of Finkelstein's quack "opinions" and
pseudo-scholarship is devastating. It is too long to reproduce here in
full, but we provide a few small nuggets from the Dershowitz web site:
Finkelstein Citations:
Question: .[Mr. Finkelstein] If you are a historian, why didn't you write
a serious study about the subject? Why didn.t you do research yourself?
Interview people, etc.?.
Finkelstein.s answer: .Why should I interview people?.
.on obeying Chomsky
.I.m a person of the left, and when you get a call from Professor Chomsky
[asking you to .find. that a pro-Israeli book you haven.t even read was a
.fraud.], his wish is your command..
.I don.t know about Judaism, but [neonazi Israel Shahak, an anti-Jewish
zealot who wrote that Jews worship Satan] did. He knew it well. He took an
interest in it and I have no doubt that what he wrote is accurate..
David Irving, the notorious Holocaust denier who claims there were no gas
chambers and that Hitler was .the Jews. greatest friend,. is .a good
historian. who has .made an .indispensable. contribution to our knowledge
of World War II..
.All opinion-leaders, from the left to the right, are Jews.The Silence
around my book in the US - if this is not a conspiracy, then what is one?.
.Frankly, part of me says..you know what, we deserve the problem on our
hands because some things Bin Laden says are true.. One of the things he
said on that last tape was that .until we live in security, you.re not
going to live in security., and there is a certain amount of rightness in
that..
And finally, .Never has one of my articles been published in a scientific
magazine..
(Given that last admission, you might want to dash off an e-note to the
heads of DePaul asking why a nazi loon like Finkelstein is still on their
faculty. The list of their officers and emails is here. Other Finkelstein
pronouncements can be viewed on the Dershowitz document.
Finally, let us note that an Israeli far-leftist anti-Israel fanatic
levturer from Ben Gurion University named Neve Gordon not only endorses
Finkelstein's rantings but compares Finkelstein ethically to the Prophets
of the Bible. If you would lik eto tell his boss what you think of that,
write to President Avishay Braverman at avishay@bgumail.bgu.ac.il,
President of Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheba 84105 Israel.
1. When will the Others follow the Farleigh Dickinson Lead?
As you know, there is just not enough representation for the Nazi Party
and Holocaust Deniers on American college campuses, or at least that used
to be the story at Farleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey. The ranks
of academic stormtrooper, which include such great minds as Arthur Butz
from Northwestern University and Norman Finkelstein from DePaul
University, have recently lost a member: Jacques Pluss. Farleigh Dickinson
has come to its senses, although Farleigh late. Pluss, like Butz and
Finkelstein, is a Chicago Holocaust Denier and anti-Semite. What is it
about that town?
Farleigh D likes to call itself the Harvard on teh Hackensack. The Weekly
Standard called the affair "Springtime for Farleigh Dickinson". I doubt
even Mel Brooks could give the story justice.
Pluss was dismissed from FDU this past March because university officials
learned of his involvement in the National Socialist Movement, which bills
itself "America's Nazi Party." School officials insist he was let go for
missing too many classes. The 51-year-old "professor" is a white
supremacist or racist. He was previously a tenured professor at William
Paterson University in Wayne, N.J., from 1984 to 2000.
Pluss, who had taught Western Civ at the university since 2002, said he
joined the neo-Nazi group in February but kept his views a secret on
campus. Just after dismissal, Pluss went on "White Viewpoint," a radio
show on the National Socialist Movement Web site. He talked about FDU as a
"Jewish plutocratic university" and described the school's men's
basketball team as "nigger to the core."
"They (the players) have absolutely no right to be in that classroom
because they do not possess either the merit or the enhanced intelligence
to be there," Pluss said on the show.
Pluss said he joined the National Socialist Movement because he "was
looking for alternative political parties that presented what I thought
were more solid and sensible plans for the common good of America."
The group, whose members wear Nazi regalia at its meetings, sometimes has
joint meetings with the Ku Klux Klan. Pluss called Fairleigh Dickinson a
.heavily Judaized institution. that had taken .the typical Jewish,
lawyerly, Hebrew line. in dismissing him. The "Stormfront" nazi web site
was offended by his dismissal.
Pluss, who received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, is being paid
through this semester. Adjunct professors at the school generally make
between $1,500 and $3,000 per course.
As Lowell Ponte notes, sauce for the nazi does not seem to sauce for the
moonbat. Why are the Ward Churchills, Joseph Massads, Sami al-Arians and
Lisa Hajjars not similarly expelled from the institutions in which they
promote totalitarian extremist and pro-terror agendas?
2. http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18330
Some of My Best Friends Are Anti-Semites!
By Julia Gorin
FrontPageMagazine.com | June 8, 2005
Last month, the small pond of Ithaca, NY swelled into a storm of
controversy when a Mother.s Day piece appeared in the Ithaca Journal,
describing one mother.s .growing sense of inner peace and well-being. that
has made her a .more open, kind, loving and patient. parent after
eschewing the kind of victimhood mentality that pervades the
Palestinian-Israeli conflict:
.On the global scale, for example, Zionist Jews in Israel have occupied
Palestinian land in the name of God and victimhood. If anyone criticizes
Israel for their terrorist attacks and slaughter of the Palestinians, they
are immediately labeled "anti-Semitic" and guilt-inflicted for the
Holocaust without any regard for Palestinian suffering..
The article was written by a yoga instructor named Sandy Wold, who runs a
business called .Healing the Goddess. and is part of a larger .New Age
Goddess. movement that includes a queen goddess named Starhawk who,
according to an Honest Reporting dispatch, writes books on .earth-based
spirituality,. and regularly attacks Israel for its .racist policies. and
.apartheid wall..
Yet the controversy that these self-actualized women have aroused seems
overblown. After all, Ms. Wold and Starhawk are not the first people to
find inner peace and well-being by siding with Palestinians over Israelis.
In fact, for my own well-being, rather than empathize with an imperfect
society, I too have found a way to sympathize with a murderous one. One
can look at it this way, for example: We all know what it.s like having
that annoying, do-gooder neighbor who.s always trying to be friends,
always giving us stuff--in this case water, electricity, jobs, roads,
housing--and forgiving us no matter how we mistreat and provoke him.
Really, Jews are like Ned Flanders from The Simpsons; no wonder everyone
wants to ring their necks!
So I.ve adopted the approach of the enlightened classes--the diplomats,
the media, the literati and the Europeans--wherein I shrug off
par-for-the-course bombings of Israeli civilians but loudly condemn
targeted assassinations of terror organizers that result in even a single
Palestinian civilian death. It.s a way of saying, .Wink-wink, do you see
how indignant I am over the loss of Arab life? Please remember that the
next time you.re scouting for bombing targets closer to here.leave me and
mine out of it, okay?.
The goddesses have inspired me to reflect, and I marvel that I was once a
Jew who, as Wold describes, labeled as anti-Semitic those who simply
object to the Israeli policy of existing. First of all, being anti-Israel
and being anti-Semitic aren.t synonymous: I.m sure there are plenty of
people who agree with Israeli policies even while not particularly liking
Jews. But more importantly, I.ve come to understand why the Palestinian
who lived through the indignity of being asked to open his violin case at
an Israeli checkpoint last year made international headlines (though
indeed a guitar was used in the 2001 Jerusalem Sbarro attack) and why the
story was embellished to look as if the violinist were asked to play for
the soldiers. amusement; I also understand why Palestinians had to dig up
old graves to show massacre in Jenin, and why everyone pointed to a
corner-rounding magic Israeli bullet killing the crouching 12 year-old
Mohammed al-Durra in 2000 crossfire, tragically before he ever got the
chance to take 20 Jews with him as a shahid (though subsequent
investigations indicate only Palestinian gunfire could have gotten to
him); and finally, I understand why in 1999 Suha Arafat accused Israelis
of poisoning Palestinian water.
The hope is that if Israeli .genocide. of Palestinians (or .terrorist
attacks and slaughter. as Ms. Wold terms it) is cited often enough, it
will bring international peacekeepers in to tie Israel.s hands and be at
the mercy of the world. Why else would everyone get so angry when two or
three Palestinian civilians are killed in the course of military responses
to massacres? It.s the agonizingly slow pace of this genocide! The
displaced Arabs started out with 400,000; they screamed genocide and
became four million. This is what happens when you leave genocide up to
Jews.
Anyway, it.s the only rational explanation I can think of for why
anti-Israel rhetoric has increased .in direct proportion to the growing
toll of Jewish casualties from Arab terrorism,. as commentator Dennis
Prager points out. Still on probation for the Holocaust, the Europeans can
only cheer the Arab world on from the sidelines, plus contribute what they
can through UN programs like the Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which
employs and transports Hamas members and explosives.
Understandably, the Israeli breed of Jew has confounded the world. (Jews
fighting back? What.s gotten into them? Their behavior was so much more
palatable in WWII. Why do they refuse to jump into the Red Sea? Maybe
it.ll part for them again!) It used to be: "Jews, go to Palestine!" Now
it.s: "Jews, get out of Palestine!"
I have faith, though, that the world is committed to the Holocaust .never
again. happening to the Jews. (I suppose not leaving any Jews for it to
happen to again is one way to go about it.) To stay true to the promise,
though, something will have to be done about the anti-Jewish climate at
our universities. It.s time to introduce courses on tolerating people, and
perhaps a course on tolerating Jews. For starters, they can explain why
Jews getting preferential admission into Israel is .racism,. but blacks
getting preferential admission to universities is .affirmative action..
Then again, the most constructive thing, as Ms. Wold advises, is for each
of us to do .our inner work to resolve our inner turmoil. and stop the
.fighting, arguing, advising, debating, protesting, blaming and
name-calling,. so that .each of our truths will help us co-evolve
exponentially, and.solutions to complex issues and world peace will come,.
accelerating the planet.s .pure thought-form around peace that
harmonizes.everyone on neighboring islands and neighboring countries.the
.Hundredth Monkey. phenomenon..
To that end, I have begun to confront my own .biases, opinions and
judgments,. and have come to accept that I suffer from what can only be
Islamophobia. Because on practically a daily basis, I imagine there are
news reports detailing horrors all over the world--car bombings, suicide
bombings, even air planes crashing into buildings--and in every case,
Muslims are the ones executing these acts. Isn.t that awful of me?
Charting a path to my own self-actualization, then, I placed myself into
therapy, knowing that the problem must be inside myself and that if I just
heal my own mind, all these horrors will stop and peace will prevail.
I am now also open to the possibility that Palestinians aren.t responsible
for exploding Jews at all. Just look at the disparity between these two
Reuters headlines: .Israel Kills Three Militants. vs. .Bus Blows Up in
Central Jerusalem.. In other words, the Jews are suffering too, but
apparently what they suffer from is spontaneous combustion.
Yes, I.m quite sure now that it.s all just been my imagination all along.
Thanks to the lucidity of the goddesses, I now see that even if massacres
from Bali to Beslan to Madrid were indeed wrought by Muslims, somehow, in
a departure from this worldwide pattern, on the one singular, exceptional
sliver of land that happens to be dominated by Jews (who wouldn.t have
even fit onto it had they not been so skinny coming off the Holocaust),
it.s not Muslims who are the culprits, but the Jews themselves. (That.s
why what you.re really worried about when boarding an airplane is a Hasid
getting on too.) So what we have is the following scenario: Jews get
bombed by Muslims, and it.s Israel.s fault; Muslims fly airplanes into
American buildings, and it.s Israel.s fault (because of our pro-Israel
policies.and someone should feel guilty since Muslims don.t); and finally,
Lebanese Christians kill Lebanese Muslims in Shatilla, and it.s Israel.s
fault.
Once you understand this, the world becomes so much less overwhelming, and
you can deal with just about anything. You.ll even know the first thing to
ascertain should aliens descend on the earth and start eating people: What
did Israel do now? My computer-programmer husband is actually developing
software that will calculate the percentage of Jewish responsibility for
everything that happens in the world, so soon we won.t have to do any
thinking at all.
In my current self-transforming work to count myself among the
.authentically peaceful, loving, non-reactive, and nonjudgmental. so that,
as Ms. Wold suggests, .the human vibration and potential rises,.
simultaneously raising global consciousness, promoting healing for all,
and evolving humanity so that we might avert .global catastrophe,. I have
learned that the most important thing to keep sight of is that Jews and
Palestinians aren.t so different, and it.s our similarities that we should
focus on. For example, a proud Jewish mother says, .So my son the doctor..
And a proud Palestinian mother says, .So my son the suicide bomber..
(Indeed, the best gift a Palestinian kid can give on Mother.s Day is
martyrdom, which has bought moms new apartments, jewelry and social
status.) Similarly, a Jewish father has a conversation with his son about
his future: .Ok, kid, it.s time to start thinking about making a living!.
And a Palestinian father: .Ok, kid, it.s time to start thinking about
making a killing!.
The resemblance is so great, who can deny we.re cousins? And who can
accuse Israelis and other Jews of .hating. Arabs? Hate them? We worship
them! How many Jewish sacrifices we.ve laid at the altar of Islam.a
thousand offerings to appease our Muslim gods. And with the Gaza
withdrawal this year, Jew will turn against Jew and spill more blood. Is
this not love?
After international pressure does finally push the Israelis into the sea,
though, I just hope no one is disillusioned to see suicide bombers
swimming after them to carry out their mitzvah before the Jews can drown.
(If the Jews left Israel and moved to Mars, the Palestinians would develop
a space program before a constitution.)
And that.s because if Palestinians woke up one morning without an excuse
to kill a Jew, there.d be no reason to get out of bed. It is said the
Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. Well, if it
doesn.t involve an opportunity to kill Jews, what.s the point? What else
are these largest per-capita recipients of international aid going to do
with their money and aggression? Open a business? If they lose a grip on
their hate, they.ll have a massive identity crisis, and suicide bombers
will become actually suicidal. To wit, Mideast expert Daniel Pipes cites a
Palestinian Christian, who declared that when there.s a Palestinian state,
"the sacred union against the Zionist enemy will die. It will be time to
settle accounts.It saddens me to say so, but Israeli laws protect us."
(Let.s hope that the man who betrayed his people with such candor has
since been arrested.)
But if what he says is true, it means President Bush had it right in his
September address to the UN, when he said, .Peace will not be achieved by
Palestinian rulers who intimidate opposition, tolerate corruption, and
maintain ties to terrorist groups. The longsuffering Palestinian people
deserve true leaders capable of creating and governing a free and peaceful
Palestinian state.[in the form of a] stable democracy.. They deserve
leaders like, well, the Israelis.
Just look at the West Bank fence that humiliates Palestinians by helping
stop over 100 planned attacks on Israelis a month, according to embassy
numbers--an essential step toward Palestinian statehood. The apartheid
wall could single-handedly impose the Palestinian dream of
self-determination on the Palestinians. Such that at the next Olympics we
might be able to cheer athletes from an actual Palestinian nation, and
perhaps even see brick-throwing and belt-bombing become official Olympic
sports. (Rival martyr factions already compare their competition to a
British soccer league.)
Thus striving toward a more just world, Western society will expand its
spirit of equity so that soon, as we stroll along New York.s Yitzhak Rabin
Way, we can look for a matching Yassir Arafat Square. And Holocaust
education in schools will become more fair and objective: To little
Schlomo, Hitler may seem like a villain, but little Qudsia may see things
differently. (This will mean taking a page from our friends in Europe
where, as the 700 Club informs us, Muslim students cheer at the mention of
the Holocaust.)
Ms. Wold wrote to Honest Reporting apologizing for the .lack of
sensitivity to and inclusiveness of your group's perspective and
experience,. but there was no need. After all, a goddess can.t be wrong!
She should just think of it as a growth experience. At least now she knows
that her relationship with those .many Jewish friends. who .know a lot
more. about the conflict than she does has been utterly meaningless.
Besides, who.s judging? Today.s anti-Semites-slash-anti-.Zionists. are out
and they.re proud. (Not that there.s anything wrong with that.why, some of
my best friends are anti-Semites!)
In fact, these days even regular folks have started to repeat ideas and
phrases from the likes of Mahathir Mohamad, the recently retired Malaysian
prime minister who said that Jews rule the world by proxy and own
newspapers, and suggested that Muslims fight the Jews using brains and not
just bombs. I must admit, it was sort of neat hearing this stuff come out
of someone of Mongoloid stock; you don.t see that every day. It.s all
about diversity, folks, give everyone a chance! (Incidentally, it.s a big
lie that there.s no freedom of speech in the Muslim world: Anyone can go
over there and with virtually no consequences announce that Jews suck;
here it.s not so easy--as the goddesses have learned.)
May the world forgive this brash display of my inordinate Jewish
influence, but I thought it would actually seem rather tame, considering
that I spend the rest of my time drinking the blood of Arab teenagers.
At least my therapy is teaching me to be less defensive. After all, it
worked so well in the 1930s.
3. New Jew Old Jew:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18327
4. Brita:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18341
5. Peace Partners in California:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,158880,00.html
6. Amnesty's Nonsense:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18329
7. Harvard sucks up to Left:
http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon_06_03_05hm.html
8. The Pelosi Factor:
http://chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=14969
9. Nice web site:
http://dissectleft.blogspot.com/
1. The Jihadnik Prof at UC-Santa Barbara
By Steven Plaut
FrontPageMagazine.com | June 7, 2005
(for clean copy with links, go to
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18236)
Lisa Hajjar has made an entire academic career out of bashing the United
States and Israel for their supposed use of .torture. against Arabs. She
spouts off these baseless accusations from her academic home at the
University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), where she teaches in its
.Law and Society. program. In fact she has no credentials at all in law.
(She also teaches .Middle East Studies. at UCSB, with even fewer
qualifications in that field.) Instead she holds a PhD in sociology
from American University. The one in Washington, not Cairo.
Hajjar is among the shrillest voices in the United States trying to chant
the accusations over American .abuses of the human rights. of the al-Qaeda
terrorists in Guantanamo Bay. She served on the pretentious .world
tribunal,. the one that found Saddam.s Iraq innocent and the US guilty of
war crimes and human rights abuses. Among the .tribunal.s. objective
findings were that .the occupation of Palestine, Afghanistan and all other
colonized areas is illegal and should be brought to an end immediately..
Lisa Hajjar has written:
.There is no reason to doubt that torture has been systemic and pervasive,
or that authorization can be traced up the chain of command, or that this
has seriously damaged not only the immediate victims but also our national
institutions and America's image abroad. Yet top officials in the Bush
Administration are still doing what torturing regimes do: denying the
facts and blaming "rogue" officers. Despite the abundant evidence of
torture, Congress refuses to challenge these denial tactics in any
meaningful way, for example by refusing to confirm for high office those
responsible. What we desperately need is public acknowledgment that
torture is always and everywhere a crime, and an official policy that
reflects this conviction..
Hajjar has tried to define herself academically as a scholar having some
expertise on the use of torture. She defines her aim as the debunking the
false .popular belief that Western history constitutes a progressive move
from more to less torture.. The fact that she publishes her .findings. on
web sites of the communist party raises questions about her credibility
and objectivity. Hajjar gets her kicks out of issuing .warnings. about
human rights abuses. She has spent her energies bemoaning the .torture.
of the Iraqi Ba.athists being held in the Abu Ghraib prison.
Lisa Hajjar is apparently the daughter of a Finnish mother and a father of
Syrian descent. She teaches in the .Law and Society Program. at the
University of California at Santa Barbara, but she is in fact nothing more
than a third-rate leftist sociologist. She has no training in law or
legal studies, is not qualified as a Middle East scholar or researcher,
and his extraordinarily few bona fide publications even in sociology.
None of this prevented UCSB from granting her tenure as well as its .Pious
Award. for her .research.. She was among the UCSB faculty members
opposing the war against Iraq and defending Saddam as part of .Not in Our
Name..
Among the .scholarly articles. Hajjar lists on her vita are many
propaganda screeds that she published, including those in the anti-Israel
pro-terror .Middle East Report,. for .In these Times., on the MERIP
organization.s web page, in the .Amnesty International. magazine, and a
partisan defense of Palestinian mass murderer Marwan Barghouti.[1] On
her vita, besides the partisan propaganda we could find at most six
articles she has published in refereed journals, hardly enough to get a
faculty member tenure in any serious academic department.
Hajjar is author of a recently-published pseudo-scholarly book, Courting
Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in the West Bank and Gaza, a
broadside assault against Israel.s military courts, which often try
Palestinian terrorists. Israeli civilian courts do not have jurisdiction
in the West Bank and Gaza Strip for the simple reason that these areas are
not formally annexed to Israel, although Palestinian terrorists convicted
in military courts may appeal to Israel.s Supreme Court. The book is less
an analysis of the military courts than it is a partisan denunciation of
Israel.s presence in the .occupied territories. and an open endorsement of
the rights of Palestinians to .resist. it, Hajjar.s Newspeak term for mass
murdering Jews. (Israelis arresting murdering terrorists would not
qualify as .resistance by Jews. in the Hajjar book, of course.)
True, Israel itself has debated the circumstances under which .moderate
physical pressure. could be applied to captured terrorists to force them
to reveal information. But Israel is in a state of war and a fight for
its very life against Arab fascism. Indeed years ago even this .moderate
pressure. was prohibited by the Israeli court system. The main prisoner
abuse of jailed Palestinians in Israel these days seems to be that some of
their VCR.s are really difficult to pre-program.
In fact, while prohibited in Israel, it is not clear at all why terrorists
should NOT be tortured,[2] this on purely ethical grounds. Be that as it
may, while conceding that .a history of Israeli interrogation of
Palestinians has never been written, and the conditions do not exist for
such an undertaking,. Hajjar is willing to take the word of the
Bash-Israel lobby that Israel routinely uses torture against Palestinian
prisoners. Among the primary sources cited by Hajjar to prove that
Israel uses torture are screeds in Tikkun Magazine, the .Palestine
Research Center. in Beirut, the late neonazi anti-Semite Israel Shahak,
and other far-leftist propagandists. Hajjar.s .book. has been lavishly
praised by pro-terror Islamic fundamentalist web sites, and one of her
screeds has been cited and praised by a neonazi web site.
Before coming to Santa Barbara, Hajjar taught .military law. at
Swarthmore. There she engaged in partisan one-sided indoctrination in
her classroom, as is revealed by the syllabi of her courses there. Her
required reading list was a who.s who of far leftists, communists, and
haters of American and Israel. Among her proclamations at Swarthmore,
was: .While the United States voices outrage about Saddam Hussein, it goes
on tolerating human rights violations and other misdeeds by regional
allies.. Her .research. at Swarthmore consisted of little more than
serving as a cheerleader for politicized .cause lawyers..
Hajjar has served as editorial assistant and writer at MERIP, a
fanatically anti-Israel pro-terror .think tank. in Washington DC. She
also is a member of the board of editors (alongside such .scholars. as
Columbia University.s Joseph Massad) of the pseudo-academic Journal of
Palestine Studies, a partisan propaganda journal that features such
.scholars. as the PLO chief. The Middle East Quarterly describes the
Journal of Palestine Studies as a .PLO propaganda organ disguised as an
academic journal; for example, it routinely refers to the creation of
Israel as an-Nakba (.catastrophe. in Arabic).. Orbis, Fall 1988, p. 637,
describes the Institute of Palestine Studies, publisher of the Journal of
Palestine Studies, as "an arm of the Palestine Liberation Organization."
Stanford.s Joel Beinin publishes his anti-Israel propaganda pieces there,
as do the usual Israeli far-Left anti-Semites favoring the destruction of
their own country. The .journal. makes little attempt to hide its
political agenda.
Hajjar does not hide her support for Palestinian violence. She writes:
.Because Palestinians are stateless and dispersed, their struggle for
national rights has taken .unconventional. forms, including guerilla
warfare. The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which emerged in
the 1960s to lead this struggle, has been castigated by Israel, and to a
lesser extent the US, as nothing but a terrorist organization. This
typifies the use of the terrorist label to non-states in their struggles
against states.. Since most Palestinians have identified politically with
the PLO, it was easy for the Israeli state to relate the repression of
Palestinians to the imperatives of Jewish/Israeli national security.
Generally speaking, everything connected to Palestinian nationalist
activities and especially to the PLO was considered a security threat
which (sic) could justify limitations and restrictions of rights..
Those .unconventional. Palestinian forms of protest happen to include
blowing up buses full of school children and pregnant mothers.
Hajjar is a radical feminist, but one with little real interest in the
position of women in the Arab world and with no concern at all over
Israeli women being murdered by her beloved Palestinian terrorists. She
has mentioned that in Morocco things are less equitable than at Vassar.
She seems to believe that the main cause for Arab feminists should be
destroying Israel. She is highly praised by Neve Gordon, a fanatic
anti-Israel lecturer in political science at Ben Gurion University in
Israel, someone who was arrested for serving as a .human shield. for
Palestinian murderers, and someone who wrote a sycophantic piece about
Holocaust Denier Norman Finkelstein, comparing Finkelstein ethically to
the Prophets in the Bible. Gordon and Hajjar like to cite one another as
authoritative sources for the claim that Israel uses torture against Arab
prisoners. This is a bit like Ward Churchill and Noam Chomsky citing one
another.s works to prove how that America is more oppressive than Nazi
Germany.
At least five of Hajjar.s articles are featured on a PLO web site.
Together with Steve Niva, a pro-terrorism far-leftist faculty member at
Evergreen State College in Washington State (from which Rachel Corrie was
dispatched to go commit suicide on behalf of Palestinian terrorism in
Gaza) and a Counterpunch columnist, she is a sycophantic groupie of Edward
Said and described his book as .a seminal event, causing lasting
reverberations throughout the academy."[3] Hajjar also writes for .The
Nation., where she openly endorses nutty conspiracy theories.
She writes inter alia:
.While neoconservatism may help explain much about American military and
foreign policy after 9/11, it doesn't account for the legal reasoning that
set the conditions for the torture scandal. For that, we need to look to
the Federalist Society, an organization established by right-wing lawyers
in the early 1980s to redress .liberal bias. in American law schools and
the legal profession. The thinking and influence of Federalist Society
types who dominate legal positions (and judicial appointments) in the Bush
Administration are laid bare in the torture memos, which document the
triumph of international law-averse officials in the Justice Department,
the Pentagon and the White House over dissenting voices in the State
Department and sectors of the professional military..
She has tried to build much of her academic credentials upon her
.research. concerning the uses of torture. She insists torture is used
widely by both the US and Israel and her evidence for this is that some
Arabs claim this is so, as do some far-left propagandists such as Kenneth
Roth from .Human Rights Watch.. In fact, HRW has been exposed by
NGO-Monitor as constituting little more than an anti-Israel smear lobby
and is hardly a credible source. Other .sources. for her claims
concerning torture include the extremist anti-Israel leftist organization
in Israel, Betselem, which denies that Israel has the right to defend
itself against terrorism at all - other than by surrendering to terrorist
demands, and which has been repeatedly caught lying. She teaches her
views to hapless UCSB freshmen in a formal course about .torture..
Hajjar regularly attacks Alan Dershowitz savagely for daring to suggest
that under certain circumstances torturing terrorists might be justified.
She compares American and Israeli officials to the nazis tried in
Nuremberg.
Lisa Hajjar may be at her most dishonest when she is co-authoring
political propaganda together with Stanford University professor of
history Joel Beinin. In Alyssa A. Lappen.s words, Beinin .denounces
American .imperialism. on Al-Jazeera Television. A former Zionist, he
refers to jihadist suicide bombers as .martyrs.. He praised Mideast
scholars for ignoring the issue of terrorism, and he regularly repeats the
most twisted and paranoid claims of Islamist regimes as though they were
historical fact.. Beinin used to be the ayatollah of the
notoiously-biased .Middle East Studies Association,. an anti-American and
anti-Israel propaganda outfit disguised as an academic professional
association. (Hajjar has chaired sessions at MESA events.) Beinin
religiously churns out propaganda, with Hajjar is his regular sidekick.
Indeed, Beinin proudly lists these propaganda screeds on his personal web
page.
Beinin and Hajjar were among the professors signing a statement before the
Allied invasion of Iraq, warning that Israel was planning to conduct
genocidal atrocities against Arabs the moment the US troops landed in
Mesopotamia. Well, Saddam was long ago toppled, with not even a smidgen
of an atrocity was performed by Israel, while not even a whisper of an
apology has come from either Beinin or Hajjar. Orwellistically, the two
continue to collaborate in conferences devoted to .New History., which is
to say . pseudo-history.
Hajjar is a co-author and collaborator with Beinin in a number of
projects, including "Palestine, Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A
Primer." It is widely reprinted, including on anti-Israel pro-terror web
sites such as .From Occupied Palestine,. and also on those that are fronts
for the PLO.
The .Primer. is a rather typical example of getting just about everything
possible wrong. It begins with the proclamation that religion plays no
role in the Arab war against Israel and that it is all a "struggle over
land". Now one of the few things unchallengeable about the Middle East
conflict is that it has virtually nothing to do with land. Arab countries
already control 6,145,389 square miles of land. That is almost twice
the land area of the United States, which is 3,537,438 square miles, and
about the same as the land area of Russia. Israel, even when including
all of the "occupied territories" retained from 1967, controls less than
10,000 square miles. The West Bank and the Gaza Strip comprise about 2300
square miles (a bit less when deducting Jerusalem and its suburbs from the
account), which is about half the size of the Everglades. Beinin and
Hajjar want us to believe that with 6,145,389 square miles, the Arabs want
war and genocide, but with 6,145,389 plus 2300 more, then they will want
peace. If Israel only trades .land for peace. with the land-deprived
Arabs, and never mind that its abandonment of the West Bank would leave an
Israel ten miles wide and waiting for the Arab armies to annihilate, then
all will be well.
Hajjar and Beinin want the world to believe that the entire Middle East
war is due to the fact that those evil selfish Jews are unwilling to share
their 10,000 square miles with the poor land-starved Arabs. But, in
reality, the obvious true cause of the Middle East war is the fact that
the Arab world is unwilling to allow the Jews to control even a sixth of
one percent of the territory of the Middle East. The Arabs, controlling
more land than any other ethnic group on the planet besides the Russians
(most of whose land is frozen tundra), are simply unwilling to share even
the tiniest sliver of the Middle East with the Jews.
In the .Primer. Beinin and Hajjar get most of the rest of their political
history wrong as well. They claim that religious Zionism developed after
the Six-Day War, whereas it developed in the nineteenth century. They
claim that the Six Day War triggered messianic religiosity among Israelis,
whereas the evidence suggests Israelis became more secularist after 1967
than they were before.
Beinin and Hajjar also reveal their biases by what they do NOT report,
such as the mass immigration into "Palestine" of Arabs from neighboring
countries starting in the late nineteenth century, and their counting of
all Moslems, including Turks, as "Palestinian Arabs." They write, "In
1920 and 1921, clashes broke out between Arabs and Jews in which roughly
equal numbers of both groups were killed." This makes it sound like Jews
and Arabs were equally involved in murder. In fact, the Jewish dead were
murdered by Arab pogromchiki whereas the Arab dead were rioters shot by
British troops. When Arabs started mass-murdering Jews in 1929, Beinin
and Hajjar blame the Jews, for raising a flag near the Wailing Wall.
They then write: "In 1921, the British divided this region in two: east of
the Jordan River became the Emirate of Transjordan, to be ruled by
Faysal's brother 'Abdullah,. and west of the Jordan River became the
Palestine Mandate. This was the first time in modern history that
Palestine became a unified political entity (emphasis added)." In fact,
of course, it was clearly a division of Palestine into an Arab two-thirds
and a remaining third earmarked for Jews.
The Beinin-Hajjar version of the creation of the "Palestinian" refugee
problem is nothing more and nothing less than the Arab version. Those
horrid Jews expelled the poor innocent Arab victims! In fact, the Arab
refugees fled at the direction of their commanders and to escape the
battle zones created when the Arab fascist states invaded Israel and tried
to annex all the lands of Western Palestine.[4] Beinin and Hajjar also
repeat the now-discredited myth about how Arab civilians in Deir Yassin
were "massacred" by Jews.
Beinin and Hajjar then recite the lies about supposed discrimination by
Israel against Israeli Arabs: "But in many respects they were and remain
second-class citizens, since Israel defines itself as the state of the
Jewish people and Palestinians are non-Jews." France is a French state,
Greece is a Greek state, England is an English state. Being in the
minority is synonymous with being a second-class citizen in the "minds" of
Beinin and Hajjar, but only in Israel. (If anything, Israel
discriminates in FAVOR of its Arab citizens and against Jews!!) Not a
word in their screed on the status of ethnic and religious minorities in
the rest of the Middle East. They go on: "About 40 percent of their
(Arab) lands were confiscated by the state and used for development
projects that benefited Jews primarily or exclusively." I guess the
Left-Coast Duo assume that Arabs do not use the roads, universities,
hospitals and parks in Israel on public lands.
The Beinin-Hajjar account of supposed abuses of Arabs by Israel is as
undocumented and baseless as it is unscholarly. They write, "Torture of
Palestinian prisoners has been a common practice since at least 1971, and
dozens of people have died in detention from abuse or neglect." Their
evidence is that they think so. This is all complete falsehood and
propaganda dressed up as "research". They add, "According to Israel,
Palestinian terrorism includes all forms of opposition to the occupation
(including non-violence)." According to Israel? According to Beinin and
Hajjar, all forms of Arab atrocities against Jews are "protests against
occupation., whereas no form of anti-terror operations by Israel could
possibly be considered justifiable self-defense.
The Beinin-Hajjar take on the "Oslo Accords" is that "the PLO accepted
this deeply flawed agreement with Israel because it was weak and had
little diplomatic support in the Arab world." They have got to be
kidding! Beinin and Hajjar do not think the Oslo Accords were .deeply
flawed. because they produced 1700 Israelis murdered by the PLO after it
foreswore all use of violence forever, but rather because they failed to
deliver Israel.s annihilation.
We now of course know that the PLO "accepted" the Oslo deal only in order
to get control of the West Bank and Gaza and use them as terrorist bases
to attack Israel. The PLO had no intention of abandoning terror and
murder, nor its ambitions to seek Israel.s annihilation. No mention at
all from Beinin and Hajjar about how the PLO violated each and every
clause in the Oslo Accord almost from the instant it was signed.
Beinin and Hajjar are at their most disengenuous and "revisionist", which
is to say . dishonest, when they tell the saga of the failed "Camp David
II. conference: "Although Barak offered a far more extensive Israeli
withdrawal from the West Bank than any other Israeli leader had publicly
considered, he insisted on maintaining Israeli sovereignty over East
Jerusalem. This was unacceptable to the Palestinians and to most of the
Muslim world." Actually, Barak there offered Arafat not only East
Jerusalem but control of the Old City of Jerusalem as well, including its
Jewish shrines. Arafat turned Barak down because the deal did not provide
for the immediate annihilation of Israel (also known as the .right of
return.), which is really the PLO.s minimal demand.
Then there are the innuendoes and falsehoods by the Left-Coast Duo when it
comes to recent years in the Middle East. They write: "The Israeli
military response escalated dramatically after two soldiers, allegedly
'lost' in the PA-controlled West Bank town of Ramallah, were killed
October 12 by a Palestinian mob returning from the funeral of an unarmed
young man whom soldiers had shot dead the day before." Note how the use
of the quote marks around the word "lost" and the absence of quotes around
the word .unarmed. convey to the reader the totally-false impression that
the two were involved in something nefarious. In fact, the two Jewish
victims were innocents, who were tortured and murdered in cold blood, and
then their bodies were mutilated.
Ultimately Hajjar lets her pseudo-scholarship and imagination fabricate
the contents of her .research.. She claims her own phone was tapped
after the 9-11 attacks. Hajjar is convinced that torturing Arabs is
ingrained in the American soul. She is as fond of whining about
make-pretend .right-wing conspiracies. as is Hillary Clinton. Just before
the toppling of Saddam, Hajjar endorsed warnings that .senior (US)
officials could face prosecutions for war crimes, crimes against humanity,
and genocide if the war unfolds as reportedly planned,. and claimed Bush
was planning to nuke Iraq. This sociologist with no legal training at all
insists she has the right to pass legal judgment upon the United States:
.the Bush administration has articulated positions and pursued policies
that blatantly contravene the Geneva Conventions..
We have no doubt that her Stanford sidekick Joel Beinin agrees.
Notes:
[1] The Making of a Political Trial: The Marwan Barghouti Case. Middle
East Report, no. 225 (Winter 2002).
[2] Alan Dershowitz, "Is It Necessary to Apply `Physical Pressure' to
Terrorists--and to Lie about It?" Israel Law Review 23/2-3 (1989).
[3] Lisa Hajjar and Steve Niva, "(Re)Made in the USA: Middle East Studies
in the Global Era," Middle East Report 7, no. 4 (October.December 1997),
pp. 4.5.
[4] Efraim Karsh, .Were the Palestinians Expelled?. Commentary Magazine,
July-August 2000 and Efraim Karsh, .The Palestinians and the .Right of
Return,.. Commentary Magazine, May 2001.
2. http://discoverthenetwork.org/moonbatcentral/2005/06/university-of-kentuckys-prof-in-drag.html
The University of Kentucky's Prof in Drag
by Steven Plaut
The web newsletter "Inside Higher Education" reports yet another tale of
neoconservative oppression of the rights of moonbat faculty members. It
seems that the the University of Kentucky and Georgetown College are
unhappy with sociology adjunct professor Jeremy D. Kerr, who now teaches a
course on "gender and society" at the University of Kentucky. You see,
Prof. Jeremy likes to teach his class in drag. You can see him in his work
clothes here. Kerr also teaches a required sociology course that UKY
students in sociology are coerced into taking. Kerr requires his students
to write essays on the benefits of hemp. You will be happy to hear that
the UKY President just renewed his contract.
Kerr has been told by his department chair at Kentucky to stop
cross-dressing in class, and Kerr has also sued Georgetown, charging that
he lost an adjunct position there because of his cross-dressing in area
restaurants. Kerr finished his Ph.D. at Kentucky in the spring and has
been working there as an adjunct.
Kerr has also taken his cross-dressing to area restaurants and reportedly
has been thrown out of some of them for appearing in women.s clothing.
Kerr.s lawsuit against Georgetown College says that these incidents led
the college not to renew his contract there, according to an article in
The Lexington Herald-Leader. .I.m turning it around. What.s good for the
girls is good for the guys,. he said.
His lawsuit against Georgetown charges it with sex discrimination for not
renewing his contract.
I, for one, would sure like to hear his rendition of "I'm just a Coal
Miner's Daughter."
3. http://discoverthenetwork.org/moonbatcentral/2005/06/massachusetts-rainbats.html
Massachusetts Rainbats
by Steven Plaut
The so-called Massachusetts "Green-Rainbow" Party is a group of
mega-moonbats in the state that gave us Teddy Kennedy and Mikey Dukakis.
It holds conventions, possibly on a Boston Common park bench that can hold
all of its members. It is run by a Moonbat named Mel King, who teaches
"urban studies" as an adjunct at MIT and whose main academic contribution
to humankind was a ranting piece called "The Power of Love in Research
Planning and Education" .
This year its "convention" decided to pick up where the British Assocition
of University Teachers failed. As you recall, some anti-Israel jihadniks
first managed to slip through a "resolution to boycott Israel at the AUT
conventrion while the sane members were off having a Guinness, but when
they returned they overturned it. The "Green Rainbow" Rainbats just passed
a resolution denouncing Israel as an "apartheid state," evidently because
it is the only country in the Middle East that is NOT an apartheid state,
and call for sanctions against Israel and support for Palestinian
terrorism. They also denounce "US Imperialism in Sudan" (really! I am not
inventing this!), and demand an end to the "occupation" of Iraq.
The convention was held in occupied Massachusetts. We figure both of the
members of the Rainbow Green Party endorsed the resolution.
4. Conspiracy Nuts:
http://discoverthenetwork.org/moonbatcentral/2005/06/scientific-american-takes-on.html
5. Hizonnah's Moonbat Friends:
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0605/dunetz_bloomberg.php3
6. I got a kick out of this. There is a new treasonous moonbat web page
named http://israelpalestineforum.com/ that features, among other things,
a special page on hot web deals for hotels and travel in Palestbie. But
when you open it, all the deals are for Palestine, Texas!
7. Intifada Chic:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/584924.html
8. Disengagement or Suicide?
http://www.worldjewishnewsagency.org/muslim_sensitivity.htm
1. Don't miss this Vietnam Vet memorial site for Jane Fonda:
http://chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=14910
2. Please add to your regular web reading sites - this:
http://www.worldjewishnewsagency.org/
3. U.S. BLAMED FOR KORAN HARM IN 9/11 WTC COLLAPSE
KABUL -- Muslims in Pakistan and Afghanistan rioted today in response to
new reports that copies of the Koran were desecrated when two American
buildings collapsed after being struck by American airplanes in September
of 2001.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) revealed that fragments of the
burned and soiled Korans were discovered in the ruins of the World Trade
Center towers in New York City.
A spokesman for the ACLU said the Bush administration did little to
prevent the damage to the Islamic holy books, that apparently belonged to
Muslims who worked in the office towers until their "unjustified
termination" during the morning of September 11, 2001.
"This is just another example of U.S. insensitivity to cultural
diversity," said the unnamed ACLU spokesman. "To add insult to injury,
anonymous sources say that some of the Koran fragments may have been
unceremoniously dumped in a landfill."
-- Scott Ott, courtesy Scrappleface, Copyright 2005 Scrappleface. All
rights reserved.
4. The father of Daniel Pearl speaks out:
http://www.thejewishweek.com/top/editletcontent.php3?artid=4194
Condemn Anti-Zionism As Racism
Judea Pearl
In the past two months I have visited four .troubled. campuses . Duke,
York (Canada), Columbia and the University of California Irvine . where
tensions between Jewish and anti-Zionist students and professors have
attracted national media attention. In these visits I have spoken to
students, faculty and administrators, and I have obtained a fairly gloomy
picture of the situation on those and other campuses.
First, Jewish students have been subjected in the past few years to an
unprecedented assault on their identity as Jews. And we, the Jewish
faculty on campus, have let down those students. We have failed to equip
them with effective tools to fight back this assault.
I would like to propose a remedy.
Many condemn anti-Zionism for being a flimsy cover for anti-Semitism. I
disagree. The order is wrong. I condemn anti-Semitism for being an
instrument for a worse form of racism: anti-Zionism. In other words, I
submit that anti-Zionism is a form of racism more dangerous than classical
anti-Semitism. Labeling and fighting anti-Zionism as racism is precisely
the weapon that our students need for survival on campus.
Anti-Zionism earns its racist character from denying the Jewish people
what it grants to other collectives (e.g. Spanish, Palestinians): namely,
the right to nationhood and self-determination.
Are Jews a nation? A collective is entitled to nationhood when its members
identify with a common history and wish to share a common destiny.
Palestinians have earned nationhood status by virtue of thinking like a
nation, not by residing where their ancestors did (many of them are only
three or four generations in Palestine). Jews, likewise, are bonded by
nationhood (i.e., common history and destiny) more than they are bonded by
religion.
The appeal to Jewish nationhood is necessary when we consider Israel.s
insistence on remaining a .Jewish state.. By .Jewish state, Israelis mean
of course .national-Jewish state,. not .religious-Jewish state,. since
theocratic states (like Pakistan and Iran) are incompatible with modern
standards of democracy and pluralism. Anti-Zionist racists use this
anti-theocracy argument again and again to de-legitimize Israel, and I
have found our students unable to defend their position with conventional
ideology that views Jewishness as a religion.
Jewishness is more than just a religion. It is an intricate and
intertwined mixture of ancestry, religion, history, country, culture,
tradition, attitude, nationhood and ethnicity, and we need not apologize
for not fitting neatly into the standard molds of textbook taxonomies . we
did not choose our painful history.
As a form of racism, anti-Zionism is worse that anti-Semitism. It targets
the most vulnerable part of the Jewish people, namely the people of
Israel, who rely on the sovereignty of Israel for physical safety,
national identity and personal dignity. To put it more bluntly,
anti-Zionism condemns 5 million human beings, mostly refugees or children
of refugees, to eternal statelessness, traumatized by historical images of
persecution and genocide.
Anti-Zionism also attacks the pivotal component of our identity, the glue
that bonds us together . our nationhood and the right for
self-determination. And while people of conscience reject anti-Semitism,
anti-Zionist rhetoric has become a mark of academic sophistication and
social acceptance in Europe and on some U.S. campuses.
Moreover, anti-Zionism disguises itself in the cloak of political debate,
exempt from sensitivities and rules of civility that govern interreligious
discourse. Religion is ferociously protected in our society; political
views are not. So in the name of .open political debate,. administrators
would not think twice about inviting MIT linguist Noam Chomsky to speak on
campus, though his anti-Zionist utterances offend the fabric of my Jewish
identity deeper than any of the ugly religious insults currently shocking
the media. He should be labeled for what he is: a racist.
Strategically, while accusations of anti-Semitism are worn out and have
lost their punch, charging someone with racism makes people think why
anyone would deny people the right of self-determination in a sliver of
land in the birthplace of their history. It shifts the frame of discourse
from debating Israel.s policies to the root cause of the conflict .
denying Israelis their basic rights.
Charges of .racism. highlight the inherent asymmetry between the Zionist
and anti-Zionist positions. The former grants both Israelis and
Palestinians the right for statehood; the latter denies that right to only
one side.
This asymmetry is the most effective weapon our students should use in
campus debates, for it puts them back on the high moral grounds of .fair
and balanced. and forces their opponents to defend an ideology of
one-sidedness.
For example, I have found it effective when confronting an anti-Zionist
speaker to ask: .Are you willing to go on record and state that the
Israel-Palestine conflict is a conflict between two legitimate national
movements?.
Western audiences adore even-handedness and abhor bias. The question above
forces the racist to defend his uneven treatment of the two sides.
America prides itself on academic freedom, and academic freedom entails
freedom to teach hatred and racism . we graciously accept this fact of
life. However, academic freedom also entails the freedom of students to
expose racism, be it white supremacy, women inferiority, Islamophobia or
Zionophobia, wherever it is spotted. Not to censor, but to expose .
racists stew in their own words.
In summary, I believe the formula .Anti-Zionism = Racism. should give
Jewish students the courage to both defend their identity and expose those
who abuse it. n
Judea Pearl is a professor of computer science at UCLA and president of
the Daniel Pearl Foundation, named after his son. He is co-editor of .I am
Jewish: Personal Reflections Inspired by the Last Words of Daniel Pearl
(Jewish Lights, 2004), winner of the National Jewish Book Award.
5. Funding pseudo-diversity:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18306
6. Real Men Moisturize:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18321
7. Teaching Hate at Columbia:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18302
8. The Ward Churchill Saga:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18320
9. Tobin on Corrie:
http://jewishworldreview.com/0505/tobin_2005_05_30.php3
10. Gitmo Lies:
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michelle/malkin.php3
1. Counterpunch Plays "Spin the Ba'athists" and Outs Pappa Cockburn
Ok, we admit it. Counterpunch threw us off and confused us this time. It
ran a Robert Fisk column that did NOT blame the US and Israel for a
Ba'athist-committed murder!
We are used to the Counterpunch critters routinely blaming Israel and the
US whenever the Syrian Ba'athists have someone car-bombed or otherwise
murdered, and more generally playing "Spin the Ba'athist" for its readers.
After all, when Syria murdered Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri in
Beirut on February 14, 2005, Counterpunch went out of its gourd to blame
the US and Israel for the death! It ran a series of pieces with the same
theme, including one by Dartmouth moonbat jihadist Naseer H. Aruri blaming
the US for it. Mega-moonbat Manuel Garcia, Jr. agreed. Cockburnite Gary
Leupp cleared the Assad regime because - after all - it issued a
condemnation of the assassination!
More generally, Counterpunch has virtually merged with the Ba'athist
Party, running toady pro-Ba'athist articles. Saul Landau and Farrah Hassen
defend Syria against American nefarious plotting and also clear the poor
Assad regime of the murder of Hariri. Paul Craig Roberts feels the same.
Cockburn continues to run as one of his regulars the spokesman for
Uruknet, the web site of the Iraqi Ba'athists, nominally based in Italy,
the web site for those folks who enjoy lopping off the heads of Western
women captured in Fallujah. Uruknet spokesman Kurt Nimmo is an unemployed
New Mexico neonazi who may or may not have graduated high school, yet is
deemed qualified by Counterpunch to join its team, although not by
Walmart.
But this week, Robert Fisk spends a whole article on Counterpunch implying
(he is too pusillanimous to say so openly) that Syria was behind the
car-bomb murder of Lebanese anti-Syrian journalist Samir Kassir a few days
ago.
This puzzles us. Since when do Counterpunch columnists hold Ba'athists to
account for murdering people? Fisk himself was agnostic about who had
murdered Hariri. The Kassir bombing was almost identical to that of
Hariri, which the Moonbatmosphere blamed on Israel and the US! And
besides, we thought that Counterpunch guaranteed its support to ANY regime
that attacks the US and Israel!
So what gives? Since when does Counterpunch run non-treasonous opinion
pieces?
Meanwhile, the OTHER Cockburn, Patrick, the brother of Al, writes a column
this week in Counterpunch, reporting to us that the British intelligence
agency MI5 had the pater of the Counterpunch Cockburns under surveillance
during World War II, evidently suspecting he was an enemy agent for
Germany, besides being an open communist. In the words of sonny Patrick
Cockburn himself,
"From the beginning, the (communist) party was a little bewildered by its
recruit, though it swiftly recognised his effectiveness. In 1936-37, party
officials in London working for the Comintern, supposedly uniting all
Communist parties, wrote a series of reports about him to the Moscow
leadership. They contained admiring comments. One said: 'He is held to be
one of Fleet Street's cleverest journalists.' Another noted his ability to
reveal Cabinet changes before they were announced."
Let me guess. The Burncocks will now accuse us of "McCarthyism" for
running this!
http://discoverthenetwork.org/moonbatcentral/2005/06/counterpunch-plays-spin-baathists-and.html
2. Gerald Steinberg on Temple Mount Cowardice of Israel:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1117851565394&p=1006953079865
3. Barry Chamish just lost in the libel suit filed against him by
Kahanist Avigdor Eskin. Chamish had written that Eskin is a Shin Bet
agent (Chamish considers just about everyone on earth to be either a Shin
Bet or a CFR "agent"). See http://barrychamish.com/html/avigdor_eskin.html
Eskin sued in small claims court and won.
Chamish this week repeats has accustions that Eskin is a Shin Bet agent at
http://barrychamish.com/html/avigdor_eskin2.html ,
adding a characteristic Chamishism: that the Judge Chaim Lakhovitzky in
the small-claims-court case who found against Chamish was corrupt. Chamish
maintains the correctness of his original accusation against Eskin because
"Eskin did not appear at the trial with a letter from the Shabak denying he
was associated with them."
As you know, the Shin Bet makes a routine practice of giving such
documents to Kahanists.
Here is the Chamish version of the verdict: 'The judge, for reasons I'm
beginning to more than suspect, dismissed the proven fact that one word in
Haaretz reaches hundreds of thousands of Israelis whereas, my claim was
read by not a one of my countrymen. I asked the judge an obvious question.
"Why is Eskin suing me and not Haaretz or Dahlia Pelosoff-Rabin?" Now get
this reply: "Because he didn't want to." I knew the fix was in at that
moment.'
We sure hope the judge reads those words.
ISM Violence and Hooliganism Growing
The Moonbatocracy has turned Rachel Corrie into its pro-terror Mother
Terasa and keeps chirping about how the pro-terror International
Solidarity Movement that Corrie represented is a little more than a group
of pro-peace quietists. In fact they are cheerleaders for and
collaborators with Palestinian terror. Frontpage Magazine and DTN have
long been revealing the ISM hoodlums for what they are - violent leftwing
neofascists, attacking Israeli soldiers and police in order to prevent
Israel from erecting a fence that might keep some suicide bombers from
mass murdering Jewish children. The ISM (whose name really means "I
Support Murderers") wants the mass murderers to carry out their
intentions, which is the only real reason that opposes Israel's security
fence. The ISM operatives have openly collabored with Palestinian
terrorists, hiding weapons and wanted terrorists in their offices. Only
Israeli timidity can explian why they have not been locked up and kicked
out.
But now the ISM's efforts to create for itself a false image of pro-peace
gummy bears has ended. The ISM hooligans just poked out the eye of an
Israeli soldier over the weekend. Another solider was wounded by an ISM
rock. Some pacifists! The press does not reveal if the wounded soldiers
were Jews or Bedouins. In the past, the ISM has taken special glee in
targeting patriotic Israeli Bedouin soldiers.
Meanwhile, we are curious to see if Ariel Sharon remembers what the Bible
says about people who poke out eyes.
See
http://discoverthenetwork.org/moonbatcentral/2005/06/ism-violence-and-hooliganism-growing.html
for clean copy with links.
From the WSJ:
J'Accuse.
Anti-Semitism at 'Le Monde' and beyond.
By Tom Gross
The Wall Street Journal Europe
June 2, 2005
A French court last week found three writers for Le Monde, as well as
the newspaper's publisher, guilty of "racist defamation" against Israel
and the Jewish people. In a groundbreaking decision, the Versailles
court of appeal ruled that a comment piece published in Le Monde in 2002,
"Israel-Palestine: The Cancer," had whipped up anti-Semitic opinion.
The writers of the article, Edgar Morin (a well-known sociologist),
Daniele Sallenave (a senior lecturer at Nanterre University) and Sami Nair
(a member of the European parliament), as well as Le Monde's publisher,
Jean-Marie Colombani, were ordered to pay symbolic damages of one euro
to a human-rights group and to the Franco-Israeli association. Le Monde
was also ordered to publish a condemnation of the article, which it has
yet to do.
It is encouraging to see a French court rule that anti-Semitism should
have no place in the media -- even when it is masked as an analysis of
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The ruling also makes it clear that
the law in this respect applies to extremist Jews (Mr. Morin is Jewish)
as much as to non-Jews.
Press freedom is a value to be cherished, but not exploited and abused.
In general, European countries have strict laws against such abuse and
Europe's mainstream media are in any case usually good at exercising
self-censorship. Responsible journalists strenuously avoid libelous
characterizations of entire ethnic, national or religious groups. They go
out of their way, for example, to avoid suggesting that the massacres in
Darfur, which are being carried out by Arab militias, in any way
represent an Arab trait.
The exception to this seems to be the coverage of Jews, particularly
Israeli ones. This is particularly ironic given the fact that Europe's
relatively strict freedom of speech laws (compared to those in the U.S.)
were to a large extend drafted as a reaction to the Continent's Nazi
occupation. And yet, from Oslo to Athens, from London to Madrid, it has
been virtually open season on them in the last few years, especially in
supposedly liberal media.
"Israel-Palestine: The Cancer" was a nasty piece of work, replete with
lies, slanders and myths about "the chosen people," "the Jenin
massacre," describing the Jews as "a contemptuous people taking
satisfaction in
humiliating others," "imposing their unmerciful rule," and so on.
Yet it is was no worse than thousands of other news reports,
editorials, commentaries, letters, cartoons and headlines published
throughout
Europe in recent years, in the guise of legitimate and reasoned
discussion of Israeli policies.
The libels and distortions about Israel in some British media are by
now fairly well known: the Guardian's equation of Israel and al Qaeda;
the Evening Standard's equation of Israel and the Taliban; the report by
the BBC's Middle East correspondent, Orla Guerin, on how "the Israelis
stole Christmas." Most notorious of all is the Independent's Middle
East correspondent, Robert Fisk, who specializes in such observations as
his comment that, "If ever a sword was thrust into a military alliance
of East and West, the Israelis wielded that dagger," and who implies
that the White House has fallen into the hands of the Jews: "The Perles
and the Wolfowitzes and the Cohens ... [the] very sinister people
hovering around Bush."
The invective against Israel elsewhere in Europe is less well known. In
Spain, for example, on June 4, 2001 (three days after a Palestinian
suicide bomber killed 21 young Israelis at a disco, and wounded over 100
others, all in the midst of a unilateral Israeli ceasefire), the liberal
daily Cambio 16 published a cartoon of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon (with a hook nose he does not have), wearing a skull cap (which he
does not usually wear), sporting a swastika inside a star of David on
his chest, and proclaiming: "At least Hitler taught me how to invade a
country and destroy every living insect."
The week before, on May 23, El Pais (the "New York Times of Spain")
published a cartoon of an allegorical figure carrying a small
rectangular-shaped black moustache, flying through the air toward Sharon's
upper
lip. The caption read: "Clio, the muse of history, puts Hitler's
moustache on Ariel Sharon."
Two days later, on May 25, the Catalan daily La Vanguardia published a
cartoon showing an imposing building, with a sign outside reading
"Museo del Holocausto Judio" (Museum of the Jewish Holocaust), and next to
it another building under construction, with a large sign reading
"Futuro Museo del Holocausto Palestino" (Future Museum of the Palestinian
Holocaust).
Greece's largest newspaper, the leftist daily Eleftherotypia, has run
several such cartoons. In April 2002, on its front cover, under the
title "Holocaust II," an Israeli soldier was depicted as a Nazi officer
and
a Palestinian civilian as a Jewish death camp inmate. In September
2002, another cartoon in Eleftherotypia showed an Israeli soldier with a
Jewish star telling a Nazi officer next to him "Arafat is not a person
the Reich can talk to anymore." The Nazi officer responds "Why? Is he a
Jew?"
In Italy, in October 2001, the Web site of one of the country's most
respected newspapers, La Repubblica, published the notorious anti-Semitic
forgery, "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," in its entirety,
without providing any historical explanation. It did suggest, however,
that
the work would help readers understand why the U.S. had taken military
action in Afghanistan.
In April 2002, the Italian liberal daily La Stampa ran a front-page
cartoon showing an Israeli tank, emblazoned with a Jewish star, pointing a
large gun at the baby Jesus in a manger, while the baby pleads, "Surely
they don't want to kill me again, do they?"
In Corriere Della Sera, another cartoon showed Jesus trapped in his
tomb, unable to rise, because Ariel Sharon, rifle in hand, is sitting on
the sepulcher.
Sweden's largest morning paper, Dagens Nyheter, ran a caricature of a
Hassidic Jew accusing anyone who criticized Israel of anti-Semitism.
Another leading Swedish paper, Aftonbladet, used the headline "The
Crucifixion of Arafat."
If the misreporting and bias were limited to one or two newspapers or
television programs in each country, it might be possible to shrug them
off. But they are not. Bashing Israel even extends to local papers that
don't usually cover foreign affairs, such as the double-page spread
titled "Jews in jackboots" in "Luton on Sunday." (Luton is an industrial
town in southern England.) Or the article in Norway's leading regional
paper, Stavanger Aftenblad, equating Israel's actions against terrorists
in Ramallah with the attacks on the World Trade Center.
Grotesque and utterly false comparisons such as these should have no
place in reporting or commenting on the Middle East. Yet although the
French court ruling -- the first of its kind in Europe -- is a major
landmark, no one in France seems to care. The country's most distinguished
newspaper, the paper of record, has been found guilty of anti-Semitism.
One would have thought that such a verdict would prompt wide-ranging
coverage and lead to extensive soul-searching and public debate. Instead,
there has been almost complete silence, and virtually no coverage in
the French press.
And few elsewhere will have heard about it. Reuters and Agence France
Presse (agencies that have demonstrated particularly marked bias against
Israel) ran short stories about the judgment in their French-language
wires last week, but chose not to run them on their English news
services. The Associated Press didn't run it at all. Instead of triggering
the
long overdue reassessment of Europe's attitude toward Israel, the media
have chosen to ignore it.
(Mr. Gross is a former Jerusalem correspondent of the Sunday Telegraph
and the New York Daily News.)
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/
1. Syrian Fascism Strikes Again
The Kurds are a homeless people whose plight has never interested the Axis
of Evil, linking the Moonbat Left with Islamofascism. The struggle of the
Kurds in Turkey and Iraq are somewhat familiar to Westerners. What is less
well known is that Syria also has a large Kurdish minority. Strangely, all
those people so convinced that creating a 23rd Arab state and granting
"national self-determination" to Arabs called by the media "Palestinians"
is the only conceivable solution to the Middle East conflict. Yet none of
these same people have come out for Kurdish national self-determination!!
Why not? Maybe because Kurdish self-determination would not help in
destroying Israel?
The Syrian Kurds in particular are harshly repressed by the Ba'athist
fascists. This week the body of the head of the Kurdish movement in Syria
was recovered after he had been murdered by the regime. The body of Sheik
Machouk Alkhaznawi was returned to his family yesterday, three weeks after
he went missing. Amnesty International, which no one suspects of being
pro-America or pro-Israel, and members of the Kurdish Democratic Party
said he was killed by authorities, citing evidence of torture on the body.
The Assad junta claimed he had been killed by a mysterious criminal gang.
A few days before his disappearance, the Canadian Globe and Mail
correspondent Paul Koring interviewed Mr. Alkhaznawi in Damascus, for a
story about Syria's newly emboldened political dissidents. "Either the
regime will change, or the regime must go," he said in the interview. That
sealed his fate.
The 46-year-old Kurdish cleric was a champion of tolerance, respect
between Arabs and Kurds, and the compatibility of democracy and Islam,
before he disappeared last month. He came from the remote Syrian city of
Qameshli, in the heart of what 20 million Kurds call Kurdistan.
The Ba'athists also continue to murder people in Lebanon, despite the
"withdrawal" of Syria troops from Lebanon, a withdrawal that left behind a
large intelligence infrastructure and Syria-controlled terrorist groups.
The NY Sun reports this week, "The Syrian dictatorship is tottering and
weak. President Bush has decided that Bashar al-Assad will be gone and
that the route to Iran is through Syria." Reuters and the NY Times report
that Lebanese journalist Samir Kassir was murdered this week via a car
bomb by Syrian operatives for criticizing the Ba'athist regime. He had
written: "The Baathist regime in Syria is behaving the same way it behaved
in Lebanon, making mistake after mistake." "Bashar al-Assad and Emile
Lahoud are behind it," a senior Lebanese opposition leader, Marwan Hamade,
told the Christian Science Monitor. "The Syrian regime is responsible from
head to toe for this horrific terrorist crime. Lebanon's opposition should
promptly close ranks anew to have every Syrian intelligence cell left
behind in Lebanon ruthlessly smashed," the general manager of An-Nahar,
Gebran Tueini, told reporters at the scene.
Meanwhile, the NY Times reports this week that Syria test-fired three Scud
missiles last Friday, including one that broke up over Turkish territory
and showered missile parts down onto unsuspecting Turkish farmers. All the
missiles were launched from northern Syria, near Minakh, north of Aleppo,
Israeli officials said. One was sent about 250 miles to southernmost
Syria, near the Jordanian border. The one that broke up was fired
southwest toward the Mediterranean, over the Turkish province of Hatay,
the ancient Antioch, and shed debris over two villages there. The Israelis
said they had film of the launching and breakup. The test was the first
time Syria had fired a missile over another country - a member of NATO and
possible upcoming member of the EU, no less! - when Damascus could easily
have moved its mobile launchers to the center of the country to avoid
flight over Turkey altogether.
The Moonbat Left continues its jihad in support of the Syrian regime and
against Amrerican "warmongering" against Syrian fascism. We expect
Counterpunch soon to launch its "Take a Ba'athist to Lunch" program.
It is time for President Bush to teach the Ba'athists the game of
"dominoes!"
http://discoverthenetwork.org/moonbatcentral/2005/06/syrian-fascism-strikes-again.html
2. "Flush Newsweek Down The Toilet"
by Irwin N. Graulich
http://www.opinioneditorials.com/freedomwriters/igraulich_20050602.html
3. Smart Jews:
http://harpend.dsl.xmission.com/Documents/AshkenaziIQ.jbiosocsci.pdf
4. Defend the Humans from the Moonbats:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18253
5. Plumbing:
http://chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=14896
How to Solve the Counterpunch Problem via the "One Magazine Solution"!!
by Steven Plaut
We have this amzing idea for how to deal with the Far-Left web magazine
Counterpunch. It is called the "One-Magazine Solution". The idea is that
Counterpunch and Frontpage Magazine merge and then continue to operate as
a single web magazine under the hegemonic control of David Horowitz and
the Frontpage people, while the Counterpunch writers and editors would be
assured minority rights, except for those Counterpunchers born outside the
US, like Alexander Cockburn, who would be expelled back to the countries
whence they came.
Now before you accuse me of ingesting the same substances as the editors
of Tikkun Magazine, let me explain.
The Neofascist Left, and by that I mean the extremist Left best
represented by Counterpunch and "The Nation" (or - as I prefer to call it
- The MoonbatNation) have in recent years been demonstrating a refreshing
candor and openess when it comes to their anti-Semitism. Unlike so many
others, they do not pretend that they simply oppose Zionism
but-got-nothing-against-dem-Joos-as-such-mind-you. Specifically, they are
entirely open about the fact that they want to see Israel destroyed. They
call it the "One State Solution," also known as the Rwanda Solution, in
which Israel will be enfolded into an Arab Palestinian Islamofascist Third
World Kleptocratic State, encompassing all Israeli territory, the West
Bank, and the Gaza Strip. The Jews would be assured minority status in
this Arab-majority entity, and so would be treated almost as well as the
Copts in Egypt or the Kurds in Iraq or the southern Sudanese are today.
Now, how come Israel is the only country on the planet that these
Mega-Moonbats demand be destroyed, you ask? It is very simple. Israel is
the only Jewish country and the Neofascist Left hates Jews. Sometimes the
Lefties pretend they want Israel destroyed because they claim it is a
"discriminatory" or "immoral" country, but no one thinks they really
believe that. Israel is by far the least discriminatory and immoral
country in the Middle East and the state of human rights in Israel is at
least a thousand times better than in the next-best state in the Middle
East.
In recent years, Counterpunch has run quite a few articles opposing the
"Two State Solution" and endorsing the "One State Solution". The
"Two-State Solution" to the Middle East conflict should in fact be more
correctly termed the "Twenty Four State Solution." As envisioned in the
"Road Map", under this the Arabs would add to their twenty two existing
states, holding land almost twice the area of the United States, yet
another state, a twenty-third Arab state to be called Palestine, the
second Arab state to be erected in the territory of historic Palestine
(the other one being named Jordan), and the Jews would keep their one tiny
statelet with land smaller than New Jersey. That is the Bush plan.
But the Neofascist Left insists that this "Road Map" solution is too
generous to the Jews and too stingy to the Arabs. Their preferred solution
is to turn the Levant into Rwanda and resolve the ethnic conflict the same
way the Rwandans did.
The last in the series of "Destroy Israel" columns in Counterpunch is run
there this week, A Two-State Solution is No Solution, by Islamic Fascist
Mazin Qumsiyeh. [The number of neonazis and Islamofascists has been
growing in the Counterpunch Cockburn stables. ] The "one-state solution",
based upon sustaining all states on earth no matter how evil but
destroying Israel, was proposed in Counterpunch pages in recent times by
mega-terrorist (now in prison awaiting conviction) Sami Al-Arian, Ray
Hanania, Will Youmans, Michael Neumann, Simon Jones (a Counterpunch
regular who insists that Jews must liberate themselves by helping to
destroy Israel and create a Second Holocaust of Jews, and a collaborator
with Swedish nazi Israel Shamir), Omar Barghouti (who just was reduced to
tears by the British Association of University Teachers rejecting his
academic pogrom against Israel), and so many others we got tired. Counting
passing moonbats makes us sleepy. [A bit ironically, the Leftist Lord
Haw-Haw of Israel, Uri Avnery, OPPOSED the "one-state solution" on
Counterpunch pages. ]
"The Nation", always trying to out-jihad Counterpunch and bypass it in the
Anti-Semitism Tournament of the Left, has also long endorsed the Rwanda
Solution, er - we mean - the "One-State Solution" in which Israel would be
destroyed, and of course that would have nothing at all to do with the
fact that Israel is the only country the Jews have on earth. The Germans
called it the Final Solution. None of this of course has stopped the
Columbia School of Journalism, located in that Columbia Madrassah on the
Upper West Side, from turning the school's web site over to the control of
"The Nation's" Uber-Moonbat editor and publisher, the Jew-hating,
Castro-loving Victor Navasky in recent days.
http://discoverthenetwork.org/moonbatcentral/2005/06/how-to-solve-counterpunch-problem-via.html
1. The "Oslo Syndrome":
http://jewishworldreview.com/0605/gaffney060105.php3
You may also wish to join this: http://www.jewishworldreview.com/subs.php
2. More Frivolous "Libel Suits" from the Anti-Semitic Ultra-Moonbats
Eyal Sivan is one of the most openly anti-Semitic far-leftist
extremists in Europe. He grew up in Israel but then migrated to Europe,
where he divides his time between making Jew-bashing anti-Israel films and
filing frivolous SLAPP suits against people who criticize him.
In recent years a growing anti-democratic harassment tactic used by
the very worst left-wing fascists has been the filing of such SLAPP suits
for "libel" as a way to silence critics of the Left. SLAPP (which stands
for 'Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation') suits are
anti-democratic harassment suits in which someone attempts to suppress the
free speech of his critics. They are illegal in many parts of the US and
there are penalties for those who file them.
Eyal Sivan is a radical anti-Semitic pro-terror ex-Israeli "film
artist" living in France (where else?). He is the French equivalent to
that other notorious ex-Israeli Eurobat, Dror Feiler. Feiler lives in
Sweden and who made the "sculpture art" celebrating the suicide bombing
woman who mass murdered 23 people at the Maxim restaurant in Haifa, many
of them children, including three generations of two families. One of
her victims is a 10 year old who lost his parents and was permanently
blinded by the blast.
Sivan lately has been co-making anti-Israel propaganda films with a
local Palestinian pro-terrorist. Eyal Sivan likes to make venomous
propaganda movies against Israel and Jews. In one of his recent movies,
"Route 181 - Splinter from a Trip in Palestine-Israel," he devotes much of
the screen time to justifying the Arab attack on Israel in 1948 designed
to annihilate Israel (and its population) and which coincidentally gobbled
up the land the UN had allocated to become an Arab state of Palestine.
The Arabs, declares Sivan, were in the right when they attacked Israel in
1948, because the Arabs were seeking a nice Rwanda-style bi-national state
with an Arab majority in which the Jews would be treated almost as well as
are the southern Sudanese Christians and animists today. The film also
alleges all sorts of gory Israeli "war crimes" against the poor innocent
Arabs of 1948, including imaginary rapes. It is capped by scenes of
railroad tracks designed to be associated in the minds of French viewers
with scenes from the "SHOAH" movie about the Holocaust, and of course with
Israel in the role of Nazi Germany. [Ironically, when Sivan needed an
actor to play a thuggish Israeli, he chose an Arab. Talk about racial
profiling!]
This latest "film" was broadcast in England, Germany and France, a
4.5 hour pseudo-documentary. Sivan wanted it to be the Palestinian answer
to the French documentary movie "Shoah" about the Holocaust. Sivan has
also long justified arson attacks against French Jews and their
synagogues, saying the French Jews themselves were to blame for these
(Jerusalem Report, March 22, 2004) because they support Israel.
Ah, but then the heroic French Jewish philosopher Alain Finkielkraut
described the cinematic atrocity being prepared by Sivan as "incitement to
murder Jews" and a tissue of lies. He also openly called Sivan a Jewish
anti-Semite. Sivan decided to file a frivolous harassment SLAPP libel
suit in France against Finkielkraut for daring to tell the truth.
Meanwhile, other French intellectuals petitioned the Pompideau Center
and other institutions not to screen the scurrilous propaganda film of
Sivan, successfully. It was evidently not screened.
In Israel, Sivan is embroiled in a conflict with members of the
family of the heroic Gideon Hausner, who had been the prosecutor in the
famous trial of Adolf Eichmann, the German architect of the Holocaust
captured and executed by Israel. The Hausners began petitioning the
Attorney General last February to prosecute Sivan, because of his
deliberately distorted "documentary" film on Hausner and the trial, in
which he misrepresented and mocked the deceased Hausner, they insist. The
family members want Sivan charged with "receiving profit from deliberate
fraud," a crime in Israel.
The frivolous harassment suit against Finkielkraut is stuck in the
French court backlog, but Sivan may be getting his comeuppance from an
Israeli court in the Hausner case. Now Sivan has decided to try the
harassment suit tactic all over again, this time against a leading Israeli
professor and politician from Israel's Zionist Left.
Sivan this week filed a "libel suit" against Israeli Prof. Amnon
Rubinstein, a professor of constitutional law and a one-time cabinet
minister from the leftist Meretz party. Two weeks back, Rubinstein had
called Sivan an anti-Semite in an opinion column that was published in the
Jerusalem Post and also in Maariv, Israel's second largest daily.
Rubinstein had denounced the attempts by Sivan to paint Israel in his
films, especially in "Route 181", as morally equivalent to Nazi Germany.
Rubinstein also noted that Sivan's film had been banned in France but was
being screened in Israel itself by local far-leftist moonbats.
Yes, the same anti-Semitic film by Sivan that French institutions
refused to screen, too anti-Semitic even for FRENCH tastes, has been
screened repeatedly in Israel itself by the far-Leftist Jerusalem
Cinematek, a moonbat institution maintained by Jerusalem taxpayers and
which is always on the lookout for seditious anti-Israel propaganda that
it can screen as "art". You may recall its role in promoting the
Goebbals-like film "Jenin Jenin", a propaganda film produced with PLO
funds whose own producer has admitted he filled it with lies. The
architecture department at the Bezalel College also showed it.
Rubinstein has courageously stuck to his guns and has announced he
will retract nothing he wrote about Sivan and will certainly not
apologize. Sivan will continue to attempt to suppress the free speech of
his critics anti-democratically using SLAPP suit harassment.
(For links and clean copy, go to
http://discoverthenetwork.org/moonbatcentral/2005/06/more-frivolous-libel-suits-from-anti.html
)
3. Stoned Ollie:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18254
1. Subject: Oliver the Stoned
The Grand Global Conspiracy behind the latest Oliver Stone Arrest
By Steven Plaut
Well, the media are reporting the latest Oliver Stone was arrested for drug and alcohol charges in Beverly Hills over the weekend. They found illegal drugs in Ollie?s car and arrested him for DUI. Oliver Stone had earlier been arrested in 1999 on alcohol and drug charges and, as part of a plea bargain, and at that time agreed to enter a rehabilitation program. He had been arrested for drugs before, the first time being when he was only 21.
Now we know what you are all thinking, and that is that the media accounts of this could not possibly be the correct descriptions of events and there must be some grand and awful story-behind-the-story that explains the arrest. After all, Oliver Stoned is best known for his cinematic portrayal of conspiracy plots in his movies and his far-left politics, including open endorsements of communism and a sycophant ?documentary? celebrating Fidel Castro, so one-sided that HBO refused to air it. Stone?s views about Cuba and Castro may be summed up in this one citation: ?Street demonstrations in favor of Fidel Castro are not a fake. If they were, those demonstrators should win an Oscar for best acting. I can testify to this because I have seen the joy on their faces when people come up to the president." Elsewhere he added, ?In Cuba, I observed an openness and freedom that I had not found in any other country in the region, the Caribbean or Central America."
Stone?s pronouncements include issuing a statement after 9-11 blaming the American media companies for the terrorist attacks. At an HBO Films panel on "Making Movies That Matter," Oliver Stoned states that huge corporations that make mediocre movies are part of what made Osama bin Laden plan the Sept. 11 attack. "They control culture," he said of the corporations, in comments quoted in the New Yorker. "They control ideas. And I think the revolt of Sept. 11th was about 'F-- you! F-- your order.' "
Stone also said, "This attack was pure chaos, and chaos is energy." ("The Stars Weigh In," San Francisco Chronicle, October 16, 2001.) Soon after that, Stone spoke at Brown University. According to the Brown Alumni Magazine (January/February 2002). Stone derided the entire enterprise as well as the movie industry and the history profession. ?Don?t believe most of the stuff you see in the movies,? the Oliver told a Brown audience on December 1. Hollywood, said the director of Platoon and JFK, is controlled by ?chickens? and ?concentration camp guards.? History books are no better, Stone warned. ?Most historians are ass-kissers and tenure seekers,? he said. What to believe then? ?Believe my stuff,? Stone said. Every single scene in his film about the JFK assassination has been shown to be a fabrication.
Drawing comparisons to Vietnam, Stone accused the U.S. government of withholding the truth about the war in Afghanistan: ?Bin Laden was completely protected by the oil companies in this country who told [President] Bush not to go after him because it would piss off the Saudis.? Then, Stone claimed, there?s the cover-up involving ground zero: limbs getting cut off bodies for jewelry, a man walking off with $132 million.
Stone's paranoia and his contempt for historic facts are most visible in the movie "JFK" which turns the historical record on its head. This did not stop a CAL-Berkeley moonbat from presenting Stone to his students as a ?historian.?
Stone claims to be half-French, keeps saying he will flee America for France because of Republicans, and got him some cushy subsidies from the French government, something that prompted one wag to suggest he change his name to "Oliver Caillou." (Caillou is the French word for stone). One can tell he has a strong French streak in his character because he insists he lost his virginity to a prostitute, because he didn't get the opportunity to meet girls at his single-sex school. At least one web site is devoted to boycotting anything connected with the Oliver.
Here is a typical Stone take on reality:
"The right wing is the same everywhere, in Cuba or Viet Nam. It is like an octopus, snatching everything with its tentacles. They control the Internet, radio and TV stations, and newspapers. But above all, they are perfectly organized. Right wingers master the art of negative publicity and are capable of destroying the image of anyone they consider to be their enemy. They annihilate anything opposed to their interests, utilizing mass emailing, articles, and reports. In the United States, censorship is the order of the day. It is really sad to think that Florida may end up deciding the November elections once again, and that the extreme-right wing, including anti-Castro groups, may manipulate the results for a second time. These people are blinded by patriotic fanaticism and are ready to invade any country, and shoot down planes if necessary. They thought that my first movie about Castro, 'Comandante,' was hideous, and they killed it almost before it was even born. They were m
erely
afraid of it."
Now as I was saying above, there has GOT to be more to the latest Stone arrest than some drunk driving and pharmaceuticals. It must have himself been the victim of a colossal frameup!
So here is our take on what REALLY happened.
We suspect that some rogue CIA and FBI agents were outraged by Stone?s exposure of CIA plotting in his films and especially of the conspiracy behind the JFK assassination. SO they got together with some wealthy Christian fundamentalists and Jewish neoconservatives in control of the Pentagon and they set to work. First thing they do is get the oil companies protecting Osama bin Laden to pony up some cash and then they take this to the Beverly Hills police headquarters while Commissioner Axel Foley hooks them up with some local UCLA chemistry professors. These professors design a special chemical spray to make the innocent Stone appear to be drunk while he is driving and this is inserted through special vents in the undercarriage of Stone?s Mercedes using a device first designed by the Watergate burglars to make McGovern appear dazed. Then the Beverly Hills cops plant drugs in the Stone vehicle, which actually were originally part of a shipment the CIA was planning to sell
in East
LA to gangbangers in order to raise money for the contras and with which to bribe neoconservative magazine columnists. The device was actually inserted into the car when Stone?s attention was being distracted by an agent dressed as a Los Angeles street walker speaking French and some West Hollywood dudes with tee-shirts that read ?Yum, Alexander was Great!?
2, The Jews for a Second Holocaust are Back:
http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-3084217,00.html
3. Nice Piece:
http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/123582/index.php
4. Academic Pogromchiks:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18251