Steven Plaut

Posted 12/28/2005 02:40:00 PM

1. More attacks on Free Speech in Sharonite Israel

Israel's Leftist First Amendment is alive and well under the Sharon
government. Please read the following item, in today's Haaretz. Note
that the Rabbi being disciplined would have been honored and promoted had
he instead made a non-political non-controversial speech endorsing
Israel's return to its 1949 borders and expulsion of all Jewish settlers
at bayonet point!

Note that the assault on poor Rabbi Drukman for expressing an opinion was
made to coddle the moonbat ultra leftists from teh Reform synagogue's
"Religious Action Center", an institution devoted to promoting the
pseudo-religion of "Political Liberalism as Judaism"!!

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Municipal chief rabbi to face hearing over political comments
By Yuval Yoaz, Haaretz Correspondent

Justice Minister Tzipi Livni on Tuesday decided, for the first time, to
bring a sitting municipal chief rabbi before a disciplinary hearing due to
political comments he made publicly.

Livni has filed a complaint against the rabbi of Kiryat Motzkin, David
Drukman, due to five anti-disengagement comments he made in the media.
According to the civil service law, municipal chief rabbis - like all
civil servants - are not allowed to make political comments in public or
criticize government policies in public interviews or at press
conferences.

"Drukman took advantage of his position as a rabbi and a civil servant and
is not fit to continue to serve in his public position," the Reform
movement's Israel Religious Action Center said on the decision to bring
Drukman before a disciplinary hearing. The Religious Action Center has
filed a High Court of Justice petition on the matter, following which the
attorney general and state prosecution recommended that Livni file a
complaint with the disciplinary court for municipal chief rabbis.

Drukman is accused of behavior not suitable to the position of a rabbi in
Israel and violations of the religious services law and the civil service
law.

Drukman signed a proclamation last December saying Sharon and his
ministers were planning to throw "good and pure Jews" off their land. On a
Chabad movement Web site, Drukman wrote that the move would "increase
[Palestinians'] appetite for murdering us, our women and our children."

2. A Real Peace Plan:
http://israelnn.com/news.php3?id=95525

3. Hanukka with Hugo:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20693

4. More from the ISM Terrorists:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20697

5. Sami the Terrorhoid Prof
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/006/523icywv.asp

6. Democrat Racism:
December 28, 2005

Prejudice

By TED HAYES
December 28, 2005; Page A14

American blacks who are affiliated with the Republican Party are
vigorously vilified by Democrats, especially black Democrats. Uncle Tom,
sell-out, Oreo -- the list of slurs is long.

But it is not only insults. I am the founder and director of a unique,
progressive homeless facility in downtown Los Angeles, known as the Dome
Village. Yet the 35 men, women and children and their pets who call the
Dome Village home are being "evicted" from privately owned property after
12-and-a-half years -- apparently on account of my political beliefs and
activities. You see, though I am a leading homeless activist, I am also a
conservative Republican and a strong supporter of President Bush.

Here's how the situation played out. Recently, I was invited to address a
local Republican Women's Club; my landlord read an article in the local
paper reporting on the event. Soon after, I received a notice raising the
Dome Village rent from $2,500 a month to $18,330. Shocked, I inquired as
to the seriousness of the change and the property owner blurted out that
the cause of our "eviction" was "because you are Republican." He said that
as a Democrat, he was tired of helping me and the Dome Village. In other
words, let the homeless be damned.

And people think the Democrats are the party of compassion and tolerance.

Private property should be protected, of course, and I have no intention
of causing any trouble for this property owner as we part ways. Whatever
he does with his valuable land -- it is only a few blocks from the Staples
Center -- is no concern of mine, and I will not go to court.

Still, I cannot help but be saddened by the whole business. When I founded
the Dome Village 12 years ago, we had an understanding that he could ask
for his property back at any time for any reason, and I would say
"absolutely" without hesitation. Still, his reason was prejudice against
Republicans.

We see this across the country. Michael Steele, the lieutenant governor of
Maryland and a Republican candidate for the Senate, has been crudely
denigrated on racial grounds. A prominent leftist Web site, for instance,
depicted him as "Sambo," among other aspersions. When Condoleezza Rice was
nominated as Secretary of State, she faced similar treatment: editorial
cartoons depicting her as a racial caricature, personalities calling her
"Aunt Jemima" on liberal talk radio, and so forth. Clarence Thomas, Ward
Connerly, Colin Powell, Thomas Sowell and other black conservatives
regularly face similar smears.

These conservatives are attacked not because of the validity or judicious
consideration of their views but because those views are supposedly
heterodox for American blacks. Yet it is my opinion that many black people
in the U.S. are politically and philosophically conservative -- and many
are in fact actually closeted Republicans, fearful of persecution by
friends, business associates, society clubs, school mates and even
churches.

It is time for American blacks to have a conversation about the phenomenon
of Democrats persecuting black Republicans. Why is this happening? What is
it that the Democrats don't want black folks to understand about
Republicans? What is it that the Democrats don't want black folks to know
about Democrats? And how is it that we have come to this point -- after
having endured so much -- where we have ourselves curtailed the freedom of
political expression through the threat of retaliatory consequences?

Mr. Hayes is a homeless activist in Los Angeles.

URL for this article:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113574014265932748.html

Posted 12/27/2005 11:47:00 AM

1. http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20678
Israel.s Malaise
By P. David Hornik
FrontPageMagazine.com | December 27, 2005

Israel's burden is great. Other peoples have suffered genocides in recent
history, but only the Jews face both an industry devoted to denying their
genocide and a very real threat of a second one. Although the Holocaust
denial affects Jews everywhere, the current Iranian threat is directed at
the Jews of Israel.

Under this and other stresses, particularly an almost six-decades-long
jihadist siege, there are signs that Israel no longer holds up under the
burden. Since 1993 it has basically been begging for a reprieve, at one
point offering (that is, at least its government) even its most sacred
shrine, the Temple Mount, for a signed statement that the siege would
stop. More recently, troubling events suggest that Israel may have reached
a nadir in its weariness and self-delusion.

* Israeli officialdom, at least, now seems to relate to the Holocaust in a
way that is mechanical and pro forma. Last March, Israel opened a new
Holocaust History Museum, and to mark the event it invited prime
ministers, presidents, and other leaders from forty countries. They were
assembled on a mountaintop outside Jerusalem for the museum.s
inauguration, then treated to a couple of days of dinners and
speechifying. Especially, in a world that deals so roughly with the Jewish
state, it seemed mindless and undignified to expect, or require, that
these various notables would set aside their busy lives and relate
authentically to another people.s catastrophe sixty years ago.

Two months earlier, under Israel.s prodding, the United Nations held its
first-ever annual Holocaust commemoration. Given that organization.s
ongoing abuse of Israel, this seems an even worse case of dragging a
people.s intimate pain through the mud. But Israel.s foreign minister
Silvan Shalom has kept lauding it as a breakthrough.

* This month Israel.s Magen David Adom ambulance service, after over half
a century.s exclusion from the International Red Cross, accepted a
compromise whereby it joins the organization and in return substitutes a
new invention called the .Red Crystal. for the Red Star of David that had
offended some members. This capitulation seems directly to negate the very
purpose of the Jewish state, signaling that Jewish symbols and presence
are to be suppressed and concealed in deference to the feelings of those
they might rile. The Israeli government approved the move, with Foreign
Minister Shalom saying this time that it .reflects Israel.s improved
international standing . This is yet another achievement for Israel.s
diplomacy..

* Amid growing protest over Steven Spielberg.s new film Munich, which
draws moral equivalencies between anti-Israeli terrorists and Israeli
antiterrorist fighters, it turns out Spielberg has hired the Israeli spin
doctor Eyal Arad to help promote the film. This might not be significant
if Arad was a private individual; he is, however, the public relations
consultant of Israel.s prime minister, Ariel Sharon. A book published this
year by two Israeli journalists alleged that it was Arad who dreamed up
the disengagement plan as a way of rescuing Sharon from his legal
jeopardy. Sharon at least does not seem troubled by the symbolism of
Israel.s leading spin doctor being enlisted to whitewash Munich.

* Earlier this month Azmi Bishara, a Member of Knesset from the Arab party
Balad, traveled without permission to an enemy state, Lebanon. At a book
fair he subjected the country he serves to a two-hour diatribe, saying
among other things: .Israel is the 20th century.s greatest robbery,
perpetrated in broad daylight.. .I will never recognize Zionism, even if
all Arabs do. I will never concede Palestine. The battle will long
continue.. (Addressing Israelis:) .We Arabs aren't interested in your
democracy. Give us Palestine and take your democracy with you.. .This
conflict is possibly endless..We must keep its embers burning.. Some Arabs
may want to surrender, but they cannot force us to surrender with them. We
shall go on fighting.. So far there is no talk of pressing charges against
Bishara or removing him from the Knesset. In 2003, when the Central
Election Committee disqualified his party Balad on grounds of supporting
the anti-Israeli terror war, Israel.s Supreme Court overturned the ruling.

* Palestinian terrorist leader Marwan Barghouti, serving a life term in
Israel for directing attacks that killed and injured civilians, is now
running for president of the Palestinian Authority on an independent
ticket. Presumably, he is allowed to hold meetings in his cell and be in
contact with operatives. One Israeli politician, Oslo architect Yossi
Beilin, has even called for his release on grounds that he is a force for
peace. I know of no other case of a jailed terrorist being allowed to
function actively as a presidential candidate.

Other examples could easily be added. One is the popularity of Sharon.s
new Kadima Party even though it is clearly a one-man, autocratic show
without ideological coherence, and a haven for opportunists. Another is
the apparent distortion of Sharon.s medical condition following his
stroke, so that the country, Third World-like, accepts being saddled with
a leader in fragile health as it faces the crisis of Iran.s
nuclearization. Then there is the ongoing ability of a few thousand Gaza
terrorists to shell and terrorize communities within and near Gaza for
five years running while Israel steadily refuses to use its vaunted army
of hundreds of thousands to defeat them.

Although, on the brighter side, the Israeli army still shows itself an
effective, innovative force to the extent the government allows it to act,
the situation is worrisome. Friends of Israel should tell Israelis,
tactfully and with awareness of the country.s great stresses, that
capitulation, acquiescence in abuse, and self-negation are never
successful strategies and bring the opposite of the hoped-for results.
Also needing to be raised is the question of whether a polity that shows
such tendencies is keen on surviving in the first place, and whether it
does not at least owe it to its children to try harder.

2. Peace Partners for AL-Qaeda:
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48078

3. Leftist NewThink:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20680

4. Feminists and Monkeys:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20675

5. Good news:
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_3344071

6. Osama's groupies:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48067

7. In the U.S. and his British homeland, the comic Sacha Baron Cohen and
his various alter egos, including the faux rapster Ali G., enjoy cult
status. Mr. Cohen also inhabits the body of goofy Kazakh TV reporter Borat
Sagdiyev, who explains that Kazakhs make wine out of fermented horse
urine, mistreat goats and need a cage in the bedroom "for wife, so she not
escape." The Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan is not amused. Hinting
at some dark conspiracy against its country, the government even
considered legal actions against the comedian. Mr. Cohen's response? The
Borat Web site, with a Kazakh domain name, blaring: "Sue this Jew."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113530791264330254.html?mod=taste_primary_hs

8. From: "Israel Academia Monitor" <e-mail@israel-academia-monitor.com>
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/10/04/210934.php
Tel Aviv University-
Chen Alon appears in the movie 'On The Objection Front'

"...In this riveting 63 minute documentary, introduced by a member of Jews
For A Just Peace Winnipeg, six refuseniks from(Courage to Refuse, one of a
handful of refusenik suppprt groups, is featured. The footage shows them
telling their stories but also going about daily life. Some of the stories
about "missions" easily contained elements of human rights abuse, yet we
only hear about allegations from the Palestinians, which often fall on
skeptical ears of folks, many of whom paint them as all being terrorists.
Here, you actually see military members, some senior officers, recounting
the stories themselves and expressing incredible grief for it. They also
show you footage of a class of young officers being told by a LCol about
how IDF military officers are supposed to be humane to both the enemy and
their own troops. They are supposed to act with a conscience and question
options in situations, but must follow orders. The six soldiers, Maj Tomer
(28), an F-16 pilot; Dr. Itai Berger (42);David Zonshein (33), a
lieutenant in a Special Paratrooper Unit of the Reserve Army; Chen Alon
(35), a major in the Reserve Army Armored Corps; Yair Meyuchas (25),
Staff-Sergeant in the Special Commando Unit, Reserve Army and Guy Grosman
(32), a lieutenant in a Special Paratrooper Unit of the Reserve Army..."
Chen Alon:
2005-Present: Teaching at Tel Aviv University, Department of Theatre Arts
& Ph.D. Candidate.

Posted 12/26/2005 10:33:00 AM

Now ordinarily petty vandalism and theft are not the sorts of things that
I think should be celebrated by the Jewish people during Chanuka. But
this year might be a bit special. You see, just in time for Chanuka (and
also for Christmas for Christian Israelis with refined artistic tastes),
some people stole chunks of rusted metal from an eyesore "sculpture" of
anti-Semitic "sculptor" Yigal Tomarkin. You can see a photo of the
eyesore before the vandals improved its appearance here:
http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=662233&contrassID=0&subContrassID=0&sbSubContrassID=0

This piece of putrid rust was standing near a kibbutz in the Negev for
some time. Tomarkin is having a cow and denouncing the Israeli police for
not devoting its every waking moment to looking for the people who
improved the appearance of his piece of junk. Now this is unusually
delicious because of Tomarkin.s OWN bio as a thief of sculpture.

Let me explain!

Yigal Tomarkin is Israel's answer to the famous junkyard in Sanford and
Son. An "artist" specializing in making rusting eyesores that have
enraged more than one group of residents who have to look at them.
Tomarkin is probably even better known for his racist and anti-Semitic bon
mots, a partial list of which appears in the Jerusalem Post piece below.
Not listed there is Tomarkin.s stunt in 1980 when he wrapped a pig up in
Tefillin (http://www.freeman.org/m_online/oct04/matar.htm ).

Now if you still had any doubts that Yossi Beilin and Shulamit Aloni were
really calling all the shots for the Ariel Sharon government, then you
should know that the Sharon Likud government, elected to end groveling
leftist anti-Jewish Israeli Oslo self-hatred, decided last year to give
the same Tomarkin a national prize for his "art". Can Dror Feiler, the
pro-terror "artist" in Sweden who made a statue celebrating a Palestinian
woman mass murderer, be far behind?

As background, here are some old Plaut pieces on Tomarkin:

Yigal Tomarkin is Israel's official Sculptor of Junk. He is a geezer and
vintage member of Israel's bohemian artsy-phartsy set, who specializes in
spouting Far-Leftist anti-Orthodox poppycock and in building rusting
eyesores all over the country. His art looks like something taken from
the back lot at Sanford and Son. We have had many an occasion to comment
on the aging Junkster in the past.

First, Tomarkin is famous for saying that when he watches Orthodox Jews
walking about he can really understand why the Nazis wanted to murder all
the Jews. His art has triggered mass protests by Israelis demanding that
it be removed from their streets lest it lower their property values. But
perhaps the most theatrical Tomarkin affair was one in which Tomarkin was
involved in the theft of a statue from a town square in Europe, which
turned up in Tomarkin's own studio after he had .altered. it. Haifa's
weekly Kolbo July 4, 03 carries an interview with the Michaelangelo of
junk, and reveals some other juicy tidbits from his bio.

Two years ago Tomarkin got involved with the cops because he had been
smacking around his misses, choked her, and threatened to kill her. At one
point he took a pistol and pointed it at his own head and threatened to
make her watch his transformation into a Tomarkin sculptured original.
Tomarkin claims the Israeli Secret Service put his wife up to bringing the
charges as part of some sort of Chamishite conspiracy against him.

The Attorney General indicted him for all this, but last week cancelled up
on grounds that the couple claimed they had resolved things. Tomarkin was
70 at the time and the Misses Junkyard was 42. Tomarkin however is angry
that the police gave him back his guns after making them impossible to
fire. Personally, I think they would make a far more aesthetic sculpture
than anything else he has rusted up.

(and also)

Tomarkin makes "sculptures" that are rusting hulks and eyesores, sure to
lower the property values of anything within sight of them. The largest
collection of his junk
sits atop a mountain at Kochav Yarden, near Beit Shean, I guess because
placing it anywhere else might arouse the masses in revolt. (I think it is
divine justice that any ghosts of Crusaders haunting the old fortress
there next to his art have to look at it.) Naturally, Tomarkin is defended
by the same sorts of professional artistic pontiffs who defend the
Christianity-in-Excrement art in the US against critics like Giuliani, the
same people who dismiss you as a Philistine if you cannot see anything
creative and aesthetic in a blank white canvass with a piece of snot in
its corner. In any case, Tomarkin routinely argues that his works are
sacrosanct and no one should be able to remove or "improve" or tamper with
them, no matter how ugly or where they sit.

Tomarkin is in some ways a symbol of all that is wrong with an Israel
where radical secularism and post-Zionism have created an atmosphere in
which Dana International, Yair Lapid and "Take Me Sharon" are High
Culture.

Tomarkin in some ways is the symbol of Tel Aviv bohemianism, and I would
like to remind you all that the term "Tel Aviv" appears in the Book of
Ezekiel referring to a distant backwaters in Iraq whither the Judeans were
exiled, far away from culture and Zion.

And now Tomarkin has joined the forces of Junkyard Psycho-Crime. Let me
explain. There operate around the globe, or at least in wealthy countries,
activist groups whose purpose in life is to rid the world of psychiatry.
Specifically they battle against the institutionalization of the mentally
ill and the psychotic. Inspired by such deep forms of Hollywood policy
analysis as "One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest", these groups
want all institutionalization in psychiatric wards ended because it is
oppression.

In large part, it is thanks to such anti-psychiatry fringe groups that the
United States is now host to hundreds of thousands of psychotics who live
on the streets, eat from garbage cans, talk to themselves, and die from
tuberculosis and similar diseases of the Third World. There are many good
discussions of this contribution of anti-psychiatry to mass homelessness,
none better than Rael Jean Isaac's book: "Madness In the Street" by Rael
Jean Isaac and Virginia C. Armat.

Anyway, Tomarkin - the same King of Junkyard Art -has now gotten involved
in crime with some of these anti-psychiatry lunatics. One such
anti-psychiatry group operates in Israel, and it has links with a much
larger such group in Germany, no doubt loosely tied to some radical Greens
there.

In Germany, the anti-psychiatry group has targeted a German psychiatrist
who lived before World War II, named Karl Buhnhofer (spelling?). He was
regarded as a leading thinker in German psychiatry and there were two
busts in his honor in front of two leading German psychiatric hospitals,
one hospital named after him. He is somewhat controversial, mainly because
he thought psychotics should not have children and is believed to have
certified as psychotic some people after Hitler came to power. It is not
completely clear what his politics were and some say he was an anti-Nazi.
In any case, his son - a Christian pastor - was strongly anti-Nazi and
later
was killed for this in a concentration camp. The German anti-psychiatry
movement hates him, less because of suspicions about his ideology and more
because they hate psychiatry.

Two years ago the two busts of Buhnhofer suddenly disappeared from Berlin
and all signs pointed to the loony anti-psychiatry fringe. The same day
they disappeared a sign appeared on one hospital demanding it be renamed
for Princess Diana instead of Buhnhofer.

And then the two stolen sculptures suddenly showed up in the "studio" of
Yigal Tomarkin. (Haaretz June 8, 2000) No doubt passed on to him by the
Israeli affiliate group of the Psychoteutons. Tomarkin then took the two
busts, sliced and defaced them, adding things like male sexual organs to
the heads, and then displayed his handicraft at the Tel Aviv Cinematek.

Eventually it was realized the "art" was in fact stolen and defaced
sculpture from Berlin, and they were shipped back to Germany to some sort
of theater.

Tomarkin has not been charged with any crimes in Israel, a fact that is in
and of itself a severe crime you might want to discuss with the Minister
of Police.

Here is what the Jerusalem Post has to Say about it:
A prize Too Far

Jan. 28, 2004

The prestigious Israel Prize was awarded for the first time in 1953. It
took it some 40 years to spawn controversy. That began when Education
Minister Shulamit Aloni insisted on honoring someone outside the accepted
consensus ? Prof. Yeshayahu Leibowitz, who had referred to IDF soldiers as
"Judeo-Nazis."
Ever since the floodgates opened, the prize has been increasingly
associated with controversy. The latest was visited upon us yesterday with
the announcement that sculptor Yigal Tumarkin will be this year's arts
category winner.
Education Minister Limor Livnat, hardly Aloni's political twin, phoned to
congratulate him. She was equally chipper last year about awarding the
prize to painter Moshe Gershuni, until he refused to attend the ceremony
and was denied the NIS 50,000 prize by order of the High Court of Justice.
It must be admitted that the choices of the Israel Prize committees are
getting stranger and stranger. Consensus is by no means synonymous with
quality. Consensus doesn't necessarily negate greatness, but can mean
mediocrity. History often vindicates creators who were rejected by their
peers in their day. It relegates to oblivion others who enjoyed ephemeral
celebrity in a given period.
But bestowers of national honors aren't prescient art historians. State
accolades mean collective appreciation of the prize laureate's life's
work.
If collective plaudits for a given individual are impossible, then perhaps
that individual will have to continue without a state prize.
Alternatively, if the state award-givers cannot steer clear of discord,
perhaps it's time to reconsider the Israel Prize altogether. It's not
sacred. The prize isn't a must.
Yigal Tumarkin is no stranger to controversy. He first scandalized
post-Holocaust Israeli opinion in the early Fifties when he broke the
taboo
of those years and moved back to his native Germany, from which he fled in
1933. But Tumarkin and scandals became inseparable ever since.
He once said he wished he had gunned down Raphael Eitan and Rehavam
Ze'evi.
He branded then Tel Aviv mayor Shlomo Lahat "Papa Doc" for proposing to
relocate Tumarkin's upside-down glass pyramid Holocaust memorial from
outside city hall.
Tumarkin has fashioned a pig wearing phylacteries, and on November 4, 1988
told Tel Aviv Magazine that when seeing haredi Jews he can understand the
Nazis.
By way of retracting that, he published an op-ed in Hadashot 10 days
later,
writing that, "The outward strangeness of the Jew and the pretentiousness
of the notion that God chose us... caused violent surrounding cultures to
clash... with this arrogant minority... The image of the cunning,
ambitious
scoundrel, lending money at exorbitant interest, turned the bent,
hook-nosed bearded Jew into the enemy of civilization... which didn't help
belatedly enlightened Jews."
That eventually cost Tumarkin Yad Vashem's Zussman Prize, which curiously
enough was awarded the artist known for insisting that "the Jewish
Holocaust wasn't the only holocaust." The Yad Vashem steering committee
later rescinded its decision, but not before Tumarkin was turned into
another trendy victim of the repression of free expression.
Shas MK Eli Yishai reminded the public yesterday of Tumarkin's slurs
against Sephardi Jews, which moved the sculptor to immediately reiterate
that "Moroccan Jews are indeed crybabies" and "ought to stop burdening us
with so many poor children." In 1997 the Israel Prize for journalism was
to
go to Shmuel Shnitzer. The High Court denied it to him because of one
op-ed
alluding to the high numbers of HIV-positive Ethiopian immigrants. That
was
a minor glitch in comparison to Tumarkin's notorious volubility.
In January 1998, 26-year-old Tatiana Soskin was imprisoned for two years
for drawing a caricature depicting the Prophet Muhammad as a pig.
Tumarkin's pig with phylacteries is no less offensive. We agree that
extreme insults against an entire public must be taken seriously, and
sometimes even punished. But if so, than how is it defensible not only to
tolerate such hateful words against fellow citizens, but to celebrate and
reward those who say them?
The Israel Prize awards committee could hardly have been oblivious to
Tumarkin's troubling record. He isn't just naughty and cute. The committee
members didn't arrive here yesterday from a faraway galaxy. They know whom
they nominate. They knew the nomination would generate outrage, and
justifiably so. In other words, they were being willfully provocative.
This is foolish and superfluous, especially in our polarized society. The
Israel Prize is quickly becoming a bane on the arts it is devised to
promote, and a divisive luxury we can ill-afford.

This article can also be read at
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1075185792306

Posted 12/26/2005 04:54:00 AM

Persecuting the Holy Land's Christians
By Jamie Glazov
FrontPageMagazine.com | December 23, 2005

Frontpage Interview?s guest today is Justus Reid Weiner, a
Scholar-in-Residence at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, an
independent policy studies center. He currently teaches courses on human
rights and international law at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. His
main research field is the human rights challenges facing Arab Christians.
He is the author of the new book, "Human Rights of Christians in
Palestinian Society".

FP: Justus Reid Weiner, welcome to Frontpage Interview.
Weiner: Thank you Jamie.
FP: First things first, what motivated you to write this book?
Weiner: My initial interest in human rights began at the age of 10 or 11
when my great-grandfather, then almost 90, came for an extended visit.
Jacob, who spoke with a heavy Yiddish accent and was missing the index
finger on his right hand, regaled me with stories about his childhood in
Odessa during the reign of the Czar. He described what it was like for Jews
living in fear of pogroms in which the police looked the other way as
drunken anti-Semites roamed the streets murdering any Jews they came
across. I was embarrassed to ask him what happened to his finger, but Jacob
told me anyway. Like in other Jewish families, Jacob's parents feared the
Czar's conscription gangs who, without asking for permission, would kidnap
boys of 12 and ship them off to serve in Siberia or the Far East. The term
of service was 20 years and few ever returned to their families. To prevent
this, Jacob's parents got him drunk and took him to the butcher who chopped
off his trigger finger, rendering him unsuitable for army service. As I was
then almost the age at which Jacob lost his index finger, I had nightmares
about what he told me.
My specific interest in the plight of Christians living in Palestinian
society is more recent. Eight years ago I met a Christian pastor who,
knowing that I was a human rights lawyer, urged me to investigate the human
rights abuses directed at Muslims who converted to Christianity. I knew
nothing about this, and frankly doubted that anyone would victimize the
adherents of the world's largest religion. But as I began to interview
people most were reluctant to even meet me. If they agreed to reveal what
they had suffered, they insisted that I refer to them by a pseudonym.
FP: Why do you think there has been an increase in Islamic fundamentalism
in Palestinian society?
Weiner: The increase is a regional phenomenon. Indeed it would be hard to
find any predominantly Muslim country in the Middle East, North Africa or
even into Asia, where Islamic fundamentalism is not on the rise.
FP: Tell us about the persecution of Palestinian Christians and why their
persecution became so much worse since the Oslo peace process began.
Weiner: These are acutely trying times for the Christian remnant residing
in areas ?governed? by the Palestinian Authority. Tens of thousands have
abandoned their holy sites and ancestral properties to live abroad, while
those that remain do so as a beleaguered and dwindling minority. They have
faced virtually uninterrupted persecution during the decade since the Oslo
peace process began, living amidst a Muslim population that is increasingly
xenophobic and restless. Chaos, nepotism, and corruption are endemic. Their
plight is, in part, attributable to the influence of Muslim religious law
(Sharia) on the inner workings of the Palestinian Authority. Moreover, the
Christians have been abandoned by their religious leaders who, instead of
protecting them, have chosen to curry favor with the Palestinian leadership.
My new book reveals and analyzes why this persecution, largely ignored by
the international community, the media, and even the human rights
organizations, has metastasized to the extent that it threatens the very
existence of this 2000-year-old community. If current demographic trends
continue Bethlehem runs the risk, in another 15 years, of becoming a
Christian theme park for tourists -- with no "real" living Christians.
FP: Christian Palestinian women have suffered terribly. Can you tell us
some of the details of their plight?
Weiner: Christian women suffer rampant sexual harassment, rape and even
forced marriage. For example, Islamic militants have attempted to force
Christian women wearing modern, revealing clothing to conform to the
strict, modest Muslim dress code. In addition, Muslim men have attempted to
rape Christian women, sometimes achieving their objective. These victims
may, ironically, end up marrying the man who raped them because in their
society they are regarded as unclean for marriage purposes.
Christian men risk being jailed when they intervene to rescue Christian
women being attacked or insulted. The Muslim perpetrators get off scot-free
because they have family members in the upper echelon of one (or more) of
the 12 "security" forces.
FP: Why does the international community ignore the plight of Palestinian
Christians?
Weiner: This is something I have never fully understood. This is a human
rights issue par excellance, not merely a Christian issue.
Perhaps a partial answer is simple ignorance -- as only of late have a few
courageous Christians begun to complain to the media and human rights
groups. Scholars are beginning to address this tragedy as well. But really,
there can be no justification, just excuses.
FP: Islamic militants want Christian women to dress more modestly yet at
the same time they engage in sexual crimes (i.e. rape) against them. Isn?t
there some kind of pathological contradiction here in terms of what sexual
morality is? So it is supposedly wrong for a woman to wear what she wants,
but it is somehow ok to rape her? What gives here? And what kind of God
does a person believe in when he is raping a woman and thinks that God is
happy with, and supportive of, what he is doing?
Weiner: Yes, Islamic militants frequently complain that Christian women
dress immodestly and they use that ?justification? to harass, or in some
cases, even to rape them. And this phenomenon is not by any means unique to
the West Bank and Gaza ? it has been addressed in articles from far-flung
countries with substantial Muslim immigration such as Australia and Norway.
While some Muslim men may truly be offended by women?s revealing modern
fashion, Islamic law no doubt provides others with a handy excuse for
criminal conduct. Of course Western courts would never accept the argument
that women who don?t wear the veil are announcing to the world that they
are sluts or even prostitutes. In Western jurisprudence such a
?justification? would simply not be tolerated.
By way of background, the Qur?an (Islam?s holy book) is rife with gender
and religious discrimination. Thus, for example, Muhammad taught that women
are inferior to men, their testimony in court carries less weight, and
their inheritance rights are halved. Marriage (or sexual relations) between
Christian men and Muslim women is prohibited, and punishable by death. But
a Muslim man is allowed to marry a Christian woman, even if he has abducted
and raped her. Moreover, their offspring would be forced to accept Islam,
and the woman would have no say if her husband engaged in polygamy by
marring up to three additional wives.
Historically Christian women taken captive by Muslims in warfare have been
enslaved or worse. And even when there is no conflict, legally speaking it
is virtually impossible to convict a Muslim man of raping a Christian
woman. This follows from the fact that testimony of non-Muslim witnesses
inadmissible in Muslim courts. Furthermore, it is most unlikely that the
Christian rape victim with be able to find four male Muslims willing to
testify on her behalf that they had witnessed the penetration. Indeed, even
leveling such a charge can backfire on the victim. That is, if a woman
levels a charge of rape against a Muslim man and cannot prove it, she runs
the risk of being severely punished for fornication or adultery, both
ruthlessly punished by Islamic law.
FP: If the Palestinians received their own state, what kind of state do you
think it would be? Would democratic rights be respected? How would
Christians exist in such a state?
Weiner: Your question is profound. It forces me to think and worry.
Certainly precedent is not encouraging. Former Chairman Yasser Arafat's
(and current leader Mahmoud Abbas?s) commitment to democratic values was/is
vague at best. The Palestinian Authority?s indoctrination of Palestinian
children, from a very young age, to hate and kill Christians and Jews, for
example, directly contributes to a culture that produces suicide bombers
and cheers on September 11.
Moreover, the testimonies provided in my new book make it pointedly clear
that lawlessness and anarchy have swept the West Bank and Gaza Strip in
recent years. Gangs of Muslim thugs and thieves have created what a former
Palestinian Cabinet Minister described as ?total chaos.? It is essential
that the Palestinian Authority arrest these militants who, in their range
of mafia-like conduct, frequently abuse and intimidate Christians.
But let?s think optimistically for a moment. Clearly, if the Palestinian
Authority's were to adopt sound human rights policies and practices it
would contribute immeasurably to the survival of the Christians, not to
mention the success of any future peace process. Christian Palestinians'
expectations regarding an improvement in their personal liberty deserves to
be met, and should not be limited to empty promises and rhetoric.
FP: What can we do to help Christians being persecuted by Palestinians?
Weiner: In essence, the U.S. statute known as the International Religious
Freedom Act was intended to enable the President and the State Department
to use incentives and pressures to improve the lives of groups like the
Palestinian Christians. But regrettably, because the U.S. wants to maintain
friendly relations with countries that are crucial to its national security
and policy interests, President George W. Bush may choose largely symbolic
steps to oppose religious persecution abroad.
President Bush however, has made the support and spread of religious and
political freedoms a cornerstone of his foreign policy during his second
term. Clear evidence of this comes from Secretary of State Condoleeza
Rice's trip to China earlier this year, during which she made a highly
publicized visit to a church. In remarks she made to the press following
her visit, Secretary Rice described how "religious communities are not a
threat to transitioning societies; in fact, they are very often... a force
for good, for stability and for compassion in societies that are undergoing
rapid change." If the Bush Administration were to target the Palestinian
Authority explicitly with its stated policy - which makes religious freedom
part of the Bush Doctrine of democratization ? it could only improve the
situation for Palestinian Christians.
The United Nations is less likely to perform a useful role. The UN?s feeble
response to the gross human rights violations perpetrated by the
Palestinian Authority further exemplifies the extent to which the desire
for peace between Israel and the Palestinians supercedes the basic rights
of individuals, especially the Christian minority, living under the
Palestinian Authority. That is, he UN has taken the posture of compromising
its role as protector of human rights in order to maintain a political role
in negotiating peace. Unfortunately, through the discretionary use of its
own human rights doctrine, the UN has sacrificed not just its legitimacy
and objectivity, but the human rights of minority groups such as the
Palestinian Christians.
I am not suggesting that human rights concerns should trump considerations
of peace making, national security or economic stability, but rather that
the necessity of the realization that peace, national security, and
economic stability often depend directly on the respect for human rights.
This situation must be recognized by those who would otherwise willfully
ignore the plight of Palestinian Christians in the name of peace. There
cannot be peace in the Middle East until the Palestinians respect the
rights of their internal minorities. This is no less important a
prerequisite to negotiations than the oft-repeated demands of a cessation
of terror.
The future of the Palestinian Christian community and any other religious
minority living under the PA will rest on the potential for religious
tolerance and the rejection of fundamentalist and archaic attitudes towards
non-Muslims. As long as the constitution of the PA reflects the principles
of Sharia law, it seems as though the emergence of religious tolerance will
remain highly unlikely. As long as the PA continues to shirk its
agreed-upon commitments to uphold the principles of religious freedom, the
Palestinian Christians will continue to suffer. Furthermore, as long as the
international community continues to ignore the human rights problems in
the Palestinian territories, there will be no chance for a proper liberal
democracy to emerge upon completion of the peace process. Instead, the
world will be left with yet another Middle Eastern autocracy that abuses
the most basic human rights values without regard for international norms.
FP: Justus Weiner, thank you for joining us today.
Weiner: Thanks for the opportunity.

Posted 12/25/2005 08:51:00 AM

1. The Need for REAL Diversity!:
http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20051220-094852-2669r.htm

2. Hannuka Amongst the Hellenists
Of all the Jewish holidays, the one that best captures the contemporary
Jewish Zeitgeist, the one that is the most relevant to the current and
possibly the last chapter in Jewish history, is Hannuka. Hannuka is of
course the story of Jewish national liberation. It is the story of the
military victory of the few against the many, of the champions of Judaism
against the pagan barbarians. But more than this, it is the saga of the
heroic struggle of Jewish survivalists (those you would today label
"Zionists") against the assimilationists and self-hating Hellenists of the
second century BCE. Hannuka is less about the battle against the Greeks
than it is about the battle against the predominant assimilationist
paradigm at the time amongst the Jews. It is about the battle against the
anti-survivalists, those who hated themselves for being Jews and so sought
to be progressive and modern and "in", by rejecting and disgracing and
degrading themselves in their struggling AGAINST Jewish survival. In other
words, it is about the battle against the Oslo of Hannuka Past.

At this stage in Jewish history a convergence has occurred between the
main Diaspora Jewish community (in the US) and the Jews of Israel. It is a
convergence towards self-destruction, self-abasement, and
self-elimination. While it takes different forms, in both cases it is
about Jews who are embarrassed because of their being associated and
identified as such by the barbarians. They are ashamed of themselves and
seek to gain acceptance in the Greek world by overtaking the anti-Semites
in attacking their own people. They grovel before the enemies of their
people. They demand that their people abandon their archaic and backward
religion and traditions and values.

History books will recall the second half of the twentieth century as that
era in which the Jews lost their will to survive, first in the Diaspora
and now in Israel. Whether or not Jewish history ends in the next decade
or so depends on the unlikely proposition that the small numbers of
Maccabees still fighting against Hellenism will triumph. They appear to be
losing this war. It is not 200 BCE. One should not take a miraculous
intervention for granted.

In the United States, the dominance of the Jewish Hellenists is in the
form of the assimilationist liberals. These are the Jewish leaders and
organizations who dominate the non-Orthodox segments of American Jewry and
promote the view that all of Judaism can be reduced to the pursuing of
this week.s liberal political fads. They practice the "Political
Liberalism as Judaism" form of Hellenistic paganism. They reduce all of
Jewishness to support for the "progressive" agenda of the left wing of the
Democrat Party. They even endorse all forms of politically correct
wackiness - from radical feminism to extremist environmentalism to
affirmative apartheid. They will only support Israel as long as it is
pursuing self-destruction, lest it embarrass them in front of their
progressive gentile friends by defending itself.

In Israel, the country.s politics - particularly its cultural/educational
elite and its chattering classes - are now almost entirely dominated by
those motivated by the desire to commit national suicide. These are people
who are ashamed of their country and of their own people. They scorn
themselves the same way that the Hellenized Jews did at the time of the
Maccabees. Like the Hellenized Jews, they are convinced that
traditionalist Jews are reactionary and primitive, and that the greatest
priority is renunciation of Jewish peculiarity and the striving to
assimilate amongst the cosmopolitan progressive Greeks of the world. They
insist that a Seleucid "narrative" should replace their own reactionary
provincial national one.

Israel.s universities are by and large the Occupied Territories of these
Jewish Hellenists. The Israeli media is to almost the same extent. Jewish
Hellenists dominate the Israeli military and intelligence services.
Hellenists are rewriting the school curriculum to teach Israeli Jewish
children to despise themselves. Their message is that Jews must feel
ashamed because they are evil and immoral people, while the truly superior
sensitive people are the barbarian anti-Semites. The aim of these
Hellenists is to convince the Jews that the only way they may become
accepted in the world is to conform to paganism, to turn the Temple Mount
over to the barbarians, to stop seeking to exist as an archaic separate
national entity, to commit national suicide.

Moreover, their campaign is aimed at challenging the moral existence of
the Jews. They realize this is the weakest chink in the armor of the Jews.
If Jews can be convinced that they are morally in the wrong, then no
Maccabees will arise. The aim of the Hellenists is the delegitimization of
the Jews as a nation, discrediting the moral position of Jewish
survivalism. They insist over and over that Jews are evil, immoral,
selfish people, who must cease to exist as Jews if they want peace.
The message of the contemporary Hellenists is unambiguous: Those who wish
to purify the Temple, who seek pure oil for the Temple lamp, who wish to
evict the barbarians from Jerusalem, are the enemies of peace. The
Maccabees must be arrested for incitement. The Jews must provide Antiochus
with concessions and arms and funds. Under no circumstances should the
Jews seek to defend themselves from the Seleucids, for there is no
military solution to the terror. If the barbarians murder the Jews it is
because the Jews are selfish people and because they have been too
reluctant to abandon their primitive survivalism.

The era of national separateness is over; all must join in the great
Hellenistic politically correct pagan enterprise. The Post-Hasmonean era
is upon us. Dip the latkes in lard.

Posted 12/23/2005 12:45:00 PM

1. The Wall Street Journal on the Asslibs:
December 23, 2005

Whose Jews?

By LAWRENCE F. KAPLAN
December 23, 2005; Page A14

The prophets have spoken, and it is time to retreat from Babylon. Or so
says the Union for Reform Judaism, speaking for the largest branch of
American Judaism. The Union's "prophetic mission and God's call to us to
be a 'light to the nations'" has, in its own telling, compelled it to
demand "a clear exit strategy with specific goals for troop withdrawal"
from Iraq.

The task of halting the Union's foray into politics has fallen mostly to
the Republican Jewish Coalition, which, unlike the Union, bills itself for
what it is: a partisan organization. As a result of all this, President
Bush, already bogged down in Iraq's sectarian divisions, finds himself
ensnared in a religious feud right here at home. In a major address on
Iraq last week, the president was reduced to playing the Israel card,
pleading with its supporters to acknowledge that "Israel's long-term
survival depends upon the spread of democracy in the Middle East."

In one sense at least, the Union's outburst amounts to something more than
the everyday pollution of public discourse. Recall that on the eve of the
invasion of Iraq, the claim that the Jewish state and its American
co-religionists were manufacturing war had become canonical in certain
quarters. From the right, Robert Novak described the conflict as "Sharon's
war," while from the opposite end of the spectrum, The Nation reported
that the war's promoters subscribed to "articles of faith that effectively
hold there is no difference between U.S. and Israeli national security
interests."

Never mind that Israeli officials were lukewarm about the war from the
outset, being far more concerned with the threat from Iran. Never mind,
too, that American Jews were more likely to be among the war's most vocal
opponents than among its boosters. (A Yeshiva University poll earlier this
year found that two-thirds of American Jews disapprove of the U.S.
enterprise in Iraq). The Union's stand demolishes the canard that American
Jews cannot distinguish between Israel's interests and their own.

Judging by the Union's vocal opposition to the war, the problem, if
anything, appears to be the reverse: What is "good for the Jews" seems to
concern the organization less than what is good for American liberalism. A
premature withdrawal from Iraq would be devastating to the cause of the
Jewish state. That observation does not reflect the motives for having
gone to war, but simply the outcome of abandoning a fellow democracy
without condition and regardless of consequence -- and the obvious
consequence would be Iraq's transformation into a den of terror. None of
this seems to have made an impression on the reform Jewish organization.

The Union, which "came to these views based on Jewish teachings on war"
and likens itself to "the rabbis of the Talmud," has no claim to
heightened moral awareness. Not only because it twists the words of those
very rabbis (as with any religious text, the Talmud offers ammunition to
multiple points of view, invoked to defend everything from Israel's
invasion of Lebanon to the "axis of evil" formulation). And not only
because the Union's intrusion into the public square comes from an
organization that claims to be in the midst of an "ongoing defense of the
wall of separation between church and state." No, the real problem is that
the Union grounds its arguments squarely in the traditions of secular
humanism, and then purposefully conflates them with the traditions of
religious Judaism.

True, the worldly admonition tikkun olam -- repair the world -- is one of
Judaism's signatures. But the Union isn't about repairing the world. Is it
really necessary, after all, to point out that its insistence on a U.S.
withdrawal does nothing to further the Union's call to "support the
democratically elected Iraqi government"? Or that the "international
community" that it invokes at every turn would sooner the Union's members
no longer existed? Or that the biblical injunction to "not stand idly by
the blood of your neighbor," one among many kernels of Jewish law the
Union ostentatiously cites in defense of its Iraq position, means not
abandoning Iraq to its fate?

Apparently so, because for all its confusions, the Union really does
amount to an authentic expression of the political inclinations that
define American Judaism today. As evinced by the Union's position on Iraq,
those inclinations defy easy logic. The American Jewish community's
attachment to the political left goes beyond obstinacy -- to the point of
running counter to the very requirements of that same community. Hence,
when asked to choose between the security of Jews, on the one hand, and
clich.s about social equality and inadequate domestic expenditures, on the
other, Reform Jewish leaders have put what they presume to be the secular
equivalent to Judaism above the interests of Judaism itself. The Union for
Reform Judaism stands for many causes. It's no longer so clear that Jews
count among them.

Mr. Kaplan is a senior editor at the New Republic.

URL for this article:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113531035350530321.html

2. Haaretz bimbo Amira Hass is still campaigning for Israel's
elimination.
Here she is on the openly anti-Semitic Counterpunch web magazine:
http://counterpunch.com/hass12222005.html
Right smack alongside a "book" claiming to document Zionist collaboration
with the nazis, written by an anti-Semitic self-hating Jewish crank.

3. Osama Chic in Hollywood:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20643

4, A New Peace Partner?:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1134309618537&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

5, Vivisect an Animal Rights Nut!
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20670

6. Academic bias:
http://www.sofi.su.se/wp/WP05-8.pdf

7. More Canadian moose droppings:
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48046

8. Even more Canadian lunacy:
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2005/lawrence122205.htm

9. Live and Let Spy:
http://www.redstatesusa.com/archives/2005/12/live_and_let_sp.html

Posted 12/22/2005 11:09:00 AM

1. More from the Institutions of Academic Jihad:
From: "Israel Academia Monitor" <e-mail@israel-academia-monitor.com>

http://www.counterpunch.org/gordon12102005.html
Murder in Jerusalem By NEVE GORDON and YIGAL BRONNER

"A short article posted on the Web site of Israel's most popular
newspaper, Yedioth Ahronot, described the killing of a Jerusalem resident.
According to the article, the man, a young father of two, was shot down by
police after he tried to run over one of the officers...
both Samir's killing and the readers' responses reflect some of the most
disturbing and dangerous aspects of contemporary Israeli culture. Most
prominent among these is the deep-seated racism that encourages violence.
This racism is inextricably linked to Israel's repetition compulsion,
which transforms the victim into the aggressor. A Palestinian is killed
and immediately he is described as violent; the police beat a Palestinian
and he, not they, is portrayed as brutal; Israel occupies and represses
the Palestinian people, but they are to blame. Thus, it is no surprise
that after Samir Dari was shot in the back from just a few yards away the
police instantly claimed that he was trying to run them over. It is almost
as if lying has become an involuntary reflex for the authorities.
But in order for the culture of deceit to be effective it needs the
assistance of the culture of dissimulation and suppression. If the past is
any indication of the future, then the policeman who shot Samir Dari can
rest easy. The internal affairs department did not indict a single
policeman following the killings of 13 Arab citizens in October 2000, nor
did it indict any of the policemen who gave false evidence regarding their
illegal behavior during protests against the separation barrier.
The cultures of deceit and suppression fan the flames of violence. The
clear message -- that Jews are eternal victims, and therefore they cannot
be found guilty regardless of the brutal means they employ -- renders
Palestinian life cheap and encourages a trigger-happy attitude. We have
accordingly reached a stage where we can predict that the Israeli security
forces will continue killing Palestinians..."

To read the full article please visit our homepage at:
www.israel-academia-monitor.com

2. Special Dispatch . Iran/Antisemitism Documentation Project
December 22, 22005
No. 1053

Iranian TV Blood Libel: Jewish Rabbis Killed Hundreds of European Children
to use Their Blood for Passover Holiday & Discussion on Holocaust Denial

To view this Special Dispatch in HTML, visit
http://www.memri.org/bin/opener_latest.cgi?ID=SD105305
.

The following are excerpts from a TV discussion with Iranian political
analysts Dr. Hasan Hanizadeh(1) and Dr. Ali-Reza Akbari, which aired on
Jaam-e Jam 2 TV on December 20, 2005. The discussion began with the
subject of the denial of the existence of crematoria at Auschwitz, and
went on to explain in detail how Jewish rabbis in Europe used to kill
children and take their blood for use during the Passover holiday.

TO VIEW CLIP, VISIT: http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=972 .

Will these Iranians now be hired by Tel Aviv Unirsity or by Ben Gurion
University?

3. Lying about al-Dura:
http://hnn.us/articles/19345.html

4. See this web site for more news about the nazi ties of Barry Chamish,
and about his lunatic conspiracy "theories" and lies:
http://www.saisathyasai.com/baba/Ex-Baba.com/A-Pittard/anti-semitism.html#barry_chamish
Note that Chamish appears on the web site of the neonazi Holocaust
Denial Adelaide Institute 42 times (!!!). That is probably more times
than Ernst Zundel appears there!:
http://www.google.com/custom?q=barry+chamish&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&client=pub-5676236325709660&cof=FORID:1%3BGL:1%3BBGC:FFFFCC%3BT:%23000000%3BLC:%230000ff%3BVLC:%23000099%3BALC:%230000ff%3BGALT:%23008000%3BGFNT:%230000ff%3BGIMP:%230000ff%3BDIV:%23FF0000%3BLBGC:000099%3BAH:center%3B&domains=www.adelaideinstitute.org&sitesearch=www.adelaideinstitute.org&filter=0
This is the web site that wishes its readers "Merry Christmas from Adolf
Hitler".

5. Interesting set of articles at:
http://www.afsi.org/OUTPOST/2005/Outpost_Dec_2005.pdf

6. Nobel Advice:
http://israelnn.com/news.php3?id=95273

7. Spielberg as collaborator with fascist murderers:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1134309625677&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Colse encounters of the treasonous kind:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20654

8. Nice piece on the danger from Peretz:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1134309625058&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Posted 12/21/2005 11:29:00 AM

1. Rabbis for Treason?
Left-Wing Activists Forming Militia For "Dangerous Action" in Samaria
16:16 Dec 20, '05 / 19 Kislev 5766

(IsraelNN.com) The extreme-left Rabbis for Human Rights group has put out
a call for people interested in "dangerous action."

The call to action purports to be a response to Jewish residents of
Samaria cutting down Arab trees. "We and the people of [the Arab village
of] Burin will try to form a civil-watch during the next couple of nights
in case the army will not do it," the group's director Arik Ascherman
wrote.

"The action is dangerous were [sic] talking about an area of illegal
outposts," Ascherman wrote, inviting participants to call him at 050 560
7034.

Ascherman was recently involved in a sting operation, bringing Arab
villagers to land belonging to Avri Ran, resulting in an altercation
followed by the arrest of Ran and subsequent imprisonment until the end of
proceedings against him.
For previous posting on "Rabbi" Ascherman see:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/article.php3?id=4990

2. Canadian Moose Droppings:
http://www.cjnews.com/viewarticle.asp?id=8080

3. SO Sharon is going to get tough? In exchange for the latest batch of
Kassam rockets aimed from Gaza at the industrial zone in Ashkelon, which
contains electricity generators, Sharon is now threatening to shut off
the electricity to the Gaza Strip. So how come he threatens this after
the rockets land near some power machinery but not after the rockets
murdered human Israelis months ago? And how come he is threatening that
he might turn the power off but only later after the savages have plenty
of time to get ready and get emergency generators and even then only from
2-4 in the morning?

Can you see Churchill retaliating for the V-2 rockets on London by
threatening to shut off the power in Berlin in two weeks from 2-4 in the
morning?

4. Spielberg's Smear
Andrea Levin

Steven Spielberg and an army of well-paid consultants and spinmeisters are
pulling out all the stops to promote Munich and fend off damaging
criticism of the movie about the murder of Israeli Olympic athletes and
the effort to track down the crime's masterminds.

The campaign has even included courting family members of the slain men
for endorsements to blunt a gathering storm of negative commentary from
the likes of David Brooks in the New York Times, Leon Wieseltier in The
New Republic and Andrea Peyser in the New York Post.

Briefly, the movie presents, via pulse-pounding scenes of kidnaping,
death, stalking and more death, the message that Israel was brutal,
bungling and immoral in its reaction to the massacre. True, the
hostage-takers were also brutal; but dispossessing Palestinians, we soon
learn, lies at the root.

Cultured Palestinians passionately explain: "We are for twenty-four years
the world's largest refugee population. Our homes taken from us. Living in
camps. No future. No food. Nothing decent for our children."

In Munich there are no Palestinians clamoring for the destruction of
Israel -- as all Palestinian groups did then and, regrettably, leading
groups continue to do today. On the contrary, in a contrived encounter
between Avner, the movie's lead, and a PLO member, the latter insists he
simply wants a homeland. He also blames Jews for turning the Palestinians
"into animals" and charges them with exploiting guilt over the Holocaust.

In all of this one sees the biases of Tony Kushner, the radical playwright
brought in by Spielberg to reshape the script. Kushner has repeatedly
called the creation of Israel a "mistake," blamed Israel for "the whole
shameful history of the dreadful suffering of the Palestinian people,"and
advocated policies to undermine the state.

Israelis in the film, including Prime Minister Golda Meir, do make their
case. But the language is often self-incriminating and vengeful. Meir
says: "I don't know who these maniacs are and where they come from.
Palestinians - they're not recognizable. You tell me what law protects
people like this ... Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate
compromises with its own
values."

The charge that Israel believed targeting terrorist leaders compromises
its values rather than affirms its obligation to seek every means to
defend itself against aggression is pure Hollywood concoction. But
spiraling self-doubt about the use of force is central to Munich, with one
team member, an ambivalent bomb-maker who eventually blows himself up,
lamenting: "We're Jews, Avner. Jews don't do wrong because our enemies do
wrong...we're supposed to be righteous. That's a beautiful thing. That's
Jewish..."

Thus, not only, in the film's account, was it futile to assassinate
terrorist masterminds, because new and worse replacements sprang up to
escalate the violence, but eliminating terrorists ostensibly destroyed the
souls of the Jewish hit team.

During the movie's production, numerous Israelis with knowledge of the
actual events disputed Spielberg's central themes. But the Hollywood
director, along with Kushner, ignored them and insisted on their own dark
story.

In fact, historical accounts of Israel's decision to target leaders of
Black September, the group responsible for Munich, emphasize that the
assault at the Olympics was part of a worsening series of terrorist
attacks against Israel in 1972. Lod Airport had been struck twice in May
with 32 killed. Only days after the September 5 Munich atrocity, an
Israeli official was shot in
Brussels, and two weeks later a letter bomb killed an Israeli in London.

Any nation supine in the face of such intensifying terrorism invites ever
more fearsome attack. Yes, Israel's new counter-campaign was reprisal for
the Munich murders, but it was aimed at fighting back against a broad
terrorist threat. What the various teams dispatched by Israel sought to do
was standard in its general goal: Shift the balance and force the
adversary onto the defensive, disrupting operations, planning and command
structure.

None of this common sense about self-defense and the context in which the
Olympic massacre and Israeli reaction occurred are part of Munich.
Instead, Israel's action battling its adversaries is cast as aberrant,
bloody and counterproductive. It is no different from the assault of the
terrorists and ostensibly spawns far greater violence.

Thus Munich is not fictionalized fact, but a falsehood at its core.

Small falsehoods too promote its thesis of Israeli culpability. For
instance, Meir is said to have shunned attending the murdered athletes'
funerals for fear of being booed because she refused to negotiate with the
terrorists -- yet as a New York Times piece reported one week after the
killings, a poll found her the most popular figure in the nation. Meir as
the war-like
Israeli, refusing to settle matters in peaceful dialogue, fit the picture.

The movie concludes that Israel should have, in Avner's recommendation,
"arrested" the terrorists "like Eichman." And, perhaps inspired by
Kushner's theme of the mistaken existence of Israel, an embittered and
hounded Avner abandons his homeland for all-American Brooklyn.

Munich offends on other counts. A leitmotif linking Jews and money will
make more than a few viewers wince. A Mossad handler growls: "I want
receipts!" We're not the Rothschilds, he says, just a small country. "We
need receipts. You got me? Whatever you're doing somebody else is paying
for it." Or: "A Jew and a Frenchman -- we could haggle forever."

In other coarse invocations of supposed Jewish banter and attitudes, a
team member demands a comrade drop his pants to "see if he's circumcised"
when the teammate doesn't understand the need for Jewish violence. An
argument among the team has one Israeli shouting: "The only blood that
matters to me is Jewish blood!"

This and much like it is what passes for deep dialogue by two of America's
leading entertainment lights. Indeed, it is stunning to watch Munich and
realize that its director brought Schindler's List to the world. Where
that was artistry drawn from truth, Munich is cinematic manipulation
rooted in lies.

Evidently, exploring essential truths about Jews murdered 60 years ago by
a regime that no longer exists and is widely reviled is one thing.
Defending the truth about Jews who, over the last half century, have
continued to be targeted for murder by Palestinians, Arab states, and in
recent decades Iran, and whose stalkers have enjoyed the support of the
U.N., scores of NGO's, and perhaps attendees of Hollywood dinner parties,
is quite another.

A preceding article on this subject appears at the CAMERA web site.

5. There is a new initiative in the Knesset. Any party having 30% of its
Knesset seats manned by women would get a bonus of 29,000 shekels per
month per woman. No matter how incompetent or stupid the Knesset Member
would be as long as having the proper set of genitals. Notice how this
will not help Prof. Ruth Gavison fend off the attempt at "Borking" her
and preventing her from sitting on the Supreme Court bench because she has
"incorrect thoughts" (disagrees with Chief Justice Aharon Barak).

Meanwhile, here are some women about whose rights the Israeli politicians
could not gave a dang:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/660721.html

6. A group of leading American Jewish asslib "leaders", leftists led by
Seymour Reich, is organizing a campaign in America to support and boost
Amir Peretz.
http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=660661&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0
Of course, their standard of living would not be halved if Peretz were to
win.

7. Same Difference:
http://israelnn.com/article.php3?id=5871

Posted 12/20/2005 11:40:00 AM

1. You remember that old joke about the guy with the cast on his arm,
asking his MD, "Will I be able to play Mozart on the piano when this is
removed?." The MD says, of course. The patient says, "Great, cause I
could not play at all before I broke my arm."

I am reminded of that when people ask if Ariel Sharon's brain will think
clearly after his minor stroke.

2. Netanyahu beat Shalom for the head of the rump Likud, the party left
over after the Sharon people bolted and joined the Peres people in
co-creating "Kadima," yet another party of Oslo appeasement and Israeli
self-abasement.

Netanyahu.s victory over Sylvan Shalom was not spectacular, and Feiglin
came in at a respectable 15% for third place. Netanyahu as Prime Minister
was as Chamberlainian as Shimon Peres and turned Hebron over to the
savages. He has been talking hawkishly in recent months, but he talked
hawkishly before he was elected Prime Minister in the 90s, so such talk
should be regarded with acute skepticism.

To Netanyahu's credit, while he did nothing at all to reform the economy
as Prime Minister in the 90s, he had been surprisingly brave and energetic
in seeking reforms as the recent Finance Minister under Sharon. As for
Sylvan Shalom's record as Foreign Minister, see item by David Bedein
below.

At this point, there are three contenders for Prime Minister and each of
them has a track record of endorsing Oslo appeasement, Israeli
capitulations, and Israeli self-abasement.

Having noted this, there are nevertheless significant differences among
the three and the results of the next election do matter, although they
will not stop Oslo no matter how they turn out.

First of all, unless he has more health problems, Sharon will win.

Thus, the best result that can be hoped for in the next national election
is for Amir Peretz to come in THIRD, **behind** Netanyahu and the Likud.
That is the closest thing to a victory that Israelis can hope for at this
point. That would spell an end to Peretz.s career and probably also an
end to the Labor Party, an end well deserved. Peretz is a demagogue who
would destroy Israel economically in his attempt to restore Third World
economic conditions and bolshevik economic policies. Peretz is so
incompetent and just plain ignorant that he would place Israel in imminent
danger, should any crisis develop while he were Prime Minister. Even
worse, he might ask Red Shelly Yachimovich or Avishay Braverman for
advice!

Sharon would continue with his policies as usual, as the next Prime
Minister. The biggest existential danger to Israel from this, other than
the continuation of those policies themselves, would be having Ehud Olmert
as Number Two (I use the term "Number Two" in all of its many Austin
Powers-like meanings). Olmert is a clear and present danger and would be
the likely successor, should Sharon be forced to resign due to health or
death. In addition, nearly every corrupt criminal who was in the previous
Likud is now a "leader" in Kadima, so law and order would not be the
strong suit of a new Sharon government.

Likud is the most likely coalition partner of Kadima, and as such it would
probably put Netanyahu back in the Finance Ministry, which is a somewhat
good reason for people to vote for Likud. The Yesha Council endorsed
Netanyahu in the primaries, over Feiglin. Feiglin still has problems
being taken seriously by the general public and his two main weaknesses
continue to be the presence of Kahanists at his side and his image as a
theocrat. Most Israelis, including most Likud members, seem to think
these problems signal general shallowness.

The right-wing opposition is as usual confused and incompetent. At the
moment, some people are trying to build an opposition coalition between
the Ichud Leumi, the only truly anti-Oslo party, and the National
Religious Party (NRP). The NRP pays some lip service to opposing Oslo
appeasements but, in reality, it would move gladly Israel back to its 1949
borders in exchange for some subsidies for its schools and yeshivas.

Another hopeful sign is that Meretz, with Yossi Beilin at its helm, is
lagging in the polls, what with the Peres Left following Peres into
Kadima. Reduction of Meretz to the endangered species list would of
course be a great benefit deserving of a "Tov Oo'meitiv" blessing, should
it transpire.

December 20th, 2005

The test of Netanyahu's leadership, by David Bedein

Following the victory of Benyamin Netanyahu as the new leader of the
Likud, the question remains as how Netanyahu will cope with the policies
of his major opponent - Israel's Foreign Minister Sylvan Shalom.

FM Shalom has nurtured a policy that is based on the unilateral creation
of a PLO state, following the initiative of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

Under the direction of FM Shalom, the Israel Foreign Ministry has formed
an unprecedented
working task force to pioneer a Palestinian state.

Meanwhile, while Gideon Meir, the deputy bureau chief of "hasbara" for
the Sylvan Shalom's foreign ministry, has been declaring that Israel's
settlement policies in Judea and Samaria are "illegal",
taking the position of the nations that attack Israel for the intrinsic
decision to allow Jews to settle in
"conquered territory".

Last May, when Gideon Meir was challenged at a Bar Ilan University
seminar by Bar Ilan U professor Mordecai Kedar to hear another opinion
about the legality of Israeli Jewish settlement beyond the 1967 lines, he
would not hear of it.

FM Sylvan Shalom has ignored numerous letters that question the
appropriateness of Meir's statements in this regard, which indicates that
Gideon Meir's policy statement is the position taken by Sylvan Shalom.

The question remains as to what Netanyahu will say and do about a foreign
policy that stands diametrically opposed to the policies that Netanyahu
stands for.

In other words, the quality of Benyamin Netanyahu's leadership will be
tested in
the days to come.

Will he stand on principle against the positions taken by Israeli Foreign
Minister Sylvan Shalom or embrace Sylvan Shalom's policies?

Moreover, since the Yesha Council and MK Uzi Landau played a crucial role
in Netanyahu's decisive election victory, what will they say now about
Netanyahu embracing the Sylvan Shalom/Gideon Meir foreign policy which
paves the way for further unilateral Israeli withdrawals in Judea and
Samaria.

Time will tell.

3. Here is yet another case in which Israel's anti-racism law was not
applied to an anti-Semitic racist Israeli:

Arab Member of the Knesset tells "robber" Jews they should leave Israel,
return to Europe

(A Jew endorsing "transfer" of Arabs out of Israel would be jailed as a
racist and an "inciter."

Arab Member of Knesset Azmi Bishara, speaking at a Beirut book fair, said
that Israel is the 20th century's greatest robbery, carried out in broad
daylight. "I will never recognize Zionism even if all Arabs do," he said.
"I will never concede Palestine. The battle is still long."

Bishara, who recently launched his campaign to seek an additional term in
Israel's parliament, left for Lebanon five days ago without receiving
permission from the Interior Ministry, Yedioth Aharonoth reported Sunday.
His harsh anti-Israel message at the fair was quoted by Lebanese newspaper
As -Safir: "The conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is not a
demographic dispute, but a national one," he said. "It's not the problem
of 1.2 million Palestinians living in Israel. They are like all Arabs,
only with Israeli citizenship forced upon them."

"We are the original residents of Palestine, not those who came from
Poland and Russia," the MK added. He alsoaddressed himself directly to
Israelis: "Return Palestine to us and take your democracy with you. We
Arabs are not interested in it." His remarks were received by the Lebanese
with tumultuous applause.

Bishara criticized nations in the region that sought warming ties with
Israel: "Why does one of the Arab countries provide a home for (Foreign
Minister) Silvan Shalom, while the army destroys homes in Palestine on a
daily basis?" he said, referring to the foreign minister's recent visit to
Tunisia, where Shalom was born. "If you want to surrender, do it, but
don't force us to give in."

Bishara, who has since returned to Israel, told Yedioth that his speech
was "about Zionism and citizenship." He denied saying "anything new" and
confirmed that "I've spoken like this in the Knesset."

He has on previous occasions had his parliamentary immunity lifted to
allow for indictment on opinions deemed treasonous. Yet Arab voters
continually return him and his Balad party to Knesset.

Indeed, Bishara has a long history of pandering to anti-Israeli sentiments
among Arab citizens and has repeatedly spoken out against Israel in
neighboring countries.

An inveterate Jew-baiter, Bishara in 2004 called beloved Israeli poet
Naomi Shemer a "racist."

4. The Twelve Days of Oslo
Written by Steven Plaut

On the first day of Oslo, my true love gave to me,
A lemming in a pear tree.

On the second day of Oslo, my true love gave to me,
Two cafes a-burning
And a lemming in a pear tree.

On the third day of Oslo my true love gave to me,
Three legless kids,
Two cafes a-burning
And a lemming in a pear tree.

On the fourth day of Oslo my true love gave to me,
Four soldiers lynched,
Three legless kids,
Two cafes a-burning
And a lemming in a pear tree.

On the fifth day of Oslo my true love gave to me,
Five New History Texts,
Four soldiers lynched,
Three legless kids,
Two cafes a-burning
And a lemming in a pear tree.

On the sixth day of Oslo my true love gave to me,
Six more appeasements,
Five New History texts,
Four soldiers lynched,
Three legless kids,
Two shuls a-burning
And a lemming in a pear tree.

On the seventh day of Oslo my true love gave to me,
Seven deaths in Gilo,
Six more appeasements,
Five New History texts,
Four soldiers lynched,
Three legless kids,
Two cafes a-burning
And a lemming in a pear tree.

On the eighth day of Oslo my true love gave to me,
Eight kidnapped hostages,
Seven deaths in Gilo,
Six more appeasements,
Five New History texts,
Four soldiers lynched,
Three legless kids,
Two cafes a-burning
And a lemming in a pear tree.

On the nineth day of Oslo my true love gave to me,
Nine new subpoenas (for incitement),
Eight al-Kassem rockets,
Seven deaths in Gilo,
Six more appeasements,
Five New History texts,
Four soldiers lynched,
Three legless kids,
Two cafes a-burning
And a lemming in a pear tree.

On the tenth day of Oslo my true love gave to me,
Ten brand new taxes,
Nine new subpoenas (for incitement),
Eight al-Kassem rockets,
Seven deaths in Gilo,
Six more appeasements,
Five New History texts,
Four soldiers lynched,
Three legless kids,
Two cafes a-burning
And a lemming in a pear tree.

On the eleventh day of Oslo my true love gave to me,
Eleven car bombs popping,
Ten brand new taxes,
Nine new subpoenas (for incitement),
Eight al-Kassem rockets,
Seven deaths in Gilo,
Six more appeasements,
Five New History texts,
Four soldiers lynched,
Three legless kids,
Two cafes a-burning
And a lemming in a pear tree.

On the twelfth day of Oslo my true love gave to me,
Twelve new excuses,
Eleven car bombs popping,
Ten brand new taxes,
Nine new subpoenas (for incitement),
Eight al-Kassem rockets,
Seven deaths in Gilo,
Six more appeasements,
Five New History texts,
Four soldiers lynched,
Three legless kids,
Two cafes a-burning

*** AND A LEMMING IN A PEAR TREE! ***

Posted 12/19/2005 12:24:00 PM

1. Busybodies for the Destruction of Israel:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20582
Dangerous Peaceniks on the Hudson
By P. David Hornik
FrontPageMagazine.com | December 19, 2005

In recent weeks, the president of Iran called for Israel to be wiped off
the map, amid reports that Iran will have a nuclear capability in a few
months, and the UN held a .Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
that prominently featured a large map of .Palestine. in which Israel had
disappeared. And after a massacre of Israeli civilians by a Palestinian
terrorist in the town of Netanya, the UN Security Council proved unable to
condemn the act.

In Israel and the PA, in addition to the Netanya attack, Hezbollah
subjected northern Israel to a missile barrage that injured a dozen
Israelis; the commander of the IDF.s Gaza Division sent a message to
Defense Minister Mofaz saying the number of terrorist incidents coming
from Gaza .is enormous,. with the army reporting 75 incidents of small
arms fire from there, 130 Kassam and mortar shell attacks, and at least 18
bombs planted along the border fence since the .disengagement.; PA
chairman Mahmoud Abbas signed a law providing lifelong stipends to
families of suicide bombers; Hamas leader Khaled Mashal announced that his
organization will resume attacks after the end of 2005; convicted mass
murderer Marwan Barghouti won the Fatah primaries in a landslide; Hamas
won municipal elections in a landslide in major West Bank cities;
Debkafile reported, .Palestinian terrorists are preparing Qassam missiles
with chemical warheads, according to information reaching Israeli
intelligence..and that is but a partial list.

Seemingly, the issue that Israel faces is not peace, but survival. But
none of this has stopped the professional peaceniks at the New York-based
Israel Policy Forum from continuing in their cheerful path. As Kenneth
Levin notes in The Oslo Syndrome, this American Jewish organization was
.created in 1993 at the behest of Israel.s Labor-Meretz coalition
government and placed under the leadership of...Jonathan Jacoby, who had
earlier in his career signed a New York Times ad accusing Israel of .state
terrorism...[1]

Since then the IPF.now with Seymour Reich as president and Jacoby as
executive director.has steadily shilled for the Fatah stream of the
Palestinian war on Israel, while urging the U.S. government to press
Israel into concessions on the basis of polls of American Jewry, conducted
by the IPF itself, that the Zionist Organization of America criticized for
.vague and deceptive language,. a .reprehensible misuse of...polling,. and
.misusing statistical evidence.. In one case, Levin notes, an IPF poll was
so .grossly skewed. that .the Anti-Defamation League, which had been
reported to have cosponsored the poll, disassociated itself from it.. [2]

Most recently, Israel.s left-wing daily Haaretz reported that .New York
Jewish leaders...encouraged [Secretary of State Condoleezza] Rice to
intervene aggressively in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute over the Gaza
border crossings...among others, Rice met in Washington...with the heads
of the left-wing Israel Policy Forum, who expressed their views on various
aspects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.. When Isi Leibler bitterly
criticized the IPF.s role in the crossings fiasco in the Jerusalem Post,
accusing the IPF of .unashamedly lobby[ing] the State Department to exert
pressure to bring Israel to heel even if that entails riding roughshod
over our security requirements,. Seymour Reich replied in the same
newspaper by condemning Leibler.s .malicious accusations. as .untrue and
dishonest..

Yet, as Leibler emphasizes, the same Haaretz article states quite plainly:

IPF President Seymour Reich, who participated in the meeting with Rice,
told Haaretz, .We don't presume to say that it was because of our
conversation with the secretary of state, or the political paper we sent
her, that she acted so aggressively to achieve the border crossing
agreement.. However, he added, .I have no doubt that we bolstered the
secretary of state's instinct and strengthened her opinion that aggressive
American involvement was needed to achieve practical results..
The .practical results. are now with us.that is, with Israelis, who face
an increased threat to our and our children.s lives thanks in part to
Seymour Reich and his other New York security mavens. Ynet reports that:

David Walsh, an aide to...Rice, has been trying to prevent [a] political
crisis following Israel.s decision to delay...parts of the crossings
agreement following the deadly terror attack in Netanya...The most serious
disagreement focuses on Israel.s decision not to allow the passage of
Palestinian convoys between Gaza and the West Bank....We are exposed to
deadly terror coming from the West Bank, like the suicide attack in
Netanya. In such a reality we are not ready to move forward and implement
the crossings agreement,. government officials said....
The report goes on to note that defense officials:

have criticized the Palestinians. work in the Rafah crossing. One of the
problems was that online information about the people entering the
crossing was not transferred to Israel, contrary to the agreement signed
following Rice.s pressure...The more serious problem...was, according to
aides of Mofaz, .the feeling that the Palestinians are fooling us with the
names and the details of the people entering...We have information about
al-Qaeda members and people from the black list of Palestinian terror
entering the crossing from Egypt to the Gaza Strip..
In light of the Rafah situation and the ongoing attacks from Gaza, the
situation is now seen as so dangerous that the defense minister announced
the convoys have been delayed for the moment.while the international
pressure to get them moving continues.

Do not expect any contrition from the IPF for pushing a deal that, by all
accounts, Rice initially bludgeoned Israel into accepting despite the
urgent protests of its security agencies. Ideological peaceniks like
Reich, Jacoby, and crew are always ultimately uninterested in details
about terrorist infiltrations, broken agreements, and the like. There is
no other way the IPF could have kept enthusiastically promoting the .Oslo
process. throughout the twelve years of slaughter that this catastrophe
has brought upon Israel.

For the IPF, peace is always shining just around the next bend, if the
Jewish state can just be nudged into the right capitulations. The question
is how long we have to keep paying the price.

ENDNOTES:

1. Smith & Kraus Global, 2005, p. 451.

2. Ibid., pp. 451-452.

2. Iranian leaders trying to get hired by Ben Gurion University?
http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110007660

Reuters Questions Holocaust
Yesterday we noted that a Reuters dispatch, titled "Iran's President
Questions Holocaust," included this sentence: "Historians say six million
Jews were killed in the Nazi Holocaust." A later version of the dispatch,
however, deleted the words "Historians say" and presented the Holocaust as
fact: "The Nazis killed some 6 million Jews during their 1933-1945 rule."

But today, Reuters has a new formulation:

Historians say six million Jews were killed in the Nazi Holocaust.
Regarding this widely-accepted view, Ahmadinejad was quoted by the
official Iranian news agency IRNA . . .

Reuters, of course, famously forbade its "reporters" from referring to the
Sept. 11 attacks as an act of terrorism. "We're trying to treat everyone
on a level playing field," said Stephen Jukes, the "global news editor,"
in September 2001. Apparently Reuters thinks Holocaust deniers are
entitled to a "level playing field," even if that means downgrading a
historical fact to a "widely accepted view."

Iran tells West to be tolerant of Holocaust views
Sun Dec 18, 2005 5:20 AM ET
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's denial of the
Holocaust is a matter for academic discussion and the West should be more
tolerant of his views, Iran's foreign ministry spokesman said on Sunday.

Ahmadinejad last week called the Holocaust a myth and suggested Israel be
moved to Germany or Alaska, remarks that sparked international uproar and
threaten diplomatic talks with Europe over Iran's nuclear programme.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi defended the president's
remarks, which also drew a rebuke from the U.N. Security Council.

"What the president said is an academic issue. The West's reaction shows
their continued support for Zionists," Asefi told a weekly news
conference.

"Westerners are used to leading a monologue but they should learn to
listen to different views," he added.

Some 6 million Jews were killed by the Nazis and their allies between 1933
and 1945.

Ahmadinejad, a former Revolutionary Guardsman who was elected president,
also said in October Israel was a "tumour" that must be "wiped off the
map".

3. From Newsweek

Historical Blindness
The Union of Reform Judaism's vote to oppose the war in Iraq was a mistake
and embarrassment for my movement. (Actually, the entire Religios Action
Center of teh Reformies is an embarrassment for all Jews)

WEB-EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY
By Marc Gellman
Newsweek
Updated: 8:51 p.m. ET Dec. 16, 2005

Dec. 16, 2005 - The movement of which I am a member has just voted against
a war that I support. This vote by the Union of Reform Judaism was the
first vote by a major national Jewish organization or religious movement
opposing the war in Iraq.

This war was and is being fought for American reasons, not Jewish reasons.
However, to see this war that toppled one of Israel's fiercest enemies.an
anti-Semitic dictator who sent $25,000 to the families of every jihadist
who had been able to kill and maim Israeli children and other
innocents.opposed by Jews is more than an act of ingratitude to this
country and this president. This vote was an act of stunning and
incomprehensible historical blindness.

One argument raised in support of the antiwar resolution passed in Houston
was that Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11 and was thus an
illegal and inappropriate military target. This putative fact is both
debatable and irrelevant. The idea that unless we have a credit-card
receipt showing that Saddam Hussein paid for Muhammad Atta's plane tickets
to New York, he must be presumed to be an innocent in the war on terror is
ludicrous. He was a trainer, a protector and a funder of terrorists around
the world.

A far more compelling Jewish reason to support the war in Iraq comes from
recent Jewish history in the clear and tragic records of the Holocaust. On
Nov. 18, 1944, John McCloy, the assistant secretary of War, sent the
following response on behalf of President Franklin D. Roosevelt to John
Pehle of the War Refugee Board. Pehle had forwarded to the president on
Nov. 8 the anguished and urgent request to bomb the railroad lines leading
up to and the gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau in order to disrupt the
genocidal Nazi killing machine. McCloy wrote:

Dear Mr. Pehle,
I refer to your letter of November 8th in which you forwarded the report
of two eye witnesses on the notorious German concentration and
extermination camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau in Upper Silesia. The
Operation Staff of the War Department has given careful consideration to
your suggestion that the bombing of these camps be undertaken.
In consideration of this proposal the following points were brought out:
a. Positive destruction of these camps would necessitate precision
bombing, employing heavy or medium bombardment, or attack by low flying or
dive bombing aircraft, preferably the latter.
b. The target is beyond the maximum range of medium bombardment, dive
bombers and fighter bombers located in United Kingdom, France or Italy.
c. Use of heavy bombardment from United Kingdom bases would necessitate a
hazardous round trip flight unescorted of approximately 2,000 miles over
enemy territory.
d. At the present critical stage of the war in Europe, our strategic air
forces are engaged in the destruction of industrial target systems vital
to the dwindling war potential of the enemy, from which they should not be
diverted. The positive solution to this problem is the earliest possible
victory over Germany, to which end we should exert our entire means.
.
Based on the above, as well as the most uncertain, if not dangerous effect
such a bombing would have on the object to be attained, the War Department
has felt that it should not, at least for the present, undertake these
operations.
Sincerely,
John McCloy
Assistant Secretary of War
The Jews of Europe are now the Kurds of Iraq, and the Shiites, and the
Marsh Arabs. The point of war is not only to defend one's own country from
attack but also to free from the jaws of death millions of innocent human
beings who lack the military means to secure their own freedom. This may
not be a universally supported political or military view of war, but it
is a religious view of war, and it is my view of this and other wars. I do
not know a single Kurd or a single Marsh Arab or a single Iraqi Shiite,
but I do know that they have been slaughtered by the thousands, and
because of this war they are now free. The Iraqi killing machine has been
destroyed. I also know, and every person of even moderate intelligence
also knows, that if our troops withdraw now, before victory has been fully
achieved they will be slaughtered again. When I say never again in memory
of the Holocaust, I don't mean "never again Jews," I mean "never again
anyone."

...
I also feel, and I know, that many of the good Reform Jews who went to
Houston for our convention also feel deep solidarity and compassion for
the black Muslim victims of genocide in Darfur, and about the Bosnian
Muslims and about the Tutsis of Rwanda. What I do not understand and
cannot comprehend is why they cannot also feel a sacrificial solidarity
with the suffering people of Iraq who because of this war are now free.
(They also are indifferent towards the sufferings of Israeli Jews --- SP)

I am thinking of Abraham Lincoln, and I am thinking of the Exodus and I am
thinking of Isaiah. President Lincoln insisted on reading the numbers of
Confederate dead at every cabinet meeting and one cabinet secretary
protested this practice, "Who are they to us, Mr. President?" Lincoln
answered, "Thank God, the world is larger than your heart."

The Bible describes the people who left Egypt in the Exodus as a .mixed
multitude.. This means that when my people went free out of the house of
bondage, other people went free with us. I am uplifted and sustained by my
faith in a God whose strong hand and outstretched arm, extended not only
to the Jewish slaves in Egypt but to all the slaves in Egypt. I believe
that promise of freedom is still God's will for all people in all times
who sleep in the dust and despair of other houses of bondage and live in
fear under the rule of other Pharaohs.

Isaiah (25:4), speaking for God, commands us, .You are a refuge to the
poor, to the needy in distress, a shelter from the storm.. This war, and
the larger war of which it is a part, is not a war against terror for me.
It is a war of refuge, a war of shelter. A religious movement should feel
that, and I am disconsolate that they do not. The Reform moment in Judaism
has no official hierarchy and does not speak for all Reform Jews. Their
resolutions bind no one and compel no one to do anything. Sometime anarchy
is a good thing. That we embarrassed ourselves before America means little
to me. That we may have embarrassed ourselves before the survivors of the
kingdom of night and before the commandment to freedom from our God is a
matter of much more gravity.

I do not pretend that my interpretation of God's will that all oppressed
people should go free is in fact God's will. What I do know is that I
could not worship a God for whom this was not a sacred commandment. I do
not pretend that the liberation of all oppressed people everywhere is
either possible or politically or militarily realistic, but it is the only
possible spiritual goal that can save our world, and it is my view and my
reading of the mandates of my faith. I am sorry my coreligionists could
not feel more clearly and more urgently this commandment of liberation for
the suffering people of Iraq. I know they do not speak for me, and I can
do no more than humbly presume that they do not speak for God.

2005 Newsweek, Inc.

4. Hoping the stroke helps clear the thinking in Sharon's already
muddled brain:
Yet another Qassam rocket fired from Gaza hit Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon's ranch in the Negev Desert on Tuesday, WorldNetDaily reports. The
rocket, which according to Abu Abir of the Popular Resistance Committees
"was intended to kill Sharon," instead hit a water pumping facility next
to the ranch.

Posted 12/18/2005 02:59:00 PM

1.
April 23, 1943
by Steven Plaut

Archeologists in Poland have just discovered an amazing document,
uncovered from beneath rubble left over in what was once the Warsaw
Ghetto.

A Letter and Call to Sanity for the Warsaw Ghetto zealots, from the Peace
Now chapter of Warsaw, April 23, 1943.

Dear Deluded Brethren:

A few days ago some zealots from certain messianic settler
organizations operating in Warsaw launched a series of acts of unprovoked
violence against the legitimate German peace partners directing
peace-seeking activities here in Warsaw. A number of German soldiers and
officers have been viciously murdered, while others have been maimed and
injured by these thoughtless religious fundamentalists.

Comrades, we must emphasize that these violent hoodlums are deluded and
are making things much worse for everyone else here in the Warsaw Ghetto.
You have to understand that there are no military solutions to the
problems of deportations of Jews in the Warsaw ghetto by the Germans. Our
problems can only be resolved through negotiations. We insist that, in
spite of the claims of these messianic terrorists provoking the Germans,
there IS a partner for negotiations amongst the Germans, and we Warsaw
Jews DO have a moral responsibility to conduct good faith negotiations
with the legitimate representatives of the Germans.

In addition, violent attacks by irresponsible Jewish settlers in the
ghetto against Germans will only provoke a cycle of violence. There can
be no winners in that.

Don't these people conducting the hooligan violence understand that if
they attack the nazi troops and refuse to conduct negotiations with the
agents sent to us by Adolf Hitler, Hitler will lose control of his forces
and then some **really** violent anti-Semite could take over the Third
Reich. Besides, Hitler is really trying his best to rein in the more
violent of his stormtroopers; he simply cannot be everywhere at once.
And besides, the Red Army and the eastern front have him so pre-occupied
that he cannot act more effectively against the renegade SS terrorists
mistreating Jews.

In addition, the Germans do have some legitimacy to their negotiating
position. After all, Jews in Poland have been illegally occupying
numerous Polish territories that really belong to Aryans! The Jews have
established themselves in numerous Polish settlements where they just do
not belong and their presence there has antagonized some of the local
oppressed people. In addition, horrendous inequality has been created by
Jewish racism, since the Jews in Poland are better educated than the
gentiles there and Jews in Warsaw earned more than non-Jews before the
war. This manifestation of anti-gentile apartheid must be redressed! We
need some affirmative action to help the Polish non-Jews advance in
society.

In addition, some Polish civilians were victims of Jewish pickpockets
in Warsaw before the war! The Jews need to pay compensation for THAT.

Clearly the solution is two ghettos for two peoples! The Warsaw ghetto
needs to be shared. The Jews in one half must agree to be deported
peacefully from that half to other destinations, so that the Germans and
the Poles can have equal rights in the New Middle Europe. The entire
tragedy that we have experienced is because of the selfish inability of so
many Jews to share their property and land.

We repeat, violence has never solved anything. Violence only foments
more violence. The violent Warsaw settlers attacking the innocent Germans
are guilty of disrespect towards The Other. They are bigots and racists.
They have wounded innocent bystanders.

We need to speak out in defense of the human rights of Germans and
Poles in the vicinity of the ghetto. We must denounce the racist Zionist
hooligans and messianic zealots attacking those victims. Jewish terrorism
against Germans must be stopped.

We must begin negotiations at once. Those claiming there is no peace
partner on the German side are deluded. We simply have to give Hitler a
chance. He just wants a homeland for his own people and his fair share of
our territory!

So take a lesson from our rich and wonderful heritage. The Bible
itself calls upon us to pursue peace!

Stop the shooting! Start the talking! Now!

Signed, Peace Now, Warsaw Chapter

2. Jihad on Campus
New York Sun Staff Editorial
December 14, 2005
URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/24407

3. Special Dispatch . Lebanon/Antisemitism Documentation Project
December 15, 2005
No. 1049

Lebanon's Largest Government University Hosts Hizbullah's Al-Manar TV
Symposium Calling to Wipe Israel Off The Map: "Just Like Hitler Fought The
Jews.We Too Should Fight The Jews and Burn Them"

http://www.memri.org/bin/opener_latest.cgi?ID=SD104905

4. Web commentary on Barry Chamish's conspiracy "theories":
http://www.geocities.com/barryconspiracy/image1.jpg
And here is another pro-Jewish web site that publishes Barry Chamish's
"theories" and sells his books:
http://www.zundelsite.org/english/zgrams/zg2000/zg0005/000523.html

5. I enjoyed this:
FRENCH AMISH BURN 1400 BUGGIES IN NIGHT OF RIOTING IN PARIS

PARIS -- For the tenth consecutive night, disaffected Amish youths from
suburban farming ghettoes have torched horse buggies and attacked
policemen with butter churns in Paris, Lyons, Marseilles and 65 other
French cities. The situation has become so severe that French President
Jacques Chirac has imposed a 6pm to 6am curfew for anyone wearing
suspenders and straw hats.

"We're dealing with years of pent-up rage among young Amish in the
banlieus," said sociologist Jean-Jacques Thibadaut, author of Les Amish et
Barbarisme. "Amish youth view their futures as being especially bleak, and
feel that they are stuck in the traditional agricultural economy with no
hopes of advancing into the professions, such as barn-raising and
blacksmithing. The French educational system has completely failed to
integrate the Amish into the French body politic."

Prominent French Amish feminist, Genevieve Yoder, says that religious
fundamentalism among young Amish people has eroded all of the gains made
by Amish feminists in the past 30 years. "A 12-year old Amish girl was
stoned by an Amish gang in Plechy-sur-Biches last week for showing her
ankles in public," said Mlle. Yoder. "Increasingly Amish women are scared
to leave the house without wearing their bonnets."

Elder Jean-Claude Yoder, spiritual leader of the Alliance of Progressive
Amish, has denounced the violence and said that "rioting, looting and
raping are completely at odds with the core Amish beliefs of pacifism,
making cheese, and being really boring." The violence, however, shows no
sign of a letup, with over 1400 buggies burned last night. This brings the
total number of buggies burned since the rioting began to just over 9500.

Amish gang leader and aspiring rap artist, Jacques "50 Centime" Yoder,
said last night that the rioting will continue until France removes all of
its electrical wiring, outlaws horseless carriages, and makes Amish law
the centerpiece of a new Amish Republic of France. French police are
anticipating another night of violence and have added extra security to
livery stables and hitching posts in the area surrounding the Eiffel
Tower. The US State Department has issued a travel warning and advised
American tourists to avoid riot prone areas of Paris and Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania.
William Grim for Iconoclast

FORMER CANADIAN DEFENSE MINISTER SAYS BUSH RISKING WAR WITH ROMULANS
(Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan) -- Former Canadian Defense Minister Paul
Hellyer, largely credited with turning Canada's armed forces into a "lean,
mean, peacekeeping machine," says that US President George W. Bush has
entered into a secret alliance with the Klingon Empire that threatens the
fragile peace that has existed for 20,000 centuries between the Milky Way
and Alpha Centauri galaxies.

"George Bush is risking intergalactic warfare because he and his Texas oil
baron buddies are trying to take over spice mining on the desert planet of
Arakis," said Mr. Hellyer during a speech delivered at the weekly meeting
of the Moose Jaw Kiwanis Club at the Tim Horton's on Main Street next to
the BP station. "Bush's cronies are trying to corner the market on spice,
which is the fuel used to power the new "space-folding" hybrid engines
that General Motors has developed. To this end, Bush has entered into a
secret alliance with neo-conservatives on the Klingon Home World to supply
America with Klingon cloaking technology, thereby making American bombers
invisible to Zontorian gamma ray sensors. This is sure to be seen as a
threatening gesture to the Romulans who will no longer be able to detect
American incursions into the Neutral Zone."

Ta'Hoth, Klingon Ambassador to the United States, told this reporter
during an exclusive interview, that Mr. Hillyer's assertions have no basis
in fact. "Mr. Hillyer's wild accusations show that he has less spine than
a Venusian glornbok," said Ta'Hoth. "If Mr. Hillyer would renounce his
diplomatic immunity, I would gladly challenge him to the ancient Klingon
duelling ritual of Pa'Qooth in which two men fight to the death armed only
with moose antlers while standing in a vat of sulfuric acid."

In an emergency session of Parliament, Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin
said that Canadian peacekeepers will be sent to patrol the Neutral Zone
between Earth and the Romulan Empire as soon as the Royal Canadian Air
Force's WWI-vintage biplanes can be retrofitted with dilithium-based warp
drive engines.

"In the worst case," he promised Parliament, "this government will do what
it always does to solve its problems. It will offer the Klingons envelopes
filled with laundered cash!"
William Grim for Iconoclast

Posted 12/15/2005 02:28:00 PM

_http://www.forward.com/articles/7024_ (http://www.forward.com/articles/7024)

Hillary Clinton's Hawkish Stance Riling Critics on the Jewish Left
By E.J. KESSLER
December 16, 2005
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is coming under fire from Jewish anti-war
activists who say that her centrist position on Iraq could cost her the
Democratic presidential nomination in 2008.
In the latest sign of the growing discontent among left-wing activists,
Jonathan Tasini, a product of the Labor Zionist movement, launched a bid to
unseat Clinton in New York's Democratic senatorial primary next year. Tasini, who
has been endorsed by the country's most prominent anti-war activist, Cindy
Sheehan, says his main reason for running is to criticize Clinton's support of
the war.
No serious political prognosticator believes that Tasini will be able to
parlay the increasing anti-war sentiment among Democratic voters into a victory
over Clinton. Some observers say, however, that the rising anger over the war
could trip up Clinton in the presidential primaries, if she chooses to run
for the White House — which is why, they say, she wrote a 1,600-word letter
explaining her war stance, sending it electronically to supporters November 29.
"Clearly her stance is causing her problems," said Douglas Muzzio, a
political scientist at Baruch College. "That's the meaning of the 1,600-word missive
to her supporters. Can the left mobilize enough to damage her? In the short
run, no. In the long run, it depends on what happens on the ground. If it
turns out to be a quagmire, her current and past stances put her in a hard
spot."
Among Clinton's critics on the left are two leading anti-war rabbis
associated with the Jewish Renewal movement, Michael Lerner and Arthur Waskow.
Lerner, who for a time advised Clinton on spiritual matters when she was
first lady, told the Forward that the senator was "trying to position herself as
a militarist" on the war in order to combat the Republican accusations that
as a Democrat and as a woman she is "soft" and "unpatriotic." But, Lerner
said, Clinton's pro-war position did not comport with what he knows to be her
true "inclinations."
He predicted it would "backfire for her politically."
"She's not going to be able to generate the excitement around her
presidential candidacy if she continues to position herself as a female Lieberman,"
Lerner said, referring to one of the Senate's most hawkish Democrats, former
vice presidential and presidential candidate Joseph Lieberman.
Like Lieberman, Clinton voted to authorize the war in 2002. She also voted
for the $87 billion 2003 supplemental expenditure — a measure opposed by
several Democratic presidential contenders, including Senator John Kerry, who were
vying for liberal primary voters.
Clinton has not joined those Democrats, such as Rep. John Murtha of
Pennsylvania or Senator Russell Feingold of Wisconsin, who have called for a quick
Iraq withdrawal. More recently, however, as public support for the war has
dropped, Clinton appears to be tempering her support for it.
"I do not believe that we should allow this to be an open-ended commitment
without limits or end," Clinton wrote in a November 29 letter sent
electronically to supporters. "Nor do I believe that we can or should pull out of Iraq
immediately."
She described a scenario in which Iraq's December 15 election might allow the
United States to begin to draw down troops.
Ann Lewis, director of communications of Clinton's political action
committee, Hillpac, said only that Clinton "has been very clear about her position on
Iraq."
A New York-based adviser to Clinton, Howard Wolfson, said of the mounting
left-wing criticisms: "I don't have any response beyond what [Clinton] has
written. I invite critics and others to look at what she's said."
In her November 29 letter, Clinton said she voted for the resolution to
authorize the administration to use force in Iraq "on the basis of the evidence
presented by the administration, assurances they gave that they would first
seek to resolve the issue of weapons of mass destruction peacefully through
United Nations sponsored inspections, and the argument that the resolution was
needed because Saddam Hussein never did anything to comply with his obligations
that he was not forced to do. Their assurances turned out to be empty ones."

She added that "based on the information that we have today, Congress never
would have been asked to give the president authority to use force against
Iraq" and "never would have agreed" to support the war "given the lack of a
long-term plan, paltry international support, the proven absence of weapons of
mass destruction, and the reallocation of troops and resources that might have
been used in Afghanistan to eliminate bin Laden and Al Qaeda, and fully
uproot the Taliban."
"I take responsibility for my vote," Clinton continued. She took several digs
at the Bush administration, writing further that America should continue the
war on terror while "repudiating torture," "reforming intelligence and its
use by decision makers" and "rejecting the administration's doctrine of
preemptive war and their preference to going it alone rather than building real
international support."
Despite her attacks on the administration, Clinton is facing tough criticism
from anti-war liberals.
"It's not possible to support the war and support health care, support decent
education and protection for the earth," Waskow said, stressing that he was
speaking as an individual and not as head of the activist alliance with which
he usually is identified, The Shalom Center. "Out of Jewish values, she
should be addressing the huge power of the oil companies."
Tasini, the most prominent of several declared Clinton opponents in the
Senate primary, is arguing that, among other things, the senator has hurt Israel
by supporting the war.
"The war has made Israel less safe," Tasini told the Forward in a telephone
interview. "It has destabilized the region and inflamed the unresolved
Israeli-Palestinian conflict.... making it harder to make a peace agreement."
Tasini is the son of a Polish Holocaust refugee and a Jew born in pre-1948
Palestine. As a young man, he lived for seven years in Israel, completing high
school and part of college there while cutting his activist teeth in, among
other venues, the Histadrut labor federation. Tasini said his father had
fought in the pre-state underground Haganah and that half of his family lives in
Israel, within a few miles of its borders, giving him a "big stake" in what
happens there.
Tasini also criticized Clinton for what he said was her closeness to
corporations. He said she was not holding corporations accountable for their
policies on health care, pensions and trade.
"My opponent defends corporate power," he said. "She sat on the board of
Wal-Mart for six years. She still gets money from Wal-Mart.... My opponent won't
take on big corporations. I will."

Posted 12/15/2005 11:45:00 AM

1. http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5070&search=nidra
French Intellectual Tells Truth, Faces Consequences

2. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has described the Holocaust as "a
myth" and suggested that Israel be moved to Europe, the United States,
Canada or Alaska.
Anyone know if he has been offered tenure yet at the department of
political science at Ben Gurion University?

3. Another message from the web site on which Barry Chamish chooses to
publish his articles and through which Chamish seeks to sell his "books":
http://www.adelaideinstitute.org/index0.htm

4. Celebrities amused by Terror:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20559

5. From Jihad Watch
Saudi Prince Gives Millions to Harvard and Georgetown to spread Islam
The same prince from whom Rudolph Giuliani returned money after 9/11.
"Saudi Prince Gives Millions to Harvard and Georgetown," from the New York
Times, with thanks to David:

Harvard University and Georgetown University each announced yesterday that
they had received $20 million donations from Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin
Abdulaziz Alsaud, a Saudi businessman and member of the Saudi royal
family, to finance Islamic studies.
Harvard said it would create a universitywide program on Islamic studies,
recruit new faculty members in the field, provide more support for
graduate students and convert rare Islamic textual sources into digital
formats to make them widely available.

"For a university with global aspirations, it is critical that Harvard
have a strong program on Islam that is worldwide and interdisciplinary in
scope," said Steven E. Hyman, Harvard's provost, who will coordinate
adopting the new program.

Georgetown said it would use the gift - the second-largest it has ever
received - to expand its Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, which
is part of its Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. It said it would
rename the center the H.R.H. Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for
Muslim-Christian Understanding.

The prince, who is said to be in his late 40's or early 50's, and was
fifth on the Forbes 400 list of wealthy people this year, with a fortune
of $23.7 billion, has made a variety of other sizable gifts, including $20
million to the Louvre and to other universities.

One gift that backfired, however, was a $10 million check he gave Mayor
Rudolph W. Giuliani in October 2001 for the Twin Towers Fund, a charity to
help survivors of uniformed workers who died in the attacks on the World
Trade Center. The prince had expressed his condolences for the lives lost
and condemned "all forms of terrorism," in a letter accompanying the gift.

Mayor Giuliani returned the gift when he learned that a news release
quoted the prince as calling on the American government to "re-examine its
policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the
Palestinian cause."

It added, "Our Palestinian brethren continue to be slaughtered at the
hands of Israelis while the world turns the other cheek."...

Martin Kramer, the author of "Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle
Eastern Studies in America," which contends that the study of the Middle
East and Islam is politically biased, said last night, "Prince Alwaleed
knows that if you want to have an impact, places like Harvard or
Georgetown, which is inside the Beltway, will make a difference."...

In making the two gifts, the prince focused on the importance of uniting
disparate cultures.

Harvard's news release quoted him as saying that he hoped Harvard's
Islamic studies program "will enable generations of students and scholars
to gain a thorough understanding of Islam and its role both in the past
and in today's world."

6. Empirical scientific proof of the existence of God:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1134309579092&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

7. Green fascists:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1134309580609&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Posted 12/14/2005 07:31:00 PM

1. French Riots reflect Polygamy?
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20507

2. Who has the marshmallows?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051213/ap_on_re_us/williams_execution

3. Anyone still having questions about the validity of the Barry Chamish
conspiracy "theories"?

Well, first, take a look at the "Christmas Message" on
http://www.adelaideinstitute.org about 12 lines down.

Then take a look at THIS page from the same web site:
http://www.adelaideinstitute.org/Conference/sacramento2_chamish.htm

Posted 12/13/2005 10:47:00 AM

1. Peace with Iran:

Bomb Iran
(to the tune of "Barbara Ann" by the Beach Boys)

Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, Iran.
Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, BOMB IRAN!
Let's take a stand, bomb Iran.
Our country's got a feelin'
Really hit the ceilin', bomb Iran.
Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran.

Went to a mosque, gonna throw some rocks.
Tell the Ayatollah..."Gonna put you in a box!"
Bomb Iran. Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran.
Our country's got a feelin'
Really hit the ceilin', bomb Iran.
Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran.

Ol' Uncle Sam's gettin' pretty hot.
Time to turn Iran into a parking lot. Bomb Iran.
Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran.

Call the volunteers; call the bombadiers;
Call the financiers, better get their ass in gear.
Bomb Iran. Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran.
Our country's got a feelin'
Really hit the ceilin', bomb Iran.
Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran.

Call on our allies to cut off their supplies,
Get our hands untied, and bring em' back alive. Bomb Iran.
Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran.
Our country's got a feelin'
Really hit the ceilin', bomb Iran.
Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran.

Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran.
Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, BOMB IRAN!
Let's take a stand, bomb Iran.
Our people you been stealin'
Now it's time for keelin', bomb Iran.
Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran.

I'll Bomb Iran Tonite
"I Love a Rainy Nite" Based on the performance by Eddie Rabbitt
"I'll Bomb Iran Tonite" Parody by Dr. Bob
I.ll bomb Iran Tonite

Well, I.ll bomb Iran tonite
Before the morning light
I don.t think it.s a blunder
Watch the napalm
As it lights up the sky
You know it makes me feel good

2. Judicial Tyranny in Israel:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1134309567655&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

3. Meet Yuval Shany, a senior lecturer in law at the Hebrew University.
Writing a guest Op-Ed in today's Haaretz (Hebrew only - at
http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArtPE.jhtml?itemNo=657254&contrassID=2&subContrassID=3&sbSubContrassID=0)
Comrade Shany argues that he is worried about those attempts to indict
Israeli military and intelligence officers overseas in kangaroo courts in
suits filed by anti-Semites who want to criminalize Israeli self-defense.
But comrade Shany is NOT worried about them for the reason YOU think! He
instead wants the poor "victims" of Israel in the West Bank and Gaza to
be able to sue Israeli leaders inside Israel itself! The problem is that
Israeli courts are unwilling to act as kangaroo courts for terrorists who
want to sue Israeli officers.

Comrade Shany joins far-leftist law professor Mordecai Kremnitser from
Tel Aviv University, Israel's chief academic apologist for "judicial
activism", who also has called for indictment of Israeli officers in
Israeli courts for the crime of defending Israel.

Shany has been active in opposing Israel's security wall and is author of
Living in Denial: The Application of Human Rights in
the Occupied Territories, 37(1) Israel Law Review 17-118
(2003-2004)(co-written with Orna Ben-Naftali)

4. The jihad against Xmas by the Asslibs:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20520

Posted 12/12/2005 11:55:00 AM

1. Holocaust-Trivializing Anti-Semitic professor at Hebrew University:
Hebrew University professor-
From www.israel-academia-monitor.com
Roni Hammerman in: 'Palestinians Neglected, Trio Says'

Hammerman, 65, believes Jewish aggression in Palestine stems from
ingrained fears of Jewish people, who had faced past persecution since
biblical times, culminating in the 20th-century Holocaust.
"Suffering doesn't always make people better," said Hammerman, whose
family endured Nazi atrocities. "Jewish people are handicapped by their
fear that things that happened before will happen again. We can not fight
anti-Semitism by controlling and oppressing other people."
http://admin.blueweb.co.il/main_site/index.php?type=large_advic&advice_id=2327&page_data[id]=173&userid=3112&cookie_lang=en&the_session_id=d5c22c2490af492b150fab2ae8821443
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2. Leftists Hate Amerika:
http://chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=18357

3. Saudi America:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20457

4. Mikey Lerner's Pseudo-academic black buddy:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/media/pdf/DemocracyMatters.pdf

Posted 12/10/2005 06:02:00 PM

1. More anti-Israel indoctrination from Tel Aviv University, the campus
ruled by the anti-democratic thug Itamar Rabinovich:
http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2005/11/22/editorial_main/doc437bccbbb5b2f850682856.txt

"When peace activists in Israel want to shock their audience, they
sometimes refer to Gaza as a concentration camp.
Anat Biletzki of the human rights group B.Tselem put it this way last
year: .I know that when you talk about concentration camps, Jews all jump
up in horror. I.m not talking about gassing and I.m not talking about
extermination camps. Concentration camps were camps where people were
forcibly placed and had to live their lives....."

Here is more on Biletzki:
http://jnul.huji.ac.il/IA/ArchivedSites/Seruv040204/www.seruv.org.il/english/academic_supporters.asp
http://www.seruv.org.il/UniversitySupportEng.asp

2. Another Israeli "academic" who wants to be a Palestinian jihadnik:
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/80931055-552F-491D-906B-19A916792A75.htm

3. Munich (no, not Sharon's peace plan):
WASHINGTON DIARIST
Hits

by Leon Wieseltier

Post date: 12.09.05

Issue date: 12.19.05

few days before I read in Time that Steven Spielberg's new movie is so
significant that there would be no advance screenings of it, I went to an
advance screening of it. The fakery is everywhere, isn't it, though in
this
instance it nicely captures the self-importance of this
pseudo-controversial
film. The makers of Munich seem to think that it is itself an intervention
in the historical conflict that it portrays. For this reason, perhaps,
they
have devised a movie that wishes to be shocking and inoffensive at the
same
time. It tells the story of the Israeli retaliation for the massacre at
the
Munich Olympics in 1972--specifically, of the nasty adventures of a team
of
five Israelis that is dispatched to Europe to destroy eleven Palestinians.

The film is powerful, in the hollow way that many of Spielberg's films are
powerful. He is a master of vacant intensities, of slick searings.
Whatever
the theme, he must ravish the viewer. Munich is aesthetically no different
from War of the Worlds, and never mind that one treats questions of
ethical
and historical consequence and the other is stupid. Spielberg knows how to
overwhelm. But I am tired of being overwhelmed. Why should I admire
somebody
for his ability to manipulate me? In other realms of life, this talent is
known as demagoguery. There are better reasons to turn to art, better
reasons to go to the movies, than to be blown away.

The real surprise of Munich is how tedious it is. For long stretches it
feels like The Untouchables with eleven Capones. But its tedium is finally
owed to the fact that, for all its vanity about its own courage, the film
is
afraid of itself. It is soaked in the sweat of its idea of evenhandedness.

Palestinians murder, Israelis murder. Palestinians show evidence of a
conscience, Israelis show evidence of a conscience. Palestinians suppress
their scruples, Israelis suppress their scruples. Palestinians make little
speeches about home and blood and soil, Israelis make little speeches
about
home and blood and soil. Palestinians kill innocents, Israelis kill
innocents. All these analogies begin to look ominously like the sin of
equivalence, and so it is worth pointing out that the death of innocents
was
an Israeli mistake but a Palestinian objective. (I am referring only to
the
war between the terrorists and the counterterrorists. The larger picture
is
darker. Over the years more civilians were killed in Israeli air strikes
than in the Palestinian atrocities that provoked those air strikes. The
justice of Israel's defense of itself should not be confused with the
rightness of everything that it does in self-defense.) No doubt Munich
will
be admired for its mechanical symmetries, which will be called complexity.

But this is not complexity, it is strategy. I mean of the marketing kind:
I
note that the filmmakers have nervously retained the distinguished
services
of Dennis Ross to guide the film through the excitable community of people
who know about its subject. Munich is desperate not to be charged with a
point of view. It is animated by a sense of tragedy and a dream of peace,
which all good people share, but which in Hollywood is regarded as a
dissent, and also as a point of view. Its glossy caution almost made me
think a kind thought about Oliver Stone. For the only side that Steven
Spielberg ever takes is the side of the movies.

The screenplay is substantially the work of Tony Kushner, whose hand is
easily recognizable in the crudely schematic quality of the drama, and
also
in something more. The film has no place in its heart for Israel. I do not
mean that it wishes Israel ill; not at all. But it cannot imagine any
reason
for Israel beyond the harshness of the world to the Jews. "The world has
been rough with you," the oracular gourmand godfather of an underground
anarchist family, a ludicrous character plummily played by Michael
Lonsdale,
tells Avner Kauffman, the Israeli team leader. "It is right to respond
roughly to such treatment." Avner's mother, whose family was destroyed by
the Nazis, preaches this about the Jewish state: "We had to take this,
because no one was going to give it to us. Whatever it took, whatever it
takes." Zionism, in this film, is just anti-anti-Semitism. The necessity
of
the Jewish state is acknowledged, but necessity is a very weak form of
legitimacy. There are two kinds of Israelis in Munich: cruel Israelis with
remorse and cruel Israelis without remorse. One of the Israeli killers
recalls a midrash about God's compassion for the Egyptians drowning in the
Red Sea, and keeps on killing. Another one of the Israeli killers protests
that "Jews don't do wrong because our enemies do wrong. ... We're supposed
to be righteous," and keeps on killing.

All this is consistent with Tony Kushner's view that Zionism, as he told
Ori
Nir of Haaretz last year, was "not the right answer," and that the
creation
of Israel was "a mistake," and that "establishing a state means fucking
people over." (If he really seeks to understand Middle Eastern terrorism,
he
might ponder the extent to which statelessness, too, can mean fucking
people

over.) When Avner's reckoning with his deeds takes him to the verge of a
breakdown, he joins his wife and child in Brooklyn and refuses to return
to
Israel, as if decency is impossible there. No, Kushner is not an
anti-Semite, nor a self-hating Jew, nor any of those other insults that
burnish his notion of himself as an American Jewish dissident (he is one
of
those people who never speaks, but only speaks out). He is just a
perfectly
doctrinaire progressive. And the progressive Jewish playwright Tony
Kushner's image of Israel oddly brings to mind the reactionary Jewish
playwright David Mamet's image of Israel: For both of them, its essence is
power.

The Israeli response to Black September marked the birth of contemporary
counterterrorism, and it is difficult not to see Munich as a parable of
American policy since September 11. "Every civilization finds it necessary
to negotiate compromises with its own values," Golda Meir grimly concludes
early in the film, and one is immediately grateful for the un-Cheney-like
sensation of a dissonance. Yet the film proclaims that terrorists and
counterterrorists are alike. "When we learn to act like them, we will
defeat
them!" declares one of Avner's men, played by Daniel Craig, already with a
license to kill. Worse, Munich prefers a discussion of counterterrorism to
a
discussion of terrorism; or it thinks that they are the same discussion.

This is an opinion that only people who are not responsible for the safety
of other people can hold.

Leon Wieseltier is the literary editor of TNR.

Posted 12/10/2005 10:57:00 AM

Posted 12/09/2005 03:50:00 PM

Now that the heads of Iran are openly calling for Israel's annihilation,
and Iran's "president" suggests that Europe create a Zionist state some
place inside Germany
(http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1132475711653&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull),
can someone with some web skills set up a site where
people can sign petitions to eliminate Iran as a sovereign state and to
return Iranian-occupied territories to their legal legitimate rulers, the
Mongols?

Posted 12/09/2005 12:15:00 PM

1. I will not go so far as to urge you to boycott the Magen David Adom,
Israel's Red Magen David, the emergency and ambulance service. For years
the bigots at the International Red Cross refused to grant membership to
Israel's Red Magen David because they said only a red cross or a red
Muslim crescent were acceptable. Israeli leaders told them to shove it.
Don't like the Red Magen David? Then we will use a red menorah! That is
what a reasonable response would have been.

But in the spirit of the times, where Israeli leaders believe that the
only acceptable solutions to the country's problems are self-abasement and
capitulation, Israel has now agreed to use a "neutral" red diamond as its
ambulance symbol. In other words, all religions are equal but Judaism is
inferior.

Here is the take of the Wall Street Journal on the capitulation:
Red Star of David
December 9, 2005; Page A14

After almost six decades of rejection, Israel saw the road cleared
yesterday for its emergency and disaster relief organization to join the
International Red Cross. The price of admission was relinquishing its
symbol, the Red Star of David.

Instead, the Red Cross approved a new "neutral" symbol -- a Red Crystal,
which Israel must adopt to become a member, possibly next spring. The Star
of David may still be used at home, and on foreign missions it can be put
inside the Crystal, provided the host country agrees.

Israeli diplomats are celebrating the Crystal as a great victory. If
that's a victory, we'd hate to see a defeat. Even this compromise, which
was opposed by most Muslim countries, came only after the American Red
Cross withheld its contributions to protest Israel's exclusion from the
international body.

Some Crystal backers argue that the Red Cross carries no religious
symbolism. Under this rewriting of history, Swiss Red Cross founder Henry
Dunant adopted the inverse design of his homeland's flag without any
religious motivation. But the Swiss flag dates back to the Holy Roman
Empire and of course has strong Christian connotations. This cannot have
escaped the deeply religious Dunant who, by the way, was also a fervent
Zionist.

Irrespective of Dunant's intentions, the Red Cross came to be seen as a
Christian symbol. That's why Muslim countries refused to adopt it, and
instead chose the Red Crescent, the only other recognized symbol. It's a
disgrace that the Star of David, which symbolizes the faith that spawned
both Christianity and Islam, is excluded.

2. Spooky:
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/11/conspiracy-theories-and-secret-of-my.html

3. Syria's affirmative action:
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47820

4. More campus lunacy:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20476

5. You may recall that I recently "outed" the President of Tel Aviv
University, Itamar Rabinovich, when he attempted to bully the heads of my
own university into silencing and censoring me. They laughed him off.

Now Rabinovich's rep and spokesman, the foul-mouthed Marxist Danny
Shapiro, is sending me obscene crank email. Shapiro is a senior official
in Hashomer Hatzair and runs a web service for the organziation.
I paste some exerpts from Danny the Red, spokesman for Tel Aviv
University:

From: "Danny Shapiro" <dans@post.tau.ac.il> Add to Address Book Add
Mobile
Alert
To: steven_plaut@yahoo.com
Subject: From the Marxist

Yo, Steve-o.
I mean, how else could such a
moron, who had been sent packing, tarred and feathered, for piss-poor
academic work at Oberlin, land an academic position at the Most Liberal
Haifa University, unless he was actually a lefty who agreed to actively
embarrass the Israeli and Jewish Right by his pathetic, yet often ugly,
always stupid and ranting drivel.

And how do I know this? After all, I had never heard of you until you
decided to cut the cheese on Arutz Sheva against the Psychology
Department
of Tel Aviv University, making up a bunch of nonsense about Uri Hadar
and
then senselessly, without the slightest grounds or basis, dragged in a
bunch of other fine professors who do more for Israel, the Jewish
people
and the world in a week than you can ever hope to do in a lifetime.

I know you must be a provocateur because anyone with even the vaguest
bit
of intelligence (and since you have a PhD from Princeton, I am giving
you
the benefit of the doubt about this) would know that Ariel Merari,
whose
name and reputation you hatefully and mindlessly tried to smudge
through
guilt by association, is in fact a patriot who has spent a good part of
his academic career helping the forces of good try to defeat terrorism
in
general and suicide bombings in particular. The ugly and gratuitous rip
of
him and several other TAU psych professors, being based on absolutely
nothing, strengthens my suspicion that you are a left wing plant.
That being the case, maybe we could get together for a
beer
and a few gags: you can tell me how you pulled the wool over the eyes
of
those naive dosim at Arutz Sheva, and I can tell you what you been
missing
in the Communist Revolutionary Marxist-Leninist-Trotskyite-Maoist
Underground, spearheaded by a bunch of mostly gentle, middle class,
middle-aged former members of North American Hashomer Hatzair, these
past
few years.

With much Left-Wing Fraternal Affection,

Danny Shapiro

Posted 12/08/2005 10:59:00 AM

1. Subject: from the deprogramprogram.com blog

Sharon Government to Disengage from Netanya Mall

Written by Yaakov Ish Tam
It has just been announced that for the sake of Israel's security, and as
a result of pressure by the American Government and the UN, the Sharon
government will immediately be "disengaging" from the Netanya Mall, the
site of repeated terror attacks against Israeli civilians. All
shopkeepers will be expelled from the mall and given monetary
compensation and be provided with alternative stores in the (not so) near
future in a yet to be decided location. As the government is unsure as to where to relocate the shopkeepers, they will be temporarily be placed in hotel lobbies across Israel. For the sake of expediency, all of the contents of these stores will be placed in storage in an unsecured location open to thieves and looters, and only be made available to the expelees when a new permanent location is found.The cabinet decision was made as a result of the latest murderous terrorist attack at the Sharon Mall in Netanya, where a moderate peace-loving Islamic Jihad suicide bomber snuck under the nose of the IDF, bypassed all the security checkpoints in the Northern West bank and somehow managed to cross the "impenetrable" separation wall which PM Ariel Sharon had solemnly sworn would keep suicide bombers from entering "green line" Israel. Apparantly all of Israel's security experts did not take into consideration that the clandestine tactic of hitchikng across the green line might be employed. In addition, the terrorist was spotted by security guards and police officers who were guarding the entrance to the mall, forcing him to explode himself outside killing at least one guard and injuring many others. As this was not the first time that a security guard was killed or injured defending the mall, outgoing Meretz Leader Yosi Sarid condemned the "arrogant shoppers at the Netanya mall" and asked how many good security guards and policeman must die defending them while they "frivolously squander money in peace and security at the expense of our soldiers". "Why can't they shop in a safer place?", Sarid asked. How many of our children must be placed in danger in order to protect these shoppers? The four mothers organization and Peace Now have threatened to pickett the mall until it is closed. Islamic Jihad and Hamas issued a joint statement calling for Israel to immediately withdraw from all malls and shopping centers built after 1967 and promised that there would be continued bloodshed until the Palestinian People are granted equal shopping rights as their Israeli counterparts. Sharon admitted that although the withdrawal from the Netanya Mall was a "painful concession" and would undoubtedly be perceived as a victory for Terror, encouraging terrorists to attack other malls across Israel, that the "historic step" was necessary for the security of Israel and that nothing would stop him from carrying out the disengagement. "The withdrawal from the Netanya Mall will allow shoppers in all other malls across Israel to shop in peace", Sharon said. He, however, neglected to explain how or why that would be the case. Sharon continued by explaining that "Israel cannot spare the resources to defend every mall and shopping center in the country, it has been decided that any area which has been the target of multiple terrorist attacks or even failed attempts will be immediately evacuated and relocated." "Nobody, loves to shop more than me", exclaimed Sharon, "but for the good of Israel and for the sake of our security forces we must leave the Netanya Mall at once" Sharon reassured Israeli shoppers that worst case scenario, if all the malls in Israel needed to be evacuated, people could always still shop online. It is still unclear whether the mall will be demolished, or be purchased by the World Bank to serve as a shopping mall for nearby Palestinians from the West Bank. If that is the case, Israel has promised to provide free bus and train service between all major West Bank cities and the Netanya Mall, which would be named after the late PLO chairman Yassir Arafat and proudly fly a Palestinian flag. "But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then shall those that you let remain will be as thorns in your eyes, and as pricks in your sides, and they shall harass you in the land where you will dwell. And it shall come to pass, that as I thought to do to them, I will do to you."

2. This was blogged by David Horowitz:
Seeing the President - Wednesday, December 07, 2005 6:41 AM
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My wife an I attended the Chanukah Party at the White House last night.
Bush is the first president in American history to hold Chanukah parties
along with the traditional White House Christmas parties. The White House
is magical during the Holiday Season and there were many old friends in
attendance. It had a special importance to me now that we have become in
effect two political countries -- one supporting a war for freedom in the
Middle East and one at war against us (and yes I realize there are a lot
of good people in the middle who don't have a stomach for this war but
don't want us to lose it either). I was of course thinking of the wretched
lies of Kerry and Dean from the day before.

I hadn't been at an event with the President (who is looking slim and
trim) in four years and didn't know if he would recognize me. But the
minute he saw ,me in the line he called out "Horowitz" with a big smile on
his face, then embraced me in a bear hug. In the moment I had his ear I
said, "Thank you for taking all those arrows for the rest of us."
Graciously, he said "You take more than I do," which I don't and said so.
Then as I was walking away he called out, "Don't let them get to you." I
called back, "Don't you either," and he replied in a strong voice. "I
won't."

It was a one day cross-country trip for me and my wife to attend this
event but those few seconds made it worth it. I left energized for this
battle which is so crucial to the future of our country and the freedom of
others.

3. Tookie's Tembelim

http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20474

Posted 12/07/2005 01:35:00 PM

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20439

Posted 12/07/2005 12:17:00 PM

Subject: President of Tel Aviv University tries to Suppress Free Speech!
Itamar Rabinovich behaves like anti-democratic thug!:

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20411

Israel's Campus Watch
By Steven Plaut <http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/authors.asp?ID=1223>
FrontPageMagazine.com | December 7, 2005

A specter is haunting the far-left fever swamps found inside Israeli
universities: "*Israel Academia Monitor*." It is Israel's new cousin to the
"*Campus Watch <http://www.campus-watch.org/>*" web site that operates in
the U.S., which has been controversial because of its practice of publishing
some of the loopier citations and statements made by faculty members in
North America who pose as Middle East Studies
"experts<http://www.campus-watch.org/docs/type/newsfromcampus>
."* Israel Academia Monitor <http://www.israel-academia-monitor.com/> *provides
a well-documented record of the most outrageous statements and seditious
activities of Israel's own academic extremists. Organized by campus, it
makes no secret of its desire to see the information reach donors to those
universities, as well as alumni, journalists, and others. And it has the
extremists running scared.

*Campus Watch* has long been
denounced<http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/702>for its
"McCarthyism" by those who object to its activities. Similar
denunciations<http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1141/is_17_41/ai_n12417649>of
critics of the Israeli academic Left are
becoming more common<http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1315635/posts>.
Free
speech *is precisely* what the hysteria is all about, namely the right to
free speech for *critics* of the extremists. Israel's far leftists believe
firmly in their right to denounce Israel as a Nazi-like, oppressive, racist
country, all this during a time of war. What they don't tolerate is anyone
else's right to criticize *them*. They have been attempting to silence the
critics of the anti-Zionists, much the way communists have always tried to
delegitimize anti-communism as "anti-democratic".

The attacks on *Israel Academia Monitor* (and *Campus Watch*) are coming
from people who insist that in the name of democracy *they* have the right
to endorse terror, collaborate with and promote anti-Semitism, promote law
breaking, demand that Israel be annihilated, and use their classrooms to
impose their extremist political agenda on their hapless students,
*all*within the rubric of free speech and academic freedom. Free
speech for progressive little me but none for thee.

When the British Association of University Teachers declared a
boycott<http://www.israelnationalnews.com/article.php3?id=5067>of two
Israeli universities last year (later
reversed<http://www.oxfordstudent.com/tt2005wk6/news/aut_ends_boycott_of_israeli_universities>),
it turned out that the main initiator was none other than a Senior Lecturer
at the University of
Haifa<http://admin.blueweb.co.il/main_site/index.php?type=get_page&page_data%5bid%5d=172&page_type=4&userid=3112&cookie_lang=en&the_session_id=24f850527794cc34abaeb72673f7cb64>,
Ilan Pappe <http://incontext.blogmosis.com/archives/004156.html>, who has
spent most of his academic career collaborating with anti-Israel
propagandists <http://www.meforum.org/article/87> around the world. Pappe is
best renowned for inventing <http://www.ee.bgu.ac.il/~censor/katz-directory>,
together with a graduate student of his, an imaginary "massacre" of Arabs
near Haifa that Pappe insists took place in 1948. Never mind that no one has
ever come up with a scrap of evidence that any such massacre occurred, and
never mind that the graduate student in question admitted in court that the
story was a fabrication! Pappe is on record calling for Israel to be
eliminated as a Jewish state altogether. Much of his "academic record"
consists <http://www.meforum.org/article/87> of anti-Israel political
propaganda. He is still on the University of Haifa faculty and continues to
draw a salary paid for by the Israeli taxpayer.

While Pappe became the most visible of Israel's anti-Israel academic
extremists, he is only one example of a growing academic plague of
extremism. The international "divestment" and "boycott" campaigns against
Israel have shone light on Israel's academic extremists and tenured
traitors, and helped bring to public attention to the damages they cause. Many
of these people endorse boycotts of their own universities, and quite a few
openly endorse Arab terrorism against Israelis. They continue to draw
salaries at state-financed universities, funded by the very same taxpayers
whom some of them wish to see murdered by Arab terrorists.

Four Israeli universities are today the centers of anti-Israel tenured
extremism <http://www.meforum.org/article/87> (nearly all of the extremists
by the way are leftist Jews; few Arabs are as venomously outspoken as they),
although each of the other schools also has a few such people. Many academic
extremists <http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13085>have
been part of the international campaign to boycott
Israel. Most have been involved in attempts to organize mutiny and
insurrection among Israeli soldiers and to promote refusal to serve in the
army until Israel adopts the policies endorsed by its Arab communist
parties. Many make the University of Colorado's Ward Churchill look like a
sane moderate.

There is some argument over the question of which campus is the very worst.
Ben Gurion University<http://admin.blueweb.co.il/main_site/index.php?type=get_page&page_data%5bid%5d=171&page_type=4&userid=3112&cookie_lang=en&the_session_id=24f850527794cc34abaeb72673f7cb64>is
certainly a serious contender for that title, crawling with extremist
leftists who do not think Israel has the right to exist. It contains at
least one entire department (political science) in which no Zionist,
pro-Israel faculty members may teach, and the single pro-Israel non-leftist
lecturer there was fired last year for incorrect thinking. The operation of
such an anti-pluralist department goes with the blessings of Ben Gurion
University President Avishay Braverman, himself a leftist who has now joined
trade union thug Amir Peretz, the new anti-productivity anti-market head of
the Labor Party.

Among the extremists at Ben Gurion University is Neve
Gordon<http://www.nevegordon.blogspot.com/>,
a "political science" fan of neonazi Norman Finkelstein (whom the ADL
considers <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Finkelstein> to be a
Holocaust Denier <http://israel.georgetown.edu/ADL-letter.pdf>). Gordon is
so extremist and anti-Israel that his articles have been
carried<http://www.intellectualconservative.com/article3528.html>by
the web site of deported neo-Nazi Ernst Zundel. Gordon regularly
denounces Israel<http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17270>as
a fascist, apartheid terrorist state. He served as a human
shield for wanted murderers <http://www.nevegordon.blogspot.com/> being
hidden in Yassir Arafat's headquarters in Ramallah and was arrested when he
interfered with Israeli anti-terror military operations. Gordon launched an
international campaign of vilification against his own army
commander<http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16011>,
accusing him on anti-Semitic web sites of being a "war criminal."

Also at Ben Gurion University is sociologist Lev
Grinberg<http://goldwater.mideastreality.com/2004/may/07_11.html>,
best known for his
articles<http://www.israelnationalnews.com/print.php3?what=article&id=3518>published
in Europe claiming that, when
Israel targets Hamas terror leaders, Israel is guilty of "symbolic
genocide". Then there is Oren
Yiftachel<http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17270>,
a geographer who has devoted much of his career to "proving" that Israel is
an apartheid state. The list goes on and on.

The University of
Haifa<http://admin.blueweb.co.il/main_site/index.php?type=get_page&page_data%5bid%5d=700&page_type=4&userid=3112&cookie_lang=en&the_session_id=e33962efb604487442e9931a3858653b>and
Tel
Aviv University<http://admin.blueweb.co.il/main_site/index.php?type=get_page&page_data%5bid%5d=174&page_type=4&userid=3112&cookie_lang=en&the_session_id=e33962efb604487442e9931a3858653b>are
only slightly less richly endowed with tenured extremists than Ben
Gurion University, and the Hebrew
University<http://admin.blueweb.co.il/main_site/index.php?type=get_page&page_data%5bid%5d=173&page_type=4&userid=3112&cookie_lang=en&the_session_id=e33962efb604487442e9931a3858653b>is
close in the running. At
Tel Aviv University, politicization and in-classroom brainwashing have the
official sanction of the President of the University, Itamar Rabinovich, the
man who nearly moved <http://www.meforum.org/article/467> the Syrian army up
to the Sea of Galilee. The psychology department there
now<http://israelnn.com/article.php3?id=5507>offers an anti-Israel
propaganda course entitled "The
Psychology of the Occupation" (course number 1071.3627.01), taught by a
radical anti-Zionist professor (Uri
Hadar<http://www.palestinecampaign.org/features.asp?d=y&ID=378>).
It goes without saying that no psychological damage caused to any Jew by
terror is discussed in the course. When I exposed the existence of this
course in the media, President Rabinovich wrote the heads of my own
university to demand that they silence me and penalize me for the sin of
revealing correct facts about Tel Aviv University. The Haifa chiefs
dismissed the call for censorship, probably with amusement. Rabinovich's
letter was published on the Internet by the spokesman for Tel Aviv
University, Danny Shapiro <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ShomerNet>, himself
a Marxist. So much for free speech and democracy in the mind of Rabinovich!

Tel Aviv University also hosts other faculty extremists. These include Ran
HaCohen, who regular writes anti-Israel articles for the most anti-Semitic
web sites <http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/09/06> on earth and who endorses
Hizbollah terrorism <http://www.antiwar.com/hacohen/h081303.html> against
Israel. Several Tel Aviv University faculty members are involved in
promoting <http://www.intellectualconservative.com/article3923.html>
and supporting
Tali Fahima <http://www.israelnationalnews.com/article.php3?id=4042>, the
Jewish leftist woman now in jail for helping her Jenin "boyfriend" plan
terrorist atrocities. (A few leftist professors from Israel even nominated
Fahima <http://jacobk9.tripod.com/id25.html> for a Nobel Prize!)

Several TAU faculty members have been jailed for their activities, including
Dr. Anat Matar<http://admin.blueweb.co.il/main_site/index.php?type=large_advic&advice_id=1971&page_data%5bid%5d=174&userid=3112&cookie_lang=en&the_session_id=4dd8b5a5a5f8a03809ef7e82cef385b4>,
recently arrested<http://admin.blueweb.co.il/main_site/index.php?type=large_advic&advice_id=2081&page_data%5bid%5d=174&userid=3112&cookie_lang=en&the_session_id=4dd8b5a5a5f8a03809ef7e82cef385b4>for
being part of a violent attack upon Israeli soldiers by international
"anarchists". Professor Aharon
Eviatar<http://admin.blueweb.co.il/main_site/index.php?type=large_advic&advice_id=2146&page_data%5bid%5d=174&userid=3112&cookie_lang=en&the_session_id=4dd8b5a5a5f8a03809ef7e82cef385b4>is
part
of the movement<http://admin.blueweb.co.il/main_site/index.php?type=large_advic&advice_id=1895&page_data%5bid%5d=174&userid=3112&cookie_lang=en&the_session_id=4dd8b5a5a5f8a03809ef7e82cef385b4>to
get Israeli army officers indicted before politicized kangaroo courts
outside of Israel. The now-retired Prof. Tanya
Reinhart<http://moonbatcentral.com/wordpress/?p=1247>(a prot?g? of
Noam Chomsky) has been the most candid about her desire to see
Israel annihilated altogether.

These are only a small sample of illustrations of the growing problem. A
far more detailed and fully-documented exposure of these people can be found
on the web site operated by *Israel Academia Monitor*, at
www.israel-academia-monitor.com. The Monitor expresses the desire for
donors to Israeli universities to review the material and make their views
heard. That is what enrages the radicals. But what is wrong with donors also
having freedom of speech? Should not donors take responsibility for, and a
moral interest in, how their generosity is misused by politicized
universities?

Let us be clear. No one is denying freedom of speech nor academic freedom to
the extremists, even though there are serious questions as to whether their
activities always fall within the category of protected speech. During World
War II, Oswald Mosley and his people were not granted academic lectureships
in the UK when Winston Churchill was PM, and Lord Haw-Haw was never granted
an honorary PhD as a celebration of free speech. I doubt there are many
European countries in which an open Holocaust Denier could hold a university
lectureship today, although in Israel at least one admirer of Norman
Finkelstein <http://moonbatcentral.com/wordpress/?p=1715> does.

Outside Israel, academic freedom does seem to have its boundaries. Many
European countries have laws making expressions of anti-Semitism a crime.
Israel has a law against open endorsement of terror violence, and an
"anti-racism" law<http://www.thejewishpress.com/news_article.asp?article=4856>.
No Israeli leftist has ever been indicted under it. Why not?

Many of the leftist extremists on Israeli campus have embarrassing academic
records, consisting of little more than political propaganda misrepresented
as scholarly research, yet they enter the system and stay around thanks
to political solidarity by other academic leftists.

There is a great difference between affirming their rights to free speech
and insisting that taxpayers and others have to foot the bills for their
politicization. Israeli universities are all (with one exception)
state-financed, with foreign donors covering what the taxpayer does not.
Taxpayers and donors have the right to demand accountability and to resist
being coerced into financing sedition and radicalism. Departments
like Political Science at Ben Gurion University, wishing to function as
leftist propaganda machines, are free to secede and operate independently
without taxpayer support.

Critics of the Israeli far left and donors to Israeli universities should be
as entitled to express their opinions as the extremists and radicals
themselves. Israeli professors unhappy with this arrangement can always
move to Bir Zeit University <http://users.rcn.com/espero/campus05.htm>, run
by the PLO in the West Bank, where they're likely to find a receptive
audience for their hateful views.

Posted 12/06/2005 12:49:00 PM

1. So let us see if we have this straight. Of the three contenders for
Prime Minister in Israel, one (Ariel Sharon) responded to the recent
Kassam shelling of Jewish towns in the Negev from Gaza and the latest
suicide bombing of Netanya by announcing that henceforth he would
retaliate against the Palestinian terrorists by warning them which
buildings he would
bomb and then punishing the empty buildings; the sceond contender
(Netanyahu) spent his term as Prime Minister punishing empty Palestinian
buildings for bus bombings and other forms of terror; and the third
contender (Amir Peretz) promises to retaliate for Palestinian terror
atrocities by bombing the headquarters of the Israeli Manufacturers
Association.

Is all that clear now?

2. Tikkun - Organized Crime Family!
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20427
Tikkun's Questionable Tax-Exempt Status
By Lee Kaplan
FrontPageMagazine.com | December 6, 2005

Internal Revenue Service rules and regulations make it clear that advocacy
of crimes, including "civil disobedience," is grounds for terminating an
organization.s nonprofit status. Why then has the IRS not withdrawn the
tax-exempt status it granted to Michael Lerner.s Tikkun as a nonprofit and
demanded back taxes on all the money he has collected over the years while
advocating illegal acts?

The law is clear: "A trust cannot be created for a purpose which is
illegal. The purpose is illegal...if the trust tends to induce the
commission of crime or if the accomplishment of the purpose is otherwise
against public policy." Further: "Not only is the actual conduct of
illegal activities inconsistent with exemption, but the planning and
sponsoring of such activities are also incompatible with charity and
social welfare." Yet Tikkun (which uses tax ID number 94-2527904 as a
501c3 nonprofit) has repeatedly and blatantly violated provisions against
advocating civil disobedience in violation of IRS tax codes

Tikkun activists can be found at almost all of the most virulent
anti-Israel and anti-American functions put on by groups such as the
Arab-American Anti-discrimination Committee, Al Awda (the Return),
International Answer, and United for Peace and Justice. Most of these
groups also encourage civil disobedience.a tactic that today is inspired
less by Ghandi than by anarchist thugs trashing storefronts--at American
taxpayers. expense while enjoying nonprofit status.

A 60.s Berkeley radical turned radical rabbi, Lerner has become the poster
boy for Arab interests who seek to portray "good Jews" as those who
support Arab goals against the state of Israel and against American troops
in Iraq. Part of a play-it-as-it-goes Judaism, Lerner has made himself a
well known personality in radical leftist circles, the "Jewish voice" who
can be counted on to appear at leftwing demonstrations and certify as
kosher pro-Arab and Muslim organizations seeking to dismantle Israel and
oppose US forces in Iraq. Many serious Jews believe that by making common
cause with anti-Semitic organizations and apologists for terrorism, Lerner
is more a radical opportunist than a "teacher" of the Jewish people.

Lerner.s successful leftist publication Tikkun, frequently repeats Arab
libels against Israel.claiming, for instance, that European Jews landed in
the Mideast to steal the land of the Palestinians (most of Israel.s Jewish
population are refugees from Arab lands and the Zionist movement legally
purchased all its land holdings prior to the war in 1948). The Tikkun
website frequently asks for donations to rebuild "Palestinian homes" that
were demolished by the Israel Defense Force because they housed terrorist
cells or bomb factories. Lerner.s diatribes against Israel and US forces
in Iraq match PLO propaganda almost verbatim and as a result he is
frequently welcomed by International Solidarity Movement and other
anti-Israel groups as a "true" Jewish voice. .

Lerner.s own experience of civil disobedience comes from the
Weatherman-like actions he was involved with in Seattle and elsewhere
during the 1960s: the spontaneous demonstration that quickly gets out of
hand. There is little doubt what Tikkun wants to happen when it repeatedly
advocates civil disobedience in violation of IRS tax codes on its website:

Thursday morning: April 11 [2004] Nonviolent Protest (and possibly civil
disobedience)at The U.S. State Department (near Foggy Bottom subway
station) Be there at 10:30 a.m. Action begins: 11 a.m.

Only people committed to non-violence are welcome. Let us know if you are
coming: community@tikkun.org If you know you are planning to participate
in nonviolent civil disobedience, please send us your name, name of
contact person should you be arrested and their phone number and email,
your driver's license or other i.d. number, your home address, and your
home phone and email. Do not resist arrest. And come on Wednesday night to
the event at Temple Shalom if that is at all possible for you. Contact us:

community@tikkun.org or call 415 575 1200

From the Tikkun website:

Join TIKKUN COMMUNITY co-chairs Rabbi Michael Lerner and Cornel West in a
demonstration at the State Department in D.C. at 11 a.m. on Thursday,
April 11, or in similar demonstrations in NYC and S.F. that same day.
Sorry to inconvenience you during the work week, but the slaughter is
happening right now. Some of us may engage in non-violent civil
disobedience (depending on whether it makes sense given developments till
that moment), others will be there to publicly support our call for an
international force to intervene immediately to separate and protect both
sides.

***************

In NEW YORK CITY Thursday, April 11: Vigil at Israel Consulate with
possible non-violent civil disobedience. Tikkun Community will follow the
lead of John Deats,. of the Fellowship of Reconciliation. More info: Rev.
Richard Deats Editor, Fellowship magazine Box 271 Nyack, NY 10960
845.358-4601. Fax 845-358-4924

****

Then, that evening, April 11, Rabbi Lerner will speak and meet with people
interested in The Tikkun Community at the Church of St Paul and St.
Martin, northeast corner of 86th and West End Ave, 7 p.m. Spread the word,
please! And bring dessert!

************************

San Francisco: Thursday April 11 Israeli Consulate this Thursday at Noon
at 456 Montgomery Street between Sacramento and California in downtown San
Francisco, where we will hold a press conference during which we will
present officials at the Consulate with a DECLARATION OF BAY AREA JEWS FOR
AN END TO THE OCCUPATION AND FOR AN IMMEDIATE CESSATION OF VIOLENCE IN THE
MIDDLE EAST. Possible non-violent civil disobedience, depending on world
circumstances.

On another page of the Tikkun website, Lerner acknowledges that Tikkun
advocates civil disobedience not just against Israel, but also the U.S.
government:

One step we need to consider to get the U.S. government to change its
policies and support this more balanced perspective for peace and justice
is to engage in civil disobedience. Would you join us in doing so were we
to call for such a day of civil disobedience, either in your own town or
in D.C. If you would, let us know immediately--email

RabbiLerner@tikkun.org and let us know if you'd come to DC for such or
whether you'd organize a group of people in your own community to
participate at a local public place.

In fact, Lerner wants to develop a Rapid Response Team to engage in civil
disobedience not just in the nation.s capital, but in cities all over the
country, too.

"We must nonviolently resist attacks upon our freedoms and what we deem to
be excesses of our foreign and domestic policies. Such nonviolent
resistance would include, at the appropriate time and place, civil
disobedience for which we would accept fair legal penalties as an integral
part.."

By "fair legal penalties," Lerner is referring to the usual drill of the
civil disobedience arrest: a few minutes at court to be quickly released
in time to attend the victory party, with a suspended sentence later on.
But the fair penalty for what he has advocated should be revocation of
Tikkun.s nonprofit status.

There is a title waiting for Michael Lerner.s next book: how an ex-60.s
radical repackaged himself as a rabbi and found a new way to develop a
sinecure for himself while aiding terrorist movements overseas and their
insurgency allies in Iraq.tax free. It is a story that is probably worth
telling, but the U.S. taxpayer should not have to subsidize it

3. The most dangerous job in Israel?

English tutor for Amir Peretz? Dental hygienist for Ariel Sharon?

No, grasshopper. It is the guard at the entrance to the Sharon Mall in
Netanya. The mall has been targeted by more suicide bombers than any
other single spot in Israel.

And every single time it has been targeted, the murderer came from the
nearby West Bank town of Tul Karem, under PLO control. What has Israel
done to Tul Karem after each attack? Not much. Mainly purr and threaten
really really hard retaliation. You know, RRH. Meow.

So what needs to be done? Well, the answer was hidden in an old Joni
Mitchell song, with slight alteration of the lyrics. (Those of you old
enough to have prostate problems will remember Joni from the 60s.)

Her 'tis:

The Parking Lot Solution Song

Based on "Big Yellow Taxi" original lyrics by Joni Mitchell
(http://www.letssingit.com/?/joni-mitchell-big-yellow-taxi-tsgr9wh.html )

Let's paved Tul Karem
Turn't to a parking lot!
With a nice set of meters, a drive-in
And swinging skateboard SPOT
Don't it always seem to go
That you think you can't plug 'em
'Til they're gone
Let's paved Tul Karem
Turn't to a parking lot!

Let's take all them tanzim
And put them in a tanzim museum
And we'll charged the lefties
A dollar and a half just to seem 'em
Don't it always seem to go
That you think you can't whack 'em
'Til they're gone
Let's paved Tul Karem
Turn't to a parking lot!

Hey settler, settler
Take out your RPG now
And send in the choppers
To vaporize 'em among the birds and bees,
Please!
Don't it always seem to go
That you think you can't zap 'em
'Til they're gone
Let's paved Tul Karem
Turn't to a parking lot!

Late last night
I heard the missile slam
And a big yellow taxi
Took away their Engineer man
Don't it always seem to go
That you think you can't whack 'em
'Til they're gone
Let's paved Tul Karem
Turn't to a parking lot!

I said
Don't it always seem to go
That you think you can't smack 'em
'Til they're gone
Let's paved Tul Karem
Turn't to a parking lot!

Posted 12/05/2005 01:42:00 PM

1. As Netanya buries the latest of its Oslo victims, killed by the
stupidity of the Israeli political elite, we see no relief on the
horizon, where Israelis will be required to chose between three Oslo
appeasers: Sharon, Peretz and Netanyahu.

Of course it once again proves the stupidity of Israel's Oslo Camp but
Oslo has been proven to be a failure every day over the past 13 years, so
there is no reason to expect any relief or awakening of Israel's blinded.

2. The battle over the possible appointment of Prof. Ruth Gavison to
the Supreme Court is heating up. The Left despises Gavison because she is
a critic of "judicial activism", the doctrine holding that unelected
judges should be able to make up any "law" they want, whether or not the
legislature of elected reps of the people support such a law, all because
the judges are such enlightened people. Gavison, herself a moderate
leftist, sees this doctrine as judicial tyranny. That is why the Chief
Justice, Aharon Barak, is trying to block her appointment, as are some
other far-Leftist Post-Zionist law professors like Mordecai Kremnitzer
from Tel Aviv University.

Anyway, now the local gay militant groups have joined in the attempt at
"Borking" Gavison. They are claiming she is anti-gay. Why? Well, once
in a mock trial at a university, she opposed gay "marriage" on grounds
that there was no law creating it and none any that would pass any
Knesset.

In other words, she thinks courts should uphold actual laws and not
imaginary laws that "enlightened" judges think would be nice to have. The
gay militant lobby is afraid that Gavison on the Supreme Court would mean
actual laws get upheld rather than nice laws no Knesset would ever pass,
and the latter include "gay marriage".

They are also upset because Gavison once
participated in public conferences seeking to achieve a modus vivendi
between religious and secular Israelis on assorted issues. There she was
prepared to agree to the desires of religious Jews to prohibit gay
"marriages" in Israel and deny acknowledgement of legal rights to
"partners" (hetero or homo). Haaretz reports that the "representatives
of the homoseual community" are outraged, from which we learn that there
exists a homosexual "community".
(http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArtVty.jhtml?sw=gavison&itemNo=653544
)

The gay militants also criticized Gavison's support for an amendment to
the citizenship law prohibiting family unification between Palestinians
and Israeli citizens, noting it posed a particular hardship for
homosexuals and lesbians because of attitudes toward gays in the
Palestinian community. You see, the same PLO that the Left, including its
gay wing, idealizes has a tendency to arrest homosexuals for "vice" and
murder or torture them.

You will not be surprised to hear, under the circumstances, that "Rabbi"
Eric Yoffie, an anti-Israel far-Leftist clergybeing from the Reform
sunagogue movement, is now a new Haaretz regular columnist:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/rosnerGuest.jhtml?itemNo=653589
Yoffie has never gotten too upset when Palestinian homosexuals are
tortured by the PLO.

Posted 12/05/2005 12:54:00 PM

1. The ISM at Duke: The Saga Continues
By Jack Langer
FrontPageMagazine.com | December 2, 2005

Not many people would say they.re against .free speech.. That.s why the
administration at Duke University has relied on this slogan to wage a
year-long battle to keep the Duke campus open for the recruitment of Duke
students into an avowedly pro-terrorist organization.

Last autumn, the Duke administration sparked ferocious opposition from
Jewish, alumni, and other organizations when it approved an application
for Duke to host the annual Palestine Solidarity Movement conference
(PSM). The PSM functions as the student branch of the International
Solidarity Movement (ISM), a Palestinian-led .direct action. organization
that trains European and American youths to partake in .civil
disobedience. and other agitational activities in Israel.

Although the ISM insistently bills itself as a .non-violent. organization,
two of the organization.s co-founders, Huwaida Arraf and Adam Shapiro,
have explicated an overall strategy that envisions the ISM functioning in
close cooperation with Palestinian terrorist organizations. According to
Huwaida and Arraf, .The Palestinian resistance must take on a variety of
characteristics . both nonviolent and violent. But most importantly it
must develop a strategy involving both aspects. No other successful
nonviolent movement was able to achieve what it did without a concurrent
violent movement.. Thus, the ISM was specifically created to function as
an auxiliary, partner, and enabler of a violent anti-Israeli campaign.

Opponents of the PSM conference at Duke brought the ISM.s violent agenda
to the attention of Duke President Dick Brodhead and his Vice President,
John Burness. Furthermore, it was pointed out that the ISM has a vested
interest in the propaganda benefits to be accrued from the maiming or even
killing of its own young volunteers . the exact type of youths that are
recruited at Duke and other American universities. Another ISM co-founder,
George Rishmawi, extrapolated on this point: .When Palestinians get shot
by Israeli soldiers, no one is interested anymore,. he said. .But if some
of these foreign volunteers get shot or even killed, then the
international media will sit up and take notice..

President Brodhead.s response was to praise the PSM conference as an
exercise in free speech and an opportunity for .education through
dialogue.. Concerns about providing a forum for ISM recruitment of Duke
students were brushed aside with the administration.s ambiguous assurance
that .the Palestine Solidarity Movement, while related to the
International Solidarity Movement, is a distinct and separate
organization..

The .distinct and separate. nature of the PSM and ISM was belied by the
presence of at least a dozen documented ISM members who served as workshop
leaders at the PSM.s Duke conference. Two workshops were specifically
dedicated to promoting the ISM. One of these was led by two ISM members .
Jessica Rutter, a Duke alum, and Rann Bar-On, a Duke graduate student who
was the local organizer of the PSM conference. The other ISM workshop was
an out-and-out ISM recruitment session led by ISM co-founder Huwaida
Arraf. At that session, Arraf repeatedly encouraged students to join the
ISM, passed out ISM recruitment brochures, and instructed students on how
to illegally gain entry into Israel by lying to Israeli border guards. She
also freely admitted that the ISM cooperates with Hamas, Islamic Jihad,
and PFLP terrorist organizations.

After the conference, President Brodhead hailed the gathering as a
.constructive. event, while Vice President Burness gushed, .It.s a good
thing we did here.. In response to an article in Commentary magazine
co-authored by the present writer revealing that the conference featured
an ISM recruitment session, Burness simply reiterated the administration.s
position that the PSM and ISM were different organizations.

The ISM, incidentally, views the PSM recruitment effort at Duke as a
rousing success. Duke ISM member Rann Bar-On, who apparently did not get
Burness. memo on the distinctions between the PSM and ISM, bragged to the
Duke Chronicle that the PSM conference had led directly to an increase in
the number of local students recruited to agitate in Israel, with seven
students participating in anti-Israeli operations there last summer.

When a Duke alum and former North Carolina legislator recently published a
column in a local newspaper castigating the Duke administration for
allowing the ISM to recruit among Duke students, Burness responded by
conceding that the ISM has .acknowledged ties to some extremist
Palestinian groups,. but again reiterated that the ISM and PSM were
.separate and distinct..

This excuse, however, fell by the wayside last month, when the
administration once again gave the ISM access to the Duke student body.
The event, part of a national speaking tour of American universities and
churches featuring an Israeli and a Palestinian ISM member, was held on
campus under the ISM.s own auspices, along with several co-sponsoring
organizations. The speeches offered a pro-Palestinian narrative on Israeli
history and the present conflict, after which attendees were invited to
grab brochures and pamphlets from the sponsoring organizations and to sign
up for the ISM mailing list.

Thus, the disingenuousness of the administration.s repeated justification
for allowing the PSM conference . that the PSM is separate from the ISM .
was clearly revealed. President Brodhead has now given the ISM officially
sanctioned access to Duke students, this coming after the ISM had already
successfully recruited at Duke under the thin veneer of the PSM
conference. Burness had defended the PSM by claiming that there was .no
evidence to support a connection between terrorist groups and the
Palestine Solidarity Movement.. This argument has now been rendered
irrelevant, since the administration admits the ISM does have connections
to terrorist groups, but gave the organization permission to return to
Duke anyway.

When challenged for permitting the PSM and ISM meetings, the Duke
administration incessantly invokes its commitment to free speech. And its
interpretation of .free speech. is indeed expansive, even providing for
the open and repeated recruitment of Duke students into an organization
that the administration itself concedes has close ties to terrorist
organizations that are blacklisted by the U.S. State Department.

The safety of Duke students is clearly of secondary importance to the
administration. It seems unimpressed by the fate of Rachael Corrie, an
Evergreen State College student who, having been recruited into the ISM,
was killed after stepping in front of an Israeli military bulldozer in a
tragic but typical act of ISM-style .direct action.. The international
media coverage of her death fulfilled George Rishmawi.s prediction of the
propaganda benefits to be derived from the deaths of young, Western ISM
members.

The Duke administration.s absolute insistence that the Duke campus be
opened up to recruiting efforts by the ISM is difficult to fathom; using
the Duke campus to encourage law breaking and cooperation with terrorist
organizations hardly comes under the rubric of free speech. But by
allowing the ISM back into Duke under its own auspices, the administration
has forfeited its primary excuse that it is only allowing other .related.
organizations to Duke and not the ISM itself. Now, the vacuous
sloganeering of .free speech. is the only justification the administration
has left for its inexplicable actions. By abusing the very notion of .free
speech,. the Duke administration has degraded the concept so that it is no
longer an admirable principle. It has become the last refuge of
scoundrels.

Jack Langer is a Ph.D. candidate in Russian History at Duke University. He
can be reached at jlan@duke.edu.

2. New anti-Semitic Line among the Eurotrash:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20394

3. When truth peeks out:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20395

4. Europe's "Good Jews":
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article.asp?aid=12005044_1

5. Lyin Lefties:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47685

6. Pogromchiki in Georgia
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20420

7. Peace Process:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20415

8. Alah Tarif is an Druse Knesset Member from the Labor Party who was
convicted in Tel Aviv Court of bribery. As a result he refuses to swear
allegiance to the state of Israel in order to be seated in the Knesset.
The Left is insisting that refusal to swear allegiance to Isreal is no
reason for people not to sit in the Knesset. After all, theKnesset has
Arab Knesset members who openly identify with the enemies of Israel and
want Israel to be destroyed. And the Left sees nothing wrong with that.

9. Speaking about the Left and treason, Haaretz yesterday came out in
support of jailed accomplice of terrorists, Tali Falima, a Jewish leftist
woman. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/653183.html

Posted 12/02/2005 09:55:00 AM

1. PC Brainwashing at TAU

The official participation of Tel Aviv University in the Leftist Jihad
continues. Haaretz this morning reports that a conference was held
yesterday in which leftist Michael Walzer was featured. He ranted against
Judaism and called for Israeli secularists to fight religion the same way
it is fought in Algeria. You may recall that Algeria murdered 200,000
religious fudamentalists. Walzer seemed to like that precedent and also
mentioned the success of the Bolsheviks in Russia in suppressing religion.
The panel also featured Yoav Peled, a communist professor of political
science at Tel Aviv University, who expressed the opinion that Israel must
cease surviving as a Jewish state. For background on Peled, go to the TAU
page at www.israel-academia-monitor.com

The TAU panel did include a couple of people who thought that Israel
should continue to exist, evidently a minority opinion these days at Tel Aviv
University. These were Ruth Gavison, the heroic moderate leftist who has
fought against judicial "activism" (meaning judicial tyranny), and so is
the woman most hated by the radical left these days in Israel, and Yosef
Gorny, a moderate Zionist. When Gorny asked rhetorically what kind of
"democratic" notion it is to demand from the electoral majority (the
Jews, in the case of Israel) "to agree to annihilate their majority
status," Haaretz reports that Peled jumped up and screamed, "Yes, that is
the Logic of Democracy!" So, too, evidently was the herding of Jews onto
cattle cars in 1944.

Meanwhile, Tel Aviv University is also about to run a one-day conference
on Sunday, Dec 4, in collaboration with the far-Leftist
anti-Israel "Association for
Civil Rights in Israel," on the topic: "Education and Human Rights". The
"Association" is run by novelist Sami Michael, who went on record last
year in endorsing the "human right" of the Hamas to conduct mass murders
of Jews. The Association does not recognize the "human right" of Jews to
defend themselves against mass murdering terrorists and is not
particularly in favor of non-leftists enjoying the right of free speech.
The only way it is willing for Israel to fight terror is through
capitulation to th edemands of terrorists. These are the co-sponsors,
along with TAU, of the event on the campus!

The Tel Aviv U conference features, among other speakers, Shulamit Aloni
and reps from Amnesty International. For background info on both
Amnesty and the "Association", see http://ngo-monitor.org/
So Tel Aviv University's idea of pluralism and balance continues to
resemble that of Haaretz.

TAU is headed by Itamar Rabinovich, an anti-democratic ex-diplomat who
seems to believe that free speech should be restricted to leftists.

His idea of democracy resembles those of these people:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20358

2. Headline in Haaretz
Braverman: Israel is nearly Third World but if you elect me and
Peretz we will make sure it is completely Third World:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/652278.html

3. Cassius Afrofascist:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20379

4. In Hebrew - Sharon's new Kadima party:
http://d6036529.u44.webgatedns.com/kadimalakele01/index.html
It means "Onward to Prison"

5. For the first time in Israel's history, a sitting judge was unseated.
No, not impeached. Judges cannot be impeached in Israel. Judges in
Israel are selected undemocratically by a commission of other people,
themselves not elected, and the commission consists mainly of other
unelected judges, headed by the anti-democratic Justice Aharon Barak,
Chief Justice of the Israeli Supreme Court. This commission on paper has
the power to unseat a judge, or at least it now claims to have such a
power in the spirit of Barak's judicial philosophy, which holds that the
law says whatever he wants it to say. The judge dismissed had angered
Barak over some improper behavior unrelated to a trial or court hearing.
She was dismissed by the other judges on the commission who were not
elected.

Now before anyone gets all excited that this represents a new era of
judicial accountability, let the air out of that sail. It does not. The
court system is still dominated by Barak's anti-democratic "judicial
activism", holding that non-elected judges should be allowed to trump the
will of the people as expressed through votes by elected legislators. We
will know that Israel is REALLY democratic when Aharon Barak himself is
impeached or dismissed.