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Original articles on Israel and related issues written by Steven Plaut, a professor at an Israeli university. |
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
An Interview with Meretz Chairpeacenik Zehava Galon
By Steven Plaut
Good morning, Madame Chairperson, I would like to ask you about your thoughts on the events in Brussels this week.
Just call me Zehava, young man. Always glad to speak with representatives of the progressive Meretz-voting fourth estate. Clearly it was all the fault of Bibi Netanyahu, now what was the question again?
Madame Zehava, you have always claimed that Israel is the target of terrorism because it is an occupier, but Belgium is not occupying anything and in fact was twice occupied in the 20th century.
What kind of reactionary comment is that? What are you, young man, some sort of settler? A planted mole from Ad Kan?
I live in Ramat Aviv. But speaking of settlers, Belgium does not have any settlements anywhere, so why was it the victim?
I do not make judgments and one woman's terrorist is another woman's victim. But why are you asking me all these Kahanist questions?
Madame Zehava, Israel has a military conflict with the Arab world, but Belgium does not have a military conflict with anyone. It does not participate in Allied actions against ISIS in Syria and elsewhere. In fact, it barely has a military.
Call security, someone let in this reactionary who is inciting against me and suppressing my freedom of speech!
Madame Zehava, you have always insisted that the only way for Israel to make peace is to be nice. Well, the Belgians were nice and even turned over much of Brussels to Islamists.
Did Im Tirtzu put you up to this? Take your baseball hat off, I want to see if you have a yarmulka hiding under it!
Madame Zehava, Brussels is the capital of the EU and the symbol of transcendence of narrow nation-state identity, which is what you have long advocated for Israel.
Beast, inciter, you are endangering my life! What is it with you, don't you read Haaretz?
Madame Zehava, Belgium is the ultimate state for two ethnic groups living side by side in tranquility! Like in the Meretz vision for Israel. Why was it targeted?
Ok, your time is up, I have a luncheon engagement at the Shenkin Shenkin House of White Meat. Where is my damn bodyguard?
2. An Open Letter to the Belgian Prime Minister from Shimon Peres
Dear Mr. Prime Minister, Shimon Peres
3. THE BRUSSELS ATROCITIES NEED AN APPROPRIATE RESPONSE!! LABEL ALL PRODUCTS IMPORTED FROM BELGIUM AS COMING FROM OCCUPIED FLANDERS AND OCCUPIED WALLONIA!!
4. AMOS THE SCARECROW OF OZ CONTRIBUTES 15,000 NIS TO THE ESPIONAGE TREASON GROUP, "BREAKING THE SILENCE." http://www.inn.co.il/News/News.aspx/246628
5. Best Purim costume: Tuesday, March 22, 2016
When the Belgian national opera staged a show by anti-Semites celebrating suicide bombings:
Thursday, April 16, 2009Two Jews and an Israeli Arab Stage Belgian Opera Celebrating Mass Murder and Suicide Terrorsm against JewsYou will be happy to hear that two pro-terror Israelis, a Jew and an Arab, will be staging an opera in Belgium that celebrates Palestinian suicide mass murder of Jews. This is not a spoof. The opera in question is based on the classic Samson and Delilah opera by Camille Saint-Saens, except that in this case Samson will be dressed as a Palestinian when he commits suicide in order to mass murder the Philistines, who in the opera are ... (you guessed it) ... the Israelis. This celebration of suicide bombing and genocidal mass murder is to be staged by one Omri Nizsan with his Arab sidekick from the Galilee Amir Nizar Zoabi (probably a Bedouin, based on his name). The Jewish victims of the Philistines will be dressed as Gazan Arabs and identified as such. Samson is to be represented as the first "shaheed" or mass murderer through suicide terrorism. The producers claim it is all to be a protest against "occupations," including in Palestine, Iraq, and Afghanistan. The "opera" is to be staged at the Flemish Opera House in Antwerpen, just steps away from the city's large Jewish community. The location is ideal in case any in the audience decide to apply the ideas being communicated in the show and go out to murder a lot of local Jews. The Flemish Opera House is now directed by a self-hating leftist anti-Israel Jew (born in Zurich) named Aviel Cahn. His qualifications for running an opera are that he graduated from law school. (For more, see this : You may want to ask Mister Cahn why he is not staging an opera celebrating the rape of Belgium by the Kaiser in World War I, in which Belgium is shown as Chamor son of Shechem, while Germany is Dina. That should amuse the Belgiums even before the fat lady sings. Tuesday, March 15, 2016
For those who thought that Haaretz, the Palestinian newspaper printed in Hebrew, could not get any more treasonous, its new campaign this week is defending the Hezb'Allah. The background to this is that the entire Arab world through the Arab League, led by the Saudis, has denounced the Hezb'Allah as a terrorist group, as have all Western countries.
Well, the loyal and patriotic Arab members of the Knesset would have none of that. They denounced the Saudis and the Arab League for behaving as Israeli puppets for their denunciations of Hezb'Allah. The MKs have spent recent days saluting and defending the Hezb'Allah. Since the Hezbies are fighting alongside Asad's gangsters in Syria, the Israeli Arab Knesset Members are declaring jihad not only against Jews and Saudis, but also against Syrian Sunnis.
And that is sufficient reason for Haaretz to pick sides. As always toeing the line set by Haneen Zoabi and her fellow jihadis, Haaretz ran items this week celebrating Hezb'Allah and proclaiming that it is decidedly NOT a terrorist group:
Hezb'Allah according to Haaretz is just a defensive social welfare group, defending itself from Israeli aggression.
Up the street from me is a patch of road and sidewalks that are full of hundreds of pock marks. It is where a Hezb'Allah rocket exploded in a Haifa residential area in the war of 2006. The pocks are from the ball bearings loaded into it to create maximum civilian casualties.
As part of defensive social services of course.
If a dozen such rockets hit the Haaretz editorial offices, there would be peace in the Middle East!
2. LET'S STOP PRETENDING THAT SOCIOLOGY IS A BONA FIDE ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE. IT IS TIME TO SHUT DOWN THE SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENTS IN ISRAEL, BECAUSE THEY ARE MARXIST ANTI-ISRAEL AGITPROP CENTERS:
Uri Ram is a professor of sociology at Ben Gurion "University" in occupied Be'er Sheba, and it is he that is leading the jihad of Israeli sociologists against Ariel University. Let's put aside the question of whether Ariel University would actually be better off without a department of sociology, in which case Marxist bashers of Israel would have to seek appointments at Ariel in other departments. The question remains, who is this Uri Ram?? Uri Ram, a sociologist from Ben Gurion University, thinks Israel's very existence is a crime against humanity. He participates in the Stalin Day commemorations held periodically at Tel Aviv University. The leftist Zionist David Hirsh fiercely told off Ram in Yediot Ahronot in a piece worth reading in full: 'Uri Ram's mistake is to assume that the boycott campaign is really about Israel. But it's not about Israel, stupid, nor is it about Palestine; it's about Britain. Nationalism can be an insidious temptation and it can narrow our perspective; it has narrowed Ram's perspective. He is not considering the effect or the symbolism of a campaign to exclude a significant proportion of the world's Jewish scholars from European universities; he is not thinking about how the argument to exclude is made in British public life. Ram seems only concerned with fighting an Israeli battle against the Israeli government.' More on Ram: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3457512,00.html http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3580743,00.html http://www.isracampus.org.il/…/Israeli%20extremism%20-%20Is… http://spme.org/…/academic-freedom-in-israel-a-compa…/10940/ TIME TO BOYCOTT URI RAM'S INSTITUTION, BEN-GURION "UNIVERSITY"
3. QUESTION FOR HEADS OF MERETZ: IN WHICH SECTIONS OF THE KOTEL SHOULD THE TRANSGENDERED DAVEN??
4. The posting the censored "Academia" list refused to run: The "Academia" chat list is a censored restricted chat list run by David Levy-Faur, who has indicated that it is open only to those who oppose the "Kibush" ("occupation"). This past week, the list "debated" the latest atrocity by Anat Matar, who is among the worst radical anti-Israel "academics" working against Israel at Tel Aviv University. Matar may be best remembered for celebrating Arab terrorists who murder Jews and for demanding a world boycott against the Technion. Seehttp://isracampus.org.il/…/TAU%20-%20TAU%20Donor%20calls%20… and http://isracampus.org.il/…/Editorial%20-%20Joel%20Amitai%20…. This week she is in Helsinki (with university funds?) to promote BDS terrorism against Israel. Levy-Faur ran a long series of postings by people claiming that anyone denouncing Matar is a "McCarthyist," but refused to allow the following posting to run:
Sunday, March 06, 2016
For those who think politics just could not get any more infantile than the US debate over Trump's petzele, just consider the choking hysteria of the media Left in Israel over a satirical Purim-season joke about one of the dumber Labor Party Knesset Members in Israel.
The leftist media moonbats in Israel and their radical feminizt bosom buddies had a fit when a religious news commentator suggested in a Purim gag that a Labor Party Knesset Member ride her bike without the bike seat. Want to know what did NOT upset the leftist media moonbats? It was at the conference on "culture" run by Haaretz this week, in which a flaky leftist "actor" named Ariel Bronz shoved an Israeli flag up his rear end. Bronz has a long track record of proclaiming his disgust and hatred for everything Israeli - see http://www.haaretz.co.il/gallery/theater/.premium-1.2757437 (open only on an empty stomach) - so naturally Haaretz wanted him to star at their cultural congress. Can it be far off when he will get tenure at Ben Gurion 'University'?
2. Haaretz, the Palestinian newspaper printed in Hebrew, has a new bogeyman - the "Judaizing" of Jerusalem. http://www.haaretz.com/settlementdollars/.premium-1.707158
3. Indict the postman for biting the dog! Rare? When have leftists and Arabs ever been indicted for "incitement" in Israel? Israel's politicized judicial system on display - finally finds some "incitement" worth prosecuting:
Rare Indictment Against Jewish Israeli for Anti-Arab IncitementA Jewish Israeli is charged with incitement to racism and violence against Arabs on Facebook.
4. Hamas' Gay Terror Leader: http://www.israellycool.com/2016/03/01/terrorist-rubbed-out-for-suspected-hamasexuality%E1%B5%80%E1%B4%B9/ and http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/02/world/middleeast/hamas-commander-mahmoud-ishtiwi-killed-palestine.html?_r=2
5. FRIENDS DON'T LET FRIENDS SEND THEIR KIDS TO OBERLIN "COLLEGE"
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