Let's Recognize the Right to Self-Determination

By Steven Plaut

   As you know, quite a few European countries are in the process of "recognizing" the "state" of "Palestine."  The question arises of what the appropriate response from Israel should be to these actions by the Europeans.

   SO here is a plan:

If Belgium recognizes "Palestine," then Israel must recognize the separatist movements of the Flemish, the Walloons, and the Belgium Germans, and officially recognize the right of each group to set up its own state.

If Denmark  recognizes "Palestine," then Israel must recognize the separatist movement of the Faroese and officially recognize the right of the Faroe Islands to be an independent state.

If Finland recognizes "Palestine," then Israel must recognize the separatist movements of the Åland Swedes, and officially recognize their right to set up their own state.

If France recognizes "Palestine," then Israel must recognize the separatist movements of the Basques in France, of Brittany, of Northern Catalonia, of Savoy, of Occitania, and of course of Corsica.   Israel should officially recognize their right to set up their own states and arm them generously.

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If Germany recognizes "Palestine," then Israel must recognize the separatist movements of the Bavarians, the East Frisians, the Franconians, the Lusatians, and the people of Shleswig-Holstein, and Israel must officially recognize their right to set up their own states.

If Italy recognizes "Palestine," then Israel must recognize the separatist movements of the Sardinians, the South Tyrolese, and the people of Lombardy, and officially recognize their right to set up their own states.

If Holland recognizes "Palestine," then Israel must recognize the separatist movements of the Frisians, and officially recognize their right to set up their own state.

If Russia recognizes "Palestine," then Israel must recognize the separatist movements inside Russia, a list of whom would fill a page,, and officially recognize their right to set up their own states.

If Spain recognizes "Palestine," then Israel must recognize the separatist movements of the Basques, the Catalans, the Andalusians, the Aragonese, the Asturians, the Balearic Islanders, the Cantabrians, the Leonese, the Galicians, and the Portuguese living in Spain.  Israel must officially recognize the right of each group to set up its own state.

If Sweden recognizes "Palestine," then Israel must recognize the separatist movements of the Scanians, and officially recognize their right to set up their own state.

If Switzerland recognizes "Palestine," then Israel must recognize the separatist movements of the Genevans, Jurassiens, and the people of Ticino, and officially recognize their right to set up their own states.

If Turkey recognizes "Palestine," then Israel must recognize all the separatist movements inside Turkey, first and foremost the Kurds, officially recognize their right to set up their own states and arm them to the teeth.

If the UK recognizes "Palestine," then Israel must recognize the separatist movements of the Scots, the Welsh, the Manx, Cornwall, Ulster, the Shetland Islands, the Orkney Islands, the Outer Hebrides, and officially recognize their right to set up their own states.

End the Unfair Competition!  Ban freebies!

   As you know, the Israeli Knesset just passed on a first vote (it needs to pass three votes to become law) a bill that seeks to force the closure of the most popular daily newspaper in the country, Israel Hayom.   The bill is the initiative of Knesset Member Eitan Cabel from what is left of the Israeli Labor Party.  Cabel and his cronies claim that it is unfair competition if a newspaper is distributed for free because it harms the other newspapers in Israel (never mind that they too, especially Yediot Ahronot, are also often distributed for free) and so Israel Hayom must be banned and closed because of this "unfair competition."    All in the name of freedom of the press.

    Well I would like to point out that on certain streets in Tel Aviv there are hard-working women who charge money for the very same "services" that are provided to Eitan Cabel by his own wife for free.   The fact that Cabel's wife is not charging for these services clearly is unfair competition because it harms the livelihoods of these hard-working women.  This is a clear and present danger to freedom and fairness!

    OH, before you get too agitated, I was of course referring to cooking.

The anti-democratic Initiative of the anti-Adelson Horde

     In one of the worst assaults on democracy the Israeli Knesset yesterday approved in the "first vote" (a bill must pass three votes to become law) a Soviet-era-style censorship law that seeks to shut down the most popular Hebrew daily newspaper in the country, Israel Hayom.  This assault on freedom of the press is the brainchild of Labor Party Knesset Member Eitan Cabel.   Its purpose is to erase and suppress journalist freedom in Israel, preserving it for the forces of darkness associated with the Israeli Left.  It seeks to eliminate the popular conservative pro-Netanyahu daily Israel Hayom in order to preserve the hegemony over Israeli printed media by the two Far-Leftist Israeli dailies, Haaretz and Yediot Ahronot.  (The other Hebrew daily Maariv is semi-bankrupt and is not even distributed outside the Tel Aviv area.)

     Komrad Cabel was joined in this Stalin-era-like vote against the press by most of the Knesset Members from the Labor Party, Tzipi Livni's party, the members of Avigdor Lieberman's party, Yair Lapid's party, and the anti-Israel Arab fascist parties.  It was opposed by most Knesset Members from the Likud and – interestingly – by one member of Meretz (although another Meretz member voted in favor).   While some flunkies from Naftali Bennett's party had been among the early supporters of this bill, to the party's credit all those Knesset Members present at the vote opposed the bill (although others chose not to be present).

   The ostensible basis for the banning of Israel Hayom is that it is distributed for free.  Just why that should be grounds for banning a newspaper is never explained by the wannabe censors.   Why not have the courage of your convictions?  If it is illegitimate for a newspaper to be distributed for free, then why do you not also come out against free news broadcasting and distribution by radio and TV stations and by the internet?  By all means, Komrad Cabel, end those outrageous free distributions of news that harm the public!   Ban the internet!  In the name of freedom!

   Of course what really has Komrad Cabel and his wannabe Kremlin friends upset is that Israel Hayom is owned by Sheldon Adelson, who supports Netanyahu.  Why Adelson is any less entitled to operate his own newspaper than, say, German ex-Nazis like the co-owners of Haaretz is not explained by anyone.  This is the same Knesset that the country now depends upon to rein in the anti-democratic excesses of the Israeli Supreme Court, now leading the jihad against journalistic freedom!

   Should this atrocity ever pass the final vote and become law, I would like to propose to Sheldon Adelson and to the management of Israel Hayom how to respond.  The law seeks to prohibit any newspaper that is distributed for free 6 days a week in Israel.  So what I propose is that Israel Hayom be distributed for free 5 days a week and on Tuesdays it be distributed for 10 agorot (two and a half cents).  Individual vendors can be instructed to use their own individual judgment as to whether to assist people coming up to them on Tuesdays and saying that they really would like to read the paper that day but do not have a 10 agorot coin handy.

   Meanwhile I also think that Israel needs a national campaign of pie throwing into the faces of politicians who oppose freedom of speech and freedom of the press.   

   Israeli Far Leftists Demonstrate Solidarity with Dead Terrorist killed while Attempting to Stab Jews

   Meretz Leaders Rush in To Cheer and Defend Terrorism, Denouncing Police Action against Terrorist who attempted Murder

By Steven Plaut

Khair al-Din Hamdan from Kafr Kanna in the Galilee was an Israeli Arab terrorist who was minding his own business a few days ago and attempting to stab Israeli policemen to death.   Kafr Kanna is where the Biblical town of Cana stood and according to the New testament it is where Jesus turned water into wine.  The tomb of the great Jewish sage Simeon ben Gamliel is nearby, attesting to the Jewish origins of this town now under Arab occupation.

The intended police victims of the terrorist were not amused and were unappreciative of the symbolic value of their being stabbed to death to protest the grievances of Hamdan and his terrorist comrades.  Instead, the police selfishly and immoderately shot Hamdan to death as Hamdan attempted to murder them with his knife.

Israel's Arab fifth column and its fellow travelers then took to the streets and violently protested this "murder in cold blood" of the gentle giant Hamdan.   He instantly became the poster boy for those loyal Arab citizens of Israel who seek the annihilation of Israel and its Jews.   The neutral and objective foreign media were also outraged at the violation of the Miranda rights of Hamdan, who was killed by the police without legal representation and a trial.   Khair's father expressed the outrage of the family that his son had been prevented by the police from murdering Jews.   Why was his son not simply stopped with tear gas or at most a bullet in his thigh?, the father demands to know.   And the heroic appeasers of the Likud government decided to order an official commission of investigation into the interruption by the cops of the murder attempt by Khair.

At the same time, some of Israel's finest leftists are also taking to the airwaves and the streets to show their solidarity with the young dead terrorist.   The Khair lobby claims that video footage shows that, after attempting unsuccessfully to stab the cops, he was in fact backing away from them when he was shot.  Just why his backing away could be interpreted as any reason NOT to summarily shoot and execute him on the spot with extreme prejudice has never been explained by anyone.  Some of the car crash murderers in Israel in recent days have been shot on the spot AFTER crashing intentionally into people.  The only thing wrong with that is that Israel's weenie government refuses to pass a law proclaiming that instant execution without trial of ALL terrorists at the scenes of their murders and attempted murders is not only legal but downright laudatory and deserving of a medal of valor. 

The emerging leading Jewish leader of the Khair lobby is a Knesset Member from the anti-Israel semi-Marxist MERETZ Knesset Faction, loosely associated with the anti-democratic protest movement "Peace Now."  She is Tamar Zandberg.   She decided to go in person to Kafr Kanna to show her solidarity with the poor innocent victim Khair, a bit like all those demagogues in America making hajj to Fergusan, Missouri to show their solidarity with the violent thug shot there by police.

Sister Zandberg's participation in the Salute to Terrorists with Knives event at Kafr Kanna is relayed by herself in Hebrew on her Facebook page.  She also posts a photo of herself without chador sitting on the protest podium with assorted Arab members of the Khair lobby.  

Here is my translation of what she posts there:

"I visited today in Kafr Kanna, the town in which Khair Hamdan was shot to death.  I went together with Knesset Member Issawi Freij (also from Meretz).  We expressed our solidarity with the feelings of injustice that an entire community feels today, not only because of the excessively light finger on the trigger (by the police), not only because of the fact that the photographs of the event raise serious doubts about the legality of the police actions and the suspicions of an attempt to cover them up, but also because of our recognition that this is NOT an isolated disconnected incident.  It is instead part of the policy of racist discrimination directed against the Arab minority in Israel, a policy directed and implemented from on high by the Prime Minister and his cabinet.

"While one minister speaks about 'a terrorist" and another speaks about 'terrorism,' while the Prime Minister himself raises the possibility of stripping citizens of their citizenship, they are not just commenting on a controversial (sic) incident but rather they are outlining their policy against the Israeli Arab public.

"This government of intimidation and incitement has now reached new heights of hatemongering.  Its own obstinacy is what manufactured the confrontation whose climax was seen in the Gaza war this past summer.  It has driven Israel's international reputation down to a new low.  This same government now paints 20% of the country's population as the enemy.  I cannot escape the feeling that this is part of a grand governmental plan of organized destruction against any hope for a better future.  (The word 'destruction' she uses in Hebrew is the same as the word for 'terrorism' – SP) "

"The attorney general needs to order an investigation not only into the policemen who shot the young man, but also into the responsibility of the public security minister, who gave license to murder when he said that a 'terrorist who hurts civilians deserves to die'," said Zehava Galon, Meretz party leader.

Meretz is a political party whose base of support is those Israeli Jews who hate themselves and their country.  As you know, the Israeli government and parliament have banned Kach, the main Kahanist group, proclaiming it a terrorist group and as a  group that supposedly violates Israel's "anti-racism" law.  It denies those Kahanists freedom of speech and the right to organize.  While I believe that the banning of the Kahanists was anti-democratic and arbitrary, given that this is Israeli government policy the time has come to criminalize MERETZ as a pro-terror anti-Jewish anti-Israel racist group that automatically supports the enemies of Israel and justifies anti-Jewish terrorism.

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1.  When the Defense Minister Yaalon ordered "Palestinians" in the West Bank to ride on separate buses than "settlers" in order to avoid violence, he and all of Israel were denounced by the caring folks as "apartheid." Well, it turns out that all over the world there are plans or proposals to introduce women-only metro cars, subway, cars and buses in order to prevent sexual harassment and violence against women. Some of these programs operate in Third World countries and some in Western Europe. But the most amazing point is that not a single caring journalist or politician has denounced any of these "separate public transit vehicle" proposals as "apartheid."

See http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/women-only-train-carriages-could-introduced-4349573 

By the way, how come no one thinks it is "apartheid" when only Jews (and Druse) get conscripted in Israel to serve in the IDF but Arabs are exempt?

2.    The cancer spreads to the high schools:  http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/campus-conquered_817778.html#.VFNyRZGAe6g.email

3.  Treason du Jour at Haaretz:

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/cartoonist-turns-tables-on-haaretz-anti-netanyahu-pic/2014/10/30/  

and

  http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/steven-plaut/treason-du-jour-at-haaretz/

There is an anti-democratic initiative afoot in the Knesset to shut down Israel Hayom, the country's daily newspaper with the largest circulation, because it threatens the financial interests of the leftist Yediot Ahronot.  Haaretz this week ran a cartoon of Israel crashing a plane into the World Trade Center.  There is no Knesset initiative to shut down this treasonous newspaper:

4.   Think Jerusalem is a difficult unsolvable conundrum? Think again. There is a very simple solution. Israel simply tells the "Palestinians" - you can't have it! End of discussion.

5.  In the Knesset vote this week to expel the terrorist Haneen Zoabi for 6 months from the Knesset, Amram Mitzna, the one-time mayor of Haifa and one-time Labor Party contender for Prime Minister, voted AGAINST expelling her and the rest of the members of the Tzipi Livni party decided to abstain or else did not attend the vote at all. This should be borne in mind by anyone considering the Livni party to be a centrist ZIonist party.

So now the little birdie Tzipi Livni thinks ordering the "Palestinians" to use other buses than "settlers" in order to prevent violence is apartheid. This after her party spent the week demonstrating its solidarity with terrorist Haneen Zonabi. 
There are today three political parties competing for the treason vote, meaning the votes of all Israelis who hate Israel and hate themselves and want to see Israeli defeated. These are Meretz, the Israeli Labor Party, and Tzipi's silly "Ha-Tnua" party. So Israelis who hate their own country can take their pick from the three!

6.  Ventriloquists for Rabbi Yehuda Glick!

Friends, comrades, Inciters, lend me your Zionist ears! For many years we have been naively striving to rescue the Jewish state and its soul using conventional means: military defense, economic development, construction, education. But it seems we have missed out on recruiting the most important tool of all needed to rescue Israel.

Friends, because the Israeli government has decided to appease the Islamists and prevent Jews from praying on the Temple Mount, any Jew whose lips move while visiting the Temple Mount is arrested. MK Moshe Feiglin has been arrested on numerous occasions. This is a particularly onerous challenge for lawyers visiting the Mount, because - as you know - lawyers cannot lie unless their lips are moving.

So I say the time has come to roll out the great secret weapon of Jewry. Comrades, we have no choice. To rescue the Third Jewish Commonwealth, to save the soul of Israel, we must utilize at once the Jewish Ventriloquists. Only Jewish Ventriloquists can restore dignity and self-respect to the State of Israel. The entire Temple Mount must be filled to the brim with Jewish ventriloquists reciting the Shma and other prayers. Let us see the Left complaining about rising Charlie McCarthyism in Israel!

Let us see the police come and arrest these warriors for NOT moving their lips! Let the Islamists launch a jihad against Howdy Doody!

Emergency conditions require emergency measures! The time has come at last! Unleash the Ventriloquists and let the new Nakba begin!

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7.  Let's wait until the midterm election results next week to see who REALLY is the big wad of chickenshit!