Comeuppance for Ami Ayalon

Talk about comeuppance!

Ayalon on left. not to be confused with Mussolini, on right

Ami Ayalon, the ultra-leftist cabinet minister without portfolio (meaning without a job) and composer of his own program for Israeli annihilation to rival the “Geneva Misunderstandings” program of Yossi Beilin, was almost arrested this week in Holland for “war crimes.” See this. Seems the Dutch believed a local Palestinian terrorist who filed a court claim in which he alleges that he had been “tortured” by Ayalon when the latter ran the SHABAK. Never mind that Ayalon is far better known for appeasing Palestinians than torturing them and has never heard of a terrorist demand to which he does not wish to capitulate.

Now the Israeli far Left has long been lobbying European anti-Semites to arrest and try Israeli public figures as “war criminals.” In some cases Israeli officers were prevented from entering European countries lest they be arrested, thanks to the campaigns of vilification by Israeli far leftists against them. Consider the malicious campaign of Israel-hating and Norman Finkelstein shilling leftist lecturer Neve Gordon from Ben Gurion University against his own army officer Aviv Kochavi (see this). General Kochavi had to cancel plans to study in Britain thanks to Gordon’s false slanders against him (see also this)

Now the idea that far leftists themselves are now being targeted by the Eurotrash Israel bashers is truly delicious. Indeed, if this new trend continues, it could save Israel from destruction. Let’s send the entire leadership of Meretz, Gush Shalom, Betselem, and Ben Gurion University to Holland and let the local jihadocracy indict them all as war criminals! It just might produce peace!

In photo, Israeli hero Aviv Kochavi, vilified by anti-Israel extremist Neve Gordon from Ben Gurion University.

Completely unrelated  - Haaretz reports that a new movie has opened in Italy about Jews who run around scalping anti-Semites.  I do not know why I was reminded of that.

Update on Land Owner Fighting To Remove Arab Squatters

We present to our readers an update by Yitzchak Herskovitz about his battle to remove the Arab squatters and regain control of the Jerusalem property he purchased 15 years ago:

Yitzchak Herskovitz speaks:

This question has been asked of me many times: What's happening with that property of yours in the Arab-populated Jerusalem neighborhood of Bet Safafa?
 
(Those who don't know the full story can read it here:)

Photo: Yitzchak Herskovitz at his winery

The honest answer is that two months ago, in August 2008, the Jerusalem District Cout issued an eviction order against the Salach squatters, because of their non-payments of rents due to me. After the Salach clan paid the 17 months' worth of back rents, the judge allowed a stay on the eviction order, pending the outcome of the second trial.
 
You might ask: What second trial?  Why are there two trials on the very same issue of ownership?
 
History:
In 1993, I purchased this property - in southwest Jerusalem, near Gilo - from an absentee owner living in Los Angeles. That same year, I also initiated my lawsuit against the existing trespasser. I sued the Salach clan for the possession of my property. This was a simple case of eviction based on my ownership of this property. After I bought this property, the ownership became a matter of fact. The Property Registration Office (tabu) had recorded the sale to me, and also recorded the ownership in my name. This made it quite official.
 
In 2004, after many years in court, I received a judgment in my favor, ordering the Salach clan off of my property. Soon afterwards, the Salach clan filed an appeal on that judgment - and lost the appeal in 2005. 
 
Yet the Salach clan was able to come up with a very clever and intricate legal trick, and sued me for ownership on this same property!  Even though the court had just ruled that the property was mine and that the Arab clan must get out, the Salachs were able to claim, "No, we're filing a new court suit! We claim the land is ours!"
 
This lawsuit, filed in the District Court of Jerusalem, was based on the same bogus loan document that had been proven to be a fraud and a fabrication in the Magistrates Court.
 
To further the legal morass I found myself in, the judge ruled that since this was a separate lawsuit, he has to hear this case from the very beginning!   He insisted on personally hearing and weighing all the evidence once again.
 
My lawyers attempted to fight this.  Why should the same issue of ownership be judged twice in two different courts? We said that the evidence that was submitted and approved in the Magistrates Court is good enough to prove the same case in the District Court.  My attorney wanted to fight this out in the Supreme Court, but I refused to do so as there were many good reasons not to do so.
 
Our last day in court on this new case was September 15, 2008.  On that date, four persons came to testify on my behalf and presented their evidence.  A fifth person who was unable to show up (because he was testifying in another case at the time) was the handwriting expert. He was to show, as he did in the previous case, that their document was a fraud and a fabrication.

When will the next court date be set so that the handwriting expert can testify? That's what we are waiting to hear - but the court is taking its time in giving us a date for our next day in court.
 
Meanwhile, it's been 15 years since I bought the property, yet have not been able to take possession - because the Arab squatters, and their attorney, have learned how to abuse our legal system to their advantage.
 
I leave it now for the Arutz-7 listeners and readers to respond and post their comments.

Yuli Tamir Goes a-SLAPPing

SLAPP suits are anti-democratic harassment suits in which people are sued for “libel” to prevent them from expressing criticism. They are a favorite tactic of the radical Left, which uses them to make sure that non-Leftists are silenced. SLAPP stands for Strategic Lawsuit against Public Participation. SLAPP suits are illegal in much of the United States but are a growing pastime for Israeli leftists.

YNET has now reported that Yuli Tamir, Israel’s education czarina, has filed such a SLAPP suit against Channel 10 TV. She was upset because Channel 10 broadcast a news story that Tamir had ordered Ze’ev Jabotinsky removed from the Israeli school curriculum. Jabotinsky was the founder of the “Revisionist Zionist Party” in the 1920s and MAPAI bolsheviks have never gotten over that. Ben Gurion had refused even to allow Jabotinsky’s remains to be moved to Israel.

According to YNET News, “Tamir filed a NIS 500,000 (approx. $145,000) suit against Reudor Benziman, CEO of Channel 10 Tali Ben Ovadia, the editor of the channel's 8 o'clock news broadcast, and Ran Lior, one of the channel's reporters, citing slander and defamation of character.... A Channel 10 News statement said that the network stands by the report and its content, and respects Tamir's fundamental right to have the matter cleared in court. “  Now in libel suits, one is supposed to be prohibited from filing unless one can demonstrate that one was caused provable material damages. Just what were the material damages Tamir suffered due to this report. which was evidently factually correct?

Tamir has already shown her passion for loopiness. She not only demanded that the Israeli school curriculum teach that Israel’s creation was a “Nakba” or catastrophe. She also has a track record of defending the practice of what is euphemistically called “female circumcision”

Now SLAPP suits are more common than you might have thought. It turns out both Professor Zeev Sternhell and myself have been victimized by anti-democratic neo-fascists filing them against us. In Sternhell case, he was successfully sued in France for “libel” by a French anti-Semite named Bertrand de Jouvenel. I myself was sued by the Israeli anti-democratic anti-Semite Neve Gordon for “libel” because I criticized his political writings and activities. That case, in which I was largely victorious on appeal in the Nazareth regional court, is now on the docket at the Israeli Supreme Court to finish off SLAPP suits in Israel altogether.

I wonder if Sternhell will be pleased to discover how much he has in common with me.