Quotes & Notes Corner: Did Sternhell Inspire an Attack?

On Wednesday night there was a pipe bomb attack on Prof. Zeev Sternhell in the heart of "Israeli-occupied Jerusalem." The far-left extremist Hebrew University professor was lightly hurt and there were condemnations left and right.

There's only one problem. No one actually knows what happened. But I think I do.

The attackers, you see, were readers of Haaretz and they decided to follow Sternhell's own advice. As I think he must have written somewhere in one of his articles, "There is no doubt regarding the legitimacy of the armed resistance in the territories themselves. If the settlers had a bit of sense, they would concentrate their struggle against the leftists...."

Oops. Wait a second. Sorry. I looked at a Sternhell article from Haaretz (May 11, 2001). It seems he actually wrote: "There is no doubt regarding the legitimacy of the armed resistance in the territories themselves. If the Palestinians had a bit of sense, they would concentrate their struggle against the settlements...."

Now that, of course, is a completely different thing. What was I thinking?

Much, much more seriously, I believe that the Left to which Sternhell belongs did, in fact, legitimize Arab terrorism in the service of certain goals they approve of. So, some on the Right may have been convinced by that constant far-left incitement - justifying all violence in the service of high ideals - and taken it to heart. What can we do if the goals and ideals of the far-right are different than those of the far-left?

So, Prof. Sternhell, when those who attacked you are captured, can they call upon you as an expert witness in their defense?

Murderer of 'Ghandi' Jailed, but Protectors still Free

A few days ago the murderer of Israeli cabinet minister Rehavam ‘Ghandi’ Zeevi was at last sentenced by a Jerusalem court to a prison term of life plus 80 years. The bizarre sentence was because terrorhoids sentenced to mere life in prison sometimes get released, like when they get ill in prison, thanks to inane misplaced ‘compassion.’ (Nuclear traitor Mordecai Vanunu is about to be awarded early release from prison because he claims to have a health problem.)

According to the news story as reported on INN: ‘Majdi Rahima Rimawi was convicted on July 29, 2008 of five separate charges for his role in masterminding the assassination of the nationalist minister outside his Jerusalem hotel room at the Hyatt Hotel near Mount Scopus on October 17, 2001. The 43-year-old terrorist planned, ordered and organized the gang that attacked “Ghandi,” as Ze’evi was affectionately known…. Ze’evi was shot to death by terrorists Bassal Asmar and Hamdi Kur’an, both of whom have already been convicted and are serving life terms in prison.’

Now it is all fine and good that the murderer is behind bars, although I would consider it a lot finer and gooder if he were dancing at the end of a noose. THAT would eliminate any risk that he might get released as part of some new KADIMA bargain sale of terrorhoids.

But it is important to bear in mind that this atrocity has not yet undergone closure and will not have done so until the OTHER people involved are also brought to justice, and in particular not until those who protected the murderers and prevented their arrest are punished.

Below  - Gordon as human shield for murderers:    

The murderers of Zeevi were kept hidden in the “Mukata’a” headquarters of Yassir Arafat in Ramallah, in defiance of all the obligations of the Palestinian Authority under the Oslo accords. While hidden there, the Israel Defense Forces attempted to apprehend the murderers and had the headquarters surrounded. But then a group of “human shields” and “Solidarity with Terrorism” protesters from the anti-Israel radical Left entered Ramallah illegally and interfered with the attempts to arrest the murderers. Years went by before they were finally caught by Israel. 

Among those leading the “Solidarity with Terrorism” human shields that illegally interfered with the attempt to arrest the murderers in Ramallah was Neve Gordon, an anti-Israel extremist at Ben Gurion University. Gordon considers Israel to be a fascist, apartheid terrorist entity and recently has been calling for Israel’s elimination altogether as part of the so-called “One-State Solution,” in which Israel will be enfolded inside a larger Arab-dominated Islamofascist-controlled state. The “One-State Solution” of the anti-Semitic Left should better be called the Rwanda solution to the Jewish problem. Gordon was also a cheerleader for Vanunu and proclaimed him a heroic role model. Above is the photo of Gordon and Arafat from the Israeli press, in solidarity embrace as they defied the Israeli soldiers surrounding Arafat's headquarters and prevented the murderers in the building behind them from being caught.

Gordon and his terrorism-cheerleader colleagues have not been called upon to answer for their role in keeping the murderers of Zeevi free for so long. 

Menawhile, Gordon was promoted and granted tenure at Ben Gurion University on the basis of his large volumes of anti-Israel propaganda being churned out by him and misrepresented as research scholarship.  This illustrates that in some departments at Ben Gurion University serious academic standards are dead.

Gordon also spent considerable time on the Ben Gurion University payroll promoting and defending Neo-Nazi Norman Finkelstein. DePaul University had the academic integrity that Ben Gurion University lacks and last year fired Finkelstein for lack of serious scholarly work and for trying to build an academic career on crude anti-Israel and anti-Jewish hate propaganda.

Last year in the Jerusalem Post Prof. Alan Dershowitz described Gordon thus: "It is my opinion that Neve Gordon has gotten into bed with neo-Nazis, Holocaust justice deniers, and anti-Semites. He is a despicable example of a self-hating Jew and a self-hating Israeli." 

Quotes & Notes Corner: Mickey Mouse to Join Al-Qaeda?

As a veteran analyst of the Middle East, I foresee trouble brewing between Saudi Arabia, Iran and Hamas. It looks to be a bad one, possibly as historically significant as the Sunni-Shi'a split. I fear for international stability, my friends. And all over few imaginary mice.

It seems Saudi Arabia has launched a direct, aggressive and unprecedented attack on Hamas. I hesitate to even bring it up, for fear of causing riots worldwide. But, what the heck, there'll be riots anyway......

Thanks to MEMRI, we now know that Saudi cleric Muhammad al-Munajid has issued a fatwa against Mickey Mouse and Jerry. On Al-Majd TV on August 27, 2008, he said:

"According to Islamic law, the mouse is a repulsive, corrupting creature. How do you think children view mice today – after Tom and Jerry? Even creatures that are repulsive by nature, by logic, and according to Islamic law have become wonderful and are loved by children. Even mice. Mickey Mouse has become an awesome character, even though according to Islamic law, Mickey Mouse should be killed in all cases."

(The MEMRI-provided and translated video clip can be seen here: http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1850.htm)

If you don't understand how this is an attack on the manly and Islamic honor of Hamas, well, it just means you have failed to understand the Middle Eastern mindset. Now, pay attention.

If Mickey Mouse is to be killed, then what of Farfour? Yes, Farfour - that Hamas-created jihadist Muslim supremacist mouse beloved by children throughout Gaza. Watch and read about Farour, the Mickey Mouse look-alike, here: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/122365.

And, as usual, the Iranian scholars take our discussion a step further, with more insightful and more trenchant analysis. Thanks to Professor Hasan Bolkhari we now know that Hamas has actually fallen prey to a Jewish conspiracy to corrupt the world and make mice acceptable.

As Prof. Bolkhari explained so lucidly: "The Jews were degraded and termed 'dirty mice.' Tom and Jerry was made in order to change the Europeans' perception of mice."

(The video evidence of this nefarious Jewish plot can be seen here: http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1049.htm)

How will this terrible, terrible conflict between these righteous Muslim factions end? I don't know for sure, but let's face it, mostly, it ends with them just killing each other for a few hundred years.

So clearly, Jerry, Mickey and Farfour, if they are to survive in the Middle East, can't allow their honor to be besmirched in this way. I predict the formation of the Mousejahideen Brigades in coming weeks. With time, they may link up with al-Qaeda and become "al-Qaeda of the Wainscoting" (AQWA), bent on holy war for the sake of rodents everywhere.

POSTSCRIPT: Now that I think about it, Farfour was killed by Israeli agents last year. So, wait a minute. Does that mean that the Jews finally get credit for doing a mitzvah under Islam, as practiced in Saudi Arabia? I'm so confused.

Researched, compiled and presented by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz