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      Adar Bet 13, 5768, 3/20/2008

      New Israeli Group Battles Zionism

      by Steven Plaut


      Jews for a Second Holocaust
      More Jihad Barbies Operating in Israel?
       
      In Ben Dror Yemini’s column from last weekend, he discusses the latest group of Jews for a Second Holocaust in Israel, a group calling itself “Zochrot”(remembrances). No it is not a group trying to maintain memory about the past century of atrocities done to Jews by Islamofascism.
       
      It is a group trying to “memorialize” the locations and names of villages and other sites occupied by “Palestinian” interlopers in the Land of Israel before the 1948 war and before the declaration of independence of Israel. The group demands that signs be erected by the Israeli government with my money to mark the locations and villages abandoned when these Arabs fled the battle zones in 1948-9, including on JNF lands. The JNF has agreed and cooperates.
       
      “Zochrot’s” political agenda is quite openly the “Palestinian Right of Return,” meaning its right to destroy Israel and expel the Jews. Its reps participated in the “Let’s destroy Israel and replace it with a Single Arab state” conference in London recently, in which several other Israelis for a Second Holocaust participated. And to top matters off, the Tel Aviv Municipality is co-sponsoring a photo exhibit with these people about Arab Jaffa in dem olde days
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      The ZOCHROT web page is here.


      Adar Bet 5, 5768, 3/12/2008

      Poor Barry Chamish

      by Steven Plaut

      Your favorite conspiracy fiction writer and UFO nut, Barry the Chamish, the chronically unemployed inventor of  "theories" for Neo-Nazi organizations and web sites, has a timeless investigative technique.

       

      Above, Chamish with the source for his investigative reporting.

      It is called lying and fabrication.

      Chamish is incapable of putting more than 6 words on a page without lying and usually also not without several grammar and spelling errors.

      Chamish does not like me because I proved that his entire "theory" about the Rabin assassination is a collection of lies.  It is not necessary to disprove his other "theories," about UFOs and space aliens and such, etc. 

      Anyhow, to "discredit" me, Chamish regularly invents imaginary nameless people who Chamish claims have run to him with lurid gossipy stories about me.  Actually most of Chamish's sources about everything are nameless imaginary people.  He once claimed a nameless student of mine had come to him to tell him what an awful lecturer I am, as if an MBA student would actually talk to a Chamish.   Well, in his latest epistle to his remaining eight followers, the Chamish claims a female school mate of mine from dem olde country, naturally nameless, wrote him about how unpopular I was with the girls there back in school, and I pulled their pigtails and such.  It is as truthful as anything else Chamish has ever crayoned.

      Poor little Chamish. 

      Someone should tell him that I went to an all-boys school in Philadelphia. 

      No sooner does Chamish get clobbered in court for lying about Ben Gvir and hit with a 36,000 NIS fine than he tries to invent a female school mate of mine from yesteryear from an all boys school! 

      How was he to know?  Our intrepid investigative reporter flunks once again.
      Adar Bet 2, 5768, 3/9/2008

      When Reality Cannot be Distinguished from Parody

      by Steven Plaut


      Bring your own Hamas flags
       
      Life in Israel is often stranger than parody. As you know, I often post sarcastic spoof pieces to make fun of the Far Left and of the Israeli government. I usually assume that everyone will understand that the piece is a spoof. Sometimes though people take the sarcastic piece literally (it happened when I wrote on this blog that Israel had arrested Salman Rushdie for offending Islam, after which I even got several letters congratulating Israel on doing this from Moslem countries, and in a few other instances).
       
      Well, there are two far-leftist faculty members at my school, the University of Haifa, who fill up the professors' chat board with their anti-Israel spam postings. They are also very abusive. One, let us call him ML, demanded that I be forced to resign for insulting Neve Gordon and called me a bowel movement in two different languages on the list. The other, let us call him YY, denounced me for being a fascist, a mad dog, and (gulp) homophobic. Both regularly participate in pro-terror anti-Israel protests (mainly with the Arab communist students) on the campus.
       
      I occasionally answer these critters on the chat board. Saturday night I posted the following posting:
       
      Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2008 9:17 PM
      Subject: [Segel-plus] Big Protest Planned Monday
       
      You are all invited to join ML and YY, together with the campus chapter of HADASH and Taayoush-North, to attend the University of Haifa campus protest planned for Monday that will mourn the untimely tragic death of the East Jerusalem Palestinian protester Alaa Abu Dhein, who was gunned down for no reason after entering the Merkaz Harav Yeshiva this past Thursday, without so much as a Miranda warning. The Palestinian was protesting occupation and Israel's homophobic clericalist bigotry when he was set upon by a group of religious settlers for no reason at all and murdered in cold blood in the library of the yeshiva, which sits in Kiryat Moshe on occupied Palestinian land. ML and YY have asked campus officials to lower flags to half mast in honor of the martyred Palestinian protester.
       
      So all lovers of peace should attend the Monday protest with Hadash and Taayoush.
       
      Bring your own Hamas flags.
       
      ***
      That would have been the end of it, except that someone from the list leaked it to the outside. I have been getting hysterical phone calls and emails all morning from University officials. It seems that many irate phone calls are coming in to express outrage at the planned pro-terror protest. Zionist student leaders were mobilizing to confront the pro-terror protesters. Some politicians called the university in outrage. Even the Chief Rabbi called in to protest.
       
      Strangely no one noticed it is Adar Bet and close to Purim.
       
      So to set the record straight, the posting was a spoof. But it is a sad commentary on the nature of Israel's Far Left that so many people actually believed the posting was for real. The gap between parody and reality keeps getting more and more narrow!
      Adar 29, 5768, 3/6/2008

      UFO Conspiracy Nut Barry Chamish Gets Clobbered

      by Steven Plaut


      Darling of Neo-Nazi and Holocaust Denial web sites
      (hat Tip to Israel Medad)
      Barry Chamish is best known for the hundreds of his "articles" about imaginary conspiracies that he writes for Neo-Nazi and Holocaust Denial web sites (if you think I am exaggerating, take a look at this) and for his infantile "theories" about the Rabin Assassination (file them under fiction). He has been peacocking around and celebrating the fact that the Nazareth court ruled two years ago that I "libeled" anti-Semite Neve Gordon, a ruling almost completely overturned by the Appeals Court this week. Chamish, who is upset that I debunked his "theory" about the Rabin assassination, even set up a pathetic little web site to smear me and show his own support for Neve Gordon's anti-democratic harassment campaign against me.

      Chamish believes that anyone who disagrees with his own infantile "theories" must be part of a global conspiracy. In particular he is part of the "911 Truth" cult, which claims that Israel was really behind the 911 attacks on the US, a theory Chamish likes to spread invented by Neo-Nazi kooks of the sort that blew up Oklahoma City, and that the publishers of Foreign Affairs magazine control the world in a giant "Illuminati" conspiracy.

      Chamish had previously been repeatedly convicted in Israel of libeling other people. That, by the way, was real libel, not the make-pretend kind to be found in Nazareth Court, under which disagreeing with a leftist pro-terror anti-Semite is "libel."

      Well, here is YNET news on Chamish finally getting his comeuppance:
       
       
      Is calling rightist a "Shin Bet agent" libelous?

      Website owner Barry Chamish ordered by court to pay Itamar Ben-Gvir NIS 36,000 in damages
      Aviram Zino

      Barry Chamish, owner of several internet websites, was ordered Thursday by the Magistrates. Court to pay extreme right-wing activist Itamar Ben-Gvir NIS 36,000 (about $10,000) for referring to the latter as a Shin Bet agent on one of his sites.
      Magistrates' Court Judge Oded Shaham ruled that this statement is libelous in nature, and ordered Chamish to pay Ben-Gvir the aforementioned sum in damages.  See this for rest of story.
      Adar 26, 5768, 3/3/2008

      One State Solution vs Two-State Solution?

      by Steven Plaut


      The Left wants a Rwanda Solution

      Above: the Left's "One State" Solution

      I have received several requests from people who are not unsure how to answer the question, "Which do you prefer, a Two-State Solution or a One State Solution?"

      Let me explain. Israel's Far Left is divided these days between those promoting a "Two State Solution," and a "One State Solution." By "Two State Solution," they mean a situation where Israel is annihilated in stages, after first agreeing to the setting up of a "Palestinian" Arab state in the West Bank and Gaza with some sort of land bridge connecting them and dividing the Negev and a "right of return" for "Palestinian" "refugees." That terror state will then be used to escalate terrorism and rocket attacks on Israel until all the Arab and Moslem armies rush in to aid it in its "defense" against Israeli aggression, and then Israel will be defeated militarily and the Jews exterminated in a new Holocaust.

      The "One State Solution" leftists are essentially those who wish to revive the long dead ideas from the 1930s of creating a bi-national state to replace Israel, a predominantly Arab state in which the Jews will have dhimmi second-class status, and in which Jewish sovereignty and self-determination are ended. That is, until the dominant Arabs in the new progressive bi-national state annihilate the Jews in a new Holocaust. By the "One State Solution," the Left obviously does not mean that one Jewish state, Israel, will control all of the Land of Israel west of the Jordan, a "one-state" alternative we all might consider. Actually, what they mean by a "One State Solution" is a "Rwanda Solution," where the Jews end up with the same fate as the losing side in Rwanda.

      For years, when asked whether I prefer a "Two State Solution for Two Peoples" or a "One State Solution," I would reply that I am willing to settle for a 23 state solution for two peoples, where the Arabs get to keep their 22 existing states and the Jews get to keep their single state.

      But that is losing its edge and many people miss the message in that quip of an answer.

      In any case, when people whether you prefer a "Two State Solution" or a "One State Solution," what they are really asking you is which version of the far Left's agenda you choose, where you are not allowed to choose anything other than one of the Left's two "solutions."

      So after careful consideration, I have come up with a better answer to that question about one-state vs. two-states. When asked whether you prefer a "Two State Solution" or a "One State Solution," the best answer should be: "That is not the correct question. The correct question is whether we should have a Two-Gallows Solution or a One-Gallows Solution for Traitors."

      Should Jewish and Arab traitors both be hanged from the same gallows or from separate gallows? That is the REAL conundrum! There are advantages to each alternative. Hanging them separately might cause anti-Semites to denounce Israel for its apartheid system of gallows. Hanging them together on one set of gallows might cause problems of congestion. After all, so many people will want to come watch the traitors get hanged that highways and parking lots are likely to get jammed up.

      Oy, Choices, choices, choices....
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