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Tammuz 21, 5768, 7/24/2008

Quotes and Notes Corner: The Nazi Nasrallah

by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz

Just so we're clear on this: the Lebanese Iranian proxy Hizbullah is headed by a man intent on a new genocide of the Jews. And if it has to be carried out two Jews at a time, so be it.

As usual in this corner, I am going to let the man speak for himself.

In October 2002, addressing a graduation ceremony in a Beirut neighborhood, Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah claimed that US foreign policy was being manipulated for Zionist ends, such as the return of the Jews to the Land of Israel. However, unbelievable as it seems, Nasrallah then went on to offer an observation in praise of Zionism.

"If they [the Jews] all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide," he said.

I know it's just a translation, but I don't think "going after them" in this context means "follow them around." I think the translation is more along the lines of "stabbing, shooting and exploding them." That is to say: jihad.

As in: "...fight and slay the pagans wherever you find them and seize them beleaguer them and lie in wait in every stratagem...." (according to the Koran, the ninth chapter, Al-Tawba, verse 5)

And as in: "Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the last day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Apostle, nor acknowledge the Religion of Truth, even if they are of the People of the Book, until they pay the jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued." (according to the Koran, Al-Tawba, verse 29)

And as in: "It is reported on the authority of Abu Huraira that the Messenger of Allah said: I have been commanded to fight against people so long as they do not declare that there is no god but Allah, and he who professed it was guaranteed the protection of his property and life on my behalf except for the right affairs rest with Allah." (according to the Hadith collection Sahih Muslim, Kitab Al-Iman, Hadith no. 30, and nearly identical Hadith nos. 31-35. Hadith constitute reports of what Muhammad did, said or approved of - all of which constitute binding instruction for the devout Muslim.)

Sources
1. The Nasrallah speech was reported in Lebanon's premier English-language newspaper, the Daily Star. See the archived October 23, 2002 edition here.

2. An excellent resource for studying the text of the Koran in English can be found here.

3. The same source provides English-language collections of Hadith. The Hadith I quoted above came from here.

Researched, compiled and presented by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz

Tammuz 15, 5768, 7/18/2008

Tel Aviv University Profs want Extermination of Israel

by Steven Plaut

Professors of Jihad at Tel Aviv University?

Tel Aviv University Academics among those demanding Israel's Extermination in the "Haifa Conference for the Right of Return And the Secular Democratic State in Palestine"

Excerpt:

'In the second part of the opening session, there were three speeches in Hebrew: Yehuda Kupferman (Tel Aviv University) from the "Committee for a secular and democratic state in the whole of Palestine," and Dr Uri Davis from "the movement against Israeli Apartheid in Palestine" - both from the initiating committee, and Dr Anat Matar (Tel Aviv University) , a leading activists in support of the rights of Palestinian prisoners and for the rights of Israeli youth to refuse serving in the Israeli army....(Among the demands were to) Strip the Jewish presence in Palestine of its colonialist nature, which is connected to the racist Zionist project, as a tool of imperialism and global capitalism.' New textbook at TAU?

The full conference schedule can be seen here. A more detailed report can be read here.

Candidate for tenure at Tel Aviv University:

Tammuz 14, 5768, 7/17/2008

Mocking the Left into Oblivion

by Steven Plaut

Neutralize a Leftist! Mock him!

I have a confession. I really love Sacha Baron Cohen. Not just because both he and I are both graduates of Habonim, the Labor Party youth movement (he, in the UK of course). His Ali G character always has me in stitches, and I have tried to imitate it (see the addendum at the end of this). While containing many a crude and vulgar moment, his Borat film was also madly funny. My favorite scene: when the drunk frat boys tell Borat that they endeavor to have sex with women whom they never telephone afterwards and Borat asks if this is because the women have no phones in their village. I loved how he spoke Hebrew in the film and pretended it was Kazakhstani.

But if there was ever a doubt as to the greatness of Cohen, it is gone now that he has decided to make a public fool out of Yossi Alpher. The US-born Alpher was once an IDF intelligence officer and then a Mossad officer, and like so many Israeli intelligence officers he became a far-leftist of the sort so familiar in Israel. He used to be director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, then senior advisor to Ehud Barak, and has ties with far-leftist Peace Now.

These days he co-runs a far-leftist web site together with Palestinian terrorist Ghassan Khatib (ex-minister of labor in the Palestinian Authority and Vice President of Bir Zeit "University"), called Bitter Lemons. Khatib is a guy who thinks Hamas is moderate, although Alpher holds the same idea. Like all such collaborations between leftist Jews and Arabs, it is essentially pro-Arab and anti-Israel. It is also anti-American. Alpher's ideas about peace? "The United States should talk to Iran without preconditions and encourage Tehran to talk to Jerusalem and seek modes of coexistence before it is engulfed in war." The only good thing one can say about Bitter Lemons is that it is less extremist and anti-Semitic than most other leftist web sites. Alpher invented the "Alpher Plan" back in 1994 under which 89% of the West Bank would be turned over to the PLO to become a Palestinian terror state.

Sacha Cohen's new comedy character is a gay Austrian fashion freak named Bruno (see his photo above). Cohen set up Alpher and his Palestinian sidekick Khatib to be ridiculed by inviting them for an interview, signing them onto ironclad releases they could not wiggle out of (Cohen got sued a lot over his Borat interviews, which made people look stupid) and then filming them trying to answer really funny questions. Cohen asked them things like: "When will you Jews return the pyramids?" and asked why the militant group Hamas was named after the dip, hummus. Bruno complains to them that he had to throw his pita away cause it was dripping hummus, and adds, 'Your conflict is not so bad. Jennifer-Angelina is worse.'" The AP scooped the story, which was also carried in many other newspapers and magazines.

Alpher tried to prettify the situation and paint himself as a victim in his column at the leftist Jewish weekly Forward, where he is one of the newspaper's stable of leftist columnists. He reports how he sat there with a straight face and responded seriously to Bruno's questions, which included: “Vy don’t you Jews and Arabs settle the conflict with a time share on the land?” “Ven vill you Jews return the pyramids?” “Vy can’t Jews and Hindus get along?” Even Michael Handelzalts, the book editor at Israeli leftist daily Haaretz, has an Op-Ed in which he mocks the stupidity of Alpher and his sidekick.

Alpher disagrees about being shown to be stupid, cited in the Jerusalem Post as saying, "We ourselves were not being ridiculed - only the conflict that occupies and preoccupies us."

I have long believed that mocking leftists is far more effective than insulting them. They love it when they are accused of being traitors, unpatriotic, and supporting the enemy. But they can't stand being laughed at because they take themselves so seriously. There is a lesson in Cohen's antics for all of us in the Anti-Left trenches.

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