Over the past few weeks Knesset Member Esterina Tartman (Tart, man, that is her real name) has become something of the Dan Quayle of Israel, the butt of endless political jokes and jabs by comics on TV and in the press.  It began when Tartman came out strongly against the appointment of an Arab politician as cabinet minister, someone who had once organized radical violent anti-Israel rallies.  It escalated when it turned out that Tartman had pretty much fabricated the educational credentials on her resume.  She had also been granted state recognition as a disabled person who could not work, yet was at the same time being touted by her party, Israel Beitenu, led by the Rightwing Avigdor Lieberman, for Minister of Tourism.  Israel by the way has a Ministry of Tourism for reasons that remain one of the great state secrets which no one has ever uncovered.

Anyway, Esterina became something of a national joke and in particular an embarrassment for Lieberman and his party, and in fact for the entire Israeli Right.   Lieberman trashed the idea of making her a cabinet minister and my guess is she will now be perma-muzzled if she stays on in the Knesset.

Meanwhile the hypocrisy of the Israeli media, as always the occupied territories of the Left, is on display for all to see.  First, the behavior of media snobs making fun of poor Esterina's lack of  college credentials should be considered in light of the fact that most of these same people have never gotten around to mocking or objecting to Amir Peretz's having even less schooling than Esterina.   And Esterina has not lost any important wars in recent years, unlike Moustache Pete!

But the media hypocrisy is seen even more glaringly when one compares the Quaylization of Esterina to the downright deference of the Israeli media to Knesset Member Yoram Marciano from the Israeli Labor Party.  If you do not know what I am talking about, that proves my point!

Yoram Marciano  is a Labor Party backbencher.  Marciano is a poodle for Shimon Peres and runs the staff trying now to get leftist Labor airhead Collette Avital elected as the next President of Israel, once Moshe Katsav officially resigns.  Deliciously, Marciano had been acting as the Labor Party consiglieri trying to get Katsav impeached! After all, we would not want any criminals holding office in Israel, right Yoram?

This past Wednesday, Marciano (who, as far as I know, also has no college degree) got drunk and assaulted some security guards outside a Herzliya club, near Tel Aviv.   Seems that when he gets drunk, he confuses himself for Rocky Marciano.   For three days Marciano lied himself blue, trying to lie his way out of trouble Clinton style, claiming the guards attacked HIM and not vice versa.  He filed a false police report against the guards, hoping to confuse things when they filed one against him.  Filing a false police report is a pretty serious crime (as of course is battery).

  Hollywood movie about Rocky Marciano

Now drunken leftist politicians are not exactly a novelty in Israel.   While we will not spread the full batch of police sheets out for you here, perhaps the best remembered lush was Saint Yitz, Yitzhak Rabin, himself. 

Drunken leftists are not usually things about which the Israeli media report.  But Marciano behaved as a violent hooligan and then filed false complaints with the police and kept lying, well after his drunkenness had worn off.

Marciano would have continued to try to lie his way out of trouble and to lie the police into prosecuting the victims of his own violence, except there were too many eyewitnesses who saw what had really happened.  Then today Marciano suddenly changed his story!

Seeing that no one in Israel other than maybe Shimon Peres believed that he was the victim and not the aggressor in the street brawl, Marciano admitted everything, and even asked the Knesset Ethics Committee to punish him.   Oh, how touching. The media are all over themselves, weepy-eyed, saluting his honorable admission and confession, demanding that he be treated with understanding since he has come clean, treated like a fine honest statesman who has his minor faults. 

You know, unlike Esterina. 

Haaretz Demands Israel be Protected from Democracy
Haaretz is the main Palestinian newspaper printed in Hebrew. It is also a decidedly anti-democratic newspaper. It is about as pluralistic as Pravda was back in the days of Brezhnev. Its post-Zionist political bias infects every page in the paper, from the news to the Op-Eds to the letters to the editor to the book reviews to the entertainment reviews. For every 100 or so far-Left opinion pieces (which are often disguised as news items) it achieves balance by running one non-left piece, often by Moshe Arens.

And Haaretz has been one of the main promoters of judicial activism, meaning judicial tyranny, in Israel. Haaretz and others with similar anti-Israel views approve of judicial activism because how else can the Left impose its will on the country? After all, if the Israeli public has any say in the matter, it will oppose just about everything the Far Left wants. So since the Left cannot count on popular support in anything, the best way to achieve hegemony is to get friendly unelected leftist justices to veto and trump the parliament and simply make up what the justices want the laws to say and impose these imaginary laws on a resistant legislature and public. These are judges, by the way, whom the electorate cannot dismiss nor impeach! That, you see, is the highest form of democracy. Democracy is just too important to be left to the voters and their elected representatives!

Haaretz columnists have been having noisy conniptions ever since Olmert appointed as the new Minister of Justice a brilliant anti-activist academic, Prof. Daniel Friedmann. (See this). Almost every day 3 or 4 Haaretz columnists attack Friedmann and his agenda of reining in the judicial tyrants. Friedmann wants to impose a Canada-style set of rules on the Supreme Court, under which any time the Supreme Court revokes a law passed by the Knesset, the Knesset can overturn the Court veto via a simple 61 vote (out of 120 Knesset votes) and then the law sticks.

Gevalt, scream the Haaretz legal columnists! How can we EVER impose our will on the unenlightened masses THAT way!   THINGS like THIS MUST be Stopped!

But the height of Haaretz enlightenment came this past Friday March 2. And this is NOT a Purim joke. The editorial for the day, representing the publisher and editor of the Palestinian paper printed in Hebrew, is entitled "Who will Protect us from the Knesset?" Yes, civics students, Haaretz demands that "we" be protected from democracy, by having a system in which unelected judges defend us from the legislative powers of the elected parliament. Think I am joshing you? – Take a look here.

My guess is that Haaretz will be soon calling for a public burning of the Magna Carta, the US Constitution, and the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man. After all, these can all serve as precedents for allowing elected representatives of the people to make laws and THAT must never be allowed in Israel.

Ride of the Valkyries or Flight of the Chickadee?

"He felt pretty, oh so pretty..."
Oh, darned. 

Now we will never be able to prevent the Caring Crowd from demanding that the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra play Wagner's music.  This sounds like it is taken from Mel Brooks' "The Producers", but it turns out that Hitler's favorite composer was a transvestite.  And this is NOT a Purim joke.

Adolf Hitler once said that "Whoever wants to understand National Socialistic Germany must know Wagner."  Richard Wagner was an early promoter of racialist theories about Jewish inferiority.  Wagner's opera "The Ring of Nibelung" was particularly anti-Semitic, although now we all must wonder on what Wagner must have been nibbling when he composed his Nibelung.  The Nazis found many of Wagner's rantings inspiring and lionized him. 

The Guardian in the UK has just reported that Richard Wagner was a cross dresser.  Seems the pre-nazi composer himself bragged about it. He wrote: "The bodice will have a high collar, with a lace jabot and ribbons; close-fitting sleeves; the dress trimmed with puffed flounces - of the same satin material - no basque at the front (the dress must be very wide and have a train) but a rich bustle with a bow at the back, like the one at the front) ..."  His letter about his passion for ladies' garments was revealed by a new web site, the Wagner Journal, run by an Opera buff and groupie of Wagner. 

Barry Millington, co-editor of the Wagner Journal, is cited in the Guardian as saying: "He obviously had a very pronounced feminine side," said Mr Millington. "There was this whole business with silks and satin underwear: he had to wear silk next to his skin."  Moreover, Wagner shopped for his clothes with fancy French dress designers.  Oo la la!

Now performing Wagner has long been controversial in Israel.  On the one hand, there may be as many as 300 people in Israel who actually like to listen to opera music and a few of these want the Israel Philharmonic to perform Wagner until the fat lady sings.  As Mark Twain once said, opera music is better than it sounds.  The orchestra however refuses to perform Wagner; one can occasionally hear Wagner on Israeli radio.  Zubin Mehta requested to conduct Wagner and was turned down flat.  Anti-Israel moonbat maestro Daniel Barenboim has to go to Bayreuth to conduct Wagner.  Many non-Jews are also uncomfortable with performing Wagner.   

But now that it turns out that Wagner was politically correct, that is, a transvestite in lace as well as a fruit, how on earth will we be able to stop the demands from the Moonbatocracy that he be celebrated in Israel as well?   

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The mongrels involved told police that the rapes were the perpetrators' way of "taking revenge" against the Jewish state.
ne of the rape victims was only 13 years old (!); another was 16. A third was serving in the IDF at the time and a fourth was a 25-year-old woman kidnapped from a bus stop. Police suspect that there are more victims of this terrorist cell out there, as yet unidentified.

Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri: We got female captives in the war booty and we used to do coitus interruptus with them. So we asked Allah's Apostle [Mohammad] about it and he said, "Do you really do that?" repeating the question thrice, "There is no soul that is destined to exist but will come into existence, until the Day of Resurrection." (Sahih Bukari, Volume 7, Book 62, Number 137)

Rape was part of Islamic jihad from its earliest days.

O Prophet! We [Allah] have made lawful to thee thy wives to whom thou hast paid their dowers; and those whom thy right hand possesses out of the prisoners of war whom Allah has assigned to thee; and daughters of thy paternal uncles and aunts, and daughters of thy maternal uncles and aunts, who migrated (from Makka) with thee; and any believing woman who dedicates her soul to the Prophet if the Prophet wishes to wed her - this, only for thee, and not for the believers (at large); We know what We have appointed for them as to their wives and the captives whom their right hands possess - in order that there should be no difficulty for thee.

Commander Nishtikeit from NASA to Shlumperdik:
The Unworldly Neturei Karta

In one of the most remarkable scientific discoveries of all time, a CD-Rom containing the protocols of a high-level secret meeting of NASA, the American space agency, has just been leaked to the media. The content of that meeting is so dramatic that it is likely to change the entire course of human history.

We bring you the highlights of that meeting as a special service to our readers:

Commander Nishtikeit, chief of NASA control: I would like to thank all of you senior military officers and scientists for attending this meeting today on such short notice. NASA control center has decided to release to the nation and world information on what may be the most astounding discovery in all of human history. It seems that ironclad evidence has now been uncovered of the presence on earth of humanoid cyborgs, that is, cybernetic robots that look vaguely human but were constructed in a different galaxy and transported here.

  Is that a detonator in your pocket Yassir or are you just happy to see me?

Dr. Trombenick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: But there have been urban legends about such things for years. There were numerous internet reports that the Governor of California and Reverend Al Sharpton are really cyborgs, but these proved baseless.

Commander Nishtikeit: Yes, we know all about that. But this time we have absolute proof. It seems a bizarre looking space travel vehicle has carried cyborgs into our galaxy and has deposited two or three hundred of them right here on earth.

General Lemeshkeh, US Air Force: What form do these alien contraptions take?

Commander Nishtikeit: That is the most bizarre part of the story. It seems the space ship, which looks amazingly like a large flying bagel, had earlier been beaming up earth images in order to design its cyborgs to look like earthlings. Its tele-imaging processor was focused on several neighborhoods on earth, just east of the East River. Yes, all those people looking for signs of aliens in Roswell, New Mexico, had things wrong. The aliens just wanted their cyborgs to look just like earthlings and to be able to pass as humans, so they designed them to look exactly like ultra-Orthodox Jews from Brooklyn.

Colonel Muttelmessig, US Navy: Are you serious? This is not something out of an old Woody Allen movie?

Commander Nishtikeit: Absolutely serious! The aliens planted these cyborgs on earth dressed like Chareidi ultra-Orthodox Jews, in black coats, with beards and side curls and hats, and called them the Neturei Karta. It seems they picked that name up from listening to broadcast of an earthling in Brooklyn referring to someone as a Notorious Karger, but they botched up the words.

Professor Shikker, Caltech: You mean those Neturei Karta people who have been protesting in favor of destroying Israel and who even attended the Holocaust Denial conference in Iran are in reality humanoid cyborgs placed on earth as part of a devious plan of planetary infiltration?

                                Take us to Barry Chamish!

Commander Nishtikeit: You have put your finger right on it! In a sense, we all should have realized this much sooner. After all, only a group of space aliens could have thought that Nazis with Payot, dressed outwardly as religious Jews, could pull the wool over the eyes of actual humans. Virtually no Jews on earth even recognize the Neturei Karta as Jews, and until our discovery the Jews regarded them as some sort of pagan cult in religious garb. The Neturei Karta members seem to know virtually nothing about Judaism, other than two or three sentences from the Gemara, which they cite obsessively out of context to prove that Israel must be destroyed. A number of terrestrial Rabbis, including Israel's Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger, have initiated efforts to excommunicate members of this pro-terror anti-Semitic Neturei Karta sect. Israeli Rabbis of the "Save the Nation and Land" group have made a similar call. Former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, a child Holocaust survivor who is currently the Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv declared, "It is something completely insane. Is it conceivable that any Jew, for whatever reason, would support a Holocaust denier in a generation when people with numbers tattooed on their arms are still among us? It is an insanity that has no justification and no explanation.. Even the Eida Hareidit, an anti-Zionist Jerusalem-based council of Hassidic courts and other religious groups which includes the Neturei Karta, was dramatically harsh in its condemnation of the cyborgs who went to Iran to sit beneath the swastikas.

Dr. Trombenick: Is that how you caught on to the alien scheme in the first place?

Commander Nishtikeit: Well, that was part of it. Now that we know the truth, we are kicking ourselves for not seeing all the indicators earlier, showing that the Neturei Karta are really cyborgs from another galaxy. The Jews on earth quickly realized these were not real Jews, but very few figured out that they are not even mammals.

Capyain Shvindeldik: But something here is puzzling. If these space aliens are so technically advanced, how could they have made such a foolish error as constructing robots for placement on earth that look outwardly like religious Jews yet behave like Nazis?

Professor Shtiklech, Princeton University: Maybe, in spite of their ability to undertake inter-galactic travel, they are really not that bright after all? After all, why would creatures having an electronic GPS or Galactic Positioning System need to construct all those crop circles in order to navigate around the Midwest?

Commander Nishtikeit: Well, that is one possibility. Another may be that their instruments were damaged when the Flying Bagel entered earth's atmosphere. We have some evidence that the original design for the cyborgs was for creatures with 6 arms, but their spaceship commander realized that these would be quickly recognized as frauds because they would not know on which arms to put tefillin.

Major Shlumperdik, his deputy: They seem to have made other strategic errors as well. They placed these cyborgs on earth with no visible means of support. So once earthbound, the cyborgs ran to terrorist organizations, neo-nazi groups, and Holocaust Denial conferences in order to raise money to support themselves. One would think that beings from a superior civilization would have figured out a better cover for their robots.

Dr. Trombenick: But if they look so much like actual Orthodox Jews, how can they be distinguished from the real thing?

Commander Nishtikeit: Well, there are several ways. First, when struck upon the head with a large rolling pin, nothing seems to happen to them. The pin just bounces off. Their heads seem to be constructed from some special space alloy into which nothing can permeate. Second, when looking closely at their scalps, one can see that they used to have three antennae there, which were somehow surgically removed before the machines were deposited on earth. In addition, their mid-sections seem to be built with another special alien alloy. That is why they seem to be the only ones on earth whose digestive systems are unaffected by eating large portions of chulent.

General Lemeshkeh: So how should we earthlings communicate or interact with them and try to make friends?

Major Shlumperdik: Well, there is always that rolling pin idea I mentioned earlier. But other than that, the best strategy seems to be to make little tinfoil antennae and glue them on to one's head or hat when approaching these aliens. You know, to show them that we have no hostile intentions and want to welcome them on our planet. But then we need to make clicking space static sounds, demand to be taken to their leader, and ask them to take us for a tour of their spaceship.

Commander Nishtikeit: I wonder if I can get one of them to teach me how to program my DVD machine.

(assembly dismissed)