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Tammuz 14, 5768, 7/17/2008
Mocking the Left into Oblivionby 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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Tammuz 12, 5768, 7/15/2008
Ideas for Applying the Law against Terror Accomplicesby Steven Plaut
Is the Israeli political establishment about to act against treason at long last? Yesterday the Knesset Committee for Internal Affairs approved a bill that would allow judges to strip Israeli citizens of their citizenship if they are involved in espionage, treason, or support for terrorists. It goes to the full plenum of the Knesset for approval in second and third parliamentary "readings" in a few days. Once approved, the test of the pudding will be in how the new law is applied. It is clearly designed to strip spies and traitors like Azmi Bishara of their citizenship. But all of the Knesset Members from the Arab Stalinist and fascist parties are similarly involved with supporting terrorism against Israel in one form or another. Why should not they be awarded a one-way free air ticket to the Arab country of their choice? Frankly, I would like to see Gush Shalom, Physicians for Human Rights, Taayush, Machsom Watch, the Hookers in Black, Betselem, and other far-Left anti-Israel political groups also charged with supporting terrorism and also have their members' citizenship revoked. I am sure their members can be granted political asylum in Gaza City. The Women in Black might be asked to wear chador veils there. And what about academics and others who serve as human shields in solidarity with wanted terrorists and interfere with IDF anti-terror operations illegally?  The new law also raises some other interesting ideas. A few weeks back the Jewish-born Neo-Nazi Norman Finkelstein, fired last year by DePaul University and unemplpyed ever since, tried to enter Israel in his capacity as agent for the Hizballah, but was evicted. He was shipped to Amsterdam, I guess because of the red lights there. In any case, he has since been threatening to enter Israel under the Law of Return to engage in his pro-terror politcal activities here. Well, my suggestion is to let him in, grant him citizenship, then while still at the airport strip him of his citizenship under the new law because he is a Hizballah agent and accomplice of terror, and then jail him in Kitziot prison. I am sure the Attorney General would welcome our other suggestions of who should be stripped of their citizenship under the new law against accomplices of terror. And since when are the Oslo folks sitting in the government opposed to collaboration with terrorists?
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Tammuz 5, 5768, 7/8/2008
Olmert Rather be a Muleby Steven Plaut
But if you don't care a feather or a fig
Concerning Ehud Olmert's refusal to step down or agree to hold new elections, we have nevertheless prepared a new election song to the tune of " Swing on a Star," original lyrics here, made famous by Bing Crosby: Would you like them sent away far
Lots of feathers and lots of tar
We'd be better off than we are
But Olmert'd rather be a mule
A mule is an animal with long funny ears
Appeases at anything he hears
His bank book's brawny - and his brain is weak
He's just plain dirty with a yellow streak
And by the way, if you choose to vote for fools
The country's head will be a mule
Or would you like them sent away far
Lots of feathers and lots of tar
We'd be better off than we are
But Olmert'd rather be a pig
A pig is an animal with dirt on his face
His real estate deals a big disgrace
He's got no backbone, an appeasing dude
He's dumb and lazy - and extremely crude
But if you don't care a feather or a fig
The country's head will be a pig
Or would you like them sent away far
Lots of feathers and lots of tar
We'd be better off than we are
But Olmert'd rather be a fish
A fish won't do anything but swindle the hook
He's slimy and never reads a book
To fool the people is his only thought
And though he's slippery - he still gets caught
But if that sort of guy is what you wish
The country's head will be a fish
And all the monkeys ain't in the zoo
Every day you meet quite a few
So you see it's all up to you
We could be better than we are, hey
They could feathered with some tar, hey Seated at defendant's bar, hey We can be better than we are, hey….
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Tammuz 1, 5768, 7/4/2008
Quotes and Notes Corner: Poisoning the Wellsby Nissan Ratzlav-Katz
Here's some more from history's grab-bag and how it plays out in current events. In January of 2003, the news agency of the United Arab Emirates, WAM, reported that the Emirates-based Zayed Centre for Coordination and Follow-Up published a book titled Israel's Water Security, "dealing with the conflict
Once upon a time, the libel was that Jews poison the wells; now it's that Jews block the wells.
arising from the Israeli plans and expansionist designs." The book attempts to "analyze the repercussions of these designs on Arab security," WAM reported. After noting that the water security policy of Israel is merely a cover for "expansionist designs," the United Arab Emirates news agency presents the Zayed Centre's conclusion: "Israel does not suffer from any shortage of water, as do other countries in its neighborhood. It only hopes to escalate the problem in order to gain benefits and to justify its hegemony and control over the natural resources, including water, in the region." The only answer, WAM concludes the issue, is "a collective Arab action to challenge these designs." What has this to do with 2008? It makes me wonder if B'tselem is taking part in that "collective Arab action" consciously or just by coincidence. BTselem claimed that "the chronic water shortage results in large part from Israel's discriminatory policy in distributing the joint water resources in the West Bank and the limits it places on the Palestinian Authority's ability to drill new wells." Once upon a time, the libel was that Jews poison the wells; now it's that Jews block the wells. Did I say "libel"? As reported here on Israel National News: "Mekorot, the national water company, denied allegations made by the B’Tselem group that Israel has discriminatory water policies in Arab villages in Judea and Samaria. The company reported that it provided more water in these areas than was required under the Oslo agreements. "...Mekorot said it provided 500 million cubic meters per year to Arab controlled areas of Judea and Samaria which was 30 percent more than required under current arrangements. This means that Israel supplies 80 percent of the Arab-controlled areas' water needs. The National Water Authority responded that shortages in these areas were caused by the poor infrastructure built by the PA and local water thieves." And this during the week of parshat Chukat, which emphasizes the role of water for the Jews during their passage through the Sinai desert. Researched, compiled and presented by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz
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Sivan 29, 5768, 7/2/2008
Rachel Corrie Lobby Silent?by Steven Plaut
Stop Caterpiller sales to the PA!
Quick.
Of all those groups and people who were "outraged" when Rachel Corrie from the International Solidarity with Terror Movement (ISM) threw herself under an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza to defend terrorists and later died in a Palestinian Authority medical facility, how many of those have expressed outrage and anguish at the bulldozer mass murder in Jerusalem today? The dozer driver who hit Corrie did not see her at all. Today's bulldozer murderer intentionally murdered four people and tried to murder dozens more. Where are the Corrie apologists today? Will Corrie's parents take time off from their campaign of vilification against Israel to speak out? 
Meanwhile, send out a fax at once demanding that Caterpiller stop all sales of equipment to the Palestinian Authority! UPDATE: James Taranto from the Wall Street Journal claims today that the terrorist got the idea of using the bulldozer for murder from the years of false claims by the Corrie Lobby that Israel "murdered" Rachel Corrie with a bulldozer.
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