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9 Shevat 5768, 1/16/2008

The Palestinian Newspaper Printed in Hebrew

by Steven Plaut


Makes Pravda under Brezhnev look truly diverse
Ah Haaretz, the Palestinian newspaper printed in Hebrew, the home of Gideon Levy and Amira Hass who never met an Israeli deserving of being defended from terrorists, the newspaper whose idea of pluralism is running one non-leftist item for each 100 leftist ones, the "newspaper" that lets its anti-Zionist ideology infiltrate the news, the medium that makes Pravda under Brezhnev look truly diverse. (Levy is so openly anti-Semitic that he just won the "European-Mediterranean Prize for Cultural Dialogue." My guess is that Ernst Zundel will get it next year.) Haaretz' editor David Landau recently urged the United States to "rape Israel" (his words) into capitulating to Arab demands, in effect calling on the US to extinguish Israeli sovereignty. Interestingly, Haaretz is also fanatically anti-American, and loves to reprint articles by American leftist journalists and by Eurotrash about how evil America is.
 
Take today's paper. Please
 
The banner headline concerns the assassination yesterday of Husam a-Zahar, the 22 year old terrorist son of a senior Hamas terrorhoid, one Mahmoud a-Zahar. A second offspring of the senior terrorhoid had been recycled by Israel back in 2003. Other Palestinian terrorists were also killed in Gaza yesterday in a day of uncharacteristically active military activity by Israel, responding to the sniping murder of an Ecuador volunteer worker on a kibbutz near Gaza inside Israel's pre-1967 border line and to the daily barrages of Qassam rockets on Sderot. Haaretz wants Qassam rockets fired out of the West Bank at Netanya and Tel Aviv and that is why it wants Israel to withdraw to its 1967 Green Line borders and then let in a million "Palestinian refugees," so Israel will be transformed into the third Arab state in historic Palestine.
 
Haaretz' Hebrew banner headline today is "Because of the killing of A-Zahar no deal for the Release of Gilad Shalit will be Imminent."
 
Got that? Gilad Shalit is the Israeli soldier kidnapped by the savages in Gaza a year and a half back. There has not been the slightest progress in getting him released nor the slightest hint from the Hamas that he is even still alive. But Haaretz spins the killing yesterday of the son of the terrorist chief as a folly by Israel, where Israel itself is now to blame for the failure to get Shalit released! You know, the Hamas was just about to release him. In fact, every time Israel undertakes any military action, the Arabs were just about to make peace with Israel but Israel spoiled things, or so Haaretz would have you believe.
 
To drive the point home, just under the headline, Haaretz runs two photos side by side of crying children: one is a kid in Sderot in shock from the Qassam rockets landing near her, and the other is a Gaza Arab kid upset by the noise of the explosions that recycled a-Zahar. In Haaretz eyes the two are moral equivalents. When Israel kills Hamas terror leaders to put a stop to the countless rockets being fired at Sderot civilians, this is the moral equivalent of firing at those civilians in the first place. After all, both actions make loud noises and scare kids.
Another headline is that 11 Jews families have moved into an "Arab neighborhood" in Jerusalem, Haaretz reports, a place where they obviously do not belong and have no right to be. Haaretz thinks half of Jerusalem should be exclusive "Arab neighborhoods." 
Below, Landau when he is not busy promoting rape of Israel.   
 
If a gated community in the US were to adopt a policy to deny residence entry to illegal Mexican migrants Haaretz would be running lurid headlines denouncing them for racism. Haaretz also runs weekly articles attacking kibbutzim and small closed Jewish communities in the Galilee whose membership committees do not admit Arabs as members for any reason. When the Druse in Peki'in in the Galilee launched a pogrom against the handful of Jewish families living there to drive them out, Haaretz "understood" their grievances. Jews have lived in Peki'in without interruption since Roman days.


7 Shevat 5768, 1/14/2008

Arrest and Prosecute this Occupier of Palestine

by Steven Plaut


Now I know what you are thinking and that is that this makes Barenboim an occupier of Palestine, in fact - a settler
Every time I hear about the Argentine-born anti-Israel anti-Jewish terrorism-justifier conductor Daniel Barenboim, I like to contemplate a nice place in which to insert his baton.

Barenboim has a long history of slavishly servicing the forces of Palestinian fascism.  When he is not busy playing Wagner for the Germans, he denounces Israel from just about every venue that comes his way, down to and including Columbia University, while celebrating his personal guru Edward Said

Barenboim's latest prank has been to accept citizenship in the terrorocracy-in-the-erecting, "Palestine."  The Jerusalem Post reports:

Barenboim, who had been playing regular concerts in the PA - the only renowned Israeli musician to do so - said he was honored by the gesture...."I hope that my new status will be an example of Israeli-Palestinian coexistence," said Barenboim as he received the new passport at the end of a concert he played in Ramallah.'

Now I know what you are thinking and that is that this makes Barenboim an occupier of Palestine, in fact - a settler, and as such he should be just as entitled to the many forms of execration, prosecution, demonization, indictment, violent arrest by police on horses, and other forms of persecution that other Israeli settlers of what Barenboim regards as "Palestine" enjoy every day.  Even better, since all those far-Leftist professors in Israel celebrate and promote terror attacks on Jewish settlers as legitimate Palestinian "resistance," they should immediately demand that Barenboim be included in the target. 

To the Right:  Barenboim serenades the late

Professor of Terror Edward Said. 

Me?  I propose that we supply Barenboim with a new Preparation H baton.

 



3 Shevat 5768, 1/10/2008

New Immigrant Welcomed to Israel with Police Arrest

by Baruch Gordon

New immigrant Jeff Daube tells of his first experience exercising his right to freedom of speech in Israel:

Welcome to Israel!

Having arrived on a Nefesh b'Nefesh flight less than two weeks ago, the following was the last thing I expected to happen during my first few weeks here:

Since President Bush was in town, it was decided by a number of lay and rabbinical leaders that it would be good idea to distribute the latest report from David Bedein's Center for Near East Policy Research to the press covering the President's visit. The report, Fatah as "Moderate" A Hard Look Post Annapolis, can be found on-line at: http://israelbehindthenews.com/pdf/ModerateFatah.pdf and was authored by Arlene Kushner.
20 minutes later, a policeman comes down to the corner where I had been standing and taps me on the shoulder... and tells me to come with him.

At a National Council of Young Israel briefing by David Bedein last Friday attendees were asked to place themselves at various locations where the press was supposed to be to distribute literature and engage them in polite conversation about how Fatah and Abbas were not really the "moderate" alternative to Hamas.

I was assigned to Kikar Safra between 3PM and 5PM on Wednesday, January 9. This location is where the foreign press corps gets its security clearance. It appeared as if there were no more correspondents around so we decided to go to the Dan Panorama Hotel where the foreign press was staying. After President Bush's press conference we assumed that the correspondents would be returning to the hotel so we were in front with our literature when the police told us that we could not stand there and we should move to the corners which I did.

Approximately 20 minutes later a policeman comes down to the corner where I had been standing and taps me on the shoulder asks me for my teudat zehut (ID card) and tells me to come with him. He then told me to get into the police car with Yehudit Dassberg and Susie Dym, two colleagues who were there for the same purpose. They did not tell me at the time why I was being taken in but Susie told me in the car that they found the material either seditious or contain incitement -- I am not sure which. Later it became apparent that they claimed we were creating a public nuisance.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

I was standing on a street corner quietly minding my own business, following the instructions of another police officer. We were brought to the police station at the Russian Compound and told to stay in a waiting room. I, not being totally fluent in Ivrit yet, allowed Susie to do all the talking. We called David Bedein and Rabbi Aaron Tirschwell and they in turn made a number of calls and we were released after being held for approximately 40 minutes. At no time were we questioned or asked to sign anything. The police said absolutely nothing to me and I said nothing to them.

I learned later from Susie that she was listed as an "arrest" while Yehudit and I were ONLY "detained." I am struck by the police's total arbitrary and capricious behavior in this incident. After having read and heard about these types of police actions, and now having experienced it first-hand, I can only say that I am saddened by the fact that the police force of the Jewish State employs tactics which are unethical in the extreme and still has the gall to call itself a democratic country where the rule of law prevails. Granted at 60 years old, the country may still be young, relatively speaking, but it still has a long way to go before it reaches minimum standards of respect for a citizen's civil rights -- even a brand new citizen.

Regretfully yours,
Jeff Daube



24 Tevet 5768, 1/2/2008

Flash! Hannah is arrested by the SHABAK!!

by Steven Plaut

 No Lip Moving, Jude!
 

There are now distinct dangers that Jewish drivers might be engaged in drive-by prayings
As you know, the new policy of the Olmert junta and the Israeli government is that Jews may not move their lips while visiting the Temple Mount. The reason is that the Moslem jihadniks who have been granted hegemony over Judaism's most holy place might be offended if they think any Jew up there is praying. To avoid offending their delicate sensitivities, the Public Security Minister Avi Dichter recently wrote MKs Uri Ariel and Aryeh Eldad (National Union-NRP) that no Jew is allowed to pray in any overt manner whatsoever on the Temple Mount, even if he or she is just moving lips in prayer. For details, see this.  No, it is not a joke. It is not clear why Dichter does not save time and propose that all Jews in Israel wear yellow stars so they can be easily spotted if they pray illicitly.
 
Now, like you, I find this all a bit strange. After all, why limit the prohibition on Jews moving their lips to the Temple Mount? There are whole neighborhoods in Jerusalem, er – I mean al-Quds, in which there are distinct dangers that Jewish drivers might be engaged in drive-by prayings. But then again, if no Jew anywhere in Jerusalem were permitted to move his lips, then how would all those politicians lie?  (Arabs screaming "Butcher the Jews!" would of course just be exercising protected free speech.)
 
The first priority now, however, should be to correct some scribe errors in the first book of Samuel. As you recall, some misconceptions have crept into the official version of events as related in the first chapter of that book. Hence, we thought we should set the record straight about what really happened there! Here goes:
 
There is this dude, see, named Elkanah from the tribe of Efraim, who is practicing zero population growth and refusing to drive a SUV in order to save the rain forests. His wife Hannah however wants a kid, due to her brainwashing by the patriarchal anti-feminist capitalist media. So she bikes over to Shiloh with Critical Mass in order to save energy. And while she is there, she goes into a sanctuary. But she then blatantly defies the official Israelite rules of engagement with the Canaanites and she moves her lips while inside! Well, Eli the clergydude there is outraged and he calls in the Philistine cops. They burst into the place and Mirandize Hannah.
 
"You are hereby arrested under suspicion of having moved your lips while standing in an occupied territory," they tell her, "and anything you say while not moving your lips can be used against you in a Sanhedrin of law."
 
Well, poor Hannah does not know what to do. "You idiots," she cries out at her captors, "I was just standing here minding my own business and asking the Big Guy up there to help me have a baby."
 
"That's it," says the police chief. "She has just settled her own fate by repeating the offense right here in front of us and moving her lips. Off to the dungeon with her!"


18 Tevet 5768, 12/27/2007

We Demand some Investigations Now!

by Steven Plaut


Michael Lerner can investigate to see if there are any frauds impersonating Rabbis walking around
 Investigate This!
 
Some Important Investigations:
 
President Pervez Musharraf has just announced that he will be investigating thoroughly who was behind the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
 
This is a very important and very impressive development. We thought this should be added to several other important investigations that should be immediately initiated:
  1. Abu Mazen should set up a commission to see if there are any Holocaust Deniers among Palestinians.
  2. The Hamas should set up a commission to see if there are any terrorists operating out of Gaza or shooting al-Qassam rockets into Israel.
  3. Ehud Olmert should set up an investigation to see who was responsible for Israel's total failure in the war against Hizbollah in the summer of 2006.
  4. Ilan Pappe can set up an investigation to see if any academics lied about Israelis supposedly conducting massacres of Arabs.
  5. Ben Gurion University can investigate if there are any Israeli schools that have trashed academic standards for the purpose of hiring and promoting anti-Israel leftist extremists.
  6. Haaretz can investigate if there are any treasonous journalists employed in the Israeli media.
  7. Bill Clinton can investigate if there is any hanky-panky taking place in America.
  8. Norman Finkelstein can investigate whether there are any Neo-Nazi pseudo-scholars who have been serving as professors in the Chicago area.
  9. Counterpunch magazine can investigate whether there are any pro-terror Stalinists in America.
  10. Michael Lerner can investigate to see if there are any frauds impersonating Rabbis walking around.
  11. Barry Chamish can investigate to see if there are any mentally unstable people in the "911 Truth" cult of conspiracy theorists.
  12. Reform "Rabbi" Eric Yoffie can investigate whether there are any American Jews endangering and undermining Israel.
  13. Arthur Waskow can investigate if there are any Jews who smoke dope.
  14. OJ can investigate who REALLY killed his ex-wife!

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