Klingons Upon You, Rachel Corrie

by Steven Plaut

Corried died trying to save a weapons smuggling tunnel from the Israelis and they’re now having a breakfast commemorating her that bans weapons.
Gotta admit I do not know much about Julia Gorin.  But she got me guffawing with laughter, and not every columnist can do that.

Gorin has a thing about the Cult of Corrie, those people who have turned Rachel Corrie's suicide into the central canon of their Bash-Israel religion.

Gorin wrote about Corrie's cult of followers this past summer in Jewish World Review.   She dismissed Corrie as a terrorist rights campaigner and mocked those theaters trying to stage a play about Corrie.  She added: "It's not for nothing that the third anniversary of Corrie's death was commemorated with a salute to her family and friends by the Gaza Community Mental Health Program."

She has witty comments about other things: "On a side note, the weapons-smuggling tunnels beg a question: One of the Palestinians' grievances against the Israelis is that the IDF security mechanism often interferes with much needed medical supplies or medical care getting to and from the territories. But the Palestinians don't seem to have any trouble getting weapons through. Couldn't they just use their terror tunnels for the medical supplies? What's the problem?"

Well, Gorin is back this week writing enchantingly about Corrie.  She collects assorted notices about a pancake breakfast being held in Corrie's memory.  In the notice, attendees are encouraged to wear their keffiahs, and to dress in black.  No weapons, drugs, or alcohol please.  Really.

Corrie is commonly referred to in some web sites as "Saint Pancake".   Gorin cites Michael Becker:

'I’m at a loss for words. Rachel died trying to save a weapons smuggling tunnel from the Israelis and you’re having a breakfast commemorating her that bans weapons.'

Another writes: "The Palestinians are a people with far less claim to historical legitimacy than the Klingons. Idiots like Rachel Corrie are like geeks who go to summer camp to learn to speak Klingon, but wind up playing with live phaser guns."

Go here to read the rest.    Here is my guru Gorin:

Don Rickles Couldn't Make This Up

by Jack Engelhard

Do we laugh, or do we cry? Events keep moving so fast that we hardly have time to digest the humorous side of the news – except that it’s not so funny.

For example –

Israel’s minister of defense, Amir Peretz, is shown admiring a military drill through binoculars that are still covered up with the lens cap. He can’t see a thing, blind like most of Israel’s leadership -- and how about that for symbolism. But wait. That’s not the real funny part. He is still Israel’s minister of defense. Now that’s a riot!

Not funny enough? Try this. This one’s about your tax dollars at work – for the Palestinian Authority. The PA, as we know, is famous for a mantra that goes like this: SHOW ME THE MONEY. But what happens to the money? All gone. Yes, even the PA’s treasurer, Salam Fayyad, admits that there’s a hole in his pocket.

Here’s what he confided to the London Telegraph: “PA spending is out of control. Salaries are being paid to workers who never turn up, and nobody can track where the money is going.” We’re talking about some $700 million. Well, here’s my two cents, so to speak. Psst. Has anybody checked up on Suha Arafat lately?

Her husband, Yasser the terrorist, died a multi-millionaire. He left her a big part of his fortune, most of which was intended to feed his people.

Well, he did feed his wife.

(Like the Godfather, Yasser made his money from the olive oil business. Nickel here, nickel there, it adds up.)

By the way, I just did a Google check on Suha and the first pix that shows up is a loving kiss and embrace between Suha and – AND, Hillary Clinton.

Let’s remember that next time we vote.

Again by the way – the PA employs something like 140,000 civil servants. I’m not good at math, but WOW! Does everybody there work for the government?

Still not funny? Okay, here’s a real knee-slapper. Mort Zuckerman is a famed philanthropist, along with his title as publisher of the New York Daily News. He is Jewish and a friend of Israel. But is he smart? You mean he didn’t know what would happen in Gaza once Gaza was vacated of Jews to make room for Palestinian Arabs? I knew what would happen, and so did you.

But Mort, so gullible, raised more than $10 million to help Palestinian Arabs set up shop in Gaza, when instead these same people burned everything to the ground. They burned the homes. They burned the greenhouses. They burned the synagogues. They burned and looted everything, and said, Thank you, Mort.

Not all of that money came from Mort. Donations poured in from other Jewish “philanthropists.”

What happened to all that money? Don’t ask me. Ask Salam Fayad. He doesn’t know, either.

Look. We Jews may not be as smart as we’re cracked up to be. But we sure are funny. (If only it weren’t so sad.)

Jezebel is No More

by Steven Plaut

'Tanya Reinhart, Chomsky in drag: no collection of predictions gone wrong would be complete without her.'
Tanya Reinhart, the worst Israeli academic traitor from Tel Aviv University, has gone to the great Gulag of the Sky.   Look at talkback number 8 on this page, which sums up Tanya's career brilliantly.

Reinhart was a fanatic anti-Semite. She was raised as a Stalinist and never rebelled against her communist home values.   She was later a linguistics student of Noam Chomsky, the Khmer Rouge's favorite academic, and she followed his lead not only regarding his long-ago-debunked linguistics "theories", but also in his hatred of Jews and of America.  She spent most of her time promoting the jihad against Israel and called openly for Israel to be destroyed.

She took early retirement from Tel Aviv University when her bosses there ordered her to choose between her gig there and her other gig in Holland. But she then invented a Big Lie, Ilan-Pappe-style, and claimed she had been driven out of Tel Aviv University because of her extremist anti-Israel politics.  That was a lie. 

Had she really been so driven away by Tel Aviv University, it would have been a badge of honor for TAU.  But alas it was not one that TAU actually earned.   She simply left to collect some pension wampum. 

She died just as she had begun a visiting job at New York University.  I guess she hated America but not enough to give up its nice salaries.  In any case, her passing means there is one less fanatic anti-Semitic faculty member running about New York City.

Reinhart was a regular Israel-basher on the leftwing Neo-Nazi web magazine Counterpunch.  Counterpunch is run by the neo-Stalinist Alexander Cockburn who says dem Joos was behind the 911 attacks on America.  Counterpunch regularly calls for Israel to be exterminated.  Reinhart collaborated with the world's worst anti-Semites.

The moonbat Left, led by Haaretz (the main Palestinian newspaper printed in Hebrew), is now singing her praises as a "peace activist". If she was a peace activist, then so is bin Laden.
Here is Tanya with a fan:

You can watch this modern day Jezebel spout off her hatred here, explaining why Israel is far worse than apartheid South Africa.

Perhaps the best item on her was by Martin Kramer:

'Cut through Reinhart's fact-free analyses and self-justificatory monologues, and you've got a plain case of bias run amuck. Blinding bias drove her to make a 180-degree error in estimating the course of Israeli policy; the only "Israeli deceit" was Reinhart's deceit of herself, and of anyone naive or foolish enough to believe her....Which makes this professor's bum prediction and moonbat analysis all the more valuable. Tanya Reinhart, Chomsky in drag: no collection of predictions gone wrong would be complete without her.'

Kramer also deals with Reinhart’s common assertion that Israel is commiting genocide against Palestinians and has made the Palestinians a "dying society":

‘For a "dying society," subjected to "slow and steady genocide," Palestinians have enjoyed an astonishingly robust population growth. In the West Bank, the net population growth rate is 3.13%, and in Gaza it’s 3.77%, compared to Israel’s 1.2%. That’s also much higher than the net growth rates of Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt (CIA estimates for 2005). Life expectancy at birth is 72.3—at least five years above the Arab average, and higher than the same figure for Syria, Jordan, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia (Arab Human Development Report III, 2002 figures).’

See also this.

Update:  Noam Chomsky, professor of the Cambodian genocide, just published an article singing Reinhart's praise on Counterpunch.   Anti-Semites of a feather stick together even after death.   See Jezebel embracing Ahab here.