Naftali Bennett pursued by hecklers shouting he has "blood of Mohammed Abu Khdeir" on his hands @ #HaaretzPeace conf. pic.twitter.com/cm9cFaqE5z
— Anshel Pfeffer (@AnshelPfeffer) July 8, 2014
Labels: Israel's suicidal Left, Israeli Left, Naftali Bennett
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 10:19 AM
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She focused her criticism on a decision by Kerry to enable both the Israeli and Palestinian sides to express reservations to the framework he intends to present.
"I think the US is surrendering to rejectionists on both sides by letting them express reservations," Gal-On said. "A framework with reservations is a farce. It will allow everything the Americans did so far to fall by the wayside, while both sides stall without paying a political price."
Gal-On said Kerry "has good intentions" and has used the proper resources to advance the diplomatic process. She expressed sympathy for the criticism he has faced from both the Israeli Right and the Palestinians but did not refrain from expressing her own frustration with him, even on personal terms.
"Everyone who comes thinks he invented the wheel," Gal-On said. "I'm not looking to attack the Americans. I respect them, but their policies are incorrect."
Gal-On called on Kerry to put more pressure on both Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas.
"Instead of forcing the Israelis and the Palestinians to make a decision and really obligate themselves, even at the cost of changing their governments, Kerry is giving Netanyahu and Abbas the ultimate excuse to continue dragging their feet," she said.
"Virtual negotiations will not lead to an agreement for two peoples, only to political survival at the expense of our future."More pressure? There hasn't been any pressure put on Abu Bluff yet. While she's at it, why doesn't she just call on Kerry to impose a settlement? In fact, why doesn't she call on him to send in the Marines to expel the 'settlers' from their homes?
Labels: Abu Mazen, Condoleeza Rice, David Landau, Israel's suicidal Left, John Kerry, Yair Lapid, Zehava Gal-On
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:13 AM
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Yaakov Berg, CEO of Psagot Winery, revealed to Arutz Sheva that the international boycotts of Israel products began precisely in Tel Aviv. There, the discrimination by Israelis against domestic produce from over the 1949 Armistice line opened the international floodgates.
"Today everyone is attacking the countries that boycott us, but I want to say that the true boycott began from among us," emphasizes Berg.
"Many years I travel to well-known restaurants in the central region and Tel Aviv, and they tell me our wine is great, but when they hear it's from Judea and Samaria they show me to the door," reports the CEO. "Would they act this way to an Arab like they act towards a Jew?"
The winery, founded in 2003, is headquartered in the Samaria town of Psagot just north of Jerusalem, where wines are aged in oak vats in a cave from the Second Temple period which was discovered when the winery was established.
Psagot has won international acclaim for its quality. In the prestigious Vinalies competition in Paris, the winery won a gold and silver medal in 2011. It has won numerous gold medals in the Terravino competition, the Panama Vinos competition, and Israeli Wine Awards.
Berg comments that he would drink wine even if it was made by a "leftist kibbutznik." He notes the hypocrisy, saying "if I was an Arab asking to work as a waiter and they told me that they're refusing me because I'm Arab, that would immediately be news, so why is this considered normal?"
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Read the whole thing. His warnings to the Leftists in Tel Aviv are quite prescient.
"70% of our wines are sold in countries worldwide, and are in prestigious restaurants in Manhattan, but not here in Tel Aviv," reveals the CEO.
Labels: BDS, Israel's suicidal Left, Psagot winery, Tel Aviv
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:29 PM
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The teacher, according to the student, tried to convince students to dodge the IDF draft. As a result, the Education Ministry is seeking to fire him.
The student wrote a letter on the matter to Education Minister Shai Piron. Piron called the teacher in for a meeting in the wake of the student's complaint.
The student wrote that she was very confused because of the teacher. “I am supposed to join the army in less than a year, and my teacher is telling me that the army is immoral, and that anyone who joins it is forced to do cruel things,” the letter said, Channel Two reported.
Speaking to Channel Two, the student said that the teacher's comments “made me very angry. I see this as anti-army incitement.”
In addition to railing against the army, the teacher, according to the student, told students that he was a radical leftist, “and according to him the state did not belong to the Jews at all but to the Arabs, and as fast as he was concerned, the Jews had no business being in Israel at all.”
The teacher, said the student, said that he had voted for Hadash, the Israel Communist Party.Teachers on the state payroll are supposed to keep their politics out of the classroom. BWAHAHAHAAHA!
Labels: Education, Israel's suicidal Left, Shai Piron
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:18 PM
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Terrorists prisoners released before the end of their jail terms in diplomatic deals and exchanges like the Schalit deal will not receive “acclimation stipends” from the National Insurance Institute (NII), and their eligibility for other NII payments will be limited, according to a bill proposed by MK Yariv Levin (Likud-Beytenu).
Levin told Arutz Sheva that the proposed law will make released terrorists ineligible for any NII payments for the duration of the term that they were sentenced to, so that terrorists who had received life sentences would never be eligible for payments. The freed terrorists would only begin receiving NII rights when their original jail term is over, so that a terrorist released at age 40 with ten years remaining to serve would only become eligible for benefits at age 50, for instance.
Levin noted that five of the terrorist murderers released from jail in the last installment of the Israeli “gestures” toward the Palestinian Authority are Israeli citizens. This makes them eligible for an “acclimation stipend” upon their release from jail, and they may also request an additional sum of money if they fail to find employment within 2 months of their release.
This money, at least, would be denied the terrorists who are Israeli citizens and who are released in exchanges and “gestures,” explained Levin.So why not do the sensible thing and just deny them NII money altogether? You'll love this.
Levin explained that if it were up to him, he would pass a law simply denying terrorists all NII payments and stipends, forever. However, he explained to Arutz Sheva, the current coalition can be expected to shoot down any such legislation, especially with dovish Minister Tzipi Livni heading the key Ministerial Committee for Legislation, which decides the fate of bills.Levin isn't just whistling Dixie. In the previous Knesset a bill to do the same thing was watered down to cut the stipends by around 50% due to Leftist opposition.
Labels: Israel's suicidal Left, Israeli Arabs are a fifth column, Israeli taxes, Palestinian terrorists
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:03 AM
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The degree to which Israel's mainstream media openly identifies with leftist politics was displayed Wednesday morning in an opinion piece by Dror Zaresky, the editor of Channel 10 television's London and Kirshenbaum, a daily news interview show.
The article in Maariv-NRG, where Zaresky is a frequent contributor, is devoted to Zaresky's confession that he was happy to see young Jews badly beaten by Arab villagers at Kusra, in Samaria, last week.
"The reports in the media and around some of the water coolers,” he wrote, “ran the gamut from just-the-facts to awarding a prize for courage to the Palestinian residents of the village near Shechem who settled a long debt with the youths of the right wing specifically, and with Israel the occupier in general.”
"I will admit the truth: I, too, had to fight the smile that spread on my face when I heard the reports from the village,” Zaresky added. “When I first heard about the 'price tag' action gone bad in the wadis of Samaria, I could not hide my smile. Unlike many of my friends in the media, I do not see these actions as disastrous for the country; proportionality was abandoned long ago, in the way we report these incidents of graffiti and flat tires. And yet, there is no doubt in my mind that the right wing criminals are trying to disrupt the lives of many Palestinians – and on the way, they may just succeed in setting fir to our calm neighborhood in the Middle East.”
Zaresky went on to compare the event to a group of thugs from an organized crime gang who come to collect protection money from shop owners, somewhere in the desert – and instead are ambushed by their victims, who beat them up. “I imagine that you get my point. The schadenfreude toward those who came to hurt is natural and understandable and has nothing to do with political views of one kind or another,” he opined, adding that he “understands” people who say it is wrong to take the law into one's own hands, but wishes to “confer a blessing” on those who “teach criminals a lesson” regardless.As I have reported previously, the teenagers and young adults involved in the incident were not trying to carry out a 'price tag' attack.
Labels: anti-Israel media bias, Israel's suicidal Left, Israeli media bias, liberal media bias, media bias, Palestinian terrorism, price tag attacks
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:04 AM
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A bill preventing Israel from unilaterally annexing territories will be brought to the Ministerial Committee for Legislation for discussion on Sunday and will be brought to a Knesset vote next Wednesday.
The "Two States Bill," proposed by Labor MK Hilik Bar, is a response to Likud MK Miri Regev's bill proposal to annex the Jordan Valley and apply Israeli law there.
The bill also requires that the final status of Judea and Samaria be determined only within the framework of a two-state solution agreement with the Palestinians.
The bill was a joint effort of Bar, the grassroots movement OneVoice and diplomacy experts, and was signed by MKs from Labor, Meretz and Shas.
Annexing the Jordan Valley would "sabotage Israel in the diplomatic negotiations, harm the efforts of the prime minister to come to a two state solution, deepen the rift that already exists between us and the US, and permanently destroy the chances for the two state solution, which is the only solution that will guarantee Israel’s future as a Jewish, Zionist and democratic state," a statement issued by Labor said.
Bar, the chairman of the Knesset Caucus to Resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict, said the bill will determine "once and for all" whether the coalition parties were for or against the two-state solution.What could go wrong?
Labels: Israel's suicidal Left, Jordan Valley, Labor party
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 10:04 PM
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They're just inciting against us. We have plenty of respect for people with beards and skullcaps.And for those who don't get it.... Pictured is the leader of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Raed Sallah.
Labels: Islamic Movement in Israel, Israel's suicidal Left, Israeli Left, Israeli Nobel prizes, leftists, Raed Sallah, Robert Aumann, University of Haifa, Yisrael Aumann
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:25 PM
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Penn State Harrisburg will be dropping its institutional membership.
That message was conveyed to me by Dr. Simon J. Bronner, who Chairs the American Studies Department, which has the only Ph.D program in American Studies in Pennsylvania.
Dr. Bronner is a prominent member of the ASA, in 2011 becoming Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of American Studies, a publication sponsored by the ASA.
Dr. Bronner has been an opponent of the resolution, having signed a letter in November opposing the resolution along with many other members including 7 Past Presidents of the ASA. Dr. Bronner has spoken out about the damage the resolution would do to academic freedom.
Dr. Bronner provided me with the following statement:
In the wake of the passage of the resolution by the ASA to boycott Israeli institutions, which programs and departments such as Penn State Harrisburg’s program in American Studies consider to curtail academic freedom and undermine the reputation of American Studies as a scholarly enterprise, the chair of the American Studies program at Penn State Harrisburg plans to drop its institutional membership and will encourage others to do so....
A much tougher fight may be to convince University Presidents to heed the call of former Harvard President Lawrence Summers to curtail financial support for participation in ASA events.Maybe the University of Haifa would like to join the ASA.... They'd fit right in with the zeitgeist. But they can't join because they're still in Israel.....
Labels: academic boycott, BDS, Israel's suicidal Left, liberal academia, University of Haifa
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:33 AM
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Labels: academic boycott, BDS, Israel's suicidal Left, liberal academia
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:14 PM
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Two-thirds of the 1,252 members who voted approved the boycott, according to the ASA announcement Monday, a day after the deadline for voting.
At the time of the vote, there were 3,853 eligible voters, meaning a third of the membership participated.
The membership-wide canvas was unprecedented and was undertaken in part at the behest of boycott opponents, who said at a session during the ASA annual conference in Washington last month that the matter was too sensitive to leave up to the 20-member national council, which unanimously endorsed the boycott.
“The National Council engaged and addressed questions and concerns of the membership throughout the process,” the ASA statement said. “During the open discussion at the recent convention, members asked us to draft a resolution that was relevant to the ASA in particular and so the Council’s final resolution acknowledged that the US plays a significant role in enabling the Israeli occupation of Palestine.”
The resolution, which applies to ASA as an organization, is not binding on members and targets institutions, not individuals.
In its announcement, the ASA said it would invite Israeli and Palestinian academics to its 2014 national meeting in Los Angeles. ASA describes itself as “devoted to the interdisciplinary study of American culture and history.”I hope that the Israelis don't show up, but given that the Israelis that they invite are likely to be far left academics that hope is probably unrealistic.
Labels: academic boycott, BDS, Israel's suicidal Left, liberal academia
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:38 PM
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Several weeks ago I was approached by Peace Now to speak at their annual conference on a panel discussing whether international pressure on Israel is necessary to promote peace. I was specifically told that my point of view (which opposes such pressure and certainly the domestic efforts to invite it) would be very appreciated in this discussion.So is Israel's suicidal Left intolerant or is its intolerant Left suicidal? Anyway, kudos to Wilf for having a brain unlike most of her colleagues on the Left.
Yesterday, I received a call from the head of Peace Now disinviting me. Even though Yariv Oppenheimer noted that he personally did not want to disinvite me, he was outnumbered within his own organization. The reason, he explained, was due to the fact I am a member of the International Advisory Council of NGO Monitor (along with other “human rights offenders” such as Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel and Alan Dershowitz). Putting aside the way in which dogmatic thinking seems to blind people to the importance of good manners, and the inability of those who preach tolerance to hear a point of view that is not their own, I am issuing the following response:
"If the Israeli Left has no place for those who support a two-state solution and who also wage battle against those who seek to delegitimize Israel, it will not return to lead the country. Leadership is not built through self-flagellation. Defending Israel and Zionism can and should be part of supporting peace and a two state solution. Israel is under attack for its very legitimacy and the human-rights discourse serves various groups to undermine the foundational idea of Zionism that the Jewish People have a right to a sovereign state in their ancestral homeland. If people, whose work for human rights is indisputable such as Elie Wiesel and Alan Dershowitz, find it proper to fight against the demonization of Israel, then I am proud to wage this battle with them."
Labels: Einat Wilf, Israel's suicidal Left, Israeli Left, Peace Now
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 6:39 PM
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AVRAHAM’S RESEARCH demonstrates that Hoffman and Kallus are political animals, not just spiritual seekers motivated by their intense attachment to the Western Wall. And it strongly suggests that the prime motivation of the leaders of WoW is to advance an agenda consistent with their other political work.Read the whole thing.
The power of the Western Wall derives, in large part, from its role as a symbol of Jewish continuity, from the time of the First and Second Temples until today. Those who identify with organizations like Ir Amim and Emek Shaveh, which oppose Israeli archeological work in the Old City, as part of a sinister “Judaization of Jerusalem,” and who are allied with groups calling for the return of east Jerusalem, including the Temple Mount and Western Wall, to Palestinian control, are apparently not terribly moved by Jewish continuity and its symbols.
In truth, Hoffman has always been rather forthright that the Western Wall Plaza had value in her eyes primarily as a place to make political statements – “to be seen,” in her words – and provoke confrontation. Hoffman admits she feels no particular attachment to places, the Western Wall included. And her Reform Movement long ago declared, “One should not consider the Western Wall as possessing any sanctity.”
She has no answer for the question posed long ago by Hillel Halkin, “Are there no other places in Jerusalem to practice Jewish feminism, that they must do it at the one site where it is sure to infuriate large numbers of Orthodox Jews?” – a question that takes on special gravity given Hoffman’s admission that the Western Wall has no real sanctity in her eyes.
Offending others is not an unfortunate byproduct, but the very purpose of WoW. Again, Hoffman admitted as much recently in explaining her theoretical acceptance of Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky’s proposal for WoW to move their prayer rites from the current Western Wall Plaza to a fully refurbished area further south on the Western Wall (albeit while conditioning that acceptance on 16 untenable conditions). “WoW,” she conceded, in explanation of the new approach, “is not the right group for bringing about change in the Orthodox world.”
In other words, the 25 years of confrontation were not, at least for Hoffman, about the yearning for proximity to the Western Wall, but to “model” new and better modes of prayer for her benighted Orthodox sisters.
IT IS IMPORTANT to understand the ways in which WoW’s activities serve the radical agenda of Hoffman, Kallus and Sachs. WoW serves to “kasher” many of the organizations with which it is associated, in particular the NIF, which serves as both a funder of WoW and a conduit for its tax-deductible contributions.
WoW wraps itself in the cloak of religious pluralism.
For most American Jews, the belief that “there is no right way to be a Jew” is both the first and last of their theological principles. Accordingly, religious pluralism is as “American Jewish” as apple pie and motherhood – sadly, a good deal more so than the latter.
By selling itself as an organization committed to the benign cause – at least in the eyes of non-Orthodox American Jews – of religious pluralism, the NIF is able to obscure other parts of its agenda that might find less favor with many of its contributors.
But there is another more insidious way in which WoW helps to advance the radical Left agenda in Israel.
Groups like B’Tselem and Breaking the Silence, which uses former IDF soldiers to advance a narrative of widespread Israeli war crimes, seek to alienate American Jews from their identification with Israel. By doing so, they hope to increase Israeli Jews’ sense of isolation and lack of international support, and to thereby convince them that the only way out is to conclude a “peace” with the Palestinians on almost any terms.
Labels: Adalah, archaeology, Israel's suicidal Left, Jerusalem, New Israel Fund, Women of the Wall
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:39 PM
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Habayit Hayehudi faction chairwoman MK Ayelet Shaked implored Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai on Thursday to cancel an upcoming film festival focusing on the Nakba, the Arabic term meaning "catastrophe" that Palestinians and Israeli Arabs use to describe the creation of the Palestinian refugee problem during Israel's War of Independence.
"I was shocked to discover that Tel Aviv Municipality was helping produce an anti-Zionist film festival at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque. A review of the event's line-up clearly shows that the films represented at the festival are of an anti-Zionist nature," said Shaked.
The festival at Tel Aviv's art-house Cinematheque theater, titled "48 mm -- International Film Festival on Nakba and Return," began on Thursday. According to the theater's website, the purpose of the festival is to "show films dealing with the Palestinian Nakba and the return of refugees."
Israel's municipalities get funding from the central government. Tel Aviv ought to lose as much as this 'film festival' cost. This is disgraceful.The festival is showing both full-length films produced domestically by Palestinians and abroad, as well as a series of short films produced by Israelis and Palestinians, covering themes related to the Nakba. It will run until Saturday.
Labels: anti-Zionism, Israel's suicidal Left, naqba, Tel Aviv
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 3:05 PM
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Daniel Seidemann, a leftist Israeli activist, was hit by a rock on Saturday and required stitches in his head. He wrote a ‘sentitive response’ on social media that was republished by 972MAG in a sympathetic way. Please read below and tell me if you find Daniel’s reflection on being hit by a rock as courageous, or extraordinarily delusional.As a 16 year old with my whole life ahead of me, I did not want to be confrontational or controvertial with what I write on this blog. I should not make enemies. But in light of what I read, I have to ask; did the rock to the head affect Mr. Seidemann’s sanity, or if he was of such a submissive disposition before it hit his head? In any case, the dross that you just read in the last paragraph is not a fabrication. It is a genuine, sad example of leftist submission and self-dehumanisation.The rock that hit me yesterday was not directed at me, personally. Most likely, it was hurled because I am an Israeli – the occupier. It’s also possible that it’s because I am a Jew, irrespective of the occupation. We will never know. But the wonderful people who visited me today are living under occupation. My occupation. I deserve no special dispensation for my “good behavior.” They owe me no apologies.As long as the occupation exists, events like this will happen and no one is exempt from them. I don’t romanticize the prick that cracked my head open. But I don’t find it particularly important if he is or is not apprehended. (OK – I do fear that he might have just been practicing on me, and that more deadly violence can be expected of him in the future). But this ends not when Palestinians behave better, or when our Shin Bet becomes more efficient. It ends when occupation ends. Until then, I remain a symbol of that occupation, and not without reason. And no good deeds, as it were, will redeem me or protect me.
The “Uncle Tomer” attitude of this submissive Israeli is openly admitted. Seidemann says “there is I deserve no special dispensation for my ‘good behavior’.” Good behaviour being a synonym for submission, and as having full acceptance of the Arab ‘pure victim’ narrative. The Arabs are the victims, even when they attack, assumes Seidemann. They would, sadly, be victims in Mr Seidemann’s eyes if the rock blinded him, deafened him, or anything to that effect. Such is the naivité of someone with this viewpoint.
His statement also has a roaring spark of disingenuity. The statement “I don’t find it particularly important if he is or is not apprehended” may present a typical peacenik “turn the other cheek” image. That is, until the hypocrisy of the statement is exposed immediately as he follows up his comment with “OK – I do fear that he might have just been practicing on me, and that more deadly violence can be expected of him in the future”. He admits the hatred and the murderous intent, and then goes on to justify it. He admits that the same hatred that propelled an arm to throw a rock at his head is the same hatred that fuels the rockets that hit Israeli towns like Sderot and Ashkelon, and then accepts it.Read the whole thing.
Labels: Israel's suicidal Left, Palestinian terrorism, stone throwers
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:28 PM
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The only conceivable reason for this seems to be that Uri Avnery or Tamar Goszansky (from the Israeli communist party) were not available to serve!To see just how far Left Nitzan is, read the whole thing.
Labels: Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's suicidal Left, radical Left, Shai Nitzan
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:20 PM
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Originally, the IDF actually accepted responsibility for the boy's death. After an internal inquiry, it claimed instead that father and son had probably been hit by Palestinian gunfire. But anyone looking at the broadcast footage could see that neither father nor son was wounded in any way. Did no one in the IDF or foreign ministry ask why there was no visible wound on a boy who had allegedly just been killed by snipers, no blood anywhere?
The fact is that at no stage did Israel want to get to the truth. After its gross incompetence in taking responsibility for a killing that never happened, it looked the other way as the facts emerged. The result is that this tale has been suppurating poison for 13 years. France 2 has never been called to account. Untold numbers of Israelis have been murdered as a result of this footage. And Israel has been libelled as a nation of child-killers.
So why did it stay silent until now? The foreign ministry seemed to believe it was all just water under the bridge and no good would come of stirring it up again. This "heads down" attitude is sometimes called "ghetto mentality". What the scandal surely tells is that you can take the people out of the ghetto, but you cannot always take the ghetto out of the people.
And now, 13 years too late, Israel has published the results of a government inquiry, which the rest of the world won't believe. Why now? Why produce this without the all-important independent element to guarantee its credibility? Why do so without even putting on the web for all to see the critical unbroadcast footage showing the child moving?
Why is the Israel government so monumentally incompetent?It's not that the government is incompetent. It's that the Leftist-dominated (for most of the last 20 years) Foreign Ministry has a kind of death wish - a Samson complex. Quite simply, Israel's Left would rather self-destruct and take the Jewish state with it than see the Jewish state be 'too Jewish.'
Labels: Israel's Foreign Ministry, Israel's suicidal Left, Mohamed al-Dura
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 10:43 AM
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Here's an excellent introduction to who's who in Israeli politics.Labels: demography, ethnicity, Israel's suicidal Left, Israeli public
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 8:57 PM
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In a lecture at the University of Oslo, and in interviews in the Norwegian press and with Haaretz, Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung made anti-Semitic remarks, including the outrageous claim that the Mossad was behind Anders Breivik's murderous Norwegian rampage last summer, and praise for the anti-Semitic primer, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Galtung is known as the 'father of peace studies.' Among other statements, Galtung claimed that a possible connection exists between the terrorist responsible for the massacre of children in Norway last summer, and the Mossad. “The Jews control U.S. media, and divert for the sake of Israel,” wrote Galtung in an article published in Norway.Read the whole thing.
He pointed out that one of the factors behind the anti-Semitic sentiment that led to Auschwitz was the fact that Jews held influential positions in German society.
Galtung also recommended reading “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” – one of the most popular anti-Semitic texts in the world.
Professor Galtung, 82-years-old, is one of the founders of the discipline called “Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution,” as well as a founder of the international Peace Research Institute in Oslo. He is considered well-respected sociological researcher, has been awarded many prizes, and is the author of over a thousand articles and over a hundred books. Some of his work has also been translated into Hebrew.
Labels: Anders Behring Brievik, Israel's suicidal Left, Leftist anti-Semitism, Leftist Jews, Norway
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:18 AM
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Zehava Gal-On, the leader of the shrunken Meretz faction in the Knesset (a far Left, but Jewish party) made a reference to 'Jew-boys from Brooklyn' during an interview on Razi Barkai's Army Radio show on Wednesday (Hat Tip: Aryeh Z). While discussing the influence Diaspora Jews exert in Israel, Galon expressed frustration at the possibility of “Jew-boys” (the derogatory word is Yehudonim in Hebrew) deciding Israel’s fate.Gal-On later described her words as a 'slip of the tongue.'
Before her slip, Galon made reference to Nazi Germany when discussing Israeli politics and attempts to limit the Supreme Court’s power. “This is a matter of principle, are we an enlightened country that builds a wall to protect ourselves from a fired-up mob or oppressive majority… That is why they allowed judicial overseeing from the Supreme Court… It is the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day, we’ve seen the power of an oppressive majority…”
Barkai responded by joking, “I’ll erase that from the protocol.”
Galon continued, “If 10 mandates [in Knesset] are enough to change how Israel determines whether to go to war with Iran or not. Organized groups will come from Brooklyn and get the right to vote. All the decisions about life and death here, whether to evacuate the territories, whether to authorize outposts, those sitting in New York or Brooklyn will decide for us?
“Groups of Jew-boys… Jews, organized in the Diaspora, will decide how we live here?” Galon continued, quickly correcting her mistake.
“That’s what our government wants to do,” she concluded. “No more human rights, no more democracy, no more court system to protect us.”
Labels: Israel's suicidal Left, Meretz, Zehava Gal-On
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:44 PM
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