Recognizing a Terror State

palestinians_jrl109_l1h5k_16298So let us see if we have this straight.  The British parliament decides to “recognize” the “state” of “Palestine.”    It thus reverts to exactly the same displays of courage and integrity that it showed back when Britain recognized the right to self-determination of the Sudeten Germans in 1938.   All this from Britain, the occupier of Gibraltar, the Falklands, Wales, Scotland, Ulster, and the Channel Islands.   The Brits are  joined by Sweden in a similar belch of “recognition.”  You remember Sweden, the country that was too cowardly to choose a side in either World War and that provided iron ore to feed Hitler’s war machine.  Yes, Sweden, which refuses to recognize the rights to self-determination of its own Samis, and whose journalists recycle medieval blood libels about Jews murdering gentiles and selling their body parts.   Other European countries are expected to follow.  Why “Palestine” is any more worthy of being “recognized” than ISIS, another terrorist gang claiming to be a state seeking “recognition,” is never explained.

Now an interesting twist to the story is the demonstration of the Israeli Radical Left of its contempt for democracy and for Israeli sovereignty.  The Israeli Left, led by the tenured leftists, is willing to endorse pretty much anything that is harmful to its own country.  It has been urging European countries to “recognize the state of Palestine.”   A petition was signed by dozens of Israel’s most anti-Israel academics, plus some non-academic members of the Hamas Lobby.  It was organized by Amiram Goldblum from the Hebrew University, a founder of the extremist anti-Israel “Peace Now” organization, and Alon Liel, an ex-diplomat who now teaches for some reason at Tel Aviv University.  These two were earlier among the initiators and organizers of a notorious pseudo-poll that claimed falsely to show that Israeli Jews favor “apartheid.”   That “poll” last year was an exercise in distortion and tendentious manipulation, designed to generate misleading “statistics.”  It was thoroughly discredited by serious social scientists.

Now the same “Israel is an Apartheid Regime” propaganda team is back, rallying the rest of the anti-Israel academic Left to attempt to bypass and neutralize Israeli sovereignty.   Their initiative also reflects the utter contempt and disdain that Leftists in Israel have for democracy.

No one is stopping the Radical Left in Israel from peddling its ideological wares in the marketplace of public opinion.  In fact the Radical Left exercises unchallenged control over two of Israel’s daily newspapers and also dominates all of the television and radio broadcasts.   The problem is that it has been a dramatic failure.  Its anti-Israel lobbying has fallen flat on its face.  The public simply repudiates the Left’s agenda.  Treason just has not proved to be the grand vote grabber that the Left expected.   Certainly since the outbreak of the recent battles in Gaza, almost no one in Israel still favors the so-called “Two State Solution.”  Almost no one is willing to see Israel “withdraw” from the West Bank and allow a Palestinian terror state to operate there.  Almost no one is willing to reward Hamas with “concessions.”

The Left understands that its “ideas” have been rejected by nearly the entire Israeli political spectrum.  Since it is incapable of persuading Israelis of the correctness of its agenda, it has decided instead to recruit foreign powers to “do the job” for it and bully Israel.  It demands that foreign countries and organizations hostile to Israel coerce the Jewish country into adopting the very political platform favored by the Left that is rejected by perhaps 97% of Israelis.

Goldblum, the organizer of the petition calling for European recognition of the “state of Palestine,” has a long track record of calling for Europeans to suppress and override Israeli sovereignty and impose policies upon Israel from without opposed by the bulk of Israelis.   In a notorious speech before an assembly of leftists in May 2012, Goldblum was quoted as calling upon Israel’s Left to stop wasting its time attempting to persuade the general public to embrace its political agenda, evidently because it is clear that the public will never do so.  Goldblum said he has no interest in the Israeli electorate and general public and called upon the radical Left to go directly to political groups abroad, outside of Israel, and recruit them as pressure groups to coerce Israel into accepting the agenda of the Israeli Left.

His comrades in Petitiongate are not very different.  Among the signers calling on Europeans to “recognize Palestine” are Shlomo Sand, the pseudo-historian from Tel Aviv University who is the most openly anti-Semitic “academic” in Israel, Oren Yiftachel, who has built an “academic” career by asserting that Israel is an apartheid regime, plus a gaggle of card-carrying communists, tenured anti-Semites, and Hamas aficionados.  The presence of such people on the faculties of Israeli universities tells you pretty much all you need to know about the state of academic standards here.

The only thing the signers of the petition detest more than their own country is freedom of speech.  The Israeli far Left is a fascist movement that ferociously opposes not only Israeli sovereignty but also democracy and freedom of speech for non-leftists.   Critics of leftists must be silenced and indicted, insist the Far Leftists, because the exercise of freedom of speech by non-leftists produces violence and it is a clear and present danger.

Meanwhile the number of Tenured Leftists openly calling for violence and murder grows.  The leftist Attorney General never prosecutes such people for their calls to murder.  They are just engaged in protected speech, you see, unlike Rabbis who write controversial books or Non-Leftist protesters expressing their opinions boisterously.  Many of the tenured extremists seek to suppress academic freedom for Non-Leftists, especially for critics of the Left, and also freedom of speech.  Goldblum, the initiator of the petition for “recognition of the State of Palestine,” has a long track record of filing anti-democratic harassment SLAPP suits against those who disagree with his extremist opinions.   Ben Dror Yemini, a Dean of Israeli journalism, has denounced Goldblum as an anti-democratic fanatic.

The Israeli signers of the petition calling upon European countries and others to negate Israeli sovereignty and to “recognize” the “state” of “Palestine” not only hate their own country, but they also hate basic democracy and human freedoms.   “Peace Now,” whose name in Hebrew is Shalom Achshav, should change its name to SHISIS = Subverters and Harassers of Israel and of Israelis.   It may yet merge with ISIS.  Its head should be renamed the Grand Israeli Scheisskopf.

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  • Claudius Templesmith

    Hitler was right about the Jews.

    • UCSPanther

      And your “Dear Leader” was a meth-addled mental case who couldn’t hack it with the world domination schtick…

      • Claudius Templesmith

        Yeah, sure.

        • UCSPanther

          Meth: Not even once.

          • Claudius Templesmith

            Hitler was too busy gassing the 60 bazillion foreigners.

    • iluvisrael

      still sore cuz your side lost?

  • britbob

    The UK Parliament held a free vote where MPs voted to recognise the Palestinian state. The UK government has not as yet said that they will recognise or act on the vote. Inasmuch as the Falklands and Gibraltar, the ICJ has made a judgment and four Advisory Opinions that all confirm or state, ‘that the right to self-determination is applicable to ALL Non-Self-Governing territories.’ There are no exceptions to this and the UN ILC has said that this is jus cogens (compelling law). As for half baked comments like ‘occupiers of Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands,’ can only be described as ‘piffle’.

    • Hard Little Machine

      Except of course the largest bloc of property owners of illegally occupied northern Cyprus is British citizens who purchased all the stolen property w/o title from the Turkish army.

      • britbob

        There are no exceptions to what I have said. I happen to agree that anyone that is foolish to buy property in Northern Cyprus will be liable to lose it.

    • stevejfgb

      The UK parliament did NOT hold a free vote. Some UK parties held a free vote but the Labour party, the 2nd largest party in the House of Commons, chose to whip its members in a way that gave them a choice of voting for recognition or not showing up at all. They were not given the option of opposing the motion.

  • UCSPanther

    The EU can “recognize” Palestine all it wants, but it will not change the fact that Palestine is a “failed state”, and one where the vast majority of its problems are self-inflicted.

    Like the EU, Palestine is a sinking ship.

    • carpe diem 36

      I could not find such a state, Palestine, on any map. I wish someone point out its borders and what type of government it has, and who is the head of that gov’t and if he is elected or appointed.

    • Bamaguje

      There’s no Palestinian state… failed or otherwise.
      With regards to the Israeli leftists who despise Israel and clamour for recognition of Palestinian state; why don’t they just relocate to the “Palestinian state” of Gaza?

      • Edward E

        ASIA FOR THE ASIANS, AFRICA FOR THE AFRICANS, WHITE COUNTRIES FOR EVERYONE!

        If “anti-racists” are so unconcerned with race, how come they only have a
        problem with White Countries, White Cities, White Neighborhoods, White
        Workplaces, White schools?

        I’ve never seen any “anti-racist” complain that any place is too brown and it has to become LESS brown to combat racism.

        Who do they think they are kidding?

        “Multiculturalism” = White GeNOcide

        Anti-Racist is a code for anti-White.

  • Hard Little Machine

    The EU wants to recognize SOME terrorist state. They hoped for a long time it would be the PLO/Hamas. Now they’re hedging their bets with ISIS. The smart money is that with another 6 months to a year of military success and atrocities, the EU will recognize ISIS as a bona fide nation.

    • kiwi41

      I sincerely hope not , but….

      In a sensible world, the EU would be classified as a terrorist state…………………..

  • kiwi41

    ” Meanwhile the number of Tenured Leftists openly calling for violence and murder grows. The leftist Attorney General never prosecutes such people for their calls to murder. ”

    Can someone tell me please, how does a leftist Attorney General get elected in the first place ? It seems inconceivable( to me ) that in Israel, with the massive approval your PM has from the population, that a leftist POS could be elected to such a position.

    I would have thought that the Israeli electoral system is not as corrupted as the systems in the US and Englandistan.

  • carpe diem 36

    too bad Israel’s Iron Dome protected all those lefties who now join the enemies of the state. There should be a way to exile them to the Palestine State they wish to see come to be.

  • carpe diem 36

    isn’t it tragic that after 2000 years of yearning and dying for the idea of a state for the Jews, and finally achieving that state and making it is an astonishing success, some of those Jews will put an end to that state? To me they do not deserve to live in a state that has its young people die to protect them. There must be a way to either kick them out or to silence them.

  • http://raycaruso.com Ray Caruso

    Treason as freedom of speech is one of the most absurd notions liberals have been able to impose on society. It took hold in the U.S. during the Vietnam War and it’s going strong in Israel today. Every signer of the petition mentioned in the second paragraph should be arrested, tried, convicted, and without undue delay, executed for treason, just like Jane Fonda and many others should have been decades ago. Because even most conservatives have internalized liberal views and liberal standards, this may seem drastic, but it’s perfectly reasonable. What is not reasonable is blatant traitors being free to undermine their countries and endanger their fellow citizens.

  • tickletik

    Well, we were the idiots that created it.

  • pfbonney

    The caption for the accompanying photograph should be, “Heil Hitler!”.

  • Smellfungus

    Self-hating Jews are puzzling…. and infuriating.

  • herb benty

    This world’s roiling hatred of the Judeo-Christian Faith, Jews, Christians, Israel, the Protestant work-ethic, Freedom, Capitalism, modern LAW handed down from God on Mt. Saini and continued, from British Common Law, to our Constitution, tells me a great deal about people. Basically, this pitiful world hates goodness! God Almighty is the Source of all Goodness, so you see, the,”world”, it’s devilish elites, really hate God. That is what is really going on. God does not lose. Men now allowed to piddle in the girls toilet, Our wonderfully productive, universities and schools totally infiltrated by some Dewey- New Age-Marxist-Atheist-Perverted nightmare. Our Enemy has been hard at work to destroy us ever since our Founding. The “General” of our Enemy is not human, but is the Master of Lies, Deceit, Temptation and all Evil. We need God Almighty to defeat this enemy, humans, on their own, don’t stand a chance. REPENT, and darn quick! “IF MY PEOPLE, who are called by my Name, will humble themselves, turn from their wicked ways, I will hear them, and HEAL THEIR LAND”. – God.