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	<title>FrontPage Magazine &#187; Moshe Phillips</title>
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		<title>Che &amp; The Islamists: The Hidden Background to Middle East Regime Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Moshe Phillips]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The spotlight on Middle East regimes in transition has left Tunisia and Egypt behind for the most part and zeroed in on Libya. I believe that it is worthwhile however to examine one of the early images of the revolt against the rule of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. The fact that it was a complex amalgam of forces that joined together in the streets of Tunis was brought home to me in a photo (above) in the January 25, 2011 issue of The Philadelphia Inquirer.]]></description>
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<p>The spotlight on Middle East regimes in transition has left Tunisia and Egypt behind for the most part and zeroed in on Libya. I believe that it is worthwhile however to examine one of the early images of the revolt against the rule of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.</p>
<p>The fact that it was a complex amalgam of forces that joined together in the streets of Tunis was brought home to me in <a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/20110125_Clashes_in_Tunisia_continue_as_police__teachers_protest.htm" >a photo (above) in the January 25, 2011 issue of <strong>The Philadelphia Inquirer</strong></a>.<span id="more-119631"></span></p>
<p>The photo showed two presumably exhausted young demonstrators perched on a wall. One had a Tunisian flag over his shoulders and the other had a banner that featured the famous likeness of Che Guevara in a beret.</p>
<p>The image of the Latin American communist revolutionary seemed out of place in starkly Islamic Tunisia. The decidedly post-nationalist Che contrasted with the national flag of a North African country deserves comment. What possible direct influence could Che have had on Tunisia?</p>
<p>But like so much in the Middle East, there is so much more to the story.</p>
<p>The use of Marxist iconography during these demonstrations is at least as important to closely examine as the anti-Zionist images that have been employed. All of this symbolism is used to demonstrate what these protesters hate and those things that they seek to stir the hearts of the masses: the hatred of the Jews and the rejection of the capitalist model (i.e. the U.S.) and the regimes that America supports. What is not reveled is the unseen hand of the Islamist.</p>
<p>It is most useful to recall the devious use of these elements during the Iranian revolution. Iran is behind much of what is now going on now. Perhaps in the long run to Ahmadinejad’s own peril the ongoing insurrection throughout the Middle East should be traced back to Tehran. Let’s recall that Khomeini’s revolution was aided by the Soviet Union.</p>
<p>The communist revolutionary Left has sought to support Arab terrorists and extremists for half a century. The goal of Moscow was to create a permanent instability in the Middle East that they could engineer to their geopolitical advantage. Arafat and the PLO were at the core of the Kremlin strategy.</p>
<p>Yasser Arafat based his PLO in Tunisia for well over a decade and was brought back in to prominence by the Bush/Clinton-era State Department during the Oslo years. In 1994 when Arafat entered Gaza, the PLO was headquartered in Tunis.</p>
<p>Beyond being a dedicated Muslim, Arafat was a consistent supporter of repressive, anti-American, communist regimes. It should be recalled that Arafat notoriously praised Beijing&#8217;s bloody response to the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989.</p>
<p>According to the Xinhua News Agency (June 27) Arafat wrote to General Secretary Jiang Zemin:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;On behalf of the Arab Palestinian people, their leadership and myself, I express the warmest, most sincere congratulations to you, dear comrade, on your appointment to general secretary of the Communist Party of China, and take this opportunity to express extreme gratification that you were able to restore normal order after the recent incidents in People&#8217;s China.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Where did Arafat’s close relationship with the communists originate?</p>
<p>In 1964, when the Fatah was in its infancy, Arafat and Abu Jihad traveled to Beijing for meetings there to earn support for their “armed struggle.” In 1965 Abu Jihad was introduced to Che while Guevara was in Algeria during the celebrations there after the revolution.</p>
<p>The anti-Zionism/anti-Semitism of the Marxists has spread to the non-Communist far left in the decades since. This has mirrored the rise in popularity of Che (and his image) from just a martyr of the Marxists to a symbol of an extremely large portion of the left.</p>
<p>The Marxist/Islamist <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895260263?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=fronmaga-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0895260263" >Unholy Alliance</a> indoctrinated millions through a study diet of anti-West and anti-Israel propaganda for half a century.</p>
<p>The demands for freedom and elections (and even democracy) should not be followed by expectations that there will be demands for a closer relationship with the West in general or with the U.S. in particular let alone seen as a sign of any tolerance for Israel.</p>
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		<title>J Street Rabbi Breaks with Leftist Zionism–and Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Moshe Phillips]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the end of February J Street will be holding its second national conference in Washington. Some of its leadership (and much of its base) have shown that they have lost patience with its program and are taking a much more radical stance. They even started using the language of the PLO and Hamas to attack Israel.]]></description>
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<p class="wp-caption-text">J Street holds a rally against a Jewish presence in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria</p>
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<p>At the end of February J Street will be holding its second national conference in Washington. Some of its leadership (and much of its base) have shown that they have lost patience with its program and are taking a much more radical stance. They even started using the language of the PLO and Hamas to attack Israel.</p>
<p>J Street is the controversial George Soros-funded Jewish pressure group that was created to lobby for a Palestinian state.</p>
<p>Writing in the Washington Jewish Week, Richard Greenberg accurately <a href="http://washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp?SectionID=4&amp;SubSectionID=4&amp;ArticleID=14341">depicted</a> J Street’s current situation:</p>
<blockquote><p>“As the organization gears up for its second national confab later this month, J Street continues to generate buzz&#8211;but much of it has been unwelcome. Steeped in controversy since its inception in 2008, the group recently has become embroiled in a succession of political and ideological feuds that have sharply eroded whatever credibility and clout it may have accumulated.”</p>
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<p>I have previously written about the radical rabbis that <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2010/03/09/the-true-face-of-j-street-2/">comprise</a> much of J Street’s Advisory Council.</p>
<p>Rabbi Brian Walt is a leading voice in the Advisory Council and in the most recent issue of Tikkun Magazine he <a href="http://www.tikkun.org/article.php/winter2011walt">offers</a> a very stark reminder of the anger toward Israel and Zionism that is harbored by the radicals that make up the core of J Street’s base.</p>
<p>Here are some excerpts from Walt, my comments appear in brackets:</p>
<blockquote><p>“I still love the rebirth of Hebrew culture in Israel and I still believe Jews desperately needed safety after the Holocaust. But neither our cultural renewal nor the Holocaust justify the immense suffering imposed on the Palestinian people. [Here Walt totally dismisses the founding ideas of Zionism which predate the Holocaust by half a century; the First Zionist Congress was held in Switzerland in 1897.]</p>
<p>Over the years I have come to realize that progressive Jews, despite being deeply immersed in moral anguish about the state of Jewish values, often take actions that perpetuate the suffering of the Palestinians. We do so in several ways: by our refusal to fully acknowledge the Nakba [Walt uses the terminology of Fatah and Hamas and labels the creation of Israel as a catastrophe in Arabic]; by not acknowledging that the Occupation of the West Bank is directly related to what happened in 1947&#8230; [1947? Israel was created in 1948. Is he denying that a Jewish State of any size should exist? In 1947 the U.N. voted to partition the British Mandate and create a Jewish State. Does Walt now consider that a mistake?]</p>
<p>I once was a liberal Zionist, but now I see myself as a religious American Jew in solidarity with justice for the Palestinian people. Israel&#8217;s security and our liberation as Jews are both tied to justice for the Palestinians. [Here Walt abandons Zionism. He rejects the Zionist label for himself. Let’s be clear, Walt’s religiosity is not Orthodox. He fails to connect “justice for the Palestinian people” to any Jewish religious law, Halacha. He is now closer to the ideology of the tiny American Council For Judaism than any other viewpoint on the American Jewish scene.]</p>
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<p>Greenberg writes:</p>
<blockquote><p>Noah Pollak (is the) executive director of the Emergency Committee for Israel, which was formed last year. (Pollak states) &#8220;J Street&#8217;s veil of credibility is gone. It&#8217;s just another left-wing fringe group; it&#8217;s really very marginal now.&#8221;</p>
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<p>I caution against Pollak’s optimism. J Street may be perceived as a “left-wing fringe group” by many in the Jewish community, but it is still incredibly well financed and has extremely high level connections to the Obama Administration. These facts make it clear that J Street cannot be so easily dismissed while President Obama still sits in the Oval Office. Consider that “White House officials (have) confirmed” that Dennis Ross will address the J Street conference.</p>
<p>J Street seems committed to move in a direction that further alienates it from the mainstream Jewish community. J Street should ask Rabbi Walt (and those that agree with him) to resign from their Advisory Council immediately.</p>
<p>J Street has given Tikkun and the Rabbis for Human Rights-North America (RHR-NA) “Participating Organizations” status at their conference. Tikkun&#8217;s Michael Lerner is a confirmed speaker. J Street has <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/9653">partnered</a> with Tikkun many times since its inception. Walt was the founder and first Executive Director of RHR-NA which exists only to criticize Israel. J Street has no place in the pro-Israel community if it works with these foes of Zionism.</p>
<p>If J Street fails to rid itself of Walt and Lerner and company and set a significant course correction then the Jewish community must treat them with the same contempt that we reserve for American Council For Judaism and the Neturei Karta.</p>
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		<title>Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood? Gaza’s Hamas? Lebanon’s Hezbollah? Dalal Mughrabi proves Fatah is No Different!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Muslim Brotherhood may yet decide to imitate Fatah and take on the tokens of moderation. If they do the denizens of Foggy Bottom will no doubt believe them.

This State Department game (that too many successive Israel governments have participated in) of pretending that Fatah will ever be a peace partner must end. Fatah remains what it has always been, a violent criminal organization with a Nazi-like hatred for Jews at its core.]]></description>
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<p>Much ink has been spilled over the last several weeks over questions about the Muslim Brotherhood. How powerful is it? How extreme is it? How dangerous is the group? Are they sponsors of terrorism?</p>
<p>No doubt now that Mubarak has relinquished power these questions will continue to be debated. And let’s be clear, these are vitally important questions for Egypt, for the U.S. for Israel and for the entire Middle East.</p>
<p>But, the things being asked about Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood must be asked about Fatah as well. They should have been asked a long time ago.</p>
<p><span id="more-118031"></span>Fatah is the largest component of the PLO. It was led by Yasser Arafat until his death in 2004. It won 62% of the votes in the 2005 Palestinian National Authority elections. It has socialist orientation and has Observer Party status in the Socialist International. Fatah is the Palestinian entity that the U.S. State Department groomed for leadership of the Arabs in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) beginning in 1988 when Arafat supposedly renounced terrorism.</p>
<p>We are expected to believe that Fatah is different. We are told to believe that the PLO has changed. There are just a few problems with that &#8212; the big one being that they really have not changed.</p>
<p>The Palestine National Covenant continues to call for the destruction of Israel and Zionism.</p>
<p>Perhaps there are authentic Palestinian moderates somewhere out there, but they have yet to show themselves.</p>
<p>When Mubarak’s predecessor Sadat forged ahead and negotiated with Israel, the Fatah struggled to find a way to stop the negotiations.</p>
<p>They chose violence. Violence against non-military Israeli targets and violence and Egyptian government targets.</p>
<p>Fatah sent a unit of its terrorists into the heart of Israel. On a quiet coastal road north of Tel Aviv they hijacked a bus full of civilians. On that terrible day of violence and terror 38 were murdered. Thirteen were children; 77 were injured. The first victim was an American citizen named Gail Rubin.</p>
<p>Dalal Mughrabi, the female leader of the terrorists, shot Rubin in the head at point blank range with an AK-47. Rubin was a <a href="http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/rubin-gail">nature photographer</a> from New York and she was taking pictures on the beach when the PLO found her. She was 39 years old.</p>
<p>Mughrabi did not survive the attack.</p>
<p>That was March 11, 1978. It was the deadliest attack against civilians in Israel’s history up to that time. More deadly than the 1972 attack on Israeli athletes during the Munich Olympics and more devastating than the massacre of the children at Ma’alot.</p>
<p>In the intervening decades, the attack was seldom mentioned in the world media.</p>
<p>But Fatah never forgot it. They never forgot their hero Dalal. They turned her into a martyr.</p>
<p>In 2010 the Palestinian Authority government <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/12/world/middleeast/12westbank.html?_r=2">named</a> a town square in El Bireh after this murderer. In Jericho a summer program for students was named for her. Just last week the U.N. was <a href="http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=207735">exposed</a> for supporting Fatah’s efforts to honor Mughrabi.</p>
<p>But no matter what Fatah does Israel and the U.S. seek to keep them at the center of Arab-Israeli politics.</p>
<p>Of course Fatah is very different than Hamas. Their worldviews are poles apart.</p>
<p>But that does not mean they don’t share many common goals. And the destruction of Israel is the most important one of those goals. The Muslim Brotherhood shares that goal as well.</p>
<p>The Muslim Brotherhood supported the growth of the PLO. They were behind the assassination of Sadat. They have played a role in the fall of Mubarak.</p>
<p>The Muslim Brotherhood may yet decide to imitate Fatah and take on the tokens of moderation. If they do the denizens of Foggy Bottom will no doubt believe them.</p>
<p>This State Department game (that too many successive Israel governments have participated in) of pretending that Fatah will ever be a peace partner must end. Fatah remains what it has always been, a violent criminal organization with a Nazi-like hatred for Jews at its core.</p>
<p>The United States undertook a policy of de-Nazification in Europe after World War II to insure that its victory would not be in vain. It is a policy that worked spectacularly well. It is past time for the de-Fatahification work to begin.</p>
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		<title>Saudi Prince Attacks DC Supporters of Israel as ‘Muppets’</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 16:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Moshe Phillips]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you hear the one about the Saudi Arabian Prince and the guy from Sesame Street?

 

No, really.

 

If you are not familiar with The National Council on U.S. Arab Relations (NCUSAR) you really shouldn’t feel bad. After all, it is difficult to keep track of all of the various Saudi funded propaganda/political efforts in the U.S. Here’s what you do need to know about NCUSAR: like the similarly named Council on Islamic American Relations (CAIR) this group also has deep pockets and has successfully forged high level relations with some of the most respected institutions and personalities of the limousine liberal left. Their website can be found at http://www.ncusar.org/.]]></description>
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<p>Did you hear the one about the Saudi Arabian Prince and the guy from Sesame Street?</p>
<p>No, really.</p>
<p>If you are not familiar with The National Council on U.S. Arab Relations (NCUSAR) you really shouldn’t feel bad. After all, it is difficult to keep track of all of the various Saudi funded propaganda/political efforts in the U.S. Here’s what you do need to know about NCUSAR: like the similarly named Council on Islamic American Relations (CAIR) this group also has deep pockets and has successfully forged high level relations with some of the most respected institutions and personalities of the limousine liberal left. Their website can be found at http://www.ncusar.org/.</p>
<p><span id="more-117478"></span>The virulently anti-Israel Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (<a href="http://www.washington-report.org/">WRMEA</a>) featured a story on NCUSAR’s annual conference in its December 2010 issue.</p>
<p>Prince Turki Al-Faisal Al Saud was a keynote luncheon speaker at the “19th Annual Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference.” He has long been a high-ranking figure in the Saudi government and is perhaps best known for his time as the Saudi ambassador to Washington from 2005 to 2007.</p>
<p>The prince told his NCUSAR audience that:</p>
<blockquote><p>“…there are live human Muppets in Washington, D.C., who are run by AIPAC. Unfortunately what they bring is war and tragedy&#8230;.”</p>
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<p>We can be sure that Prince Turki didn’t plan to label pro-Israel individuals as Muppets. His speech was preceded by a talk from H. Melvin Ming, the chief operating officer of Sesame Street producer Sesame Workshop. Ming’s presentation was titled “Muppet Diplomacy.” Ming was just one of many liberals and Arabists who participated in NCUSAR’s event. Sesame Street was listed as a conferece sponsor along with the largest players in the petroleum industry.</p>
<p>Pressure increases daily on Israel to surrender territory and welcome a Fatah/PLO state in its heartland. The left in Europe and the U.S. gives this pressure its teeth. At the heart of much of this campaign is the notion that there are genuine peace partners waiting for Israel. All Israel needs to do is both end its settlement policy and turn over Jerusalem to the Palestinians so they can have their capital there. Conventional wisdom surely assumes Saudi Arabia is one of the Islamic nations that must be at the moderate Muslim front of the line if Israel makes such moves.</p>
<p>The charges made by the prince sound a lot like the anti-Israel extremism of Walt/Mearsheimer, prevalent in academia (and often <a href="http://spme.net/cgi-bin/articles.cgi?ID=85">funded</a> by the Saudis themselves):</p>
<blockquote><p>“Israel is a drain on the United States and not an asset, and foreign policy should follow national interest and not that of moneyed political lobbyists and journalist hacks.” (For more from his speech see http://www.ncusar.org/programs/2010auspc_program.html.)</p>
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<p>Prince Turki placed nearly the entire blame for all of the troubles in the Middle East on America and Israel. He proclaimed: “The Arab world has chosen the path of peace.” When a former career Saudi diplomat can be so delusional as to say such a thing &#8212; while Hamas and Hezbollah are preparing for their next war against Israel &#8212; how has his dictatorship earned any place at the table?</p>
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		<title>The Future of Egyptian Jew-Hatred Is Now</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 15:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[These photos are not something independent of the protest movement that started these demonstrations. The group commonly known as the April 6 youth movement ovement originated on Facebook and generated the initial excitement for the current protests. A year ago the New York Times profiled the university students behind the April 6 organization and reported that the movement’s first large-scale public action was a protest against the Mubarak regime during Israel’s incursion into Gaza in late 2008/early 2009. These demonstrators criticized Mubarak for not intervening on behalf of Hamas and against Israel. “(M)ore than 2,000 protesters marched through the streets of downtown Cairo, carrying Palestinian flags.” In today’s Islamic world being pro-democracy has no impact on whether you hate Israel or buy into dark anti-Jewish conspiracy theories.

And all of this--the rest of the Egypt story--is now being ignored by the press here and in Europe.]]></description>
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<p><em>Originally published on <a href="http://www.newsrealblog.com/2011/02/04/the-future-of-egyptian-jew-hatred-is-now/">January 25, 2011</a></em></p>
<p>Practically no conclusions have been drawn by the mainstream U.S. media about the highly disturbing images of Cairo protesters holding signs that depict Hosni Mubarak with the Star of David on his forehead and the vicious anti-Semitic/anti-Israel wording that has accompanied many of these signs. And that’s if they mention the topic at all.</p>
<p>These images have appeared in the Israeli press and elsewhere in the Middle East as well as in the blogosphere. For example, Haaretz had this caption under one of the <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/egypt-send-tanks-into-cairo-square-as-20-000-protesters-gather-1.340121">photos</a> it published: <em>A man in Cairo holds a sketch portraying Hosni Mubarak with a Star of David on his forehead, January 30, 2011. The caption reads: ‘30 years of devastation and treason,’ referring to Israel-Egypt peace.</em></p>
<p>This is all particularly noteworthy because for far too many journalists and pundits in the mainstream media these signs contradict the liberal spin on events in Egypt that they have been putting forth&#8211;and this spin has been accepted by the media and U.S. politicians nearly universally. Let’s agree that the narrative that many news professionals are seeking so very hard to establish in the American mind can be summarized this way: these protesters are not extremists and they want democracy to emerge in their county and that they are therefore a better alternative than the dictatorship of Mubarak or the extremism of the Muslim Brotherhood.</p>
<p>But the true story is there for the telling and it is infinitely more complex. These photos are not something independent of the protest movement that started these demonstrations. The group commonly known as the April 6 youth movement ovement originated on Facebook and generated the initial excitement for the current protests. A year ago the <em>New York Times</em> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/magazine/25bloggers-t.html?pagewanted=5">profiled</a> the university students behind the April 6 organization and reported that the movement’s first large-scale public action was a protest against the Mubarak regime during Israel’s incursion into Gaza in late 2008/early 2009. These demonstrators criticized Mubarak for not intervening on behalf of Hamas and against Israel. “(M)ore than 2,000 protesters marched through the streets of downtown Cairo, carrying Palestinian flags.” In today’s Islamic world being pro-democracy has no impact on whether you hate Israel or buy into dark anti-Jewish conspiracy theories.</p>
<p>And all of this&#8211;the rest of the Egypt story&#8211;is now being ignored by the press here and in Europe.</p>
<p>The easier story to relate is a vastly simpler one. The problem is that the image that is being crafted is not just patently false. It is dangerous because it builds up American hopes and assumptions about what a future Egyptian society will look like in the post-Mubarak era.</p>
<p>The future of Egypt is in these signs showing Hosni Mubarak with the Star of David on his forehead.</p>
<p>After Mubarak is gone Egyptians may well produce a society that features freedom of the press and open elections and where the Muslim Brotherhood is marginalized and poses little threat to the nation’s stability. What should be clear though is that even with these changes it is entirely likely that the average Egyptian (university-educated or not) will continue to hate the state of Israel, Zionism and the Jewish people.</p>
<p>There is no evidence to the contrary.</p>
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		<title>The Future of Egyptian Jew-Hatred Is Now</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[These photos are not something independent of the protest movement that started these demonstrations. The group commonly known as the April 6 youth movement ovement originated on Facebook and generated the initial excitement for the current protests. A year ago the New York Times profiled the university students behind the April 6 organization and reported that the movement’s first large-scale public action was a protest against the Mubarak regime during Israel’s incursion into Gaza in late 2008/early 2009. These demonstrators criticized Mubarak for not intervening on behalf of Hamas and against Israel. “(M)ore than 2,000 protesters marched through the streets of downtown Cairo, carrying Palestinian flags.” In today’s Islamic world being pro-democracy has no impact on whether you hate Israel or buy into dark anti-Jewish conspiracy theories.

And all of this--the rest of the Egypt story--is now being ignored by the press here and in Europe.]]></description>
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<p>Practically no conclusions have been drawn by the mainstream U.S. media about the highly disturbing images of Cairo protesters holding signs that depict Hosni Mubarak with the Star of David on his forehead and the vicious anti-Semitic/anti-Israel wording that has accompanied many of these signs. And that’s if they mention the topic at all.</p>
<p>These images have appeared in the Israeli press and elsewhere in the Middle East as well as in the blogosphere. For example, Haaretz had this caption under one of the <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/egypt-send-tanks-into-cairo-square-as-20-000-protesters-gather-1.340121">photos</a> it published: <em>A man in Cairo holds a sketch portraying Hosni Mubarak with a Star of David on his forehead, January 30, 2011. The caption reads: ‘30 years of devastation and treason,’ referring to Israel-Egypt peace.</em></p>
<p>This is all particularly noteworthy because for far too many journalists and pundits in the mainstream media these signs contradict the liberal spin on events in Egypt that they have been putting forth&#8211;and this spin has been accepted by the media and U.S. politicians nearly universally. Let’s agree that the narrative that many news professionals are seeking so very hard to establish in the American mind can be summarized this way: these protesters are not extremists and they want democracy to emerge in their county and that they are therefore a better alternative than the dictatorship of Mubarak or the extremism of the Muslim Brotherhood.</p>
<p>But the true story is there for the telling and it is infinitely more complex. These photos are not something independent of the protest movement that started these demonstrations. The group commonly known as the April 6 youth movement ovement originated on Facebook and generated the initial excitement for the current protests. A year ago the <em>New York Times</em> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/magazine/25bloggers-t.html?pagewanted=5">profiled</a> the university students behind the April 6 organization and reported that the movement’s first large-scale public action was a protest against the Mubarak regime during Israel’s incursion into Gaza in late 2008/early 2009. These demonstrators criticized Mubarak for not intervening on behalf of Hamas and against Israel. “(M)ore than 2,000 protesters marched through the streets of downtown Cairo, carrying Palestinian flags.” In today’s Islamic world being pro-democracy has no impact on whether you hate Israel or buy into dark anti-Jewish conspiracy theories.</p>
<p>And all of this&#8211;the rest of the Egypt story&#8211;is now being ignored by the press here and in Europe.</p>
<p>The easier story to relate is a vastly simpler one. The problem is that the image that is being crafted is not just patently false. It is dangerous because it builds up American hopes and assumptions about what a future Egyptian society will look like in the post-Mubarak era.</p>
<p>The future of Egypt is in these signs showing Hosni Mubarak with the Star of David on his forehead.</p>
<p>After Mubarak is gone Egyptians may well produce a society that features freedom of the press and open elections and where the Muslim Brotherhood is marginalized and poses little threat to the nation’s stability. What should be clear though is that even with these changes it is entirely likely that the average Egyptian (university-educated or not) will continue to hate the state of Israel, Zionism and the Jewish people.</p>
<p>There is no evidence to the contrary.</p>
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		<title>The Most Israel-Hating Place on Earth</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 13:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m sure you know that Disneyland is the “Happiest Place on Earth.” What I’m sure you don’t know is that just two or so miles away from the park this March a Hotel will be transformed for a night into “The Most Israel-Hating Place on Earth.” Well, at least in the U.S.]]></description>
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<p class="wp-caption-text">A typical Khalil Bendib cartoon</p>
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<p>I’m sure you know that Disneyland is the “Happiest Place on Earth.” What I’m sure you don’t know is that just two or so miles away from the park this March a Hotel will be transformed for a night into “The Most Israel-Hating Place on Earth.” Well, at least in the U.S.</p>
<p>The Embassy Suites Hotel in Garden Grove, California will be the scene of an event featuring presentations by both Helen Thomas and a propagandist that the ADL has reported has “employed a wide range of classic anti-Semitic images, commentary and ugly stereotypes.”</p>
<p>On Saturday evening, March 12, 2011 a group called The Palestinian American Women’s Association of California will be “honored to have Ms. Helen Thomas (as) our keynote speaker at our annual International Women’s Day” program. Also speaking at the event will be a man named Khalil Bendib who is an editorial cartoonist. The Anti-Defamation League states that Bendib has “disseminated anti-Semitic English language political cartoons since the 1980s.”</p>
<p><span id="more-115799"></span>At least we know Helen and Khalil will no doubt get along fabulously…</p>
<p>See the organization’s website at http://www.pawasca.org/pawa_news.htm for the full event information.</p>
<p>Here’s an important excerpt of the ADL website’s file on Bendib:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Bendib expanded on the anti-Semitic and conspiratorial messages in his cartoons during a September 2010 radio interview with Kevin Barrett, an anti-Semitic 9/11 conspiracy theorist. During the program, Bendib described the U.S. as a plutocracy where Zionists and Jews control the government, the media and big money. He argued that despite ‘some tendency toward democracy’ the U.S. has gone the other way because ‘Zionists…have such incredible power that they are able to galvanize all the forces of evil [who] will really commit genocide after genocide’.”</p>
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<p>Bendib has authored cartoons for The Council for the National Interest Foundation (CNIF) a shadowy anti-Israel group based in Washington, D.C. CNIF leaders have appeared before the Institute for Historical Review (the largest Holocaust denial organization in the U.S.) and met with Hamas and Hezbollah.</p>
<p>See the ADL’s website’s information page on <a href="http://www.adl.org/Israel/anti_israel/KhalilBendib/default.asp?m_flipmode=1">Bendib</a>. For information on CNIF see <a href="http://www.adl.org/main_Anti_Israel/cni.htm">here</a>.<br />
So why would this women’s group want to hear from haters like Bendib and Thomas?</p>
<p>The group describes itself as “a not for profit, community-based organization working to enable Arab American Women to be productive, contributing members of society by promoting self-esteem, self-confidence, leadership development, personal and social growth for Arab American Women. PAWA works towards the emancipation and empowerment of Arab American women to enhance the quality of life and development of our community. Furthermore, we advocate for freedom, equality and justice.”</p>
<p>Nothing in the above mission statement can be considered anti-Israel or anti-Semitic at all. And that is what should alarm us the most. Even the most seemingly benign organizations in the Arab-American community fail to see the difference between legitimate criticism of Israeli policy and incendiary hate speech. Or maybe they do perceive the difference and just don’t care.</p>
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		<title>The True Face of J Street</title>
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<p>J Street, the controversial pressure group, explains on the &#8220;About Us&#8221; page on its official website that &#8220;J Street is the political arm of the pro-Israel, pro-peace movement.” Since its inception in 2008, J Street has undergone growth that must be considered no less than remarkable.</p>
<p>In large part, the success of J Street has occurred without any serious investigations into how this group grew so incredibly fast and just where it came from.</p>
<p>Jeffrey  Goldberg, writing for <em>The Atlantic </em>on October 27, 2009, stated “J Street grew organically, and continues to grow organically.” Goldberg’s essay was published during J Street’s first conference. The conference was held near Capitol Hill and 1,500 delegates attended. An October 29m, JTA news service report stated “activists had meetings in 210 of the 535 lawmakers&#8217; offices on the Hill, including about 100 meetings with the lawmakers themselves…”</p>
<p>Organic? How could such a new group create such a powerful infrastructure and nurture such impressive contacts so quickly? There should be no doubt that J Street came from somewhere. The question is from where?</p>
<p>The  statement on the &#8220;<a href="http://www.jstreet.org/about/about-us">About Us</a>&#8221; page goes on to state:</p>
<blockquote><p>“J Street was founded to change the dynamics of American politics and policy on Israel and the Middle East. We believe the security and future of Israel as the democratic home of the Jewish people depend on rapidly achieving a two-state solution and regional comprehensive peace. Our mission is to promote meaningful American leadership to achieve peace and security in the Middle East and to broaden the debate on these issues nationally and in the Jewish community.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>On J Street  website’s “Myths and Facts about J Street” page, J Street declares:</p>
<blockquote><p>“J Street&#8217;s Advisory Council consists of over 170 prominent Americans &#8211; including three Former Members of Congress, 28 Rabbis, a number of former Jewish community leaders and professionals, and many others.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Researchers with the Philadelphia Chapter of Americans For A Safe Israel/AFSI initiated a study of the rabbis connected to J Street in order to understand just what the backgrounds of “former Jewish community leaders” involved in J Street are. What light can be shed on J Street’s agenda by examining its structure and organization?</p>
<p>Being Philadelphia based, AFSI researchers had prior familiarity with many of these players. A large number of J Street rabbis have played senior leadership roles in the Pennsylvania based Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and the locally headquartered network of Jewish Renewal organizations. A cadre of these individuals were also leaders of the now defunct Philadelphia chapter of New Jewish Agenda, which was specifically noted for its radical stance &#8212; even in that radical group.</p>
<p>The results  of the AFSI research into these rabbis is startling.</p>
<p>A JTA report from October 25, 2009 stated that “The left-wing lobby J Street is absorbing Brit Tzedek v&#8217;Shalom&#8217;s chapters and rabbinic wing.”</p>
<p>The national president of Brit Tzedek v&#8217;Shalom at the time of the merger was Steve Masters. Masters is a Philadelphia attorney and a former leader of the Philadelphia Chapter of the New Jewish Agenda. Jeremy Ben-Ami, the executive director of J Street, was introduced by Masters at a local kick-off event in Philadelphia on February 4, 2010.</p>
<p>Many of Brit Tzedek v&#8217;Shalom’s rabbis were among the founders and key activists of New Jewish Agenda including Rabbi Gerald Serotta, Arthur Waskow, Rabbi Everett Gendler and others. Serotta, Waskow and Gendler are also all involved in a group called Jewish Fast For Gaza – but more on that later. Waskow attended the February 4, 2010 event also.</p>
<p>It is well worth noting that many of these rabbis were first involved in an organization called Breira (meaning alternative) that was universally opposed by almost all sectors of the American Jewish community. I. L. Kenen the founder of AIPAC claimed that Breira &#8220;undermined U.S. support for Israel.&#8221;</p>
<p>The majority of Brit Tzedek v&#8217;Shalom/J Street rabbis hold radical views that go far past anything that even Breira advocated in its hay day.</p>
<p>Half of the  rabbis on J Street’s Advisory Council were members of Brit Tzedek v&#8217;Shalom’s  Rabbinic Cabinet &#8211; before the merge.</p>
<p>There is a very significant overlap between the rabbis from Brit Tzedek v&#8217;Shalom and the Jewish Fast for Gaza group. Fast for Gaza made its first public announcement in July 2009. Rabbi Brian Walt was listed as the contact for the group’s initial press release. Walt is a member of Brit Tzedek v&#8217;Shalom’s Rabbinic Cabinet.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.fastforgaza.net/statement">Fast  for Gaza group purpose</a> is &#8220;To call upon Israel, the US, and the international community to engage in negotiations without pre-conditions with all relevant Palestinian parties &#8211; including Hamas &#8211; in order to end the blockade…&#8221;</p>
<p>Here are  the facts:</p>
<p>More than half of the seventy-eight rabbis listed on the Fast for Gaza website are also members of Brit Tzedek v&#8217;Shalom’s Rabbinic Cabinet. Put another way, about 12.5 % of all of Brit Tzedek v&#8217;Shalom’s Rabbinic Cabinet are involved with the Fast for Gaza and call for talks with Hamas.</p>
<p>For example, Rabbi Arthur Green is listed by J Street as an Advisory Council member. Green is a former dean of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (RRC) and was a prominent member of Breira. Another Advisory Council member is the former president of RRC, Rabbi David A. Teutsch. Rabbi Mordechai Liebling, a former director of the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation, is on Brit Tzedek v&#8217;Shalom’s Rabbinic Cabinet and is a “Rabbinical Supporter of the Fast for Gaza”. Teutsch too attended J Street’s February 4, 2010 event.</p>
<p>Breira. New Jewish Agenda. Brit Tzedek v&#8217;Shalom. Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. Is J Street really just old wine in a new bottle? Has this wine turned to vinegar? Where are the likes of I. L. Kenen among today’s American Jewish leaders to stand up to J Street? An article on the website of the <em>Forward</em> newspaper (December 9, 2009) states that Israel&#8217;s Ambassador Michael Oren recently publicly labeled J Street as &#8220;a unique problem in that it not only opposes one policy of one Israeli government, it opposes all policies of all Israeli governments. It&#8217;s significantly out of the mainstream&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>Ambassador Oren should have been applauded for his statement. And loudly. After all, shouldn’t it be apparent to even the casual observer that forces within the highest echelons of the Obama Administration and/or the Democratic Party are assisting J Street, or perhaps even pulling its strings?</p>
<p><em>Moshe Phillips is a member of the Executive Committee of the Philadelphia Chapter of Americans for a Safe Israel/AFSI. The chapter&#8217;s website is at: <a href="http://mail.google.com/mail/www.phillyafsi.com" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">phillyafsi.com</span></a> and Moshe&#8217;s blog can be found at <a href="http://phillyafsi.blogtownhall.com/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">phillyafsi.blogtownhall.com</span></a>.</em></p>
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