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		<title>Mahmoud Abbas: Failing the Palestinians and Peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2014 05:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Puder]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Palestinian president takes an even more drastic totalitarian turn. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Mahmoud-Abbas-AP.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-248291" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Mahmoud-Abbas-AP-450x324.jpg" alt="Mahmoud Abbas" width="296" height="213" /></a>Mahmoud Abbas, (aka Abu Mazen) has been a failure as the Palestinian “Rais.” He failed to lead the Palestinian Authority (PA) toward peace with Israel, and he mismanaged the alleged goal to achieve statehood for the Palestinians. Instead of facing the tough issues and making compromises required in negotiating peace and statehood with the Israelis, Abbas chose an alliance with the Gaza controlled terrorist group Hamas. Following Abbas’ pact with Hamas last April, Israel broke off peace negotiations with the Palestinians, just days before the talks brokered by Secretary of State John Kerry were scheduled to expire.</p>
<p>Abbas isn’t only confusing Israelis, Americans, and is his Europeans patrons, he is perplexing his own Palestinian consituents. Following last summer’s Gaza War between Hamas and Israel, Abbas threatened to join the International Criminal Court (ICC) and saught to indict Israel on war crimes. PA Foreign Minister Riad al-Maliki met with the Chief Prosecutor of the ICC last August to explore ways of joining the court by PA President Abbas signing the Rome Statute.  When, however, the U.S. Congress threatened to cut off all funding to Palestine if Abbas filed war crimes charges against Israel, Abbas backed off. At the same time though, Israel’s Prime Minister threatened to counter-sue, alleging that the rockets fired by Hamas terrorists into Israeli civilian areas constituted “<a href="http://www.thewire.com/global/2014/09/hamas-quietly-admits-it-fired-rockets-from-civilian-areas/380149/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">double war</span></a>” crimes.</p>
<p>The Israeli Law Center called Shurat-HaDin, led by Nitsana Darshan-Leitner submitted a complaint against Mahmoud Abbas in the ICC for “war crimes.” The complaint claims that Abbas may be tried for his responsibility in the missile attacks targeting Israeli cities, executed by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which Abbas heads. It charges that Fatah, also led by Abbas, was responsible for several missile attacks on Israeli cities. Darshn-Leitner pointed out that Fatah leader Abbas may be tried by the ICC. Abbas is a citizen of Jordan and Jordan is a member-state of the ICC. The ICC has jurisdiction over crimes committed by a citizen of a member state. Darshan-Leitner added, the organization “will not allow Fatah to carry out rocket attacks on Israeli population centers, while <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Shurat-Hadin-files-war-crimes-complaint-against-Abbas-with-ICC-381312"><span style="color: #0433ff;">hypocritically</span></a> advocating Palestinian membership in the ICC. Abbas falsely believes that alleged crimes against Arabs are the only ones that should be prosecuted.”</p>
<p>A week ago, Abbas threatened again. This time he fingered the security co-ordination with Israel following the death of Ziad Abu Ein, 55, PA Minister without Portfolio. He promptly backtracked. On November 29, 2014, Abbas declared  that if the United Nations Security Council rejects the Palestinian statehood resolution, he will seek membership in the ICC. He said, “We will seek Palestinian membership in international organizations, including the International Criminal Court in the Hague. We will also <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.629102"><span style="color: #0433ff;">reassess</span></a> our ties with Israel, including ending the security cooperation between us.”</p>
<p>Abbas’ latest gambit is a UN Security Council (UNSC) resolution that would force Israel to withdraw from Judea and Samaria (West Bank) within two-years. According to press reports, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry requested to postpone the Palestinian initiative at the UNSC until after the Israeli elections, (March 17, 2015) but the Palestinians refused. PA Foreign Minister Riad al-Maliki intimated to reporters that there was disagreement between the Americans and Palestinians on how the elections in Israel would or wouldn’t advance the PA UNSC resolution. Kerry believed that a UNSC vote before the elections would impact adversely on the winners. In other words, a vote before the elections would strengthen Netanyahu and the Right in Israel. Maliki argued that a vote before January, 2015 would be rather positive.</p>
<p>At a closed meeting last week with 28 EU ambassadors, John Kerry revealed that he was asked by former Israeli president Shimon Peres and Tzipi Livni to prevent the Palestinian initiative at the UNSC because it will help “<a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.632816"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Netanyahu and Bennett</span></a> (Jewish Home Party chairman) in the upcoming elections.” Maliki posited that Kerry himself has not abided by his pledge not to intervene in the Israeli elections.</p>
<p>Also last week in London, Secretary of State Kerry met with Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, and according to a PA senior official, Kerry posed a number of U.S. principles that should be included in the Palestinian UNSC resolution. Kerry supposedly refused the two year time period demand by the PA for Israeli withdrawal. The resolution as Kerry suggested should include recognition of Israel as a Jewish state, as well as U.S. opposition to declare Jerusalem as a joint capital for Palestine and Israel. Erekat rejected the U.S. proposals. Kerry declared afterward that the U.S. does not accept the Jordanian (presenting the Palestinian resolution)  and French resolutions. He warned that if the Palestinians insist on presenting the resolutions, the U.S. would use its veto power. Erekat rejected Kerry’s ideas, and insisted that the resolutions would be submitted. As of December 25, 2014, Abbas rejected an Arab League request to delay the submission of the Palestinian statehood until January when five new members who support the Palestinian cause will join the Security Council.</p>
<p>Abbas’ gambits notwithstanding, the increased authoritarianism of Abu Mazen is reflected in a recent survey by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research. It indicates that 66% of Palestinians are afraid to criticise Abu Mazen and the PA, and 80% consider the PA institutions to be corrupt and infected with nepotism. Last summer, according to the survey, support for Abbas (Abu Mazen) declined to 35% from 50%. “There is no doubt about the fact that <a href="http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART2/659/827.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">outlawing</span></a> freedoms and rights, especially of professional unions, is a factor in Abbas’ decline in popularity,” said Dr. Khalil Shikaki, one of the survey takers<span style="color: #323333;">. </span></p>
<p>PA security agents inspect what is written in the social media, and threaten those who criticize Abbas. Abu Mazen critics point out that after a decade in power he is controlling all systems of government to such an extent as to minimize all resistance. Perceived political rivals such as Mohammad Dahlan, who once served as Abu Mazen’s assistant, and Salam Fayyad, the former Prime Minister of the PA, are vilified by Abbas. Following the Palestinian Unity government formation, headed by Rami Hamdallah last May, elections were to follow. But, once again, internal squabbling prevented it, and added to it was Abbas’ fear of a Hamas victory.</p>
<p>Abu Mazen’s strategy for the establishment of a Palestinian state has reached a cul-de-sac.  None of his gambits proved successful. His rivalry with Hamas is bitter and ongoing, despite the alliance he forged at the expense of negotiations with Israel. And, like his predecessor Yasser Arafat, he balks at the idea of ‘ending the conflict’ with Israel. He knows full well that this might be a death sentence for him, targeting him for assassination. It is for this reason that Abbas and the PA are unlikely to forgo the “right of return” of Palestinian refugees to Israel. Israel for its part, cannot accept such a demographic suicide. This is why Abbas would rather avoid negotiations with Israel and bypass it by going to the UNSC. It is also the ostensible reason why peace with Israel cannot be achieved, and as a result, the Palestinian people continue to suffer political and economic deprivation. Abbas has not been the solution to the Palestinian problems; rather, he has been responsible for failing them.</p>
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		<title>Arab Israeli Politician Praises Terrorism</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2014 05:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ronn Torossian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Hamas representative in the Israeli Knesset.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/w2-haneenzoabi-061614.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-248288" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/w2-haneenzoabi-061614.jpg" alt="w2-haneenzoabi-061614" width="346" height="280" /></a>In yet another story which the world&#8217;s mainstream media will ignore, an Israeli Arab Knesset member complained to the police about a right-wing Likud Knesset member, <span style="color: #1255cc;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nQWtVow1Lw">Danny Danon</a>,</span> making a video condemning her. <span style="color: #1255cc;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWKoFle57L8">Watch the video here</a></span></p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><span style="color: #1255cc;"><a href="http://www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/torossian-treason-israeli-knesset">The Arab MK, Hanin Zoabi</a>,</span> openly opposes the State of Israel, supports Hamas, and a few months ago published an article on Hamas&#8217;s website encouraging an Islamist uprising against the Jewish state, encouraging Arab countries to help stoke a &#8220;popular uprising&#8221; against Israel, halt security coordination with the Palestinian Authority (PA) police in Judea and Samaria, and lay siege to the region. She put the word &#8220;Israel&#8221; in quotation marks throughout the article, and said: [. . .] we must besiege &#8216;Israel&#8217; instead of negotiating with it.&#8221;  Zoabi has said Israel has “no right to a normal life” and Israel should &#8220;thank her&#8221; for allowing Jews to live in the Jewish State.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Recently, she defended the kidnapping of three Israeli teens, stating that the abduction was a &#8220;legitimate&#8221; way to &#8220;fight the occupation.&#8221; She has met Hamas officials, calls the Jewish State a racist notion, and has walked out of the Knesset during the singing of the national anthem.  This woman has made statements claiming that the <a href="http://www.truthrevolt.org/israel-revolt/torossian-pray-israel-defense-forces"><span style="color: #0066cc;">Israel Defense Forces</span></a> are a greater danger than the possibility of Iranian nuclear weapons, and denied that Palestinians kidnapping Israeli civilians are terrorists.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">However, she complained that Danon was committing incitement for releasing a video where he is depicted as a sheriff who locks her up for supporting terrorists.  Zoabi complains about incitement?  As Danon rightfully said in response, &#8220;A person who serves as the Hamas representative in the Israeli Knesset should be sitting in jail and not preaching on the subject of incitement and freedom of expression.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Imagine a member of Congress praising Al-Qaeda? Absurd.  Yet, worldwide Israel is spoken of terribly.  The emperor has no clothes.</p>
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		<title>Palestinians Attempt to Co-Opt Jewish History</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2014 05:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ari Lieberman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The desperate antics of an invented people. ]]></description>
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<p>In December 2011, former House Speaker and presidential candidate, Newt Gingrich made the <a href="http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2011/12/13/yes_palestinians_are_an_invented_people_99796.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">following observation</span></a> regarding the Palestinians;</p>
<blockquote><p><i>Remember there was no Palestine as a state. It was part of the Ottoman Empire. And I think that we&#8217;ve had an invented Palestinian people, who are in fact Arabs, and were historically part of the Arab community…</i></p></blockquote>
<p>That comment set off a firestorm of debate and criticism but is in actuality, grounded in historical fact. As noted historian Benny Morris pointed out in his acclaimed book, <i>1948: The First Arab-Israeli War</i>, at the turn of the 20<sup>th</sup> century, most Arabs residing in the Land of Israel or “Palestine” considered themselves to be subjects of the Ottoman Empire. There were some Palestinian Arabs with vague nationalistic tendencies but even this minority considered itself to be part of Greater Syria. There simply was no reference to an independent Palestine for a distinct group of people calling themselves “Palestinians.”</p>
<p>Morris also perceptively notes that the residents of Palestinian villages routinely failed to come to the assistance of nearby villages that were under attack by Jewish forces thus reinforcing the view that Arab villagers felt little loyalty to all but clan and village. The notion of a “Palestinian people” was an alien concept to the common Palestinian villager who was not bound by any sense of duty to assist a neighboring village.</p>
<p>Occasionally, Palestinians themselves will acknowledge this fact. In a revealing 1977 interview with the Dutch newspaper Trouw, PLO executive committee member <a href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Zuheir_Mohsen"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Zahir Muhsein</span></a> stated,</p>
<blockquote><p><i>The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct &#8216;Palestinian people&#8217; to oppose Zionism.</i></p>
<p><i>For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa. While as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>It was a rare but astonishing moment of candor. A senior PLO member was openly acknowledging what few would readily admit. But his was not an isolated admission. In a March 2012 televised address, Hamas Minister of the Interior and of National Security <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAfENxzv2mc"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Fathi Hammad</span></a> essentially validated Gingrich’s assessment of the Palestinians. While pleading for Egyptian fuel, Hammad let loose with a series of embarrassing admissions that were certainly not intended for Western audiences.</p>
<p>“Every Palestinian…throughout Palestine can prove his Arab roots, whether from Saudi Arabia or Yemen or anywhere.” He went on to say that “personally, half my family is Egyptian, we are all like that.” And further buries himself deeper by stating, “Brothers, half the Palestinians are Egyptian and the other half are Saudis…Who are the Palestinians?” he asks rhetorically. “We have families called al-Masri whose roots are Egyptian, Egyptian! We are Egyptian! We are Arab! We are Muslim!” He concludes his rant with the obligatory Muslim battle cry, “Allahuakbar!” Curiously absent from his long diatribe is any recognition of an independent Palestinian identity and that’s precisely because there simply isn’t any.</p>
<p>Lacking their own independent history, culture and identity, Palestinians have adopted a strategy of <a href="http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=1468"><span style="color: #0433ff;">denying Jewish history</span></a>. Arafat, for example, flat out denied the fact that great Jewish Temples, built first by king Solomon and then by Herod, once stood where the Al-Aqsa Mosque currently stands. So ridiculous were his comments that they earned a swift rebuke from President Clinton. Arafat’s successor, Mahmoud Abbas taking cue from his boss also adopted this odious position. It should therefore come as no surprise that Abbas is also a <a href="http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/exposing-abbas-5335"><span style="color: #0433ff;">confirmed Holocaust denier</span></a>, despite his transparent efforts to <a href="http://tabletmag.com/scroll/170686/mahmoud-abbas-still-a-holocaust-denier"><span style="color: #0433ff;">rehabilitate his image</span></a> for his gullible Western audience.</p>
<p>Palestinian Arabs have also attempted to recruit Western “experts” and academics to their cause. In his insightful book <i>The Fight for Jerusalem:</i> <i>Radical Islam, the West, and the Future of the Holy City,</i> veteran Israeli diplomat Dore Gold chronicles the length to which Arab-Muslims and their Western lackeys will go to deny the Jewish nexus to the Land of Israel. They argued that much of ancient Jewish history was nothing but mythology including the Kingdoms of David and Solomon.</p>
<p>From the Arab perspective, the tactic was a sound one. Sever the ancient historical Jewish nexus with Israel and you severely undermine claims of indigenousness. But archeology does not lie and those very Western academics (at least the intellectually honest ones) were forced to retract their findings and conclusions after the dramatic 1993 discovery of a 9<sup>th</sup> century stele at Tel Dan in northern Israel that clearly referenced the “<a href="http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-artifacts/artifacts-and-the-bible/the-tel-dan-inscription-the-first-historical-evidence-of-the-king-david-bible-story/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">House of David</span></a>.” Additional discoveries since then, including finds in <a href="http://www.aish.com/h/9av/ht/48961251.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Jerusalem</span></a>, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/09/international/middleeast/09alphabet.html?_r=0"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Tel Zayit</span></a> and at the <a href="http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/insideisrael/2013/June/Did-David-Solomon-Exist-Dig-Refutes-Naysayers/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Fortress of Elah</span></a> have further eroded claims by skeptics and naysayers.</p>
<p>Not content with denying Jewish history, Palestinian Arabs have actually attempted to co-opt it by absurdly claiming that Moses as well as King Saul were Palestinian Muslims who conquered and claimed “Palestine” for the benefit of Palestinians. These risible comments were spewed forth by “Dr.” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqjwLKdg9ro"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Omar Ja’ara</span></a>, a lecturer at Al-Najah University in Nablus and broadcast on Palestinian Authority TV. He notes further that the actions of Moses and Saul represented “the first Palestinian liberation through armed struggle to liberate Palestine&#8230; this is our logic and this is our culture.”</p>
<p>Incidentally, Al-Najah University boasts on its <a href="http://www.najah.edu/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">website</span></a> that it is “the first Palestinian University to obtain the EFQM European Certificate of Excellence.” Something to bear in mind next time any parent contemplates sending their child off to Europe for higher education.</p>
<p>Of course it doesn’t matter that Saul lived approximately 1,700 years before Muhammad was zygote. Facts play absolutely no role in Palestinian academia. Empirical data and evidence is ignored. Precedence is given to upholding a false, pernicious and viscerally anti-Semitic narrative that either denies historical fact or co-opts it.</p>
<p>As PLO bigwig Zahir Muhsein candidly noted, the claim of a Palestinian identity is a myth whose aim is not designed to achieve liberation or advancement for any particular people but rather to subjugate and destroy another people. For those of you, who still remain unconvinced; consider the <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/al-aqsa-speaker-the-slaughter-of-the-jews-is-near/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">recent comments</span></a> made by a prominent sheikh during a religious sermon at the Al-Aqsa Mosque. During his tirade, which included the usual dose of anti-Semitic vitriol, the sheikh never once uttered a desire or longing for Palestinian statehood. Instead he expresses the desire to join with ISIS in its quest for an Islamic caliphate and asks the large crowd of acolytes surrounding him to, “pledge allegiance to the Muslim Caliph,” and they in turn respond with chants of “amen!”</p>
<p>Few in the West have faced up to this malevolent reality. They continue to adhere to the harmful, dogmatic formula of a two-state solution. What they willfully fail to realize is that such a solution poses an existential threat to the Mideast’s only democracy and will most certainly have grave negative consequences for the region at large.</p>
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		<title>The &#8216;Cycle of Violence&#8217; Fantasy in the Middle East</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2014 05:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Plaut]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagining how the media would have reported on WWII using today's logic regarding Israel. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/19366_1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247188" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/19366_1.jpg" alt="19366_1" width="283" height="203" /></a>Ernst Eduard vom Rath was a German diplomat representing the Third Reich in <span style="color: #000000;">Paris in 1938.  </span>In November of that year he was shot and mortally wounded by a 17-year-old <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Jew"><span style="color: #0b1480;">Polish Jewish</span></a> youth, <a href="http://www.roizen.com/ron/grynszpan.htm"><span style="color: #0b1480;">Herschel</span><span style="color: #0433ff;">Grynszpan</span></a><span style="color: #000000;">, who had been living in Germany.</span>  Vom Rath was 29 years old.  Ironically, vom Rath had earlier expressed anti-Nazi sympathies, evidently based on the Nazi treatment of Jews, and was under Gestapo investigation at the time for being politically unreliable.  He died of his wounds two days after being shot.  Hitler used the assassination <a href="http://www.holocaustandhumanity.org/kristallnacht/events-leading-up-to-kristallnacht/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">as an excuse to launch Kristallnacht</span></a>, a pogrom against German Jews, shortly after the death.<span style="color: #000000;">   My father attended school with <a href="http://www.roizen.com/ron/grynszpan.htm"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Grynszpan</span></a> and knew him casually; Dad escaped to America by the time of the assassination.</span></p>
<p>Now try to imagine how the Western media would report World War II if they were using the exact same rules of journalism that they apply to the Arab-Israeli conflict.   The assassination of vom Rath by a Jewish youth would be universally held up to illustrate that the German-Jewish conflict was a circle of violence, an ongoing bloody conflict whose roots are so old that no one remembers them, a conflict where each side claims it is retaliating for the violence that the other side perpetrated, a conflict whose causes are all blurred by eons of history.  Sure the Germans were murdering Jews, but then there was the vom Rath assassination, proving the violence was two-directional, symmetric.  Close investigation could probably find a few other examples of Jews using violence against Germans.  Innocent lives are being lost on both sides.  Such senseless tragedy.  Why can&#8217;t both sides just live and let live?</p>
<p>Of course, such a representation of World War II would not only be an absurdity but also an obscenity.   World War II was not about a &#8220;cycle of violence&#8221; between Germans and Jews.  It was unambiguously a campaign of annihilation and oppression of Jews committed by Germans.  The fact that one can identify a handful of outlier events such as the assassination of vom Rath does not convey any symmetry to the &#8220;conflict.&#8221;   Indeed to misrepresent the Nazi campaign of extermination against Jews as some sort of &#8220;symmetric&#8221; pair of movements of violence would be proof that the person so misrepresenting the situation was a Nazi-sympathizer and an anti-Semite.</p>
<p>The Middle East conflict is not a cycle of violence.  It is not a &#8220;symmetric&#8221; campaign of retaliation by Jews against Arabs and Arabs against Jews.  The Middle East conflict is as unambiguously a unidirectional campaign of violence and atrocities as was World War II.  It is about Arabs murdering Jews and not the inverse.  It is about Arabs seeking to deny Jews their human rights and their right to self-determination, and not the inverse.  The Middle East conflict consists of a century of atrocities perpetrated by Arabs against Jews.</p>
<p>But the Western media are willing to go to extreme lengths to force the conflict into the prism of symmetry and the &#8220;cycle of violence&#8221; fantasy.  Several months ago a Palestinian Arab teenager from East Jerusalem, <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Blogs/Message.aspx/5936#.VIhy7DGUf-o"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Mohammed Abu Khdair, age 17,  was kidnapped and murdered</span></a> by a Jew.  The Jew was mentally ill and believed himself to be the messiah.   He was arrested and jailed by Israel.  The killer did not represent anyone, was not sponsored by anyone, and no one in Israel cheered his crime.  The killing of Abu Khdair came shortly after three Jewish teenagers were murdered by the Hamas in a well-planned operation.  That was an operation sponsored, financed and planned by the Hamas and cheered by most &#8220;Palestinians&#8221; and by many Israeli Arabs.   Many passed around candies in celebration.</p>
<p>Since the death of Abu Khdair, the media have exploited the case to sell their &#8220;symmetry cycle of violence&#8221; snake oil.  True, the &#8220;Palestinians&#8221; murder Jewish children all the time but here we have a single incident of an inverted crime, an Arab teenager murdered by a Jew.  The media obsession is far more than a postman-biting-dog stroke of interest in uncharacteristic news stories.  The media have used the death to manufacture the symmetry fiction and spread it.   After all, if it is symmetric, then both sides are wrong, which means both sides are right, which means there is no right and wrong about which to worry our pretty little heads.</p>
<p>The killing of Abu Khdair was as characteristic of the Middle East conflict as the killing of vom Rath was representative of the events comprising World War II.  And it is hardly the only &#8220;vom Rath anomaly&#8221; that drives the reporting of the anti-Israel media.   This week <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/188478#.VIh7tTGUf-o"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Ziad Abu Ein</span></a>, a terrorist murderer serving as a Palestinian Authority &#8220;cabinet minister,&#8221; died from a heart attack after being confronted by Israeli troops.   You see, the media are bleating in unison?  It is not just Palestinians who murder Israelis!</p>
<p>Arabs in the West Bank vandalize Jewish property so often that it is generally never even reported as news, even in the Israeli media, because it is so commonplace.  Arson attacks and vandalism of synagogues by Arabs are so frequent that they rarely make it out of the back pages.  But if a handful of teenage Jewish delinquents vandalize some Arab vehicles or paint graffiti on Arab buildings, not only is this highlighted on the front pages, but it is denounced as evidence of Jewish terrorism.  The media, including the Israeli leftist media, scream that such incidents are hate crimes.  Demands are made to define the graffiti painters as a terrorist organization.</p>
<p>Rock throwing by Arabs at Jews in Israel is even less likely to make it into the press or news or even the social media.   But if Arabs allege that some Jewish &#8220;settlers&#8221; threw some rocks at Arab cars or houses, then stop the presses!   All other news must be removed to page 3.  Arabs in the West bank vandalize Jewish property, including agricultural produce, more frequently than the sun shines in the Middle East.  No one hears about it because it is not considered &#8220;news.&#8221;  After all, dogs chasing postmen are just not very interesting or newsworthy.  But let some Arabs or leftists allege that Jewish &#8220;settlers&#8221; have vandalized some West Bank Arab olive trees and the media shrieks are deafening.  So deafening, in fact, that they drown out reporting about some cases of  Arabs and leftists <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/10/16/did-palestinians-destroy-their-own-olive-trees-and-then-blame-israel-settlers-say-they-have-the-video-to-prove-it/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">intentionally vandalizing</span></a> Arab olive trees as <a href="https://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2012/10/16/slandering-israel-palestinians-and-leftists-filmed-cutting-down-their-own-olive-trees/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">provocations to be blamed</span></a> on &#8220;settlers.&#8221;   And it goes without saying that the firing of thousands of rockets by Gaza terrorists at Israeli civilians is never important enough to be reported as news.  But let Israel fire back at the savages and there &#8211; you see &#8211; we are back in the symmetric cycle of violence.</p>
<p>The symmetry perversion has been played up by the media for so long that few can even keep straight the fundamental underlying truths behind the conflict.  There is a war in the Middle East because the Arabs, controlling territory nearly twice that of the United States (including Alaska), are unwilling for the Jews to control their own state smaller than New Jersey.  The Middle East conflict is not about unwillingness on the part of Jews to accept self-determination for Arabs, but rather by unwillingness on the part of Arabs to accept self-determination for Jews.  Middle East violence is about the campaign of terrorist aggression by the Arab world, including its &#8220;Palestinian&#8221; playthings, to murder as many Jewish children and other civilians as possible.  The number of innocent Palestinian civilians intentionally murdered by Israel is precisely zero.  Palestinians get killed when Israel shoots back and retaliates for Arab terror and aggression and rocket attacks.  When Arabs do not attack Jews, the Jews do not shoot back.  There is no anti-Arab Jewish terrorism.</p>
<p>Arab terrorism is not caused by Israeli &#8220;occupation&#8221; but rather by the removal of Israeli occupation.  The &#8220;Palestinians&#8221; have about as legitimate a claim to statehood and independence as did the Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia.   Granting &#8220;Palestinians&#8221; independence will have precisely the same effect as did the granting &#8220;self-determination&#8221; to the Sudeten Germans.  The only reason Arabs demand that the &#8220;Palestinians&#8221; be granted a state is in order to use it to launch an all-out war of annihilation and terror against what would be the rump Israel.</p>
<p>Israel is the only country in the Middle East that is NOT an apartheid regime.  The only Arabs in the Middle East enjoying human rights are those living under Israeli  rule.   The treatment of Arabs by Israel is at least a thousand times better than the treatment of Arabs by Arab regimes.   The &#8220;stateless Palestinians&#8221; are Arabs, and Arabs control 22 states.   No one is stopping any Arabs uncomfortable about living in a Jewish state from moving to any of those 22 states and taking all their assets and wealth with them.  The Middle East conflict is about injustices perpetrated by Arabs against Jews and not the other way around.</p>
<p>None of this belies the possibility that if one seeks hard enough one can find incidents in which some Jews behave badly towards some Arabs.  Just as Hershel Grynszpan may have murdered the wrong German.  But that hardly makes the Middle East conflict a symmetric cycle of violence and injustice.  There was a handful of white slaves owned by slaveholders in the American south before the Civil War and there were <a href="http://www.theroot.com/articles/history/2013/03/black_slave_owners_did_they_exist.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">small numbers of black slave-owners</span></a>.   Using that to paint pre-Emancipation slavery as a symmetry of black and white slaves with black and white slave-owners would of course by an obscenity.   Use of the assassination of vom Rath to create fictional symmetry would be even worse.  But nothing can compete with the malicious, repugnant, and perfidious distortion of the Middle East conflict by the media as a symmetric conflict and a cycle of violence.</p>
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		<title>The Extremist, Radical New Israel Fund and Its Funders</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2014 05:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ronn Torossian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The immense funding campaign behind the anti-Israel organization. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/money-rolls.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246200" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/money-rolls.jpg" alt="money-rolls" width="351" height="262" /></a>During these sensitive times, as the world is a kinder-box due to Muslim extremists, Jewish extremists must also be rejected. As Israeli Ambassador Ron Prosor recently said in United Nations speech, “Most people believe that at its core, the conflict is a battle between Jews and Arabs or Israelis and Palestinians. They are wrong. The battle that we are witnessing is a battle between those who sanctify life and those who celebrate death.” The Ambassador is right – which means organizations like the New Israel Fund (NIF) which empower terrorists must be shunned. <span style="color: #1255cc;"><a href="http://observer.com/2014/11/new-israel-fund-supports-groups-that-hurt-the-jewish-state/">The New Israel Fund supports groups that hurt the Jewish State.</a></span></p>
<p style="color: #232323;">An NIF grantee, the Executive Director of the Human Rights Defenders Fund (HRDF), received $332,625 from 2011-2013 in grants from the New Israel Fund and recently called Israel “racist,” and “murderous,” and described the country as a “temporary Jewish apartheid state.” She actively promotes the Palestinian ‘right of return.’ Other NIF grantees demand boycotts of the State of Israel, and contribute to gross Anti-Semitism by funding campaigns for Breaking the Silence who tour college campuses to accuse Israel of war crimes.  These organizations are outside the consensus. As The <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/11/26/birthright-israel-terminates-partnership-with-controversial-new-israel-fund/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Algemeiner Journal</span></a> reported New Israel Fund is “a controversial foundation that supports dozens of Israel related causes, many of which are considered hostile to the Jewish State.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Thankfully today it was revealed that Birthright and Young Judea will no longer work with New Israel Fund. New Israel Fund is associated with funding boycotts of Israel and programs to support the Israel Defense Forces, hence the Jewish community is rejecting these extremists. As Algemeiner added, “NIF <a href="http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article/new_israel_fund"><span style="color: #1255cc;">actively supports organizations</span></a> like Machsom Watch, which harass Israeli soldiers while on duty at checkpoints, Breaking The Silence which dispatches former Israeli soldiers on international tours accusing the IDF of human rights violations and war crimes, and +972 magazine, which offers a ready stream of anti-Israel articles and opinions pieces. During the recent Gaza war, New Israel Fund dispatched emergency grants to fund anti-Israel protests in Israel.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">NIF donors support extremists’ viewpoints with barely any support amongst the democratic electorate of Israel. While one constantly hears about donors on the right, why is the left given a pass when they help fund anti-democratic behavior?</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Irwin Jacobs, a co-founder of Qualcomm is a major donor to The New Israel Fund, as is his fellow San Diegoan, The Leichtag Foundation.  While The Fohs Foundation claims that their position is “not to look back, not to criticize Israel or place blame, but rather to promote opportunity going forward,”, yet by supporting the New Israel Fund, they stand with calling Israeli soldiers war crimes.  That is out of bounds – and responsible donors <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/ronn-torossian/celebrating-anti-israel-extremists/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">must reject these extremists</span></a>.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">From the Edith and Henry Everett  Foundation who fund The Jewish Book Council, Joint Distribution Committee, American Friends of Israel Sci-Tech Schools and others, one fails to comprehend why they would want to be associated with the New Israel Fund, which Professor Gerald Steinberg recently described as an organization that “..claim to support Israel and human rights principles, they enable the highly destructive activities that do the opposite. By the time these funders acknowledge this failure and end their support, the damage will be done.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">From the Lisa and Douglas Goldman Fund to The Irving Harris Foundation, Arnold Hiatt to many others, <a href="http://www.nif.org/about/financials"><span style="color: #1255cc;">The New Israel Fund annual report</span></a> is a study in those who seek to fund campaigns which support boycotts of Israel, supporting Anti-Semitism on campus, and prosecuting Israeli war crimes.  The supporters of these causes are all visible in the New Israel Fund annual report.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The New Israel Fund has decreased in funding from $37 Million in 2010 to $27 Million in 2013. This dangerous extremist organization neglects the reality on the ground and the will of the people. America’s closest Middle East ally, Israel, faces a grave enemy of terrorists and despots, and supporting organizations which undermine the Israel Defense Forces and encourage boycotts of Israel are simply dangerous.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>The axe that fell on the head of a Rabbi in Jerusalem was held by the same hand that beheaded Yazidi men in the new Islamic State. It is the same hand that held the steering wheel of the car that ran over two Canadian soldiers in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec and the same hand that smashed a hatchet down on the skull of a rookie New York City cop in Queens all in a matter of months.</p>
<p>Their victims were of different races and spoke different languages. They had nothing in common except that they were non-Muslims. This is the terrible commonality that unites the victims of Islamic terror.</p>
<p>Either they are not Muslim. Or they are not Muslim enough for their killers.</p>
<p>The media shows us the trees. It does not show us the forest. It fragments every story into a thousand local narratives. In Jerusalem the killers were angry because of Jews praying on the Temple Mount. In Queens and Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, they were outraged because we were bombing the Islamic State.</p>
<p>And in the Islamic State they were killing Christians and Yazidis because America hadn’t bombed them yet.</p>
<p>Our leaders and our experts, the wise men of our multicultural tribes, who huddle in their shiny suits around heavy tables, believe in the good Muslim terrorist the way that the Muslim believes in Allah. The good Muslim terrorist who is willing to make peace for the right price is their only hope of salvation. The good Muslim terrorist willing to settle for Palestine or Syria at 50 percent off is their way out of a war.</p>
<p>And so like Chamberlain at Munich and FDR at Yalta, like a thousand tawdry betrayals before, they make themselves believe it. And then they make us believe it.</p>
<p>A thousand foreign policy experts are dug out, suited up and marched into studios to explain what specific set of un-Islamic Muslim grievances caused this latest beheading and how the surviving non-Muslims need to appease their future killers. And then another tree falls. And another head rolls.</p>
<p>The appeasement never works. No non-Muslim country has ever reliably made peace with Muslim terrorists inside its own borders. Even the Muslim countries have a shaky track record. Most have settled for either massacring them, like Algeria and Jordan, or secretly allying with them, like just about every Muslim country from Pakistan to Saudi Arabia.</p>
<p>And yet Nigeria is expected to cut a deal with the Boko Haram rapists of its little girls, Israel is expected to negotiate with the mass murderers of its Rabbis, Hindus in India are expected to negotiate with the Jihadists who burn them alive and somehow arrive at a peaceful settlement. And if the peace doesn’t come, then it won’t be the fault of the rapists, the axe-wielders and arsonists, but of their victims.</p>
<p>It is never the Muslim terrorists who are at fault for not being appeased by any compromise and any concession. It is the fault of their victims for not appeasing them hard enough.</p>
<p>Compromise with Muslim terrorists is impossible because the issue is not really about Jerusalem, oil revenues in Nigeria, Kashmir or Syria. It’s always about Islam. The territorial claims are unlimited and uncompromisable because they are backed by Islam. No concession can ever suffice because Islam promises its followers not merely some land in Syria, Israel or India… but the entire world.</p>
<p>The forest is Islam. The trees are theirs because the forest belongs to them. Jerusalem and Kashmir are not any different than New York or Sydney. Muslim historical claims are mythologies invented to give weight to their religious violence.</p>
<p>After losing a few wars the Arab Muslims who had been fighting for a Greater Syria decided that they would fall back to claiming to be “Palestinians” while demanding a state on the territories that the Jordanians and Egyptians had ethnically cleansed Jews from in 1948 before losing a war to those same Jews in 1967. But that was never anything other than a down payment on the rest of Israel.</p>
<p>Meanwhile the Islamic State is recreating Greater Syria under a Caliphate.</p>
<p>Turkey’s president, who sponsors the Islamic State and dreams of reviving the Ottoman Empire, recently announced that America was originally Muslim. It’s absurd, but so is claiming that Israel never existed and that its Arab Muslim conquerors are really some sort of ancient “Palestinian” people who were there first. When even the most ridiculous lie is told often enough, it becomes mistaken for a fact.</p>
<p>The good Muslim terrorist is born out of this false history. Unlike the bad Muslim terrorist who wants Caliphates and harems of frightened little girls, who wants Islamic law and beheadings on every corner, the good Muslim terrorist is misunderstood, lacks economic opportunities, is traumatized by war and unaware of the benefits of peace. What he really wants is his own McDonald’s franchise in Jerusalem. He wants microfinance in Kashmir. He wants to build solar panels with 3D printers to fight climate change in Nigeria.</p>
<p>These are the lies that the modern Chamberlains tell themselves and then us. These are the lullabies that the newscasters hum audiences to sleep with just before the bombs go off and the heads roll.</p>
<p>There are no good Muslim terrorists. There are no moderate Jihadists. There is only Islam.</p>
<p>There were no friendly Islamic militias in Benghazi. There are no moderate Taliban. No one is looking to cut a deal for peaceful nuclear energy in Tehran. They are looking to cut our throats.</p>
<p>The moderate and the extremist, the good and bad Muslim terrorists, are no different than our own police game of good cop and bad cop. President Abbas of the Palestinian Authority said that his policies are no different than those of Hamas. The Free Syrian Army and the Al Qaeda aligned militias in Syria fight together. They are both out to create an Islamic state.</p>
<p>The only difference is that the FSA and the Palestinian Authority get their money and weapons from us. Hamas and Al Qaeda get them from our allies in Turkey and Qatar. And they often get them from us.</p>
<p>Behind every bad scowling Muslim terrorist whom we hunt with drones is one of our good Muslim terrorists or one of our good Muslim allies. There would be no Taliban or Bin Laden without Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.</p>
<p>There would be no ISIS without Qatar. And there would be no Qatar without our protection. Even while we bomb ISIS with our planes, our air power protects Qatar. Even while we condemn the latest Muslim terrorist attack in Jerusalem, we fund the payments that will be given as a reward to the families of the killers.</p>
<p>There are no good Muslim terrorists. There is no territorial compromise that will sweep away a thousand years of brutal ideology and replace it with our idea of the good life. Moderates who just want an extra mile on a map don’t chop down old men at prayer, don’t rape little girls or burn families to death.</p>
<p>Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the good Muslim terrorist are all stories that we tell ourselves. It’s time to start telling ourselves the truth.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/29906170001_3898124865001_thumb-645697987bded02d650f6a70670096d7.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245712" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/29906170001_3898124865001_thumb-645697987bded02d650f6a70670096d7.jpg" alt="29906170001_3898124865001_thumb-645697987bded02d650f6a70670096d7" width="328" height="246" /></a>This week’s terror attack in a Jerusalem synagogue evoked <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/19/opinion/horror-in-israel.html?_r=0"><span style="color: #0433ff;">a 300-word unsigned editorial</span></a> from the <i>New York Times</i>.</p>
<p>Seemingly, this was a straightforward case: two terrorists with a gun, axes, and knives entered the synagogue and proceeded to butcher peaceful, unarmed worshippers. But for the <i>Times</i>, nothing involving Israel is straightforward.</p>
<p>Yes, the <i>Times</i> called the attack a “bloody rampage” and said Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas “has a duty to make the moral case that such brutality and inhumanity can only bring shame upon the Palestinian people” (which, by the way, he’s never going to do).</p>
<p>But the <i>Times</i> also called the attack</p>
<blockquote><p><i>a tragedy for all Israelis and Palestinians. The two communities appeared increasingly locked in a cycle of hatred and hopelessness, where chances for stability, much less permanent peace, seem nearly impossible.</i></p>
<p><i>… it also is part of an alarming wave of violence fueled by a dispute over a holy site in the Old City known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as the Temple Mount.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>The drift of that could not be clearer: both sides are at fault, both evincing “hatred” and “violence” that make peace “nearly impossible.”</p>
<p>But is that really true?</p>
<p>The attack on the synagogue immediately killed four Jews, three of them rabbis; a fifth person—an Israeli Druze policeman who fought the terrorists—died the following day.</p>
<p>In addition to those five, six other people <a href="http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/foreignpolicy/terrorism/palestinian/pages/victims%2520of%2520palestinian%2520violence%2520and%2520terrorism%2520sinc.aspx"><span style="color: #0433ff;">have been killed by Palestinian terror</span></a> since October 22: a three-month-old Israeli girl and an Ecuadorian woman in a car-ramming attack, an Israeli Druze border patrolman and a 17-year-old Israeli youth in another car-ramming attack, an off-duty Israeli soldier in a stabbing attack, and an Israeli woman in a car-ramming/stabbing attack.</p>
<p>Another Israeli, Rabbi Yehuda Glick, survived an attempt to shoot him to death by a Palestinian terrorist. And three other soldiers were injured in another car-ramming incident that now also <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,l-4594352,00.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">turns out to have been a terror attack</span></a>.</p>
<p>Now, in those five weeks, how many Palestinians have been killed or injured in terror attacks? The answer, of course, is none. The only Palestinians killed in the “conflict” have been those shot by Israeli policemen or soldiers during or after attacks.</p>
<p>By this standard, the United States and ISIS have been “locked in a cycle of hatred” and violence. Innocent Americans have been killed by ISIS; ISIS members have been killed in U.S. air strikes. It’s the same thing, isn’t it?</p>
<p>If you go back to last July 2, you’ll find a brutal murder by three Israelis of a 16-year-old Palestinian boy named Muhammad Abu Khdeir (supposed “revenge” for the earlier killing of three Israeli youths by Hamas members). The Israeli perpetrators of that crime, which shocked and horrified the whole country, are now <a href="http://pjmedia.com/blog/israeli-killers-of-arab-boy-aberrant-individuals/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">in jail awaiting trial</span></a>. The leader of the three was an individual so aberrant that he had earlier threatened to murder his one-month-old daughter.</p>
<p>Anyone who keeps track at all of this “conflict” knows the situation is very different on the Palestinian side, where murderers of Israelis—any Israelis—are systematically honored, glorified, and if possible, remunerated.</p>
<p>Meanwhile on Wednesday, behind the haze of disinformation and distortions of the <i>New York Times</i> and other big media, a sad but heartwarming event occurred in Israel.</p>
<p>Zidan Sayif, the 30-year-old Druze policeman who along with two other policemen fought the synagogue terrorists on Tuesday, paid for doing so with his life, and is survived by a wife and five-month-old daughter, was buried in the Druze village of Yanuh-Jat in northern Israel. The thousands in attendance included Druze notables and the Israeli president, internal security minister, police commissioner, and other officials.</p>
<p>And they also included hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Israeli Jews. The synagogue attacked on Tuesday was ultra-Orthodox. Although ultra-Orthodox Jews tend to be insular, they came out in appreciation of Zidan Sayif’s heroism as he and his fellow officers prevented what could have been a much larger massacre.</p>
<p>At the funeral, ultra-Orthodox Member of Knesset Eli Yishai <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,l-4593823,00.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">said</span></a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>We all weep alongside the family. We are here to pay our last respects to a great hero who gave his life. . . . Your memory is forever engraved in our hearts.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>Risha Segal, an ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem resident, had earlier posted online:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>We are calling for widespread solidarity throughout Israel, with an emphasis on gratitude. We will not be ungrateful and will show our thanks for those who sacrificed their lives for us. This is one of the most important principles in Judaism.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called Sayif’s father on Wednesday and <a href="http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=21613"><span style="color: #0433ff;">said</span></a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>Your son’s bravery prevented many victims. On behalf of the citizens of Israel I want to offer my condolences for his death while fulfilling his duty. It is precisely at this time that you must raise your heads high with pride and know that the death of your son was not in vain. Thanks to him many citizens can now continue their lives. </i></p></blockquote>
<p>And Sheikh Moafaq Tarif, spiritual leader of the Israeli Druze community, had this to say at the funeral:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>The entire Druze community lowers its head together with the families of the victims of the terrible massacre in Jerusalem, and we hope for safer, quieter days ahead. We must take our covenant of blood and turn it into a covenant of life. We are a peace-seeking people, and our sons serve this state and the entire public, and we will continue to do so.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>The Palestinian Arabs of the West Bank and Gaza, too, could live peacefully with the Jews of Israel and other peace-loving peoples of the Middle East. They could work out their differences with Israel without ramming, shooting, hacking, and stabbing men, women, and children. Realizing that, though, seems beyond the ken of the <i>New York Times.</i></p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Klein]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ShowImage.ashx_.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245561" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ShowImage.ashx_-450x314.jpg" alt="ShowImage.ashx" width="358" height="250" /></a>Two Palestinian thugs, armed with cleavers, knives and a gun, invaded an orthodox synagogue in West Jerusalem early Tuesday during morning prayers, and proceeded to murder four Jewish worshippers in cold blood. At least a dozen others were wounded. Three of the murder victims were American citizens. The fourth was a British citizen. Three of the victims were also rabbis. Israeli police, arriving at the scene of the horrific massacre and exchanging gunfire with the Palestinians as they tried to escape, shot the murderers to death. But the horrible images of the slain and wounded worshippers with blood everywhere, drenching holy books, prayer shawls and walls of the synagogue, will live on for a very long time.</p>
<p>“To see Jews wearing tefillin and wrapped in the tallit lying in pools of blood, I wondered if I was imagining scenes from the Holocaust,” said Yehuda Meshi Zahav, the veteran leader of a religious emergency-response team as quoted by the <i>New York Times. </i>“It was a massacre of Jews at prayer.”</p>
<p>At least ten Jews have now been run over by cars and killed, or have been stabbed to death by Palestinians during the last month. Call this latest spate of violence the &#8220;Car Intifada,&#8221; as some Palestinian social media refer to it with a song by that name, or the &#8220;Knife Intifada,&#8221; as other Palestinians have coined it. Either way, Palestinian leaders have Jewish blood on their hands after exhorting their followers to commit such violent acts. The inciters to murder are as guilty as the murderers themselves.</p>
<p>Predictably, Hamas praised the cowardly synagogue attack as a “heroic” act. Hamas&#8217;s leadership claimed that the brutal murders were justified as legitimate responses to Israeli actions. “There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time,” a spokesman for Hamas declared. Senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad told Al Jazeera International to expect “more revolution in Jerusalem, and more uprising.&#8221;</p>
<p>A Hamas official posted <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ana.hor.bahaayaseen/photos/a.634911186630127.1073741830.263328473788402/671934452927800/?type=1"><span style="color: #0463c1;">an image of a grotesque poster</span></a> depicting the attack on his Facebook page. It showed Palestinians brandishing guns and a bloodied knife rampaging through a synagogue with bodies of Jews strewn on the floor and other Jews trying to flee the terror. In the evil perverted minds of Hamas jihadists and their ilk, the killing of Jews even while praying in their own synagogue far removed from the Temple Mount is a cause for great celebration.</p>
<p>Palestinian Authority President Abbas, whose talk of a &#8220;religious war&#8221; and other incendiary rhetoric helped to incite the latest in a series of violent attacks against Jewish civilians in Jerusalem and elsewhere, issued a formulaic condemnation of the synagogue killings. At the same time he continued his lie-ridden rant against Israelis:</p>
<blockquote><p>The president always condemns killings of civilians from any party whatsoever, and condemns the killing of worshipers today in one of the houses of worship in West Jerusalem, and also denounces all violent acts no matter what their source is, and demands an end to the ongoing incursions into the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the provocative acts by Israeli settlers as well as incitement by some Israeli ministers.</p>
<p>The presidency also confirms that it is time to end the occupation and end the causes of tension and violence, affirming our commitment to a just-based solution on the basis of a two-state solution, in accordance with the resolutions of international legitimacy, and maintain an atmosphere of calm and understandings that have been made with King Abdullah II and American Secretary of State John Kerry in Amman.</p></blockquote>
<p>Meanwhile, official Palestinian Authority television is reported to have broadcast disgusting images of Bethlehem residents handing out candy in the streets, to celebrate the attack. And an official spokesman for Abbas’s Fatah party, Ahmed Assaf, said that “the Jerusalem operation was a natural response to the Israeli violations.”</p>
<p>Secretary of State Kerry, who just a few days ago expressed his belief that tensions in Jerusalem were beginning to de-escalate, issued a strong condemnation of the synagogue murders. “To have this kind of act, which is a pure result of incitement, of calls for ‘days of rage,’ of just irresponsibility, is unacceptable,” Kerry said. “The Palestinian leadership must condemn this and they must begin to take serious steps to restrain any kind of incitement …This simply has no place in human behavior and we need to hear from leaders who are going to lead their people to a different place.”</p>
<p>Clearly, Abbas and his henchmen have not gotten Kerry’s message. And Hamas seeks to characterize the synagogue slaughters as delivering a very different type of message. Mushir al-Masri, a Hamas spokesman, wrote in a Facebook post: “We have the full right to revenge for the blood of our martyrs in all possible means.”</p>
<p>For his part, President Obama did personally condemn the bloody slaughters, saying “there is and can be no justification for such attacks against innocent civilians.” But, as usual, Obama tried to link an act of pure evil &#8212; the shedding of innocent blood of worshippers in their holy place of prayer &#8211; to the failed peace negotiations. He said that &#8220;it is all the more important for Israeli and Palestinian leaders and ordinary citizens to work cooperatively together to lower tensions, reject violence and seek a path forward towards peace.” Obama also continued his false moral equivalency narrative by noting that there has been violence committed on both sides. &#8220;Too many Israelis have died, too many Palestinians have died,” Obama said. That’s true, but it is the Palestinians who are at fault. They have rejected real peace, from the original United Nations two-state partition solution more than six decades ago until now, and have instead conducted a relentless campaign of violence against Jewish civilians.</p>
<p>The failed peace talks, the building of additional Jewish housing in Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem and the lies about purported Israeli plans to interfere with Muslim worship and invade their mosques serve only as pretexts for Palestinians to satiate their never-ending lust for Jewish blood. Obama’s anti-Israel bias blinds him to the incontrovertible fact that Palestinian leaders have refused to work together with Israeli leaders to lower tensions and reject violence as he has suggested. Only Israel is trying in good faith to lower the temperature and prevent a conflagration. Indeed, while Hamas leaders and Abbas have incited violence with blatant lies about alleged Israeli plans to attack the al-Aqsa Mosque, Prime Minister Netanyahu has tried to de-escalate tensions by even continuing to prevent Jews from exercising their fundamental human right to worship freely wherever they wish, including on the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site.</p>
<p>However, Prime Minister Netanyahu’s patience has just about run out. Now Jews cannot even pray safely in their own synagogues in the uncontested area of West Jerusalem. Such pathological Palestinian behavior must be stopped once and for all.</p>
<p>“This is the direct result of the incitement being led by Hamas and Abu Mazen [Palestinian Authority - PA President Mahmoud Abbas], incitement which the international community is irresponsibly ignoring,” Prime Minister Netanyahu said. “We will respond with a heavy hand to the brutal murder of Jews who came to pray and were met by reprehensible murderers. We will respond harshly,” he added.</p>
<p>The prime minister called for national unity in fighting against &#8220;those human animals who committed this massacre&#8221; and against Hamas, the Islamic movement, the Palestinian Authority and whomever else &#8220;disseminate libels against the state of Israel.&#8221;</p>
<p>Demolition of the Palestinian murderers’ homes and arrests of any and all accomplices are first steps. Security will be beefed up all around Jerusalem. More restrictions may be needed on freedom of movement among at least certain segments of the Palestinian population living in Jerusalem. The two killers were residents of East Jerusalem who carried Israeli identification cards allowing them to travel throughout Israel. They also worked in Jewish neighborhoods. In addition, Israeli officials should bring pressure to bear on social media providers such as Facebook to monitor and immediately remove the kind of hate speech inciting violence against Jews, including babies, on sites that Palestinians are regularly frequenting. If necessary, Israel should use its technological prowess to block access to such sites.</p>
<p>Whatever measures Israel takes to protect its citizens against the Palestinians’ bloodlust should be fully supported by the United States. Anti-Israel resolutions at the UN Security Council should be vetoed. UN Human Rights Council kangaroo investigations of alleged Israeli “crimes” should be met with U.S. withdrawal from this farcical body and de-funding. But that is not likely to happen, since President Obama’s thinking is in synch with the anti-Israel, moral equivalency mindset of the UN. When I asked the United Nations High Commissioner for Human rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein for his comment on the Jerusalem synagogue slaughters, he responded in a similar fashion to President Obama’s statement. He condemned any killings of civilians and said he hoped that calm can be restored. He would not criticize the incitements to violence by Hamas and other Palestinian leaders.</p>
<p>If, as expected, the Obama administration continues its campaign to undermine Prime Minister Netanyahu, rather than wholeheartedly support his fight against ISIS look-alikes such as Hamas and other Palestinian murderers of innocent civilians, the prime minister should go over Obama’s head and take his case directly to the American people. His message should be that Israel and America are fighting the same enemy. Israel’s battles against the Palestinian jihadists are inextricably linked with America’s fight against ISIS and other jihadists worldwide who want to destroy the freedoms we take for granted. He can start with a speech to a joint session of Congress, which large bipartisan majorities in both houses of Congress would welcome, even if President Obama is displeased.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/israeli-flag-turned-swastika-4453720158_3f639a1ea52.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245328" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/israeli-flag-turned-swastika-4453720158_3f639a1ea52-450x299.jpg" alt="israeli-flag-turned-swastika-4453720158_3f639a1ea52" width="343" height="228" /></a>“What if the Jews themselves were Nazis?” mused French philosopher, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Jank%C3%A9l%C3%A9vitch"><span style="color: #ed2324;">Vladimir Jankélévitch</span></a> in 1986. “That would be great. We would no longer have to feel sorry for them; they would have deserved what they got.”</p>
<p>The recasting of Israelis, and, by extension, Jews as Nazis has, in fact, taken place, just as Jankélévitch envisioned. This summer’s Israeli incursion, Operation Protective Edge, provided anti-Semites and loathers of the Jewish state with resurgent justifications for assigning the epithet of Nazi on the Jews yet another time, together with oft-heard accusations of “crimes against humanity, “massacres,” genocide,” and, according to recent comments by Turkey’s prime minister <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recep_Tayyip_Erdo%C4%9Fan"><span style="color: #ed2324;">Tayyip Erdoğan</span></a>, in their treatment of the Palestinians, Israel has demonstrated that “. . . their barbarism has surpassed even Hitler’s.”</p>
<p>The Nazification of Israelis—and by extension Jews—is both breathtaking in its moral inversion and cruel in the way it makes the actual victims of the Third Reich’s horrors a modern-day reincarnation of that same barbarity. It is, in the words of Boston University’s Richard Landes, “moral sadism,” a salient example of Holocaust inversion that is at once ahistorical, disingenuous, and grotesque in its moral and factual inaccuracy.</p>
<p>In reflecting on the current trend he perceived in the burgeoning of anti-Israelism around the world, Canadian Member of Parliament, Irwin Cotler, once <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/Making-the-world-Judenstaatrein"><span style="color: #ed2324;">observed</span></a> that conventional strains of anti-Semitism had been masked, so that those who directed enmity towards Jews were now able to transfer that opprobrium to the Jew of nations, Israel. How had they effected that? According to Cotler, they did so by redefining Israel as the most glaring example of those human predations, what he called “the embodiment of all evil” of the Twentieth Century: apartheid and Nazism. He defined the process of grafting this opprobrium on Israel as “ideological anti-Semitism,” one which “involves the characterization of Israel not only as an apartheid state—and one that must be dismantled as part of the struggle against racism—but as a Nazi one.”</p>
<p>Most important for the anti-Israel cause, Cotler contended, once Israel had been tarred with the libels of racism and Nazism, the Jewish state had been made an international outlaw, a pariah, losing its moral right to even exist—exactly, of course, what its foes have consistently sought. “These very labels of Zionism and Israel as ‘racist, apartheid and Nazi’ supply the criminal indictment,” said Cotler. “No further debate is required. The conviction that this triple racism warrants the dismantling of Israel as a moral obligation has been secured. For who would deny that a ‘racist, apartheid, Nazi’ state should not have any right to exist today?”</p>
<p>What is more troubling is that the characterization of the Israeli as Nazi is a trope now promulgated by Western elites and so-called intellectuals, including a broad contingent of academics who are complicit in, and in fact intellectual enablers of, the campaign to defame Israel by Nazifying its people and accusing Jews again as being the world’s moral and existential enemies as demonstrated by their oppression and brutality toward the long-suffering Palestinians. Thus, campus anti-Israel hate-fests sponsored by radical student groups have such repellant names as “Holocaust in the Holy Land,” “Israel: The Politics of Genocide,” or “Israel: The Fourth Reich,” creating a clear, though mendacious, linkage between Nazism and Zionism.</p>
<p>One of the early academic voices to have assigned the Nazi epithet to Israel was heard in a November 2000 speech by Francis A. Boyle, a law professor at the University of Illinois and one of the principal promoters of the global Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. In that speech, Boyle made the exact linkage to which Cotler alluded, conflating Israel’s alleged racism with apartheid-like behavior and suggesting, even more ominously, that the ongoing “genocide” against the Palestinians had parallels with the Nazi’s own heinous offenses. “The paradigmatic example of a crime against humanity is what Hitler and the Nazis did to the Jewish People,” Boyle <a href="http://www.mediamonitors.net/francis7.html"><span style="color: #ed2324;">said</span></a>. “This is where the concept of crime against humanity was formulated and came from. And this is what the U.N. Human Rights Commission is now saying that Israel is doing to the Palestinian People. A crime against humanity.”</p>
<p>That same trope is repeated and reinforced by other academics, such as Richard Falk, professor emeritus of International Law and Policy at Princeton University and the UN’s former, preposterously-titled “Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967,” who wondered aloud if it was “an irresponsible overstatement to associate the treatment of Palestinians with this criminalized Nazi record of collective atrocity?” on the part of Israel, and then quickly answered his own question by saying, “I think not.”</p>
<p>In the morally-defective pantheon of the academic defamers of Israel, perhaps no single individual has emerged as the paradigmatic libeler, the most vitriolic and widely-followed character in an inglorious retinue as <a href="http://normanfinkelstein.com/"><span style="color: #ed2324;">Norman Finkelstein</span></a>, late of DePaul University. Finkelstein has loudly and notoriously pronounced his extreme views on the Middle East, not to mention his loathing of what he has called the Holocaust “industry,” something he has called an “outright extortion racket;” in fact, he blames Jews themselves for anti-Semitism.</p>
<p>Hamas, designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department, has pure political intentions and passively yearns for truces and safe borders, according to Mr. Finkelstein, while the invidious state of Israel, fearing moderate Arab foes who will force it into peace, is obdurate, conniving, and bellicose. In fact, Finkelstein <a href="http://www.todayszaman.com/interviews_norman-finkelstein-israel-is-committing-a-holocaust-in-gaza_164483.html"><span style="color: #ed2324;">suggested</span></a>, Israel is collectively going mad, while everyone else in the rational world yearns for Middle Eastern peace:<b> “</b>I think Israel, as a number of commentators pointed out, is becoming an insane state. . . In the first week of the massacres, there were reports in the Israeli press that Israel did not want to put all its ground forces in Gaza because it was preparing attacks on Iran. Then there were reports it was planning attacks on Lebanon. It is a lunatic state.”</p>
<p>If Finkelstein lives in an academic netherworld of political fantasies, conspiracies, and intellectually-imbecilic distortions of history and fact, his spiritual mentor, MIT’s professor emeritus of linguistics <a href="http://www.chomsky.info/"><span style="color: #ed2324;">Noam Chomsky</span></a>, has inhabited a similar ideological sphere, but has become an even more widely-known, eagerly-followed creature of the Israel-hating, America-hating Left.</p>
<p>While he is happy to, and regularly does, ignore the murder of Jews by Palestinians, Chomsky never hesitates to point to the perfidy of Israel, and its barbarous assault on their Arab neighbors who, in his socialist fantasies, wish for nothing more than to live in peace. He draws the perverse parallel between Israelis and Nazis so frequently in his writings that, to paraphrase the wry Professor Edward Alexander, he would be rendered nearly speechless if he was unable to use the epithet of Nazi against Israel in every sentence he utters. The rogue state of “Israel has tried killing, beating, gassing, mass arrests, deportation, destruction of houses, curfews and other forms of harsh collective punishment,” Chomsky <a href="http://www.chomsky.info/articles/198807--.htm"><span style="color: #ed2324;">wrote</span></a>, and yet, even in the face of this hideous, Nazi-like behavior by Israel, “nothing has succeeded in enforcing obedience or eliciting a violent response.”</p>
<p>In January of 2009, a tenured sociology professor, William I. Robinson, of the University of California, Santa Barbara, sent an odious email to the 80 students in his “Sociology 130SG: The Sociology of Globalization” course with the explicit message that Israelis are the new Nazis.  Under the heading “Parallel images of Nazis and Israelis,” the email displayed a photo-collage of 42 side-by-side, grisly photographs meant to suggest an historical equivalence between Israel’s treatment of Palestinians in its occupation of Gaza and the Third Reich’s subjugation of the Warsaw Ghetto and its treatment of Jews during the Holocaust. Robinson sent the email without supplying any context for it, nor did it seemingly have any specific relevance to or connection with the course’s content.</p>
<p>At Columbia University’s department of Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS), an academic division with a long history of anti-Israel, anti-American bias and politicized scholarship, Joseph Massad, an associate professor of modern Arab politics, regularly espouses his loathing of Israel in fringe, anti-Semitic publications like <i>Counterpunch</i> and <i>The Electronic Intifada, </i>or in the Arab press, and never misses an opportunity to denigrate the Jewish state as a racist, colonial enterprise, a moral stain on the world without any semblance of legitimacy. In his perfervid imagination, Israelis, as he never tires as mentioning, have become the new Nazis and the Palestinians the Jews. “As Palestinians are murdered and injured in the thousands,” he <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/content/gaza-ghetto-uprising/7919"><span style="color: #ed2324;">wrote</span></a> after Operation Cast Lead in January of 2009 when Israel was defending itself against some 6000 rockets attacks from Gaza, “world powers are cheering on . . , and it even happened during World War II as the Nazi genocide was proceeding.” Perversely likening the barbaric aggression of Hamas from within Gaza to the efforts of Warsaw Jews to repel imminent extermination by the Nazis, Massad obscenely suggested that “The Gaza Ghetto Uprising will mark both the latest chapter in Palestinian resistance to colonialism and the latest Israeli colonial brutality in a region whose peoples will never accept the legitimacy of a racist European colonial settlement in their midst.”</p>
<p>It is Israel&#8217;s actions alone―that and the support of the United States―which are the root cause of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, and the Jewish state’s behavior is murderous, unethical, and brutal, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison&#8217;s Jennifer Loewenstein, Associate Director of the Middle East Studies Program. Israel, she <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/08/31/a-legacy-of-two-martyrs/"><span style="color: #ed2324;">wrote</span></a>, “speaks with a viper’s tongue over the multiple amputee of Palestine whose head shall soon be severed from its body in the name of justice, peace and security,” and “Israel has made its view known again and again in the strongest possible language, the language of military might, of threats, intimidation, harassment, defamation and degradation.”<b> </b></p>
<p>This summer, while the Gaza incursion was raging, Dr. Julio Pino, associate professor of history at Kent State University, <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/ohio-professor-says-israel-spiritual-heir-to-nazism/"><span style="color: #ed2324;">published</span></a> a vitriolic open letter in which he chastised the “academic friends of Israel” who have “chosen to openly work for and brag about academic collaboration with a regime that is the spiritual heir to Nazism . . . I curse you more than the Israelis,” he told his academic colleagues, “for while The Chosen drain the blood of innocents without apologies you hide behind the mask of academic objectivity, nobility of research and the reward of teaching to foreign youth . . . Lest you think this is a personal attack I swear it applies equally to all who engage in collaboration with fascism, and we both know the fate of collaborators. In the same manner, only with more zeal, than you have sworn to the Jewish State I pledge to you, and every friend and stooge of Zionism.”</p>
<p>Occasionally, when an academic makes public his loathing of the Jewish state, and continues to demonize and libel Israel beyond the bounds of what would be considered acceptable scholarly discourse, there are consequences—though rarely. This summer, for instance, Steven Salaita, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Israels-Dead-Soul-Steven-Salaita/dp/1439906386"><span style="color: #ed2324;">author of <i>Israel’s Dead Soul</i></span></a> and perennial critic of Zionism, had an employment offer from the University of Illinois withdrawn once the school’s president was made aware of some of Salaita’s virulent Twitter posts about Israel.  During the widely-criticized Gaza incursion, Salaita <a href="https://twitter.com/stevesalaita/status/490683700116738048"><span style="color: #ed2324;">tweeted</span></a> that “At this point, if Netanyahu appeared on TV with a necklace made from the teeth of Palestinian children, would anybody be surprised?” He also blamed anti-Semitism on Jews themselves, as many anti-Semites do, by asserting that Israel’s behavior causes the hatred of Jews, that “By eagerly conflating Jewishness and Israel, Zionists are partly responsible when people say antisemitic shit in response to Israeli terror.”</p>
<p>As grotesque and distorted as these calumnies against Israel are, as perverse and inaccurate the comparisons drawn between Nazism and Zionism and between Nazis and Israelis are, and as wildly hateful these libels are to the point of being, as defined by the State Department’s own working definition, anti-Semitic in nature—the branding of Israel as the Nazi of nations by these academics serves to reinforce, and give credibility to, similar hatreds and biases expressed outside the university walls.</p>
<p>This is a lethal narrative because when it is believed the world naturally asks itself, as Cotler warned: if Israel is a Nazi-like, apartheid regime, standing in opposition to everything for which the civilized community of nations stands, who <i>cannot </i>hold Israel accountable and judge it harshly for its transgressions? That against all historical evidence and the force of reason the calumny against Israel that it is a murderous, sadistic, and genocidal regime has been successfully promoted and continues to gain traction indicates that Israel’s academic defamers have been successful in inverting history as part of the modern day incarnation of the world’s oldest hatred.</p>
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		<title>Israeli Leftists Demonstrate Solidarity with Dead Terrorist</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Plaut]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Jewish State's fifth column and its fellow travelers spring into action. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/pli.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245130" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/pli-450x300.jpg" alt="pli" width="321" height="214" /></a>Khair al-Din Hamdan from Kafr Kanna in the Galilee was an Israeli Arab terrorist who was minding his own business a few days ago and attempting to stab Israeli policemen to death.  Kafr Kanna is where the Biblical town of Cana stood and according to the New Testament it is where Jesus turned water into wine.  The tomb of the great Jewish sage Simeon ben Gamliel is nearby, attesting to the Jewish origins of this town now under Arab occupation.</p>
<p>The intended police victims of the terrorist were not amused and were unappreciative of the symbolic value of their being stabbed to death to protest the grievances of Hamdan and his terrorist comrades.  Instead, the police selfishly and immoderately shot Hamdan to death as Hamdan attempted to murder them with his knife.</p>
<p>Israel&#8217;s Arab fifth-column and its fellow travelers then took to the streets and violently protested this &#8220;murder in cold blood&#8221; of the gentle giant Hamdan. He instantly became the poster boy for those loyal Arab citizens of Israel who seek the annihilation of Israel and its Jews.   The neutral and objective foreign media were also outraged at the violation of the Miranda rights of Hamdan, who was killed by the police without legal representation and a trial.   Khair&#8217;s father <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4589580,00.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">expressed the outrage</span></a> of the family that his son had been prevented by the police from murdering Jews &#8212; and was not simply stopped with tear gas or at most a bullet in his thigh.  And the heroic appeasers of the Likud government <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/11219367/Israel-orders-probe-after-police-kill-Arab-in-cold-blood.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">decided to order an official commission</span></a> of investigation into the interruption by the cops of the murder attempt by Khair.</p>
<p>At the same time, some of Israel&#8217;s finest leftists are also taking to the airwaves and the streets to show their solidarity with the young dead terrorist. The Khair lobby claims that video footage shows that, after attempting unsuccessfully to stab the cops, he was in fact backing away from them when he was shot.  Just why his backing away could be interpreted as any reason NOT to summarily shoot and execute him on the spot with extreme prejudice has never been explained by anyone.</p>
<p>Some of the car crash murderers in Israel in recent days have been shot on the spot AFTER crashing intentionally into people.  The only thing wrong with that is that Israel&#8217;s weenie government refuses to pass a law proclaiming that instant execution without trial of ALL terrorists at the scenes of their murders and attempted murders is not only legal but downright laudatory and deserving of a medal of valor.</p>
<p>The emerging leading Jewish leader of the Khair lobby is a Knesset Member from the anti-Israel semi-Marxist MERETZ Knesset Faction, loosely associated with the anti-democratic protest movement &#8220;Peace Now.&#8221;  She is Tamar Zandberg.   She decided to go in person to Kafr Kanna to show her solidarity with the poor innocent victim Khair, a bit like all those demagogues in America making <i>hajj</i> to Fergusan, Missouri to show their solidarity with the violent thug shot there by police.</p>
<p>Sister Zandberg&#8217;s participation in the Salute to Terrorists with Knives event at Kafr Kanna is relayed by herself in Hebrew on her Facebook page.  She also posts a photo of herself without chador sitting on the protest podium with assorted Arab members of the Khair lobby.</p>
<p>Here is my translation of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/tamarzandberg"><span style="color: #0433ff;">what she posts there</span></a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I visited today in Kafr Kanna, the town in which Khair Hamdan was shot to death.  I went together with Knesset Member Issawi Freij (also from Meretz).  We expressed our solidarity with the feelings of injustice that an entire community feels today, not only because of the excessively light finger on the trigger (by the police), not only because of the fact that the photographs of the event raise serious doubts about the legality of the police actions and the suspicions of an attempt to cover them up, but also because of our recognition that this is NOT an isolated disconnected incident.  It is instead part of the policy of racist discrimination directed against the Arab minority in Israel, a policy directed and implemented from on high by the Prime Minister and his cabinet.</p>
<p style="color: #141923;">While one minister speaks about &#8216;a terrorist&#8217; and another speaks about &#8216;terrorism,&#8217; while the Prime Minister himself raises the possibility of stripping citizens of their citizenship, they are not just commenting on a controversial (<i>sic</i>) incident but rather they are outlining their policy against the Israeli Arab public.</p>
<p style="color: #141923;">This government of intimidation and incitement has now reached new heights of hatemongering.  Its own obstinacy is what manufactured the confrontation whose climax was seen in the Gaza war this past summer.  It has driven Israel&#8217;s international reputation down to a new low.  This same government now paints 20% of the country&#8217;s population as the enemy.  I cannot escape the feeling that this is part of a grand governmental plan of organized destruction against any hope for a better future.  (The word &#8216;destruction&#8217; she uses in Hebrew is the same as the word for &#8216;terrorism&#8217; – SP.) &#8220;</p>
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		<title>The Only Way that Terrorism Will End</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2014 05:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/dalia.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244995" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/dalia.jpg" alt="dalia" width="360" height="269" /></a>Yesterday afternoon a young woman stood by the side of a road holding up a sign. It read “Gush Etzion.” Those two words summon up spittle-flecked rants about Zionist settlements from the anti-Israel left.</p>
<p>But for Dalia, it was just home. And <a href="https://docs.zoho.com/writer/ropen.do?rid=fs79p81bd30f02db24b1886649e40c4bc2826#bookmark=http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/187299"><span style="color: #0433ff;">then it wasn’t</span></a>.</p>
<p>Dalia caught a ride to a bus stop on the way home from her job as a children’s occupational therapist. Her next stop was a shift at Yad Sarah, a volunteer organization for the elderly and disabled. But before that could happen, a Muslim attacker did what songs, cartoons and posters distributed by the Palestinian Authority and Hamas encouraging “Car Jihad” had been telling him to do.</p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="https://docs.zoho.com/writer/ropen.do?rid=fs79p81bd30f02db24b1886649e40c4bc2826#bookmark=http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/187296">He ran her over with</a><span style="color: #000000;"> a Mazda van.</span></p>
<p>With the 26-year-old woman on the ground, the courageous Islamic Jihadist stabbed her as she lay dying. Then shouting <i>Allahu Akbar</i>, he began slashing at an unarmed man who had stopped to help.  When the unarmed man fighting him off with his bare hands proved too much for the knife-wielding Jihadist, the killer fled, was wounded and taken into custody.</p>
<p>Dalia’s father, a volunteer with Magen David Adom, Israel’s Red Cross, heard that there had been an attack. He did what countless Israeli fathers and mothers began doing right after they heard the news.</p>
<p>He called his daughter. There was no answer.</p>
<p>Despite being only in her twenties, Dalia knew what was coming. This wasn’t her killer’s first act of terrorism and it wasn’t her first time as a victim of Islamic terrorism.</p>
<p>When she was seventeen years old, Dalia was <a href="http://databank.isranet.org/article.asp?article=9933"><span style="color: #0433ff;">attacked by a knife-wielding terrorist</span></a> in the same place. But the terrorist didn’t have a van and there were armed men at the scene.</p>
<p>“I stood on February 28, 2006 at Gush Etzion Junction when a terrorist came and began to stab those standing at a hitchhiking station,” she <a href="http://www.kipa.co.il/now/59471.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">would later write</span></a>.</p>
<p>She described terrorists for whom prison life is “like a hotel”, who watch television, take courses and contact their lawyers. “Those who stab Jews have their rights and privileges. The injustice cries out to Heaven.”</p>
<p>“Punish and expel those who threaten us,&#8221; <a href="https://docs.zoho.com/writer/ropen.do?rid=fs79p81bd30f02db24b1886649e40c4bc2826#bookmark=http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/187291"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Dalia wrote</span></a>, “no matter the cost to them. They must pay the price for their terror. That is the only way the terrorism will end.”</p>
<p>As you read this, Dalia Lemkos will have already been buried. Her parents and her five brothers and sisters will have cried over her grave. Her killer will receive the best possible care in an Israeli hospital. The Palestinian Authority will use the foreign aid it receives from the United States and the EU to pay him a salary for life. If he gets out, he will be entitled to everything from special housing to free medical care paid for by you, by me and by all of us.</p>
<p>Stabbing a young woman in the neck while she lay in the street made him a hero of Palestine. He has become a model of Muslim manhood, little boys in UNRWA schools will be taught about his great deed and encouraged to follow in his footsteps. And they will, just as he had followed the example of those great Muslim heroes who had murdered Jewish women and children in Hebron before he was born.</p>
<p>The educational system staffed by Hamas supporters and paid for by foreign aid does its work well. Some countries turn out future doctors and scientists. The Palestinian Authority turns out heroes who can nerve themselves up to take on a 26-year-old Jewish woman as long as they have a few thousand pounds of van or at least a butcher knife on their side. Not to mention Allah and the Koran.</p>
<p>Dalia’s killer may remain behind bars where Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch will complain that his smartphone isn’t fast enough, that his Coca Cola isn’t fizzy enough and that the clothes he shops for remotely with his family using the money that the Palestinian Authority pays to the families of its heroes don’t fit him correctly. But it’s also possible that he will be set free.</p>
<p>He was before.</p>
<p>Dalia’s killer had been in jail for terrorism before he was released. Releasing terrorists is how Israel demonstrates its goodwill toward terrorists.</p>
<p>This year, Obama forced Israel to free over a hundred convicted terrorists as a “gesture” just to get the Palestinian Authority terrorists to discuss continuing talks with Israel. Israel was being pressured into releasing terrorists in exchange for an opportunity to negotiate resuming negotiations.</p>
<p>But Secretary of State John Kerry told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that it was Israel’s fault because it “didn’t release the Palestinian prisoners on the day they were supposed to be freed.”</p>
<p>The next time that Obama and Kerry force Israel to release terrorists for the opportunity to negotiate the possibility of negotiating with terrorists, Dalia’s killer may be shouting “Allahu Akbar” all over again.</p>
<p>Dalia’s own voice has been silenced. She will be buried in her native town of Tekoa where her body will rest unless the left and their Islamic partners succeed in forcing the expulsion of the thousand Jews of Tekoa, the living in the houses and the dead from the cemetery.</p>
<p>The State Department, which rejects the existence of the living and dead Jews of Tekoa and wants them gone, responded to Dalia’s murder by <a href="http://www.israellycool.com/2014/11/11/jen-sez-how-dare-they-shoot-that-jew-killer-dead/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">urging both sides to show restraint</span></a>.</p>
<p>The AP’s Matt Lee asked State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki whether she meant that Israelis should show restraint by standing still and allowing themselves to be stabbed.</p>
<p>“If you’re standing at a bus stop or something and someone runs a car into you or comes up and stabs you, I don’t know how to, I mean, those people aren’t, don’t need to exercise restraint, do they?”</p>
<p>Psaki laughed and refused to address the question. But it’s a question that ought to be addressed.</p>
<p>Israel is constantly ordered to show restraint. But when does restraint begin? Is it when a Muslim terrorist is running you over with a van and sinking his knife into your neck? Or is it only when you contemplate doing something about the men who sent him and will continue sending more like him?</p>
<p>Israel is generously allowed to fight back once the knife is at its neck. But once it breaks free, then it’s told to show restraint. Taking out the terrorist networks that send out men like this would be disproportionate. Refusing to release the killer of Dalia would show that Israel doesn’t want peace.</p>
<p>Critics of Israel like Jeffrey Goldberg insist that its situation is not “sustainable”. And that’s true. Struggling with an attacker who has a knife at your throat is not sustainable. Either he cuts your throat or you cut his throat. If you keep trying to negotiate with him, then eventually he will kill you.</p>
<p>Dalia survived her first attack. She didn’t survive her second attack.</p>
<p>There are only so many second chances when someone wants to kill you. And if you are a non-Muslim in the Muslim world, then someone always wants to kill you.</p>
<p>The price of restraint is death. Negotiating with your killers lets them trade up from a knife to a van, from a stone to a rocket, from an outpost in Lebanon to fortresses within range of your major cities.</p>
<p>Dalia tried to warn Israelis. She tried to warn the world. Now her voice speaks from the grave. It is the voice of the dead. It is the voice of truth.</p>
<p>“They must pay the price for their terror. That is the only way the terrorism will end.”</p>
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		<title>Palestinian Terrorist and Former ObamaCare Worker Found Guilty of Immigration Fraud</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2014 05:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ari Lieberman]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Odeh1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244981" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Odeh1-408x350.jpg" alt="Odeh1" width="324" height="278" /></a>The wheels of justice grind slowly, but they do grind, and convicted Palestinian terrorist Rasmieh Yousef Odeh learned that the hard way on November 10 when a Detroit jury <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/former-palestinian-terrorist-found-guilty-in-us-immigration-case/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">found her guilty</span></a> of committing immigration fraud. She faces up to 10 years in a federal penitentiary and deportation following her incarceration.</p>
<p>The story began on Friday, February 21, 1969 when two unsuspecting Israeli university students, Leon Kaner, 21, and Edward Jaffe, 22, stopped at a Jerusalem supermarket to pick up some last minute provisions for a hike the two were planning to take. They never made it and were blown to bits by a bomb placed in coffee cans on a shelf. Nine others were injured in the blast. Jaffe and Kaner, as well as the nine injured civilians, were targeted for no other reason other than the fact that they were Jews with the temerity to live in their ancestral land.</p>
<p>A second bomb, timed to go off just as first responders arrived, was diffused by security forces. A third bomb placed near the British consulate office in Jerusalem was also discovered and destroyed in a controlled detonation, though another bomb placed near the same vicinity some days later did manage to cause structural damage.</p>
<p>The terrorists had chosen Friday to carry out their act of depravity because they knew the supermarket would be packed with civilians shopping for the upcoming Sabbath. It was their intent to cause a bloodbath and inflict maximum civilian casualties. In a <a href="http://www.jta.org/1969/02/24/archive/jerusalem-supersol-re-opens-for-business-2-young-bombing-victims-are-buried"><span style="color: #0433ff;">testament to Israeli resiliency</span></a>, the supermarket, belonging to the “Supersol” supermarket chain, opened for business just two days later.</p>
<p>On March 1, 1969, Odeh, her sister and three others were arrested for the bombings. All were members of the notorious Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a Marxist group designated by the United States as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO).</p>
<p>Odeh was convicted of all charges and spent the next 10 years in an Israeli prison.  She was released in 1979 as part of a prisoner exchange with the PFLP and spent the next four years living in Lebanon. Following that, she moved to Jordan and then made her way to the United States where her father lived.</p>
<p>In 1995, Odeh, who, according published reports has as many as 9 aliases, <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/2541.pdf"><span style="color: #0433ff;">filled out an application</span></a> for an immigrant visa and alien registration and falsely checked off “no” when asked if she was ever convicted of a crime. She also falsely stated that she resided exclusively in Amman Jordan since 1948 when, in fact, she spent at least 10 years in Israel and another four in Lebanon.</p>
<p>In 2004, she applied for US citizenship and filled out an <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/2538.pdf"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Application for Naturalization</span></a> where she again lied about her prior arrest, conviction and incarceration. She also checked off “no” when asked if she ever belonged to a terrorist organization. Her application was approved and she was sworn in as a United States citizen in December 2004.</p>
<p>In 2013, Odeh secured employment as an <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/372065/convicted-terrorist-worked-obamacare-navigator-illinois-jillian-kay-melchior"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Obamacare navigator</span></a> in Illinois, a job that required her to assist people with healthcare options, but her employment was revoked once federal authorities commenced proceedings against her. In October 2013, she was indicted on charges relating to immigration fraud, to wit, lying on her 1995 and 2004 applications.</p>
<p>The high-profile case took a number of odd twists and turns. A plea deal that would have involved just six months of incarceration and would have permitted Odeh to remain in the United States for another six months following her release was rejected by the defendant.  Then, the initial presiding magistrate, Judge Paul Borman, <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/trial-set-for-jerusalem-terror-convict-who-moved-to-us/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">recused himself</span></a> from the case because some of his family members owned shares in Supersol and Borman wished to avoid the appearance of impropriety.</p>
<p>Despite the hitches, trial was set for November 4, 2014. Odeh took the stand and claimed that when she filled out the applications she thought the questions referencing arrests, convictions and incarcerations referred to criminal acts on U.S. soil. Her testimony however, was soundly refuted by documentary and testimonial evidence. She also acknowledged somewhat paradoxically that while her answers were erroneous, they were not lies.</p>
<p>Of course, Odeh was not without her supporters. The usual assortment of Islamists and radical leftists who always manage to find common ground when it comes to killing Jews rallied to her defense. They hooted and hollered, claiming that Odeh was a model citizen who was the victim of a US-Israeli conspiracy. Odeh’s cult-like devotees and <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2014/11/travesty-despite-israeli"><span style="color: #0433ff;">terrorist apologists</span></a> risibly noted that “the immigration charge was nothing but a pretext to attack this icon of the Palestine liberation movement.”</p>
<p>The jury, however, saw it otherwise and cut through Odeh’s pernicious lies and the shenanigans of her supporters and found her guilty of committing immigration fraud. Odeh served a paltry 10 years for participating in a heinous crime that resulted in the murder of two young university students and the maiming nine other civilians. While another 10 years won’t bring back the victims, it does send a powerful deterrent message to terrorists seeking entry into the United States. As <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/detroit/press-releases/2013/naturalized-u.s.-citizen-charged-with-immigration-fraud-for-failing-to-disclose-terrorism-conviction"><span style="color: #0433ff;">William Hayes</span></a>, Acting Special Agent in Charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, aptly noted, “The United States will never be a safe haven for individuals seeking to distance themselves from their pasts.”  In this case, Odeh’s murderous, terrorist past finally caught up with her.</p>
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		<title>Palestinians Being Evicted in Gaza</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2014 05:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Moshe Phillips and Benyamin Korn]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/eviction-notice.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244700" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/eviction-notice-428x350.jpg" alt="eviction-notice" width="344" height="281" /></a>Once more, Gaza&#8217;s border is in flames.</p>
<p>Civilians  are being evicted from their homes, a curfew has been imposed, and a crossing that enables Gazans to leave has been closed. Yet the world is silent. Isn&#8217;t that strange?</p>
<p>Hundreds of residents along one of Gaza&#8217;s borders have suddenly been ordered to evacuate, on just two days&#8217; notice. Their homes are to be demolished. There is no talk of compensation. Why isn&#8217;t the United Nations Security Council denouncing this outrage?</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Because it is Egypt, and not Israel, that is doing the evicting. (See the New York Times, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/29/world/middleeast/egypt-orders-evacuation-along-gaza-border-to-thwart-militants.html">October 28 edition</a>.)</p>
<p>The Egyptians have decided they need a buffer zone along their border with Gaza. They don&#8217;t trust the Hamas regime, which they say has been assisting terrorists who have been attacking Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai. Apparently Cairo does not accept the Obama Administration scripted fiction that the new Hamas-PA government is run by &#8220;technocrats.&#8221; Egypt understands that a Hamas-appointed &#8220;technocrat&#8221; is, first and foremost, a functionary of Hamas.</p>
<p>So the bulldozers are rumbling in Rafah. As a result of the Israel-Egypt peace treaty of 1979, the city of Rafah was split in half. Part of it is on the Gaza side of the border. Residents in the &#8220;Egyptian&#8221; part of town are now being evicted willy-nilly, in order to make room for a buffer zone that will be nine miles long, and with water-filled trenches that will be more than 500 yards wide &#8212; that&#8217;s half a kilometer, or five football fields.</p>
<p>Yet nary a word of protest from the White House, nor any suggestion of delaying any U.S. arms deliveries to Egypt.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s not all. In response to the recent attacks in Sinai, the Egyptians have imposed a dawn-to-dusk curfew all along the Egypt-Gaza border. In other words, no resident of Rafah can leave his or her home after dark, for any reason.</p>
<p>Yet Thomas Friedman has not written any columns in the New York Times with heart-rending stories about Rafah  women being forced to give birth in unsanitary conditions because they can&#8217;t travel to the local hospital after sundown.</p>
<p>Egypt has also shut down the only crossing along the Egyptian side of the Gaza border. With the passageway closed, no Gazan can get out.</p>
<p>So where are the snarky political cartoonists depicting Gaza as a Holocaust-era ghetto? Nor is Secretary of State John Kerry warning of Egypt becoming ostracized and isolated in the world. Western academics are not threatening to boycott their Egyptian counterparts. J Street is not lobbying for U.S. intervention against this new assault on Arab civilians.</p>
<p>Could the hypocrisy of the international community be any more blatant?</p>
<p>Evidently, if they genuinely cared about the well-being of the residents of Rafah, the White House would be holding up arms to Egypt &#8212; exactly as it held up Hellfire missiles to Israel. If he were sincerely concerned about Arab lives, Thomas Friedman would be blasting the Egyptians on the op-ed page of the New York Times. If they truly wanted to help the evacuees, J Street&#8217;s lobbyists would be working overtime to get the Obama Administration to intervene against Cairo.</p>
<p>But the truth is that they don&#8217;t really care about the welfare of Arab civilians at all, unless there is an opportunity to bash Israel. When Arabs are mistreated by their fellow-Arabs, the State Department and the pundits and the &#8220;peace camp&#8221; fall silent.</p>
<p>So let&#8217;s all learn an important lesson from this experience. Israel and its supporters should stop worrying about the latest Thomas Friedman diatribe or the latest J Street conference or the latest unfriendly remarks by the Obama White House and the State Department. They will go on blaming Israel &#8212; and excusing Egypt and other Arab countries &#8212; no matter what. Nothing Israel does will ever satisfy them &#8212; so there&#8217;s no point in trying.</p>
<p><em>This article has been updated. </em></p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2014 05:24:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Glick]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time for Israel to destroy the indoctrination and incitement that trigger Palestinians to kill. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/F141105YS01-e1415190015595-635x357.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244812" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/F141105YS01-e1415190015595-635x357-406x350.jpg" alt="F141105YS01-e1415190015595-635x357" width="328" height="283" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Column-One-Terror-decentral-381065">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p>In the postmortems of the terrorist car attacks in Jerusalem, it is easy to see the writing on the wall. Ibrahim al-Akary, the terrorist who on Wednesday ran over crowds of people waiting to cross the street and catch the Jerusalem Light Rail, was the brother of one of the terrorist murderers freed in exchange for IDF hostage Gilad Schalit.</p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">He had placed the photograph on his Facebook page of Moataz Hejazi, the terrorist killed by police after shooting Yehuda Glick outside the Begin Heritage Center last Wednesday.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">A few days before Abdur Rahman Slodi got into his car and mowed down three-month-old Chaya Zissel Braun and a dozen other pedestrians two weeks ago, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas exhorted the Palestinians to prevent Jews from visiting the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, by all means possible.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Slodi had served time in prison for terrorist offenses and was active on social media where he expressed murderous hatred for Jews and a desire to kill them.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">So yes, the writing was on the wall. But unfortunately, the writing is on all the walls, or Facebook walls. It is not at all clear how Israeli security services could have known to distinguish these men from the thousands of other Palestinians and Jerusalem Arabs who hate Israel, support the murder of Jews and identify with various terrorist organizations.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">On Thursday security forces arrested several people in villages around Hebron with suspected ties to Akary. So he may not have been acting on his own. But all the same, neither he nor Slodi seem to have been directed to carry out their attacks by a cell commander who himself was directed by a higher level terrorist operative.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Rather, in all likelihood, something triggered both men to carry out attacks in a wholly independent or semi-independent manner.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The question is, what was the trigger and how was it pulled? The Israeli media are obsessed with the question of whether or not we are experiencing an third Palestinian terrorist onslaught, or intifada. Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch insists that we are not. Others insist that we are. Whatever we want to call it, we are seeing a new form of Palestinian terrorist warfare against Israel, which in many key aspects mimics the larger jihad carried out by al-Qaida and its affiliates and spin-offs.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In a recent article in the online Small Wars Journal, Maj. Nicholas Pace from NATO’s Joint Forces Command discussed how al-Qaida and Islamic State have decentralized their terrorist networks.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Due to the superior signals intelligence fielded by the US, Pace explained, al-Qaida and Islamic State have diffused and decentralized their networks into smaller hubs that operate independently.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The role of terrorist chiefs like al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri is to inspire and incite, and to a degree direct, operations, rather than plan and order them.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Today the main factor unifying al-Qaida and Islamic State and their sister groups and followers in the region and worldwide is ideology.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">They all share the same hatred of the West, of all religions other than Islam and of all competing forms of Islam. They all seek the establishment of a global caliphate that will rule the world under the banner of Islam.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As Pace notes, this shared ideology was all that US Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hassan needed to feel that he was a member of al-Qaida when in 2009, after have a few Internet communications with al-Qaida ideologue Awar al-Awlaki, he walked onto the Fort Hood military base in Texas and massacred his fellow soldiers.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Pace argues that Islamic State forces in Iraq and Syria also operate along a decentralized model of operations, and the more they are directly targeted by the US and its allies, the more they will decentralize and compartmentalize their force structure.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The operational advantage of this model is that it gives enormous flexibility and independence to operatives in the field to maximize their resources. The drawback is that those resources tend to be less sophisticated than those that can be brought to bear by a centrally organized and resourced military organization.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But this isn’t really a problem for jihadists.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As Pace notes, they see themselves as soldiers in a long-term struggle. Their goal is not necessarily to conquer their target populations. Rather they seek to make life impossible for target societies.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Mass chaos sowed by constant, low intensity, near-scatter-shot attacks can over time be sufficient to break the will of a targeted society or military organization to fight them.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Certainly this has been the case for the Iraqi military that has melted away in the face of Islamic State’s fanatical troops.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">For such a decentralized military system to work, the leadership needs two things: a shared ideology, and communications capabilities that enable them to incite and loosely directly violence.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Ideology is not something that people pick up or discard quickly or easily. For a person to be attracted to the jihadist cause he has to undergo indoctrination over a significant period of time.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">You cannot incite a person to strike if he hasn’t already been indoctrinated in a manner that makes him amenable to your incendiary call to action.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And this brings us back to the Palestinians and the trigger for the attacks conducted by independent or semi-independent terrorist operatives.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">With the exception of Pakistani students in madrassas, few societies have undergone the mass indoctrination that the Palestinians have undergone over the past 20 years of Palestinian Authority rule. From the cradle to the grave, and most significantly in the school system, Palestinians are indoctrinated to hate Jews and seek the violent destruction of Israel. They are told that it is an Islamic duty to fight Jews and destroy Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This is as true in regular PA schools as it is in schools run by the United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA).</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">We are experiencing today in Jerusalem a decentralized terrorist campaign rooted in the 20-year indoctrination of the Palestinians.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Yes, Hamas and Fatah still operate terrorist cells and units that are members of terrorist hierarchies.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But at the same time, they have used a model similar to al-Qaida’s in developing semi-independent and wholly independent networks of operatives and operational cells. These independent cells are highly motivated and are willing to wait until they receive generalized signals from their leadership to strike.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">So it was for instance in June with the kidnapping and murder of the three teenagers in Gush Etzion. A few weeks before the kidnapping took place, from his home in Qatar, Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal remarked that Hamas needed more hostages to trade for jailed terrorists.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The terrorists in Hebron were motivated to strike. With the financial assistance of Saleh al-Arouri, the Hamas ideologue and operational commander in Turkey, they were able to purchase what they needed for the kidnapping. And when Mashaal said the time had come to kidnap Israelis, the countdown to the kidnap and murder of Naftali Fraenkel, Gil-Ad Shaer and Eyal Yifrah began.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The cell was isolated and tiny. Mashaal’s order was indirect.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In the case of the violence in Jerusalem, indoctrination in UNRWA schools in places like Shuafat refugee camp where Akary lived, not to mention throughout Judea, Samaria and Gaza, has raised generations of Arabs who hate Israel and Jews.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Owing to this indoctrination, when presented with mass incitement by preachers in the mosques, and most importantly by the official Palestinian Authority media, these calls for violence are immediately embraced on a massive scale. Indeed, the comfort level that the Arabs of Jerusalem feel today in supporting terrorism may well be unprecedented.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">For instance, until this Wednesday night, every time terrorists in Jerusalem used motor vehicles to murder Israelis, their families and neighbors insisted that they were not terrorists but hapless drivers. There had been no attack, merely a traffic accident.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">On Wednesday night when reporters went to interview Akary’s family and neighbors, they were met by shouts of praise for his murderous act. He was embraced as a martyr. And just as important, his act inspired mob violence in Shuafat and other Arab neighborhoods against police forces. For the first time, support for terrorism outweighed concern about alienating their Jewish neighbors or forcing police retaliation.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">On Thursday Fatah’s Facebook page was full of images calling for Palestinians to run over Jews.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As Palestinian Media Watch reported, one used a play on words between the Arabic acronym for Islamic State and the Arabic word for running something over, thus positively associating the terrorists who run over Jews with members of Islamic State.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Hamas – Fatah’s partner in the PA’s coalition government – was similarly quick to praise Akary and call for more such attacks.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In dealing with this burgeoning, decentralized terrorist campaign, aside from taking action to protect bus stops with various barricades, Israel needs to go after the triggers.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">It needs to break up the indoctrination system.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And it needs to destroy the Palestinian leadership’s ability to communicate their incendiary messages.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Since UNRWA schools operating in Jerusalem engage in anti-Semitic indoctrination, Jerusalem municipal authorities must give them the choice of using Israeli textbooks or shutting down. If Israel wishes to assert its sovereignty, UNRWA schools would be a good place to start. Beyond that, preachers in mosques who incite murder and call for the destruction of Israel should be arrested.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As for the PA’s communications networks, all of the radio and television signals operating in the PA come from the Israeli electromagnetic spectrum. It is time to shut them down. As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated on Wednesday, Abbas is directly inciting the murderous attacks on Jerusalem through the PA media organs. The way to protect Jerusalem is to remove him and his Hamas partners from the airwaves.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">There has been a lot of talk over the years about providing positive and negative incentives to convince the Palestinians not to engage in terrorism.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But now is not the time for incentives. The population mobilized through incitement has become too fanatical to engage with reason.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The terrorists who take the wheel and run over pedestrians know that they will more than likely never come home. And they don’t care.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">They certainly don’t care that Israel will destroy their homes. And they also certainly won’t be impressed by discounted mortgages if they integrate into Israeli society.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In the long term, it is imperative that Israel provide incentives to both the Jerusalem Arabs and the Palestinians to integrate peacefully with Israeli society. But before the government can seriously engage in this task, it needs to destroy the triggers of this terrorist onslaught. It is not enough to complain about Palestinian indoctrination and incitement. It is time for Israel to end them.</span></p>
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		<title>Why the Temple Mount Belongs to Jews and Israel</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ronn Torossian]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/tm.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-244607" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/tm.jpg" alt="tm" width="278" height="181" /></a>In Jerusalem, The Temple Mount is the historical location of the First and Second Temples, the holiest place in the world for Jews.  There has been ongoing disputes about the right of Jews to pray there – and it is absurd that anyone in the world can deny Jews the right of freedom of prayer in the <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ronn-torossian/all-of-jerusalem-belongs-to-the-state-of-israel/">State of Israel</a>.</p>
<p>A week ago, American-born Rabbi Yehuda Glick, a leader of the movement encouraging Jews to pray at the Temple Mount, was shot by a Palestinian Arab assassin who objected to the idea of Jews praying on the Temple Mount.  The Palestinian Arabs continue to do all they can to deny Jews the right to live – and pray – in the Jewish State.  It is unacceptable – and Jews must have the right to pray at the Temple Mount.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/11816#.VFjTdZt0yUk">Ze’ev Jabotinsky</a>, the Zionist prophet, once asked, “Is a situation moral in which one side can commit any crime or murder and the other is forbidden to react?”  There must be a price for <a href="http://observer.com/2014/09/the-muslim-brotherhoods-new-pr-agency-rejects-israel/">attacks upon Jews</a> in Israel at the holiest site in Judaism – and amongst that price must be increased rights of Jews to pray. As Ricki Hollander has said,</p>
<blockquote><p>“Jewish reverence for the Temple Mount<em> </em>long predates the building of the Dome of the Rock and Al Aqsa Mosque in the 7<sup>th</sup> century CE, and even predates the construction of the first Jewish Temple by King Solomon almost 2000 years earlier.”</p></blockquote>
<p>There are so many meaningful reasons and quotes about the Jewish connection to the Temple Mount:</p>
<p>*  “There is very telling Jewish teaching about the Temple Mount, and that is: whoever controls the Mount, controls the world.” Yisrael Medad</p>
<p>*  “[The Temple Mount] is the only place in the country where you feel you’re discriminated against because you’re Jewish.” Eli Duker</p>
<p>*  “I want equal rights for Jews on the Temple Mount. What Muslims do, I want to do too.” Arnon Segal</p>
<p>*  “There is only one meaning to giving up the Temple Mount: the end of the State of Israel.” Ronen Shoval</p>
<p>*  “Although other parts of the Temple Mount retaining wall remain standing, the Western Wall is especially dear, as it is the spot closest to the Holy of Holies, the central focus of the Temple.” Rabbi Shraga Simmons</p>
<p>*  “This compound was our Temple Mount. Here stood our Temple during ancient time, and it would be inconceivable for Jews not to be able freely to visit this holy place now that Jerusalem is under our rule.” Defense Minister Moshe Dayan</p>
<p>*  “Islamist exclusivity has debased the Temple Mount. It’s time to return this holy site to its original inclusivity and allow anyone who wants to pray there respectfully to do so. That is the meaning of Jewish sovereignty and human dignity.” Moshe Dann</p>
<p>*  “According to the Talmud, the world was created from the foundation stone of the Temple Mount. It’s believed to be the biblical Mount Moriah, the location where Abraham fulfilled God’s test to see if he would be willing to sacrifice his son Isaac.” Aaron Klein</p>
<p>*  “But you cannot be a Zionist if you are prepared to yield the place that provides us with the moral, historic and religious right to this land &#8211; the Temple Mount.” Ronen Shoval</p>
<p>*  “It is the supposed site of Mt. Moriah, where Abraham nearly sacrificed his son Isaac, where the prophet Muhammad is believed to have ascended into heaven, and was the location of the first and second temples, Judaism&#8217;s most holy structures.” Jason Reuter</p>
<p>*  “Every Jew that goes to the Temple Mount puts another stone in the building of the Temple, and is making another step to fulfill Jewish sovereignty on the Temple Mount.” Moshe Feiglin</p>
<p>*  “Three times a day, for thousands of years, Jewish prayers from around the world have been directed toward the Temple Mount. Kabbalistic tradition says that all prayers from around the world ascend to this spot, from where they then ascend to heaven.” Rabbi Shraga Simmons</p>
<p>*  “We were not trying to demonstrate that it’s exclusively ours, or that we want the Muslims off, only that it’s a significant, if not the most significant Jewish site, archaeologically, historically, and religiously. This is the heart of it all.” Elli Fischer</p>
<p>*  “To compare the Temple Mount to Mount Olympus is to bring everything into focus.” Dr. Israel Eldad</p>
<p>*  “It is the Jewish root – the deepest roots that any people has. Elsewhere, we grope for insight.” Rabbi Shraga Simmons</p>
<p>*  “The Temple Mount has remained a focal point for Jewish services for thousands of years. Prayers for a return to Jerusalem and the rebuilding of the Temple have been uttered by Jews since the Second Temple was destroyed, according to Jewish tradition.” Aaron Klein</p>
<p>*  “Jewish religious interest in the Mount is not monolithic, and includes those who merely want to visit a site of great Jewish importance, those who believe Jews should be allowed to pray there, those who believe Temple rituals, like sacrifice, should be renewed immediately, and those who <a href="http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/ronn-torossian-what-prime-minister-netanyahus-vision">support the construction</a> of a Third Temple in place of the Islamic shrines of the Noble Sanctuary.” Matti Friedman</p>
<p>*  “Since Jews ascend it would not enter my mind to stop them from holding prayers services there.” Itzhak Nissim</p>
<p>*  “Despite the conventional wisdom that the Jewish people were banished from this holy site, the evidence suggests that Jews continued to maintain a strong connection to and frequently even a presence on the Temple Mount for the next two thousand years.” F.M. Loewenberg</p>
<p>As Yisrael Medad of the <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/10/30/when-in-israel-visit-the-farkash-gallery-and-menachem-begin-heritage-center/">Menachem Begin Heritage Center</a> has noted,</p>
<blockquote><p>“Although the Temple Mount is important to both groups, only under Jewish rule have both religions been given access to the Temple Mount. Therefore, it must remain under Israeli rule.”</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ronn-torossian/all-of-jerusalem-belongs-to-the-state-of-israel/">All of Jerusalem – including The Temple Mount – belongs to Israel.</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2014 04:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Glick]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington's alarming alliance with jihad supporters -- and how it undermines the cause against the Islamic State. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/132156075_21n2.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243919" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/132156075_21n2-450x335.jpg" alt="132156075_21n" width="305" height="227" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Kerry-Qatar-and-the-poisonous-tree-379979">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">It would be interesting to know which Arab leaders are telling US Secretary of State John Kerry that the absence of peace between Israel and the Palestinians is “a cause of recruitment” to Islamic State.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Is that something he is hearing from Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani? The Qatari leader, whose kingdom has been cited by the US Treasury Department as a major funder of Islamic State (IS), is certainly one of Kerry’s favorite regional leaders.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">If Thani did blame Israel for the rise of IS, then his statement would constitute yet another instance of the double game Qatar has been playing with the Americans. On the one hand, the regime is financing jihad, and other the other hand, it pretends to side with the West against the jihad that it is funding.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This is certainly the case in Jerusalem.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">According to an investigative report published Friday in Yisrael Hayom, Qatar is financing the violence in the capital. Veteran Jerusalem affairs reporter Nadav Shragai wrote that the Islamic rioters who daily attack Jewish visitors and police forces on the Temple Mount are paid by Qatar through the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The Qatari government and other Islamic funds are transferring vast sums of money to the Islamic Movement’s radical northern branch headed by Sheikh Ra’ed Salah. The Islamic Movement in turn is paying thousands of shekels every month to hundreds of women and men, mainly Muslim Israeli citizens, who call themselves the Murbitat.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The Murbitat presents itself as an Islamic prayer group, but according to Shragai, the group’s job is to harass Jews and police on the Temple Mount. They scream and curse at Jewish visitors and in recent months have escalated their violence against them, and their police escorts. These violent attacks include assaults with rocks, firebombs and firecrackers.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">To prevent the police from blocking their entry to the Mount, members of the Murbitat enter the mosques in times of relative calm and then remain there for weeks at a time. The women are used as well to smuggle firecrackers and other weaponry onto the Temple Mount by hiding them in their burkas.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In a report published Sunday by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Palestinian affairs researcher Pinchas Inbari explained the goals of the violence.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The riots and assaults on the Temple Mount have two goals. First, they aim to incite the Islamic world against Israel and return attention to the Palestinians. And second, they seek to destabilize the regimes in Egypt and Jordan.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Regarding the goal of galvanizing support for jihad by attacking Israel, Inbari recalled how immediately after longtime Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was overthrown in February 2011, the Muslim Brotherhood’s most influential cleric, Qatar-based Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi, gave a speech at a mass rally in Cairo and called for the Muslims to march on Jerusalem.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The rally was organized by the Muslim Brotherhood and attended by two million people. It marked the first time that Qaradawi had returned to Egypt since he was forced to flee in the 1960s for his support for jihad.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">From Doha, Qaradawi has become the most influential cleric on the regime-controlled Al Jazeera satellite network. As such, he has become the most important Islamic cleric in the Sunni Islamic world.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As Inbari noted, following his speech in Cairo Qaradawi authored a book titled </span><em style="color: #000000;">Jerusalem: The Problem of Every Muslim</em><span style="color: #000000;">, in which he restated his call for an Islamic conquest of the city.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Saleh, who is extremely close to Qaradawi, stated that “Jerusalem is the capital of the imminently approaching Islamic Caliphate.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In other words, the Palestinians and their Qatari financiers are seeking to galvanize the forces of global jihad, including IS, to view the Palestinian war against Israel and the Jews as the centerpiece of the jihad.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">These efforts are backed by both Fatah and Hamas, who are competing for Qatari money. Fatah chief and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas resonated the claims of the most radical jihadists when earlier this month he referred to Jews on the Temple Mount as “herds of cattle,” and called on Muslims to attack them for they “desecrate” the holy site simply by being there.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Doha-based Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal called on the Palestinians “to defend Jerusalem and al-Aksa, and on the Muslim nation to send a painful message of rage to the world.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As to the goal of using the violence on the Temple Mount to destabilize Egypt and Jordan, Inbari noted that efforts to intensify violence in Jerusalem have grown since the Egyptian military overthrew Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood regime in July 2013. “Presumably,” Inbari argues, “Qatar tried indirectly to help the Brotherhood in Egypt by inspiring support for them on the Jerusalem issue.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The Jordanian regime even more acutely is threatened by the violence on the Temple Mount. Israel recognized Jordan as the custodian of the Temple Mount in its peace treaty with the Hashemite Kingdom. The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan has capitalized on the violence on the Temple Mount to condemn the regime for what it claims is its failure to protect al-Aksa from the Jews.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In contending with the violence in Judaism’s holiest site, and throughout its capital city, the Israeli government is caught in a trap.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">While telling their fellow Muslims that they must wage a jihad for Jerusalem, Fatah and Hamas as well as the Israeli Islamic Movement tell Western leaders that their violence against Jews in the city owes to actions that Israel has taken to safeguard the lives and civil rights of Jews.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">To appease these specific purported grievances, the Palestinians demand that Israel deny protection and civil rights to Jews by among other things, denying Jews the freedom to visit the Temple Mount and denying Jews property rights in Jerusalem.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Rather than recognize that they are being played by double-speaking Palestinians and their jihadist supporters, Washington and Brussels are going along with their deceit. Both the Obama administration and the EU firmly side with the Palestinian demand that Jews be denied civil rights in Jerusalem. Both have condemned and threatened Israel for not preventing Jews from lawfully purchasing homes in Silwan and for allowing contractors to build homes for Jews in Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This places the Israeli government in an impossible position. It is being attacked by jihadist forces who seek its destruction. It is told by Washington and Europe that if it doesn’t appease those who cannot be appeased by denying protection and civil rights to Jews, then it will lose whatever is left of its good relations with the US and Europe.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And this brings us back to Kerry’s claim that Arab leaders are blaming Israel for the rise of Islamic State.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As IS forces draw closer to Baghdad and expand their control over Anbar Province in Iraq, it is becoming more and more apparent that the US-led campaign against the terrorist army is failing.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">To a significant degree, Washington’s inability to forge a coherent and feasible strategy for containing and defeating IS owes to its refusal to understand the nature of the enemy and its goals.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">What we see in Qatar’s financing of the violence on the Temple Mount is that the same forces that are financing IS are financing the violence against Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The goal of IS is the establishment of a global Islamic empire. The first targets on its target list are Sunni Mus &#8211; lim states that oppose the Muslim Brotherhood.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The goal of the Islamic violence on the Temple Mount and throughout Jerusalem is to overthrow regional regimes that oppose the Muslim Brotherhood while igniting a pan-Islamic war against the Jewish state.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">By insinuating that Israel is to blame for IS’s rise to power, Kerry was not simply blaming the victim. He was empowering the aggressor.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">For the West to defeat IS, it first needs to recognize that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was right when he said at the UN last month that IS and Hamas – and increasingly Qatari-financed Fatah – are “branches of the same poisonous tree.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">With his announcement Monday that the government had approved the construction of 1,250 new housing units in Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem, Netanyahu showed that Israel prefers freedom and security to good relations with Washington and Brussels.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Washington and Brussels need understand that by forcing Israel to make that choice, they are hurting themselves and the cause of their own freedom and security far more than they are harming Israel.</span></p>
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		<title>Beyond Depraved: Palestinians Praise Infant Murderer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2014 04:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ari Lieberman]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/20141023_Hamas_hero_poster.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243903" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/20141023_Hamas_hero_poster-450x256.jpg" alt="20141023_Hamas_hero_poster" width="367" height="209" /></a>As last week’s light rail car attack claims yet another victim – a 22-year-old Ecuadorian woman who sustained a mortal head wound – Palestinians are busy hailing the miscreant responsible for the cowardly attack that also claimed the life of a 3-month-old infant, as a <a href="http://www.thetower.org/1232-hamas-jerusalem-baby-murderer-is-a-hero/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">hero</span></a> and <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/186507"><span style="color: #0433ff;">martyr</span></a>. This abominable terrorist attack as well as the depraved Palestinian reaction to it comes on the heels of yet another monstrous Palestinian outrage involving the kidnapping-murder of three Israeli teens in the Judea district. There too, the perpetrators, confirmed to be Hamas operatives, were <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/185654"><span style="color: #0433ff;">hailed as heroes</span></a> by both Hamas and Mahmoud Abbas’s “moderate” government and accorded the highest religious honors. No doubt that their families will now receive hefty stipends from the Palestinian Authority, courtesy of the American and European taxpayer.</p>
<p>While Israelis laud their scientists, their artists, their doctors and multiple Nobel Prize nominees and recipients, Palestinians have a long and ignominious tradition of extolling the virtues of those who commit mass murder, <a href="http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=679"><span style="color: #0433ff;">slaughter innocents on buses</span></a> and <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/04/08/terror-icon-leila-khaled-says-intifada-should-have-been-taken-to-another-level/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">hijack commercial airliners</span></a>. Public squares and streets are named after them and their children are taught to emulate them. The contrast between Israeli and Palestinian society could not be starker. One society celebrates and encourages progress and life while the other has morphed itself into a death cult, steeped in perverted traits that are an anathema to Western civilization.</p>
<p>Consider the respective reactions of the mothers of sons responsible for carrying out the Ottawa parliament building and Jerusalem light rail attacks. Susan Bibeau, the mother of Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-27/ottawa-shooter-was-mentally-ill-not-a-terrorist-mother-says/5842888"><span style="color: #0433ff;">stated the following</span></a> of her son’s heinous actions, “As a person and mother I am horrified by the actions of my son, I am sickened by it. I will never understand what drives a person to such senseless violence&#8230;” That is an appropriate emotion for random violence directed against the innocent. The mother of the Jerusalem terrorist by contrast, was <a href="http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/vehicular-terrorists-funeral-tonight-family-displays-shaheed-photo/2014/10/26/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">pictured</span></a> holding a glorified photograph of her son as if he had accomplished some great feat. She displays no shame over the fact that her son is a child murderer. Instead, she excuses his conduct by claiming that it was a mere traffic accident. Her abhorrent and unnatural behavior is encouraged, aided and abetted by the Palestinian Authority and its culture of death.</p>
<p>When three Israeli teens were kidnapped this past summer, Palestinians encouraged store owners in the vicinity to destroy CCTV footage to thwart apprehension of the perpetrators. By contrast, when a Palestinian teen was kidnapped, Israeli police swiftly secured CCTV footage and apprehended the culprits. The troubling aspect however, is that the Obama administration either willfully ignores the societal and moral disparity or just doesn’t get it and likely never will.</p>
<p>With respect to Palestinian society, I thought I had seen it all. I thought that their depravity and deviancy could stoop no lower. I was wrong. As exposed by Dan Smith from the blog Israellycool, Palestinians seem to <a href="http://www.israellycool.com/2014/10/25/why-did-this-palestinian-facebook-group-care-about-a-nepal-bus-crash/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">revel in the blood</span></a> of Jews killed not just in Israel but in far off places like Nepal.</p>
<p>On October 24, a tourist bus travelling from Kathmandu to the Langtang area in Nepal overturned and fell into a steep embankment killing at least 10 including 2 Israelis. A Palestinian affiliated Facebook group with a rather large following quickly posted the story and celebrated the deaths of the “Zionist” tourists. The post, which featured gruesome pictures of dead and injured tourists in twisted and grotesque postures quickly garnered over 10,000 “likes” and generated 1,000 shares and a similar number of comments. As Smith points out, the comments are beyond hideous and include the following:</p>
<p><i>Oh God, exterminate them and kill them vaporized and left them none</i></p>
<p><i>To hell</i></p>
<p><i>O limit the Zionist Jews and kill them, vaporize them and don’t leave any of them</i></p>
<p><i>To hell and good riddance, expand their dead Allah</i></p>
<p><i>Allah Akbar</i></p>
<p><i>Alhamdulillah</i></p>
<p><i>God burn them</i></p>
<p>The posts are universally racist and boorish. There are no expressions of sympathy for innocent travelers, no expressions of sadness for the loss of innocent lives and no expressions of empathy for the tormented families. To the Palestinians, all that matters is that two Jews were killed. Yippee! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1Get5aG1sM"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Time to pass out the sweets</span></a>.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2014 04:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Moshe Phillips and Benyamin Korn]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The stunning difference between Palestinian mothers and Susan Bibeau. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #222222;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/canada-ottawa-shooting.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243674" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/canada-ottawa-shooting-450x344.jpg" alt="canada-ottawa-shooting" width="378" height="289" /></a>The mother of the Muslim terrorists who attacked Canada&#8217;s parliament building on October 22 says she is weeping for her son&#8217;s victims, not for her son. What a contrast with the mothers of Palestinian terrorists who murder Israelis.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">Mrs. Susan Bibeau, the mother of Canadian terrorist Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, told the Associated Press on October 23: &#8220;If I&#8217;m crying it&#8217;s for the people, not for my son…I am mad at my son.&#8221;</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">If only Palestinian mothers felt the same way! Instead, they have the jihad mentality, too.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">Last year (on Jan. 27, 2013), the Facebook page of Fatah, the movement headed by Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas, posted a feature about the mother of 23-year-old Wafa Idris, the first female Palestinian suicide bomber. She murdered one Israeli, and wounded over 100, by blowing herself up in a Jerusalem supermarket in 2002. The posting quoted Wafa&#8217;s mother as saying &#8220;She is a hero…My daughter is a Martyr (Shahida).&#8221; </span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">The Fatah page added: &#8220;Wafa&#8217;s mother said that she is proud of her daughter, and hopes that more girls will follow in her footsteps.&#8221;</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">More recently, in an interview with Israel Television on </span><span class="aBn" style="color: #222222;" tabindex="0" data-term="goog_1099525506"><span class="aQJ">June 29</span></span><span style="color: #222222;">, the mother of one of the Hamas terrorists involved in the kidnap-murders of three Israeli teenagers said: &#8220;If they [the Israelis] accuse him of this [the kidnapping], and if it is a true accusation, I will be proud of him until Judgment Day. If the accusation that he did it is true&#8230;My boys are all righteous, pious and pure. The goal of my children is the triumph of Islam.&#8221;  </span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">Of course, that is not to say that no Palestinian mothers have any regrets about their children carrying out suicide bombing. But those regrets are not always the kind one would hope for. For example, on June 6, 2004,  PA Television broadcast these remarks by the mother of a 15-year-old who died during a suicide attack: &#8220;It was sad and joyous what happened to him, meaning, he always liked the Shahada (Martyrdom). All children at his age do. He always cared for me. I would have preferred that one of his other brothers would have attained Shahada instead of him, because he was the joy of my life.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #222222;">(All translations courtesy of Palestinian Media Watch.)</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">How can one explain the stark contrast between the Canadian mother and the Palestinian mother? It&#8217;s not really so complicated. Different cultures have different values. Canadian culture promotes Judeo-Christian values &#8212; democracy, equal rights, respect for minorities, non-violence.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">By contrast, Palestinian society is dominated by a &#8220;culture of Jihad,&#8221; Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya&#8217;alon said this week.  On his Facebook Page, Ya&#8217;alon wrote that the latest Palestinian terrorist attacks are “clearly the outcome of those in the Palestinian Authority who educate the younger generation to hate Jews and expel them from their homeland.” He added: “The Palestinian Authority does not, and never did, have a culture of peace, but rather a culture of incitement and jihad against Jews. It starts with Abbas’s lying statements against Israel from the UN podium, continues with persistent Palestinian attempts to delegitimize us in the international arena and ends with incitement in the Palestinian education system. These are the harsh consequences.&#8221;</span></p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2014 04:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Klein]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/0717-Mideasfffft-Jordan-visit-John-Kerry_full_600.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243614" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/0717-Mideasfffft-Jordan-visit-John-Kerry_full_600-420x350.jpg" alt="0717-Mideasfffft-Jordan-visit-John-Kerry_full_600" width="312" height="260" /></a>Secretary of State John Kerry</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">chose </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2014/10/233058.htm" target="_blank" data-href="http://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2014/10/233058.htm" data-type="1"><span class="zw-portion link" style="color: #0563c1;">a White House ceremony</span><span class="zw-portion" style="color: #0563c1;"> on October 16th</span></a><span class="zw-portion"> for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha to </span><span class="zw-portion">regurgitate a false</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">theory </span><span class="zw-portion">link</span><span class="zw-portion">ing</span><span class="zw-portion"> the </span><span class="zw-portion">Israeli/Palestinian conflict </span><span class="zw-portion">with </span><span class="zw-portion">the increase of </span><span class="zw-portion">jihadist violence and </span><span class="zw-portion">recruitment</span><span class="zw-portion"> in the Middle East region</span><span class="zw-portion">.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">“As I went around and met with people in the course of our discussions about the ISIL [also referred to as ISIS or the Isla</span><span class="zw-portion">mic State]</span><span class="zw-portion"> coalition, the truth is we — t</span><span class="zw-portion">here wasn’t a leader I met with</span><span class="zw-portion">in the region who didn’t raise with me spontaneously the need to try to get peace between Israel and the Palestinians, because it was a cause of recruitment and of street anger and agitation that they felt</span><span class="zw-portion"> – and I see a lot of heads nodding – they had to respond to,” Kerry said. “And people need to understand the connection of that. And it has something to do with humiliation and denial and absence of dignity, and Eid celebrates the opposite of all of that.</span><span class="zw-portion">”</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">After Israeli Economic Minister Naftali Bennett sharply criticized Kerry’s statement, the State Department tried to walk it back, claiming, in the words of Deputy </span><span class="zw-portion">Spokesperson</span><span class="zw-portion"> Marie Harf</span><span class="zw-portion">,</span><span class="zw-portion"> that Kerry “did not make a link between the growth of ISIL and Israel, period.”</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">At best, Harf is telling only a half-truth. </span><span class="zw-portion">While Kerry did not explicitly state that it was </span><span class="zw-portion">his own </span><span class="zw-portion">view there was a link betwe</span><span class="zw-portion">en the growth of ISIS and the failure of the peace talks</span><span class="zw-portion"> or Israel</span><span class="zw-portion">, </span><span class="zw-portion">Kerry </span><span class="zw-portion">transmitted the linkage theory he heard from leaders in the region to a receptive audience at the White House. And he </span><span class="zw-portion">did not refute it. </span><span class="zw-portion">In fact, he lent credence to the linkage theory by saying that “people need to understand the connection.” </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Kerry once again proved the truth of Mark Twain’s famous quip: &#8220;A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.&#8221;</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Indeed, Kerry has helped launch a series of lies against Israel during his term as Secretary of State. Last April, for example, he said that Israel was at risk of becoming “an apartheid state,” if it does not come to terms with the Palestinians. </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">A</span><span class="zw-portion"> competent and honest Secretary of State – neither of which describe</span><span class="zw-portion">s</span><span class="zw-portion"> John Kerry – would not have </span><span class="zw-portion">repeated the falsehood of linking the failure of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks with the growth of ISIS and other jihadist movements</span><span class="zw-portion"> in the first place</span><span class="zw-portion">, </span><span class="zw-portion">unless he intended to set up this </span><span class="zw-portion">straw man</span><span class="zw-portion"> argument</span><span class="zw-portion"> in order</span><span class="zw-portion"> to </span><span class="zw-portion">immediately </span><span class="zw-portion">knock </span><span class="zw-portion">it </span><span class="zw-portion">down. </span><span class="zw-portion">What on earth does ISIS’s systematic massacre of Christians and Yazidis, rapes of women and children, and sexual slavery have to do with Kerry’s failed </span><span class="zw-portion">attempt to continue </span><span class="zw-portion">peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians? Absolutely nothing!</span><span class="zw-portion"> But Kerry </span><span class="zw-portion">shamelessly </span><span class="zw-portion">repeated the li</span><span class="zw-portion">e anyway.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">As one Israeli commentator observed</span><span class="zw-portion"> a few days after Kerry told the</span><span class="zw-portion"> Muslim</span><span class="zw-portion">s in his</span><span class="zw-portion"> audience what they wanted to hear, “Kerry didn’t mention that the astounding Saudi and Qatari assets invested in mosques around the world, including Europe, leads to radicalization. He didn’t come </span><span class="zw-portion">out against Qatar, which has become the primary funder of jihadi organizations. He doesn’t blame the institutionalized anti-Semitic incitement, which is growing in the Muslim world, including by Al-Jazeera.”</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Instead, Kerry pandered to his audience. He repeated President Obama’s claim that there is nothing Islamic about the Islamic State</span><span class="zw-portion">, even though ISIS’s atrocities find justification in the Koran and the Hadith (the sayings and deeds of the Islamic prophet Muhammad). Kerry</span><span class="zw-portion"> then assured the audience </span><span class="zw-portion">that </span><span class="zw-portion">the sectarian murders </span><span class="zw-portion">occurring regularly </span><span class="zw-portion">within the Muslim community </span><span class="zw-portion">today </span><span class="zw-portion">in the 21</span><span class="zw-portion">st</span><span class="zw-portion"> century can be compared with the Thirty Years’ War in 17</span><span class="zw-portion">th</span><span class="zw-portion"> century Europe that broke out initially between Protestant and Catholic states. The problem with such specious comparisons is that Muslims, unlike Catholics and Protestants, are still killing each other</span><span class="zw-portion">,</span><span class="zw-portion"> as well as Christians, Jews, Hindus, Yazidis, Zoroastrians and other “infidels</span><span class="zw-portion">,</span><span class="zw-portion">”</span><span class="zw-portion"> in massive numbers all over the world.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Hamas is the jihadist branch dedicated, in the words of its charter, to the destruction of the state of Israel and the killing of Jews wherever they can be found. Yet Kerry rarely mentions Hamas in his statements regarding the failed peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians</span><span class="zw-portion">. He </span><span class="zw-portion">has not insisted that </span><span class="zw-portion">effective measures be in place first to prevent the rearmament of Hamas as</span><span class="zw-portion"> a pre-condition for </span><span class="zw-portion">pouring millions of dollars of </span><span class="zw-portion">new aid the United States is pledging for reconstruction in Gaza</span><span class="zw-portion">, much less the disarmament of Hamas in Gaza</span><span class="zw-portion">.  </span><span class="zw-portion"> </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Kerry’s willingness to turn a blind eye to the real culprit Hamas echoes the attitude of </span><span class="zw-portion">United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-m</span><span class="zw-portion">oon, who visited Gaza recently. </span><span class="zw-portion">During his visit, the Secretary General </span><span class="zw-portion">referred to Israel’s partial defensive blockade of Gaza as a “siege.” He said that lifting the “siege” and “easing movement restrictions” is “one of the most important issues… a basic human right for all the Palestinian people.”</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">“Siege” is defined in the Oxford Dictionaries as “a military operation in which enemy forces surround a town or building, cutting off essential supplies, with the aim of compelling the surrender of those inside.” Israel’s partial blockade of Gaza in response to relentless rocket attacks launched by Hamas and other jihadist groups from civilian centers in Gaza against civilian populations in Israel is anything but a siege. Israel withdrew from Gaza unilaterally in 2005 and turned over </span><span class="zw-portion">major </span><span class="zw-portion">security responsibilities at the border crossings to the Palestinian Autho</span><span class="zw-portion">ri</span><span class="zw-portion">ty</span><span class="zw-portion">. There was no blockade to speak of until Hamas seized power and turned Gaza into a launching pad for attacks against Israel. Even </span><span class="zw-portion">since </span><span class="zw-portion">then, Israel </span><span class="zw-portion">has </span><span class="zw-portion">permitted food and humanitarian aid to enter Gaza as well as construction materials for international projects</span><span class="zw-portion"> – the antithesis of a siege</span><span class="zw-portion">. </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">I approached Secretary General Ban Ki-moon last week to ask him whether he would reconsider the use of the term “siege” in describing Israel’s partial blockade</span><span class="zw-portion">. He said he would think about</span><span class="zw-portion"> it.</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">In his remarks to the press the next day, Ban did not refer again to an Israeli “siege,” but he continued to castigate Israel for what transpired during the latest Gaza conflict with Hamas. Ban said that while he understood “the security threat from rockets above and tunnels below” that Israel was facing, Israel’s response and resulting “destruction in Gaza has left deep questions about proportionality.” </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Ban also castigated Israel for </span><span class="zw-portion">shelling UN schools in Gaza,</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">while </span><span class="zw-portion">refusing to acknowledge</span><span class="zw-portion"> Israel’s allegation that</span><span class="zw-portion"> the UN </span><span class="zw-portion">returned</span><span class="zw-portion"> rockets found in UN school</span><span class="zw-portion">s</span><span class="zw-portion"> to Hamas. </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Where the ant</span><span class="zw-portion">i</span><span class="zw-portion">-Israel bias of the Obama administration and the United Nations may converge is a UN Security Council resolution sought by Palestinian President Abbas and sponsored by Jordan</span><span class="zw-portion">,</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">which</span><span class="zw-portion"> would set a </span><span class="zw-portion">firm </span><span class="zw-portion">deadline </span><span class="zw-portion">for Israel </span><span class="zw-portion">to</span><span class="zw-portion"> withdraw from all Palestinian territories and end the “occupation.”</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">The precise wording</span><span class="zw-portion"> is currently being negotiated behind the scenes</span><span class="zw-portion">. </span><span class="zw-portion">C</span><span class="zw-portion">hief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat</span><span class="zw-portion"> has recommended that the Palestinian Authority end all security-related cooperation with Israel in the West Bank if the United States ends up vetoing the resolution. </span><span class="zw-portion">The Palestinians would also be likely to </span><span class="zw-portion">join more </span><span class="zw-portion">UN agencies and </span><span class="zw-portion">treaties</span><span class="zw-portion">,</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">as well as </span><span class="zw-portion">the International Criminal Court</span><span class="zw-portion"> where they would try to obtain prosecutions against Israeli leaders for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">If France and the United Kingdom dec</span><span class="zw-portion">ide to support some form of the timetable</span><span class="zw-portion"> resolution</span><span class="zw-portion"> for Israeli withdrawal</span><span class="zw-portion"> the Palestinians are seeking</span><span class="zw-portion">, the Obama administration – given its anti-Israel bias – may well decide </span><span class="zw-portion">ultimately </span><span class="zw-portion">to abstain</span><span class="zw-portion"> rather than exercise its veto power</span><span class="zw-portion">.</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">The UK parliament has already gone on record </span><span class="zw-portion">in a symbolic vote </span><span class="zw-portion">as supporting the recognition of a Palestinian state, following the Swedish government’s decision to </span><span class="zw-portion">actually </span><span class="zw-portion">do</span><span class="zw-portion"> just that</span><span class="zw-portion">. Other Eur</span><span class="zw-portion">opean Union countries may add themselves to the growing list of countries that are going along with this </span><span class="zw-portion">Palestinian state </span><span class="zw-portion">recognition </span><span class="zw-portion">trend</span><span class="zw-portion">, giving </span><span class="zw-portion">the Obama administration some political cover to abstain</span><span class="zw-portion"> on the timetable resolution</span><span class="zw-portion">. </span><span class="zw-portion">A </span><span class="zw-portion">vote </span><span class="zw-portion">on the resolution may be postponed </span><span class="zw-portion">until after the U.S. mid-term elections to give the Obama administration some</span><span class="zw-portion"> breathing room</span><span class="zw-portion">. </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">In the meantime, </span><span class="zw-portion">John Kerry is reported to be scrambling to head off a Security Council resolution altogether by trying to put pressure on Israel to return to the negotiating table </span><span class="zw-portion">for direct talks with the Palestinians. He is meeting resistance from both sides. “</span><span class="zw-portion">We’re are not going back to negotiations unless there is some change in the rules to discuss the borders first,” said Fatah Central Committee member Dr. Nabil Shaath. “To continue to negotiate while the Israelis are eating up land is like suicide,” he said. </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Kerry’s remarks </span><span class="zw-portion">at the White House </span><span class="zw-portion">Eid al-Adha </span><span class="zw-portion">ceremony, raising </span><span class="zw-portion">concerns among unnamed Middle East leaders regarding the purported linkage of the failure of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and the rise of ISIS</span><span class="zw-portion">,</span><span class="zw-portion"> may be his Hail Mary pass</span><span class="zw-portion"> to</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">try and shame </span><span class="zw-portion">Israel </span><span class="zw-portion">publicly into returning t</span><span class="zw-portion">o the negotiating table and making</span><span class="zw-portion"> more concessions. That way, </span><span class="zw-portion">the Palestinians may decide to also resume direct negotiations and postpone seeking action on their </span><span class="zw-portion">proposed Security Council resolution</span><span class="zw-portion">, relieving</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">the Obama administration</span><span class="zw-portion"> of having to make a decision on which way to vote</span><span class="zw-portion">. If so, it is another counter-productive move by the Obama administration that will create even more distance with </span><span class="zw-portion">the one true democracy that has traditionally been our </span><span class="zw-portion">closest ally in the Middle East.</span></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The former U.S. envoy for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations shows what side he's really on. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/martin-indyk.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243073" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/martin-indyk-450x314.jpg" alt="Martin Indyk" width="325" height="227" /></a>As Yom Kippur sermons go, Martin Indyk&#8217;s was a doozy. Speaking at the Adas Israel synagogue in Washington, D.C. on the holiest day of the Jewish year, the former U.S. envoy to the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations accused Israel of showing &#8220;total disrespect&#8221; for the Obama administration.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Indyk said many things in his Yom Kippur address with which one might take issue, but one analogy in particular stands out as especially disturbing.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">He said that he “discovered” in the most recent round of failed negotiations &#8220;that we would crack the whip, but no one was responding to our whip cracks. That&#8217;s a change.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">How disappointing for Indyk. Those who recall his days as U.S. ambassador to Israel no doubt feel a sense of deja vu when they hear Indyk talking about whips. Here is how he described his role in Israel to the Washington Post back on February 24, 1997:  &#8220;The image that comes to mind is a circus master. All these players in the ring. We crack the whip and get them to move around in an orderly fashion.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Ironic, isn&#8217;t it? The ex-diplomat who accuses Israel of being &#8220;disrespectful&#8221; has repeatedly compared the Israelis to circus animals who need to have some sense whipped into them. And when the dumb brutes don&#8217;t respond, Indyk the circus master is outraged and lashes out at his victims.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The irony goes further. Indyk served a president who has made almost a hobby of being disrespectful to Israel&#8217;s prime minister. Nobody can forget the time that President Obama deliberately left Prime Minister Netanyahu waiting for an hour and a half, while he went off to have dinner with Michelle and the kids. Or the infamous photo that the White House released of President Obama with his feet on his desk as he spoke by phone with Netanyahu.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Not to mention just last week, when Mr. Obama repeatedly referred to Netanyahu as &#8220;Bibi,&#8221; while Netanyahu, by contrast, appropriately referred to Obama as &#8220;Mr. President.&#8221; In an earlier era, perhaps someone could complain that it was difficult for an American president to pronounce a name such as &#8220;Menachem.&#8221; But how hard would it have been for President Obama to pronounce the name &#8220;Benjamin&#8221; ?</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">If the U.S.-Israel relationship is indeed &#8220;in trouble,&#8221; as Ambassador Indyk claimed in his Adas Israel speech, the reason is not that Israelis are being &#8220;disrespectful,&#8221; which Indyk claims to be &#8220;really, really disturbed by.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The reason is that the Obama Administration&#8217;s policymakers, starting with the president and going all the way down the line to envoys such as Indyk, automatically blame Israel for everything and the Palestinians for nothing.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">They denounce Israel for construction within existing Jewish towns in Judea-Samaria, but never criticize the Palestinian Authority for building entire new Arab cities there. They denounce Israel for building homes in Jerusalem, yet they never say anything about the widespread illegal Arab construction in Jerusalem.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Nor do they ever say a word about the truly &#8220;disrespectful&#8221; actions by the PA toward the United States, such as paying salaries to imprisoned terrorists who have murdered Americans, or naming streets, parks and soccer tournaments after killers of Americans &#8212; including the killer of the niece of the late U.S. Senator Abraham Ribicoff.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Just two weeks ago, both PA cabinet minister Yusuf Ida&#8217;is and the official PA news agency &#8220;WAFA&#8221; praised the killers of the three Israeli teenagers &#8211;one of whom was an American&#8211; as &#8220;Shahids,&#8221; or &#8220;martyrs.&#8221; And just a few weeks before that, the official PA daily newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida published no less than five articles in a six-day period acusing the United States of creating ISIS in order to destabilize the Middle East.  (For details, see <a href="http://www.palwatch.org/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">www.palwatch.org</span></a>)</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It is precisely this Obama-Indyk attitude, which ignores the disrespectful actions of the PA, and accuses Israel of being &#8220;disrespectful&#8221; if it fails to respond to &#8220;whip cracks,&#8221; which threatens U.S.-Israel relations.</p>
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