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		<title>Netanyahu’s Father Said the Holocaust Didn’t End</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2014 05:03:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ronn Torossian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And it continues all the time.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/mideast-israel-palest_newb1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-245949" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/mideast-israel-palest_newb1-402x350.jpg" alt="Mideast Israel Palestinians" width="402" height="350" /></a>At the end of yet another brutal week where Israelis were killed while praying, the lessons of <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/04/01/ze%E2%80%99ev-jabotinskys-answer-to-hypocrisy/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Zionist hero Ze’ev Jabotinsky</span></a> are relevant, as before there was a Jewish State he wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p>It is very, very sad that Jews are compelled to learn to shoot. But we are compelled and it is useless to argue against the compulsion of historic reality. That compulsion says you may be well educated, you may learn to plow the land and to build houses, you may speak Hebrew… but if you do not at the same time know how to shoot there is no hope. That is the lesson of the reality of our time and that is the prospect for the lifetime of our children.</p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #353434;"><span style="color: #000000;">What Jabotinsky said in the 1930’s in Europe remains true today. So, too do the words of his former secretary, </span>Ben-Zion Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel’s father who said in 2009: &#8220;The Holocaust didn&#8217;t end. It continues all the time.&#8221; The brutal images of Jews being killed at prayer this week in Jerusalem could have come from any other tragedy in Jewish history.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ronn-torossian/zeev-jabotinsky-to-benjamin-netanyahu-on-hamas/">Ze’ev Jabotinsky</a></span> noted,</p>
<blockquote><p>Where it is a question of war you do not stand and ask questions as to what is &#8220;better,” whether to shoot or not to shoot.  The only permissible question in such circumstances is on the contrary “what is worse” to let yourself be killed or enslaved without any resistance or to undertake resistance with all its horrible questions. For there is no “better” at all. Everything connected with war is bad, and cannot be “good.” When you shoot at enemy soldiers do not lie to yourself or persuade yourself that you are shooting at “guilty” ones. If you start calculating with what is “better” the calculation is very simple; if you want to be good let yourself be killed and renounce everything you would like to defend: home, country, freedom, hope.  The blackest of all characteristics is the tradition of the cheapness of Jewish blood.</p></blockquote>
<p>In the legendary essay “Ethics of the Iron Wall,” Jabotinsky, the father of the Likud Party wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p>Human society is based on reciprocity. If you remove reciprocity, justice becomes a lie. A person walking somewhere on a street has the right to live only because and only to the extent that he acknowledges my right to live. But, if he wishes to kill me, to my mind he forfeits his right to exist – and this also applies to nations. Otherwise, the world would become a racing area for vicious predators, where not only the weakest would be devoured, but the best.</p></blockquote>
<p>Danny Danon, a Likud Knesset Member said recently that “Israel must flex muscle to crush terrorists,” and this <a href="http://www.5wpr.com/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">PR Agency</span></a> owner joins all decent people in mourning the deaths of innocents in Jerusalem, Israel. Terrorism must be fought and challenged.</p>
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		<title>The Good Muslim Terrorist</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2014 05:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are no Palestinians. There is only Islam.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/79093089_79093088.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245594" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/79093089_79093088-446x350.jpg" alt="_79093089_79093088" width="333" height="261" /></a>There are no Palestinians. There are no moderate Syrian rebels. There is only Islam.</p>
<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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		<title>Responding to the Slaughter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2014 05:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Glick]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Immediate measures Israel should take to stop the Islamic jihad against the Jewish people. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/635518979796654817-GTY-459169342.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245746" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/635518979796654817-GTY-459169342-450x337.jpg" alt="635518979796654817-GTY-459169342" width="395" height="296" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Column-One-Responding-to-the-slaughter-382423">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">What we are seeing in Jerusalem today is not simply Palestinian terrorism. It is Islamic jihad. No one likes to admit it. The television reporters insist that this is the worst possible scenario because there is no way to placate it.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">There is no way to reason with it.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">So what else is new? The horrible truth is that all of the anti-Jewish slaughters perpetrated by our Arab neighbors have been motivated to greater or lesser degrees by Islamic Jew-hatred. The only difference between the past hundred years and now is that today our appeasement-oriented elite is finding it harder to pretend away the obvious fact that we cannot placate our enemies.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">No “provocation” by Jews drove two Jerusalem Arabs to pick up meat cleavers and a rifle and slaughter rabbis in worship like sheep and then mutilate their bodies.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">No “frustration” with a “lack of progress” in the “peace process,” can motivate people to run over Jewish babies or attempt to assassinate a Jewish civil rights activist.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The reason that these terrorists have decided to kill Jews is that they take offense at the fact that in Israel, Jews are free. They take offense because all their lives they have been taught that Jews should live at their mercy, or die by their sword.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">They do so because they believe, as former Jordanian MP Ya’qub Qarash said on Palestinian television last week, that Christians and Muslims should work together to forbid the presence of Jews in “Palestine” and guarantee that “not a single Jew will remain in Jerusalem.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Our neighbors are taught that Muhammad, the founder of Islam, signed the treaty of Hudaybiyah in 628 as a ploy to buy time during which he would change the balance of power between his army and the Jews of Kuraish. And 10 years later, once his army gained the upper hand, he annihilated the Jews.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Throughout the 130-year history of modern Zionism, Islamic Jew-hatred has been restrained by two forces: the desire of many Arabs to live at peace with their Jewish neighbors; and the ability of Israeli authorities and before them, British authorities, to deter the local Arab Muslims from attacking.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The monopoly on Arab Muslim leadership has always belonged to the intolerant bigots. Support for coexistence has always been the choice of individuals.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Haj Amin el-Husseini’s first act as the founder of the Palestinian Arab identity was to translate The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and serialize them in the local press.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">During the Arab jihad of 1936-1939, Husseini’s gangs of murderers killed more Arabs than the British did. He targeted those who sought peaceful coexistence with the Jews.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">His successor Yasser Arafat followed his example.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">During the 1988-1991 Palestinian uprising, the PLO killed more Palestinians than the IDF did. Like Husseini, Arafat targeted Palestinians who worked with Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Since Israel imprudently embraced Arafat and the PLO in 1993 and permitted them to govern the Palestinians in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, and exert direct influence and coercive power over the Arabs of Jerusalem, the Palestinian Authority’s governing institutions have used all the tools at their disposal to silence those who support peaceful coexistence with Israel, and indoctrinate the general public in Islamic and racial Jew-hatred.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Much has been made of the recent spike in incitement of violence by Palestinian leaders led by Arafat’s successor Mahmoud Abbas. But the flames Abbas and his comrades are throwing would not cause such conflagrations if they hadn’t already indoctrinated their audience to desire the destruction of the Jews.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">You cannot solicit murder among those who haven’t been taught that committing murder is an act of heroism.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Today Israel must take swift, effective action to stop the slaughter. The damage that has been done to the psyches of the Arabs of Jerusalem and their brethren in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, cannot be repaired in a timeline relevant to the task of preventing the next massacre.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This means that for the time being, on the tactical level, Israel’s only play is strengthening its deterrence.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Israel faces two major constraints in meeting this challenge.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">First, the European Union and the Obama administration, as well as the US foreign policy elite, are obsessively committed to a policy of empowering the Palestinians against Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The Spanish parliament’s decision to go ahead with its planned vote to recognize the “State of Palestine,” just hours after the massacre at the Bnei Torah Kehillat Yaakov synagogue in Jerusalem’s Har Nof neighborhood shows that the EU’s dedication to strengthening the Palestinians against Israel is entirely unrelated to events on the ground.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">They don’t care who the Palestinians are or what they do. For their own reasons they have made supporting the Palestinians at Israel’s expense their top foreign policy priority.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Similarly, US President Barack Obama couldn’t contain his compulsion to pressure Israel even in his statement condemning the massacre. Even there, Obama called on Israelis and Palestinians equally to restrain themselves.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Obama’s unabated hostility toward Israel was brought to bear on Tuesday afternoon when the State Department restated its rejection of Jewish property rights in Jerusalem and its desire to see the homes of terrorist murderers left intact for the welfare of their terror-supporting families.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">On Tuesday, Israel’s social media outlets were filled with angry rebukes of Western media outlets from CNN to MSNBC to CBS, to the BBC. All these networks, and many others, did everything in their power to explain away the synagogue slaughter as just another instance of a cycle of violence. That is, they all sought to frame the discussion in a way that would lead their viewers to the conclusion that the slaughter of praying rabbis was justified.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">While appalling, the coverage was not the least surprising. The Western elite media’s devotion to their false narrative of Israeli culpability for all the problems in the region is absolute. Networks would rather wreck their professional reputations than tell the truth.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Together with the EU, the American policy elite and the Obama administration, the media place Israel’s leaders in a bind. Every step they take to defend the country and protect the rights of Jews meets with automatic and libelous condemnation.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The other impediment Israel faces in deterring anti-Jewish violence against its citizenry is its own weakness. Since the inception of the phony peace process, Israel has continuously rewarded the Palestinians for their murderous violence against its citizenry.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">From Israel’s transfer of control over all the Palestinian population centers in Judea and Samaria, to its forcible expulsion of its own people from Gaza, to its repeated releases of terrorists from prison, to its continued transfer of hundreds of millions of shekels in tax revenues to the PA, Israel has showed the Palestinians at every turn that far from being punished for murdering Jews, they will be rewarded for doing so.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Given the US and European support for the Palestinians, Israeli declarations that there will be no future releases of terrorists have no credibility. If terrorists aren’t killed on the spot, they can assume that they will eventually be released; if not in exchange for an Israeli hostage, Israel will release them in an attempt to placate the White House.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But even with these constraints on its actions, Israel can take steps to deter its hate-filled enemies from attacking.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Since the current campaign of murder is being carried out by terrorists largely acting on their own accord, the measures Israel adopts to stop the attacks should be directed primarily against individual terrorists. As for action against the PA, it needs to be credible, consistent and directed to where it will hurt Palestinian leaders the most: their wallets.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">With regard to the individual terrorists, the government has made much of its intention to destroy the homes of terrorists. While it sounds good, there is limited evidence of the effectiveness of this punitive measure, which is a relic of the British Mandate.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Rather than destroy their homes, Israel should adopt the US anti-narcotics policy of asset seizure.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">All assets directly or indirectly tied to terrorists, including their homes and any other structure where they planned their crimes, and all remittances to them, should be seized and transferred to their victims, to do with what they will.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">If Israel hands over the homes of the synagogue butchers to the 24 orphans of Rabbi Moshe Twersky, Rabbi Kalman Levine, Rabbi Aryeh Kupinsky and Rabbi Avraham Goldberg, not only will justice be served. The children’s inheritance of the homes of their fathers’ killers will send a clear and demoralizing message to other would-be killers.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Not only will their atrocities fail to remove the Jews from Israel. Every terrorist will contribute to the Zionist project by donating his home to the Jewish settlement enterprise.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Just as Israel has repeatedly buckled under US pressure to release terrorists from jail, so it has bowed to US pressure to continue to fund the PA by transferring the tax revenues it collects on goods imported to the PA.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Assuming that the government is too weak to stand up to the Americans, at a minimum it can see that the money is properly used.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">To that end, the Knesset should pass a law permitting Israeli terror victims to sue the PA for actual and punitive damages in Israel courts. The sums awarded to the victims should be taken from the tax revenues Israel collects for the PA. The law should apply retroactively to all victims of Palestinian terror carried out since the establishment of the PA in May 1994.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Not only should the law permit Israeli terror victims to sue the PA. It should dictate actions the Justice Ministry must take to assist them in bringing suit.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Israel should also revoke citizenship and residency rights not only from terrorists themselves, but from those who enjoy citizenship and residency rights by dint of their relationship with the terrorists.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Wives who received Israeli residency or citizenship rights though marriage to terrorists should have their rights revoked, as should the children of the terrorists.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Since Tuesday’s massacre, aside from Abbas’s phony condemnation, the Palestinian leadership and public from Fatah to Hamas have been unanimous in their praise for the atrocity.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Today Israel is powerless to influence the hearts of our Arab neighbors. But we can influence their minds. We can deter them from attacking us.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The actions set forth above: asset seizure, revenue seizure and citizenship/residency abrogation for terrorists and their dependents are steps that Israel can take today, despite the hostile international climate.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">If the government and Knesset adopt these measures, they will rectify some of the damage Israel has inflicted on itself by showing the Palestinians over two decades that they will be rewarded for their aggression.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">If our leaders fail to take these or similar actions, and suffice with complaining about incitement, their condemnations of the murder of Jews will ring as hollow as those sounded by the BBC, Obama and Abbas.</span></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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		<description><![CDATA[How the Left wages war through our children. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/indoctrinate.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-189715" alt="indoctrinate" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/indoctrinate.png" width="280" height="276" /></a>This week&#8217;s Glazov Gang had the honor of being joined by <strong>Michael Chandler</strong>, a Black American Patriot, <strong>Borek Volarik</strong>, an anti-Communist Czech Defector, and <strong>Morgan Brittany</strong>, a conservative TV and movie star.</p>
<p>The Gang gathered to discuss <em>Teaching Class-Hatred to America’s Youth. </em>The dialogue occurred in <strong>Part I </strong>and focused on how the Left wages war through our children. The segment also shed light on: <em><em>The Journey of a Black American Patriot </em></em>and<em><em> <em>What Does It Mean To Become An American?<br />
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<p>In <strong>Part II, </strong>the Gang<strong> </strong>analyzed: <em>Pamela Geller Banned By a Canadian Synagogue. </em>The discussion explored why a freedom fighter who stands up for oppressed Muslim women isn&#8217;t welcome in Canada &#8212; while Islamic terrorists are.</p>
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		<title>The Backlash Against Goldstone</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 04:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Africa's Jews protest the author of the notorious anti-Israel smear.]]></description>
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<p>So now it turn out to be Richard Goldstone&#8211;author of the notorious Goldstone report&#8211;who is politicizing his grandson&#8217;s bar mitzvah.  Jewish authorities in South Africa didn&#8217;t &#8220;ban&#8221; Goldstone from the synagogue at which his grandson was being bar mitzvahed, as Goldstone and his supporters had alleged.  A small group of protestors had said they would exercise their right of expression to picket Goldstone.  Though they clearly had the right to do so, most Jews in South   Africa and elsewhere&#8211;including me&#8211;were uncomfortable with the idea of picketing a grandfather attending his grandson&#8217;s bar mitzvah.  It was Goldstone who decided not to attend and instead to publicize the matter.</p>
<p>The South Africa Board of Deputies have now persuaded the protestors to pick a different time and place to show their disdain for Goldstein.  The matter should have been put to rest, with Goldstone quietly attending the bar mitzvah.  But Goldstone won&#8217;t let it go.  He has attacked the Chief Rabbi of South Africa, who was instrumental in working out a compromise where the protests would be called off and Goldstone would agree to meet with Jewish leaders.  Goldstone escalated the dispute by writing a letter to the local newspaper complaining that,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;the Chief Rabbi would so brazenly politicize the occasion of my 13 year-old grandson&#8217;s bar mitzvah to engage in further personal attacks on me.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>But it was Goldstone who brazenly politicized the bar mitzvah by mischaracterizing the Chief Rabbi&#8217;s statement and using it as an excuse to continue the controversy about the bar mitzvah.  The alleged &#8220;personal attack&#8221; by the Chief Rabbi consisted of a statement that every synagogue:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;should welcome in a tolerant and nonjudgmental way all who seek to enter and join in our service and pray to God.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>The Chief Rabbi also exercised his own freedom of speech to express his opinion&#8211;an entirely accurate one&#8211;that the Goldstone report:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;has unfairly done enormous damage to the reputation and safety of the State of Israel and her citizens.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Was the Chief Rabbi obligated to remain silent about the report until the bar mitzvah is over?  It would have been irresponsible of Rabbi Goldstein to say nothing in the face of the evil represented by the Goldstone report and its biased authors.  Is it not enough that he curbed those who wanted to protest in front of the synagogue?  It is Goldstone who is <span style="text-decoration: underline;">using</span> his grandson&#8217;s bar mitzvah as a shield against legitimate criticism, just as he has used his &#8220;jewishness&#8221; as a shield against criticism of the Goldstone report.</p>
<p>Goldstone has not complained about another group of rabbis who have politicized his grandson&#8217;s bar mitzvah in an effort to <span style="text-decoration: underline;">support</span> the Goldstone report and its mendacious conclusions.  A group of rabbis, many of whom have long records of anti-Israel activism, authored a &#8220;Rabbinic letter&#8221; to Goldstone congratulating him on his grandson&#8217;s bar mitzvah and using the occasion to make virulently anti-Israel claims, including the blood libel that Israel deliberately targeted innocent Palestinian civilians without any military purpose.  These ignorant rabbis, most of whom I am sure never read the 500 page report, went out of their way to &#8220;affirm&#8221; the &#8220;findings&#8221; of the Goldstone report, despite the fact that virtually every credible academic who has studied the report has found its findings to be unfounded and false.</p>
<p>These bigoted rabbis, who have no expertise in military matters, are prepared to contradict the military expertise of one of the world&#8217;s most experienced counter insurgency military experts, Colonel Richard Kemp, who said,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think there has ever been a time in the history of warfare when an army has made more efforts to reduce civilian casualties and deaths of innocent people than the IDF [did] in Gaza.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Goldstone of course refused to consider Kemp&#8217;s testimony and has characterized it as irrelevant to the report&#8217;s findings.</p>
<p>These &#8220;rabbis for Hamas&#8221; have no shame and no credibility.  They exploit their rabbinical status to support any conclusion that undercuts self defense Israeli actions without regard to the evidence and without regard to the truth.</p>
<p>Not surprisingly, the worst of these rabbis (and that is saying a lot), Michael Lerner, after attempting to politicize the bar mitzvah by offering his anti-Israel synagogue for the event, has decided to honor Richard Goldstone with Tikkun Magazine&#8217;s &#8220;Ethics Award.&#8221;  I guess all it takes to be honored by Tikkun is to pass Lerner&#8217;s litmus test of lying about Israel.  That&#8217;s Lerner&#8217;s definition of &#8220;ethics.&#8221;  There are some good people on the advisory board of Tikkun Magazine.  They now have an obligation to reconsider their membership unless they wish to be associated with a rabbi who is prepared to accuse Israel, in the absence of any evidence, of deliberately setting out to murder Palestinian civilians without any military purpose.</p>
<p>Let Richard Goldstone enjoy his grandson&#8217;s bar mitzvah without anyone politicizing it, but let every thoughtful person study the Goldstone report and refuse to remain silent about its bias, its lies, its damage to the peace process and its dangers to Israel&#8217;s security.  Richard Goldstone should not use his grandson&#8217;s bar mitzvah to selectively silence rabbis who disagree with his report, while encouraging rabbis who agree with it to use the bar mitzvah as a sword against the report&#8217;s critics and as a shield against legitimate criticism.  His grandson deserves better.</p>
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		<title>Palestinian Nazis and Double Standards</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 04:25:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration's shameless silence on who is truly fanning the flames of hate in the Middle East. ]]></description>
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<p>The Obama administration’s  pursuit of Middle East peace has brought little if any promising results thus  far. Assigning who is to blame for the stalled talks, however, seems to be a  much easier task for the US administration. In typical fashion, Washington has laid  responsibility for the failure in the recent launch of peace negotiations  squarely on Israel’s shoulders, using the announcement of the 1,600 new homes  built in eastern Jerusalem during VP Joe Biden’s visit, as the primary reason  why peace talks were not progressing.</p>
<p>“We  have to make clear to our Israeli friend and partner that the two state solution  which we support…requires confidence building measures on both sides and the  announcement of the settlements the very day the VP was there, was  insulting  and unfortunate…” stated Secretary of State Hillary  Clinton recently.  Although Clinton attempted to smooth things over in her AIPAC  address, she stated that the US was obligated to tell Israel the truth.</p>
<p>Clinton’s assessment of this current ‘obstacle’ to the Middle East peace  process simply reveals how very little Washington truly understands of the  conflict, especially by dressing the situation with terms like “confidence  building.” The current problems in the Mideast conflict are beyond issues of  mistrust.</p>
<p>As  Palestinian demonstrations and continued rocket attacks in the past week have  shown, deep currents of hate and ideological calls for destruction against  Israel still continue to run strongly among Palestinian leaders.   The rededication of the Hurva synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem on  March 15, originally constructed in the 18<sup>th</sup> century, was the most  recent example of how Israel’s recognition of ancient Jewish landmarks in the  Jewish state infuriates the radical Islamic leadership of Hamas and even the  PA.</p>
<p>In  response to the synagogue dedication, Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh  declared that Jerusalem will “always remain Islamic.”  In addition,  Hamas’s ambassador in Lebanon, Osama Hamadan, told Al-Jazeera  TV  that the opening of the Hurva Synagogue was part of a larger Israeli attempt to  “invent” a Jewish history for Jerusalem.  On March 16, Hamas  declared a Day of Rage and defense of Al-Aqsa Mosque, as a way to further incite  Palestinians and escalate tensions.</p>
<p>The  continued incitement and hate-education of Israel is carried out not only by  Hamas. Palestinian Media Watch recently reported that PA television is  broadcasting a new children’s program called Chicks that teaches children about  different areas of Palestine, using a map labeled only “Palestine” which depicts  all of Israel.  Next to the map, written in English and Arabic is  “Explore Your Country.” Education for a two-state solution does not exist on PA  television programs for youth.</p>
<p>However, the most disturbing developments which Washington continues to  steadfastly ignore is Iran’s continued financial and moral support of Hamas’s  terrorist and incitement activities. Dr. Khalil Al Hayya, a Hamas leader who was  interviewed earlier this year on Hamas’s military wing’s website, Iz a-din  al-Qassam Brigades, stated that “Iran supports us financially, politically and  morally without political price.”</p>
<p>Furthermore, the Iranian Intelligence Minister Hydar Maslahi recently  called on Muslim countries to launch a so-called media intifada against Israel  during a conference for the <em>National and Islamic Solidarity for the Future of  Palestine </em>held in Teheran on February 28 (The Intelligence and Terrorism  Information Center). Maslahi stated that his ministry was willing to provide any  assistance to Palestinian people who would carry out anti-Israel and anti-US  propaganda campaigns through on-line social networking.</p>
<p>Until  Washington recognizes the broader problems facing the Middle East at this time,  including the continuing incitement that Palestinian leaders generate among  their constituents, as well as “Islamizing” Israel’s Jewish history and refusing  to recognize to recognize any “Jewish” rights to the land, the road to  negotiations is near impossible.</p>
<p>Mainstream media and much of the world community have always maintained  that Israel’s building of Jewish homes and settlements are the primary obstacles  to peace talks.  To continue to believe so is not only  irresponsible but dangerous on the part of the US government. A truly  comprehensive peace process can be constructed only when the ideological issues  that continue to fan the flames of hate are addressed. By not doing so,  Washington is building another faulty foundation for a peace process that is  bound for collapse.</p>
<p><em>Anav Silverman is the international correspondent for Sderot Media  Center: <a href="http://www.sderotmedia.org.il/" target="_blank">www.SderotMedia.org.il</a>, a social media organization dedicated to bringing  the voices of Sderot residents to the attention of the global community. </em></p>
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		<title>No Compromise Over Jerusalem</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arab rioting and violence betray the folly of negotiations over East Jerusalem.]]></description>
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<p>No sooner did the Obama administration denounce Israel for its building activities in Jerusalem than hordes of violent Palestinian thugs took to the city&#8217;s streets. As usual, the Palestinians decided to show the world how sacred Jerusalem is to them by filling it with violence.</p>
<p>That the Arab riots followed so closely after the Obama administration’s very public recriminations against Israel was no coincidence. Vice President Biden, <a href="http://www.jewishjournal.com/opinion/article/a_self_proclaimed_zionist_joe_biden_is_a_friend_of_israel_20080910/">a self-proclaimed Zionist</a>, had trouble containing his anger at Israel. On an official state visit to Israel, his Kodak moments were interrupted when an Israeli official announced that Israel has plans to build a lot of new housing in East Jerusalem. Biden was aghast at the chutzpah. Secretary of State Clinton issued a series of shrill verbal attacks against Israel. Talk about a “disproportionate response!”</p>
<p>To put the Obama Administration’s temper tantrum over Jerusalem into perspective, one has to try to imagine the following reasoning. How dare the Jews construct housing in their own capital? Just because Washington builds housing in the District of Columbia without asking its allies for permission does not mean that the Israelis can build the same way in their capital! Don’t those Israelis realize that the United  States has plans to transfer East  Jerusalem to the terrorists of the Palestinian Authority or its Hamas overlords?</p>
<p>The official American anger has yet to die down. The State Department is in a huff over Israel allowing Jews to move into the Simon the Righteous neighborhood in East  Jerusalem, also known as Sheikh Jarrah. You may recall that Sheikh Jarrah was where a horrific massacre of a convoy of Jewish medical personnel headed for the Hadassah Hospital on Mt. Scopus took place in 1948. Seventy nine Jews were murdered in cold blood and their bodies mutilated.</p>
<p>East Jerusalem was made <em>Judenrein</em>, with its Jews ethnically cleansed, in Israel’s 1948-49 war of independence. Before that Jews had lived in East  Jerusalem almost without interruption since King David conquered it. Those attacking Israel are insisting that it leave that crime of ethnic cleansing in tact, un-redressed.</p>
<p>So why does the State Department object to Jews moving into homes in East Jerusalem, homes they legally and legitimately own? One answer may be that the State Department plans to force Israel to turn East Jerusalem over to some future Palestinian terror state, and that will be harder to do if East Jerusalem is filled up with Jews. But that is precisely the reason why Israel should<strong><em> </em></strong>build housing in East Jerusalem.</p>
<p>Israel’s position should be simply that if the Arab world refuses to come to terms and make peace with an Israel controlling all of Jerusalem, then we do not believe that they will come to terms or make peace with any Israel that has relinquished Jerusalem either. The Arabs can threaten Israel all they want about the dire consequences if Israel refuses to turn Jerusalem over to them. Israel’s response should be, “You can’t have it, period.”</p>
<p>And if there were any doubts as to who has the moral and legal right to control East Jerusalem, they were removed in the violent rioting by Palestinians over the opening of the rebuilt Hurva synagogue this week. Tradition has it that it stands on the site of synagogues going back to the second century AD. One synagogue standing there in the 1700s was destroyed, leading to the nickname of the site, the “Hurva” or “the Destruction.”  A later synagogue was constructed on the site in 1864. It remained there until Jordanian soldiers, who were illegally holding the Old City after 1948, demolished it.</p>
<p>The Hurva synagogue is nowhere near the Mosque of al-Aqsa or any other Islamic shrines in Jerusalem. It is located close to the Ramban or Nachmanides synagogue, which was converted by the pro-Nazi Grand Mufti into a mosque in 1948 and used as a factory under the Jordanian occupation. The Arabs have absolutely no legitimate claims to the site. Indeed, the reign of intentional destruction carried out by Jordan after 1948 should nullify altogether once and for all any claims the Arab world has to East  Jerusalem.</p>
<p>Under Arab rule (by Jordan), the religious shrines of Jerusalem were systematically demolished, profaned and violated. Under Israeli rule, every religious group is free to practice its religion in Jerusalem and its shrines are protected. Thus, Arabs forfeited any moral claims they might have once had to govern the city when they trashed the Jewish shrines of the city. And if Arabs continue to take to violence when Jews open a synagogue, then there is only one conclusion that Israel can draw: there is nothing to negotiate.</p>
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