An American President's Televised Anti-Israel Outburst

(Pictured: Yitzhak Shamir and George H.W. Bush. The two leaders detested each other.)

The end of George W. Bush's presidency coincided with the 20th anniversary of Bush's father taking the oath of office, and it got the Monitor thinking of how one televised performance on the part of Bush Senior cemented his reputation as a president indifferent or even hostile to Israel.

Actually, the first President Bush has gotten something of a bum rap on that score. That's not to say he came close to exhibiting toward Israel the sympathetic understanding of Lyndon Johnson, the pragmatic admiration of Richard Nixon, the gut-felt connection of Ronald Reagan, or the instinctive friendship of his own son.

But the fact is that Bush had his administration work for Jewish interests on several fronts, helping facilitate the emigration to Israel of hundreds of thousands of Russian Jews; playing a crucial part in the rescue from Ethiopia of a second wave of Falasha Jews (as Reagan's vice president Bush had coordinated America's role in the first mass exodus of Falashas); and successfully pushing the UN to rescind its infamous 1975 resolution that equated Zionism with racism.

It didn't help U.S.-Israel relations that Bush's term in office roughly coincided with the premiership in Israel of Yitzhak Shamir, a gruff and introverted man under the best of circumstances, which made him the polar opposite of the genial, extroverted Bush.

"For Bush and Shamir, it was a case of hate at first sight," wrote Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman in Friends In Deed, their anecdotal account of the American-Israeli alliance. "Never in the history of relations between the two countries was there such antipathy - true emotional dislike - between the heads of government. Even between Eisenhower and Ben-Gurion things were not so bad."

Nor did it help that Bush's secretary of state, James A. Baker III, famously used a four-letter word in describing American Jewish voting habits or that, as the journalists Andrew and Leslie Cockburn reported, when a friend commented that it seemed like every U.S. administration leaves office disliking Israel, Baker responded with a laugh, "What do you do about someone who comes into office feeling that way?"

But the low point in the Bush administration's relationship with Israel came on September 12, 1991, when Bush held a nationally-televised press conference and blasted Jewish organizations and lobbyists who were trying to win Congressional support for U.S. loan guarantees requested by Israel.

The administration, still at loggerheads with the Shamir government over the issue of Jewish settlements, had been urging Congress to delay consideration of the Israeli requests. Polls showed strong public support for Bush's position, but Jewish organizations had dispatched hundreds of activists to Washington in a large-scale effort to sway lawmakers.

To Bush, this was nothing less than an attempt to take American foreign policy out of his hands, and he lashed out in language for which he would later apologize. Fists pounding on his lectern, Bush declared that he was "up against some powerful political forces. I heard today there were something like a thousand lobbyists on the Hill working the other side of the question. We've got one lonely little guy down here doing it."

Bush also made it sound as though he had gone to war with Saddam Hussein for the sake of Israel.

"Just months ago," he declared, "American men and women in uniform risked their lives to defend Israelis in the face of Iraqi Scud missiles." (Of course, Bush left out the fact that the war was fought for Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the unrestricted flow of oil to the West, and that when Iraq rained Scud missiles down on Israel, the U.S. pressed Israel not to retaliate.)

And, knowing full well how unpopular foreign aid is to large numbers of Americans, Bush exploited that issue as well. "During the current fiscal year alone, and despite our own economic problems," is how he put it, "the United States provided Israel with more than $4 billion in economic and military aid, nearly $1,000 for every Israeli man, woman and child."

Though Bush did add that the U.S. had been Israel's closest friend for more than 40 years and that "this remains the case and will as long as I am president," nobody paid any attention to that part of his outburst. Bush had, in just a few minutes' time, ensured that he would be remembered as the first president ever to publicly question the motives (and cast doubts on the legitimacy) of pro-Israel lobbying by American Jews.

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The Assault on Academic Freedom by Tel Aviv University Leftist Faculty Members

To right - Zionists and other "criminals" not welcome in the School of Law at Tel Aviv University
The anti-Zionist caucus of far-leftist professors at Tel Aviv University has a new cause. It is the suppression of academic freedom in the university's School of Law. The leftists are upset that the school is considering allowing the woman colonel who heads the Israeli Defense Forces international law division to lecture in its Law School. The far-leftists are opposed to that. Basically they are opposed to anyone teaching in the School of Law who is not a far-leftist anti-Zionist like them.

See this for the full report.

The new assault on academic freedom involves Col. Pnina Sharvit-Baruch, a lawyer in the military. One might think that leftist postureurs for rigorous enforcement of "law" in warfare and in battles would be happy to have such a person speaking in a School of Law. After all, unlike so many of the denizens of the law school, she has been forced to deal with real-world military dilemmas, involving complex tradeoffs and difficulties, not just self-righteous pieties about human rights.

The campus leftists however claim she is herself a war criminal because she gave the okay to bomb the "graduation ceremony" of a group of Hamas terrorists pretending to be police cadets. As you may recall, one of the most successful anti-terror operations in the recent Operation "Cast Lead" was the strike against the "school" for the terrorist cadets. In addition, the academic Fifth Column is angry because Sharvit-Baruch evidently thinks that Jews are legally permitted to defend themselves against genocidal terrorists, and that they may even use weapons in self-defense! They decided that such a point of view must be muzzled!

According to the news report on this assault on academic freedom, published in Haaretz:

'Leading the protest against Sharvit-Baruch's appointment is Professor Chaim Ganz of the university's Minerva Center for Human Rights.

'Ganz wrote a letter to Professor Hanoch Dagan, the dean of the law faculty, claiming that Sharvit-Baruch's interpretation of the law during Israel's Gaza offensive allowed the army to act in ways that constitute potential war crimes. Ganz also said that Sharvit-Baruch harms Israel's values system.

'Dr. Anat Matar, a lecturer at Tel Aviv University's philosophy department, said, "I was shocked to learn that half of the second-year law students will learn the foundations of law from someone who helped justify the killing of civilians, including hundreds of children."

'Dagan told Haaretz that he will not respond to the claims of the original story, but said that the Faculty of Law makes every effort to expose its students to a variety of opinions and encourages discussion, even about questions that provoke disagreement.'

As background to this, it should be noted that the School of Law at Tel Aviv University is already one of the most politicized and extremist academic departments at the university, and is a bastion of far-leftist anti-Israel extremist faculty members. Faculty members at the school misuse their positions to engage in naked political advocacy, some of it in conjunction with openly anti-Israel advocacy and activist organizations. Leftist law faculty in Israel, including at Tel Aviv University, were the main focus of a recent research paper and expose of political bias in Israeli law schools, entitled "Pro-Bono for Palestine: Scholarship, Law, Lawyers. European Government Funding, and the Internal Legal Campaign against Israel." The report was produced by www.isracampus.org.il and copies may be obtained from it (email: isracampus@gmail.com ). That expose was written by Dr. Seth Frantzman from the Hebrew University. Chaim Ganz (or Gans) was one of those targeted in the study, including for his support for the mutiny and insurrection of Israeli soldiers refusing to serve because of political ideology. This is the same Ganz now trying to prevent the colonel from teaching.

In particular, in his report Frantzman singles out the Minerva Center, with which Ganz is associated, financed with money from Germany and the EU, as a biased politicized pseudo-academic center, devoted mainly to promoting a radical advocacy agenda.

Here are some citations from Frantzman:

The Minerva Center for Human Rights .... receives funding from the Minerva Foundation in Germany, the Ford Foundation, the New Israel Fund (NIF), the Konrad Adenauer foundation, the United States Institute for Peace, the European Commission and the Faculty of law and the Truman Center at Hebrew University. It partners with the NIF's Shatil 'training program' for NGOs, which principally 'trains' NGOs that denounce Israel, and Bimkom, an organization that primarily supports only Palestinians and Arabs. Through its partnerships it provides 'human rights' training for Palestinian teachers, mostly teaching them how to oppose Israel. It is currently involved with Bimkom in a research project whose goal is to study the Palestinian Arab village of Isawiyeh in East Jerusalem and help it prepare a land use plan for "development." The Minerva Center, it should be pointed out, has never advised a Jewish municipality, even the most poverty-stricken ones like Kiryat Malachi, on planning and land use. Minerva claims that it is involved with "diverse disciplines" and "different sectors." The problem is that they are all far-leftist ones.

On the Minerva website listing those organizations benefiting from the Minvera fellows' volunteer work one finds Adalah (an Arab "human rights" group), the Public Committee Against Torture, ACRI, B'tselem, Hamoked, the "Legal Center for the Arab Minority, and the Jerusalem-based Palestinian Organization for Economic and Social rights. These organizations are not exactly 'diverse' and they cater primarily to helping Palestinian Arabs alone. ...
Clearly Minerva, an organization established in 1997 at the Hebrew and Tel Aviv Universities, actively strives to influence the political opinions of its interns through driving them to work with the most radical anti-Israel voices in Israeli society.

Besides Ganz, the other faculty member organizing opposition to the appointment of Col. Sharvit-Baruch is Anat Matar, who is not a lawyer or legal studies faculty member at all. She teaches philosophy, sort of. Matar is one of the most extremist and most openly anti-Israel faculty members in Israel. She openly calls for Israel to be destroyed by means of granting Palestinians a "right of return" to all Israeli territory. She has been arrested for violently assaulting Israeli police and soldiers at a protest against the building of Israel's security wall. She has a long history of illegally promoting mutiny and insurrection among Israeli soldiers.

These anti-Israel extremists are the people who are seeking to destroy academic freedom at Tel Aviv University by creating an ideological litmus test for hiring lecturers, an anti-Israel extremist one.

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Tikkun Magazine and the Chickens

Quick - which of these two photos is of a rabbi and which is of a cartoon character? You are correct - they are BOTH cartoon characters and neither is a rabbi.

Eureka! I think I found a way to get through at last to the Tikkun crowd!

You know, those fossilized Tikkun 60s hippies who call one another "dude" and pretend that Mikey Lerner and Arthur Waskow are rabbis? The sorts of people who have never met an Islamist terrorist they do not like. After 911, Lerner demanded that we all feel bin Laden's pain. Lerner also has a long track record of claiming that anti-Semitism is all the fault of the Jews.

Well, it seems the Hamas rockets managed to traumatize a number of birds. Really. See the piece that follows. And while the Tikkun clowns could not care less if a million Israeli Jews are traumatized by the rockets, scaring some itty bitty birdies is just going too far!!! What about their human rights!

Even the Chickens are Traumatized by Rocket Fire

by Hana Levi Julian

The chickens near Kiryat Gat have been traumatized.

It might sound strange, but when one considers what it might be like to have a rocket slam into your house, at close quarters, it is perhaps not surprising that the chickens in southern Israel have had enough.
One of the rockets fired Sunday morning by Gaza terrorists hit a large chicken coop at a moshav near Kiryat Gat, killing at least 200 of the 160,000 birds.

Another 300 of the birds, however, were badly traumatized, and must be moved – not only because the coop was seriously damaged, but due to the stress they suffered from the attack.

Now we have long suspected that the commune of Tikkun readers is just about empty, the pot long since smoked, leaving no one in there but them chickens.

Anyone remember that old Superchicken cartoon show?

"Miracle on the Hudson"

Yesterday’s top story: A US Airways plane, its engines assaulted by a flock of birds, crash lands in the freezing Hudson River—with not a single fatality. What could have been a great tragedy was instead an incredible story of survival. To any G-d-fearing person, what occurred was nothing short a miracle.

And yet, many comments I’ve seen online (and I’m sure being uttered in offline, water-cooler conversations as well) are trying to downplay the miraculous nature of the story and chalk it all up to human skill, courage, and just plain luck.

This attitude reminds me of an old favorite song I used to listen to on a tape called “Judea.” The song was called “The Hand of Hashem,” and it referenced the 1976 Israeli raid on Entebbe to rescue the Jewish hostages—another miracle disguised as merely an incredible showing of human prowess. I’m quoting the following lyrics from memory so please forgive any minor errors:

“Remember how they freed those captured men. We said, ‘Wow, it was surely heaven sent.’ But now it’s so different; it’s nothing unusual: ‘They planned it out right, they flew through the night—what’s there to believe?’ . . . The Hand of Hashem—yes, it was clear to them. The Hand of Hashem—yes, it was shown to them. And yet there they are, standing so far apart, thinking so small compared to the signs that fall . . . The Hand is not invisible; it just hides in so many ways. It causes all the grass the grow and the sun to shine on the days . . . Those who don’t see are those who refuse to see, and those who don’t hear are those who refuse to hear.”

Certainly the pilot of US Airways Flight 1549, a verteran of commercial and military flight, deserves all the kudos he is getting. Same goes for the myriad official and unofficial rescuers who responded so quickly. But great acts by human beings and Divine handiwork are not mutually exclusive. In fact, one is often a conduit for the other.

Tragedies do happen, and some people use that as proof that there is no G-d (or none worth believing in, anyway). That is their loss. Life is full of miracles when you go through it with your eyes and ears open. And sometimes they even make the news.

The Battle against the Flag by University of Haifa Faculty

This is going to sound like another Plaut spoof, but I am afraid the following story is entirely for real. It involves the outpouring of anguished calls by faculty members at the University of Haifa NOT to have the Israeli flag flying on campus!

The story begins with an announcement on January 15, 09 by the heads of the university and its PR officer that for the remainder of the battle in Gaza, Israeli flags will be flown on campus as a sign of solidarity with the embattled residents of Sderot and other towns under attack near the Gaza Strip. Nothing in the university announcement indicated that the gesture should be taken in any political sense, such as endorsing the Israeli defense Forces tactics and specific strategies, but only as a way of saluting the courage of Israelis in the south. Back in 2006, when Haifa was itself under attack by 4000 of Ehud Barak's missiles being fired at the city by the Hezbollah, many people in the Israeli south similarly responded and many hosted Haifa residents seeking to escape the rockets at the time. (Not me, I stayed put, like the tree standing by the water in that old union song.) In addition, the University of Haifa has been lighting up the front face of its high central Eshkol Tower, 30 stories tall, as an Israeli flag for the same reason. Given the fact that the University of Haifa has a reputation for being an arena for the largest number of radical sometimes-violent often-pro-jihad Arab students in Israel, it made sense to try to project a pro-Israel public image.

The response to the gesture by leftist faculty members at the University of Haifa was boisterous and hostile. How dare the university have Israeli flags waving on campus! It is offensive and insensitive to Arabs!

On the "Segel-Plus" chat list for University of Haifa faculty members, a number of expressions of outrage were posted. A math lecturer named Kobi Peterzil, who runs the northern chapter of the anti-Israel anti-Zionist Taayoush political splinter, wrote this:

'This is a joke, right?

Should we all sing HATIKVA as we enter our classes?

Kobi Peter (Peterzil)
Mathematics
Haifa'

(not a bad suggestion, actually --- SP)


Then Gabriel Salomon, who teaches "peace education" (meaning leftist indoctrination) in the University's School of Education, responded in Hebrew (my translation):

From: "Gabriel Salomon" :
'We all know that patriotism is the last refuge of …
So how do you think the Arab students on campus will react to this, if it is implemented, and does that matter? Is it really necessary to jab thumbs into their eyes? This proposal sounds less like a gesture of solidarity than an attack on an oppressed minority trying to yell that they are here amongst us.'


Micah Leshem, a rabidly anti-Israel professor of psychology, who regularly denounces Israel and Zionism as racist, insisted that if Israeli flags were to be flown on campus then so should PLO flags be flown and lit up. He did not suggest any swastika flags be flown. He added:

'It (the PLO flag lights) can be slightly smaller, as befits a minority, and because that minority might also be less chauvinist, and more considerate of other ethnic groups' sensibilities.
'Also, on independence day, I see many cars with US and Israeli flags, so I
think we should reserve 5 stories of the Tower and lighted 51 windows for an
American flag too. After all, without the American F16s and Apaches we would
be fighting the Kassam's with Davidka's.
'Finally we should have some stories dedicated to a lighted or burning Bush,
in recognition of the great support of our Nation (not State) by the Bush,
and it should be easily switched to a Texas Bar-B-Q in 5 days time.
'These are profound and important symbols, and we should give them proper
respect, as Yishayahu Leibowitz urged us to.
Micah'


That is correct, your eyes did not play a trick on you. Here we have the spectacle of a professor of psychology at a major Israeli university who thinks there are 51 stars in an American flag and that the US consists of 51 states! My guess is that he also thinks that the Star of David has 7 points, given that he would not be caught dead with one in his possession.


In another post, the same Leshem sent out a photo of the lights on the tower in the shape of the flag, with his added comment "Bullshit Tower".

Prof. Ramzi Suleiman of psychology, an Arab professor, having earlier in the week posted a number of messages on the list denouncing Israel as a racist entity conducting genocide, posted a sarcastic comment, suggesting that university ranks be replaced with army ranks and that there should be set up an armed honor guard at the campus entrance that is rotated 3 times a day.

Finally, political science lecturer Zach Levey suggested that the flag of lights be shut down because it is wasting electricity. He did not suggest that providing people in Gaza with electricity be stopped because it is a much bigger waste of electricity.


It should be noted that the week before, anti-Israel Arab students held a noisy demonstration illegally on the Haifa University campus, while waving PLO flags. One guard refused to allow a group of Jewish students enter through a campus gate carrying an Israeli flag.

None of the above professors had anything to say about that or found it insensitive or offensive. None suggested that marches by Palestinians and their supporters with swastikas and banners calling for annihilation of all Jews be removed because they are offensive. In the past, a few leftist faculty members at the university hoisted PLO flags in the middle of the wave of suicide bombings against Jews. None of the above people objected to that either.

What Did Moshe Yaalon Really Say?

An op-ed column in last Thursday's (Jan. 8) New York Times by Columbia professor of Arab studies Rashid Khalidi, while fairly unremarkable in its boilerplate condemnation of Israel's military operation in Gaza, ended dramatically with a citation of the following statement allegedly made in 2002 by former IDF chief of staff Moshe Yaalon:

"The Palestinians must be made to understand in the deepest recesses of their consciousness that they are a defeated people."

Pretty strong imagery, bringing to mind an Israeli boot planted firmly on the neck of a prostrate Palestinian. But a simple Google search immediately made it clear the quote is not just inaccurate but turns the meaning of Yaalon's actual words upside down, so I wrote about the matter on Commentary magazine's Contentions blog.

(Meanwhile, the trusty folks at CAMERA had also been on the case and are demanding a correction or clarification from the Times.)

The bogus version of the quote (which Khalidi did not originate but which he used in his 2005 book Resurrecting Empire) has been circulating on the web since at least early 2003, cited ad nauseam by Arab news services, neo-Nazi websites and leftist bloggers, though never with a hyperlink to the actual article where it supposedly appeared - an August 2002 interview in the Israeli daily Haaretz.

Here is what Yaalon actually said when asked, "Do you have a definition of victory? Is it clear to you what Israel's goal in this war is?":

"I defined it from the beginning of the confrontation: the very deep internalization by the Palestinians that terrorism and violence will not defeat us, will not make us fold. If that deep internalization does not exist at the end of the confrontation, we will have a strategic problem with an existential threat to Israel. If that [lesson] is not burned into the Palestinian and Arab consciousness, there will be no end to their demands of us."

He later elaborated:

"The facts that are being determined in this confrontation - in terms of what will be burned into the Palestinian consciousness - are fateful. If we end the confrontation in a way that makes it clear to every Palestinian that terrorism does not lead to agreements, that will improve our strategic position. On the other hand, if their feeling at the end of the confrontation is that they can defeat us by means of terrorism, our situation will become more and more difficult."

Tellingly, the same week Haaretz ran the interview with Yaalon, the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharanot published the transcript of a speech Yaalon had just given to a conference of rabbis in Jerusalem. Its blunt tone drew criticism from leftists, but the sentiments expressed dovetailed with what Yaalon told Haaretz: "It is imperative that we win this conflict in such a way that the Palestinian side will burn into its consciousness that there is no chance of achieving goals by means of terror."

It's clear, then, that in both his speech to the rabbis and his interview with Haaretz, Yaalon - far from saying the Palestinians had to be "made to understand in the deepest recesses of their consciousness that they are a defeated people" - was stating that the Palestinians had to understand that Israel would not be defeated by violence and terror.

Further indication that Yaalon did not make the remark attributed to him by Khalidi and others is that two days after publication of the Haaretz interview, Israeli über-leftist Uri Avnery wrote a column in Maariv detailing everything he found offensive in Yaalon's responses. There was no reference to any statement by Yaalon about making the Palestinians understand that "they are a defeated people."

It's hard to say with any degree of certainty who first circulated the egregious misquote, though one of the earliest and most oft-cited sources is Henry Siegman, formerly a Jewish organizational official and for years now one of Israel's fiercest critics in the American Jewish community. Siegman has used the misquote in a number of columns over the past six years, though not always consistently.

What is fairly certain is that this is yet one more example of an insensitive or incendiary comment falsely attributed to Israeli officials (one of the most notorious is the statement Ariel Sharon is supposed to have made regarding Israel's control of Congress) and given eternal life among in cyberspace for the comfort and edification of Israel's enemies.

Leftist Support

An interesting dimension to the current war in Israel is the large number of Israeli leftists who have taken to defending the cause. See this New York Times article on the country being united while most other countries are against it. Even A.B. Yehoshua gets in on the pr act.

Listen also to an interview with Zev Chafets on WNYC's Brian Lehrer program. While Chafets is not what anyone would call a leftist as far as Palestinian concerns go, in this interview he sounds like a member of Manhigut Yehudit.


It may be simply that when everyone else is against your country, you stand up for it, even if you regularly disparage it so many ways (in the case of Yehoshua and others, not Chafets). Or, even more simply, that they easily understand how dangerous thousands of rockets landing in their cities is, and how, God forbid, one of them can one day reach the heart of a major population center.

One could wish for two outcomes from this. That foreigners will take note that such pro-Palestinian Israelis support this strike and conclude that there is much justice behind it. And second, that even after the current war, the Israeli left will see how little international support Israel received and stop befriending and defending the international community (and even reconsider some of their views on how friendly the Palestinians are to Israel.)


Of course, you could also wish for Warren Buffett to suddenly decide he needs an old friend to hold onto his remaining billions and do with it as he sees fit, and then for him to vaguely recall that you went to college with him and you two were great friends, and, you know what, here, take all his assets. But wishing hasn't brought you a penny yet.

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Tel Aviv University Professor Inverts Reality

Another Israeli academic for a Hamas victory?


There is a malicious piece of anti-Israel propaganda making its rounds through the sewers of the Left, claiming there is "statistical proof" that it is always Israel and not the Palestinians who violate ceasefires. It was written by the maliciously anti-Semitic Anat Biletzki, a professor of philosophy at Tel Aviv University, and two anti-Semitic colleagues of hers from outside Israel. Biletzki knows absolutely nothing about statistics. The piece may be read here.

By exactly the same "statistical proof," one can prove that it was the US who attacked Japan at Pearl Harbor. The malicious piece of propaganda was distributed in my own university to faculty by Professor of Psychology Ramzi Suleiman, who was the first Arab Dean of anything at any university in Israel. Who is Anat Biletzki, author of the Statistical Proof that the earth is flat? See this.

There is a sense of course in which it is correct that Israel always stops the ceasefires. That is because in the "ceasefires" the Pestilianians continue to shoot and engage in terror against Israel, while Israel turns the other cheek, and thus the "ceasefire" can only end when Israel shoots back.

A group of British academic anti-Semites is circulating an electronic leaflet in which they explain that insists that 8000 Hamas rockets landing on Israeli civilians just do not count, because they are just symbolic protests and do not do very much damage. Therefore it is only Israeli retaliation that counts as the launching of war.

Translation: dead Jews do not count because Jewish lives have no value and Jews deserve to be sent to concentration camps. Some of the Brit signatories are the usual Jewish anti-Semites. Since Jewish life does not count, it would be an unbearably disproportionate response even if Olmert were to respond to thousands of rockets fired at Israel by sneezing in the general direction of the Hamas, and the entire department of political science at Ben Gurion University would denounce this as biological warfare by Israel againt innocent Palestinians.

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Deja Vu all Over Again - Test your Hebrew!

The above leaflet is dated November 1, 1956. It is an Israeli army leaflet during the Sinai Campaign, and includes instructions for Israeli soldiers preparing to invade the gaza Strip to put a stop once and for all to Gaza terrorism against the Jews in the Negev.

The headline at the top reads, "The Desire to Win is the First Condition for Victory." One would be hard pressed to come up with a better piece of advice for the Israeli political establishment these days, the same people who have been pursuing peace through appeasemnent and capitulation for almost two decades, insisting that weakness is the highest form of strength and that surrender is the highest form of victory.

It then reads, "Tonight Israeli soldiers will be breaking into the Gaza Strip, a living appendage of the State of Israel that was ripped from our own body."

Got that? Maybe someone should tell Olmert and his pack of Osloids that Gaza is part of the Land of Israel!

The leaflet ends with a call to soldiers in large fonts, "Strike the enemy! Then go back and strike again!"

No Kum-ba-ya?

Nope - those were the days when Israeli leaders were still willing to seek a military solution to the problems of terrorism rather than whine about how the Jews are being insensitive to the "Palestinian" Other. There were no Palestinians back then. Just Arab terrorists who did not even refer to themselves as a "Palestinian people."

Oh, if only we could go back to those days of national survivalism, instead of the weenie lemminghood that has been imposed on israel by its leaders!

KAJ Stalwart Passes Away

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Tel Aviv University professor Invents new Anti-Semitic Blood Libel

Anti-Zionist Tel Aviv University professor Professor Moshe Zuckerman (history) tells German radio that Israel has murdered 400,000 Palestinians during the Gaza conflict. See this report. Head of TAU's Institute for German History.

Vienna-based veteran journalist and media critic Karl Pfeifer slammed Deutschlandradio for its interview with Israeli historian and sociologist Moshe Zuckermann on Friday. Zuckermann told a widely-heard radio program that Israel had killed 400,000 Palestinians during the Gaza conflict.
At the time of interview, the reported number of deaths was about 400.
Speaking to the Post, Pfeifer criticized the radio interviewer, Birgit Kolkmann, for failing to "interrupt" Zuckermann.
"Any serious journalist would have asked the question" regarding the accuracy of the number of deaths, he said.
Pfeifer said Deutschlandradio only corrected its on-line transcript eight hours after the broadcast and he demanded that Kolkmann be sacked.
Thomas Wische, an editor with Deutschlandradio, told the Post that Zuckermann's comment was a "bad mistake." He said he spoke to Zuckermann following the revelation and that Zuckermann had been embarrassed by it.
Wische added that Kolkmann "did not notice" the error, and there is no "bad intention or ideology" behind the broadcast of 400,000 deaths.
But the broadcast can be heard on-line, and Wische said Deutschlandradio would not be modifying the live broadcast.
Zuckermann writes for the aggressively anti-Zionist left-wing paper junge Welt. Journalist Ivo Bozic, who writes for German weekly Jungle World, has written that junge Welt has become the "central German newspaper of Hamas" during the conflict.
When asked about Zuckermann and junge Welt, Wische said the Deutschlandradio sought to "document a piece of the opinion spectrum" with its Zuckermann interview.

*** Just imagine what he tells his STUDENTS! Want to tell the heads of Tel Aviv University what you think of Zuckerman's activities?
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President, Professor Zvi Galil
Email spiegelr@post.tau.ac.il
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and galil@post.tau.ac.il
Tel Aviv University
P.O. Box 39040
Tel Aviv 69978
ISRAEL
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