Doofus of the Day Award

June 21, 2002

by Steven Plaut

We are considering introducing a "Doofus of the Day" award, for the stupidest idea to come out of the mout or crayon of any Jew on any particular day. And for today’s award we nominate... (drumroll)... historian Howard M. Sachar. Yes the one and the same, the guy who wrote all those nice books about Jewish history from his nice safe hiding place on M Street NW, at George Washington University.

Sachar gets the award thanks to his silly little Op-Ed in the Jerusalem Post June 20, 2002 entitled "Peace Must Be Imposed."

In recent months, Jewish leftists have been getting desperate, now that almost no one outside the Labor Party and the Israeli universities any longer supports Oslo suicide and leftist peace paganism. Hence their latest brainstorm is to call on the US and the other world powers to "impose a solution" on the Middle East.

Now let us be clear about this. Calls to "impose a solution" are essentially nothing more than calls for the complete negation of Israeli sovereignty. These are people who want Israelis to lose the power to govern themselves and select their own government and their own national policies. Jews who issue calls for "imposing solutions" are in fact calling for the reversal of Israeli independence and statehood.

And just guess what kind of settlement exactly the peace-loving compassionate world powers would impose on the Middle East.

The last time the great powers of the world imposed a solution on the Jews, it cost six million lives.

The EU has now officially taken action against terrorism ... by adding to its official list of terrorist organizations the Kahane Chai organization. Kahane Chai is a splinter left over from the old JDL-Kach movement of Rabbi Meir Kahane, who was murdered by an Arab terrorist in New York. The EU is in fact simply following in the McCarthyist pawprints already laid down in the mud by Israel’s own anti-democratic governments of the Labor Party and the Likud, which declared the Kahanist groups as "terrorists" and illegal racist organizations and banned them and denied them free speech. The US has also hopped on this McCarthyist anti-democratic bandwagon, which is a bit amusing since Kahanist groups operate legally in the United States and are protected by the First Amendment.

Now what should we make of all this? After all, Kahane Chai has never killed anyone at all. The most violent it has ever gotten was exchanging a few punches with the bodyguard of Ahmed Tibi, a man very much in need of some fisticuffs. I would not go so far as to say that the Kahane Chai people have never broken any law, but I would also not go so far as to say that I have never broken any law.

So what should be done about this wave of international McCarthyism?

Simple.

All we have to do is to declare that the EU is a terrorist organization. Actually, it IS!! After all, unlike the Kahanist fringe, the EU does in fact support terrorism - in lots of ways. It just this week approved ponying up some more wampum for Arafat and his stormtroopers, since the EU has determined that the PLO is not involved in any terrorism, unlike the Kahanists.

So send off a fax or email to the US Senate today. Let’s get them to declare the EU an international terrorist organization. While we are at it, maybe we can get them to add CNN, Meretz, Ben Gurion University, and all the other obvious terrorist institutions.