1. At the sidelines of the news about the usual anarchist circus in designer jeans now making its theatrical appearances for the braindead in New York City, that is, the folks who like to protest against capitalism and globalization while tearing up Broadway, there is an interesting little item. It seems that New York’s finest have decided to apply a little-known law going back to 1845 making it illegal to hold protests, demonstrations, or participate in mass activities WHILE COVERING ONE’S FACE with a mask or similar. Anyone with their face covered is liable for arrest even IF HE is otherwise not breaking any laws. (Herald Trib Jan 30, 02)

   Many other states have similar laws; in the South they are called anti-Klan laws, originally designed to stomp down on Klan activity.

   Now I mention this because I have been petitioning Israeli governments for 20 years to adopt a similar law against engaging in public or political activities or protests while one’s face is covered by a kafiya, and to name the law Israel’s anti-Klan Law, based on the US laws. If the US would grumble, Israel would just say she has adopted a law common in many US states. The law would be used to haul off any Arab throwing rocks at Jews or otherwise partying while his face is covered by a kafiya, such as the pogromchiks in the Galilee last year, 13 of whom were shot when attacking police and passersby, and for which Ehud Barak later "apologized" (but did not apologize for shooting ONLY 13). I have never received a response to my petitions, including from Likud governments.

2. You may have noticed the Saudi prince denounced the US for its "indefensible position regarding the Middle East", while at the same time calling for closer ties with the US that do not involve the US nuking Saudi Arabia.

   Now this mention of the "indefensible position" of the US has inspired me to present a total and complete analysis of the Middle East conflict in one simple lesson. You are welcome to make use of it. I tried to get it down to the same number of words as Hillel but without success. Here goes:

   The Arabs believe it is their Allah-granted right to destroy Israel and to commit genocide against Jews. While they claim that they need to commit genocide because Palestinians are mistreated, in reality Israel treats Arabs a thousand times better than Arab regimes treat Arabs. Thus the Arabs seek to destroy Israel and to commit genocide simply because this is something they think would be fun to do. In other words, because they are savage barbarians little better than the Germans in the 1940s.

   The Arabs are angry at the United States because it disapproves of the idea of the Arabs perpetrating a Second Holocaust against Jews. The United States occasionally even backs Israel’s right to prevent Arabs from murdering Jews. This enrages the Arabs. Who the hell are the Americans to interfere with Arab plans for a nice Second Holocaust? How dare the US side with Israel when it defends itself against Arab murderers? Even worse, the US has not made a total all-out effort in preventing Israel from occasionally attacking Arab murderers in retaliation for their murdering Jews or to prevent their plans to murder Jews. And preventing murder and genocide is unforgivable interference in things that are none of the concern of the United States, say the Arabs.

   This is why the Arab world and most of the Moslem world are enraged at the United States. When Arabs demand that Americans ask themselves WHY they are so hated in the Middle East, this is the precise answer.

3. By the way, the five gents who became McNuggets in the Gaza Strip today were from the Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, set up by Naif Hawatme. You may recall that it was precisely this group that perpetrated the mass murder of children at Maalot in the early 1970s. At the time I was a grad student at the Hebrew U. I will never forget the fact that the week before the atrocity in Maalot, the local leftist student rag at the Hebrew University came out for negotiations with, meetings with, and reaching an agreement with .... (drums) ... the very same terrorist group, the PDFLP. This was decades before the total conversion of Israel’s Left into the official Israeli movement for national suicide. (Actually, it was even before the same people came out for striking deals with Arafat and the PLO, arguing that the Marxie PDFLP was better and more progressive)

4. One corollary of the above MidEast-in-One-Simple-Lesson involves the use of the term "racism". Israel’s anti-Jewish Left uses the word "racism" the way most people use commas. "Racism", when used by the Left, has only one single meaning = alleged Jewish "racism" against Arabs, manifested in such things as Arabs getting lower math grades than Jews. More generally, the Caring Left believes the entire Middle East conflict is a byproduct of Jewish anti-Arab "racism", and that the solution is for the Jews to repent and make affirmative action and compensate the Arabs and to be nice to them. Or to put it another way, when Arabs randomly mass murder Jewish children, this is NOT racism. But should a Jew endorse the principle that Jews have the right to defend themselves against such attacks, now THAT would be racism. When Israel assassinates terrorhoids in the territories who murder Jews, THAT is racism par excellence. Should Israel desist and allow those terrorists to murder Jewish children, THAT would be a step forward towards peace, part of the battle AGAINST racism.

   The reality of course is quite different. Racism is indeed a crucial and central part of the Middle East process. But it is the anti-Jewish racism of Israel’s Caring Left, the same people who oppose each and every act of self-defense by Israel and rationalize and excuse each and every manifestation of Arab Nazism. Who believe that every act of Arab savagery needs to be rewarded with Israeli concessions. It is this anti-Jewish racism that explains the blood union and alliance between Arab fascism and Jewish leftism. It is the new Axis of the Middle East.

5. You know how the traditional definition of chutzpah is when someone murders his parents and then asks for mercy from the court on grounds that he is an orphan?

   Well, we have a NEW definition. For the past year and a half the PLO has refused to agree to the semi-lemming Oslo Lite condition laid down by the Sharon government and opposed by Shimon Peres requiring there to be a seven day period of no atrocities by the Palestinians before resuming appeasement talks.

   Now the same PLO wants SHARON to refrain from any retaliation for 10 days after every terrorist atrocity, during which he should sit and wait to see if the PLO will arrest the perps. As if there is any question of whether it will or of whether the PLO itself is the perp.

   You think the fact that the world has a 3 day memory regarding Arab atrocities committed against Israel might have something to do with this new idea already being endorsed by the Israeli Caring Left?

Steven Plaut

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