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OpinioNet Contributed Commentary - Steven Plaut
February 18, 2002
Breaking News: Israel Arrests Czech Prime Minister!
The Czech Prime Minister was on a state visit to Israel, and in one of
his speeches he stated that Arafat reminds him of Hitler. The Israeli
Attorney General immediately dispatched a police squad to arrest the Czech
PM for inciting against Oslo and against our peace partner, this in line
with the recent calls by Shimon Peres to end all public denunciations or
criticisms of Arafat and the PLO leadership.
Ok, I give in. Israel did NOT really arrest the Czech PM. That was
just a Purim gag. The Czech PM DID however compare Arafat to Hitler, and
no doubt Peres WOULD really have liked to arrest him for that. Of course,
the Czechs apparently learned something from Munich and from the campaign
for Sudeten self-determination that the Israeli Left never learned...
And now along comes Meretz bimbo Zahava Galon. Meretz has a long
history of selecting female sanity-challenged bimbettes to represent it in
the Knesset, and currently Galon is the Knesset Member trying to outdo all
the other Meretz entertainers in her leftist extremism. Today she has a
guest Op-Ed in Haaretz, the newspaper in which no expression of treason
ever misses press time.
Zehava is very concerned about human rights, all of a sudden. No, not
about the human rights of the children at the Karnei Shomron pizza parlor
blown to bits by the gent invited in and armed by Shimon Peres. And no she
is not concerned with the human rights of their mothers, nor of all those
women murdered and wounded by the assorted suicide bombers whose careers
were launched for them by Meretz. She is not concerned with the human
rights of the children of Gilo and Pisgot under PLO fire. She is not
concerned with the human rights of Jews whose homes are being shelled by
PLO mortars and rockets. She is not concerned with the human rights of
the families of the soldiers kidnapped by the Hizbollah. In fact, to be
brief, she could not care less for the human rights of any Jews. Just
like Betselem, huh?
So whose human rights is she suddenly all upset about? Those of Dirani
and Obeid, the two Lebanese terrorist leaders Israel is holding in
custody. Dirani of course is the gent who grabbed IDF navigator Ron Arad
15 years back and ignored the Geneva Convention and simply sold him to
Iran, from where he has never been heard since, although Zahava is not
concerned with Arad’s human rights nor those of his wife and daughter, and
Obeid is Dirani’s spiritual guru. The two are guests of the Israeli
prison authority, although the communists have been protesting and
demanding they be set free, now joined by little Zehava. The commies of
course would also like Mordecai Vanunu, jailed for nuclear espionage, to
be set free and indeed declared a national hero. Strangely, the rest of
the Knesset has not passed a bill assigning Zehava as the prison intern
working for Dirani as his personal Monica.
In any case, among those suddenly endorsing the rights of soldiers to
disobey orders are lefty Knesset Member Roman Bronfman, who cheered on the
military insubordination at a rally Saturday night of the Left taking
place the very same moments during which the PLO was blowing to pieces
Jewish children in Karnei Shomron at the pizza parlor. In addition, the
McCarthyist ex-Attorney General Michael Ben-Yair, the fellow who
cooperated with Peres and the Left in their McCarthyist prosecutions of
the anti-Oslo dissidents after the Rabin assassination, also suddenly
supports the insubordination. But then again, he never really had much
respect for the rule of law..
You can e-mail Steven at splaut@econ.haifa.ac.il.
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