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March 20, 2002

Steven Plaut

Yet another Human Rights Transgression by the Jews


Oh dear. It seems that Israel once again is accused of dreadful human rights offenses. Haaretz is terribly upset. The Campus Reds and the Four Mothers will no doubt be next in line to scream. Colin Powell will have a new reason to be angry.

Friends, it seems that one of the Palestinian nazis who lynched, mutilated and murdered the two Israeli reserve soldiers in Ramallah last year has been roughed up while in prison. By another Arab. And those insensitive Jewish guards just stood about and did nothing!

Yes, this repeat of Sabra and Shatilla took place this week in an Israeli prison facility. Haaretz says so (March 20, 02). The victim of this heartless crime was himself one of the gentlemen philosophers who had been in the mob that grabbed the two reservists, gouged out their eyes, murdered them, threw them out the PLO headquarters window, then marched about with the blood of the two Jews dripping from their hands in the Palestinian version of Mardi Gras. Some of those lynchers were later caught by Israel and made guests of the prison authorities.

In the human rights atrocity that occurred this week, one of these perps was in the loo when another Palestinian guest of the prison entered the same, seeking to settle some personal score with him in the manner of Oslo peace negotiatioons. Haaretz claims that the guards KNEW that he was going to beat up the perp and stood by doing nothing. And, oh the humanity, the poor lyncher was mishandled and struck by his fellow Palestinian seeker of peace!

When asked about this by the fearless Haaretz reporters for human rights, the military spokesman said he had not heard about any such incident.

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The latest Oslo achievement: So many people are afraid of being murdered while going to visit the Western Wall that the Israel Ministry of Tourism is paying a subsidy to any group who go there to pray. It is only a matter of hours before Tommy Lapid will denounce this as backdoor subsidizing of the Orthodox primitives.

Steven Plaut
University of Haifa


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