1. There are plenty of reasons why a Palestinian state should be prevented at all costs.

   Its raison d’etre would be to increase violence in the Middle East, not decrease it. It would be just one more Islamist fascist Taliban-clone state. It would be an oppressive Third World kleptocracy. It would seek war with Israel, not peace, hoping that eventually the Arab world will join it in destroying Israel and its population.

   But perhaps the best reason why a Palestinian state should never be created was offered in George Bush’s speech, without him realizing it, indeed in the very speech in which he demanded that a Palestinian state be CREATED.

   Bush insists three times a day that the war against the Taliban and bin Laden is a war against evil. Yet the creation of a Palestinian state would be the REWARDING OF ABSOLUTE EVIL. It would be the rewarding of decades of atrocities and Nazi xenophobia and aggression by Palestinians. And while there are plenty of OTHER reasons why it should not be done, preventing THAT is the best reason.

   If the Palestinians ever had any moral or legitimate claim to statehood, and there is doubt whether they ever had, they lost all rights to a state through decades of atrocities. It is time to say so loud and clear.

   Of course, it is hard to complain about George W. offering to reward Palestinian evil as part of his campaign against absolute evil.

   After all, he is simply doing what every Israeli government over the past decade has said needs to be done, down to and including the current government of Sheriff Ariel Sharon. Why, Sharon’s own Foreign Minister insisted over the weekend that a unilateral declaration of statement by His Ugliness at the UN this week would be a very constructive and positive step, and no Sharon has NOT locked Peres in a cage at the Jerusalem Zoo. Sharon himself has been saying that the Palestinians deserve their own state rather than denazification. SO if Bush were to OPPOSE a Palestinian state, this would be downright anti-Israel, or, at least harmful to what a decade’s worth of Oslunacy has represented as what Israel needs.

2. Sdeh Boker in the Negev is where David Ben-Gurion is buried. Over the weekend the synagogue in Sdeh Boker was rampaged and torched, items of value stolen, anti-Orthodox graffiti scribbled about. While it sounds like a typical act of conciliation by Israeli Green Line Arabs, it turns out the vandalism was the work of a student, one Andy Farbo, no doubt a groupie of Tommy Lapid. Apparently he was simply carrying to the logical conclusion the anti-Orthodox incitement he hears 24 hours a day from the leftist media and from the Orthodox-bashing parties in Israel, from the Tommy Lapids and Yossi Sarids.

   Yes, Farbo is the ideal poster boy for radical secularist 21st century Osloid Israel.

3. Selective free speech is still in the news. It seems that some ultra-Orthodox haredim in Bnai Barak decided to change the name of the main street there to Rabbi Shach street, named after the distinguished Rabbi who died a few days ago. The problem is the same street used to be Herzl Boulevard. A group of teenagers from the Zionist Youth Council wanted to demonstrate their displeasure at this change.

   Fair enough.

   Except the police refused to allow them to protest. Seems they represented a clear and present danger of violence. SO the McCarthyism that last week prevented the Kahanists from holding posters has metastasized and is this week preventing free speech for the Zionist Youth Council wishing to defend Herzl’s name.

   Now when is free speech PROTECTED? When it is the free speech of Azmi Bashara - Israel’s Oswald Mosley. Bashara just had his parliamentary immunity stripped for his career of treason, including appearing fang-to-fang with the head of the Hizbollah and calling for Israel’s destruction. The Left in Israel is complaining that if Bashara is prosecuted for his treason or for calling for mass murder of Jews and attacks on Israel, then by the same token NONE of the Knesset Members from the Arab Stalinist Fascist parties would be safe from prosecution, and the authentic voice of Arab support for genocide of Jews would then be silenced.

   Ttccch tttcccch!

   Of course, Oswald Mosley was jailed by Churchill for far less serious acts of treason than Bashara’s. I also remind you that a few years back the Tikkunesque New Israel Fund in the US wanted to host Bashara as the true and legitimate spokesman for progressive Israel and still probably funds his little Taliban movement. If Bashara protested that he wanted Herzl Boulevard changed to Hitler Boulevard, now THAT would be protected free speech in Israel.

   Anyway, a demonstration was held yesterday to support Bashara’s right to endorse genocide as free speech. Among the protesters were the now de rigueur participants from the Israeli universities, the state-financed tenured leftist extremist professors. Among them was a spokesmarxist, one Adi Ophir, a lecturer at Tel Aviv University and an expert on gay Marxist Deconstructionist murderer Michel Foucault. He is also expert on the "social causes of evil," in other words how capitalism and inequality cause evil, and spends time explaining how exploitation of the Holocaust by Israel has been used to oppress the Palestinians. Anyway, Ophir is cited in the papers at the protests as explaining why Bashara needs be supported when he endorses terrorism.

   If you wish to give him a piece of your mind, his email is adiophir@post.tau.ac.il

   Now these brave defenders of free speech have nothing to say about the suppression of free speech for the Kahanists nor for the Zionist Youth Council nor for any of the others denied free speech in Israel thanks to leftist McCarthyism. Nor have they spoken up over the question of whether Andy Farbo’s act should be protected speech.

   Want another example of an attack on free speech that these valiant professors do not wish to protest? It is the Haaretz editorial today. The editorial is an open call to take steps to suppress and stomp down on those people who are trying to get secularist Jews to be more observant, to become "chozrim b’tshuva". People encouraging such increased observance are a threat to society and their free speech should be suppressed, apparently Haaretz believes. Think I am kidding? Check out: http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=93240&contrassID=2&subContrassID=3&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y

4. Meanwhile the International Red Cross has decided once again not to allow the Israeli Red Magen David to be part of the association. The reason is that Israel refuses to use a red cross as its symbol. Of course the Moslem countries also do not use a red cross, only a red crescent. Which is why Afghanistan under the Taliban is a bona fide member of the International Red Cross, the same Red Cross that collaborated with Nazi Germany, but Israel’s Maden David Adom is not.

5. Well, as part of the campaign against complete evil, seems the Hizbollah is getting a personal exemption. Bush is not taking any serious measures against it, and it continues to operate all of its bank accounts freely. In typical Arab Orwellism, neither Lebanon nor its Syrian masters will recognize Hizbollah as a terrorist group, merely a resistance against occupation movement (kind of like the Einsatzgruppen were), and so all its assets in Beirut are safe. Bush has done nothing in response, like freezing Lebanon and Syria’s financial assets.

   Meanwhile, three bastions of civilization have now come out in DEFENSE of the Hizbollah, and in support of the exemption for the Hizbollah from the list of evil terrorists and asset freezing. Among these are France, the same country that regards the Corsican Liberation Army as terrorists, Russia, which regards the Chechnyan militias as terrorists, and our good friend and moderate peace partner Egypt, which regards Zionism as terrorism.

6. Well the World Trade Organization is meeting in Qatar, but strangely none of the usual anti-globalization circus creatures are out there today trashing the town in the name of justice and equality, not even Rabbi David Saperstein. Now where are the anti-globalization anarchists when we really need them?

7. A few days ago, Dani Neve, the Likud cabinet minister the Left most loves to hate now that they no longer have Rehavan Zeevi to kick about, was forced to leave his home in Jerusalem due to intelligence reports that PLO/Hamas terrorists were planning to assassinate him. This is interesting, because it now appears that the PLO is trying to assassinate those Rightist Israeli cabinet ministers whose murders it suspects the Israeli Left would applaud. Ghandi was first. The Left has long loved attacking Dani Neve with the most vulgar ad hominems.

   Indeed, Friday evening, the Marxist leprechaun and Palestinian-wannabe of Channel One, an arrogant and foul-mouthed Amnon Avramovich, attacked Neve for cowardice in agreeing to leave his home to avoid getting murdered with his family. Much better to stay home and be assassinated and so become the newest human sacrifice to the Oslunacy promoted by the leftist journalists of Channel One led by Avramovich. The fact that Avramovich continues to spout leftist propaganda in the name of news reporting on state-run TV even under a Sharon government explains why the Likud will get creamed in the next elections. The Likud has never had the stomach to govern, preferring to make all state decisions on the basis of its desire to be liked by leftists.

Steven Plaut

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