Israel under Ehud Barak may be a parody of a Jewish state, but here and there one can still find items of intense amusement and inspiration.

Take the matter of all those Hamas terrorists begging the PLO to allow them to return to prison.

You see, in the past few weeks Israel has been quietly assassinating Hamas, Jihad, and PLO Fat’h terrorists whom the Palestinian Authority has released from prison as part of the go-ahead for terrorism from His Ugliness. And at a pace of about one per day, these gents have been meeting tragic ends. Shot to death in back alleys. Blown to smithereens mysteriously. Shot to pieces by missiles from helicopters.

Now, some of these terrorists have read the writing on the wall and are asking the PLO to protect them from assassination by allowing them to return to prison. (Haaretz Dec 19, 00). "Protective Incarceration". The PLO is not real happy about this. The PLO prefers that they be out on the street preparing roadside bombs, suicide bombings, and other wholesome civics activities. Arafat himself personally ordered the release of the Hamas leader in Gaza, Dr. Abdel Aziz al-Rentisi (Haaretz Dec 19), who was released the very same day the PLO blackshirts lynched the two reserve soldiers in Ramallah.

So I can already see the New Passover Haggada of the Palestinian Authority, to be published this year. The Hamas terrorists come before the short ugly Pharaoh with the bobbing chin, and they beg him "Let My People Go to prison", while Shimon Peres is begging the Pharaoh to implement ten plagues against the Israelites to make them come to their senses.

Incidentally, those who thought I was too harsh on Netanyahu should ask themselves if Bibi would now be assassinating Hamas and Fat’h terrorists if he were PM or making further goodwill gestures to them.

Meanwhile, if anyone asks who is behind the assassinations, just say the OAS. You may recall that the OAS was the name of the French underground in Algeria blowing up FLN terrorists in the 1960s. When PLO-Hamas terrorists planted bombs at the Beit Lid junction near Netanyahu a few years back, you may recall that Arafat told a group of reporters that he had the inside scuttlebutt that it was actually Israeli army officers operating under the name OAS who had planted the bombs.

So if anyone asks about the hits, just refer them to the OAS.

During World War II, there was a British traitor named William Joyce who went to work for the Nazis in Germany as a radio propagandist. The British quickly nicknamed him Lord Haw-Haw, due to the level of silliness of some of his news releases. He stuck by Hitler until even AFTER Hitler had committed Oslo in his Berlin bunker.

Anyway, the Lord Haw-Haw of the Middle East is no doubt Uri Avnery. Avnery runs a splinter protest movement named Gush Shalom, which always seems to have an endless source of funds for running ads calling on Israel to surrender to all Arab demands. I suspect the money comes from the Tikkunesque New Israel Fund in the US, which funds assorted extremists and far-leftists in Israel including communist party front groups.

Avnery is the father of Israeli anti-Zionism and crayoned a book, "Israel Without Zionists", that came out shortly after the Six day War. He published a leftist semi-pornographic magazine for many years called Haolam Hazeh and then ran for the Knesset and actually got elected as a sort of protest vote in the 1970s. He eventually went bankrupt and sold the magazine to friends of Arik Sharon, who soon shut it down. Ever since, Avnery has been the favorite Jew of the Hamas and the New Israel Fund and Tikkun. He frequently writes for Maariv.

In today’s Haaretz ad by Israel’s Lord Haw-Haw, Avnery is simply livid with anger. He can barely control his fury. What is he so hot about? About Israel assassinating Hamas terrorists. Doesn’t Israel know that the only PROPER way to deal with Hamas terror is to surrender completely to its demands, to dismantle Israel and expel all the Jews who do not belong there?

Lord Haw-Haw’s web site is gush-shalom.org.

In Algeria Islamist terrorists killed 15 school children yesterday. Could they have been influenced by that Pink Floyd Song "We don’t want no education"?

A few days ago I stopped in the grocery store with my 10 year old and suddenly we see A. B. Yehoshua walking out of the store with a few groceries. Yehoshua lives near us and we have even seen him a few times in shul, such as on Purim. My son says, Daddy isn’t that A. B. Yehoshua the famous Israeli writer? I say yep it is. My son says, But look his shoe laces are untied. I say, yep you are right again. My son says, Maybe we should tell him cause they might make him fall down the steps. I then explained to my son that sometimes it is not proper to interfere with God’s plans for the world.

I mention this because there is a big Op-Ed article in today’s Haaretz by A. B. Yehoshua together with Amos "The Scarecrow of" Oz. Its point is essentially that people should not support Barak for reelection unless Barak agrees to move further to the Left and adopt the entire set of Leftist demands for Israeli national suicide.

Well just days before he gets thrown out of the White House and all its nice indoor plumbing, Clinton has decided that he will go down in the history books not ONLY as the President who engaged in oral sex with an intern his daughter’s age in the White House, but also as the President who decided a month before he left office NOT to move the US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.

Some cars belonging to the Washington Post were torched in Jerusalem. Now who could possibly have wanted to torch the cars belonging to one of the most Israel-bashing papers in the world? I suspect it was Richard Nixon.

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