OpinioNet Contributed Commentary

Date - December 2, 2001
Author - Steven Plaut

The Jerusalem Lake of Blood
(and related stories)

  1. Yassir Arafat did not turn Jerusalem last night into a lake of blood.

    Neither did the Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

    The bloodbath last night in Jerusalem was perpetrated by Shimon Peres and the Israeli Left.

    Shimon Peres and the Israeli Left turned the West Bank and the Gaza Strip into enormous terrorist bases and mortar factors. They initiated the policy of Oslo hara-kiri that Israel has followed since the early 1990s. They invited Arafat’s stormtroopers into town and gave them carte blanche to murder Jews. They provided the PLO with weapons and continue to prop it up even as we speak. They pay its bills, they hand it cash. They continue to thwart the possibility of responding to PLO atrocities with Israeli warfare.

  2. Without it being a contradiction to the previous paragraph, when Israel is ultimately destroyed, 40% of the blame will rest on the shoulders of the Israeli Labor Party and Meretz, while 60% of the blame will fall on the Likud.

    If you think this contradicts the previous paragraph, this is because you do not realize that the Likud is part of the Israeli Left.

    The Likud was elected to office twice in the past five years for the single purpose of tearing up Oslo, re-occupying the West Bank and Gaza, dispatching the PLO to terrorist heaven, and restoring sanity to Israel. In both cases, it refused to do so. In both cases it continued Oslo, responding to PLO atrocities with campaigns of Jewish niceness, with turning the other cheek, with diplomatic "offenses" based on offering more concessions, more capitulations, more readiness to agree to Arab demands. In both cases, the government refused to respond to war with war. In both cases, the government at most killed a handful of junior-level PLO terrorist squad leaders, refusing to annihilate the real leadership of the terrorists. In both cases, the government of Israel preferred to allow hundreds of Jews to be murdered rather than to defy US calls for "restraint", demonstrating that they do not have even the backbone of the Northern Alliance leaders in Afghanistan.

    If you think the events of last evening in Jerusalem will alter things, then I have a surprise for you. Sharon will impose "closure" on West Bank cities, will lift it after a few days as a calming gesture in response to US hectoring. Once again, the Sharon government will allow the Palestinian day workers to come back to their day jobs, with bags of explosives in tow. Once again it will refuse to close off the West Bank and mine the roads that allow Palestinians free access to Israeli children. Once again the Israeli media and the tenured leftists will demand more concessions from Israel. Once again, Sharon will rededicate himself to fighting PLO atrocities through niceness. And in a few days, the next wave of atrocities will turn some other Israeli city into Dante’s Inferno.

  3. In November of 1993, just a few weeks after the Rabin-Arafat pawshake in Washington, I published an article in Midstream magazine about why Oslo would fail. It was one of 4 pieces on Oslo in that issue; the others were by Rabin, Beilin and Shlomo Gazit, a Laborite ex-General who knows on which side his toast is buttered (the Left side).

    In that article, and in several that followed it, among other things, I stated:

    The main effect of Oslo would be to turn the West Bank and Gaza into terrorist bases for attacks on Israel by PLO regulars and irregulars. That the PLO would seek to escalate violence in order to drag Arab nations into military confrontation with Green-Line Israel.

    That Arafat would dissemble and denounce the terrorist attacks on Israel while claiming he was doing his best to fight terror.

    That PLO shells and rockets would be aimed at Israel.

    That one effect of Oslo would be the radicalization and Nazification of Israeli Arabs.

    That the US and the EU would respond to Oslo by escalating its pressures and demands on ISRAEL for more concessions and denunciations of Israel for not being forthcoming enough.

    That the Israeli Left would respond to any failure of Oslo by demanding ever greater Oslo concessions and "progress".

  4. The Israeli chattering classes, and especially Haaretz, have always closely identified with those unwashed street preppies who protest against "globalization" and "capitalism" and tear up cities. The Israeli chattering elite still dreams of implementing socialism and turning Israel into the Belarus of the Middle East. Haaretz has always hailed the anti-globalization hooligans as great heroes and inspired prophets of progress.

    Last night, while Shimon Peres and his friends were blowing up downtown Jerusalem, a large business conference was held at the David International Hotel in Tel Aviv. The Israeli wing of the anti-globalization circus made its debut. The hotel and its police cordon were attacked by violent "anti-capitalism" rioters. Among the groups participating in the circus were the usual Stalinist movements in Israel, a new Communist Party front group named "Black Laundry", gay militant groups associated with Meretz, and ... (drumroll) … the Reform synagogue movement of Israel!! No joke!! (Source: Haaretz Dec 2.) As part of the continuing Tikkunization of the Reform movement. Twenty six hooligans were arrested; we do not know how many of these were Reform Rabbis.

  5. Tikkun Magazine, and its editor "Rabbi" Michael Lerner and its vedic guru, "Rabbi" Arthur Waskow, have issued a new fatwa announcing an official mourning period for the greatest Torah sage of all time, Rabbi George Harrison, of 83 days. Mourners are asked to stock up on lots of chulent and Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (LSD) to last them through this difficult period.

    A conference in his honor will be held after the morning period, entitiled "From Heschel to Harrison - the Foundations of a Caring New Jewishness", with special guest speakers, the reincarnations of Rabbi Jerry Garcia nd Rabbi Ken Kesey.

  6. Wondering who has been funding all those Der Sturmer anti-Jewish textbooks used by teh Palestinian Authority? Well, wonder no more! It is that paragon of internationa morality and justice now putting Arik Sharon on show trial for his niceness:

  7. URGENT REQUEST

    Please send a FAX (202-333-3079) to the Belgium embassy in Washington DC to let them know of your strong objection to their funding of this anti-Israel and anti-semitic textbook.


    The government of Belgium, knowingly or unknowingly, continues to support attacks on Israel.

    Please send a FAX (202-333-3079) to the Belgium embassy in Washington DC to let them know of your strong objection to their funding of this anti-Israel and anti-semitic textbook.

    Subject: CONTENT OF HATE BELGIUM IS FUNDING

    THE NEW PALESTINIAN TEXTBOOKS FUNDED BY BELGIUM

    "The Jewish claim to historical rights to Palestine has no justification, it is a deceitful and disproved claim with no parallel in history, it is a blatant lie... they [the Arabs] have resided in it [Palestine] since the dawn of the land’s history, before there were Jews in the world ... The Jews entered our homeland and left it just as other transient nations have entered and left it ... The Arabs, and not the Jews, are those who have the connection [to the land]. The return of the Jews to Palestine and permitting them to establish a Jewish State contradicts history" --- Introduction to the "Our Country, Palestine" encyclopedia

    Seems the Islamic Arabs are not aware of the undisputed FACT of HISTORY (something they do not seem accustomed to learning) that JEWS, JUDAISM, and JEWISH PRESENCE in ALL OF ISRAEL existed 2000 years before the birth of their "prophet" Mohammed (who NEVER went to Jerusalem), or the existence of any notion of Islam. This FACT alone shows the true nature of their unbridled temerity in holding the citizens of the world in complete contempt while they attempt to negate FACTS.

    "There is no alternative to destroying Israel" (ibid., p. 13).

    Secretary Powell MUST be made aware of the above teaching while he does his "visioning". Perhaps then he can get to addressing the real issues that face those who believe in freedom and democracy rather than awarding known killers of women and children with a terrorist state of their own.

    "The Achievements of the Palestinian Liberation Organization [include] the establishment of the independent Palestinian entity on the Palestinian lands that would be liberated." --- (National Education, Grade 6, 2000, p. 23)

    "The demographic problem has occupied a central place in the Arab-Israeli conflict during the last two decades. From the Palestinian point of view it has become the numerical challenge that will enable the Palestinian people during the coming two decades to stand against the Zionist settlement expansion and overcome it. From the Israeli point of view the demographic problem has become the danger hidden in the rates of natural increase among Palestinian families, which threatens in the foreseeable future the existence of a Jewish majority population... Therefore, the increase of fertility rates is a demographic weapon that can be used in resisting the occupation. It plays a positive role in winning the Arab-Israeli conflict...

    "The net migration of the Palestinians from 1948 until 1992 was always negative, in the sense that the number of emigrants from Palestine was much greater than the number of those who entered it. The net migration became positive in 1992..." --- (The Palestinian Society - DemographicEducation, Grade 11, p. 29, 36)

    Arafat claims "genocide", "crimes against humanity", "zionist acts as terrorism", but doing simple math uncovers yet more of his lies. In 1948, there were about 600,000 Arabs who call themselves Palestinians, who OF THEIR OWN FREE WILL left Israel. They never saw an Israeli soldier nor were they ever chased out. Today, there are 3 million Arabs who call themselves Palestinians. Going from 600,000 Muslims to 3 million in a span of 50 years can not be called "genocide" or "zionist terrorism" by anyones logic, even Arafats.

    This is what Belgium, a so called "civilized" country is funding. FAX your letters of protest about this to the Belgian Embassy in Washington EVERYDAY until further notice. Send a seperate letter protesting their summons of PM Sharon - (if you need writing points, let us know). Make sure to FAX, not e-mail as FAXES are more effective. IT IS VERY URGENT the Belgian Embassy gets swamped with protest letters EVERYDAY.

    BELGIAN EMBASSY IN WASHINGTON:
    TEL: 202-333-6900 FAX: 202-333-3079

Steven Plaut


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