Where is Robert Louis Stevenson when we REALLY Need Him? (and related stories)
Maariv today reports that the Hamas wing of the PLO is planning a
change in tactics. It is planning to kidnap "Israeli leaders" and hold
them as hostages while it extorts concessions.
Now I have been thinking about this and how dastardly it really is.
Just suppose the Hamas were to kidnap Shimon Peres and Yossi Beilin and
hold them as hostages. Do you realize what this means? I mean, it could
bankrupt the entire Israeli economy if we were extorted by the Hamas and
forced to pay them billions for them to KEEP Peres and Beilin held as
hostages!!
Speaking of Peres, I neglected to mention that the booklet (actually
a 44 page small book) of the statements of Uncle Shimon assembled and
available from AFSI was put together by Roger A. Gerber and Rael Jean
Isaac. Parts of the book can be sampled on the AFSI web site which is
www.afsi.org.
And earlier version had been distributed to Knesset Members shortly
before Peres lost in his bid for the Israeli Presidency (Prez is elected
by Knesset) to Katsav, and several MK’s apparently changed their votes in
response, so this is an enormous feather in the bonnets of the dynamic duo
from AFSI!
The Haifa weekly Kolbo reports Dec 21, 01 that an organization of Arab
students at Haifa University called "Sons of the Village" has issued
leaflets on campus openly calling for the destruction of Israel. My guess
is the campus authorities will respond by increasing their scholarships.
Speaking of Haifa, the leftist Indonesian Mayor of Haifa, Amram
Mitsna, has a new Deputy Mayor, Alexander Amal, an Arab representative in
the City Council from the HADASH Stalinist party. Amal has a long track
record of supporting Palestinian terrorism.
Maariv Dec 21 reports that the son of Professor of McCarthyism and
ex-cabinet minister in the Barak junta, Shlomo Ben-Ami, the man for whom
no amount of Oslo concessions to the PLO can ever be enough, has a son, it
turns out. Junior is named Anar Ben-Ami (catch the Arab name?). Seems
junior is employed as a computer geek in the Israeli Embassy in Paris.
Globes, Israel’s business daily, yesterday revealed that junior Ben-Ami
forced the Embassy to open late on the evening of Yom Kippur, shortly
before Kol Nidre and long after it had closed so that staff could prepare
for Yom Kippur, just so that they could issue him with a new passport so
that he could spend Yom Kippur flying to Africa for some holiday
frolicking.
Junior first got his gig there when Poppa was Foreign Minister for a
while. Junior’s boss, the Ambassador to France, was appointed by Poppa.