The Labor Party bolshevik machinery is gearing up for action. No one even knows yet the full extent of the appeasements to which Ehud NeBARAKnezzar has agreed, yet here we already have large ads in the press by Peace Now (and War Next Year) endorsing the abandonment of Jerusalem to the PLO fascists. Labor Party apparatchiks and captive generalissimos are appearing every hour on TV and radio to explain how Israel has not really been in control of East Jerusalem since 1967 anyway, and so giving it up to PLO rule will not make any serious difference.

Ah, but perhaps the most significant tool in the bag of Labor Party slime is an escalation in the assault on free speech in Israel. Labor Party McCarthyism is about to escalate with a vengeance.

The immediate target of Labor bolshevism is General Efi Eitam. Eitam is one of the most interesting people in Israel. Raised on a kibbutz, he became Orthodox and a career officer, rising to the rank of Brigadier General. It is generally agreed that had he not become Orthodox he would have been a clear contender for the Chief of Staff of the IDF. The current Chief of Staff has made no secret of his intentions to block Eitam’s career and prevent him from moving to even higher rank. Can’t have any of those non-Leftist Orthodox running around the IDF headquarters can we?

Given the campaign against him, Eitam has decided to leave the army and is commonly regarded as contender for party head of the National Religious Party, someone who might extract it from mothballs and light a fire under it.

In the past week or so, Eitam - who is still in uniform - has been speaking his mind more freely and with less fear of retaliation (since he is leaving anyway). And this has upset the leftist machine. In particular, Eitam said "The government must NOT turn Jerusalem over to that murderer Arafat."

This statement has caused Israel’s Lemming Left to soil itself with anger. First, how dare Eitam criticize the government for its pursuing the leftist agenda? It is not exactly like he was joining all those other generals and Shin Bet officers urging Barak to make even MORE concessions to the Palestinians. THEY of course should enjoy protected free speech.

But to call Arafat a murderer? In post-survivalist post-democratic Israel of Ehud Barak? Unthinkable. The Israeli leftist parties, including Meretz, the Arab Fascist-Stalinists, and parts of the Labor Party are openly demanding that Eitam be sacked at once, stripped of his position in the military, and even denied financial perqs he has earned.

This assault on Eitam’s right of free speech and expression is merely the first taste of things to come. Once Barak actually brings his Munich capitulation up for formal passage, get set for the bolshevik assault on free speech in its full vigor.

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