1. Claude was 29 years old. He had moved to Israel from Chile with his family years ago. After his parents split up, his mother raised him and his two brothers, Ricardo and Yigal.

   Claude served in the Givati infantry brigade, and when released lived in Tiberias.

   Claude was working as a trainer of seeing eye dogs, to assist the blind, Jews and Arabs. He was travelling home with Dafna, a dog that was being trained and was almost ready to be supplied to a blind person. In the minibus on the way home, an Israeli Arab sat next to him. The Arab was a member of a terrorist ring. He had just planted a large bomb the evening before on a Tel Aviv main street, a bomb that miraculously "only" caused property damage and did not kill anyone. The evening after that bomb was planted and before the trip in the minibus, the terrorist stayed overnight with his Jewish girlfriend in Holon, a true symbol of the Oslo peace process. Helping peace to break out in the New Middle East.

   The police were on the trail of the terrorist, but were bungling things in their usual way. In any case, when the minibus approached a road block, the terrorist set off a bomb he was carrying. Claude was killed.

   Dafna was badly injured.

   The terrorist is badly injured but thanks to Jewish medicine, his life will be saved and he will live. The press played coy all day yesterday, unwilling to reveal that most of those injured in the blast were Arabs, two under suspicion of being in cahoots with the bomber. Can’t have any Schadenfreud in the New Middle East. In any case, as it turns out, the victims were a mixture of Jews and Arabs. The Jews included a pregnant woman, hurt but doing well. And Claude. The names of the Arabs have not yet been released.

   You see, by training guide dogs for the blind, Claude was an enemy of peace whose death was warranted by the need to clear settler colonists out of the lands of the Palestinians, including of course Tiberias.

   The Left of course will not have much to say about Claude beyond the usual triple tongue clicks.

   But what about poor Dafna? What did SHE ever do to deserve such a fate? Where are all the moral posturers and do-gooders? Where is Tikkun and the Reform synagogue? I mean, animal rights are the issue!! Why have they not had a word to say about the maiming of poor Dafna?

2. You may recall Yuli Tamir as the dingbat Ministeress of Absorption from the Barak government and a Labor Party honcho. She launched the campaign against Israel Shiran a few months back, a high school teacher, in a campaign that got him sacked, because he wrote a letter asking that "Rabin Memorial Day" NOT be devoted to perpetuating Rabin’s partisan political views, now totally discredited beyond any doubt by reality.

   Well, Madame Tamir is back with a new assault on freedom of speech. Seems an army brigadier general spoke a faux pas and stated that "Non-Jewish soldiers are not as good as Jewish soldiers". Yuli wants him sacked. You of course are free to disagree with his statement. Actually, it seems the general, Eliezer Stern - Chief Education Officer, had in mind Non-Jewish immigrants from the ex-Soviet Union when he made his remark, not the valiant Druse and Bedouin soldiers. But be that as it may, one would think Stern has as much right to his own opinion as you and I and all those reserve generals petitioning the government to create a Palestinian state and divide Jerusalem, right? Well, not in post-democratic Israel.

3. Syria is home to one of the worst German Nazi war criminals, Elois Brunner. When post-Zionist Israel started pow-wowing with the Syrian fascists, no one in the Israeli government was of a mind to condition meeting with the Syrians or even speaking to them through the US intermediaries on the extradition of Brunner, if not to Israel then at least to France. As a result, Brunner continues to enjoy the keys to the city of Damascus and is spending his old age as a state hero of Syria. France just opened a trial in absence of the Nazi. Of course, had Barak had his way, the old Nazi could have gone skinny dipping in the Sea of Galilee as we speak….

4. Friends, it is now official!!

   Israel now has an Official State Commissioner for Future Generations. It is all an initiative by Israel’s Chief Klanster Tommy Lapid, Grand Wizard of the Shinui Klux Klan. Approved yesterday by the Knesset. The Commissioner for Future Generations will evaluate all proposals that might impact, well, future generations. It is impressive that Lapid, who has backed Oslo in spite of its impact on future generations, raised this important piece of legislation.

   So now there is someone out there to care for all those future generations that will be born long after Israel has ceased to exist and long after the Shinui party platform has resulted in Jews being replaced by pork-chomping Israeli cosmopolitan gentiles who abandoned all of the Land of Israel to the Palestinian state and instead constructed a nice web site in which to live. (Dare we refer to them as Jews in SPACE?)

   So the same Israeli politicians who are incapable of thinking about the consequences three weeks hence of their decisions today will now be able to take into account the interests of generations of people with seven fingers on each hand and who telecommute through matter transformers.

5. Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 14:01:41 +0200
   From: media

   March 1, 2001 "Hatzofeh" (p. 5) by Yaffa Goldstein - The UN financed a Palestinian tourist map of the Holy Land that does not name the State of Israel, and the entire center of the country, excepting Gaza and Samaria, is represented as being unsettled.

   The only Jewish communities that appear on this map are cited with their Arabic names, such as el-Hadarat (Hadera), Ramle, Askelan (Ashkelon), Ashdout (Ashdod) and Tal Arabe (Tel Aviv).

   The map was discovered by a journalist, David Bedein, from the Israel Resource News Agency. The bottom of the map notes that its production was financed by the UN’s Development Department, whose offices are located on Yaakobi Street, West Jerusalem. One of the UN officials in the office confirmed to Bedein that the map’s production had been financed by his department. But the official and his secretary later denied they had had any knowledge of the project.

   Emanuel Nahshon, a deputy-spokesman in the Foreign Ministry, told Hatzofe yesterday that this map was part of the Palestinian propaganda that was geared to eradicate the State of Israel and delegitimize it.

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