1. If I might be permitted a moment of immodesty, I must say that I really regard this as one of the best ideas I have ever had.

   It involves that announcement yesterday by Eric Yoffie, the assimiliationist-liberal "Rabbi" who has been speaking for the Reform synagogue movement so much lately, including calling for a complete freeze and removal of settlements to reward Arafat for 9 months of atrocities.

   Anyway, Yoffie yesterday announced that the reform movement was canceling its plans to send 1500 US Reform Jewish youths to Israel this summer, you know - what with the place being so dangerous and all now that the Reform movement’s advice regarding the peace process has been adopted by Israel and followed so faithfully.

   My idea has to do with the money paid for the 1500 plane tickets. Simple! We tell the Reform clergypersons that we will only refund the 1500 tickets if the Reform youths not coming to Israel this summer all .

   JOIN THE BOY SCOUTS!!!

2. SO here is a current events question for you all. How did that suicide bomber who murdered all those school children next to the Tel Aviv Dolphinarium last Friday get into Israel to carry out this mission for Yassir Arafat?

   The answer:  The murderer just strolled in to Israel from Jordan, after which he was of course fully equipped by Arafat’s Jihad people with strap-on bomb brassiere for his mission. Seems the murderer had PLO "diplomatic papers" on him when he came in, assuring that Israel would not check or search him. You see, under Oslo Lite and Unilateral Ceasefire, Israel does not stop and search the nice PLO Gauleiters. (Haaretz June 7, 01) Indeed Israel lets them fly about in choppers and drive about unchecked in VIP cars. There are also rumors flying that the terrorist got a visa in Amman at the Israeli Embassy there to come for a visit. (Peres’ people deny this and Peres would of course never lie.)

3. Israel is today the world center for Orwellism and you can be sure that most political organizations in Israel have Orwellian names. Peace Now stands for war and atrocities Now. All those "human rights" groups do not give a dang at all about human rights, certainly not for Jews but also not for Arabs. They only care about the human rights of Arabs to murder Jewish children. Then there are the Physicians for Human Rights, which are neither physicians nor for human rights. (They were long led and run by a political geographer who is a groupie of Norman Finkelstein.) All those groups for "equality for Arabs" of course are against equality for Arabs, especially in such matters as obeying the law or doing national service.

   And then there is the "Council for Peace and Security", a group of Far-Left ex-military officers who apparently are not happy with the cushy positions they have been granted after leaving the army and so are lobbying for better jobs by posturing ever further to the left. They have ads in the papers today under the headline "Restraint (i.e., unilateral ceasefire - Cyber) is Strength." This less than a week after the massacre of the school children in Tel Aviv. Among the luminaries signed on are Generalissimo Shlomo Gazit - a long time Osloid who was rumored recently to be regaining sanity; your favorite spook and mine Carmi Gilon, the fella who sent out Avishai Raviv to keep the Right under control while operating Nixonian dirty tricks to discredit them, the guy who neglected to provide Rabin with adequate protection; Shlomo Lahat - the one-time Likud mayor of Tel Aviv since turned professional Osloid; and a host of others.

4. The Left in Israel has a new cause: protesting racism. The New Racism has to do with a decision by a Knesset Committee to bar Knesset Member Talab A-Sana from sitting in on hearings regarding a new law on the operations of intelligence services. As you know, A-Sana - a rep from one of the Stalinist-Fascist Arab parties, is for all intents and purposes an open agent for the PLO and Syria. He has repeatedly called for murdering Jews and for more intifada violence. Seating him on the committee wolld be a bit like inviting Saddam Hussein to host all CIA board meetings. Which, the Left is bellowing, proves again how racist Israel is.

5. Meanwhile, every once in a while the Knesset operates under strange composition, especially when large numbers of Knesset Members are off snoozing, playing the ponies, chasing the secretaries about the table, visiting Tel Baruch, or otherwise engaged. Yesterday, out of the blue, a unique opportunity arose whereby those present passed on first reading a bill that would make it a crime to voice support for terrorist organizations. Proposed by a few MK’s from the Right.

   Now of course you realize that if passed, over two thirds of the Knesset Members would be jailed at once and the entire Labor Party and Meretz, not to mention 96% of Israeli Arabs, imprisoned.

   But have no fear. You can rest assured that if the bill would actually pass, Israel’s Attorney General would only use it to arrest people who ever went to hear a speaker from the Kahanist groups speak.

6. The Annual DUH Award goes to Knesset Member Eliezer "Moodi" Zandberg, once a sidekick of Raful’s in the Rightish Tsomet party, now a member of the Orthodox-bashing Klan party Shinui, headed by ex-Meretz leftist Avraham Poraz and sea-mammal Tommy Lapid.

   Zandberg is complaining (Haaretz June 7) that the heads of Shinui are acting to suppress the role of rightists in the party.

7. Thought this was cute. As you know, the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem has dived off the board into the Far-Left deep end. But it has an ad in today’s paper, "The conference on the Future of the peace Process with the Palestinians has been canceled."

   Intriguing!

8. As you know, one way to understand what went wrong in Israel over the past decade is to follow the career of Ami Ayalon. A military honcho, Ayalon ran the military intelligence (an oxymoron in Israel) services for a while. The reason military intelligence has yet to discover that the earth is round, at least regarding the PLO, is that it is dominated by leftists. Some day it may learn that Nasser means to close the straits of Tiran or that Hafez Asad may be sick.

   Ayalon in particular is a leftist extremist. His latest bon mot in reaction to last week’s massacre of school children appears in Akiva Eldar’s column in today’s Haaretz in which he says, "For Palestinians, violence is not measured in blood, but rather by such things as settlement building, checkpoints, and disappointments with Israel."

   Got that? For Palestinians and of course for Ayalon, murdering school girls is not violence. Violence is when Jews build a "settlement" on empty land in the Jewish ancient homeland that was never ever a Palestinian Arab state. I am not sure, but I suspect that Ayalon lives in Ramat Aviv (ritzy Tel Aviv suburb) with the rest of the Leftist elite on occupied expropriated Arab lands.

9. One of the interesting things to watch is how classical and medieval anti-Semitic rhetoric and imagery have so fully entered Israeli discourse, but with application of course to "settlers". Each and every aspect of anti-Jewish demonology reappears.

   The settlers have long noses, long finger nails, bent backs, drool, murder gentile children, lust after money, steal, connive, worship Satan, poison wells.

   Among the leaders of the campaign to so demonize "settlers" is Professor Moshe Shaked, a far-Leftist post-Zionist sociologist from Tel Aviv University. He has been running settler-bashing pieces in Haaretz about once a week.

10. Well the Messiah must be a-knocking. Gideon Levy is one of the most fanatic anti-Zionist columnists working for Haaretz, the daily infommercial for the Israeli extremist Left. Levy runs a weekly column in the weekend magazine section in which - week-after-week with no exception - he tells a tale about some po’ Palestinian who is unhappy or has been mistreated, all on the evidence of the po’ Palestinian’s word of course. Levy has repeatedly called for eliminating Israel altogether and replacing it with a Jewish-Arab "bi-national" Palestinian state headed by the PLO. Today for the very first (and last?) time ever, Comrade Levy has devoted his weekly sob space to the deaths of four of the Jewish children murdered by the peace activists he so worships, deaths naturally caused by settlements and Jewish racism.

    Was that a shofar I just heard?

11. Take a look at http://www.traditionalvalues.org/oeFistFest.html

    Can the Reconstructionist movement be far behind?

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