The current Republican campaign for the next possible occupant of the White House seems to lean very heavily on getting America back to work and the economy back into shape. In times past, criticism would have been exercised over how much this has become a one-issue campaign (work/economy), or how many people are going to be single-issue voters. However, the future of American doesn’t hinge just on jobs and economy, but on many other issues that need to be considered when choosing a candidate for president, or for that matter, congressman, governor, representative, etc.

First and foremost should be our country’s relationship with Israel. Now, there are those who would say that this is a religious issue, but why not? Most of the signers of our Declaration of Independence and framers of our Constitution believed in God; some were deists, some where Christians, and even those who weren’t so religious strongly supported the forming of these documents and the founding of our nation on Christian principles. One great example was Benjamin Franklin. And they were willing to sacrifice life and wealth for this very declaration. And as history, especially in the past 100 years, has born out, the more we depart from the values set forth in those documents, the more trouble and chaos we encounter.

Therefore, first, on a scriptural basis (Genesis 12:3), and the Qur’an confirms the authenticity of the Scripture just mentioned, I believe that the future of the United States is anchored in the future of our relationship with Israel. On a pragmatic basis, this is also true. Israel is the one and only democracy in the Middle East, a true ally, and they are also great pioneers of technology for defense, medicine and things for everyday life.

Second, the right to life. That

“…they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life…”

That’s a religious issue, too, right? And it’s in the Declaration of Independence one of the cornerstones of our country. Suppose we take God out of the picture altogether. That is, we totally secularize society. This experiment was already performed during the Cold War in the Soviet Union, and look how many lives fell victim to the one(s) who set the rule of law in that land during that time, not to mention the rest of the Eastern Bloc countries, North Korea and China, etc. One only has to mention Stalin and Mao, and millions come to mind. When society is secularized, who determines what is correct? A quorum? A majority? Was the majority right that voted Hitler into office? And we have yet to see how things pan out with the Muslim Brotherhood in places like Libya, Tunisia and Egypt.

Uh oh, there’s a catch – Muslim Brotherhood – that’s a religion, right? Wrong. The rest of the world’s great religions, as far as I understand, have as their objective peace and well-being not just for their followers but also for non-adherents. AND, where this first criterion doesn’t follow through 100%, the second criterion is that they don’t have as their ultimate objective the conquest of the globe and the institution of a government under their proscriptions by means of adherents following their deity’s command to do so through deceit, cheating, lying, fraud, physical injury, bullying, vandalism and murder. Such organizations, in another realm like politics, are usually classified as rogue governments, imperialists and despots.

The big problem with the “Right to Life” issue is that of abortion. Since Roe v. Wade a small nation has been exterminated. The number of abortions has been well recorded by the National Right to Life Foundation, and you can download a PDF here. This issue ranks even with that of our relationship to Israel, for how can we count on continued existence when we destroy our own?

Third, the preservation and defense of the Constitution is essential for the United States to continue in the future as it has been in the past. The Constitution has been beaten up for long enough.

The meat we eat, especially beef, is made up of muscular tissue. The characteristic of muscular tissue, even in a dead animal, is that it holds together pretty well until it is beaten up by a tenderizing hammer or shredded in a meat grinder to produce something like hamburger. If you beat it up long enough, or if you shred it long enough, the meat will not hold together; it will simply disintegrate when touched or moved.

The same thing has been happening to our Constitution, through the philosophical meat tenderizer and the political meat grinder, for almost a century. The whole problem began when an amendment was ratified that was contrary to the belief of our Revolutionary forefathers: taxation without representation – the graduated income tax. And it has progressed through the creation of government regulatory bureaus and administrative offices for which there is no constitutional basis, all the way to our modern-day Congress and President who have passed laws that are to be forced upon the states and the individuals – in spite of the fact that such authority was not delineated to them in the Tenth Amendment. The same laws also violate the Fourth Amendment, which says that a person’s data are private. What many of these laws and bureaucracies have achieved is nothing short of legalized data theft, ergo identity theft.

The way the Constitution was crafted, it was intended that government protect its citizens and their freedoms – not the citizens protect the government’s power and the cronies that run it. But the way Washington is behaving these days, these basic functions assigned by the Constitution are quickly being abandoned!

Fourth, true national security must be upheld, not the sham security being fed to Us the People. This also hangs off the previous two paragraphs. There is especially one bureau whose function is now anything but what the bureau is called, and if I would name it, I would become a “watched” individual. This very department is the epitome of what I just wrote above, and now it acts as if the very law-abiding citizens it is supposed to secure could very well be the culprits of insecurity in our country. Said department is behaving like an analogous entity in the Soviet Union during the Cold War, the KGB, whose Russian words when spelled out could very well translate into the very name of this department. And, like the KGB, this agency acts as if it is trying to maintain the security of its own power (and those at the top who are appointed by their cronies) than maintaining the security of the citizens it is sworn to protect. The activities of said organization are much like those of the KGB and the Staatssicherheit in that they collect data about individuals from individuals and media sources, which these days abound, and the devices for storing data can store massive amounts of data for culling and sorting.

If America wants to have the same future as they have had in the past, then its citizens must, not just ought, ask questions of those who seek office regarding the four above-mentioned issues. And as the politicians fail to answer each one of these points correctly, they need to be stricken one-by-one from the list of potential candidates. This goes not only for presidential candidates but also for senatorial and representative candidates, for governors, for state assembly officers, town councils – for all offices. The politicians are here to serve the people, not the other way around, and they have a knack for supporting and reinforcing each other, whether for good or for evil.

Let’s not be just one-issue voters and just vote for “anyone is better than Obama” or just for a politician who will “increase jobs and the economy.” Let’s elect a politician who will serve Us the People and protect those things that were hard-wrought by our forefathers!

– Anders Denken

Posted by PI / Translation: Anders Denken

Matthias Heinzel writes the following:

A few days after the murder of a 26-year-old female student, the violent act is now being used for religious and racist propaganda. Several Israeli and German Internet media report that an Arab was the perpetrator and has already been arrested. None of that is the truth, the Göttingen police assures us.

Göttingen. In the version by media outlet Arutz Sheva (Israel), Haolam.de and Eipnews, the reasons behind the murder of the female student sound something like the following: The family of the victim lives in an Arab village in Galilee. The mother of the 26-year-old, though, is a Jew, which according to Jewish belief means that the daughter is a Jew as well. The police suspect this issue and, therefore, suspect a nationalist-ideological motive as cause for the murder, and have already determined a suspect – a citizen from one of Israel’s neighboring Arab countries. Meanwhile, the police have also confirmed that this suspect has already been arrested. Why and with what legitimacy the suspect was staying in Germany is still unknown. Ynetnews, however, reports that the investigators went on the assumption that the 26-year-old was the victim of a sexual assault.

Everything was clearly invented and fabricated, Jasmin Kaatz, speaker for the Göttingen police, says. A political motive for the murder being ruled out at the time. By the way, the murdered 26-year-old was of Muslim faith. Besides that, there is still no indication of a sexual offense. Important indicators in connection with the investigations are the facts that the apartment was not violently broken into, and apparently nothing was stolen or robbed. Furthermore, the Göttingen district attorney also is ruling out xenophobia as a cause.

A [Göttingen] Tageblatt survey with Arutz Sheva regarding the origin of the questionable information remained unanswered. The true reason for the story of the alleged criminal activity of an Arab can actually be better found in the ideological background of the participating media. Arutz Sheva, for example, is an Israeli media network considered to be religious-Zionist and an anti-Arabic mouthpiece for the Israeli settler movement. A whole array of various Internet media, many of them decidedly Israel-friendly, have apparently accepted the information there without any followup research.

Reader Adam Danial Poznanski writes the following splendidly in a comment regarding this Israel bashing:

Even the murder of a female Israeli – on German soil – is being used by the inherently socialist German press for an Israel hunt! This article serves in the smallest way for the information of the reader about the reasons of the murder that is allegedly as good as settled. Of course (!) there is nothing political behind it!! An Arab who murders a half-Jewess with an Israeli passport is generally left out for noble reasons which don’t have to be mentioned by the author. On the other hand, the author sees in this a necessity to go on about the propaganda of Jewish-Israeli media. I DEMAND an immediate STATEMENT OF OPINION from the CHIEF EDITOR!!!

If the victim should in fact be “of Muslim faith,” this could likewise be a motive for murder. The attractive student lived in a civilized and Western fashion.

» E-mail: m.heinzel@goettinger-tageblatt.de

Posted by PI / Translation: Anders Denken

Here, for example, is the Israel-Network, as well. It is interesting that Westerwelle is once again speaking up. With whom does he wish to score? No matter what happens where in the world, there always seems to be a comment from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Posted by kewil on PI / Translation: Anders Denken

It was part of the Ottoman Empire until the early 20th century. “I think we have an invented Palestinian nation that are in fact Arabs and historically a part of the Arab community.” And they would have had the possibility of going to many areas, Gingrich added. Newt Gingrich meanwhile has promising chances of entering the 2012 presidential election as the Republican candidate.

n-tv reports:

Gingrich, like other presidential contenders for the Republican party, is making an effort to gain the support of the Jewish population in the US and promised as president to strengthen relations with Israel. In the interview he said that the radical Hamas that rules in the Gaza strip and the administering Palestinian autonomic authorities in the West Jordanland have the strong desire of exterminating Israel.

While Hamas is considered to be a terrorist group in the US government, they see the autonomic authority under President Mahmoud Abbas as a moderate representation of the Palestinians and promote negotiations between it and Israel. Abbas himself has sworn off violence against Israel and is attempting to achieve an independent Palestinian state by way of negotiations.

Obama’s diplomatic efforts in the conflict are “far beyond any reality,” Gingrich said. “That would be like going with a little child to the zoo and telling him that the lion is a pet rabbit.”

Gingrich carries three states

On Thurday it was reported that Gingrich surprisingly holds a considerable lead in three strategically important states. Just a month before the beginning of the primary battle, the former Speaker of the House of Representatives is now in the lead with a jump from 18 to 27 percentage points over his strongest party rival Mitt Romney in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

If the US presidential election would occur right now, according to the survey by the University of Quinnipiac, Gingrich could even win in Ohio by a small margin against office-holder Barack Obama. The other two states would, however, go to Obama. However, Ohio in particular, counts traditionally among the Swing States where many swing voters reside.

You can find further information and the interview with Newt Gingrich here.

In the meantime, Glenn Beck’s GBTV, together with the David Horowitz Freedom Center, published a video in which the question was followed of whether Barack Hussein Obama is the most anti-Israel US president of all time. You can see the answer here:

Posted on PI / Translation: Anders Denken

While in some European countries, the muezzin call by loudspeaker is likewise (still) forbidden, the media are now attacking Israel and speaking of terrible “discriminations.” Die Tagesschau, for example, with its correspondent Sebastian Engelbrecht sees in the bill a “discrimination against Israel’s Arab citizens”:

Perhaps the muezzin in the Israeli-Arabic city Kafr Kassem will soon no longer give the call to prayer. Kafr Kassem lies only a few hundred meters away from the Jewish-Israeli city Rosh Ha’ayin near Tel Aviv. The noise from the prayer call carries over into Rosh Ha’ayin five times daily. But these conditions should soon come to an end. Prime Minister Netanyahu supports a corresponding bill that coalition partner “Our House Israel” intends to put through the Knesset. The 400 mosques in Israel should soon be forbidden from amplifying the call of the muezzin with a loudspeaker.

Knesset representative Anastassia Michaeli, of the rightwing populist party “Our House Israel” thinks hundreds of thousands of Israeli citizens have suffered daily under the noise of the muezzin calls. Michaeli said on an Israeli television show: “That is not an action to stop mouths, rather, on the contrary, it is supposed to help many citizens out that have turned to me. We only wish to correct and change and find a middle path between the keeping of tradition and the necessity of protecting the environment. (…) At the moment, we are talking only about places of worship, and yes, absolutely – places of worship, that also includes churches.”

Even the ringing of bells will be forbidden

According to the law, the ringing of bells by churches in Arab areas will be forbidden in the future. Almost 20 percent of Israeli citizens are Muslim or Christian Arabs. Therefore, mosques and churches are as much a part of Israel as synagogues. But Mrs. Michaeli – and Prime Minister Netanyahu with her – believe religion should not encroach on the people’s quality of life.

Netanyahu bases his support for the bill with the argument that Israel, in this matter, must “not be more liberal than Europe.” The problem is exactly the same in Belgium and France, and there it is legitimate to ban the muezzin call by loudspeaker. Many people had complained to him because of the noise coming from the minarets, Netanyahu said in the Ministers’ Circle of his Likud Party.

Representative Michaeli is concerned for the health of the people in Israel. “When I heard how seriously people suffer from this, I met with some doctors, specialists, who told me what problems could arise when someone is subject to loud noise.”

Resistance against the bill

Within the Likud resistance is mounting against the intention of the coalition partner and the Prime Minister. Minister of Culture Limor Livnat and Minister of the Secret Service Dan Meridor reject the idea of actually forbidding the muezzin call. Meridor believes such a law is needless and would only lead to an escalation of tensions between Jews and Arabs.

The so-called muezzin law is one of many laws and bills of the Netanyahu government that effectively discriminate against Israel’s Arab citizens.

An important step. Israel has the right and the duty to protect its Jewish values from the Arabic outcry.

Posted on PI / Translation: Anders Denken

It was only last month that the International Atomic Energy Authority IAEA confirmed that not only were carpets being made in Iranian Isfahan but also weapons-grade Uranium. And the one threatened first by Ahmadinejad with “atomic extermination”, as long as there are no errors in translation, needs no further explanation here.

(By Conny Axel Meier, BPE)

A uranium enrichment facility there exploded with a loud bang for no apparent reason, even though Teheran now as ever denies its (previous) existence. The only thing is I couldn’t find any indication of this in any of the German-speaking mass media. Only in Australia could anything be found about it. Robert Spencer seized upon the report on JihadWatch. Otherwise, there was hardly anything to know about it. The article can be found here in THE AUSTRALIAN.

Current reports agree in which Iran planned to attack American forces on German soil. Without mid-range missiles outfitted with atomic warheads, an attack would be accordingly more difficult for Iran. Did Heidelberg, therefore, escape once again thanks to the “Hand of God”?

Translation: Anders Denken

(By Michael Stürzenberger)

The Islamic aggressions against Israel’s Jews have a long tradition. Since Jews around the end of the 19th century increased in their return to their Biblical home, the quarrels with the Muslim-Arabic population, who falsely see the region as Islamic sovereign territory, have also increased. The first pogroms took place long before the founding of the state of Israel, for example, on April 4, 1920 in Jerusalem in which Palestinians killed five Jews and injured 234, or in August 1929 in the Hebron massacre in which the lives 67 Jews were taken by the Arabic population.

It is generally known that in 1948, five Arabic countries raided Israel after the UN had decided for the founding of the two states of Palestine and Israel. In turn, other wars started by Arabs followed in 1967 and 1973, as well as several intifadas, hundreds of suicide attacks and thousands upon thousands of rocket shots – even after the Israel handshake for peace by the withdrawal of the previously co-settled Gaza strip.

This deep-seated hate for Jews doesn’t come from just anywhere. It has a long tradition in Islam because the prophet Muhammad defamed Jews in some verses as the spawn of “apes and pigs” because they didn’t want to submit themselves to his new “religion” and called him a “liar” and “deceiver,” which is documented in a great number of Quran verses. In the year 627 in Medina, Muhammad had around 800 imprisoned Jews beheaded as punishment for an alleged betrayal.

Oskar Freysinger, in his brilliant speech at the FREEDOM event in Berlin on September 3rd stated it impressively:

“We are battling against a dogma that is devoid of all humaneness and would return us to barbarity. We will not so easily relinquish our freedom that took centuries to achieve. Dear Berliner, here I stand; I can do no other! (…) If we should lose this battle, there will be no second chance. For Islam doesn’t give up that which it has first won.”

In addition, Freysinger remarked ironically that “the beard of the prophet does not allow itself to be stroked,” which aptly describes Islam’s totalitarian and uncompromising claim to power. Also, the conflict of the so-called “Palestinians” against Israel has never revolved around a few kilometers of land here or there, it has always been for the whole thing – the elimination of the State of Israel.

But now, how does Islam justify its claim to rule over Jerusalem and Israel? In December of the past year, I was able to hold an extremely interesting conversation about this in Ashkelon with a Likud politician during the course of a FREEDOM trip to Israel. On the holiest site of Judaism, the temple mount, the Al-Aqsa mosque and the dome of the rock are enthroned. There, they have the effect of distinctly visible symbols of power.

The Dome of the Rock was erected, in the opinion of some scholars, in order to celebrate the victory of the Muslims over Byzantium and Persia and to demonstrate the triumph of Islam over Judaism and Christianity.

The Al-Aqsa mosque is not supposed to be there because, according to the Quran, the prophet Muhammad, in his nocturnal flight by horse, came to a “very far removed mosque,” and at this point in time, there was still not one mosque in Jerusalem. Only 70 years after this legendary flight did Muslims conquer Jerusalem and convert the Christian basilica erected around 530 by Caesar Justinian I into a mosque.

The Israeli politician confirmed this statement of the facts. But he added that Jews wanted to allow other religions their place as well, and therefore that the Muslims were enthroned on the Temple Mount was tolerated.

Now the tolerance of the Jews could possibly reach its end if the Islamic scenario of threat continues to increase. The Iranian chief Muslim Ahmadinejad, in his own proclamations, intends to annihilate Israel and to this end is dilligently crafting together his atom bomb. Should it come to a preventive military strike by Israel, the situation could worsen considerably. And perhaps the Israelis will lose their apparently unending patience with the Muslims from whom they have been harassed for 60 years with wars, suicide attacks and rocket shellings.

The speech by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on September 23rd before the United Nations showed that the tone has gradually intensified:

“But a malicious condition is growing between east and west that threatens the peace of everyone. It will not liberate but enslave, not build but destory. This malice is militant Islam. It cloaks itself in the mantle of a great faith, but it murders Jews, Christians, Muslims equally and with ruthless impartiality.”

Perhaps sometime even non-Muslim humanity will lose patience overall with a “religion” that has 270 million dead on its conscience through its wars of conquest and its governments of violence, according to figures from the Shoebat Institute..

If the Islamic representatives on the other hand realize that they can’t fight with all of mankind, then perhaps the realization might grow that they need to depart forever from the dangerous, totalitarian, intolerant, and violence- and murder-legitimizing elements of their religion. And thereby be able finally to integrate harmoniously into the modern civilization of the 21st century. That would then mean also a liberation for all Muslim women and children at the same time. However, it could also become impossible to implement by virtue of the inflexible ideological corset – and then we will all stand before the question of how we will deal with this existential threat.

Islam must without hesitation be placed on the testing bench, and that can best be introduced through taboo-free campaigns of information and education. From this will come out that Islam goes back to one single Arab who in addition was still called a “liar” and “deceiver” by the Jews and Christians in Mecca. It is generally known that Muhammad could neither read nor write, and he reproduced distorted stories from the Bible and the Torah – that furthermore had been recounted to him – in order to incorporate them in his new “religion.” For he asserted on his side that Christians and Jews had distorted their scriptures and demanded from them that they accept his viewpoint as the true one.

It is pure lunacy that we should have to deal with such obtuse things in the 21st century. But the issue here is simply no less than the continued existence of our free democratic society.

One could actually pluck apart Islam on a purely logical basis. But we don’t want to take the Muslims faith away from them – as long as it is not dangerous for others. But it is definitely not that way, for Islam ultimately wants to subjugate all “infidels.”

In this place, all who know about the totalitarian-aggressive character of Islam and can correctly classify the permanent threat express their unlimited solidarity with the Israeli people. Israel stands on the forefront of the international jihad and is fighting in the name of freedom, democracy and human rights against an ideology from 7th century Arab bedouin society. It is that battle that presumably lies ahead for us in Europe.

Fotos: Michael Stürzenberger / Black Knight

Translation: Anders Denken

On July 20, 2011, the Munich district affiliate of the Left Party, under participation by their national president Klaus Ernst, will host a public meeting of members. This district affiliate gave the blessing for participation by its committee member Elfi Padovan in this year’s so-called “Gaza Aid Flotilla,” about which Klaus Ernst has refused to give is opinion to the press.

(Published on July 18, 2011, by FREEDOM from the Bavarian FREEDOM regional committee)

The FREEDOM Party for Citizens Rights therefore is calling on all democratic powers to participate in a Munich federation against antisemitism. However, it can’t stay just at the justified outrage. Therefore, we have decided to oppose this demon, and with a vigil on July 20th in Munich at the venue of the Left Party (Naupliastrasse 2, starting at 5 p.m.), turn the attention of Munich’s citizens to antisemitism and its dangers.

Especially revealing is that the Bundestag faction of The Left Party currently monitored by Constitutional Protection asserted in an attention-getting decision on June 7, 2011, that in the future they intend no longer to be antisemitic. On the basis of this decision, The Left intends neither to call for the boycott of Israeli goods nor demand a “one-state solution,” and also not to participate in this year’s so-called “Gaza Aid Flotilla.” The national head of the party, Klaus Ernst, stresses on his website the unanimity of the decision by the Bundestag faction.

The Munich district affiliate of the Left party, however, positions itself against this viewpoint, as it blessed with a large majority the participation in this so-called “aid flotilla” by its committee member Elfi Padovan on July 3, 2011, after the fact. That is only one of many actions in which The Left Party reveals its true views. In this context, parts of this socialist party also don’t shy away from calling for a boycott of Jewish goods, either – and by doing so, they again perpetuate the traditional propaganda lines of the National Socialists in a most pernicious way.

One of the supporters the dissenting vote in question by the Munich district affiliate was of all people the Bundestag representative and therefore member of the Bundestag faction, Nicole Gohlke. However, the Bundestag representative refused to give a reason behind her dissenting vote on the decision of the Bundestag faction to Report München. National party head Ernst also refused to give a statement to Bavarian Radio’s TV Magazine regarding the decision by the Munich district affiliate.

However, in spite of this decision, which stands in contradiction to the previously mentioned wish by The Left Party’s Bundestag faction, national head Klaus Ernst will participate unfazed in the programmed debate.

In the view of the Citizens Rights Party FREEDOM, it appears by Klaus Ernst’s action, that the party head has no real intention of calling the antisemitic members of the Left to order. Much more, The Left Party apparently only intended to calm the public. The party head was conscious of the fact that the antisemitic currents – which in part see such terror groups as Hamas as allies – in fact are of a completely different opinion. Which partners The Left serves can be clearly seen by a look at Article 7 of the Hamas charter where the call is made in reference to the prophet Muhammad for the killing of Jews:

The prophet – prayer and Allah’s peace be with him – declared: The time will not come before the Muslims fight against the Jews and slay them; not before the Jews hide behind rocks and trees that call: Oh Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me; come and slay him!

This fact is also due to raging antisemitism that the calloused antisemitic part of the Bundestag faction didn’t participate at all in the vote in order to help the party deceive the public with a “unanimous” decision. Ernst and Gohlke kept up this act by leading one to believe in a non-existent normalcy with the programmed public debate.

And thus it is possible in the former “Capital of the antisemitism movement” that the good old days can once again be celebrated, thanks to the Left Party. The fact that the Left Party, right on the anniversary of the resistance against Adolf Hitler in Munich, goes on with everyday life without having put the limits on the openly strong antisemitic forces, is something that cannot go without objection by the critical public. Thus, the exhortation to resist the beginnings is now insufficient. The Left Party is to a great measure and has been for a long time increasingly antisemitic. Therefore, it can no longer be said that these are the “beginnings.”

We now call on all democratic parties, and those not being monitored by Constitutional Protection, to come to the Munich Town Hall and participate in this vigil. And – independent of this – to join the “Munich Federation Against Antisemitism,” which the Bavarian regional FREIHEIT (Freedom) affiliate has founded.

(A Photoreport from New York City by Mr. Merkava and PI-News)

But also in New York City the police takes comprehensive precautions so that not one day the Islamic or the leftist enemies of Israel conclude a murderous attack. As a minuscule pathetic bunch of turbid counter-demonstrators are they tolerated with police protection – in the name of western freedom of speech – outside the happy parade and disseminate their malign, aggressive slogans. PI-Germany happily retorts their vileness with an own banner with a clear statement for Israel

Led by New York’s dignitaries the giant parade gets going: during five hours a wide variety of groups are proudly marching one after the other, some on huge floats, down the 5th Avenue: The New York Fire-brigade, Jewish Yeshivot (bibel schools), Jewish relief organizations as well as other NGOs, local dancing groups and even American-Jewish motorbike freaks. Greatly cheered at are also the El Al crews who use their layovers in New York City (NYC) to trundle down the parade’s path as the „Dancing Captains“.

Many tens of thousands participants are marching down the 5th Avenue along Central Park – cheered at by hundreds of thousands of spectators of whom many indulge in fanciful Israel outfits.

Even when celebrating in an ebullient mood: those who gave their lives or their freedom for Israel are never forgotten. Posters which remind the crowds on Gilat Shalit or Jonathan Pollard are present.

Celebrating – a good keyword: the one and only democracy in the Middle East is harried by many enemies and today even by so-called friends. But despite all concerns the parade’s evening is meant to be a most gladsome one: PI, too, was invited to the evening’s post-parade-celebrating-party in the Edison Ballroom near Broadway. In the fancy ambience of a ballroom everybody could enjoy a much cheered at video message from the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin „Bibi“ Netanyahu and a live speech by his Minister for Diaspora Affairs.

Both of them pointed out that we were celebrating here in this ballroom the only democracy in the Middle East with unbelievable social, scientific and cultural achievements. Both thanked all the organizations, supporters and particularly all Americans for their genuine friendship, but that evidently does not apply to one particular American.

Then the great party continued with an Israeli Rock-band. Inspired by free drinks the evening developed into a long, wonderful and relaxed Israel-party. Israel Am Chai!

And by the way: the whole day it had, of course, not even rained one tiny little drop…

PI-Video from the Celebrate Israel Parade 2011:

Die Tagesschau reports of the gruesome murder:

Five Israelis were killed in an attack on a Jewish settlement in the West Jordan Land. According to police reports, the Palestinian broke into the home of a family in the Itamar settlement near to Nablus. There he stabbed the parents and their children aged eleven and three, as well as a three-month-old. Three of the children in the family managed to escape.

For those who rest on the image of deception forged by the media that the whole thing happened far away and has nothing to do with us, here again are words of truth from Geert Wilders:

“Israel is receiving the blows that were intended for all of us. If there were no Israel, islamic imperialism would have found other places to unleash its energies and lust for conquest. The war against Israel is, thus, no war against Israel, but a war against the West. It is Jihad.”

Should it be possible to capture this murder of children still on the loose, he would likely be set free by means of German investigation, like the Hezbollah hero Kuntar whose heroic deeds celebrated by the Muslims are comprised among other things of the crushing of a four-year-old girl’s skull with the butt of a rifle.

Sura 2:191:

“And slay them (the infidels), wherever you encounter them.”

(Photo above: The Israeli army sets up roadblocks in Samaria during the night to catch the perpetrators)

Here is his original speech in English:

Speech Geert Wilders, Tel Aviv, 5 December 2010

Shalom chaveriem,

Let me start by saying that it is with great sadness that I share your grief over the deaths of more than 40 brave Israelis who lost their lives – many while trying to save others in the great fire near Haifa. My country, the Netherlands, is amongst other countries helping to put down this fire, which is threatening the lives and property of thousands of your compatriots. I offer my heartfelt condolences to the families of those who perished. My thoughts are with them.

Israel is an immense source of inspiration for me. When I came to your country for the first time as a teenager, I lived here for a year.

I am not ashamed to stand with Israel, but proud. I am grateful to Israel. I will always defend Israel. Your country is the cradle of Western civilization. We call it the Judeo-Christian civilization with good reason.

Israel is often being treated unfairly. The world looks at the plight of the Palestinians in refugee camps in Lebanon, Gaza, and other places, and many blame Israel. The UN claims that there are over 4.7 million Palestinian refugees, and many blame Israel. These voices say the Palestinians should be allowed to return to “Palestine.” But where is Palestine? Many say Israel must solve the problems of Palestine. But is Israel guilty of the plight of the Palestinian refugees?

My answer is “No.” The Arab leaders are to be blamed – and Islam is to be blamed. Let me first tell you why, and then I will tell you where Palestine can be found.

At the end of World War II, there were 50 million refugees. Today, all the refugee problems dating from before the 1950s have been solved. All, except one – the problem of the Palestinians.

Why did this problem not get solved? The reason is simple: Because the Arab countries did not allow it to get solved. And because Islam does not allow it to get solved.

In May 1948, the number of Jews in the Arab countries was estimated to be close to 1 million. Today, fewer than 8,000 Jews are left in the entire Arab world. In 1948, the Arab countries forced the Jews out and confiscated their properties. More Jews fled the Arab countries than Arabs fled Israel. Where are the Jewish refugee camps? There are none.

So, why are there refugee camps for Palestinians in areas surrounding Israel? Because the Palestinians were not welcomed in the neighboring Arab countries. There was no Arab solidarity; the refugees were forced into camps and slums, where many of their descendants still linger today.

Under international definitions the status of refugee or displaced person only applies to first generation refugees. However, the UN makes an exception for Palestinians. Descendants of Palestinian refugees are granted the same refugee status as their ancestors. Consequently, the number of so-called Palestinian refugees registered with the UN increased from 711,000 in 1950 to over 4.7 million in 2010. These refugees are being used as a demographic weapon against Israel.

Instead of blaming the inhospitable Arab regimes, many blame Israel.

My friends, the blame should be laid where it belongs: with the Arab world. The Jewish refugees built new lives for themselves. They did what millions of refugees have done in the course of history, including, in the 20th century, the Germans who had to leave Sudetenland and the lands east of the Oder and Neisse rivers, the Hungarians who fled Transsylvania, the Greeks who were ejected from the Aegean coast of Anatolia, the Hindus who fled the Punjab.

With each generation, the resentment of these refugees and their descendants slowly fades away. Time heals all wounds. Acceptance of the new situation is the norm.

Islam, however, conditions Muslims to hate Jews. It is a religious duty to do so. Israel must be destroyed because it is the homeland of the Jews.

Influential Islamic scholars, such as Muhammad Tantawi, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar in Cairo, the most prestigious center of Muslim learning, call Jews “enemies of Allah.” Tantawi, who died last March, was generally considered a moderate by the Western media and policy makers. But how did this “moderate” address a delegation of Palestinian Muslims who visited him in 2002?

He urged them to intensify suicide attacks against Israelis, stating that every so-called “martyrdom operation” against – I quote – “any Israeli, including children, women, and teenagers, is a legitimate act according to [Islamic] religious law, and an Islamic commandment, until the people of Palestine regain their land.” – end of quote.

Nizar Qabbani, one of the most revered poets in the Arab world, praised the madness of those who are blinded by an ideology of hatred. In his poem Ode to the Intifada, he wrote: “O mad people of Gaza, A thousand greetings to the mad. The age of political reason has long departed. So teach us madness.”

That is the nature of the Islamic enemies confronting the Jews – sheer madness.

Israel, on the other hand, is a beacon of light; it is like a Hanukkah menorah whose lights have been kindled in a region that until 1948 was engulfed by darkness.

Friends, Israel is not to blame for the situation in the Middle East. The problem is Islam’s rejection of Israel’s right to exist. Only last month, Fatah concluded its convention in Ramallah by declaring its blatant refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state.

The problem is also our Western leaders’ refusal to understand that Israel is the West’s canary in the coalmine: If the Jews are denied the right to live in freedom and peace, soon we will all be denied this right. If the light of Israel is extinguished, we will all face darkness. If Israel falls, the West falls. That is why we are all Israel.

But as long as the West refuses to understand how the Palestinians are used as a weapon against Israel, it will not be able to see who is truly to blame; it will not be able to see that it is not Israel’s duty to provide a Palestinian state – for the simple reason that there already is a Palestinian state and that state is Jordan.

Indeed, my friends, Jordan is Palestine. Take a look at the map of this part of the world after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire following World War I. Both contemporary Israel and contemporary Jordan were part of the British Mandate of Palestine.

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In 1922, the British partitioned Palestine into Cisjordan and Transjordan – the latter comprising 78 per cent of the territory of Palestine. The British handed that territory over to their ally, the Hashemite strongman Abdallah ibn Hussein. Abdallah was the son of the emir Hussein bin Ali, guardian of the Islamic holy city of Mecca. The Hashemites belong to the Quraish tribe – the tribe of Islam founder Muhammad. They are a foreign body in Palestine.

In 1946, Transjordan became an independent state under Hashemite rule. In November 1947, the United Nations proposed to partition the remaining 22 per cent of Palestine. The territory between the Jordan River and the sea was divided into a Jewish and an Arab part. The Jewish representatives accepted the UN partition plan, but the Arab representatives refused. In an attempt to “drive all the Jews into the sea,” they began the 1948 war – which they lost.

They took revenge, however, on the Jews in East Jerusalem and the rest of Cisjordan – the ancient provinces of Judea and Samaria – held by the Arab forces. This entire region was ethnically cleansed of all Jews. Even the names of Judea and Samaria were wiped off the map and replaced by the ridiculous term “West Bank.” A river bank of over 40 kilometers wide. I come from a country full of rivers, and there the river banks are only a few dozen meters wide.

Israel, including Judea and Samaria, has been the land of the Jews since time immemorial. Judea means Land of the Jews. Never in the history of the world has there been an autonomous state in the area that was not Jewish. The Diaspora of the Jews, which began after their defeat by the Romans in AD 70, did not lead to the departure of all the Jews from their ancient homeland. Jews had been living in the Jordan Valley for centuries until the Arab invaders drove them out in 1948, when the provinces of Judea and Samaria were occupied by the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan, which abbreviated its name to Jordan in 1950.

And until 1967, when Israel regained the ancient Jewish heartland of Judea and Samaria, no-one, not a single Islamic scholar or Western politician, ever demanded that there be an independent Palestinian state in the so-called West Bank.

Must Israel trade land for peace? Should it assign Judea and Samaria to another Palestinian state – a second one, next to Jordan? My friends, let me be very clear: The conflict in the Middle East is not a conflict over territory, but rather an ideological battle.

People are mistaken when they assume that giving up Judea and Samaria and East Jerusalem and letting the Palestinians have it, will end the conflict between Israel and the Arabs. In 2005, Israel sacrificed the settlements in Gaza for the sake of peace. Did it get peace?

On the contrary, because the conflict is essentially ideological, the situation worsened. Because the conflict is ideological, territorial concessions are counterproductive. Ideologies cannot be defeated by concessions. They are encouraged and emboldened by it.

Ideologies must be confronted with the iron will never to give in, “never, never, never, never – in nothing, great or small, large or petty.” That is the lesson which the world learned from Winston Churchill when he confronted the evil ideology of nazism.

This conflict here in the Middle East is not about land and borders, but about Islamic jihadism opposing Western liberty. From the moment that Israel was founded, the Arab leaders have rejected every partition plan and every initiative for a territorial settlement. The Islamic ideology simply does not accept the concept of a Jewish state. Neither Hamas nor Fatah are willing to recognize the right of the Jewish people to a state of their own in their historic homeland. No territorial concession on Israel’s part can ever change that.

Israel’s ideological enemies want to wipe Israel out as a nation. They simply deny the Jewish state the right to exist and to live in peace, dignity and liberty.

For the sake of its own survival and security, Israel needs defendable borders. A country that is only 15 kilometers wide is impossible to defend. That is the strategic reason why Jews need to settle Judea and Samaria.

Therefore, the Jewish towns and villages in Judea and Samaria are not an impediment to peace; they are an expression of the Jewish right to exist in this land. They are tiny outposts of freedom, defying ideological forces which deny not only Israel but the entire West the right to live in peace, dignity and liberty.

Let us never forget that Islam threatens not just Israel; Islam threatens the entire world. Without Judea and Samaria, Israel cannot protect Jerusalem. The future of the world depends on Jerusalem. If Jerusalem falls, Athens and Rome – and Paris, London and Washington – will be next.

Thus, Jerusalem is the main front protecting our common civilization. When the flag of Israel no longer flies over the walls of Jerusalem, the West will no longer be free.

However, a peaceful solution must also be found for the many Palestinians in the refugee camps in Lebanon, Gaza and elsewhere. Each year, hundreds of millions of euros and dollars are spent on the Palestinian refugees in international aid.

The financial assistance, however, did not provide the refugees a new home, a place to live and build a future for their children and grandchildren. It is obvious where this place should be. It should be Palestine, just as, after the Second World War, the obvious place for the German refugees from the East to go to, was Germany. Since Jordan is Palestine, it is the duty of the Jordanian government to welcome all Palestinian refugees who voluntarily want to settle there.

Until the late 1980s, Jordan’s Hashemite rulers did not deny that their country was Palestine. They said so on numerous occasions. In 1965, King Hussein said: “Those organizations which seek to differentiate between Palestinians and Jordanians are traitors.” As late as 1981, Hussein repeated – I quote – “Jordan is Palestine and Palestine is Jordan.”

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In March 1971, The Palestine National Council, too, stated that – I quote – “what links Jordan to Palestine is a national bond […] formed, since time immemorial, by history and culture. The establishment of one political entity in Transjordan and another in Palestine is illegal.” – end of quote.

By the late 1970s, however, the Arab authorities began to differentiate between Jordanians and Palestinians. What was previously considered to be treason and illegality suddenly became the propaganda line.

In March 1977, PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein admitted in a candid interview in the Dutch newspaper Trouw: – I quote –

“Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct ‘Palestinian people’ to oppose Zionism. For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot lay claim to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan.” – end of quote.

In 1988, as the first Intifada raged, Jordan officially renounced any claim of sovereignty to the so-called West Bank. In recent years, the Jordanian authorities have stripped thousands of Palestinians of their Jordanian citizenship. They do so for two reasons.

First, because the alien Hashemite rulers fear that the Palestinians might one day take over their own country. And second, because stripping Palestinians of their Jordanian citizenship supports the falsehood that Jordan is not a part of Palestine. And that, consequently, the Palestinians must attack Israel if they want a place of their own.

By arbitrarily reducing thousands of their citizens to statelessness, the Jordanian authorities want to force the Palestinians to turn their aspirations towards the establishment of another Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria. This decision is a great injustice committed by the Hashemite rulers of Jordan – this foreign clan which the British installed.

I am not naïve. I am not blind to the possibility that if Jordan were to be ruled by the Palestinians, this might lead to political radicalization in Jordan. However, a continuation of the present situation will most certainly lead to radicalization. We need a paradigm shift. If we keep thinking along the same lines as we have done so far, no peaceful solution of the Palestinian problem is possible without endangering the existence of Israel and disrupting the social and economic fabric in Judea and Samaria. Resettling millions of Palestinians in these small provinces is simply impossible and is not going to happen.

To the skeptics, I say: What is the alternative? Leaving the present situation as it is? No, my friends, the world must recognize that there has been an independent Palestinian state since 1946, and it is the Kingdom of Jordan.

Allowing all Palestinians to voluntarily settle in Jordan is a better way towards peace than the current so-called two-states-approach (in reality a three-states-approach) propagated by the United Nations, the U.S. administration, and governing elites all over the world. We only want a democratic non-violent solution for the Palestinian problem. This requires that the Palestinian people should be given the right to voluntarily settle in Jordan and freely elect their own government in Amman. If the present Hashemite King is still as popular as today, he can remain in power. That is for the people of Palestine to decide in real democratic elections.

My friends, let us adopt a totally new approach. Let us acknowledge that Jordan is Palestine.

And to the Western world I say: Let us stand with Israel because the Jews have no other state, while the Palestinians already have Jordan. Let us stand with Israel because the history of our civilization began here, in this land, the homeland of the Jews. Let us stand with Israel because the Jewish state needs defendable borders to secure its own survival. Let us stand with Israel because it is the frontline in the battle for the survival of the West.

We must speak the truth. The truth that Jordan is Palestine, the truth that Samaria and Judea are part of Israel, the truth that Jerusalem may not fall, the truth that Israel is the only democracy in a dark and tyrannical region, the truth that Israel is the linchpin of the West.

Of course, I am just a foreign guest and should be modest. Israel is a democracy and I respect every decision which its people and government will make. But I am proud to be here and grateful for the opportunity to share my thoughts and beliefs with you.

Because it is here that our civilization is under attack as we speak. It is here that we, men and women of the West, must show our resolve to defend ourselves. It is here that Israel has lit the light of freedom and that Europeans and Americans must help the Israelis to keep that light shining in the darkness. For Israel’s sake and for the sake of all of us.

Toda raba… And shalom to all of you.

» Politicool: Geert Wilders and the Two-State Solution

(Photo: Sefi)

By doing so, he doesn’t just help himself to the “Tele-Diagnosis,” as the video of his various statements shows:

(Photo above: HC Strache at the beginning of December in a visit with the Israeli Army – the halo was still invisible at that time / Translation: Anders Denken)

The Jerusalem Declaration contains among other things the following passage:

[…] After the totalitarian systems of the 20th century were overcome, mankind presently appears to be facing a new worldwide totalitarian threat: fundamentalist Islam. We see ourselves as a part of the worldwide battle by the defenders of democracy and human rights against all totalitarian systems and their enablers. Therefore we stand on the forefront of the battle for the community of Western-democratic values.

By virtue of this, we reject that cultural relativism that, under the pretext of respecting foreign cultures and traditions, tolerates the fact that people, especially non-Islamic minorities, are limited in their right to freedom, equality and codetermination in sectors of the Muslim cultural circle. […]

Israel, being the only real democracy in the Near East, is more important to us as a contact in this tough region of the world. A region that in past decades has had to deal constantly with extremism and terror. We profess Israel’s right to existence without reservation within secure and internationally recognized boundaries. Likewise, the right of Israel to self-defense against all acts of aggression, especially against Islamic terror, must also be accepted. We believe that this must be possible while concurrently respecting human rights as well as the political rights of the Arab population.* […]

*FREEDOM PARTY addendum: THE FREEDOM PARTY harbors reservations against this statement and replaces it with the following statement: The recognition of human rights – even those of the Arab population – must be self-evident.

Mölzer and Strache indeed concluded after their return to Austria that they had gone too far in the trip to the front lines of Israel with an unavoidable portion of their own party (Strache in the PI interview, starting around 8:20 min).

The reaction by Altermedia Deutschland (German language Nazi forum) to Strache’s 7/12/2010 “Jerusalem Declaration” could be a gentle hint of the “thinking” in this faction:

All chatter about this declaration [Jerusalem Declaration – PI] aside, this statement makes it clear that the “rightwing parties” have signed on to this document and have made themselves willing vassals of the State of Israel and its Diaspora sectors. It is therefore not erroneous to see them from now on as nothing more than a kind of fifth column in the service of international Jewry that is simply using so-called Islamism as an image of hostility [not bold in the original – PI] so that it can battle any opposition to its interests.

This was already clear beforehand to those knowledgeable about the political material, however, the above declaration can be well understood as an ultimate outing by said parties for the general public, after which no conventional, benevolent or intentionally misunderstanding doubt remains in various groups about their true nature.

And thus the party leadership is apparently forced again to back down in order to appease the internal opponents of Strache’s expressed Islam-critical and pro-democratic/pro-Israeli positions and insignificant actions like the wearing of a Jewish-religiously stipulated head covering by Strache as is usual for all visitors of the Western Wall.

It is above all regretful that the FPÖ leadership, and especially Heinz-Christian Strache, are unable to break down certain animosities toward Israel because of opposition within the party. Strache, together with the party leadership, underestimated how intense the debate would become inside the FPÖ. Nevertheless, he himself and some of his party comrades apparently misjudged the mood within the party, or at least underestimated it. Whether Strache ever produced a contented character in the forced distancing from Israel and pro-Israeli positions after his return is to be dealt with some other time.

For starters, Andreas Mölzer’s reaction after the return is interesting. Like the interview he gave to the Austrian news magazine Profil where he states that the FPÖ has always “declaratively distanced itself from antisemitism.” When questioned whether the FPÖ is operating on their position as stated in Mölzer’s own weekly newspaper “Zur Zeit” in accordance with a “Talmudic delusion of annihilation,” the mastermind of the party opinedthat there was an “disposition toward state terrorism” in Israel’s case. Stating this is not necessarily antisemitism. Just as important to the “history book of the party” is the assertion that it is indeed psychologically cumbersome for the Israelis when they have to pull playing children off the street and head for bunkers in order to protect them from rocket attacks. But for the Palestinians it is even more brutal because an Israeli air attack kills many more people. The conclusion that one side intentionally murders civilians, at least takes into account their death and proudly sends its own children to their death, while the Israeli side tries in its battle against those whom Mölzer would indeed otherwise call “Jihadistic Islamists” to prevent any injury to those not a part of it is well beyond Mölzer.

In another place as well, the European parliamentarian doesn’t jump high enough. In his own newspaper named above, “Zur Zeit”, he takes issue with a sympathetic article printed by PI there, and the “leadership” of the blog that traveled with him, and as an alleged example wanted to drive the Palestinians one and all into the desert:

Truly he owes it to his readers to tell where he gets this from, but it doesn’t manage to reach them. More important, however, is the unseen connection by party intellectuals of cause and effect between Islam and mass immigration.

Yes to Islam, but not at home

After Mölzer first explains the obligation of the area to his readers, that one is required to put a kippa on at the Western Wall, he puts forward how much Austria’s libertarians fought against the islamization of Europe and mass immigration, but that they still respected Islam as one of the world’s great religions.

It is apparently too much for those who develop profound policy papers for the party, who campaign with “homegrown, not Islam,” to recognize just how much mass immigration is caused by Islam in the originating countries to begin with. Should it have escaped the amateur historian, just how much the oppression of people by Islam influences the living conditions in the native countries? With a proper amount of ignorance, one would only be in the position to overlook how much the economic conditions in the Islamic countries can be traced back to the religion, that is to the archaic lifestyle conveyed by that religion, if not by the absolute model of Muhammad, and on the other hand, how much they lead to the mass immigration to Europe that is bemoaned by Mölzer. One doesn’t necessarily have to have read Max Weber in order to recognize the connection between the religious orientation and the economic result. A peek at the Islamic world brings these connections closer together.

The FPÖ should as a party first answer the question, in what circumstance do fewer people emigrate from Tunisia, for example, to Europe? When would mass immigration to Europe as Mölzer bemoans it be more probable? When secular powers or religious powers have the long-term upper hand? Those who stand on the side of the people in Tunisia hope for a strengthening liberation, and not that Islam shapes life in North Africa in even narrower terms than was the case anyway up until now. But in this case it at least continued to fall back on the “respect for the great world religion.”

Or should Mölzer recognize an ally in Islam that is agreeable to him as long as it doesn’t develop its effects in his area? If this question should be answered in the affirmative, then the question of a common enemy could hardly be asked.

Therefore, Mölzer finds Islam to be a wonderful thing as long as it doesn’t take place in Austria. While Strache in the PI interview declares Israel to be still on the front line in the Clash of Civilizations, Mölzer evidently thinks that Islam will stay clear of neutral(!) Austria if one “respects” it above all in other countries as a world religion and explains away the undesirable developments by it as “Islamism.” But perhaps he believes Islam will spare Austria as the only land on the old continent, or that the “playing” with an Islam that still in the minority is like snuggling with a sweet baby tiger. But what speaks for this assumption, especially for the fact that the tiger cub wouldn’t soon grow into a dangerous beast of prey and tear apart its “neutral” playmate?

Nobody seemed to notice the charade as long as it worked so nicely as the “defense against all evil” in the Battle Against the Right™. However, now the respectable Antisemite stands before a serious conundrum: His whole game of hide and seek threatens to fly away because, of all people, the “rightwing populists” subscribed to scapegoats team up with the Zionist settlers in Judea and Samaria. To stand with credibility against this alliance hardly succeeds without revealing one’s own anti-Jewish resentments.

20 Minuten reports:

Genuine backing looks different. Israel has newly received such backing from an unexpected corner: European legal politicians are vociferously defending Israel’s claim to the occupied territories. …

Geert Wilders, whose rightwing populist and Islam hostile party the Dutch minority government tolerates said on the occasion of his visit in Tel Aviv the beginning of December, “A land that is only 15 kilometers wide cannot be defended. That is the strategic reason why the Jews must settle in West Jordan Land.” That matches the official Israeli position. …

“Our culture is based on Christianity, Judaism and humanism, and the Israelis are fighting our battle. If Jerusalem falls, Amsterdam and New York are next.” In other words: Israel’s battle against the Palestinians is Europe’s battle against Islam. …

The episode didn’t remain an isolated incident. One day after Wilders’ appearance in Tel Aviv, European legal politicians completed a sightseeing tour in West Jordan Land, among whom were Heinz-Christian Strache, the head of the rightwing populist FPÖ (Austrian Free Party) from Austria, as well as Filip Dewinter of the rightwing-nationalist Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest) party. They also affirmed the Israeli claim on the occupied West Jordan Land.

The constantly forced spin of the left and the mainstream media in this situation is to accuse the Right by saying they have exchanged the demonization of the Jews with that of the Muslims, an assertion that most obviously consistent in foregoing any basis, since the most open Antisemites these days are themselves Muslims, and the leftwing tolerance in the face of their Jew-hating activity reveals their own resentments in this direction.

(Hat Tip: westsouthpark / Translation: Anders Denken)

Abbas energetically rejected earlier suggestions in which Jews in Judea and Samaria could remain in their homes if these regions would fall under Palestinian rulership and at the same time invited all “Palestinian refugees” to return home. The part of the country that is still Israeli is to accept them. Israel, therefore, is to open its borders for Arabs while “Palestine” closes its borders for Jews. It hardly gets any clear than that!

(Hat tip: Wolfgang H. / Translation: Anders Denken)

(By Grundgesetzwatch / Translation: Anders Denken)

Ester Shapira, one of the announced speakers, regretfully had to turn down the platform discussion. The other events during the next two weeks will most certainly be put together with class. However, during the opening activity, I had to swallow strongly some times because the planners from the Württemberg Israeli Religious Association (IRGW) and certain others were stronly Left leaning, and some things could not be left unchallenged.

The opening speech form IGRW head speaker Barbara Taub tore me out of lethargy with one key word. Among the many guests of honor that she greeted by name was Mustafa Ari, the Turkish General Consul in Stuttgart. After the next speaker, mayor of Stuttgart, Susanne Eisenmann, the national councilwoman for intercultural and interreligious dialog in Baden-Württemberg, Mrs. Regina Ammicht Quinn (photo above left), came to the lecturn. The list of guests whom she expressly greeted by name was considerably shorter, but the Turkish General Consul was on it. At this point, my chin fell to the ground because the same (the Turkish Consul) had stated in a letter three days before where he stood on the question of the notorious Turkish means of genocide against the Armenians with his formulation “Turkish and Armenian records contradict each other, a dependable and objective foundation for information is needed,” and referred to a subcommittee that is to be organized on which Turkey and the Armenians have agreed. What the results up until now look like from the many commisions involved in this are very well known, the comments from Erdogan just as well, and there is no need of further discussion here.

Here is the reader’s letter:

The original text in the newspaper was very short then:

A historic day that goes way back in Turkey: Armenian Christians celebrated a worship service in the Church of the Holy Cross on September 19th on the Lake Van island Akdam – the first in 115 years, since the 1895 massacre against the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, which was followed twenty years later with targeted mass murders and expulsion, which Ankara to this day will not recognize as genocide…[ ]

After that, Charlotte Knobloch held a speech in which she complained among other things that the attack against the Mainz synagogue had received too little attention in the media and among the population. She surprisingly held back from making a statement about the presumed circle of criminals. I guess that she, out of experience, didn’t come to the conclusion that culprits from a certain religion commit and have committed such heinous crimes.

In the next platform discussion about the subject of “Jewish Life in Germany” with moderator Micha Guttman, the following participants were present: Hans-Jakob Ginsburg, editor of Wirtschaftswoche; Ulrich Sahm, Tel Aviv; Elvira Grözinger, Berlin and Tamas Ungavari, Budapest.

The conversation with moderator Guttman and his close friend Hans-Jakob Ginsburg was interesting. First he got stirred up over the fact that there are Jewish Islam critics in unbelievable numbers. Next, he summarized about Turkish female ministers in Germany, then quickly took the twist of demanding that the two highest national offices in Israel should be occupied with Arabs and Jews and demanded a minister post in the Israeli government for Arabs. Then he received the unfettered displeasure from the audience upon hearing that not only does a minister of Arab origin govern in Israel, but also Israelis of Arab origin are represented in the highest courts, and also among diplomatic foreign representation there are a few in the highest positions. Ginsburg introduced this flop in his dispute from the concept that he was speaking incoherently in rage over a former Berlin Finance Senator whom he mentioned right away by name and then verbatim described Sarrazin as a racist. He made no further explanation for the insult. Surprisingly – or is this really surprising – he wasn’t called back by moderator (this word comes from “moderate”) Guttman. In contrast to this, Ulrich W. Sahm was a pleasing highlight in the discussion. By the way, the general complaint on the platform was that Jews in some German cities cannot go about in the typical Jewish outfit, however mention of the group of people responsible for this was dodged.

(Unfortunately my video recording of the event had such an unacceptable sound quality that I could publish only parts of the platform discussion.)

(Press communication by the IAJLJ)

With this refusal, Gilad Shalit’s human rights have been trampled underfoot. It also represents an offense against the International Human Rights Declaration and the Geneva Convention.

The Red Cross, whose main duty is the protection of human rights, communicates that it wasn’t in the position to meet with Gilad Shalit. Even so, this organization hasn’t considered it necessary – although more than four years have passed in the meantime – to raise an outcry or to condemn Hamas openely for its actions.

The shameful weakness of the Red Cross in this affair is ignoble, particularly when it maintains a delegation in the Gaza Strip that has been in contact with Hamas throughout regarding other subjects relevant to human rights.

On June 1, 2010, our Israeli parent organization, the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists formally requested of the Red Cross yet again to try making contact with Gilad Shalit. On June 4, 2010, the Red Cross declared that all of its efforts had been unsuccessful, and that it tries on a regular basis to meet with Hamas regarding this issue.

On the basis of this untenable situation, our association has decided to become publicly active: On December 10, 2010, the International Day of Human Rights, the day on which the International Human Rights Declaration was signed in 1948, the IAJLJ has, with support of our friends and supporters and in collaboration with other organizations worldwide, demonstrated before the national chapters of the Red Cross in order to demand that the Red Cross finally denounce and condemn Hamas.

Video taken at the demonstration (Source: haOlam.de):

The IAJLJ was founded in 1989. Among its founding members are such peronalities as Haim Cohn, judge on the Israeli Supreme Court; Arthur Goldberg, judge on the United States Supreme Court; and the French Nobel Prize recipient, René Cassin. The IAJLJ is made up of jurists from all areas and fields of law. Any jurist that identifies with the objectives of the IAJLJ can become a regular member. The German branch was founded in May 2007 in Berlin. The IAJLJ engages worldwide in the promotion of human rights, the prosecution and prevention of war criminals, the ban of weapons of mass destruction, as well as the compliance with and implementation of international agreements. The IAJLJ especially steps in for the rights of Jews worldwide and battles against racism, hostillity to foreigners, antisemitism, denial of the Holocaust, as well as powers that reject Israel’s right to existence. The IAJLJ is a non-governmental organization (NGO) in Category II with the United Nations. This enables the IAJLJ to participate in consultation with various UN organizations. By means of this, the representatives of the IAJLJ among others was actively included in work on the Human Rights Commission in Geneva. You can find further information on the website: www.intjewishlawyers.org.

The FAZ reports:

The Islamists governing in Gaza have apparently begun with a storm against the last bastions who still have not conformed to the violent seizure of power by Hamas in Summer 2007: Seculars, independents and above all the rest of the Fatah organization that ruled once upon a time in Gaza are a thorn in Hamas’ flesh.

So that the media couldn’t report anything hostile to the regime, not only were members of the competing party Fatah and “seculars” (a.k.a. infidels, dissident thinkers, non-Muslims, and even kuffar) persecuted, but journalists also gladly:

“The police often interrogate journalists a whole day long, threaten them, and sometimes they are also beaten. Out of fear, some think it advantageous to be silent or are careful with what they write,” reports Wafa editor Ajrami. Such harsh reactions happened, for example, after accusions of corruption against Hamas politicians.

Hamas appears to be especially hard on women. Besides the well-known wailing women faithful to the regime of all images, there appear to be insubordinate women who don’t want to wear head covering or who are, as ever, naughty enough to smoke a water pipe.

The security forces temporarily closed hotels and restaurants where smoking women were caught on their terraces. The new theme park “Crazy Water Park” also was not allowed to open for days because of this. In September, the greater part of the facility then went up in flames from an attack by hooded militants.

How, what, Water Park? Isn’t Gaza this so-called “open air prison” in which the people allegedly must die of thirst, as Amnesty asserted?

Pictures from Crazy Water Park (presumably built with European donations from the Bomber General Surplus Fund):

Those who think that it would be not as extremist with the Fatah in the Judean mountains, which are now called “West Jordan Land” under political correctness, are in error:

Similar things as in Gaza are also encountered by journalists and media in West Jordan Land that are suspicious of such sympathies. In West Jordan Land, for example, the Hamas network Al-Aqsa-TV is not allowed to transmit and work.

“The situation in Ramallah is even worse than in Gaza. Journalists who are allegedly in association with Hamas land in military courts there,” Fathi Sabbah says. He is the Gaza correspondent for the Arab newspaper “Al Hayat” that appears in London and had to suffer himself under the Hamas regime. In September, a good dozen Palestinian human rights organizations turned to the EU in concern without whose support the government in Ramallah couldn’t survive. The autonomic authorities have begin to “supress other political opinions and create an atmosphere of intimidation in the Palestinian community in order to turn it into a kind of police state,” notable organizations such as Al Haq and Al Mezan warn.

Furthermore, the enemy camps are in agreement in only two points: 1. Israel is to blame for everything, and 2. Islam is the religion of peace.

(Hat Tip: Islamischer Mehrtuerer / Translation: Anders Denken)