(By Kewil)

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)

(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)

Instead of mourning the dead and judging the murderers, the media are once again already diligent about making the victims into criminals and the attackers into innocent victims. The following was In the AFP report:

The “terror attack” occurred not far from the Jewish settlement Kiryat Arba, the speaker for the Israeli police, Micky Rosenfeld, said.

So how is the terror attack being apostrophized? Is terrorism against Jewish settlers not genuine terrorism because they are alleged “occupants”? Or haven’t the Jews for millennia been much more the original inhabitants of the mountains of Judah? Coincidentally, even King David came from Hebron, and he was certainly not a Palestinian.

Even Focus-Bericht who names Hamas as the attackers stresses the violence-readiness of Israel most of all:

The Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has announced a harsh reaction. The target of the attack was to sabotage the direct peace negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians that were taken up once again Thursday after an almost two-year pause. “Israel will not allow the terrorists to raise their heads and will exact the price from the murderers and those whom they have sent,” Barak said.

By the way, among the four death victims under consideration were two men and two women between the middle 20s and the middle 40s. One of the two women was pregnant. They were all shot together in their automobile. The attackers checked the car after the shots were fired to make sure all were dead, they wanted to get away cleanly.

Focus online wrote a program tip for this:

Around 1.5 million people on 378 square kilometers — that is the overpopulated and undernourished Gaza Strip with borders on Israel and Egypt. The Palestinian Autonomic Region is one of the most densely settled areas in the world. Here, the Hamas has ruled for three years. It is Party, Social Network and Terrorist Organization all in one.

As with all other radically ideologized communities, many women are also involved with Hamas in the indoctrination of following generations. Female students, teachers and mothers impart the so-called ideological know-how. In kindergarten, they already prepare four-year-olds for “martyrdom,” that is considered as the highest form of battle against Israel. The approximately 70-minute ARD film offers insight into a closed society and examines among other things the cult of martyrdom.

Here is the film:

(Text: byzanz / Video:antivirus / Translation: Anders Denken)

(Hat Tip: Renate)

Thus, they would have to relinquish the delivery of electricity, gas, foodstuffs, medicines and special aid by the hated Jews, and as is normal with countries, care for their own population. This is such a horrible idea to do-gooders who constantly remind Israel of its duties, but break out in screaming when it makes use of its sovereign rights, like the pursuit of terrorists or the monitoring of the sea passage.

Whoever thought of such a thing would have to be an “ultra right-wing” politician, as die Welt reports. N-TV tries a quiter approach in their report:

Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman apparently has plans of great significance. He would like to see recognition of the de facto Hamas government in the Gaza Strip by the EU. In order that Hamas can take complete control of the Gaza Strip, he apparently intends to ask the international community to erect a power station for the production of electricity. International commando units, the French foreign legion among them, are to put a stop to weapons smuggling. Ships will be able to arrive at the Gaza harbor, but will have to be inspected for weapons in Limassol in Cyprus or in Greek harbors. Inasmuch as that would be set up, Israel would hermetically seal its own borders with the Gaza Strip; Israel would deliever neither electricity nor water or any other goods to Gaza, and would be absolved of any other responsibility for that stretch of land. (…)

In the background talks, the officer however asserted that these ideas of Liebermans have been coursing around “for weeks” in Israel’s foreign ministry. Lieberman has even delivered them to his Italian colleague Franco Frattini and intends to present them on July 28th to the EU foreign ministers under invitation, among them Guido Westerwelle. Lieberman invited both of them to Israel and recommended that they visit the Gaza Strip. Just a short while ago, Minister of Development Dirk Niebel had not been allowed to do this.

Lieberman’s idea of a “second and ultimate separation” of the Gaza Strip still hasn’t received approval from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, it was said.

The recommendation that Lieberman apparently passed on to the newspaper as a weather balloon would mean that Israel would have to give up inspecitions of the outer borders in the case of the Gaza strip. In addition Israel is not under obligation on the basis of the Oslo accords, which have never been recognized by Hamas. Lieberman’s desired recognition of the Hamas government by the Europeans would seal the political division of the Palestinians in a “Hamastan” in Gaza and a “Fatah Land” in West Jordan, and mean a partial termination of the Oslo accords because in them, Gaza and West Jordan are seen as a unit.

That would also signify an end to the peace process that Israel along with American and other agents at any rate could carry out with only West Jordan since the 2007 Hamas putsch. In the end, the autonomic authorities of Mahmoud Abbas were thrown out of Gaza in July 2007 while Hamas doesn’t intend to allow any more elections at the behest of Abbass. Lieberman’s Plan would also bury the idea of a two-state solution because there would, in fact, already be an independent Hamas state, while in West Jordan, negotiations would still have to be made regarding the founding of a future second Palestinian state. If Israel should in fact “hermetically seal” its borders to the Gaza Strip, as Lieberman was cited, then on the land route there would be access to nothing but Egypt.

Egypt doesn’t appear in the plan. The idea of Transportation Minister Israel Katz of putting the Gaza strip completely under Egyptian responsibility was meanwhile indignantly rejected by Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak.

Lieberman is indeed going on without Egypt’s approval. Since the Gaza Strip can be reached by ship, then the Europeans, for example, would have to guarantee a provision for the strip of land in case even Egypt, besides Israel, should close its borders out of fear of Islamic fundamentalists.

According to statements of the newspaper, Lieberman expects approval for his plan, for it would mean the end of the blockade demanded by all sides, end Israel’s occupation, and for the caged-in population of the Gaza Strip it would mean mobility that would no longer be checked by Israel, for example, when going by ferry to Greece or Cyprus.

The suggestions certainly cannot please the European sorcerer’s apprentices, however through this, they just might have to allow the consequences of their own moral presumptuousness, instead of the usual rude admonishings of Israel.

For Israel, though, there would be only advantages: The national border with Gaza could be more secured than can be found anywhere else in the world — not only between enemy states like Korea, but also between the US and Mexico, or like the border between the EU and Morocco in the Spanish enclave Ceuta (photo above).

Its own government would be responsible for the provisions of the new state, which up until now has been hindered by the total supply of power, water, gas, medical supplies and the daily delivery of tons of aid supplies as much as possible by Israel. The border crossing to the Islamic brethren nation in Egypt would serve as a means of supply, and, of course, the open sea way that would be navigated daily by the colorfully bannered aid flotillas full of prominent do-gooders from all over the world — only as long as an independent Pali state, that is no longer a thorn in the flesh for Israel, is still of interest to “international aid organizations.”

However, the best is this: Israel could finally react to military attacks from the neighboring country, for example by rocket fire, just as any country in this world would when they are militarily attacked by a neighboring country.

» Dr. Gudrun Eussner: The Eviction of Gaza. Jubilee!

(Photo: Example for Gaza? A 10-km long border fence separates the EU from its Muslim neighbors at the Spanish enclave Ceuta / Translation: Anders Denken)

The Gaza Mall covers over 16,000 square meters, is split into four 4,000 square meter levels. It contains a large supermarket, a department store, play areas for children, restaurants and boutiques:

The following pictures come from the inside of the shopping paradise – click to enlarge:

The interior of the shopping palace in the “Jew-free Zone” (a.k.a. Palestinian Autonomous Region) in Hebron looks similar :

You can find more pictures from the luxury resort “Palestine” here.

Melody, what do you think of Benjamin Netanyahu?

Politicians don’t act in a vacuum. They are always under political pressure, and in the case of Israel, facing constant geopolitical threats. Netanyahu is under pressure by his right-wing coalition. He is committed to bring peace to Israel. His interview with Larry King after the meeting with Barack Obama last week, is a clear indication for this. He wants peace for Israel and stands behind the idea of a Palestinian State.

Would another government have reacted any better to the Gaza Flotilla?

A political leader unfortunately is not an avatar that can be patched together with ideal qualities and superior powers, there is no such thing as an ideal prime minister. Besides Netanyahu there are no real alternatives at the moment. The current political leadership in Israel is not ideal, but they struggle with most complicated circumstances.

What do you think of the Two-State Solution?

A Palestinian state is inevitable for both sides; most people in Israel wish the Palestinians their own country, whatever the motivation may be. Any alternative would lead to catastrophe for the Jewish State.

Fatah and Hamas fight each other. Is a solution even feasible?

That is a problem. An agreement between Abbas and Netanyahu would be possible, if Abbas would finally agree to engage in direct talks, but whatever the outcome, Hamas won’t accept it. A two-state solution would only be practical in the West Bank. But Gaza would remain unchanged — a danger for Israel and for the Palestinians there, thus not a feasible solution. In theory, an economic confederation between the West Bank, Israel and Jordan would be an option. The contrast between a legitimate, economically flourishing Palestinian state in the West bank, and a terror regime in Gaza that undermines any flourishing but misery, would be immense. In fact, it already is. The question is whether the Palestinians in Gaza would then gather the strength and determination necessary to ‘disarm’ Hamas and its terror against its own people.

The blockade on Gaza is not implemented as collective punishment as some ‘human rights’ organizations like to claim. It is meant to block the establishment of a terror base, to limit the threat against Israeli civilians. Hamas established a terror regime based on dictatorship and oppression. They have an Islamic moral police like in Iran. Christians are murdered if they don’t convert to Islam. Fatah members are lynched and thrown off roofs. But that doesn’t seem to interest the ‘human rights activists.’ The misery in Gaza is not the result of Israeli policy.

As long as Hamas functions as a proxy for Iran, doesn’t accept the existence of Israel, and demands that Sharia rules the world, a solution is unfeasible.

Even though some dubious media and NGOs like to present it otherwise, Israel’s Gaza policy is anything but ‘imperialistically’ motivated — why would Ariel Sharon have gone through the trouble of disengaging out of Gaza in 2005?

What do you think of the Israel policy of US President Barack Obama?

So far, Obama’s policy hasn’t been too effective. His strategic paradigm shift towards appeasement hasn’t been fruitful, and at the same time it had a counterproductive impact on US relations with Israel. Obama’s inaugural address in Cairo contained some problematic allusions. He – hopefully unintentionally – set equal the meaning of the Holocaust for the Jews with the meaning of the establishment of the State of Israel for the Palestinians. Taking into account this speech’s main target audience, this was as dangerous as absurd a euphemism. It legitimizes the fight against Israel by radical elements in the Arab world. The reason for this problematic stance is probably a mixture between Obama’s ‘socialization’ into the Middle East conflict via questionable ‘agents’ such as his ex-pastor and mentor Jeremiah Wright and his desire to effectively appease the Muslim world.

However, the last meeting between Obama and Netanyahu was a good one and gives reason for optimism. It looks like Obama’s positions towards Israel and his potential influence on the conflict is taking a refreshingly constructive turn.

How do you assess the Iranian threat?

The Iranian threat is serious. Israel, Europe and the US cannot afford a nuclear Ayatollah regime under Ahmadinejad. Diplomatic dialog should not become a goal in itself. If it leads to nothing — and currently, this is what it looks like despite the new sanctions — then Plan B is necessary.

Whether a military intervention by Israel is possible? Anything is possible if Israel finds itself in a situation of existential threat, which a nuclear Iran would imply. We hope this will not happen.

At least the Ayatollah regime’s ambitions are transparent. For Ahmadinejad, Hamas and the remaining fundamentalist club, the annihilation of Israel is only an intermediate goal. In the minds of these lunatics world peace is secure once Sharia rules all over the globe, then Christians and Jews may coexist in safety – as subordinates.

What do you say about the resolution by the German Bundestag that Israel must give up the Gaza blockade?

Like many others, I was perplexed. Some of the parliamentarians’ quotes surprised me too. More than anything, there was a lot of self-satisfaction about the unusually unanimous vote of all four fractions. Was this a constructive contribution to the Middle East conflict? No. It strengthens Hamas and other radical groups that instrumentalize the ‘photogenic’ situation of the Palestinians in Gaza to delegitimize Israel. This brings neither peace nor freedom to the Palestinians.

The resolution is probably the result of the usual information vacuum: Israel doesn’t perform fast or well enough when it comes to reflecting the reality. Any Bundestag member who would have sat in a helicopter above the Mavi Marmara and seen how a mob of 40 terrorists with iron rods and knives attacked the Israeli soldiers, and how the soldiers received the command to shoot only when three of them were almost lynched to death; had this same parliamentarian further seen the videos in which members of the Turkish mob declared their chief objective in this trip with broad smiles and gleaming eyes, namely to die as Shahids for Allah – then most likely this very fellow would not have voted for the resolution.

It is similar with the immediate call to end the blockade of the Gaza Strip. This is an easy thing to demand when one lives in peaceful Germany and has never been paid a visit by Qassam rockets or bloodthirsty suicide attackers. Criticism, especially by an important ally like Germany, is important — when it is constructive, fair and based on detailed, balanced facts. I doubt that all of these criteria were fulfilled in this resolution. For example, it demands an improvement of the humanitarian situation in Gaza, but not the release of Gilad Shalit, or even improvement of his ‘humanitarian situation’, through access by the Red Cross. Also, the question remains why the Bundestag, of all relevant foreign affairs events, singles out Israel’s Gaza policy.

Could Israel fill the information vacuum by documenting even more aggressively and with communicating even more evidence?

Of course. The vacuum is our deficit. Politically, too, Israel must adapt to the YouTube, Facebook and Twitter age, where information is wrapped into sound bites that travel the world at the speed of light. Consequently, the genuineness of contents is often compromised— this age is the paradise of the propagandists. But not for the only Western democracy that has been facing geopolitical threats since its existence. The priority of the Israeli governments has always been military defense, the protection of its civilian population. The fact that the media war is no less a strategic threat is now slowly catching on. This is a quite late but crucial paradigm shift.

Israel still lacks the necessary infrastructure for relevant videos, images and information to be proactively transmitted by good spokespeople. Furthermore, Israel won’t compromise its moral standards as a democratic Jewish state to score public opinion points. Israel will never ‘sell’ photos of its children that were mutilated or killed by Hamas terror, or like Hezbollah did in 2006, direct children and women to pose as ‘freshly shot’ extras in different settings. An example of the cynical use of human life for hate propaganda is the story of Mohammad al Dura. Fortunately, this will never be the case in Israel.

Reality is on Israel’s side, it just needs to be transmitted. This doesn’t imply that every political decision is the right one; however, we should keep in mind the context in which these decisions are made. I grew up in Munich and know how difficult it is to imagine within this green, pristine, peaceful safe haven how it feels to be surrounded by Islamic terror organizations. Only he who experienced a cruel terror attack in close proximity, or once had to run for his life into a bunker, can understand the insane situation Israelis have been living in and Israeli governments have been operating in for over 60 years.

Why aren’t foreign journalists even taken along to incidents like the storming of the Gaza flotilla?

Foreign journalists are often not taken along for security reasons. There were foreign journalists on the navy vessels surrounding the flotilla, but — since they needed to stay in a safe zone they could not see what was happening way up on the ship’s deck.

Other countries are not under such extreme scrutiny concerning possible ‘misbehaviors’

Yes, in Sudan hundred thousands of people are slaughtered by Islamists, but the human rights activists have nothing to say about it, same with the persecution of the Baha’i or the mutilation of women in Iran. The ‘human rights activists’ don’t say one word about it. But the naked, last resort self-defense of Israeli soldiers against a band of bloodthirsty Jihadists turns into a world-wide scandal. Is this not a perversion of reality? Israel, o Israel, how could you? Same with the UN Human Rights Council whose biased Israel obsession is so counterproductive, whereas a constructive, balanced facts-driven version of this institution would be so crucial.

Are pro-Israeli demonstrations — for example in Germany — even noticed in Israel?

Pro-Israel demonstrations still are not yet sufficiently noticed in Israel. At the Israel demo on June 13th in Berlin, I heard unbelievably touching words of support. People who proactively inform themselves, who acquire knowledge and understand the situation in depth, who support Israel with their hearts and minds as the only democracy in the Middle East. They are extremely important — for Israel and for Germany. In times like these, inspite of all strength, Israelis feel threatened – not just in terms of security, but also by public opinion. I wish every single Israeli would know what kind of important support PI, for example, grants. And I don’t say that to flatter: The moral support though the systematic exposure of crucial facts by PI is remarkable. For Israel is as threatened as misunderstood.

The greatest crime committed by obsessive and uninformed Israel critics is that they polarize only further. Instead of European student groups, for example, joining forces to make a constructive contribution, by encouraging understanding between Israeli and Palestinian students, many students fall victim to propaganda campaigns that turn peace into utopia. Here, the easiest solution simply isn’t a solution. The majority of European youth had the luxury to grow up in complete peace. With this luxury comes a moral responsibility of engaging in building bridges in conflict regions, rather than destroying them.

Is there a question you wanted to be asked for a while, but weren’t asked by me today?

Yes, there is such a question. What is Israel really like, and what do I love about it.

What is Israel like? What do you love about it?

It’s a combination of elements that make everyday life an inspiration. I grew up in a very privileged way in Munich. I had fantastic friends, a great school, lived in peace and knew no problems. Since I got to know Israel — and this has nothing to do with Zionism — I fell in love. I love the Mediterranean, in spite of the current jellyfish invasion (Paul, call back your cousins!), I love Jaffa, this Ottoman pearl, and I find living together with Israeli Arabs exciting.

I grew up with a self-created image of Israel as a small paradise. Living here, with the painful experiences of the second intifada, wars and constant threats, this paradise image crumbled, it even seems cynical. My greatest wish is to experience this Israel, already exploding of lust for live, creativity and innovation, in total peace. As the paradise I’ve been carrying in my heart since I was a child. This requires the release of Gilad Shalit.

In the meantime, support like the courageous work of PI, is like oxygen to us.

Melody Sucharewicz, we cordially thank for this interview. We wish you and Israel all the best and God’s blessings.

(Photo credit: Metin Cherasi / Translation: Anders Denken)

(Photo report by B. Sham / Translation: Anders Denken)

Sederot — on first look, a small pioneer city that is trying to hold its ground between its pioneer days and modern times.

Under normal conditions, that would be difficult enough, but under the hail of rockets from the neighboring Arab Hamas community in Gaza, it needs special perseverance in order not to give up. There indeed exists a pretty reliably functioning early “red alert” warning system against the rocket attacks by strictly Muslim Hamas in Gaza now, however, there are only about 15 seconds for running to cover. There, the normal little dangers of everyday appear more as an ironic contrast.

In fact, a second look, however, shows a few special characteristics of this city on the edge of the Negev desert: Wherever one goes and stands, bunkers and protective structures have been inconspicuously integrated more or less with street life — a quasi-normality during the hail of rockets.

Every bus stop, every kindergarten, every post office — everything has to be armored against the terror from the neighboring Muslim Hamas community.

Apartments lately have all been outfitted with armored security rooms (Israeli: ‘mamad’) — with poured concrete against the terrorism.

The large local Yeshiva Sederot (Jewish Bible school) stands firm against the terror: one will not allow oneself to be driven out. In contrast, on the roof of the large school, students built a nine-armed Chanukkah lamp out of rocket parts through which visitors can catch a view in the direction of Gaza.

Are the attacks demonstrations of thanksgiving by the really devoted followers of the “Religion of Peace” that the Israelis voluntarily vacated the Gaza strip in 2005, sprinkled throughout with all its magnificent settlement areas? It was the previous Prime Minister Ariel Sharon who pushed this through.

The few Israeli military actions, targeted against the rocket terrorists in the Gaza strip, were rabidly judged by this world’s “quality media”: it was irresponsible Israeli war mongering, etc., etc., etc., in defending themselves militarily against the Religion of Peace and its rockets instead of being constantly chafed by unending, ineffective negotiations. Ineffective? Really, why indeed? Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu once expressed it with total clarity and simplicity, “With a Hamas, we Israelis could only negotiate about our annihilation.”

Hamas Video regarding this:

These rockets have absolutely no military value, since they are inaccurate. They are only useful for terror weapons against localities where they might land.

The modest town hall in Sederot has suggestions ready for visitors on how to behave in case of attack, as well as a brochure in stock about the attacks that have gone on for years and about the victims of the terrorists from the Gaza strip:

Then the visitors are referred to the police station where the remainders of the Kassam rockets are kept on exhibit.

The blockade of the Gaza strip is seen, in terms of the militarily use goods, as an absolute necessity; the recent decline in rocket attacks can be traced back, on the one side, to the targeted anti-terror actions by the Israeli military, and on the other, to the thorough inspection of the large multitude of goods allowed into Gaza. The Sederot residents can only grab their heads over so much lack of reality and over the ideological stubbornness in much of the quality medias’ one-sided reporting having the overtones of an Israeli attack on a “peace flotilla” and the “supplies for the residents” in Gaza.

But Sederot demonstrates a nearly calm power notwithstanding — with the the oversized Jewish symbol of the Shofar

and the positive tenacity that shows in the confidence in the Israeli community.

They will never be broken by the Arab terrorists.

Noam Arnon is a man who has learned to live with dangers every day. He has had poor experiences with the western media. “They see the truth, but they report lies,” he declares. We are meeting in the shade of the playing field that has secured from shooting.

50 Jews have already been shot by Arabs on this street. Among them was a Jewish baby that was targeted by sharpshooters while in the baby carriage. Noam Arnon recounts the history of Hebron, about the Hadassah hospital, which was the first one built in Israel, and the bloody massacre of 1929 that was supposed to drive the Jews out of Hebron for good.

A museum documents the history of the area with impressive images, what happened to its inhabitants in 1929, and the difficulties with which the community has to struggle.

Why Arnon wishes to remain in Hebron, he explains with an anecdote about the first Israeli president Chaim Weizmann, a chemist, who led a good life in Great Britain, but still had the desire to emigrate to Israel. When he was asked why he wished to go to Israel of all places, he said: “You also drive 50 kilometers each week to see your mother, because of this, many old women live here in the city.” The mother, the fatherland, is not to be replaced by anything.

Today, the Jewish population in Hebron totals around 400 members. They all live on a single street and the surroundings, even though the Israeli-controlled area of Hebron H2 is somewhat larger. They are in danger to loose their lives every single day.

The Jews are not allowed to build and sell any more houses; there is great fear in the government for Arab revenge and a new wave of violence. The policies of the new US president Obama, who wishes for the abolition of Jewish settlements without being more knowledgeable about the problems related to this subject, have also had a negative effect. The Arabs are not allowed to drive with a car on the one Jewish street. They are aloud to go along on foot, but they feel incredibly discriminated against. On the other hand, the Jews are prohibited from even entering the much greater Arab part of Hebron. If they do so, they put their life in jeopardy.

Six soldiers that keep watch on the Jewish street became famous this week when broke out in a little dance:

The media report about it:

PI met the six soldiers day before yesterday at exactly the same place. As punishment, they have to create another film that shows why one shouldn’t create such videos.

Through the concrete protection barriers on the edge of the street, a totally different Hebron is visible, Great Hebron H1, where Jews have no access and it is almost 100 percent inhabited by Muslim Arabs. Whoever would imagine a small town of ruins, would do so in total error. Hebron, contrary to all the Palestinian recitations of complaint, is full of new houses, is modern and in a better condition than the Jordanian capital Amman.

At Abraham’s grave, where the Jewish location can again lay claim to a fractional part of space, there is situated a giant mosque, again to which the Jews have no access.

Christians are allowed to enter the mosque. The female Christians must, of all things, cover themselves in long burka-blue hooded sacks in order not to “defile” the building — somewhat different from the Jewish quarter where short skirts and sleeveless arms are allowed — and especially when they have already bound themselves with head covering in hasty obedience.

Abraham’s Grave – Jewish:

Abraham’s Grave – Islamic:

In front of the mosque, PI encountered an Arab who is the overseer of a group of Palestinian wristwatch vendors and states that he belongs to a pro-Palestinian “aid initiative.” The man offers a guided tour through Arab Hebron and boasts that he has guided EU parliamentarians many times before (which might not necessarily be a lie). His dissertations about the conditions of people in Hebron belong, however, in the Kingdom of Fables:

Fable 1: The Arabs in Hebron are poor and have nothing to eat — the reality is visibly different.

Fable 2: The often inquiries regarding the estimated one million Arab residents (true numbers are at 200.000) in the city are being constantly pelted with trash and rocks by the estimated 400 Jews. Even if that would be true for an isolated case, the Arabs in return shoot at the Jews with cannonballs.

Fable 3: The Arab “Cordoba School” is already 3000 years old. Cordoba was, in fact, the center of the Spanish-Islamic El-Andalus colony that was reconquered by the Spaniards. “Remember Cordoba” in Islamic context means remember the area out of which we were driven — that belonged to us once and we want once again. It isn’t for no purpose that the mosque building project at New York’s Ground Zero is called “Cordoba House.” European do-gooders, on the other hand, see the name “Cordoba” as innocuous because it brings to mind the so-called “Golden Age” in Spain. But since the Cordoba School is already 3000 years old, and thus it happens to be older than Islam itself, this one is totally absurd.

Likewise, there were representatives of the “Temporary International Presence in the City of Hebron” on site (TIPH), a Palestinian security organization that feels called to watch over the few Jews in case of possible misdeeds. Two observers of the TIPH have been shot by Arab terrorists, by the way, who had confused them with Jews. TIPH claims until today, they wouldn’t know who shot their comrades. The international friends of Palestine were standing accordingly on Shahid Street. Upon questioning, the Arab “guide” explained that a one becomes a shahid when he is shot by a Jew. That doesn’t apply to Christians, however, only to Muslims.

Arab Hebron is like a giant aquarium full of sharks wanting to be considered as a minute goldfish pond by the world. This city, which is possibly the most Arabic city in the whole Israeli territory, is a symbol for the entire Western Middle East policy.

» Eussner: Nahostkonflikt. Die Rolle Norwegens im Westjordanland

Moreover, the following appeal for protest came in from a PI reader:

APPEAL

- The politicians in Germany dominating from left to right have something horrible in store. I found out today on Deutschlandfunk Nachrichten (German Radio News), that according to the SÜDDEUTSCHE Zeitung newspaper, four BUNDESTAG FRACTIONS intend to vote on a resolution against ISRAEL next week in order to ANNOUNCE THE OPENING OF THE SEA ROUTE FOR GAZA, and therefore put the Republic of ISRAEL under pressure and cut down their options of defense even farther.

This is the BANKRUPTING of GERMAN POLICY relative to the fight against terrorism and to an ACTIVE FRIENDSHIP with ISRAEL as opposed to the issuing of useless communiqués. Isn’t it enough already, that a whole list of German companies already supply the Islam-Nazistic regime of the mullahs with strategically effective materials?

This is catastrophic. These political idiots — and not under a completely false awareness due to UNhealthy national sentiments caused by a consistent lack of information and twisting of stories by the mass-media — are quasi at the head of the criminal action of breaking through ISRAEL’s blockade for the HAMAS murderers by the LEFT Party, Turkish right-wing extremists, and Islamists.

Of course, as was heard in the embarrassing debate some days ago that was flanked by “human rights” and apparently by unobjective or ineffective “requirements” for weapons inspections by token European friends, even so our radio networks are increasingly becoming like the Islamists in their propaganda, and are thereby putting the blame for terrorism on Israel, or even pushing the cause for Jihad on them. This, however, can be laid directly on the Brown/Reds and Milli Görüs.

Because at this time, as never before, the interests of our freedom lie together with those of ISRAEL’s, and opposite to those of a degenerated policy by the German Bundestag and those of the (post-)Stalinists, Green culturalists, and Neo-Nazis, I therefore appeal to all of you with all of your connections, your networking capabilities, and with PROTESTS OF EVERY KIND to put a giant mark through this REPREHENSIBLE PRO-ISLAMIC RESOLUTION on the cost sheet of the above-mentioned fractions that is to be marked at the cost of ISRAEL under the phony flag of peace or of seeming supply aid — or that will make for better competition against other powers in (the oil) business.

Use the remaining days and hours for visits, phone calls, faxes — and especially to your local politicians — and for possibly appearing in open protests in order to prevent this DISGRACE IN THE BUNDESTAG from eventually becoming a disgrace for German policy and an act of betrayal against ISRAEL.

- WHOEVER can or lives close enough, go visit the Bundestag!

- I also ask for further suggestions and for you to use your Internet intelligence and networking capabilities to the maximum!

HamaS-Supporters – Get out of the Bundestag! NO multiCULTURal protection for Islamists! No BETRAYAL of ISRAEL and our freedom for OIL!

Yes to the greening of the desert; no to the Green/Black/Red policies of Islamic immigration! If we don’t learn to defend ISRAEL here and tackle the issue now, there will be hardly a chance against Jihad!

The security risk and Ahmadini-Network-Chat Friend, known as TURKEY, must leave NATO! Islamists and Islam friends get out of the city councils and “integration” estblishments!

ISRAEL, Mazel Tov!

Bertha Dick, an individual
desert-Flut-action@web.de

(Translation: Anders Denken)

(By the Editrix)

SPIEGEL ONLINE International performed an interview with him that was full of as-hard-as-nails-investigative questions and gems of replies from the interviewee, such as whether he had ever been to Gaza (“no”), whether he knows the IHH and the Free Gaza movement (“not well enough to be able to form an opinion”), whether Hamas was a source of hope for him (“I don’t know enough about the issue”), or why he ignored repeated Israeli warnings that they would not allow the convoy to reach Gaza (“At least they should have let us continue for another two hours, until we were just off the coast”) and nobody laughed and the world listened in awe.

I quite liked that one as well:

You know, I was born in 1948, the same year as the establishment of the State of Israel, so this conflict has accompanied me my entire life. For me, the thought that this conflict will still exist when I die is unbearable.

Whether the fact of having been born in the same year as the old fart who has hair growing out of his nose and ears makes the Middle East conflict so precious, the as-tough-as-nails-investigative journalists from SPON forgot to ask — or why he doesn’t give an aviating fornication for all the many other still unresolved ethnic or political conflicts worldwide, for that.

But this is priceless:

By the way, I have many Jewish friends, my books are published in Hebrew [which he considers to revoke] … and a branch of my family is Jewish.

Just like the Führer!
…………

The “peace activists” knew that full well. The entire thing was a hoax intended to run rings around Israel from the very start.

(By the Editrix / Hat tip: Dr. Gudrun Eussner)

“I view Israel’s assault on the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara as a textbook example of incompetence. These people are not as brilliant as they like to claim.”

(By the Editrix)

The ship, despite its supercargo of PC, anti-Israel, Left-wing suckers, dupes and sandal-wearers, was also seething with militant and far-from-pacifist full-time Israel-haters.

If the Mossad secret service types had lived up to their legend, they would have known this.

So why lower troops, one by one, into the midst of a mob of foes? Why equip them with feeble paintball guns, shroud their hands in gloves so they can’t reach their sidearms, and order them not to open fire until things get out of hand?

They did this because the Israeli military let their civilised, law-governed instincts get the better of sensible cynicism.

The gullibility of the reporting on this issue defies belief. This wasn’t a humanitarian convoy. The Israelis were quite willing to send on the supplies, after searching them for contraband.

It’s not as if I wouldn’t have any issues with the rest of the entry as well, but the quoted bit is so awash with expressions of a common misconception, that I’ll concentrate on that. Hitchens says that, had “…the Mossad secret service types had lived up to their legend, they would have known this.” I am not implying antisemitism on Hitchen’s side, but oughtn’t he to know that this legend is largely an antisemic wet dream? A up-to-date-version of the old omniscient, ubiquitous and omnipotent Jew?

He then raises an extremely interesting point, getting close to the core of antisemitism, apparently without noticing it, when he says that they were so ill-prepared for the terrorist attack “…because the Israeli military let their civilised, law-governed instincts get the better of sensible cynicism.” Quite right, Mr. Hitchens. And that is because the Jews think they can win hearts by “good” behaviour when the opposite is the case. Jews (as a group) are not hated because of the evil they do, but because of the good they do. This is called — dare I say it? — antisemitism.

Lastly, he states that “(t)he gullibility of the reporting on this issue defies belief.” Wrong, Mr. Hitchens. That is not gullibility. Far from it. And it does not a bit defy belief. For somebody who is at home in and part of the media this is a pretty obtuse statement. Anybody who WANTS to know the truth, specifically in the time of the Internet, can learn the truth — if the truth were what he’s after. But only very few are. And we’re back to square one and the a-word again.

(By the Editrix)

The camera points incessantly at the ‘humiliated Jews’! – In terrorcamps in Gaza, Afghanistan or in Lebanon that would be fodder for thigh-slapping, bawling mirth. To present this to a worldwide public is a non-plus-ultra proof for the total absence of any morality and the general sadistic mental disorder of those ‘peace activists’…

Well, Islamists think differently. What evokes compassion for the brutally molested in the West, is in Islam symbol and proof of their strength, because degradation, humiliation etc. are the pride of the Islamic fighter, which means they don’t even twig that they are damaging their entire PR for Europe all by themselves.

And while I think Ulrich is on to something here, I wouldn’t count all THAT much on Western compassion when it’s about Jews.

I have refrained of posting the pictures here for obvious reasons.

The reiteration of the number “six million” is pure coincidence, if not without symbolic value, especially since the Jews in Israel are practically without exception Holocaust survivors or would have been the “next one up” (if the Allies had not won), or their descendants.

For them Islamists like Iran and Hamas and their nearest satellites have already formulated the next genocide, thanks to Muhammad. Hamas, in their charter, cites Muhammad in the following declaration:

The last day will not come until the Muslims battle so much against the Jews and kill them, that the Jews hide behind trees and rocks. And each tree and rock will say, “Oh Muslim, thou servant of God, there is a Jew behind me. Come and kill him.”

In contrast to the trees and rocks that talk to the genocidal Islamists and to Muslims however, many truistic Jew-haters don’t aim for genocide, rather a more humane solution, namely the execution of a forced eviction for six million Jews, somewhat an intermediate storage facility like a large depot for special waste, thus a Madascar Plan 2.0, or euphemistically speaking a Jewish Disposal Park®.

Helen Thomas (photo above with US President Barack Obama) is one of the advocates of the relatively human idea of Jewish disposal. She is not just anybody or even a Helen Normal Ignoramus, rather the longest member of the White House Press Corps and much more, a group of correspondents that regularly report over the Press Conferences of the US Government in the White House. Thomas has accompanied every president of the United States since John F. Kennedy, and was the first female member of the White House Correspondents’ Association. Helen Thomas has become an institution and famous over the decades. Besides the closing words, “Thank you, Mr. President,” Thomas also regularly opened the press conferences of the US presidents with the first question. In the 1990s, she did a guest appearance in the films “Dave” and “Hello Mr. President.” In 1998, Thomas was the first recipient of the Helen Thomas Lifetime Achievement Award named for her by the White House Correspondents’ Association. Today, she is by no means an old demented codger, rather she is indeed a columnist with Hearst, one of the largest media congolmerates worldwide. On February 9, 2009, Thomas was counted among the journalists chosen to be called upon in Barack Obama’s first press conference as president of the United States.

Helen Thomas words it in a brief and folksy fashion, as a current video from the official event at the White House documents: The Jews should get the H— out of Palestine and go back home to Germany and Poland. A little thing to note: “home” is where the last genocide against the illegal Jews was planned and executed.

What a surprise! The Jews in Israel are having a hard time warming up to this proposition.

After the storm of indignation in the US, Helen Thomas has since expressed regrets. In truth, she believes in peace, mutual respect and tolerance, bla, bla, bla…

(Guest contribution by Daniel Katz, Middle-East-Info.org / Translation: Anders Denken)