Doc's Talk: From Post Zionism to Espionage

Sunday, April 11, 2010

From Post Zionism to Espionage

Prof. Steven Plaut

The Israeli Far Left considers rightists to be congenitally violent. Are left wingers congenitally disposed to treason?

It was long before the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin by Yigal Amir that the Israeli Left, led by the nose by Haaretz newspaper, chanted in unison what has become its fundamental political axiom: Political violence is a congenital inclination of the Israeli Right, especially of those "settlers" and the religious Right. Political violence is exclusively a plague coming from the Right, never from the Left, they long insisted. After the assassination of Rabin, the assertion became a matter of unchallengeable theology.

Not only was Rabin himself assassinated by a religious right-wing student, they reminded everyone. Every non-leftist in Israel was collectively and morally guilty of Rabin's death. In addition, Jack Teitel, a deranged ex-American Israeli from the rightwing fringe, left a bomb at the door that injured the leftwing Prof. Zev Sternhal. Baruch Goldstein, another ex-American, shot up the Shrine of the Patriarchs in 1994. An Israel rightwing thug once threw a grenade into a march of Peace Now protesters, killing one. Rightwing hotheads regularly get into confrontations with the police and soldiers in the "occupied territories,"

All that was enough for the Israeli Left and its captive Israeli mainstream media. All that "proved" that members of the ideological Right are all criminals, violent, would-be murderers. Every confrontation of a settler and policeman reinforced the chorus.After the incident with Prof. Sternhal, several tenured leftists attacked me on two chat lists for Israeli academics, accusing me of having caused the attack because I had dared to criticize Sternhal earlier for his radical leftist anti-democratic political opinions.

The media obsession with the supposed congenital inclinations towards violence of Israeli Right-wingers long served to obscure the congenital inclinations towards treason and espionage by a great many members of the Israeli Left. The simple fact of the matter is that every single incidence of anti-Israel espionage has involved Israelis from the Far Left.

The scandal that was just made public in Israel, after a local court order prohibiting its publicity was lifted,
involves Anat Kam, a young far-leftist traitor, who conspired with Haaretz newspaper to leak classified military documents. She stole about 2000 classified military documents and passed them on to her Haaretz handler, a leftist journalist named Uri Blau, now in hiding in the UK. Haaretz ran some stories in the past using what it had
extracted from some of those.

Kam was not the first Israeli far leftist to be involved in treason and espionage. Mordecai Vanunu, the notorious nuclear spy, was a member of the Israeli communist party. Marcus Klinberg spied in Israel on behalf of the Soviets for years. Azmi Bishara, who spied for the HezbíAllah terrorists, was a leading member of Israel's
pro-terror Arab Left.

The worst espionage-cum-terror ring that operated in Israel was organized in the 1970s by the kibbutz-born
communist Udi Adiv. (After serving his jail term, he now teaches in Israel's Open University.) Tali Fahima was a far-leftist who was imprisoned for helping her Palestinian terrorist boyfriend plan terror attacks.

In the 1950s it would have been hard to find any member of the Israeli communist parties not collaborating with the Soviets.

Hundreds of Israeli leftists, led by Neve Gordon of Ben Gurion University, are promoting world boycotts of Israel these days, as well as mutiny and insurrection by Israeli soldiers.

And there are quite a few other leftist traitors running about today. Curiously, Haaretz never ran any editorials about
Hundreds of Israeli leftists... are promoting world boycotts of Israel
the congenital inclinations of far leftists to engage in treason and espionage.

After the assassination of Rabin, every single Israeli newspaper and leftist commentator denounced Bar-Ilan University, the religious university where Yigal Amir had been a law student. Bar-Ilan should be shut down, insisted many. It is a den of rightwing violence and it is morally responsible for Yigal Amir, they bellowed. Well, not a single one of those same people has called for closing down Tel Aviv University this week.

Anat Kam was a student in TAUís history and philosophy departments, both of them among the most monolithically anti-Israel academic departments in Israel. Together with the sociology and political science departments at Tel Aviv University, one would have to search with a candle to find faculty members who are not communists. Not a single medium in Israel is denouncing the radicals at Tel Aviv University for inspiring and breeding Anat Kam, nor calling for the university to undertake a complete ìcritical self-examination to understand its own guilt, which is what they had demanded of Bar-Ilan.

In 1940 Winston Churchill shut down all the newspapers and media operated by the British Union of Fascists, the pro-German fascist party led by Oswald Mosley. It was one of his first acts as Prime Minister. Some 740 leading members of the party, including Mosley, spent the duration of the war in prison. Like Haaretz, their newspapers had launched a peace campaign (with Nazi Germany!) and reflexively supported the enemies of their country in just about everything.

Until now,Haaretz was a newspaper of treasonous political stands, but not a newspaper actually actively involved in treason and espionage. Half its columnists are the Israeli moral equivalents to Lord Haw-Haw. It has a market share in Israel of 6 or 7%, and I suspect that at least half its subscribers get the paper in spite of its anti-Israel ideology and thanks to The Marker, its business section, the best business supplement in Israel. (I am one such
subscriber.)

Now we have all discovered that Haaretz has gone beyond mere cheering on of treason to engage in it. Will Netanyahu have the courage of Churchill and shut down the newspaper for the duration of the war? Will he imprison extremists supporting the countryís enemies in time of war like Sir Winston? By the way, what Kam did
Now we have all discovered that Haaretz has gone beyond mere cheering on of treason to engage in it.
was worse than what Jonathan Pollard was convicted of in the US, so Kam and Blau should be sentenced to a prison term at least as long as that being served by Pollard.

Haaretz for its part is bragging about its role in the espionage and trying to spin it as a great act of patriotism. Really. Almost the entire newspaper this weekend is devoted to patting itself on the back for having run Kam and Blau. It was a great act of citizenship for peace insist the editors and Op-Ed writers. After all, among the 2000 classified documents stolen by Kam and passed on to Haaretz were some that described Israeli military plans to continue to conduct targeted assassinations against Hamas terrorists in spite of an Israeli Supreme Court order that commanded the military and executive branch to stop those assassinations.

So Haaretz was just whistle blowing, bleat the conscripted writers. Just preventing violations of the Court ruling.

Now if the Israeli military were indeed planning to ignore the Supreme Court ruling, they should be cheered for doing so and awarded medals. That is because the Supreme Court ruling that prohibited targeted assassinations of terrorists who have not been read their Miranda rights was itself grossly illegal and unconstitutional. It was one of the worst outrages by Israeli Supreme Court justices dedicated to judicial activism, the anti-democratic doctrine of judicial tyranny that insists that the court need not base its rulings on actual laws or constitutional powers.

There is absolutely no legal basis for the Israeli Supreme Court to interfere in the micro-management of Israel's
war against terrorism. The Court has no legitimate standing to dictate to the military how to pursue its tasks. If the military were really planning to ignore the Court (and it may just have been preparing contingency plans in case the Knesset voted to overturn the Court ruling), then that might have been a golden opportunity to challenge judicial activism and rein in Israel's anti-democratic activist judges.

That is not how Haaretz is spinning it. Haaretz strongly supports judicial activism because the judicial activists
usually impose items from the leftist agenda upon the country in their rulings. Haaretz also led the crusade
Kam has become the poster girl of Israel's far Left.
against the ex-Minister of Justice Daniel Friedmann, who endeavored to rein in the judicial activists.

Meanwhile Kam has become the poster girl of Israel's far Left, which is increasingly open and brazen in its treasonous political positions. For years the Israeli far Left, along with its journalistic mentors at Haaretz, has been supporting the elimination of Israel and its enfoldment into a Palestinian bi-national state, promoting the Palestinian Right of Return, organizing lawbreaking and insurrection by soldiers, the vandalizing of Israel's security wall and engaging in violent hooliganism against soldiers and police, supporting all demands by the terrorists, cheering on acts of Arab terror, and serving as human shields for murderers. Espionage is but a mere baby step beyond all that.
Nisan 26, 5770 / 10 April 10
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/9419

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The IDF’s Minorities in Numbers and Pictures

In honor of IDF Diversity Week, we present diversity through numbers and pictures. Each year, more and more Muslims, Christians, Druze, Bedouin and immigrants from around the world take on the responsibility of defending Israel.

MUSLIMS:

Muslim Arab Israelis are not required to draft in the IDF, but there are many who volunteer. In 2013, there were over 200 Muslims serving in the IDF and over 300 in the reserves.

Bedouins:

Bedouins are nomadic Muslims who were in Israel when modern borders were set in place and are now considered Israeli citizens. They are not required to draft but a growing number choose to enlist. In 2012, there were over 1,400 Bedouin Muslim soldiers doing regular IDF service and almost 1,500 in the reserves.

Read more:http://www.idfblog.com/2014/02/27/truth-idf-numbers-pictures/#more-34027

Are you aware that in 2013, Middle class taxes go up-significantly?

In January of next year, the federal income tax rate for middle-class taxpayers is scheduled to rise from 25 percent to 28 percent, and the payroll tax is scheduled to rise from 13.3 percent to 15.3 percent… This drives the marginal tax rate based on the aforementioned three taxes to 48.12 percent. Add in state and local property, corporate, excise, and other state and local taxes, and the percentage of each additional dollar that is taxed hovers around 50 percent… When half of each additional dollar earned is taxed away, taxpayers experience a disincentive to start businesses or expand existing ones. This leads to fewer jobs being created.

Why is HAMAS Inside Tampa Schools?

Clare Lopez

Kelly Miliziano, who teaches history classes at Steinbrenner High School in the Tampa, Florida area apparently thinks it’s perfectly OK to invite a senior official of a HAMAS-affiliated organization into her classroom to discuss Islam with her students. According to local media reports, not only has this been going on for years, but in spite of the civil and criminal proceedings that could result from such reckless negligence, the Hillsborough County school superintendent, Mary Ellen Elia, and the chairman of the school board, Candy Olson, also expressed approval for students under their responsibility to be exposed repeatedly to guest speaker, Hassan Shibly, who is the Executive Director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in the Tampa area.
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Did You Know... Ignoring the Call to Islam will Bring Jihad

‘Conquest through Da’wa [proselytizing] that is what we hope for. We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America! Not through sword but through Da’wa.’
-- Yousef al-Qaradawi , Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader The Arabic word ‘Da’wa’ means the “call to Islam.” But do not think that Da’wa is the same thing as an invitation to an optional holiday event. The classical Islamic doctrine of jihad mandates that enemies must be given the opportunity to convert to Islam or pay the jizya tax before it is permissible to attack them.
Clare M. Lopez

Who is being discriminated-facts tell the truth

Religious bias

Hate crimes motivated by religious bias accounted for 1,409 offenses reported by law enforcement. A breakdown of the bias motivation of religious-bias offenses showed:

65.4 percent were anti-Jewish.
13.2 percent were anti-Islamic.
9.5 percent were anti-other religion, i.e., those not specified.
4.3 percent were anti-Catholic.
3.8 percent were anti-multiple religions, group.
3.3 percent were anti-Protestant.
0.5 percent were anti-Atheism/Agnosticism/etc.

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2010/narratives/hate-crime-2010-incidents-and-offenses.

On March 31, 1977, the Dutch newspaper Trouw published an interview

with PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein. Here's what he said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. 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 raise claims 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."

In March 1977, Zahir Muhsein, a PLO executive, said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. 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 raise claims 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."

The Arab Apartheid

Ben-Dror Yemini
In 1948, the Arab countries refused to accept the UN partition proposal and they launched a war of annihilation against the State of Israel which had barely been established. All precedents in this matter showed that the party that starts the war - and with a declaration of annihilation, yet - pays a price for it. Between 550,000 and 710,000 Arabs fled because of the war and a larger number of 850,000 Jews were expelled or fled from Arab countries (the "Jewish nakba").
Population exchanges and expulsions were the norm at that time, occurring in dozens of other conflict points and affecting about 52 million people. In all the population exchange precedents that occurred during or at the end of an armed conflict, there was no return of refugees to the previous region, which had turned into a new national state.
Only the Arab states acted completely differently from the rest of the world. Instead of assimilating the refugees, they crushed them despite the fact that they were their coreligionists and members of the Arab nation - instituting a regime of apartheid. So the "nakba" was not caused by the actual dispossession, which had also been experienced by tens of millions of others. The "nakba" is the story of the apartheid, oppression, abuse and denial of rights suffered by the Arab refugees at the hands of the Arab countries. (Maariv)

International Law and Military Operations in Practice - Col. Richard Kemp

"Islamist fighting groups study the international laws of armed conflict carefully and they understand it well. They know that a British or Israeli commander and his men are bound by international law and the rules of engagement that flow from it. They then do their utmost to exploit what they view as one of their enemy's main weaknesses. Their very modus operandi is built on the correct assumption that Western armies will normally abide by the rules, while these insurgents employ a deliberate policy of operating consistently outside international law. "

Lost Historical Moments

What Rabin’s last Knesset speech really said:repudiation of a Palestinian state

Rabin ruled out a fully sovereign Palestinian state :

“We view the permanent solution in the framework of State of Israel which will include most of the area of the Land of Israel as it was under the rule of the British Mandate, and alongside it a Palestinian entity which will be a home to most of the Palestinian residents living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. We would like this to be an entity which is less than a state, and which will independently run the lives of the Palestinians under its authority.”

Rabin ruled out a total withdrawal from Judea and Samaria and thus a return to the pre-June 1967 borders :

“The borders of the State of Israel, during the permanent solution, will be beyond the lines which existed before the Six Day War. We will not return to the 4 June 1967 lines.”

Rabin ruled out withdrawing form the Jordan Valley:

“The security border of the State of Israel will be located in the Jordan Valley, in the broadest meaning of that term.”

Rabin ruled out uprooting settlement blocs, like the Gush Katif bloc in Gaza (which was subsequently uprooted by former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon):

“The establishment of blocs of settlements in Judea and Samaria, like the one in Gush Katif.

AND

Rabin ruled out removing any settlement before coming to a full peace agreement with the Palestinians:

“I want to remind you: we committed ourselves, that is, we came to an agreement, and committed ourselves before the Knesset, not to uproot a single settlement in the framework of the interim agreement, and not to hinder building for natural growth.”

Rabin insisted on Israel retaining full security control of the borders with Egypt and Jordan, contrary to Israel’s relinquishment of the Philadelphia Corridor on the border with Egypt:

“The responsibility for external security along the borders with Egypt and Jordan, as well as control over the airspace above all of the territories and Gaza Strip maritime zone, remains in our hands.”

Correcting Oslo Myths-Part 2

3) Kuttab laments that the post-1993 Oslo process resulted in a Palestinian Authority "whose ministers and legislators are not guaranteed passage between Gaza and the West Bank ...."

Before free passage or other perquisites, PA leaders were obligated, among other things, to eliminate the terrorist infrastructure in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, end anti-Israeli, antisemitic incitement in schools, mosques, and communications media, and resolve all outstanding issues through peaceful negotiations. They met none of these commitments, sometimes bolstering terrorism and greatly increasing incitement.

4) Kuttab complains that under Oslo the PA got "lightly armed police ---- but no real sovereignty over the land or contiguity between our communities in Gaza and the West Bank."

Oslo agreements repeatedly were revised, regardless of Palestinian non-compliance, until the authorized number of police grew from 8,000 to 40,000. Though they were to be the only armed forces in the territories, Israeli estimates early in the second intifada put the number of gunmen - police, "security services," terrorists, and armed gangs - at 85,000. Their armament reportedly included not only heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, but also anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles.

Sovereignty was to be negotiated in the envisioned 1998 "final status" talks - after a five-year period of confidence-building. Palestinian leadership chronically undermined the process. Palestinian terrorism made the 1993 - 1998 Oslo period more deadly for Israelis than the 15 years preceding it.

The United States doesn't have contiguity between the lower 48 states and Alaska and Hawaii; territorial contiguity between the West Bank and Gaza Strip - that is, through the 20 miles of Israeli territory between them - was never promised and would destroy Israeli contiguity.

5) "Palestinians have been made to endure hundreds of checkpoints in the West Bank, an eight-foot wall deep in our territories, and tight Israeli control over borders."

The security barrier is not "deep in Palestinian territories," but rather encompasses less than 8 percent of Judea and Samaria, and is mostly a fence, rarely a wall; the land in question is not "our [Palestinian] territories" but disputed territory to which, according to the authors of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, Jews as well as Arabs have claims; and there are no international borders, only the 1949 armistice lines with Jordan. Under 242, borders remain to be negotiated. As for checkpoints - like the security barrier and "tight Israeli control" - Palestinian Arabs precipitated these measures themselves. No terrorism and there would be no fence or tight Israeli control and few checkpoints - like before the first intifada.

Correcting Some Oslo Myths

1) In Oslo "Israeli, Palestinian and other world leaders promised that ... Palestinian sovereignty would be solidified."

No, they didn't. The 1993 Declaration of Principles and subsequent Oslo agreements outlined a process by which final status negotiations about the West Bank and Gaza Strip would be reached. The process required an end to anti-Israel terrorism and incitement and a commitment to peaceful negotiations. The PA, Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and other terrorist groups, sabotaged the process from the start.

2) "The reality is that, in defiance of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, which states that it is inadmissible to occupy land by force, Palestinian territories are still under foreign military occupation."
Wrong again. Resolution 242 (1967) does note "the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war." It also affirms the right of every state in the area "to live in peace with secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force." There were no "Palestinian territories." Jordan occupied the West Bank, Egypt controlled Gaza. Israel did not have "secure and recognized boundaries," so retention of some of those territories was possible under 242. Israel is not a "foreign" military occupier in the West Bank but, pending final negotiations, the lawful military administrator as a result of a successful war of self-defense.

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