STATE TERRORISM
The government that is about to be formed will be a war gover
by the triangle Sharon-Mofaz-Peres.
Sharon will provide the plan, Mofaz the implementation and Peres the
alibi.
When Chief-of-Staff Mofaz declared this week that the Palestinian
Authority
is a “terrorist entity”, he prepared public opinion for a policy of
state
terrorism: enlarging the settlements, starving the population and
“liquidate” more and more Palestinians.
His allies, the settlers, have already pinpointed the target: they
propose
to murder Yasser Arafat.
Peres will contribute the fig-leaf for this policy: the Nobel peace
prize
that was awarded him.
We are entering a horrible, bloody adventure.
—————————————————————————-
—
National Boycott of the Products of the
Settlements
Ask the Gush office for the list of products by mail, telephone or
e-mail.
.And the settlers must be
evacuated!
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I realize that this idiot intends to rile me up. He has succeeded,
I grant him that. He continues to say I called half of American Jews liars.
I didn’t. Since lying doesn’t bother him he continues to make the
assertion.
RLA
“Kenneth McVay, OBC” wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> Roger Alexander <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> […]
>
> >You are a smear artist, par excellence. I am neither a Jewbaiter nor
> >an anitsemite. I oppose Zionist oppression of Palestinians, which
> >bothers you not at all. You are like alot of Zionist sympathizers,
> >all of the ones I have dealt with in fact. You equate antiZionism
> >with antisemitism.
>
> Of course you’re an antisemite, Mr. Alexander… anyone who claims
> that half of American Jewry are liars fits that description rather
> well.
>
> >> As to control, perhaps I should explain something to you – something
> >> many others have learned to their great disappointment. I cannot BE
> >> “controlled,” and Nizkor isn’t going anywhere, with or without
> >> organizational support.
> >>
> >> Live with it, pal. I’m the most ferociously independent sob you’ll
> >> ever confront, and Nizkor’s here to stay, period. Nizkor existed long
> >> before the Jewish community discovered it, and it will remain
> >> regardless of _who_ supports it or does not support it.
> >>
> >> >but I would guess that much of that is guided by B’nai Brith.
> >> >Since they aren’t going to open their books, I can’t do more.
> >>
> >> But they have opened their books, Mr. Alexander. The federal
> >> government has been through them with a fine toothed comb. That you
> >> aren’t sufficiently informed is your problem, not mine.
> >>
> >> Do you still assert that half of America’s Jews are liars, Mr.
> >> Alexander?
> >>
>
> >I notice once again that you as a consummate smear artist, have
> >not brought forth any evidence that I ever asserted that. You
> >are not only a liar, but a defamer. The Big Lie was a technique
> >of the Nazis. You appear to have learnt it well.
>
> You have said that Zionists are (among other things) liars.
> When I asked you how many Jews were Zionists, you said “at least 50%,
> at least in the United States,” or something very similar.
>
> Ergo, the conclusion is inescapable: You have called half of America’s
> Jews Zionists, and therefore liars.
>
> Not an antisemite, Mr. Alexander? Pull the other one.
>
> —
> “…I note that on the few occasions of which I am aware where purveyors of
> anti-Semitic propaganda have endeavoured to justify their materials in
> court on the facts and the merits, they have been singularly unsuccessful…”
> (http://www2.ca.nizkor.org/hweb/people/s/scully-olga/reason.html)
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Innocent boy killed in his home in Al-Bireh
Al Bireh March 3, 2001 (PALESTINE MEDIA CENTER DAILY BULLETIN)- Ubai
Darraj was all excited for the Eid. In preparation for Mondays Muslim
holiday, he had gotten a haircut yesterday in the morning. The
nine-year-old was waiting for his father to give him money to buy new
clothes. It was a really nice and relaxing Friday. He was watching his
father paint the walls of their new apartment in Al Bireh, just across
>from the Israeli settlement of Psagot.
All of a sudden, at about 3 pm, bullets penetrated the walls of their
apartment. They were coming from the settlement of Psagot and one of
them
entered Ubais shoulder and exited from his chest. His father heard him
screaming in pain and calling him Father, father! Then he fell to the
ground and blood streamed out of his little body. His father ran to the
phone and called an ambulance, but when he returned to his sons side, he
couldnt bear to wait any longer and took him to Ramallah Hospital in his
own car.
Dr. Hosnei Atari of Ramallah Hospital stated that the bullet caused
severe
ruptures in the blood vessels by the heart. Ubai lost a lot of blood and
his life could not be saved when he arrived at 3:30 pm.
His parents are in a state of shock. His father broke down crying when
he
recalled the last day in the life of his son: He had just gotten a
haircut, and he was so excited about my promise to give him money for
new
clothes. Ubai has two brothers and two sisters. The family had just
moved
into the new apartment two weeks ago.
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The following article I wrote was printed in The Chicago Maroon on March
2, 2001.
Ali Abunimah
http://www.abunimah.org
********************************************************************
The Chicago Maroon
March 2, 2001
http://www.chicagomaroon.com/articles/a983577840.shtml
Apartheid and Israel: similarities
Ali Abunimah
Can observers of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict learn from the
experience of apartheid-era South Africa and its transition to
democracy? Does a nascent student movement for divestment from Israel
indicate that Israel’s policies towards Palestinians may be the next
target for activism inspired by that which helped end apartheid?
There are many similarities between the Israeli and South African
cases which make the comparison compelling. Israel, like apartheid-era
South Africa, grants rights to individuals based not on their
citizenship, but rather on their membership in a specific ethnic
group. Israel classifies people at birth according to their ethnicity,
and their rights and responsibilities towards the state vary based on
this classification. In apartheid-era South Africa, only whites had
full rights. In Israel, Palestinian citizens enjoy some rights, such
as the ability to vote and be elected, but only Jews have full rights
allowing them to obtain land, to receive the benefits of military
veteran status and to benefit from the “Law of Return.”
There are similarities between the ideologies of Afrikanerdom and
Zionism, which portray the ruling groups in each case as an outcast
people who, escaping oppression, found freedom in a promised land. The
resistance of indigenous peoples is viewed ideologically as being
merely an extension of the oppression which had driven the settlers to
come to their promised land in the first place, thus justifying almost
any measures the ruling group saw fit to take against them.
Israel and apartheid-era South Africa also expressed their affinity
for each other throughout the 1980’s with extensive economic and
military ties. The South African air force and navy, used primarily to
attack the African National Congress (ANC), and to intervene in
neighboring states, were largely armed and trained by Israel. Israeli
military advisers helped South Africa to develop military strategies
to use in Namibia and Angola, and there is strong evidence of joint
Israeli-South African development of atomic weapons.
(This history is well documented from public sources in Benjamin
Beit-Hallahmi’s book The Israeli Connection [New York: Pantheon Books,
1987].)
In the late 1970’s, hoping to forestall the end of white rule, South
Africa began to create “bantustans.” These were nominally
“independent” homelands to which all of South Africa’s blacks were
eventually supposed to be transferred. The end result, so the
apartheid rulers hoped, would be a strong white South Africa with few
or no black citizens, surrounded by a constellation of poor, weak
black states which it could easily control and exploit as a source of
cheap labor. Recognizing that this was merely an effort to continue
apartheid in another form, the ANC and the entire international
community refused to recognize the four bantustans that South Africa
created. These “independent states” were abolished when South Africa
moved towards democracy.
Israel, like many other states, accords privileges to one group while
abusing the rights of minorities. It is much easier to sustain and
perpetuate such discrimination if the privileged group is a majority.
Once the disenfranchised minority becomes too numerous, a state can no
longer claim to be both ethno-nationally defined and equitable and
democratic. It becomes a minority-ruled apartheid state. Recognizing
this, South Africa’s ruling whites tried unsucessfully to transform an
overwhelming black majority into a minority through the legal fiction
of the bantustans.
Israel’s dilemma is to prevent a large Palestinian minority from
reaching demographic parity with Israeli Jews. Parity would put Israel
in a situation similar to apartheid-era South Africa, and Israel would
have to face the choice of giving full citizenship to everyone or
adopting some form of formal apartheid. In order to forestall this day
of reckoning Israel has adopted several consistent strategies: first,
denying the right of Palestinian refugees who were expelled or fled
>from their homes in what is now Israel to return.
Israel’s second strategy has been to try to bring as many Jews as
possible to Israel, particularly from the former Soviet Union. Third,
Israel has sought to transfer responsibility for Palestinians in the
occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip to someone else, while retaining as
much control of the land as possible. Hence, successive Israeli
goverments were in favor of annexing the occupied West Bank and Gaza
Strip to Israel, but did not do so because this would have left Israel
with the choice of either having to grant citizenship to the
Palestinians living there, or declare to the world that Israel was
prepared to rule over them forever while giving them no rights. A
minority of Israelis even supported solving the conundrum by simply
expelling the Palestinians. While none of these options were
palatable, Israel sought to maintain the status quo until the 1987-93
Palestinian uprising against military occupation made it untenable.
Hence, Israel signed up to the Oslo accords under which only 17.2
percent of the occupied West Bank (“Area A”) is today even nominally
under the full control of the Palestinian Authority. 97 percent of
Palestinians in the West Bank live in this small area, which is broken
up into disconnected patches.
It is for these reasons that Palestinians increasingly ask whether the
Palestinian “state” which Israel has proposed — which would be
criscrossed by settler-only roads, cut into pieces by Jewish
settlement blocks, required to allow Israel to occupy or lease large
swaths of its territory, and have no control over its external borders
— is nothing more than a bantustan. The continuing growth of Israeli
settlements on their land makes Palestinians skeptical about Israel’s
intentions.
Demographic trends among Israelis and Palestinians suggest that within
only a few generations Israel will have parity between Jews and
non-Jews. At that point Israelis will have to decide whether they want
to maintain the “Jewish character” of their state at any price, or
move towards a state which grants rights to all its citizens on an
equal basis.
[To see a map of South Africa’s bantustans, go to:
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/za(old.html#map ]
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Thanks. I didn’t see the question and I didn’t know the answer.
RLA
“S. Mascika Baraka” wrote:
> David Lee Makowsky a écrit :
>
> > In article <[email protected]>,
> > Roger Alexander <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > # The following article I wrote was printed in The Chicago Maroon on March
> >
> > # 2, 2001.
> >
> > # Ali Abunimah
> > # [email protected]
> > # http://www.abunimah.org
> >
> > # ********************************************************************
> >
> > # The Chicago Maroon
> > # March 2, 2001
> >
> > Why don’t you tell everyone what the Chicago Maroon is?
> >
>
> http://www.chicagomaroon.com/
>
> it’s the official and independen student newspaper of the University of Chicago
> sin 1892
>
> >
> > [ Rest deleted – dlm ]
> > —
> > There are three types of people in the world. Those that are good at
> > math and those that are not.
> >
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From: Sam Bahour <>
Subject: update……………………..
My sister-in-law just called crying – – about 4 hours ago Al-Bireh had
about 3
minutes of heavy gunfire…..her neighbor, Aida, was walking back home
on
the Friends road from Ramallah after shopping for the Eid holiday. Her
husband was walking with her when a single bullet from Pesgot settlement
entered her shoulder and tore into her body. Rushed to Ramallah
hospital
she was pronounced dead 30 minutes later….her kids are home and were
informed a few minutes ago that their mother will never come home…..
Today, Saturday, we laid to rest a beautiful 9-yr old boy…..Tomorrow,
Sunday, we will bury Aida…..Monday is only two days away…
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For your information, and that of the group, Ali Abunimah has an excellent
reputation among the ARab American community. His biting letters to
various papers have earned him fame. The fact that this effort didn’t appear
in the Washington Post is irrelevant, except to someon who will stoop at
nothing in the way of ad hominem.
Mr. Makowsky is sort of an energy vampire. He contributes nothing to
the discussion, but continually weighs in as a negative.
RLA
David Lee Makowsky wrote:
> Apparently Roger doesn’t even seem to care where his crap comes from.
>
> In article <[email protected]>,
> Roger Alexander <[email protected]> wrote:
> # Thanks. I didn’t see the question and I didn’t know the answer.
> # RLA
> #
> # “S. Mascika Baraka” wrote:
> #
> # > David Lee Makowsky a écrit :
> # >
> # > > In article <[email protected]>,
> # > > Roger Alexander <[email protected]> wrote:
> # > >
> # > > # The following article I wrote was printed in The Chicago Maroon on March
> # > >
> # > > # 2, 2001.
> # > >
> # > > # Ali Abunimah
> # > > # [email protected]
> # > > # http://www.abunimah.org
> # > >
> # > > # ********************************************************************
> # > >
> # > > # The Chicago Maroon
> # > > # March 2, 2001
> # > >
> # > > Why don’t you tell everyone what the Chicago Maroon is?
> # > >
> # >
> # > http://www.chicagomaroon.com/
> # >
> # > it’s the official and independen student newspaper of the University
> # of Chicago
> # > sin 1892
> # >
> # > >
> # > > [ Rest deleted – dlm ]
> # > > —
> # > > There are three types of people in the world. Those that
> # are good at
> # > > math and those that are not.
> # > >
> # > > [email protected]
> #
>
> —
> There are three types of people in the world. Those that are good at
> math and those that are not.
>
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Seven Palestinian civilians killed and 18 injured by Israeli forces
within 48 hours:
International community called upon to establish Criminal court
or tribunal to prosecute perpetrators of War crimes
4 March 2001
Three more Palestinian civilians were killed last night, including one
woman, and 5 injured (3 under the age of 18, including a 10 year old).
These
willful killings and willfully caused injuries are a result of the
policy of
escalating violence and excessive force used by Israeli forces against
Palestinians, at the instigation of, and resulting from threats made by,
Israeli army commanders and political leaders against the Palestinian
people.
The Palestinian civilians killed were :
Baher Shafik Mahmoud Oda, 18 years old, Hawara Village;
Ahmed Hasan Hahmed Alen, 18 years old, Kariot Village, in Nablus
region;
Ida Daoud Musa, 43 year old woman of El Berih.
These killings has raised the number of those killed within the last 48
hours to 7, including amongst them two children. 18 have now been
injured,
including 8 under the age of 18 years old (the youngest being 6 years
old).
None of the Israeli soldiers or settlers involved in these deliberate
killings or willfully caused injuries have been investigated or are
being
prosecuted.
According to LAW’s documentation, at 8.30 p.m. last night inhabitants of
Hawara village saw unusual cars with Israeli number plates in their
village.
Some of the Palestinian youths from the village tried to block their
route
and threw stones at the cars. The occupants of the Israeli cars were
Israeli
soldiers disguised as Palestinians: otherwise known as “el Mustaribeen”.
The Israeli forces fired heavily upon the Palestinian youths. As a
result of
the excessive and disproportionate force used by the Israeli forces:
one of
the Palestinian youths, Baher Shafik Mahmoud Oda, was killed. He was
killed
by three bullets of live ammunition. He was shot once in the stomach,
once
in the leg, and once in the back. In the same incident three other men
were
injured, whose names are:
Morad Lafi Hasan, 20 years old, severely injured;
Akram Ali Terwari, 17 years old, shot by live ammunition in the
shoulder;
Suleiman Abraham Ouda, 16 years old, injured.
At 8.30pm on 3 March 2001, a settler from Gilo settlement deliberately
fired
at Ahmed Hasan Hahmed Alen, 18 years old from Kariot, whilst he was
driving
his car on his way back from Ramallah, where he works, to his village.
He
was shot with live ammunition in the head and died immediately. There
were
no clashes or demonstrations taking place and no firing by Palestinians
against the settlement, when Ahmed was murdered by the settler.
At 7.30 pm last night, Israeli occupying forces in the Israeli
settlement of
Basgot, situated in el Tawila Mountain, attacked the Friends School, in
El
Bira using heavy weaponry. Ida Daoud Musa, a resident of El Bira, was
walking on the street and was passing Friends school with her son and
daughter, when she was hit with a 5 mm live ammunition bullet. The
bullet
entered her chest, damaging her internal organs before it settled in her
upper right leg. Her daughter, Nadil Musa, 12 years old, was hit by
shrapnel
in her left arm. Another woman was also injured with shrapnel in her
left
arm in the same incident: Wafee Ahmed Muhammed Karan, 42 years old. No
clashes or demonstrations were taking place at the time and there was no
shooting from Palestinians at the Basgot settlement when the Israeli
forces
attacked the school.
LAW condemns these increasing acts of violence, willful killings and
willfully caused great suffering and serious injury by the Israeli
forces
against Palestinian civilians.
LAW also condemns the threats being made by the Israeli political
leaders
and military commanders.
LAW asks the International Community to immediately act to stop these
grave
breaches of the Fourth Geneva Convention, amounting to war crimes that
are
being perpetrated against Palestinian civilians. It asks the
International
Community to establish a Criminal Court or Tribunal to bring the
perpetrators of these war crimes to account, and to take positive
measures
to protect the Palestinian people. (see www.lawsociety.org)
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Palestinian Child’s Bill of Rights
By: E. Yaghi
I am the Palestinian child. I have read the Children’s Bill of Rights
and as a potential citizen of tomorrow, I want you, the adults who make
the rules, to hear what I have to say.
I shall address most points as they are presented.
(1) “Children’s universal rights. Children under the age of 18 have the
right to receive special care and protection. Children all have the same
rights, no matter what country they were born in or are living in, what
their sex is, what their race is, or what their religion is.”
Palestinian children do not have special care or protection from Israeli
soldiers, from Israeli bullets, from Israeli shelling. I know I do not
have the same rights as American children and I know I am persecuted
because of my religion, my nationality and where I was born, though I
was not given a choice of where my birth was to take place or what
nationality I was to inherit.
(2) “Right to inherit a better world. Children have the right to inherit
a world that is at least as good as the one their parents inherited.”
What I have inherited is a life of tragedy, a life of poverty, a life
where Israeli sharpshooters shoot to kill. If they do not kill, they
make sure that Palestinian children are shot in the head, the chest, the
arms, the legs. Many Palestinian children have lost their eyes since
Intifada Al-Aqsa began on September 28, 2000. Many Palestinian children
have had their limbs amputated. I do not call such deadly intent the
inheritance of anything that is good or positive.
(3) “Right to influence the future. Children have the right to
participate in discussions having to do with the directions our society
is taking-on the large political, economic, social and educational
issues and policies-so that children can help create the kind of world
they will grow up in.”
I do not recall anyone asking me if I like to be shot at. I do not
recall anyone asking me if I like to be beaten and tortured by Israeli
thugs and I do not recall anyone asking my permission to be thrown in
jail simply because I throw rocks in the name of freedom, or simply
because I happened to be playing on the streets and was abducted by
Israeli soldiers. And every political, economic, social, and educational
policies are made without even considering what my opinions are.
(4) “Right to freedom of thought, opinion, expression, conscience and
religion.”
I have not been given the right to express my thoughts, my opinions, my
conscience. If anyone really wanted to know my opinion about war, I
would answer that wars are horrible and they are no place for children.
(5) “Right to media access.”
Of course, I have no access to the media. If I did, I would scream my
head off over the Internet, on the radio, on TV, and over the phone
every minute of every day to tell you about all the atrocities that are
being committed against my people and against children like me.
(6) “Right to participate in decisions affecting children.”
Every Israeli war decision affects me. Every proposal by the Palestinian
Authority affects me as well. Yet, no one asks my opinion and I am not
allowed to participate in anything but my subjugation and the abortion
of my childhood by Israeli conquistadors.
(7) “Right to privacy. Children have the right to privacy to the same
extent adults have.”
When my home is shelled in the middle of the night, when my home is
demolished by Israeli soldiers for no reason, when I have to be brave
because even if I am afraid, there is no place to hide from death, then
I can assure you, I have no privacy.
(8) “Right to respect and courtesy.”
Because I am Palestinian, Israelis do not respect me. On the contrary,
they hate me and the only courtesy they show is bullets in my head, my
chest, or brutal beatings and torture in their prisons. Just a few days
ago, the Israeli army shelled a school for blind children in Occupied
Palestine in the deep of the night. I ask you, do you consider this
respectful or courteous?
(9) “Right to an identity.”
Every day of my life, Israelis try to take my identity away from me. The
harder they try, the less successful they are.
(10) “Right to freedom of association.”
I wish that I could freely associate with my friends and not fear an
Israeli bullet cutting me down while I walk home from school with my
friends or while I play outside on my neighborhood street.
(11) “Right to care and nurturing.”
Though my parents do their best to nurture and care for me, all odds are
against them, for every minute of every day my life is threatened and
all Palestinians in the Occupied Territories are an endangered species.
(12) “Right to leisure and play.”
It is lethal when I play and it is deadly when I am at home and even
when I am asleep. I never know when Israelis might shell my house or
when an Israeli bullet might shoot me down or when I might see one of my
family members killed in front of me. I so wish I could live the life of
a leisurely child and not have to fear for my very existence 24 hours a
day, regardless of whether I stay home or not.
(13) “Right to safe work.”
Every minute I breathe, my life is threatened. And every child may be
forced to work because our cities are under curfew, under siege and
under the Israeli blockade. The Palestinian economy is at its worst in
years…in fact, there is no economy. Things are looking very desperate. I
fear the extinction of all my people.
(14) “Right to an adequate standard of living.”
There is no such thing nowadays as an adequate standard of living for
Palestinian children. Soon, if we don’t die from Israeli bullets or
shelling, we may die from starvation.
(15) “Right to life, physical integrity and protection from
maltreatment.”
I wish I could say that I am protected from maltreatment, or that my
life is not endangered, or that when Israeli soldiers catch me, I am
safe from abuse and torture. I wish I could just be a child and not have
to worry about survival on a daily basis. And every step of the way, the
Israeli occupation tries to take my integrity away from me.
(16) “Right to a diverse environment and creativity.”
The Israelis do everything they can to make sure I have no environment
but one of war and destruction. Certainly there is no room for
creativity when a war is going on and when all children have to wonder
if they are going to live from one moment to the next. How creative can
you be when there are bullets flying everywhere, when we are bombarded
by air, land and sea and when there is death all around?
(17) “Right to education.”
I do not call being shot at on the way to and from school an example of
the right to education. And when Israelis are not shooting at
Palestinian children on the way to and from their places of education,
they storm into their schools and shoot live bullets into the classrooms
in order to create more chaos and fear.
(18) “Right to access appropriate information and to a balanced
depiction of reality. Children should be protected from materials adults
consider harmful.”
I see graveyards full of Palestinian bodies killed by Israelis. I see a
small coffin being prepared for me, for it is not known how long I will
be able to live when so many are slaughtered each day. And yes, my
parents do consider bullets harmful. Bullets are lethal. I would not
advise anyone to try being the target of Israeli bullets, of Israeli
shelling, of Israeli bombs.
(19) “Right not to be exposed to prejudice.”
I don’t know what to call the genocide of my people other than
prejudice. I don’t know what else to call the Palestinian Holocaust
other than the worst form of bigotry. There will never be peace as long
as the Israelis view Palestinian children as those of a lesser god. We
are all children of the one and only God. God created all children and
adults equal and all are entitled to the same inalienable rights, to the
sanctity of life, to freedom of speech, to a normal life.
(20) “The right to a clean environment.”
I do not think that when our water supply is cut off on us, our
environment can be very clean. I do not think that when lethal gases are
released on us, that the air we breathe is clean. I do not think that
when depleted uranium is used on us, that there is much chance of our
environment being clean or that children will be protected from its
aftermath. I do not think that when we have no money and no resources,
and no permits to build a sewage system in the refugee-ghetto
concentration camps the Israelis have put us in, we have a chance of
having a clean environment. Every step of the way, Israelis deny us the
right to life, the right to a clean environment, the right to live in
safety and all other basic human rights that all men and children are
entitled to.
As you can see, the Bill of Rights for Children was not constructed for
a Palestinian child like me. I urge you to work for change, to work for
an end to the Israeli occupation of my land and I urge you to work for
the end of the slaughter of Palestinian children. I am a child. I
deserve to be a child and I should not have to worry about just staying
alive.
==========================================
Tremendous writer Edna Yaghi.
Every day, I ask myself how the Israeli people can be so brutal to the
Palestinians.
Who died, so to speak, and left them Gods on earth that they could so
easily
dispose of the lives and fortunes of so many others, people (I almost
said
like themselves, but it stuck in my throat) who are as human as anyone
on earth.
The only conclusion I keep coming back to is that they are a race of
monsters.
I hope we never see their like again.
RLA
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JTA | News at a Glance | March 04, 2001 1:48:01 PM ET
A Canadian media magnate criticized a columnist at one of his
magazines for an anti-Semitic column. Conrad Black, who owns
The Spectator in London, said Taki Theodoracopulos had issued a
“blood libel on the Jewish people wherever they may be” that was
“almost worthy of Goebbels.” Theodoracopulos wrote that “the way
to Uncle Sam’s heart runs through Tel Aviv and Israeli-occupied
territory” and described Israelis as “those nice guys who attack
rock-throwing youth with armour-piercing missiles.”
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I would laugh but the guy is perfectly serious.
One would almost think Mr. Black (husband of Barbara Amiel) was
a Zionist.
BTW, it doesn’t take much to be accused of blood libel these days.
If I were a judge, I would have to say that the reporter’s remarks
are a fair comment on the evidence.
The pilpul accused me of that but he quit when I threatened to sue him.
RLA
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Rich rewards
Taki
Rougemont
The jet-set is in mourning and, like Electra,
it becomes it. Marc Rich has
called off his Las Vegas-theme party in St
Moritz this weekend, which will
force a few Englishmen in the Engadine to
commit an unnatural act and pay
their own bill. The reason given was the bad
publicity and the hounding of
the host by the press. The last time Marc
Rich called off a party was in
Spain, about five or six years ago. His
Mossad-trained bodyguards were
tipped off that his private jet would be
forced down the moment it left
Swiss airspace by Yankee F-16s, so he stayed
put. No reason was offered
back then. Although the US government was out
to grab him, Rich had the
proverbial ace up his sleeve. By giving lotsa
moolah to Israel, he was being
fed information by Mossad that even the top
brass of the Pentagon weren’t
getting. Mossad knew that the snatch was on
by listening in on the
Americans. They tipped off the fugitive
fraudster, a move that eventually
made Bill Clinton rich, pun intended.
Last week I wrote in my own ‘Taki’s Top
Drawer’ that, as America was not as yet
Israel-occupied territory, the 200 million
Rich gave to those nice guys, who attack
rock-throwing youth with armour-piercing
missiles, should not count as philanthropy
where America is concerned. To my great
annoyance the sentence never appeared.
When I rang in an Orlando Furioso mood, I was
told by a very polite flunky
that ‘we were trying to protect you, this is
New York’.
Well, there you have it. Marc Rich I have
never met and hope never to. I
once went out to dinner following a Norman
Mailer book party with a
Greek called Olga and Norman’s son, my buddy
Michael Mailer, the boxer
and film producer, who happened to have an
Estee Lauder blonde (common
but not too bad) in tow. The blonde thought
my girl was from the lower
classes because she (Olga) stood up to shake
hands with her. She snubbed
her throughout the evening. (Actually, she’s
a Greek royal.) We went to
Elaine’s, and after lotsa boozing, I asked
the blonde her name. ‘Daniella
Rich’, came the answer. Being well oiled, I
told her it was not her fault her
father was a Christian-basher who had caused
more harm to Broadway and
the theatre in general than Bomber Harris had
to Dresden. She looked
nonplussed. ‘My father hates the theatre,
never goes,’ or words to that
effect. Then the penny dropped. Papa was not
fat Frank Rich of the New
York Times. Papa was the crook who was to
pull off the impossible: drag
the whore Bill Clinton down to his level. But
back to the party which never
was.
A pretty American girl called Serena Boardman
was coming all the way
from Noo Yawk for it. When I asked her
whether she would go to a party
given, say, by John Gotti, the dapper Don, as
the Big Bagel tabloids refer to
him, she told me it was not the same thing.
‘Yes,’ I said. ‘Gotti is dumb
and in jail; Rich, the far bigger criminal
and traitor, is in St Moritz.’ That’s
the way it goes, sports fans. The truly big
crooks get away with it and go
to St Moritz and Gstaad, the little guys go
to the big house up the river. And
if any of you believe that Rich has not
passed money under the table to Bill
Clinton, then you should also believe that
I’m Monica Lewinsky’s mother.
Marc Rich, however, has done us a favour. By
bribing everyone and
sundry, he managed to expose the side of
Clinton so many leftists and
liberals refused to see. He also proved what
we, soi-disant anti-Semites for
daring to protest about soldiers shooting at
kids, always knew. The way to
Uncle Sam’s heart runs through Tel Aviv and
Israeli-occupied territory.
Rich and Clinton deserve each other. Both
make everyone around them
seem bigger.
© 2001 The Spectator.co.uk
