Advice columnist Belladonna Rogers addresses one of the issues I’ve been dealing with this last couple of weeks, at PJ Media . One of her readers asks, ” Of all the challenges I face dealing with leftists, one of the most difficult is contending with their anti-Israel bias … How can I deal with the growing, overt liberal animus toward Israel? ” Rogers indicates two key issues: ignorance and anti-Semitism. Check the post for her discussion of the facts about Israel. The facts speak for themselves. She correctly notes that when people refuse to accept the facts on Israel — when they deny the evidence — and when they demonize Israel exclusively, using double-standards to attack the existence of the Jewish state, that’s anti-Semitism.
I will mark six years of blogging in April 2012. I have to laugh a little when I check out some of my earliest efforts. I’m a much better blogger now, but I’m motivated by the same concerns that got me started. Here’s something I wrote at my very first blog post: No other single topic or object of analysis in my entire career as a political scientist has worried me as has contemporary anti-Americanism. I have learned about the complex nature of the radical left in this country, and its ties to, for example, transnational movements to deligitimize the nation-state and the principle of national sovereignty, the world’s anti-globalization forces, and pro-Palestian organizations bent on the destruction of Israel. It was the radical left’s treasonous attacks on the war in Iraq that first got me to writing. I started American Power in October of 2007 when I finally pinned down my central ideological orientation: I’m neoconservative, but by now more reflective of that persuasion and more sophisticated in its elucidation. Unlike some who’re characterized as “national greatness” types (or ridiculed that way, in fact), I’m animated by the tea party movement and my goals aren’t so much as to radically shrink government but as to promote a politics of balanced budgets, entitlement reform, and continued support for a robust defense — a ” constitutional conservatism .” These goals can’t be achieved with the Democrats in power, obviously. And while we may get Mitt Romney as the GOP nominee, any of the mainstream Republicans would be an enormous improvement over the current administration. (Ron Paul is not mainstream and I’d abstain next November rather that vote for him if he somehow secured the nomination.) I’ll also continue to shine a spotlight on the global neo-communist left. I’ve learned a lot about the left over this past six years — indeed, I’m a changed man. Probably the strangest thing to me is what I frequently refer to as our upside down politics of moral bankruptcy at home and abroad. This is one reason why my support for Israel will continue more consistently than ever before. Progressives hold Israel in the cross-hairs for death as an independent state. And when called out on it they’ll spew the most vicious historical lies — the kind of lies that would make the Nazis proud . Support for Israel rests at the center of the defense of Western civilization. I often remind myself that Israel defends itself just fine and that the Jewish state is not going out of business any time soon. And that’s true. But Israel’s enemies are working harder than ever before to push the Jews to the sea and this administration is doing its damnedest to bring about that reality. This situation brings even some of our most stalwart defenders of decency in the world to despair that we’ve crossed a threshold of appeasement and social decay, and this failure threatens the peace and stability of the West. I’m not personally pessimistic about the survival of right and decency in the United States. But things will depend on winning the upcoming election and driving the Democrats from power. As I’ve noted many times, today’s Democrat Party is no longer the party of Truman and Kennedy. It’s a progressive-socialist party that touts nearly 100 Castroite members in Congress. And the political culture is increasingly infected with the cancer of progressivism and political correctness. It will take a lot to turn back the tide against these freaks, but the new social media — and the Democats’ overreach itself — is empowering new armies of the righteous to take this country back. And on a personal level, 2011 was a considerable challenge as a blogger. I beat back not one but two attacks that might have broken lesser writers. First were the attacks at my workplace by Scott Eric Kaufman and Carl Salonen. There is nothing more despicable than the kind of lies mounted by progressive demons as this. It’s shocking, really, the extent that people will go to destroy their political enemies. But I rest soundly every day knowing that it’s the truth that sustains me and that progressives can’t take me down no matter how hard they try. And believe me, they try and will continue to try because the left does not tolerate deviations from the accepted narrative, especially from a political scientist working from behind the lines of academic totalitarianism. I drive the left f-king crazy. And I don’t plan on stopping any time soon. The second challenge was the damned Righthaven lawsuit, which I beat by simply refusing to capitulate to those assholes. As I said at the time, it was scary as hell being served, but Righthaven is a bully and a troll and they’re going down in a gloriously epic defeat . So, thanks to all my readers. I have a few core readers and supporters who’ve become my friends, and I have a large number of readers and linkers among fellow conservative bloggers. And I continue to hear from new readers from time to time with words of good cheer and support. It all sustains me and I’ll be plugging away throughout 2012. Happy New Year!
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From Charles C. Johnson, at The Tablet , ” Thatcher and the Jews “: When asked about her most meaningful accomplishment, Margaret Thatcher, now embodied by Meryl Streep in the biopic Iron Lady, did not typically mention serving in the British government, defeating the Argentine invasion of the Falkans, taming runaway inflation, or toppling the Soviet Union. The woman who reshaped British politics and served as prime minister from 1979 to 1990 often said that her greatest accomplishment was helping save a young Austrian girl from the Nazis. In 1938, Edith Muhlbauer, a 17-year-old Jewish girl, wrote to Muriel Roberts, Edith’s pen pal and the future prime minister’s older sister, asking if the Roberts family might help her escape Hitler’s Austria. The Nazis had begun rounding up the first of Vienna’s Jews after the Anschluss, and Edith and her family worried she might be next. Alfred Roberts, Margaret and Muriel’s father, was a small-town grocer; the family had neither the time nor the money to take Edith in. So Margaret, then 12, and Muriel, 17, set about raising funds and persuading the local Rotary club to help. Edith stayed with more than a dozen Rotary families, including the Robertses, for the next two years, until she could move to join relatives in South America. Edith bunked in Margaret’s room, and she left an impression. “She was 17, tall, beautiful, evidently from a well-to-do family,” Thatcher later wrote in her memoir. But most important, “[s]he told us what it was like to live as a Jew under an anti-Semitic regime. One thing Edith reported particularly stuck in my mind: The Jews, she said, were being made to scrub the streets.” For Thatcher, who believed in meaningful work, this was as much a waste as it was an outrage. Had the Roberts family not intervened, Edith recalled years later, “I would have stayed in Vienna and they would have killed me.” Thatcher never forgot the lesson: “Never hesitate to do whatever you can, for you may save a life,” she told audiences in 1995 after Edith had been located, alive and well, in Brazil. Continue reading .
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Okay, here’s a year-end review on my deranged stalker, racist hate-blogger Walter James Casper III — with a special focus on Repsac3′s endorsement of elminationist Jew-hatred and anti-Israel demonization. I’ve been spotlighting Casper’s support for Occupy Wall Street as a window to pure evil and diabolical opposition to truth and justice in the world. Casper is the epitome of hate-addled progressive ideology, where up is down and wrong is right. And I know the coverage on this has been a bit much, and I apologize, but it’s important to expose the program of someone who has made it his life’s goal to destroy his ideological opponents. And it’s especially important to expose the deception, for racist Walter James Casper is most dangerous in his campaign of lies and subversion. Racist Walter James Casper III has written a series of whiny butthurt posts weaselly attempting to deny his endorsement of the hate. Recall, of course, the fact that Walter James Casper endorsed Occupy Wall Street in a Twitter exhortation, ” Occupy wherever you are .” Yet as we all know, the evidence of Occupy Wall Street’s hatred of Israel and the Jews is everywhere. Jonathan Neumann wrote a devastating indictment at Commentary , which left racist Walter James Casper in a fit of apoplexy and rage. See: ” Occupy Wall Street and the Jews .” Readers can Google Casper’s Jew-hating stalker blog at “American Nihilist.” In response to being pinned down like an Nazi camp guard, Walter James Casper writes: According to … Donald Douglas, it’s irrelevant that one has never spoken ill of Jewish people. All it takes to be a Jew-hating anti-Semite is to endorse a movement at which a few individuals — either members of the general public, or in a few cases, longer term activists — have said some pretty horrible things about Jews. Your own words and actions are not what matter; if one member of your group says or does something shameful, every member of your group is responsible for those shameful words or deeds. I have to shake my head at this, for the denial here is by definition a clinical condition. But to reiterate, Walter James Casper is lying. To keep up a wicked facade holding that Occupy is some wonderful movement full of hope and beauty, racist Walter James Casper must spew lies about how it’s just a “few individuals” who are fomenting hate. But truth is difficult to face when your whole ideological program is based on hatred, demonization, intimidation, and harassment. Towards the conclusion of his Commentary essay, after laying out example after example of vile Jew hatred within the Occupy program, Jonathan Neumann writes : These do not begin to exhaust the extent or foulness of the sentiments toward Jews and Israel that emanated from the Occupy protests—sentiments so extreme as to compel even Michael Lerner, editor of the left-wing magazine Tikkun , to share his ‘‘distress at the hatred toward Israel and/or toward Jews’’ on display in Oakland. Racist Walter James Casper cannot argue away the facts, so he denies them. This tendency is in fact a clinical pathology, as Dr. Pat Santy has indicated : Denial can make otherwise intelligent individuals/groups/nations behave in a stupid or clueless manner, because they are too threatened by the Truth and are unable to process what is perfectly apparent to everyone. People who live in this Wonderful World go through their daily lives secure in the knowledge that their self-image is protected against any information, feelings, or awareness that might make them have to change their view of the world. Nothing–and I mean NOTHING–not facts, not observable behavior; not the use of reason or logic; or their own senses will make an individual in denial reevaluate that world view. All events will simply be reinterpreted to fit into the belief system of that world — no matter how ridiculous, how distorted, or how psychotic that reinterpretation appears to others. Consistency, common sense, reality, and objective truth are unimportant and are easily discarded–as long as the world view remains intact. It is, of course, “perfectly apparent to everyone” that Occupy Wall Street pushes a program predicated on hatred of Jews. And so for the epic hate merchant Walter James Caspser, he must distort reality to shoehorn into a deranged and hateful ideological belief system, progressivism. Last night I posted on the comment boards from the Occupy Wall Street homepage: ” Occupy Wall Street: ‘F**k Israel’ .” As is often the case, the administrators post a disclaimer that such views are “not official” — and one can see why. When your core constituency exhibits a fanatical hatred of Israel you’d want to post as many disclaimers as possible. But those who were on hand in Zuccotti documented the hate for all to see, and to deny this hate is to evince a clinical refusal to denounce evil. Here’s Urban Infidel , who covered Occupy Wall Street on the ground in New York City: I went back to Zucotti Square yesterday because David Crosby and Graham Nash were going to perform and since I had the afternoon free I figured I’d head down to check out the absurd scenery. I missed the show but found something else: the Left’s total hatred of Israel and probably Jews. Now, it’s never been a secret but to see it openly and unchecked on full display was disturbing . And it should be disturbing. That kind of rampant hatred is unnatural. But Walter James Casper is down with it. He endorsed it and when called out he’s twisted himself into pretzels of lies and distortions to avoid his responsibility. Photo-journalist El Marco traveled to New York in November and published an epic report . Included is coverage of the progressive Jew hatred documented by Urban Infidel and so many others. Here’s El Marco’s description of what’s going on at the picture below: A gay, Jewish civil servant, on left, reacts in horror to the comments of this sign-carrying radical Israel-hating non-Jewish Jew. The man with the sign supports Hamas and other Jewicidal groups, and I also photographed him surrounded by muslim men and women who were delighted by his anti-Israel exhortations. I can already hear racist Repsac’s desperate bleats of denial. But the truth hurts. And we fight the left’s lies because they facilitate extreminationism. To continue, here’s the statement from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, ” The “Occupy Movement” Must Repudiate the Anti-Semites in Their Ranks “: With a big and sustained boost from the Media, the Occupy Wall Street Movement has gone global. Beyond Los Angeles’ sustained presence outside of City Hall, the anger and angst is being heard in over a hundred cities, with protesters as far away as Italy and Japan adding their disaffected voices. Unfortunately, the hateful fringe of the Movement is now also coast-to-coast, though you might not know it from the mainstream media. Today’s hate propaganda from the New York protests has gone viral. This includes placards identifying “Wall Street Jews” as “Hitler’s Bankers,” and angry shouts of “Kill/Screw Google Jews.” According to anecdotal evidence, the conspiracy banter that the 9/11 attacks were a U.S. government and/or Israeli plot is also popular among some protestors…. For almost 200 years, blaming the world’s economic woes on the Rothschilds or Wall Street or Jewish bankers has been “the socialism of fools”—and mother’s milk of every demagogue from Hitler to Henry Ford to the Internet bloggers who still insist that Goldman Sachs’s secret Zionist high-command cunningly engineered the 2008 global financial collapse. Of course, toxic hate is not the motivator of most protestors, many of whom are suffering from orsincerely concerned about real economic hardship. Yet history shows the danger of lunatic fringe ideas spreading from the periphery to the center of a tumultuous movement. And it’s not just anti-Semitism. Americans on all sides of the economic/political divide should be concerned about a New York Magazine poll showing that 34 percent of protestors already consider the U.S. government as bad as Al Qaeda. The Tea Party, when it emerged in 2009, also attracted its own extremist fringe, as a hyper-vigilant national media was correct to quickly expose. Some of the Tea Party fringe equated Obama with Hitler and claimed that the first African American president was a Manchurian candidate with a phony birth certificate. Yet the Tea Party Movement eventually produced grassroots leaders who denounced such nonsense and repeatedly disavowed racism and racists. Though not everyone was convinced by the Tea Party’s disavowals of prejudice, millions of decent Americans who weren’t bigots voted in the 2010 elections to support the complaints and goals of the movement. The Occupy Wall Streeters and LA’s City Hall crowd have won accolades for marrying new social network technology to bohemian garb. Its pungent invocation of 1960s hippiedom—”God Forbid We Have Sex ‘N Smoke Pot. They Want Us to Grab Guns ‘N Go to War!”—also strikes a nostalgic chord among some grey-haired pinstripers. But street theater is no substitute for the serious work of building a mass movement that can really change society for the good. America’s “Occupy Crowd” crowd likes to compare itself to Tahrir Square and the Arab Spring Movement that toppled a geriatric dictator. Alas, that Movement has largely collapsed—as Egypt slides toward political chaos or Islamic dictatorship—in part because young Egyptian protesters never learned how to move beyond demonstrating and tweeting to become a constructive social force. If the Occupy Wall Streeters really want their movement to achieve mainstream credibility and clout, they should begin by policing their own ranks. Organizing the public sanitation in their own encampments is a start, but social and political civility must also prevail. The Occupy Movement’s leaders in LA as well as New York need to disown the purveyors of hate within their ranks. They must pull the plug on the bigots amongst them who view the slogan of fighting the detested “1 percent of fat cats” as their opportunity to mainstream the hatred of Jews. Unfortunately, it’s doubtful we’ll ever see “policing the ranks.” We won’t see Occupy “pull the plug on the bigots” because the bigots are running the show. Yid With Lid wrote a magisterial essay in October, ” The Anti-Semitic/Anti-Israel Origins of Occupy Wall Street Are Ignored by the Media .” Take a few minutes to read the whole thing. It’s a crushing investigation of the essential organizing hatred of Occupy Wall Street, and the essay concludes: Over the past month there have been many comparisons between the Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street Movement. Here is one comparison that the Mainstream Media will not make. The MSM worked very hard to brand the Tea Party Movement as Racist, but it wasn’t. They are working just as hard to ignore the blatant Antisemitism and libelous demonization of Israel coming out of the Occupy Wall Street protests, and they are. It is not just a few nuts within the Occupy Wall Street Movement who are bashing Israel and Jews, it is the leadership and founders, yet our President and the rest of the Democratic Party are practically tripping over their underwear in a rush to embrace these haters. Yes, they are tipping over backward not only to “embrace these haters,” but to deny that the hate is central to the movement. Ben Shapiro also wrote on this. See ” The Anti-Semites of Occupy Wall Street .” Like the Wiesenthal Center, Shapiro acknowledges the fringe elements, but indicates how anti-Jewish hatred is the animating ideological orientation of the global left: Europe is a leftist continent – of that there can be little doubt.
(The Blaze/AP) Israeli police say a TV crew has been attacked by a group of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men in a city that has become a symbol of violent religious extremism. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld says ultra-Orthodox men surrounded a Channel 2 news truck in Beit Shemesh and hurled stones at it, lightly wounding one member of the TV crew. He says the rioters also stole TV equipment. Beit Shemesh is a city of 85,000 just outside Jerusalem. On Friday, Channel 2 aired a story about tensions in the city between modern Orthodox residents and the extremist ultra-Orthodox Haredi sect. The story featured an 8-year-old American girl who says she is afraid to walk to school in the morning because the town’s Haredim have spat on her and cursed her. The Jerusalem Post reports that a haredi man from Beit Shemesh was released from the Jerusalem Magistrate Court Sunday for spitting at a woman he claimed was dressed immodestly. The Post reports that a leader of the Beit Shemesh Eda Haredit group, Rabbi Shimon Shasi, had testified on the spitter’s behalf and told the court that while spitting or throwing things at women is forbidden, the haredim actually treat their women “like kings.” Jerusalem police have pleaded with municipality inspectors to work with police to take down signs around the city demanding modest dress, including signs requiring pedestrians to wear modest clothes or, in one case, asking women to cross to the other side of the street in order to avoid walking by a yeshiva. Video from JerusalemOnline News on the attack:
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( Note : When I place “The Israel Lobby” in quotes like that, I’m referring to the Mearsheimer and Walt smear thesis of a Jewish interest group section that dominates U.S. policy making toward Israel. I thought I’d put this up at top so there’s no misunderstanding about my meaning at the title.) There’s a ferocious backlash against Thomas Friedman’s latest New York Times column, ” Newt, Mitt, Bibi and Vladimir .” Instapundit has the link to Jennifer Rubin’s essay hammering Friedman, and see also Power Line, ” Tom Friedman Goes Mearsheimer and Walt .” And still more from Jonathan Tobin at Commentary , ” Thomas Friedman and the New Anti-Semitism-Part One “: The notion that the only reason politicians support Israel is because of Jewish money is a central myth of a new form of anti-Semitism which masquerades as a defense of American foreign policy against the depredations of a venal Israel lobby. This canard not only feeds off of the traditional themes of Jew-hatred, it also requires Friedman to ignore the deep roots of American backing for Zionism in our history and culture. Friedman goes on to embarrass himself by contrasting the reception Netanyahu received on Capitol Hill to the one he might get at a center of leftist academia such as the University of Wisconsin. There’s little doubt he would not be cheered there. But the same would be true of most American politicians or thinkers who deviated from leftist Orthodoxy. The notion that liberal campuses are more representative of opinion about Israel than Congress is laughable. It is the sort of whopper one has come to expect from the liberal chorus on the Times op-ed page and shows Netanyahu may have a better feel for what Americans think than Friedman. And continued here: ” Thomas Friedman and the New Anti-Semitism-Part Two .” Meanwhile, check yet another installment of Mondoweiss thanking God for Mearseimer and Walt, ” Why did it take 6 years to talk about the Israel lobby? ” My good friend Norm tells me that these people hate, that progressive especially hate Israel, and that it’s not going away. But I can’t stop shaking my head at the enormous chasm I see whenever I read this stuff. Mondoweiss (and I mean Phillip Weiss) argues that “The Israel Lobby” smear has now gone mainstream and that it’s “safe” for journalists like Chris Matthews to come aboard the good ship anti-Semitism. I guess that it’s just that I’d not realized how exterminationist is the left-wing project. So, I shake my head partly out of my own naïvity. There’s a war going on, and it’s fully enjoined on the question of the defense of Israel. Game on, I say. And give no quarter to these f-kers. Anyway, more from Elliott Abrams, ” Mr. Friedman’s Diatribe Against Israel .”
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See Roll Call, ” Occupy, Liberals Can’t Get Together .” A planned meeting today between the Congressional Progressive Caucus and Occupy Wall Street activists was scuttled late Tuesday after Roll Call inquired about it, highlighting increasing tensions between Democrats and the movement. While Democrats are adopting the movement’s “99 percent” language, they are increasingly retreating from the protesters themselves and their anti-capitalist rhetoric. Some in the party view the Occupy activists — camped out in grubby tent cities around the country — as a potential liability in 2012. “Democrats should reject Occupy Wall Street as the spokesmen for the 99 percent,” said Kelly Bingel, who served as former Sen. Blanche Lincoln’s (D-Ark.)chief of staff until 2005 and is now a partner with Mehlman Vogel Castagnetti Inc. “The chance of those guys going out and voting or encouraging anyone else to vote is very low.” Another Democratic lobbyist and early supporter of President Barack Obama agreed. “I think Democrats need to stay away from embracing OWS. We can acknowledge their frustrations without embracing their movement,” he said. “They are too fringe-y and don’t play well in middle America. Let the Republicans be the party of the angry right. We need to be the party where moderates feel welcomed.” Members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus apparently got cold feet after someone leaked news of the planned #OWS meeting to the press. Obviously not all Demo-Commies are backing away from these drug addicts, murderers and rapists. Walter James “Occupy” Casper aggressively defends the movement, whining about how it wouldn’t be fair to brand all the movement’s supporters as criminals and communists. No doubt Racist Repsac3 is especially thrilled by Occupy’s anti-Semitic attacks on Jewish bankers. Video Hat Tip : Lew Waters .
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In the odd case that you missed it, the video’s here: ” Newt Gingrich on Palestinians at GOP Debate in Iowa: ‘These People Are Terrorists’ .” Now, see Caroline Glick, ” Gingrich’s Fresh Hope .” It’s a long post, but interestingly the biggest challenge to Gingrich is not the Arab liars backing the Hamas-dominated Palestinians, but the U.S. conservatives attacking Newt for “turning his back on a 30- year bipartisan consensus” on the (failed) two-state solution for Middle East peace. And check Daniel Greenfield, ” A Badly Invented People .” This is excellent: Palestinian identity is just so much gibberish. The official definition of that identity encompasses only those parts of the Palestine Mandate which Israel holds today. The people who live on the parts of the Palestine Mandate that were turned into the Kingdom of Jordan in 1921 are not Palestinians. There is no call to incorporate them into a Palestinian state. The people who lived in the parts of Israel that were captured by Jordan and Egypt in 1948 weren’t Palestinians, and there was no call to turn the land that today comprises the so-called “Occupied Territories” into a state. But in 1967 when Israel liberated those areas– only then did they magically turn into Palestinians. How is anyone supposed to take this nonsense seriously? But RTWT. And from Melanie Phillips, ” Hey, stop this dangerous candidate! He’s told the truth! “: US presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich … has recently demonstrated yet again Melanie’s First Rule of Modern Political Discourse – the more obvious the truth that you utter, the more explosive and abusive the reaction. For Gingrich said the Palestinian Arabs were ‘an invented people’ – and the world promptly started hurling execrations at him, as if such a statement proved beyond doubt that Gingrich was indeed a dangerously extreme individual who, when it came to political positioning, was just off the graph altogether. More at the link (with additional sources at the discussion). And there’s lots of stuff at FrontPage Magazine , for example, from David Horowitz, ” Gingrich Gets It Right “: In an interview on Saturday, Newt Gingrich put some reality into the surreal discussion of the Middle East conflict and (as he put it) the delusional nature of the current “peace process.” The Palestinians are indeed an “invented people” — invented by the Nasser dictatorship and KGB by the way — and the Hitlerian lie that Israel occupies one square inch of “Arab” let alone “Palestinian” land needs to be buried for any clarity on what the conflict is about, let alone progress towards peace. Of course there is no peace in the Middle East and there can be no peace so long as the Muslim Arabs want to kill the Jews and destroy the Jewish state. That is the explicit goal of the enemies of Israel in the terrorist entities of Gaza and the West Bank, and also of Israel’s principal enemy the Islamic Republic of Iran. And another essay from Horowitz, ” An Invented People Despite Some Doubters “: Some conservatives, most notably Elliot Abrams, have criticized Newt Gingrich’s observation that the Palestinians are an invented people by saying that even if they are — (and there is no real question but that they are) — they’ve been around long enough (50 years, or since the creation of the PLO in 1964) so that we need to deal with that fact — not. What makes anyone think this is a people even today? Last spring I spoke at Brooklyn College. My speech was attended and then obstructed by a sizeable contingent from the Brooklyn College “Palestinian Club” — at least fifty people, all ethnic Arabs claiming to be Palestinians. During my talk I referred to the Palestinian death cult, its admiration for Hitler, its determination to wipe the Jewish state from the face of the earth, its eagerness to kill any Jew and to blow up its own children in the process. I said it was a “sick, sick culture.” But when the members of the so-called Palestinian Club erupted at me, what they said was “Why do you want to lynch all Muslims?” (This is on video available on YouTube or on our site — under “Videos” — for anyone who wants to check. It comes in the Q&A period.) This does not sound like a nationalist movement. But the evidence is that Palestinians are a political fiction for a movement whose organizing desire is the destruction of the Jewish state and expulsion of the Jews is far stronger than this small incident. In 1948, 80% of the so-called “Palestine Mandate” had been given to the Hashemite minority in control of Jordan. The Jews were given half of the remaining 20% and the Arabs the other half. A nationalist movement would surely have accepted the partition and then laid claim to the 80% controlled by the Hashemites in Jordan. No such thing happened. Instead the Arab states including Jordan attacked the Jewish state with the intention of destroying it. The upshot of that war was a Jewish victory in 1949. Whereupon Egypt annexed Gaza and Jordan annexed the West Bank — all the territory that had been offered to the so-called Palestinians and rejected by them. There was not a peep out of the Arab world — or out of the so-called Palestinians — over this rejection. Why? Because a Palestinian state was never their agenda. Their agenda was and is the destruction of the Jewish state and the expulsion of the Jews from the Middle East — or failing that, their absolute subjection as a hated minority without access to state power. See also Bruce Thornton, ” Newt Challenges the Myth of Palestinian Nationalism ,” and Ryan Mauro, ” History of ‘Palestine’ Becomes Center of GOP Debate .” BONUS : See the letters to the editor at New York Times , ” A Spotlight on Gingrich and Romney .”
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Netanyahu to Host Regular Bible Study Groups at Official Israeli Prime Minister’s Residence
