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It Happened Before
March 2nd, 2010
By yonatan silverman
I know something about Jewish history and something about Israeli history. I know something about World War II because I read Churchill’s six volume history. The big parallel between the Nazis and Iran is the way the world failed to take them seriously at their word and to respond with a sufficient degree of force to deter their barbaric ambitions against freedom and democracy on earth. The Nazis for example inched their way into a position where they could launch a struggle for world domination. First they reoccupied the Rhineland in violation of the Versailles Treaty. France freaked out and begged England to do something, but the government in England referred it to the League of Nations instead of giving Hitler a black eye. Which would have told him he had gone too far.
Then the Nazis started general enlistment of soldiers they started drafting thousands of soldiers also against the Versailles treaty I think and no one batted an eye. And from there it was a hop, skip and a jump till the Nazis reactivated their massive armament industries and started producing an arsenal of deadly weapons. And when Hitler saw no one lifted a hand to stop him, he went and took over Czechoslovakia and then Austria, and the rest is known. Like I said, Israel seems to be the only country palpalbly threatened by Iran’s nuclear bomb ambitions. All Obama does is kiss Muslim behinds. He won’t put the screws to Iran because he has a psychological block about dealing with Muslim evil in a fitting way. He wants to make rapprochement with Muslim evil. And also as I said the rest of the world doesn’t want the Iranian commercial cow to dry up. Meanwhile Iran inches into possessing an atom bomb. Precisely because no one – not even the world’s only superpower is willing to give these truly evil Muslims a black eye.
What Are The Odds?
March 2nd, 2010
By yonatan silverman
You know, I don’t think there is any question but that Knesset legislation to demand damages for the Jewish Refugees from Arab Lands and linking this demand to a peace settlement with the Palestinians are important developments that should have been brought up a long time ago. But I doubt these demands are enforceable. Arabs who commit crimes, as they did against the Jewish citizens of their countries they forced out, and by confiscating valuable property that belonged to someone else, will go through hell or high water to get away with impunity, and deny blame or deflect blame. The Arab countries who deported hundreds of thousands of Jews and made them refugees will deny this even happened. And where is the leverage to force them to admit their crimes? There is no leverage. The idea of obtaining justice for the Jewish refugees from Arab lands is obviously an ethically and morally based idea. But I afraid it is pie in the sky. The constellation for solving the refugee problem in the Middle East has been hijacked by the Arabs, and they have but one objective. It isn’t justice.
Refusing To Turn The Other Cheek
February 12th, 2010
Yediot Ahronot 27 Shvat 5770 (11-2-2010)
Knesset Aides And Counselors Have Resolved To Return Fire In Kind Against Palestinian And Other Anti-Israel Lecturers Abroad
By Zvika Brot
In lectures around the world Israel’s leaders are being forced to silence themselves in the face of pro-Palestinian demonstrators who create incessant disturbances in the auditoriums and elsewhere. But shortly there will be a surprise Israeli response created out of the Knesset in Jerusalem. An effective “Commando Unit” of Knesset Aides intends to make special visits to universities abroad for the purpose of returning fire in kind.
On the agenda: public relations activities on college campuses, public confrontations with anti-Israeli figures and even tit for tat: undermining the lectures of Palestinians and anti-Israel figures through disturbing the peace.
“We have witnessed this phenomenon for a long time, and for some reason there is no effective response from the state of Israel,” says Roy Wolf an aide to Knesset Member Aryeh Eldar. “In the first place the demonstrators disseminate lies, and it is not tolerable to allow this to pass silently. By the same token it is very difficult to cope with the matter in normal every day ways. Therefore we decided the most effective response is indeed to give them tit for tat. If it’s shouting matches during lectures that they want, we feel we can contend successfully also with this sort of cheap provocation.”
Around 20 Ministers, MKs and counselors have joined the initiative so far, Jews and Arabs from right and left, who are prepared to pay for the trip abroad out of their own pockets. They say they are interested in harnessing the Knesset to the matter, and other government ministries and Israeli offices abroad to aid them in locating the locations where there is an immediate need for Israeli public relations.
Besides Wolf others who have started packing for the trip abroad which is scheduled for the Passover break, include the media advisor for the Minister of Science Moshe Inbar, Chairman of the Knesset Aides Committee, Shuki Zohar and Knesset Aides Adi Sorek and Noga Rapaport. They intend to take with them documentation of the firing of Hamas rockets at Israel’s southern communities, testimonies of Israelis who have been injured in terrorist attacks, and instructions from their superiors.
Knesset Aides for MK Shaul Mofaz, Dalia Itzik, Ofir Akonis, Zvulun Orlov, Daniel Ben Simon, Ilan Gilaon and Shlomo Mula have joined the initiative, and also advisors to the Justice Minister, Internal Security Minister, Infrastructure Minister, Science Minister, Minister for Minority Affairs, and the Minister for Public Relations.
“We hope to contribute our part to Israeli Public Relations in an unconventional but effective way,” says Wolf. “We hope very much we will undertake the trip, and this depends mainly on coordinating everything on the ground. We would like to stress the state of Israel isn’t paying for this, each participant is paying his or her own way.” Some of the Knesset aides already have begun trying to obtain financing from a donor for part of the trip’s expenses.
Translation by yonatan silverman
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