The Inanities of Peter Beinart: Why He is Wrong about the King Hearings
In both cases, those who went to work for the Soviets as couriers, spies, or assets were all motivated by the same thing — their belief in Communism and in the Soviet Union and Stalin as leaders of the world revolution. Those who were Jews did so as Communists, and their service to the Soviets had nothing to do with their religion or ethnic identity. Once caught, the Communists sought to gain sympathy and support for the Rosenbergs by arguing that they were targeted because of the anti-Semitism of the Truman and Eisenhower administrations. Suddenly, the Jewish religion they spurned became singled out as a ruse to gain support for them from other patriotic Jews whom the defense thought would be motivated to help free the Rosenbergs because they were sensitive to the rampant anti-Semitism of that era.
Beinart disagrees. He writes:
But wait, you say, there’s a difference: It wasn’t their Jewishness that made Jews disproportionately join the Communist Party or their Italianness that made Italians disproportionately join the Mafia. Well, in a sense, it was.(my emphasis) At a certain moment in time, certain aspects of Jewish-American or Italian-American sociology disproportionately predisposed Jews and Italians to certain problematic behavior.
No, Peter. Jewish Communists joined the CPUSA for the same reason as did Christian Communists. They believed in Marxism-Leninism. The majority of Jews, who were politically left or liberal New Dealers, had nothing to do with those who were pro-Communist. Many were exactly the kind of anti-Communist liberal you purport to be.
African-American Communists joined because in the age of virulent racism, in the South especially but also in the North, the Communists alone emphasized black-white unity and fought relentlessly for civil rights — except, of course, during World War II, when black Americans were suddenly told to put their work for black freedom on the back-burner, because the U.S. had to defeat the Axis, and the U.S. could not afford to harm the war effort by raising problematic and divisive issues on the home front. After all, everything — including civil rights — was second to defense of the Soviet Union, which was what any good Communist had as their preeminent cause.
Beinart then concludes that today, although Muslims too might be predisposed to “problematic behavior,” the government should target their behavior, “not the religious or ethnic group.”
Wrong again: All the jihadists come from mosques in which they received inspiration and/or education in the doctrine of radical Islamist thought. All the major terrorist actions that threaten the United States and the West today come from adherents to Islam who have been radicalized. It is true that “not all the terrorist sympathizers in America are Muslim.” Plenty of them are Leftists — but I don’t think that is what Beinart is thinking of. But all of those who have sought to do the most damage, or did so on 9/11, were Muslims.
How do we then prevent future attacks? The answer is clear: by doing just what Rep. King is seeking to do with his investigation. This is not, as Beinart says, “anti-Muslim bigotry.” It is plain common sense. And Beinart should spare us his words about how King’s work stands opposed to the policies of George W. Bush, which Beinart suddenly sees as something to praise. While Bush was in office, Beinart had nothing but derision for him.
Finally, I have a question for Tina Brown. How can you offer Peter Beinart as a columnist for both The Daily Beast and now Newsweek when he consistently comes up with continuing inane platitudes which substitute for wisdom? Can’t you find a smarter liberal to fill his space?
I love Peter Beinart. I love Thomas Friedman. I love Ron Kuby. I love all the SELF HATING JEWS. And I really love it when they’re JournOlists. Don’t you?
They can’t do enough for this Guy in the White House.
They can’t do enough for the SON of a Muslim/Marxist Father, and an Atheist/Communist. The Boy with the Muslim Step Father. (That’s why the “O” in JournOlist. It stands for Obama) The Boy who would be Pharaoh. The Boy who grew up in Kenya and Indonesia, until he was 11 YEARS OLD. Who attended Muslim Schools in Indonesia. Where he learned all about “DEATH TO AMERICA”. “DEATH TO ISRAEL”. “DEATH TO THE JEWS”. Where he knelt on his Prayer Rug, facing MECCA, and prayed to a God of DEATH 5 times a day.
They IGNORE his 20 Year relationships with White Haters, Jew Haters, and America Haters. Schluff off his 20 YEARS in the Pews of a HATE CHURCH, listening to the Anti White, Anti Jew, and Anti America BILE, spewed out from the FILTHY MOUTH of Jeremiah Wright. The HATE CHURCH that gave Nation Of Islam leader – Louis Farrakhan – a Lifetime Achievement Award. The same HATE CHURCH that went to LYBIA, to praise it’s Leader: Khaddafi.
Frank Marshall Davis. William Ayers. The Black Panthers. P.L.O. Recruiter – Khalid Rashidi. There’s a REASON that the L.A. TIMES refuses to release the VIDEO (that they are in possession of) of Barack Hussein Obama at Khalid Rashidi’s Going Away Party. I wonder what the REASON is? Peter Beinart does not.
He doesn’t seem to mind that ALL the pressure is being applied to ISRAEL.
He isn’t curious as to why HAMAS has come to the conclusion that ABU HUSSAIN is their DELIVERER.
So, of course he’s against Peter King looking in to the Radicalization of American Muslims. And, he’ll always be against it, until someone HE LOVES, has their THROAT SLIT, or their BRAINS BLOWN OUT.
The OBVIOUS, is never enough for the Peter Beinarts and the Thomas Freidmans of the world. Hell, 911 WASN’T ENOUGH. They always have to learn the hard way.
That’s too bad.
For all of us.
Great post! Just the kind to remind RR that he blogs for a gutter-site.
In 1920, at the San Remo conference, the League of Nations decided that it was time Israel (what today is Israel, West Bank, Gaza) was returned to its rightful owners, the Jews, after 2000 years of illegal conquest by others. The archeological and historical evidence that Israel was the home of the Jewish people, and Jerusalem the capitol of the Jewish people, was SO powerful that the resolution agreed to at at San Remo was adoped by the League of Nations in 1922, and by final League member, Turkey, in 1923. It was unanimous!
Yet today there is no peace. Why? Palestinian (all factions) ideology of Islamic supremacy (radical Islam). Same ideology as Al Qaeda, Ground Zero mosque imam and most Muslim Americans.
See Palestinian Media Watch web site to read, see, hear what Palestinian leadership, including and especially the so-called “moderate” PA/Fatah/Abbas teach and preach to their own – IN THEIR OWN WORDS! PA/Fatah/Abbas curriculum and media/political is non stop incitement to hate and violence. It is no different than Hamas, Hezbolleh. It is a curriculum and rhetoric only Al Qaeda would love.
Obama has made only one demand of Abbas: End the incitement. Abbas has refused to do so and Obama turns a blind eye. Palestinian ideology of Islamic supremacy, yes the same ideology as Al Qaeda, Muslim Brotherhood and Muslim Brotherhood front groups in the US like CAIR, MPAC, ISNA, MAS, MSA/MSU, etc., (THE REASON THE KING HEARINGS ARE WAY PAST DUE) is the one and ONLY reason for the intractable situation. Arabs began murdering Jews in Israel in the modern era beginning in the 1920′s on order of the grand mufti of Jerusalem. – decades before there was even an official State of Israel. Nothing has changed.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA WATCH on line – in their own words – what Palestinian leadership – all factions – tells their own people vs what they tell the US/West. http://www.palwatch.org
THE short (100 page) must read book about the history of the region and the conflict: “History Upside Down, The Roots of Plestinian Fascism and the Myth of Israeli Aggression” by Daivd Meir-Levi.
He may have written in a rough manner, but every thing “goomygommy” wrote is true! Read Stanley Kurtz’ book “Radical in Chief”
Agreed about gommygommy.
“Does Beinart know how to think before he sets something down and puts it on the internet?”
No, Peter Beinart does not think; he does not know how to think, and has never had an original thought in his life. He is ridiculous, inane, indoctrinated (red diaper baby?) and useless as a productive member of a society such as America. He is jewish and denies it, too.
What a waste, what a coward. How proud are his parents? I cannot imagine such parents, giving over their son to a useless existence such as is Beinarts.
more damage is done to the american people with all the kids you send off to fake wars and all the education and health care dollars you deny than any terrorist attack.
Do re mi mi mi. “Hey there, you with the stars in your eyes…” Hey There as sung by Sammy Davis. Jr.
Hey there RtWing, did you know there is a guy now in the White House who is daily sending what you refer to as “kids” (actually they are well-trained killers of enemies and I love them for it) off to what you call a “fake war” (actually it is a real war with real weapons and real soldiers and marines) and his name is Obama. Send him your message. It is your right, a right our warriors are now fighting to keep so we don’t have to have a war right here in the U.S.
Sig him, bad doggie.
You might want to investigate how the number of people without health insurance relates to the number of people who are unemployed.
No, wodun, I’m pretty sure he does NOT want to do that.
He should, of course, but leftists and facts don’t seem to get along well together.
I think you can be a good American and a bad Muslim or a bad American and a good Muslim but I don’t think you can be a good American and a good Muslim. Islam is simply incompatible with western democratic values. It should have no place in the U.S. or other Western democracies. Let it be confined to the deserts of the Middle East. Footnote: When the Constitution was written consideration was given to excluding Muslim immigration but the idea of a Muslim immigrating to a Christan country like the U.S. was considered too ridiculous to warrent action.
u nothing about Sharia. The Medina Constitution is the oldest pro democradic document in history
LOL – good one. You mean right after Mohammed slaughtered every last Jewish man, woman and child in Medina. Islam is good in theory, always in theory!
That’s why the left is so quick to come to the defense of fundamentalist Islam. Communism/Socialist/Progressivism etc is good in theory; it’s only when you expect the practical results to be good that you run into trouble. On paper Islam sounds wonderful; but the first schism happened about 10 minutes after Mohammed rode his winged horse into heaven. It has never worked according to plan. There have been several Caliphs at once, and now there’s no Caliph, and every ethnicity and nation adds their own tribal prejudices to the Quran and calls it orthodoxy. If the burka is Islamic purity, why didn’t they exist in Arabia during Mohammed’s own time?
The only unity in the Ummah comes when attacked by other ‘People of the Book.’ Then suddenly the Sufi/Wahhabi/Shia are all pals. For a few minutes at a time, anyway.
Like all the left, from Robespierre to Obama, fundamentalist Muslims believe in the theory no matter how badly it fits reality. They’re a match made in heaven, true romantics all.
It is being suggested among those who are against Rep. King’s hearings that are looking into the radicalization of musims in the U.S., even to the point of comparing them to the McCarthy hearings, that Islamic terrorists are merely criminals who comprise a small percentage of and are disconnected from, the muslim community even as are anti-abortion fanatics, neo-Nazis, etc. from the larger American community.
When Beinart says he is against the hearings “because most American terrorism is not Muslim terrorism”, he is missing the point. For me the most important point in regards to domestic terrorism by non-Muslims isn’t whether they are madmen or not but how much support they have on a grass roots level among Americans in general which is to say none. It is also not important to me whether imams are preaching jihad in American mosques because my point is that they are preaching to the choir. That choir may not in the vast majority believe in violence but their tacit support is one that does not need to be drawn out in a mosque.
The idea that those who go to mosque within the U.S. listen to anti-Western speeches stand there and say to themselves, ‘Gee, I never thought of that.’, is ridiculous. Anti-Western themes are prevalent among the Islamic world community who basically view themselves as innocents and the West as committing depredations and humiliations against Islam. In short, muslim terrorists do not “act on their own” to commit acts of violence but do so in the conviction that they are acting fully within the larger zeitgeist that comprises Islam when it comes to politics.
Mark Potak who works at the Southern Poverty Law Center said in a radio interview with Democracy Now the day the hearings opened, “But I do not see anything particularly unique about the Muslim community as a kind of milieu where some tiny percentage of people get drawn into the extremely radical world. I don’t think there’s really much to be learned looking specifically at that phenomenon”. In my opinion, Potak misses the mark in that any thinking that is based on a delusional, biased and entirely one-sided view of history wherein muslims are the innocent defenders of their own subjugation is already radical – the jump to violence is simply an acting out of a type of thinking that is already radical in the sense of its hostility to the West, however passive among the larger American muslim community; I am saying that words kill when expression is endemic in a given community.
It is one thing for non-muslim American radicals to become unhinged, even if they weren’t nuts in the first place, by listening to very specific hate groups and quite another to be motivated by a theme reflected in the thoughts of their otherwise passive mothers and fathers and aunts and uncles and church; ask yourself what percentage of muslim Americans are against Israel, which must be in the high 90 percentile, and you have your own explannation – Israel and the Palestinian Arabs are the centerpiece of anti-Western thought and Iraq and Afghanistan merely gas on that fire. American muslim terrorists are being radicalized much more in a home-grown sense than in which we usually use the term but in the sense of learning such things at the knee of the sense in which they most identify themselves and that is Islam, whether they are loners or have an extended family.
In this sense, it is American non-muslim terrorists who are acting on their own much more than is the case with muslims. In a very real sense we are comparing muslim doctrine to fringe lunatics. That’s not to say that the average muslim doesn’t them self view Islamic radicals as some kind of fringe lunatics but are perhaps unaware that they are the trough from which Islamic radicals within the U.S. feed and from which they get their own indoctrination and strength; there is no equivalent among the larger non-muslim American community. It is not the average American who looks at crimes by people like McVeigh and says, ‘Well, that was terrible but…” – it is the American muslim community who have that distinction with the fabric of the Palestinian Arab situation or Iraq and Afghanistan never far from their thoughts.
The difference is that in the American muslim community which are said to be law abiding and hard working people there is still this over arching hostility to the West centered around Israel and the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan that is nearly of one voice no matter whether expressed in a casual manner or in expressions of violence; that equivalent simply doesn’t exist in America among Christians and if it did the closest equivalent to those in the U.S. who don’t like the story of America wouldn’t emanate from the Conservative Right but from the political Left.
In this respect, the isolation of right-wing terrorists within the U.S. you refer to is telling. It is entirely correct to couch the King hearings in religious terms since Islam is the common denominator in that all muslim terrorists specifically define themselves as muslims against non-muslims and such is simply not the case in regard to non-muslim murderers who commit their acts based on politics that come in many different stripes; where are the Christian acts of terrror against muslims within the U.S., acts in which a Christian specifically identifies themselves as Christians against muslms? Given the war being waged in the U.S. I think muslims are getting off pretty lightly and the King hearings entirely justified in this sense.
I don’t think Beinart is being purposefully disingenuous but is merely another liberal who suffers from a disdain of direct observation if it clashes with their liberal philosophy that tends to ignore a thing if it in the least makes a single culture look bad as the thinking there goes that we are all equal even when value systems between cultures are demonstrably not; in its own way, liberalism is a faith based religion that sees only what it wants to see even when that thing is obvious or not present – liberals suit their thinking to fit not reality, but their world view and this explains why you so often see liberal opinion follow doctrine and not facts as witness the anti-union and anti-worker themes expressed from the Left when in fact we are talking about public workers only and could just as easily be described as a budget battle, perhaps wrong headed but certainly not some kind of an attack on democracy which is ludicrous to suggest.
Islam is a completely different animal from the opportunistic cultural exchanges Beinart points out with the Mafia or American Communist Party – in a larger sense, Islam creates its own opportunities in the very heart and thrust of its religion. Beinart’s idea that Islamic American terrorists should be simply treated as common criminals as those crimes occur rather than intimately connected with the very anti-Western and anti-non-muslim tenets of their religion is in no way persuasive. But one does not need nuanced arguments to account for Islamic terrorism for as you say, it is plain common sense, simply use your eyes, but indeed does need such nuance to explain away the liberal Left’s disdain for the King hearings.
I might remind you of the Best Kept Secret in America.
The Release of the Verona Papers showed that McCarthy was right.
Tina Brown employs Peter Beinart because he has the same mindset she does. The Stalinist communists of the CPUSA were united in purpose because their Marxist ideology trumped their religious or ethnic backgrounds, as it does today . For Muslims, nothing trumps the Quran, ethnicity, religious faith, politics, love of country. A nominal Christian could be a card-carrying member of the CP; Islam trumps Marx. Islam trumps everything, including analytical thinking.
That is the key reason it is evil and should be rejected by all free peoples. Why socialists cannot grasp that they are “intellectually” embracing an uncompromising primitive faith that would accept them only in servitude. defies elemental reason.
Beinart is the archtypical end product of an education of “deconstruction” and “moral equivalence”, ergo a journalistic nitwit. Anyone who defends a culture which dogmatically rejects reason or even simple questioning is not a person whose counsel should be respected.
ian could also be a Cmmunist
I have penfriends on both sides of the fence.
In regard to the very existence of groups like Hamas, and Hezbollah: what came first, the chicken or the egg? Did Muslims start “slitting throats” before or after their parents or brothers…sisters…children, were killed by Zionists?
Both sides are right and both sides are wrong. Evil is woven all from the same thread. The only difference between Hamas and the IDF is a uniform (by its very definition).
Is it somehow more humane to die from a U. S. manufactured phosphorus cluster bomb, dropped by a US manufactured F-16, than having my throat slit by a “towel head”? Or, is it somehow less of a crime to have my head blown off by someone like Ariel Sharon in his “hey day” than from the gun of binLaden’s henchmen? Don’t be fooled by the “they hate our way of life” propaganda…that’s “b.s.”. 9-11 was a “reaction” to our role in the persecution of Muslims for decades now. Face the truth.
Pressure in Israel? It’s about time! It’s funny to see how similar Israel and Iran are. Both are religious states. Both have nukes and deny…and won’t allow inspections. Both regimes are intolerant of others. The one’s who pull the strings in Israel believe they own everything from the Litany River in S Lebanon to Iraq. Why?…because the Tora says so. Wow…
I didn’t vote for Obama, and I am not a fan by any means, but I do find it refreshing to see an administration that puts a little pressure on the Zionist State. The Israelis have enjoyed a disadvantage for far too long, and for no good reason.
The ball is in Israel’s court now. The rockets have been somewhat quiet. Let’s see if the Jewish State comes up with another excuse not to abide by decades old UN Resolutions (or God forbid…some radical idiots will send more rockets Her way and give Her an excuse). What is Israel’s true intentions? Let’s see now.
No more aid to Israel. No more weapons to Israel. Pressure them to cut a deal, and give up that Zionist, utopia pipe dream. The “Deal” was a “part” of Palestine. Abide by it, or face the consequences of being a rouge state.
Your ignorance of Muslim history is as appalling as your antisemitism. Look at a map of the Middle East. Israel is a tiny speck in the desert. Jews were there for thousands of years before the Mohammedans drove them out. The Arabs received 78% of the Palestinian Mandate. Muslims have been attacking non-Muslims, not just Jews, for 14 centuries. The call to Jihad is the core tenet of Islam. Abandoning Israel to these fanatics will only encourage them.
Look again at the history books. The Romans drove the Jews out…shortly after Jesus was gone. Always the anti Semite thing comes up…simply because I speak against a regime as bad as Iran’s. Semite is not another word for Jew…it means indigenous people of the region.
I began my comment with “I have penfriends on both sides of the fence”. I have Israeli penfriends as well as Arab (Christian and Muslim).
You…are a product of a propaganda few society.
It is a common point of confusion – but the terms Anti-Semite and Semitic Peoples are not refering to the same thing.
Semetic peoples is a ‘linguistic’ reference to a group of peoples whose ancestry is in the middle east, and have a language that can be (or we think can be) traced back to a common origin.
Anti Semitism is specificly aimed at jews, and only at jews. Quote from wikipedia: “The term “anti-Semitic” (or “anti-Semite”) overwhelmingly refers to Jews only. ”
So when someone who is Arab asks – ‘How can I be Anti Semitic? I am one!” at best they are displaying an ignorance of the truth.
Terry Gain:
The beginning of the Exodus began when the Romans crushed the Jewish revolt shortly after Christ.
Your history skills are bias like ur support of Zionists.
Are Muslims to blame for the Crusades?
And when they took some of Europe…freedom of religion was rule of law. It was the Christians, who spent many a night, entering homes…to see who was not eating pork. (honest to God truth)…killing both Jews and Muslims.
like I said…
both sides are right…and both are wrong.
No supporter of Jews is about to admit this. This is why there is no compromise with anyone on the “fringes”…be they right or left.
go to the Middle East…see for urself, like I did…and without anyone to protect me.
The soldiers….plzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. They saw nothing of what I have seen on my own.
Zionism did not spring full blown from a void with the creation of the Zionist movement in 1897. Jews had maintained a connection with Palestine, both actual and spiritual, even after the Bar Kochba revolt in 135, when large numbers of Jews were exiled from Roman Palestine, the remains of their ancient national home. The Jewish community in Palestine revived and, under Muslim rule, is estimated to have numbered as many as 300,000 about 1000 AD, prior to the Crusades. The Crusaders killed most of the Jewish population of Palestine or forced them into exile, so that only about 1,000 families remained after the reconquest of Palestine by Saladin.
“The only difference between Hamas and the IDF is a uniform”
Well, there is one other tiny little difference – the Hamas charter explicitly calls for the murder of Jews. Not Israelis, not “settlers”, not “Zionists”, but Jews:
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp
No doubt Paul Guay is jim-dandy with that.
Cluster bombs kill indiscriminately. They are painted with “pretty colors”. 30% never detonate, which effectively makes them no different than land mines. They have been recently internationally outlawed, but both the US and Israel do not recognize.
As I said,,,both sides are right…and both sides are wrong.
All I am saying is we must stop the bias support of a country who does what She pleases. Israeli right winged string pullers are the same as the worst terrorist.
Sharon….
Qibya (West Bank)…look it up. Just one of the many war crimes he committed.
Paul, you must have danced a little jig when your Pal buddies murdered that 3-month-old Israeli girl in her sleep yesterday, right?
And are you as outraged about the hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians slaughtered by Arab regimes such as Saddam’s Iraq and Assad’s Syria, or are you jim-danday with all that as long as you can’t blame it on da Joooooos?
Rosen
Saddam Hussein and Assad do not represent Islam.
I suppose there are no Christians or Jooooos who are murderers.
About the little girl who died…
I dont want any of the children to suffer…but “da Joooooos ” have murdered thousands of Muslim kids.
Like I said…both sides are right and both are wrong. I am trying to neutral.
But I see you will never admit ur Joooooooo buddies are nothing but Angels.
I also noticed, Paul, that you didn’t respond at all to my link to the Hamas charter. So we can now safely assume you are 100% on board with its call for the murder of *all* Jews. Thanks for letting us know.
yeah Gary…here is a quote from the charter for u…
“The Islamic Resistance Movement is a distinguished Palestinian movement, whose allegiance is to Allah, and whose way of life is Islam. It strives to raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine, for under the wing of Islam followers of all religions can coexist in security and safety where their lives, possessions and rights are concerned.”
No response from you regarding Israeli collateral damage or cluster bombs.
I am not saying that some Muslims are not murderers. I am not saying all Jews are murderers. I am even not saying you are always wrong, or stupid…or prejudice, (Gary).
Here is what I am saying. Since the creation of Israel (something done to make the rest of the world feel better about how Jews are viewed by “everyone”) Israel has enjoyed a disadvantage in their favor.
I dont want my tax dollars being used for the murder of innocent Muslims.
It’s time to hang Israel out to dry. They have asked for it.
Shalom
Palestinian Authority, Israel’s “peace partner”, is in perpetual Islamic incitement to hate and violence mode – no different than Hamas/Hezbolleh/Muslim Brotherhood/Al Qaeda and most of the mosques in the U.S. (thereby necessitating the King hearings)> Obama administration “no incitement” policy is unenforced and ignored by Team PA/Abbas.
The peace talks and pressure on Israel must end. The stealth jihadi, PA/PLO/Fatah/Abbas, must drop its ideology of Isalmic supremacy, and do a 180 degrees turnaround on its curriculum and political/media rheotric and adopt an ideology of ecumenism. US must cut of all aid to Team PA/Abbas until this process in complete. (Shamefully, US also funds Hamas via UN, and that must stop as well AND Corp Shalit is released UNCONDITIONALLY.)
Two bulletins from Palestinian Media Watch below. PMW is the organization that keeps tabs of what Palestinain leadership, including and especially the pretend “moderates”, say to their own people vs what they tell the US/West – IN THEIR OWN WORDS. Go to web site unless you prefer to remain willfully blind. Read it, see it, hear it – IN THEIR OWN WORDS.
The Team PA/Abbas incitement consists of 1)rabid anti-Semitism and justification for murdering Jews 2)terror worship and adulation of terrorists (see the two examples below) 3)promise of perpetural war, not peace, with Israel 4) delegtimization of Israel by saying Jews have NO connection with any part of the land – even Tel Aviv is said to be rightfully “Palestinian”. The is Hamas/Hezbolleh/Muslim Brotherhood/Al Qaeda -identical “stuff”.
For true, not the faux, history on which Paul Guay comments, and all the aniti-Israel UN resolutions, are based, read the 100 page “History Upside Down, the Roots of Palestinian Fascism and the Myth of Israeli Aggression”, by David Meir-Levi. After becoming a regular subscriber to Palestinian Media Watch, and reading the Meir-Levi book, you will proudly leave your useful idiocy behind.
Palestinian Media Watch Bulletin March 13, 2011
PA TV glorified terrorist who killed 3 in 2002 terror attack
in the town of Itamar
http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=4794
by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
A Palestinian Authority video TV tribute to “Martyrs” three weeks ago included the terrorist who killed three Israelis in a 2002 terror attack in the West Bank town of Itamar. Itamar was the scene of Friday’s terror attack, in which Ruth and Udi Fogel and their three children were murdered.
“Martyrs (Shahids) of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Nablus. The Palestinian National Resistance Brigades.” [PA TV (Fatah), several times daily Feb. 21-24, 2011]
The video was in honor of the anniversary of the founding of the DFLP (Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine), and was broadcast on PA TV several times daily for four days. It featured a collage with photographs labeled “Martyrs (Shahids) of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Nablus.” It included the picture of terrorist Habash Hanani, who in May 2002 entered Itamar and murdered three students in the local high school. (Shown at bottom right of photo.)
PA TV glorified additional terrorists with photographs, including Ahmad Yasser, who carried out a shooting attack in the town of Yitzhar in June 2002, injuring three soldiers (shown at lower left corner of PA TV collage above), and Hani Al-Akad, who in 2004 recruited female suicide terrorists and planned a double suicide attack in Tel Aviv (holding a machine gun, shown at upper right of PA TV collage above.)
“The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Heroes of the special operations in northern Palestine” [PA TV (Fatah), several times daily Feb. 21-24, 2011]
Another photo collage in the video labeled “Heroes of the special operations in northern Palestine” showed 16 photographs of DFLP members from the past posing with weapons, some dressed in military uniforms, others making V-signs.
The DFLP has carried out several terror attacks in the north:
-The 1970 attack on a school bus near the town of Avivim in which 12 Israelis were killed, including nine children;
-The 1974 attack in the town of Ma’alot in which more than 20 people were killed, most of them children, when terrorists took them hostage in a school.
-A 1974 attack in the town Beit Shean in which four Israelis were killed.
This PA TV video is an example of the Palestinian Authority’s policy of continued terror glorification.
Click to see Palestinian Media Watch’s report From Terrorists to Role Models.
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Palestinian Medida Watch Bulletin March 13, 2011
Palestinian Authority incitement to terror
prior to the murders in Itamar
http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=4793
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by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
In the period prior to the murders of Ruth and Udi Fogel and their three children in the Israeli town Itamar, the Palestinian Authority continued to encourage terror by glorifying terrorists as heroes and role models and through calls for violence. In addition, in an act that sent a clear message of support for terror, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas awarded $2000 to the family of a terrorist who attacked and tried to kill Israeli soldiers – just 2 months ago.
The following are some examples of terror promotion in the period leading up to the terror attack in Itamar on the West Bank two days ago in which terrorist(s) murdered five members of an Israeli family:
Abbas awards $2000 to family of terroristIn December, a Palestinian terrorist carrying two pipe bombs ran towards the soldiers at an Israeli checkpoint, screaming “Allahu Akbar” – “Allah is Greater”. The soldiers shot him before he could detonate the bombs.
Palestinian Authority Chairman Abbas granted “the relatives of the Shahid” $2000:
“The governor of the Jenin district, Kadura Musa, has awarded a presidential grant to the family of the Shahid (Martyr), Khaldoun Najib Samoudy, during a visit that took place yesterday in the village of Al-Yamoun. The governor noted that the grant is financial aid in the amount of $2000 that the President [Mahmoud Abbas] is awarding to the relatives of the Shahid, who was recently killed as a Martyr at the Hamra checkpoint by the Israeli occupation forces.”
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida (Fatah) Jan. 25, 2011
A day before the terror attack in Itamar:
"Advisor to President Mahmoud Abbas... The weapons must be turned towards the main enemy [Israel]”
“Advisor to President Mahmoud Abbas and under-secretary of the Fatah Revolutionary Council, Sabri Saidam, delivered a speech… He emphasized that the weapons must be turned towards the main enemy [Israel] and that internal differences of opinion must be set aside. Saidam noted the awful living conditions of the families of Shahids [Martyrs], in the country and outside of it, and as proof he said that the allowance to the family of Shahida [Martyr] Dalal Mughrabi [leader of the bus hijacking in 1978 in which 37 civilians were murdered] is a mere $123. He demanded of the Palestinian people to treat the problems of the families of these Shahids seriously, and emphasized that the anniversary of Dalal’s Martyrdom-seeking (i.e., her terror attack) should be amplified by inaugurating a square in her name in the city of El-Bireh.”
[Al-Ayyam, March 10, 2011]
During the week of the terror attack in Itamar:
PA newspaper advertizes football tournament named after the first female suicide bomber
“The administration of the Al-Amari youth center [in Ramallah] has announced its plans to launch a youth tournament (for 19-year-olds) to be named ‘Shahida (Martyr) of Honor, Wafa Idris [tournament].’ The Al-Am’ari administration is maintaining contacts with the Palestinian Football Association for permission.”
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, March 6, 2011, p. 1]
http://www.ammariclub.com/aboutClub.aspx
http://www.amari.8m.net/center_in_english.htm
Note: Wafa Idris was the first Palestinian female suicide bomber. She blew herself up in Jerusalem, killing one and injuring more than 150 on Jan. 27, 2002. As a volunteer for the Palestinian Red Crescent, she was able to bypass Israeli security and enter Jerusalem in a Palestinian ambulance.
Fatah movement lauds suicide bombers
“The Fatah movement commemorated at the Deheisheh [refugee] camp some of the Shahids (Martyrs) from the camp who fell in March, 2002, during the Al-Aqsa Intifada [i.e., the PA's five-year terror campaign 2000-2005]. The movement organized a procession which set off from opposite the camp’s youth center to the home of the Shahid Muhammad Daraghmeh, who carried out a detonation operation [i.e., a suicide bombing in which he killed 9 Israelis] in Jerusalem.
The movement publicized an announcement denouncing the crimes of the occupation [i.e, Israel] and commemorating the Shahids whom it referred to as ‘the March league’. Along with Daraghmeh they include Saed Sa’ud Abu Amar, Jad Mahmoud Atallah, Issa Zakri Faraj, and Ayyat Al-Akhras.”
Note: Al-Akhras, at age 17 the youngest female suicide bomber, killed 2 Israelis in her suicide attack in March, 2002.
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, March 4, 2011]
In the presence of Abbas’s representative:
“The [Fatah] movement exploded models of buildings in settlements…
Abbas’s representative: “Fatah… wrested its right to use all means of resistance in order to achieve its aim”
“Azzam Al-Ahmed, member of the Fatah Central Committee, said during a gathering on the 46th anniversary of the establishment of Fatah, held in the village of Turah, south-west of Jenin, that Fatah is determined to achieve the aims for which it was established….The Jenin branch of the Fatah movement held a gathering… attended by Azzam Al-Ahmed, member of the Fatah Central Committee, representing President Mahmoud Abbas… The ceremony opened with a reading of the first military announcement by the Al-Asifa movement (PLO unit), noting the commencement of self-sacrifice activity in Palestine [i.e., terror attacks in Israel]. This was followed by some military demonstrations and scouts performances, and some members of the [Fatah] movement blew up models of buildings in [Israeli] settlements… Azzam Al-Ahmed said: ‘We emphasize today the aims for which the Fatah movement was established…’. He added that Fatah is a mass movement which believed in popular revolution and wrested its right to use all means of resistance in order to achieve its aim.”
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Jan. 2, 2011]
In 1920, at the San Remo conference, the League of Nations decided that it was time Israel (what today is Israel, West Bank, Gaza) was returned to its rightful owners, the Jews, after 2000 years of illegal conquest by others. The archeological and historical evidence that Israel was the home of the Jewish people, and Jerusalem the capitol of the Jewish people, was SO powerful that the resolution agreed to at at San Remo was adoped by the League of Nations in 1922, and by final League member, Turkey, in 1923. It was unanimous!
Yet today there is no peace. Why? Palestinian (all factions) ideology of Islamic supremacy (radical Islam). Same ideology as Al Qaeda, Ground Zero mosque imam and most Muslim Americans.
See Palestinian Media Watch web site to read, see, hear what Palestinian leadership, including and especially the so-called “moderate” PA/Fatah/Abbas teach and preach to their own – IN THEIR OWN WORDS! PA/Fatah/Abbas curriculum and media/political is non stop incitement to hate and violence. It is no different than Hamas, Hezbolleh. It is a curriculum and rhetoric only Al Qaeda would love.
Obama has made only one demand of Abbas: End the incitement. Abbas has refused to do so and Obama turns a blind eye. Palestinian ideology of Islamic supremacy, yes the same ideology as Al Qaeda, Muslim Brotherhood and Muslim Brotherhood front groups in the US like CAIR, MPAC, ISNA, MAS, MSA/MSU, etc., (THE REASON THE KING HEARINGS ARE WAY PAST DUE) is the one and ONLY reason for the intractable situation. Arabs began murdering Jews in Israel in the modern era beginning in the 1920′s on order of the grand mufti of Jerusalem. – decades before there was even an official State of Israel. Nothing has changed.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA WATCH on line – in their own words – what Palestinian leadership – all factions – tells their own people vs what they tell the US/West. http://www.palwatch.org
THE short (100 page) must read book about the history of the region and the conflict: “History Upside
March 13, 2011 | Eli. E. Hertz
UN Security Council Resolution 1377 “reaffirms its unequivocal condemnation of all acts, methods and practices of terrorism as criminal and unjustifiable, regardless of their motivation, in all their forms and manifestations, wherever and by whomever committed.”
Incitement is the Weapon
Political and religious incitement plays a crucial role in mobilizing and motivating Palestinian terrorism. After the horrendous 2002 suicide bombing of a Passover Seder in a Netanya hotel, Fouad Ajami, a Middle East scholar at Johns Hopkins University , wrote:
“The suicide bomber of the Passover massacre did not descend from the sky; he walked straight out of the culture of incitement let loose on the land, a menace hovering over Israel, a great Palestinian and Arab refusal to let that country be, to cede it a place among the nations, he partook of the culture all around him – the glee [that] greets those brutal deeds of terror, the cult that rises around the martyrs and their families.”
Despite pledges to renounce violence against Israel , PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas continue to incite, inflame and encourage Palestinian Arabs to pin every problem they face as individuals and as a society on Israel . This strategy of channeling frustrations into hatred and the desire for revenge against Israel is adopted both by Israel ‘s immediate Palestinian neighbors and Arab leaders throughout the Muslim-Arab world. Arab leaders and the European Union [EU] lend support to the Palestinian cause with money and a combination of anti-Israeli and anti-American messages from government-controlled media outlets and educational systems. Sermons that legitimize violence in the name of Islam are encouraged, delivered by extremists throughout Muslim countries and in free countries in the West.
The Effect of Indoctrination
These anti-Israeli actions have a profound impact on generations of Arabs fed a steady diet of poison-filled propaganda. Arab opinion polls find there is little desire for peace with Israel . Survey after survey shows that the majority of those polled believed the Arab-Israeli conflict should continue; and in most cases over 50 percent want Israel to eventually disappear from the Middle Eastern map. But those polls also signify more worrisome effects. Arab incitement, now broadened to include anti-Western sentiments, as well as anti-Israeli and antisemitic sentiments, is producing the greatest threat to the civilized world since World War II.
For non-Arabic speakers, it is hard to grasp just how pervasive the propaganda is in areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority and throughout the Arab world. It is omnipresent: In state-controlled media outlets, in schools and mosques, at rallies, in speeches and articles.
Whether in print, music, religious sermons, or on the radio, television and walls, the propaganda that incites permeates the refugee camps, villages and towns on the West Bank and Gaza . It touches those in radical Islamic schools in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia . All who watch Arab-controlled television and movies, read state-controlled newspapers and government-controlled schoolbooks are affected by hate-filled propaganda.
Terrorism against Israel and the West has reached epidemic proportions. Since September 11, not a day goes by when new terrorist attacks, failed attempts, or plots in Europe, the United States , Africa, and Asia go unreported. Those attacks have captured not just the imagination and support of the radical fringe, but of rank-and-file Arabs as well. Palestinian Arabs danced in the streets after September 11, just as they shouted with glee from the rooftops when Iraqi SCUD missiles smashed into Tel Aviv during Operation Desert Storm in 1991.
A Culture of Hatred – Incited from Birth
Incitement is so prevalent in parts of the Arab world that it even permeates the cultural milieu. One proud Palestinian father celebrated his toddler’s first birthday by strapping a fake suicide bomb to him and taking pictures of the child. As the shocking photo of the smiling “suicide” infant and his happy father made its way around the world, the baby’s paternal grandfather dismissed the incident as a bad “joke.”
The joke is the result of a vexing phenomenon. Schools controlled by authoritarian Arab regimes and Islamic extremists provide children everywhere in the Muslim-Arab world [including mosques in America and Europe] with textbooks that espouse a bitter hatred of Israel and the West. Maps of Israel show no such country. Instead, teachers within the Palestinian Authority teach their students that territory delineated by former British Mandate – from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea [including Israel proper] – is theirs. They say Israel is land that was “stolen” from the Arabs in 1948. A similar message is hammered home on children’s television programs. From elementary school through high school, textbooks foster hatred towards Israel and the West, with Israel described as “a country of gangs, born in crime.” Antisemitic expressions portray Jews as arrogant, sly traitors. Zionism is described as a racist movement and a “germ.”
By second grade, the concept of jihad, or holy struggle – used by Osama bin Laden to characterize the September 11 attacks – is introduced and taught as an enshrined value. By the sixth grade, a child is encouraged to become a shahid [martyr].
When all is said and done, absent from the “texts” are the principles of normalization and co-existence with Israel .
The same is true about Israel.
Paul asks whether Muslims ““slitting throats” before or after their parents or brothers…sisters…children, were killed by Zionists?”
Yes, they did—before any Arab was “killed by a Zionist.” Jews living in the Land of Israel, held by the Ottoman Empire, were attacked by their Arab neighbors—and the first “modern” Zionists, coming into the Land in the late 19th Century, 130 years ago, were attacked by Arabs.
Paul calls Israel “a religious state.” He is wrong. Israel is not governed by Torah law. The surrounding Arab nations are governed either overtly by Islamic (sharia) law, or incorporate the brutal practices of sharia (stoning, death penalty for gays and converts) into their jurisprudence, or at the least turn a blind eye to their infliction.
If Paul thinks that Israel, with all of its flaws, is in any way equivalent to the surrounding Arab cesspools, he should start asking himself why homosexually-inclined Arabs would rather be illegal aliens in Israel than remain in Arab-run areas. He should ask why the economic refugees of Africa are willing to walk thousands of miles, and brave assault and rape by Hamas-affiliated Arabs, to sneak into Israel.
Scratch the dangling line – editing oversight. I have nothing against Ian,whoever he is.
Islam, and those who follow Muhammad are the enemy of these United States. It has been proven to many times now. We all know the examples. I can not think of any Muslim terror that did not have support.
The Mosques, the Islamic groups like CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood, Muslim student association, or the Islamic Thinkers Society, are all part of the growing problem.
There is no extreme Islam. Just Islam. There are extreme Muslims. They are called Apostates.
That you for allowing me the freedom of speech.
Guay: Are you for real? Your analogies are comparing apples and oranges. First and foremost, when an F-16 drops a bomb it is targeting enemy combatants be they terrorists or uniformed military. Your terrorist attacks innocent civilians which is why they are called terrorists. And to compare our military to terrorist is the height of ignorance only Sen Durbin and Cong. Murtha share that level of ignorance.
Gen. Sharon was a brilliant leader who helped Israel defend itself in 1967 and 1973 against Arab hegemony. To go further in defending him is to give legitimacy to your obvious madness.
In fact before I blow a gasket, I have to finish. You must be orbiting the planet Uranus because you are defintely not breathing the same O2 as I am. Can you even brush you teeth by yourself? Dress?
I dont defend the author…I believe in the hearings…and believe in profiling.
When I was in S Lebanon, I had a talk with a Lebanese soldier about this. He told me “America has a problem with profiling. Here…we are looking for young,Arab men”.
I totally agree.
Pressure Israel into cutting a deal now. We will see how serious they are.
Palestinian Authority, Israel’s “peace partner”, is in perpetual Islamic incitement to hate and violence mode – no different than Hamas/Hezbolleh/Muslim Brotherhood/Al Qaeda and most of the mosques in the U.S. (thereby necessitating the King hearings)> Obama administration “no incitement” policy is unenforced and ignored by Team PA/Abbas.
The peace talks and pressure on Israel must end. The stealth jihadi, PA/PLO/Fatah/Abbas, must drop its ideology of Isalmic supremacy, and do a 180 degrees turnaround on its curriculum and political/media rheotric and adopt an ideology of ecumenism. US must cut of all aid to Team PA/Abbas until this process in complete. (Shamefully, US also funds Hamas via UN, and that must stop as well AND Corp Shalit is released UNCONDITIONALLY.)
Two bulletins from Palestinian Media Watch below. PMW is the organization that keeps tabs of what Palestinain leadership, including and especially the pretend “moderates”, say to their own people vs what they tell the US/West – IN THEIR OWN WORDS. Go to web site unless you prefer to remain willfully blind. Read it, see it, hear it – IN THEIR OWN WORDS.
The Team PA/Abbas incitement consists of 1)rabid anti-Semitism and justification for murdering Jews 2)terror worship and adulation of terrorists (see the two examples below) 3)promise of perpetural war, not peace, with Israel 4) delegtimization of Israel by saying Jews have NO connection with any part of the land – even Tel Aviv is said to be rightfully “Palestinian”. The is Hamas/Hezbolleh/Muslim Brotherhood/Al Qaeda -identical “stuff”.
For true, not the faux, history on which Paul Guay comments, and all the aniti-Israel UN resolutions, are based, read the 100 page “History Upside Down, the Roots of Palestinian Fascism and the Myth of Israeli Aggression”, by David Meir-Levi. After becoming a regular subscriber to Palestinian Media Watch, and reading the Meir-Levi book, you will proudly leave your useful idiocy behind.
Palestinian Media Watch Bulletin March 13, 2011
PA TV glorified terrorist who killed 3 in 2002 terror attack
in the town of Itamar
http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=4794
by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
A Palestinian Authority video TV tribute to “Martyrs” three weeks ago included the terrorist who killed three Israelis in a 2002 terror attack in the West Bank town of Itamar. Itamar was the scene of Friday’s terror attack, in which Ruth and Udi Fogel and their three children were murdered.
“Martyrs (Shahids) of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Nablus. The Palestinian National Resistance Brigades.” [PA TV (Fatah), several times daily Feb. 21-24, 2011]
The video was in honor of the anniversary of the founding of the DFLP (Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine), and was broadcast on PA TV several times daily for four days. It featured a collage with photographs labeled “Martyrs (Shahids) of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Nablus.” It included the picture of terrorist Habash Hanani, who in May 2002 entered Itamar and murdered three students in the local high school. (Shown at bottom right of photo.)
PA TV glorified additional terrorists with photographs, including Ahmad Yasser, who carried out a shooting attack in the town of Yitzhar in June 2002, injuring three soldiers (shown at lower left corner of PA TV collage above), and Hani Al-Akad, who in 2004 recruited female suicide terrorists and planned a double suicide attack in Tel Aviv (holding a machine gun, shown at upper right of PA TV collage above.)
“The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Heroes of the special operations in northern Palestine” [PA TV (Fatah), several times daily Feb. 21-24, 2011]
Another photo collage in the video labeled “Heroes of the special operations in northern Palestine” showed 16 photographs of DFLP members from the past posing with weapons, some dressed in military uniforms, others making V-signs.
The DFLP has carried out several terror attacks in the north:
-The 1970 attack on a school bus near the town of Avivim in which 12 Israelis were killed, including nine children;
-The 1974 attack in the town of Ma’alot in which more than 20 people were killed, most of them children, when terrorists took them hostage in a school.
-A 1974 attack in the town Beit Shean in which four Israelis were killed.
This PA TV video is an example of the Palestinian Authority’s policy of continued terror glorification.
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Palestinian Medida Watch Bulletin March 13, 2011
Palestinian Authority incitement to terror
prior to the murders in Itamar
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by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
In the period prior to the murders of Ruth and Udi Fogel and their three children in the Israeli town Itamar, the Palestinian Authority continued to encourage terror by glorifying terrorists as heroes and role models and through calls for violence. In addition, in an act that sent a clear message of support for terror, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas awarded $2000 to the family of a terrorist who attacked and tried to kill Israeli soldiers – just 2 months ago.
The following are some examples of terror promotion in the period leading up to the terror attack in Itamar on the West Bank two days ago in which terrorist(s) murdered five members of an Israeli family:
Abbas awards $2000 to family of terroristIn December, a Palestinian terrorist carrying two pipe bombs ran towards the soldiers at an Israeli checkpoint, screaming “Allahu Akbar” – “Allah is Greater”. The soldiers shot him before he could detonate the bombs.
Palestinian Authority Chairman Abbas granted “the relatives of the Shahid” $2000:
“The governor of the Jenin district, Kadura Musa, has awarded a presidential grant to the family of the Shahid (Martyr), Khaldoun Najib Samoudy, during a visit that took place yesterday in the village of Al-Yamoun. The governor noted that the grant is financial aid in the amount of $2000 that the President [Mahmoud Abbas] is awarding to the relatives of the Shahid, who was recently killed as a Martyr at the Hamra checkpoint by the Israeli occupation forces.”
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida (Fatah) Jan. 25, 2011
A day before the terror attack in Itamar:
"Advisor to President Mahmoud Abbas... The weapons must be turned towards the main enemy [Israel]”
“Advisor to President Mahmoud Abbas and under-secretary of the Fatah Revolutionary Council, Sabri Saidam, delivered a speech… He emphasized that the weapons must be turned towards the main enemy [Israel] and that internal differences of opinion must be set aside. Saidam noted the awful living conditions of the families of Shahids [Martyrs], in the country and outside of it, and as proof he said that the allowance to the family of Shahida [Martyr] Dalal Mughrabi [leader of the bus hijacking in 1978 in which 37 civilians were murdered] is a mere $123. He demanded of the Palestinian people to treat the problems of the families of these Shahids seriously, and emphasized that the anniversary of Dalal’s Martyrdom-seeking (i.e., her terror attack) should be amplified by inaugurating a square in her name in the city of El-Bireh.”
[Al-Ayyam, March 10, 2011]
During the week of the terror attack in Itamar:
PA newspaper advertizes football tournament named after the first female suicide bomber
“The administration of the Al-Amari youth center [in Ramallah] has announced its plans to launch a youth tournament (for 19-year-olds) to be named ‘Shahida (Martyr) of Honor, Wafa Idris [tournament].’ The Al-Am’ari administration is maintaining contacts with the Palestinian Football Association for permission.”
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, March 6, 2011, p. 1]
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http://www.amari.8m.net/center_in_english.htm
Note: Wafa Idris was the first Palestinian female suicide bomber. She blew herself up in Jerusalem, killing one and injuring more than 150 on Jan. 27, 2002. As a volunteer for the Palestinian Red Crescent, she was able to bypass Israeli security and enter Jerusalem in a Palestinian ambulance.
Fatah movement lauds suicide bombers
“The Fatah movement commemorated at the Deheisheh [refugee] camp some of the Shahids (Martyrs) from the camp who fell in March, 2002, during the Al-Aqsa Intifada [i.e., the PA's five-year terror campaign 2000-2005]. The movement organized a procession which set off from opposite the camp’s youth center to the home of the Shahid Muhammad Daraghmeh, who carried out a detonation operation [i.e., a suicide bombing in which he killed 9 Israelis] in Jerusalem.
The movement publicized an announcement denouncing the crimes of the occupation [i.e, Israel] and commemorating the Shahids whom it referred to as ‘the March league’. Along with Daraghmeh they include Saed Sa’ud Abu Amar, Jad Mahmoud Atallah, Issa Zakri Faraj, and Ayyat Al-Akhras.”
Note: Al-Akhras, at age 17 the youngest female suicide bomber, killed 2 Israelis in her suicide attack in March, 2002.
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, March 4, 2011]
In the presence of Abbas’s representative:
“The [Fatah] movement exploded models of buildings in settlements…
Abbas’s representative: “Fatah… wrested its right to use all means of resistance in order to achieve its aim”
“Azzam Al-Ahmed, member of the Fatah Central Committee, said during a gathering on the 46th anniversary of the establishment of Fatah, held in the village of Turah, south-west of Jenin, that Fatah is determined to achieve the aims for which it was established….The Jenin branch of the Fatah movement held a gathering… attended by Azzam Al-Ahmed, member of the Fatah Central Committee, representing President Mahmoud Abbas… The ceremony opened with a reading of the first military announcement by the Al-Asifa movement (PLO unit), noting the commencement of self-sacrifice activity in Palestine [i.e., terror attacks in Israel]. This was followed by some military demonstrations and scouts performances, and some members of the [Fatah] movement blew up models of buildings in [Israeli] settlements… Azzam Al-Ahmed said: ‘We emphasize today the aims for which the Fatah movement was established…’. He added that Fatah is a mass movement which believed in popular revolution and wrested its right to use all means of resistance in order to achieve its aim.”
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Jan. 2, 2011]
Palestinian Authority (I am a better stealth jihadi than Arafat ever was) Abbas and his double game. In Islam it is called “taqquia” – lying for Islam which he does by pretending to be a peace maker when he is actually an Islamic supremist in a suit and tie. (See web site to see/her/read all in his own words.) Nobody does it as well as he. The world of the willfully blind, appeasers and collaborators cannot get enough of being played for fools. Here is Abbas’ latest stunt.
Abbas’ double game: He tips Fatah to quietly endorse Itamar murders
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report March 12, 2011, 10:35 PM (GMT+02:00)
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas received a stern ticking-off when he called Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Saturday night to condemn the savage murder Friday night by Palestinian terrorists of the parents and three small children of an Israeli family while they slept at their home at Itamar on the West Bank. The Prime Minister knew Abbas had quietly ordered heads of his Fatah organization to throw its support behind the atrocity – which was why Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad was careful earlier to denounce “violence by any quarter” only in general terms.
In his address to the nation Saturday night, Netanyahu accused Palestinian leaders of hypocritically mouthing peace slogans abroad while promoting anti-Israel incitation and propaganda on a daily basis in Palestinian schools and mosques. He warned that terrorists would not be allowed to determine the settlement map.
debkafile’s sources report that the Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) has been caught out playing a double game, which has yet to be fully clarified: Is he supporting an operation by the rival Islamist Hamas action so as to ride the Arab unrest galloping across the Middle East and boost his faltering prestige at home? Is he trying to stir up another Palestinian uprising (intifada)?
It would appear that Abu Mazen is opportunistically hoping to exploit the Palestinian street’s sympathy for the Arab uprisings and divert its anger over the corruption deeply entrenched in his regime by letting Fatah terrorists off the leash for a fresh wave of attacks on Israel that could fit the slogan of the Third Palestinian Uprising. Hamas adherents might even rally behind his leadership.
Israeli security chiefs fear that even if Abbas does not mean to let the violence go to those lengths, Fatah activists may take his sympathy for the Itamar outrage as the green light for more attacks. In the last two weeks, Palestinian organizations and left-wing elements in Israel and aboard have been pushing for a Palestinian Day of Rage on Tuesday, March 15 and for two days on March 20-21 the following week, which coincide with the Jewish festival of Purim. Israel’s army, intelligence and police have been placed on the highest level of preparedness for terrorist attacks, focusing on the West Bank, Jerusalem and mixed Jewish-Arab towns until after Purim. Security measures have also been clamped down on West Bank traffic in a major operation to net the killers. Itamar has been declared a closed military zone. Saturday night saw angry Jewish settlers blocking and stoning Palestinian vehicles.
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This is a familiar political game. For decades in America, anyone who dared raise the alarm about the Black Panthers, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan and their allies and followers, or about spiraling levels of crime, family disintegration and neglect of education in the Black community, was denounced as a racist implicitly denigrating all Blacks. In fact, it was the accusers themselves who were the true racists, lumping all Blacks together with the worst elements among them, while the alarm-raisers were desperately calling attention to the important and necessary distinctions between Blacks in general and the elements among them that were dangerous to everyone, Black and White alike.
Over the last twenty years or so–and I’m still not exactly sure how, when or why–this problem has diminished greatly, and today, it’s possible to make important and obvious points about radical Black leaders and worrying demographic trends among Blacks without necessarily being dismissed out of hand as a racist. Instead, people like Rep. King who raise the alarm about radical Muslim organizations like CAIR, MPAC and ISNA, and about spiraling levels of radicalism, anti-Americanism and mistreatment of women in the Muslim community, are denounced as “Islamophobes” implicitly denigrating all Muslims. And again, it is the accusers who are the true bigots, lumping all Muslims together with the worst elements among them, while the alarm-raisers desperately call attention to the important and necessary distinctions between Muslims in general and the elements among them who are dangerous to everyone, Muslim and non-Muslim alike.
Plus ca change…
Off topic, but shows Islamic insanity is the murdered family of 5 Jews by so called Palestinians. Reported by Drudge report, and Debkafile.
The baby was a girl, and four months old. They had their throats cut.
This is just another example of the religion of peace, and why America should not allow any Islamic immigration into these United States. Muslims might pray at a Mosque in New York, and then fly planes into buildings, or something.
ROPMA!
Mr. Guay – Israel takes great pain to hit only military targets, and the phosphorus bombs that are dropped were painstakingly engineered to cause mostly smoke and prevent horrible burns.
Are you one of those “The jews had it coming” final solution type guy or “The Holocaust never happened” type guy? My guess is you’re both.
On the other hand you are quite brave in stating your opinion as the Jews run this country and probably have a hit team headed to your location right now. If I were you, I would head to Gaza as soon as possible. Free speech is tolerated above all other things in Hamas and Hezbollah.
OK, here it is. I’ll help you guys out. In truth American Muslims in particular, and all Americans as well are all, or both, under a dire threat from Islamists terrorists and their promoters.
Here is an example. A while ago a Muslim cab driver was attacked by a white radical. The reports from eyewitnesses said there was some discussion and, then, suddenly, the white passenger put his hand, holding a knife, through the partition and started flaying about with the knife.He was flaying not stabbing. The driver suffered a few cuts, shock and fear.
What happened in the cab? Its clear. The passenger was trying to position his knife to cut the drivers throat. That is why the passenger spent more time frantically waving the knife, than he did stabbing. He was attempting a ritual Muslim killing reserved for traitors to Islam.
“First, Beinart writes that King “isn’t holding hearings on domestic terrorism; he’s holding hearings on domestic terrorism by one religious group.” This is wrong, says Beinart, because most American terrorism is not Muslim terrorism.”
American terrorism is not Muslim terrorism? What? How many Lutherins have flown planes into buildings in America? How many Methodists have stuffed explosives in their underwear and tried to blow up a plane? How many Jews have gone into an Army base like Fort Hood and slaughtered numerous individuals while shouting “God is great?” And how many Christian evangelicals have tried to blow up an SUV in Times Square these days? Oh, none you say? Well, either there is something wrong with the Muslim religion that allows and even encourages this sort of behavior, of Muslims simply have one of the worst Public Relations problems in the world.
Of course there is a problem with Muslims not only in America, but around the world. I’m just amazed that it has taken this long for Congress to even talk about the problem, even though it is not going to do anything about it. I would actually think that American Muslims who actually love this country would want to volunteer to do anything they could for it. I would imagine that they would want to denounce these terrorists and prove to the world that Islam really is the “religion of peace.” No, you don’t hear those cries of support for this country coming from the Muslim community? Well, if you do, it only took 10 years since 9/11 to convince them to say something about it.
Can we be protected from McVeighism, what are our defenses against Kazynskism, will or when does Rudolphism strike again, killing thousands and waging war for 1400 years. Yeah, sick ! The left has a desperate compulsion to separate themselves from Normal People. It proves their superiority, plus they must exercise their extreme hate, now at last in the open and out of control.
It’s the old story, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. In America the enemy is anybody who isn’t a leftist. This is so twisted as to be science fiction fantasy.
It won’t change, even after the next attack, or as the war goes on for years.
Statistically speaking; the #1 source of terroristic attacks in the United States is the radical enviromental movement. This has been true for decades. This is never to be discussed because radical enviromentalists vote Democrat.
I’m generally further to the left than the commentators on this site, but Peter Beinart makes me cringe. The last sentence of this article rings true to me: that Beinart offers platitudes instead of true analysis.
Good article.
PETER BEINART AND THE GOOD FIGHT
Though he wrote a book called “The Good Fight,” and has plenty of fight in him, Peter Beinart almost always chooses to fight on the bad and wrongheaded side of every political issue. Confused about the good he just can’t get the fight right.
Any mosque headed by an Imam who teaches that the Koran is the absolute, inerrant and final word of God is a Moslem extremist radicalizing his congregation with Mohammed’s vision of world conquest by sword or subversion. It’s really that simple. What percentage of the mosques do this nationally and worldwide? How many Imams and Moslems believe in Islamic supremacism and a Moslem world state as the divinely decreed end of human history? Only realists about Islam can bear the truth and are fighting the Good Fight. Unfortunately, fighting leftists like Peter Beinart isn’t one of them.
Mr. Radosh and Readers: Please go to website The Investigative Project on Terrorism. Scroll around and you will find article on what percentage US population is Muslim and what % of US terrormism crimes are committed by American Muslims. If you do not find it, e mail The Investigative Project on Terrorism and you will be sent link to the correct statistics. AMERICAN MUSLIMS ARE A TINY % OF US POPULATION AND RESPONSIBLE FOR A MEGA LARGE % OF US TERRORIM CRIMES. That alone shows Beinhart for the willful liar that he is.
Everything else in this Radosh article is wasted words. Peter King’s hearings on Muslim radicalization in the US were WAY, WAY past due. Muslim Americans are committing the vast majority of US terrorism crimes.
Lost me at:
…. “right-wing” “militias” that believe in attacking every agency of the federal government ….
…. are rarer than rocking horse poop!
Too bad Left-Wing ranters are not.
1. Face the threat head on. Declare war on Islam.
2. Expel ALL Muslims from any Government post.
3. Actively and openly search all Mosques and monitor their “religious” activities.
4. Those that don’t comply or found to be complicit are shut down, torn down or confiscated for community use.
5. Muslims that rise up to protest? Deport the bastards.
6. Stop admitting ALL Muslims into the country.
7. Shut down ALL Muslim Brotherhood front groups currently operating with impunity in the U.S.
8. Isolate and ostracize. Look how a far more drastic and violent approach is working for them, a backward, ignorant, repressive, intolerant society that is standing the modern, far more powerful, far more civilized West on its collective head or, more aptly, on its knees.
Last time I looked advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government was illegal but that apparently doesn’t apply when that advocacy is cloaked in the sinister shroud of a complete, judicial, cultural, political system masquerading as a “religion of peace.”
If the West does not cast off the blinders of political correctness, multiculturalism and blind religious tolerance and shed its propensity for self flagellation we will all be bowing towards Mecca or paying the Jizya, scrubbing Muslim out houses and eating their putrid, halal garbage. It’s gonna be too late to “turn the other cheek.” The West is rushing headlong down the narrow path of dhimmitude being effectively established by its entrenched, self imposed, knee jerk reaction to prolific Muslim outrage; it’s time for “an eye for an eye.”
We…will lose…unless we do what’s necessary.
Beinart is an exercise in self-promotion. It is doubtful he even takes himself seriously.
It might also be said that being Communist was not part of the Jewish religion, and there is no evidence of Jewish Temples being used for Communist incitement. It is known that Mosques are being used for Muslim incitement with teaching that Muslim duty is to become hard Jihadists to kill Americans, or soft Jihadists to weaken America from within.
We will soon have to determine if such action is constitutionally allowed under the first amendment that Congress shall make no law………prohibiting the free exercise thereof (of religion).
The reason for the high Jewish participation in the early Communist movement had less to do with socialism then with the idea that life for Jews would be better then under Tsarist rule. In the early days of the USSR – that was in fact true. Lenin did not tolerate antisemitism.
Slowdog, you missed this part of the Hamas charter:
“The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.”
Also noted that you are apparently A-OK with 3-month old babies having their throats slit as long as they are Jewish.
As for where your “tax dollars” are going my guess is there aren’t very many of them.
Slowdog, or maddog, or whatever his name is, also left out long passages in the psychopathic Hamas “charter” that are right out of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, blaming Jews for WWI and everything else wrong in the world. Glad to see this “dog” has revealed himself to be a rabid, unhinged Jew-baiter.
It is possible that slowdog is the same person as RtWingloosr at #2, whom I called a bad doggie. Same somwhat unusual use of our native lingo.