My new column, “The Final Solution to the Jewish State,” is about “archetype Amalekites,” who dabble in “Palestinian replacement theology, speak of the existence of Israel as a sin,” and promote “the concept of the Palestinian Jesus.” They are “pirating ancient Jewish history by superimposing Palestinian fiction on it,” and are “engaged in the ultimate identity theft so as to bring about the end of the Jewish state as we know it.”
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Abu Mazen—A Man of Peace?
In my last column, “Qassam Rockets ‘R’ Us,” I pointed out that Abbas (aka Abu Mazen), Israel’s “partner in peace, signed an accord with Hamas this week that—supports armed action and terrorism against Israel and does not restrict ‘resistance’ to areas occupied by Israel in 1967.’ Retired Ambassador Yoram Ettinger offers a precis of this accord (known as the “Prisoners’ Document”), and fills in some of the blanks our media malpractitioners refrain from reporting:
Notwithstanding Abu Mazen’s seemingly moderate appearance, his embrace of the “Prisoners’ Document” has reaffirmed the fundamentals of his own hate-education: idolizing homicide bombers, the “claim of return”, terrorism and the inadmissibility of the Jewish State.
1. FIVE LEADING TERRORISTS compiled the “Prisoners’ Document”, which has been embraced by Abu Mazen: Fatah’s Marwan Barghouti, serving 5 terms of life imprisonment, Hamas’ Abd Al-Khaliq Al-Natsheh, Islamic Jihad’s Bassam Al- Saadi, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine’s Abd Al-Rahim Mallouh and Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine’s Mustafa Badarneh.
2. THE GOAL of the “Document” is to restore coordination between the PLO and Hamas, while adhering to the fundamentals of the Palestinian attitude toward the “Zionist Entity”. The goal is not to advance peace with Israel, but to clarify that “Palestinian Unity” supersedes any agreement signed with Israel.
3. THE “CLAIM OF RETURN” by Palestinian refugees to the pre-1967 area of Israel is emphasized five times in the “Document”. The “Claim of Return” is a euphemism for the inadmissibility of the Jewish State.
4. THE STAGE-BY-STAGE POLICY, which was adopted by the PLO in 1974, has been reaffirmed. The “document” calls for the establishment of an independent Palestinian State in the “1967 area”, without withdrawing claims to the “Pre-1967 area” a provisional stage/accord.
5. TERRORISM IS ENCOURAGED by calling for the “widening the circles of resistance” and for the “release of all prisoners” held by Israel “by all means”. These prisoners are held for terrorism and not for theft and burglary. Precedents determine that the terms “by all means” and “resistance” are code words for terrorism, including the abduction of Israelis as bargaining chips.
6. HOMICIDE BOMBING IS HERALDED by urging support of “those who bore the burden of resistance, in particular the martyrs’ families”. “Martyrs” is a common reference, by Palestinians, to homicide bombers.
7. PLO-HAMAS COOPERATION IS HIGHLIGHTED by calling for the implementation of the March 2005 Cairo Accord, which was the latest in a series of PLO-Hamas understandings, engineered by Abu Mazen since the signing of the Oslo Accord. The understandings state that “Palestinian Unity” and Palestinian national claims—especially the “claim of return”—supersede any accord with Israel.
8. ABU MAZEN is the architect of Palestinian hate-education in schools, mosques and official media—the most authentic reflection of his vision, and a manufacturing line of homicide-bombing. Notwithstanding Abu Mazen’s seemingly moderate appearance, his embrace of the “Prisoners’ Document” has reaffirmed the fundamentals of his own hate-education: idolizing homicide bombers, the “claim of return”, terrorism and the inadmissibility of the Jewish State.
‘Pallywood’ Strikes Again
As Mark Twain once quipped, “One of the most startling differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.” Who puts this truth to practice better than the Palestinians? Okay, mainstream media do too. They think there’s nothing even remotely fishy about a young Gazan schoolgirl, having allegedly just lost her family, practically suctioned to a TV camera, directing the crew to “film, film” her in her “grief.”
Investigations reveal that “the Gaza beach tragedy” is shaping up to be another Palestinian hoax, destined to take its place alongside the Jenin “massacre” fable and the Mohammed Al-Dura case. If you don’t know of those deceptions (and many others), it’s because the media—mainstream and other—don’t publish retractions when it comes to Israel.
Does anyone remember one notorious, rather-representative video, briefly screened on TV (so briefly as to be almost subliminal) at the time of the Jenin libel? A couple of fellow “icons of the Palestinian struggle” (which is how the NYT dubbed the actress debuting on the Gaza beach) had directed the usually complicit cameramen to film a funeral procession. The corpse, which was being lugged by a group of aspiring movie extras, was mistakenly dropped from the stretcher, only to rise from the dead and scurry away.
The Jenin massacre saw some very skilled Palestinian propagandists—the bonny Raghida Dergham of Al Hayat, and the beguiling legal adviser, Diana Buttu—beat on breast over hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Palestinians allegedly killed by the IDF in an anti-terrorism operation. Even when Kadoura Moussa, then-Fatah director for the northern West Bank, tallied only 56 battle casualties, the media continued to speak of the “Jenin Massacre.”
Yeah, that’s the way the Palestinians and their protégés roll.
Concerning the new symbol of the M.O.P.E (Most Oppressed People Ever AKA the Palestinians): Once the gush and tosh subsided, the following facts emerged (A doff of the hat to HonestReproting.com):
“It is now becoming clear that, despite the claims of the Palestinians and the international media’s rush to blame Israel, the deaths of seven Palestinian civilians on a beach in Gaza on 9 June were not caused by the IDF. Investigations by the IDF and others over the past few days have revealed new evidence that a Hamas mine was most likely the cause of the beach blast:
1) Shrapnel removed from two of the wounded Palestinians evacuated to Israeli hospitals was not from Israeli-made ordnance.
2) No large crater was evident on the beach as would be expected from the impact of an artillery shell landing from above. The blast site would suggest the likelihood of a mine exploding from below the sand rather than above.
3) The IDF fired six shells towards the Gaza area, one of which remained unaccounted for. All of the shells were fired, however, more than 10 minutes before the blast that killed the Palestinians.
4) Palestinian Television broadcast doctored scenes showing file footage of Israeli naval vessels shelling Gaza, interspersed with video of the beach victims, despite the fact that the Israeli Navy was not responsible for any shelling at the time. Click here to see the footage courtesy of Palestinian Media Watch.
5) Suspicions were initially raised by the Palestinian refusal to cooperate with Israeli investigators and the remarkably swift cleansing of evidence from the blast scene by Hamas gunmen who arrived shortly after the incident. Palestinian spokespeople usually display parts of Israeli shells to the international media – but not this time.
6) Israeli intelligence suggests that Hamas had mined the beach area in order to prevent Israeli naval commandos from landing there as part of anti-terror operations to prevent Qassam missile launches.”
Of his people, Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, that most perceptive Palestinian intellectual, said this: “We’re mediocre, and in the end maybe that very mediocrity is what’s going to beat the Israelis, for all their brilliance.” He was right. Thanks to the power of Palestinian propaganda and its tentacular support system, Abu-Lughod’s people continue to prevail. –ILANA
'Pallywood' Strikes Again
As Mark Twain once quipped, “One of the most startling differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.” Who puts this truth to practice better than the Palestinians? Okay, mainstream media do too. They think there’s nothing even remotely fishy about a young Gazan schoolgirl, having allegedly just lost her family, practically suctioned to a TV camera, directing the crew to “film, film” her in her “grief.”
Investigations reveal that “the Gaza beach tragedy” is shaping up to be another Palestinian hoax, destined to take its place alongside the Jenin “massacre” fable and the Mohammed Al-Dura case. If you don’t know of those deceptions (and many others), it’s because the media—mainstream and other—don’t publish retractions when it comes to Israel.
Does anyone remember one notorious, rather-representative video, briefly screened on TV (so briefly as to be almost subliminal) at the time of the Jenin libel? A couple of fellow “icons of the Palestinian struggle” (which is how the NYT dubbed the actress debuting on the Gaza beach) had directed the usually complicit cameramen to film a funeral procession. The corpse, which was being lugged by a group of aspiring movie extras, was mistakenly dropped from the stretcher, only to rise from the dead and scurry away.
The Jenin massacre saw some very skilled Palestinian propagandists—the bonny Raghida Dergham of Al Hayat, and the beguiling legal adviser, Diana Buttu—beat on breast over hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Palestinians allegedly killed by the IDF in an anti-terrorism operation. Even when Kadoura Moussa, then-Fatah director for the northern West Bank, tallied only 56 battle casualties, the media continued to speak of the “Jenin Massacre.”
Yeah, that’s the way the Palestinians and their protégés roll.
Concerning the new symbol of the M.O.P.E (Most Oppressed People Ever AKA the Palestinians): Once the gush and tosh subsided, the following facts emerged (A doff of the hat to HonestReproting.com):
“It is now becoming clear that, despite the claims of the Palestinians and the international media’s rush to blame Israel, the deaths of seven Palestinian civilians on a beach in Gaza on 9 June were not caused by the IDF. Investigations by the IDF and others over the past few days have revealed new evidence that a Hamas mine was most likely the cause of the beach blast:
1) Shrapnel removed from two of the wounded Palestinians evacuated to Israeli hospitals was not from Israeli-made ordnance.
2) No large crater was evident on the beach as would be expected from the impact of an artillery shell landing from above. The blast site would suggest the likelihood of a mine exploding from below the sand rather than above.
3) The IDF fired six shells towards the Gaza area, one of which remained unaccounted for. All of the shells were fired, however, more than 10 minutes before the blast that killed the Palestinians.
4) Palestinian Television broadcast doctored scenes showing file footage of Israeli naval vessels shelling Gaza, interspersed with video of the beach victims, despite the fact that the Israeli Navy was not responsible for any shelling at the time. Click here to see the footage courtesy of Palestinian Media Watch.
5) Suspicions were initially raised by the Palestinian refusal to cooperate with Israeli investigators and the remarkably swift cleansing of evidence from the blast scene by Hamas gunmen who arrived shortly after the incident. Palestinian spokespeople usually display parts of Israeli shells to the international media – but not this time.
6) Israeli intelligence suggests that Hamas had mined the beach area in order to prevent Israeli naval commandos from landing there as part of anti-terror operations to prevent Qassam missile launches.”
Of his people, Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, that most perceptive Palestinian intellectual, said this: “We’re mediocre, and in the end maybe that very mediocrity is what’s going to beat the Israelis, for all their brilliance.” He was right. Thanks to the power of Palestinian propaganda and its tentacular support system, Abu-Lughod’s people continue to prevail. –ILANA