Zionist Conspiracy

1. Actor Will Smith to be granted tenure at Ben Gurion University?
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3485985,00.html

2. Ah the Knesset, the body whose legislation this week is always
based on the headlines last week but never on thought. Last week two old
women in Jerusalem were beaten up by burglars in their homes. Earlier
other elderly have been hurt by burglars. So the Knesset comes to the
rescue and the Knesset Members get their Kodak moments. Yesterday the
Knesset proposed assaulting an elderly person a crime with considerably
harsher punishments, longer jail times, than murdering the same person.

You realize what this means? A burglar breaks into auntie's flat and
hits her, while stealing some cash or silverware. But then the crook
thinks to himself, "Hmmm, I am now facing enormous time in jail for this,
but if I just murder her and get caught, I will do a lot less jail time."

So what do you think the burglar will decide?

3. Media bias during Xmas against Israel:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3486144,00.html

4. From page 6 in

http://www.afsi.org/OUTPOST/2007/Outpost_2007_12.pdf

(newsletter of
Americans for a Safe Israel)

Farewell Israel: Bush, Iran and The Revolt of Islam, Written and Directed
by Joel Gilbert
Reviewed by Rael Jean Isaac
Joel Gilbert has pulled off a remarkable tour de force: in "Farewell
Israel" he has produced a technically sophisticated, visually imaginative,
scholarly documentary that manages in the space of 145 minutes to
investigate the belief system and history of Islam, the development of the
Arab-Israel conflict (more accurately the Muslim-Jewish conflict) and the
aftermath of 9/11. The documentary's enormous achievement is in bringing
all this together to show incontrovertibly the total misunderstanding of
Islam that shapes the policy follies of the West in general and the U.S.
and Israel in particular. The potentially deadly results are summed up in
the foreboding title.Farewell Israel.

Following a striking opening in which Iran's Ahmadinejad calls for "Death
to Israel," the first half of the documentary offers a crash course on
Islam, which Gilbert makes visually interesting through the skilful use of
Islamic art, maps and graphics. (Himself a musician, Gilbert also makes
good use of an original score.) This first section is centered visually by
a mosque, with doors which Gilbert opens to reveal facets of Islamic
doctrine and history. While lengthy and dense with information, this part
of the documentary is essential to understanding more recent events. For
example, Gilbert shows how Mohammad's conflicts with the Jewish tribes of
the Arabian peninsula formed the basis for the development of Islam's
relationship with both Jews and Christians, both tolerated in an inferior
dhimmi status to a superior Islam.

Gilbert describes the amazingly rapid conquests of Islam (within a century
its empire grew to be larger than the Roman empire at its height) which
fortified Believers in their sense of Islam's superiority, the Golden Age
of Islamic cultural achievements, and the crushing blow to Believers when
the West, thanks to its growing technological edge, first turned back
Islam from its European conquests and eventually assumed imperial control
of much of the Islamic heartland. Given the framework of Islamic beliefs,
all of this was difficult to understand and impossible for Muslims to
accept. The feeling grew that Islam had lost its way and would have to
turn inward, that in the phrase that has become famous, "Islam is the
solution!"

Gilbert depicts the rise of Zionism and shows how the establishment of
Israel and the military victory over the combined Arab states by the
despised Jews posed an unbearable challenge to Islam that had to be
reversed at all costs. By conveying the tremendous shock posed to Islamic
beliefs, which were scrupulously laid out in the first part of the
documentary, Gilbert is able to make the viewer understand Islamic
attitudes and assertions that otherwise seem wildly overstated and hard to
credit seriously. For example, Egypt's Nasser is shown declaring that
Israel is the greatest crime in the history of mankind, while Muslim
religious leaders fulminate that Israel must be destroyed lest Zionism
succeed in replacing Islam and destroying Islamic identity.

But the key theme of this film is the lethal misunderstanding of the
Islamic world view and its goals which bedevils Israeli policies as well
as those of the United States. One of my favorite passages in the film,
because it typifies the theme so perfectly, is the juxtaposition of a huge
peace rally in Israel, with blue and white balloons flying and Israeli
singer Miri Aloni belting out Shir Lashalom (Song to the Peace) with
Arafat's urging his people to fight on. The camera goes back and forth,
interlarding snippets from the Israeli rally with Arafat's incitement. The
singer thrusts the microphone first before Peres, then Rabin, standing on
the platform with her, who join in singing "Don't just say the day will
arrive, cheer only for peace" while Arafat shouts "Fight, fight, fight"
and "Jihad, jihad, jihad" and "We will march to Jerusalem."

In another fine section, Gilbert examines Sadat's strategy in coming to
Jerusalem in 1977, the performance that so bedazzled the Jews and indeed
the entire world. We see him address the Knesset and Gilbert shows how
Sadat's words had different meanings than the way they were understood by
his audience. (This too is an important underlying theme of the
documentary.the way in which the same words, including "peace," "freedom,"
"tyranny" are understood differently by Islam and the West.)

Sadat keeps saying that peace must be based on "justice" (Gilbert notes
that he uses the word fifteen times in that one speech) and defines
justice (if only his listeners had paid more attention) as Israel's
disappearance. "Justice," says Sadat, requires Israel to give up all the
territories taken in the 1967 conflict and the return of Palestinian Arab
refugees. Sadat also proclaims that Jewish independence in Palestine is
illegitimate in its totality ("the land did not belong to you"). As
Gilbert notes, the "peace and justice" which Sadat offers Israel in that
famous speech is really only dhimmi rights in a Muslim Palestine.

And so, at the end of the Camp David negotiations, when we see Begin
declaring "peace now celebrates a great victory" we can understand how
Sadat saw the situation in a wholly different way . Islam had taken a
major step in reducing Israel's territory on the path to her elimination.

Gilbert has assembled some wonderful historical footage. As Nazism
gathered force, we see Vladimir Jabotinsky testifying on behalf of Jewish
statehood before the British Royal Commission in 1936, delivering those
famous lines in which he compared the claims of the Arabs and Jews to
Palestine to the claims of appetite as against the claims of starvation.
And, we see Chaim Weizmann and David Ben Gurion testifying with
surprisingly little conviction to that same commission, the first saying
Jewish statehood might have to be put off for "hundreds of years." We also
see the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini (Arafat's uncle and
Adolph Eichmann's close friend) inspecting the Bosnian Moslem troops he
had mobilized in Hitler's service.

Coming closer to the present, Gilbert shows how Arafat (banished to
Tunisia, discredited and defeated in the wake of the first Gulf war when
the PLO sided with Saddam) was rescued from oblivion by Israel's Labor
government. In another visual gem, Gilbert shows Peres, in the aftermath
of Oslo, echoing Sadat's demands for Israeli withdrawals one by one, this
time as Israeli policy. Israel, Gilbert notes, was now in agreement with
Sadat's diplomatic strategy "of stages" against her, believing this would
bring peace! And Gilbert produces some fantastic recent footage of a
hapless Peres falling asleep as he is asked about Iran's intentions and
coming to consciousness looking as lost and foolish as he . and the
government he represents . has come to be.

Gilbert rightly sums up the Netanyahu years with a single pithy sentence:
promising to revoke the Oslo Accords, he simply continued them at a slower
pace and having accomplished nothing was replaced by Labor.
Where does the peace process come into all this? Nowhere at all. Gilbert
demonstrates conclusively that there is, and can be, no peace process that
leaves Israel standing as a Jewish sovereign state. Gilbert shows how
after 300 years of decline Islam is undergoing a revival, and central to
that revival is the rock-solid determination that the land occupied by
Israel be returned to Dar al-Islam, the territory of Islam. Gilbert says
"Islam must reacquire Palestine to redeem itself from Westernization on
the path to successful Islamic revival."

But it is not only Israel that misreads Islam. Gilbert takes us into the
aftermath of 9/11 in which he argues that President Bush fell into the
Islamist trap. In a sobering, if indirect slap at the "Bush doctrine,"
i.e. bringing democracy to the Middle East -- and the doctrine's
neoconservative supporters -- Gilbert argues that given the current
"Revolt of Islam" genuinely free elections will only bring Islamists to
power. This is precisely what happened in the Palestinian elections which
the Bush administration insisted be held. With his talent for unearthing
the perfect film clip, Gilbert shows Chamberlain on his return from Munich
in 1938, but rather than seeing him pronounce the famous sentence
promising "peace in our time," we see England's Prime Minister say that
after his meeting with Herr Hitler he feels satisfied that "each of us
fully understands what is in the mind of the other." What better way of
making the point that Bush has as much insight into Islam (the religion of
peace!) as Chamberlain had into the mind of Herr Hitler?

Gilbert makes no bones that Israel.and the Jews of the world not far
behind.will bear the most lethal consequences of Islam's obsession with
destroying Israel on the path to Islamic revival. But he offers scant
comfort to the West. The documentary concludes with Gilbert's warning that
the loss of Israel will erode, not enhance, the West's security, for the
goal of the revived Islamist movement that we see enunciated by
Ahmadinejad . bringing the whole world to Islam . will now only be pressed
the harder.

I have one small cavil and that concerns the documentary's subtitle "Bush,
Iran and the Revolt of Islam." In terms of accurately reflecting what the
film is about, a better subtitle would focus on the West's
misunderstanding of Islam.

Most documentaries are specially suited to a particular audience, but in
this case the audience should rightfully be huge. For starters, every
single reader of Outpost should see and see again this documentary, for
there is no way to fully absorb it in one viewing. (This much is easily
accomplished by ordering the DVD from AFSI.) It should be required viewing
for every politician and bureaucrat, beginning with the President and his
Secretary of State. It should be seen by every American who thinks Islam
is similar to Christianity or Judaism. It should be seen by everyone who
believes there is such a thing as a Middle East peace process.

Perhaps most important of all, every Israeli needs to see this documentary
(which means the narration must be translated into Hebrew). Farewell
Israel cannot fail to wake up at least some people from the delusional
somnolent state into which most of the population has lapsed. But perhaps
the last word belongs to a viewer from San Diego who wrote into the
documentary's website: "Where it should go is on national TV and replayed
at least three times a week for a year."

MA'ARIV
December 14, 2007

Khalas Yisrael ( the end of Israel )
An imitator of Bob Dylan, who is also a friend of Tsakhi Ha'Negbi,
produced an Apocalyptic-right-wing movie that describes the expected
destruction of Israel.

By Ron Maiberg

With the assumption that this is the last year of a Republican in the
white house, it would be advisable that Israel should enjoy a few last
moments of charity. In the coming years it will be difficult to produce
movies like "Farewell Israel - |Bush, Iran, and the Islamic Uprising".
This documentary DVD that went public two weeks ago and caught my eye on
the internet is something that independent producers in free countries
don't produce anymore. The viewer is left at the end of 145 long and
exhausting minutes with the feeling of having seen either a propaganda
piece aimed at a very particular audience, or a movie for internal use of
one of the western espionage organizations that was not destroyed and had
fallen into "the wrong hands". In contrast to the Bush's disconcerting
flip flop on Iran's nuclear program in view of the upcoming elections,
"Farewell Israel" has no uncertainties and reservations in it's
description of the apocalyptic reality - using cinematic techniques that
were thought to have died with Lenny Riefenstahl. Islamic intention to
cause great harm to the west and to destroy Israel is rooted in the
definition of Islam's existence.

When I asked Joel Gilbert, the director of the movie, whether he means
total physical destruction, he answered that from Islam's point of view
the Jews in Israel can find a way to continue to exist as they were always
meant to exist - under the rule of Islam and its total hegemony in the
region. Israelis are very familiar with what this movie promotes - in one
version or another - from their earliest history and from their first
encounters in elementary school. What stirs a heavy feeling of concern are
the purposeful hands that sculpted this movie, the money that funded it
and the complete embrace of the Israeli right . of course, a legitimate
endeavor.

It's even difficult to translate the title into Hebrew. Farewell is more
Shalom than Lehitra'ot; and Shalom is a questionable word in this context.
It's one of those cases where we "pay" for the double-meaning of the word
"Shalom".

MA'ARIV
December 14, 2007

Khalas Yisrael ( the end of Israel )
An imitator of Bob Dylan, who is also a friend of Tsakhi Ha'Negbi,
produced an Apocalyptic-right-wing movie that describes the expected
destruction of Israel.

By Ron Maiberg

With the assumption that this is the last year of a Republican in the
white house, it would be advisable that Israel should enjoy a few last
moments of charity. In the coming years it will be difficult to produce
movies like "Farewell Israel - |Bush, Iran, and the Islamic Uprising".
This documentary DVD that went public two weeks ago and caught my eye on
the internet is something that independent producers in free countries
don't produce anymore. The viewer is left at the end of 145 long and
exhausting minutes with the feeling of having seen either a propaganda
piece aimed at a very particular audience, or a movie for internal use of
one of the western espionage organizations that was not destroyed and had
fallen into "the wrong hands". In contrast to the Bush's disconcerting
flip flop on Iran's nuclear program in view of the upcoming elections,
"Farewell Israel" has no uncertainties and reservations in it's
description of the apocalyptic reality - using cinematic techniques that
were thought to have died with Lenny Riefenstahl. Islamic intention to
cause great harm to the west and to destroy Israel is rooted in the
definition of Islam's existence.

When I asked Joel Gilbert, the director of the movie, whether he means
total physical destruction, he answered that from Islam's point of view
the Jews in Israel can find a way to continue to exist as they were always
meant to exist - under the rule of Islam and its total hegemony in the
region. Israelis are very familiar with what this movie promotes - in one
version or another - from their earliest history and from their first
encounters in elementary school. What stirs a heavy feeling of concern are
the purposeful hands that sculpted this movie, the money that funded it
and the complete embrace of the Israeli right . of course, a legitimate
endeavor.

It's even difficult to translate the title into Hebrew. Farewell is more
Shalom than Lehitra'ot; and Shalom is a questionable word in this context.
It's one of those cases where we "pay" for the double-meaning of the word
"Shalom".

MA'ARIV
December 14, 2007

Khalas Yisrael ( the end of Israel )
An imitator of Bob Dylan, who is also a friend of Tsakhi Ha'Negbi,
produced an Apocalyptic-right-wing movie that describes the expected
destruction of Israel.

By Ron Maiberg

With the assumption that this is the last year of a Republican in the
white house, it would be advisable that Israel should enjoy a few last
moments of charity. In the coming years it will be difficult to produce
movies like "Farewell Israel - |Bush, Iran, and the Islamic Uprising".
This documentary DVD that went public two weeks ago and caught my eye on
the internet is something that independent producers in free countries
don't produce anymore. The viewer is left at the end of 145 long and
exhausting minutes with the feeling of having seen either a propaganda
piece aimed at a very particular audience, or a movie for internal use of
one of the western espionage organizations that was not destroyed and had
fallen into "the wrong hands". In contrast to the Bush's disconcerting
flip flop on Iran's nuclear program in view of the upcoming elections,
"Farewell Israel" has no uncertainties and reservations in it's
description of the apocalyptic reality - using cinematic techniques that
were thought to have died with Lenny Riefenstahl. Islamic intention to
cause great harm to the west and to destroy Israel is rooted in the
definition of Islam's existence.

When I asked Joel Gilbert, the director of the movie, whether he means
total physical destruction, he answered that from Islam's point of view
the Jews in Israel can find a way to continue to exist as they were always
meant to exist - under the rule of Islam and its total hegemony in the
region. Israelis are very familiar with what this movie promotes - in one
version or another - from their earliest history and from their first
encounters in elementary school. What stirs a heavy feeling of concern are
the purposeful hands that sculpted this movie, the money that funded it
and the complete embrace of the Israeli right . of course, a legitimate
endeavor.

It's even difficult to translate the title into Hebrew. Farewell is more
Shalom than Lehitra'ot; and Shalom is a questionable word in this context.
It's one of those cases where we "pay" for the double-meaning of the word
"Shalom".

I asked Gilbert why does such a pro-Israeli movie "dress-itself-up" with
such a provocative name like "Bye Bye Israel," and Gilbert said, "things
have more than one meaning and there are pros and cons on each side" ...
could be.

But there is nothing ambiguous in the DVD-cover image of the Arab fighter
in a kefiyah holding a loaded Kalashnikov. The movie leads us, throughout
the 145 minutes of didactic, monotonous, decisive and assertive
statements, to the inevitable conclusion: Khalas Israel. Unless Israel
wakes up, together with the sleepy West, to the recognition that this is
what Islam commands according to its sources, its Holy Scriptures and its
prophets: Conquer the Jews.

Gilbert, who started the distribution of the DVD two weeks ago and is
negotiating with TV networks to show on TV, is . among other things . the
leader of an impersonation of Bob Dylan musical group. This is the type
of band that presents an evening of Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Jimi
Hendrix songs as impersonators. This "schtik" has been running for about
ten years by now, with Gilbert as Bob Dylan. He appeared all over the
world already. The band is called "Highway 61 Revisited". Through the
years, it was joined by Scarlet Rivera, Rob Stoner and Bruce Longhorn .
musicians that played with Dylan. They also composed the soundtrack for
the movie. Gilbert has never gained Dylan's personal recognition, but the
two hold similar political opinions.

It is easy to see how this movie can become a hit with the Israel
supporting Christian right. Gilbert claims he produced this movie by
himself. However, this is quite an expensive production, with respectable
quality, animation, and archival material which in itself costs (in
general) thousands of dollars per minute of broad time. For those of us
born into this bubbling "publishing world" stew, Gilbert is one more
violin out of tune in the philharmonic. The problem is that Gilbert's
professional credentials are quite meager for carrying such a heavy
intellectual load. He helped research a book on Jabotinsky for Shmuel
Katz; he learned about Islam from Eli Keddouri; he wrote a book that is a
basis for a movie; and he is a friend of Tsakhi Ha'Negbi. Not exactly Dan
Meridor, lacking self restraint. Katz and Ge'ulah Cohen are mentioned in
the movie without relation to the context.

Gilbert's major villains are the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin Al-Husseini,
that according to Gilbert is among those who brought about the Holocaust,
the deceased Anwar Sadat that took everything while giving nothing and was
murdered by "Believers", and obviously, Achmadinejad, and in a way that is
not at all amusing, Shimon Peres and Yitzak Rabin (we had an unconvincing
conversation on the subject). Peres is presented by Gilbert yawning and
waking up from a deep sleep in order to answer a question. The murder of
Rabin is mentioned as a footnote in history.

This is a season in which the shelves of Israel and the Middle East fill
up with a multitude of books and movies such that the natural inclination
is to ignore them. Many of these products are "suicide bombs" . they
explode in the bag on the way home.

4. This is cute:

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