Thursday, September 17, 2009
J Street = Traitors 'R Us
by Steven Plaut
The Israeli and American Jewish supporters of Oslo have been asked to say
special Selichos prayers this year in light of the terrible catastrophes
inflicted upon Israel by the policies they have forced upon the country.
The new Oslo Selichos go something like this:
For the sin we committed when we forced Israel to commit Oslo and assured
the world that Arafat would pursue peace,
Please forgive us.
For the sin we committed when we forced Israel to commit Oslo and assured
the world that Hamas would be more of a threat to the PLO than to Israel,
Please forgive us.
For the sin we committed when we forced Israel to commit Oslo and assured
the Jews that Arafat would fight the Hamas and Islamic Jihad with no
Supreme Court or Betselem (to quote Rabin),
Please forgive us.
For the sin we committed when we forced Israel to commit Oslo and assured
Israel that hostility to Jews in the Arab and the Moslem media would
decrease,
Please forgive us.
For the sin we committed when we forced Israel to commit Oslo and assured
the Israelis that trade between Israel and Arab countries would flourish,
Please forgive us.
For the sin we committed when we forced Israel to commit Oslo and assured
Israel us that the Palestinian Authority would be disarmed,
Please forgive us.
For the sin we committed when we forced Israel to commit Oslo and assured
Israel that the PLO would cooperate strategically with the Israeli Defense
Force,
Please forgive us.
For the sin we committed when we forced Israel to commit Oslo and assured
Israel there would be an economic peace dividend,
Please forgive us.
For the sin we committed when we forced Israel to commit Oslo and assured
Israel that Israeli Arabs would demonstrate increasing moderation due to
the "peace process,
Please forgive us..
For the sin we committed when we forced Israel to commit Oslo and assured
Israel that the Hamas and Jihad would be persecuted and suppressed by the
PLO,
Please forgive us.
For the sin we committed when we forced Israel to commit Oslo and assured
Israel that PLO arms would never again be used against Jews,
Please forgive us.
For the sin we committed when we forced Israel to commit Oslo and assured
Israel that the PLO leadership would speak in terms of peace with the
Jews,
Please forgive us.
For the sin we committed when we forced Israel to commit Oslo and assured
Israel that the PLO would cease its efforts to delegitimize Zionism and
Israel,
Please forgive us.
For the sin we committed when we forced Israel to commit Oslo and assured
Israel the PLO would denounce and renounce anti-Semitism, Nazism and
Holocaust Denial,
Please forgive us.
For the sin we committed when we forced Israel to commit Oslo and assured
Israel that the PLO would introduce democracy into the Palestinian zones,
Please forgive us.
For the sin we committed when we forced Israel to commit Oslo and assured
Israel that the PLO would be forced to spend all its energies on resolving
domestic social and economic problems,
Please forgive us.
For the sin we committed when we forced Israel to commit Oslo and assured
Israel that the US would back Israel if the PLO reneged on its obligations
or displayed duplicity,
Please forgive us.
For the sin we committed when we forced Israel to commit Oslo and assured
Israel that the US would cease to pressure Israel to endanger its security
and fundamental interests,
Please forgive us.
For the sin we committed when we forced Israel to commit Oslo and assured
Israel that the Europeans would rush forward to support Israel,
Please forgive us.
For the sin we committed when we forced Israel to commit Oslo and assured
Israel that the Japanese and Saudis would pour money into regional
investments, including into Israel,
Please forgive us.
For the sin we committed when we forced Israel to commit Oslo and assured
Israel that the Egyptians would end all animosity towards Israel, Zionism
and Jews,
Please forgive us.
For the sin we committed when we forced Israel to commit Oslo and assured
Israel that the non-Arab Moslem countries would gush friendship for
Israel,
Please forgive us.
For the sin we committed when we forced Israel to commit Oslo and assured
Israel that Arab military expenditure would drop significantly,
Please forgive us.
For the sin we committed when we forced Israel to commit Oslo and assured
Israel that Arab verbal threats against Israel's existence would end,
Please forgive us.
For the sin we committed when we forced Israel to commit Oslo and assured
Israel that Nazi-like propaganda in Arab countries would end,
Please forgive us.
For the sin we committed when we forced Israel to commit Oslo and assured
Israel that the Israeli Left would lead the retreat from the Oslo
experiment it if proved to be not working,
Please forgive us.
For the sin we committed when we forced Israel to commit Oslo and assured
Israel that the PLO would never show itself as a tin-cup Third-World
kleptocracy if granted power,
Please forgive us.
For the sin we committed when we forced Israel to commit Oslo and assured
Israel that Jews remaining in Moslem countries would see their treatment
dramatically improved,
Please forgive us.
For the sin we committed when we forced Israel to commit Oslo and assured
Israel that Russia would act as a stabilizing force for peace,
Please forgive us.
For the sin we committed when we forced Israel to commit Oslo and assured
Israel that the majority of Palestinians would denounce violence and
terror,
Please forgive us.
For the sin we committed when we forced Israel to commit Oslo and assured
Israel that Israel Arabs would cease to support political parties
dedicated to eliminating Israel,
Please forgive us.
For the sin we committed when we forced Israel to commit Oslo and assured
Israel that Palestinian chants of In Fire and Blood will We Redeem
Palestine, "Death to the Jews", and "Massacre the Jews" would end,
Please forgive us.
For the sin we committed when we assured the world that Oslo would NEVER
lead to demands for negotiations concerning Israeli sovereignty over
Jerusalem, that Israel would never be asked to return to its 1949
Auschwitz borders, that the Jordan Valley, and Golan Heights would remain
Israel's security borders forever,
Please please please forgive us!!
2. More on the Campus Pogroms against the Jews:
http://www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/news/2712/the-campus-war-against-israel-and-the-jews
3. UCLA.s ex-Israeli pogromchik:
http://isracampus.org.il/third%20level%20pages/Editorial%20-%20StandWithUs%20-%20Gabriel%20Piterberg.htm
4. Israel.s Academic Fifth Column rallies for Gordon.s call for a boycott
against Israel:
http://isracampus.org.il/third%20level%20pages/Petitions%20-%20Israeli%20Academics%20support%20Neve%20Gordon%20and%20join%20the%20BDS.htm
5. Lord Haw Haw of Exeter:
http://isracampus.org.il/third%20level%20pages/Editorial%20-%20Lee%20Kaplan%20-%20Ilan%20Pappe%20-%20exports%20hatred%20and%20lies.htm
6. The UN.s Blood Libel (by Dersh):
http://frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=36325
7. J Street = Traitors 'R Us (An Anthology of articles exposing J
Street):
http://www.jewishpress.com/pageroute.do/40791
WHOSE SIDE IS J STREET REALLY ON?
By: Morton Klein
Date: Wednesday, September 16 2009
Is J Street a pro-Israel group? The lobbying organization never tires of
claiming it is.
Yet what pro-Israel group would invite a man to speak at its forthcoming
conference who has called for Israel's destruction, stating that "the
establishment by force, violence and terrorism of a Jewish state in
Palestine in 1948" was "unjust" and "a crime," and vowed to "work to
overturn the injustice"?
The man who signed this Sept. 17, 1993 statement by the Muslim Public
Affairs Council was its executive director, Salam Al-Marayati, who will be
speaking next month at J Street's Oct. 25-28 conference.
Marayati and MPAC have made numerous other hateful anti-Israel and
anti-American statements:
. A few hours after the 9/11 attacks, Marayati said on a radio show in Los
Angeles, "We should put the State of Israel on the suspect list" of
possible 9/11 perpetrators.
. After a suicide bombing at a Jerusalem pizzeria on Aug. 8, 2001, his
organization issued a statement calling the attack "the expected bitter
result of the reckless policy of Israeli assassination that did not spare
children and political figures."
. Marayati's group condemned the U.S. strikes against al Qaeda in
Afghanistan and Sudan following the bombings in 1998 of the U.S. embassies
in Kenya and Tanzania as "illegal, immoral and illogical."
. He has likened Israel's supporters to Hitler.
Marayati also has condemned France's fining of Roger Garaudy for Holocaust
denial as "persecution of his right to express an opinion" and in 1997
gave a chilling, anticipatory justification for anti-American terrorism,
saying, "Where Israel goes, our government follows.... What is important
is whether the American people are aware of and ready for the
consequences."
Some of these statements caused Marayati's 1999 appointment to a U.S.
congressional committee on terrorism to be rescinded.
J Street's invitation to Marayati makes one wonder whose side the
organization is on.
J Street pressures Israel to make concessions, yet says virtually nothing
specifically about the 16-year failure of the Fatah-controlled Palestinian
Authority to dismantle terrorist groups. The lobby group also said nothing
about Fatah's recent conference, which proclaimed the legitimacy of
terrorism against Israel and honored, by name, killers of Jews as heroes.
Additionally, J Street showed its animus toward Israel by citing polls
inaccurately to bolster its claim that Israelis and American Jews want
greater Israeli concessions and agree with President Obama's pressure on
Israel to stop Jews building in eastern Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria -
the land known as the West Bank.
In June, J Street's campaign director, Isaac Luria, misleadingly claimed,
"Israelis want the president to stand up to the settlers."
Luria said, "A poll recently showed that 52 percent of Israelis want a
freeze on settlement construction and 56 percent want Israeli Prime
Minister Netanyahu to agree to President Obama's call for an end to
settlement construction."
In fact, the Dahaf Institute poll to which Luria referred
actually showed that Israelis favor continued natural growth of Jewish
communities by 54 percent to 42 percent, and that they believe that
Obama's policies are not good for Israel by a margin of 53 percent to 26
percent.
J Street simply buried the evidence of actual support for natural growth
and cited only a contradictory general finding of support for a
construction freeze. More damning still, the only other partial truth in J
Street's claim - that 56 percent of respondents said they wanted Netanyahu
to agree to Obama's demands - left out the major point that they favored
this only if the alternative meant U.S. sanctions.
J Street misrepresents polling data and ignores other polls
that show majority Israeli and American Jewish opposition to Obama's
demands. For instance, a recent Smith Research Institute poll shows that
Israelis, by a decisive 69 percent to 27 percent margin, oppose freezing
construction within large Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria and that
only 4 percent of Israelis favor Obama's policies.
Additionally, a July Global Marketing Services poll of American Jews who
are Democrats shows 55 percent believe Obama is naive in thinking
Palestinians want peace. Only 27 percent supported Obama's promoting of a
Palestinian state and 52 percent said Israel should be allowed to build in
existing settlements.
While the poll also showed that 58 percent of Jewish Democrats believe
Obama is "doing a good job promoting peace in the Middle East," the
question isn't specific to Israel and may include Obama's policies on
Iraq, Iran, Egypt, etc. The poll also showed 55 percent of respondents
believe Obama is not "too tough on Israel" - but they disagree with
Obama's specific policies on Israel, as other answers in the poll
indicate.
Most disturbing, despite strong support by most Israeli and American Jews
for Israel's campaign last January to stop Hamas rocket attacks, J Street
opposed the operation. It has even challenged the adoption of more robust
sanctions against Iran.
All these issues have enhanced relevance in view of the fact that J Street
receives tens of thousands of dollars in donations from dozens of Arab and
Muslim Americans, according to the Federal Election Commission filings
cited by the Jerusalem Post, as well as money from individuals connected
to Palestinian and pro-Iranian advocacy groups.
