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Ten Ways To Tell if You’re an Anti-Semite (with apologies to David Letterman)

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10. You’re careful to specify that you’re not an anti-Semite, only anti-Zionist.

9. Your definition of a non-violent protest is one in which the Palestinians only throw rocks and Molotov cocktails.

8. You think Israel is a racist state because it’s mainly for Jews, but you don’t think the 52 Islamic states are racist because they’re mainly for Muslims.

7. You think BDS (Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions) just wants Israel to go back to its 1967 borders (that are in reality the 1949 Armistice lines).

6. You believe that the Mavi Marmara, one of the six ships sent from Turkey to break the Israeli blockade of Hamas-run Gaza, was just carrying aid to the Palestinians.

5. You believe that suicide bombing against Israeli civilians is okay, but you’re horrified at the Boston bombing.

4. You believe that Palestinians can do what they want to Israelis, but any counter measures by the Israelis are automatically war crimes.

3. You’re willing to speak out and volunteer for the Palestinian cause, but you wouldn’t do so for the Tibetan, Cypriote, Kurdish or other causes.

2. You feel that because you’re against many of the things the West does, including capitalism and intervention in Third World countries, that you automatically have to be against Israel, the invention of the West.

1. After reading the above nine reasons, you still think you’re only anti-Zionist.

Will There Ever Be Peace Between Israel and the Palestinians?

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If you really want to be depressed, contemplate the chance of success for peace between Israel and the Palestinians. The issues between them seem insurmountable.

As long as Israel holds the West Bank it is ruling a recalcitrant population. But if it withdraws to the 1967 borders, which are in reality the 1949 armistice lines, the narrow middle of the country could be cut in half by an Arab/Palestinian attack.

Israel is composed of leftists and secularists who are willing to withdraw
from some or all of the West Bank. It is also composed of the right and the ultra-religious, some of whom are willing to live in peace in the West Bank with the Palestinians, whether the area is called Judaea and Samaria or Palestine.

The Palestinians seem to want the West Bank Judenrein, something it was not before the Jordanians invaded in 1948. Given the current realities, it is not possible to get 500,000 religious and nationalistic Jews to withdraw without an Israeli civil war.

Based on history, if Israel does withdraw, the future of peace is less than assured.
When Israel withdrew from Lebanon, it got Hezbollah; when it withdrew from Gaza,
it got Hamas. If it withdraws from the West Bank, it could get a militarized Palestine
importing arms and rockets from Syria, Lebanon and Gaza. If Jordan falls to the
majority Palestinian inhabitants, the future is bleak for Israel.

When the Palestinians speak in English, they proclaim that Israel must withdraw
to the 1967 borders. When they speak in Arabic, they frequently say that the Jewish state of Israel must be destroyed and that not one inch of the area can ever be in Jewish hands.

The western press and many of their reporters who lean to the left always seem to favor the underdog. Israel is far stronger than the Palestinians, so there is little doubt of their allegiance. The UN, with a core of Arab and other third-world countries, is understandably anti-Israel, sometimes even shading into anti-Jewish. With more than twenty wars going on between Islamic extremists and what they consider to be infidels, it is surprising that the UN mostly criticizes Israel. Or maybe not.

With Israel’s hundreds of nuclear and other sophisticated weapons, you would have
to be insane to try to destroy it. The Arab terrorist groups must know what the
endgame would be. The question is: Are they fanatical enough to try it anyway?

Justice and Freedom Deteriorating in Palestine

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In the past month the Palestinian Authority has been repeatedly interfering in the affairs of journalists and judges. Five journalists have been arrested this month by the Palestinian Authority security forces. The Palestinian Authority claimed that the journalists were inciting against the PA leadership, and were supporting Hamas. Two of the journalists still remain in jail.

One of the journalists, Walid Khaled, was ordered to be released by a judge, but the Palestinian Authority has so far refused to comply.

The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate called for the journalists’ release, and warned that freedom of expression had “seriously deteriorated” in the West Bank.

Palestinian judges have recently gone on strike to protest the Palestinian Authority’s repeated attempts to interfere in the judicial system. Hasan Khraisheh, deputy speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, said that the Palestinian Authority was trying to seize control over the judiciary system by appointing its supporters to senior positions.

The Palestinian Authority has tried to to install the justice minister as attorney-general, and has tried to pass laws without consulting the PLC, both of which would violate the constitution.

“We want to be fully independent in our work“, said Ibrahim Amr, chairman of the Palestinian Judges’ Society. “We don’t want anyone or any party to interfere with our work.” He added, “This marks the beginning of the collapse of the Palestinian judicial system“.

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The Tragedy of Rachel Corrie

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A few weeks ago an Israeli Court decreed that Israel was not responsible for the death of International Solidarity Movement activist Rachel Corrie. Corrie was killed a decade ago trying to prevent an Israeli bulldozer from leveling Palestinian houses near underground tunnels by the border of Gaza and Egypt during the Second Intifada. Those on the left will say that she was a martyr to the cause; those on the right that she got what she deserved. It seems to me that she was a troubled young lady who was used by those around her for their own ends. She was in a war zone and people — militants, reporters or innocents frequently die.

We do know that the ISM believes Israel is an illegal state and deserves to be destroyed. We know that it and/or she placed herself in harm’s way. We also know that a dead martyr is far more powerful than a living one.There are two photos of her that I think show who she really was. In the first, she is burning a mock American flag surrounded by a multitude of young Palestinians. She seems to be screaming and her face is apparently contorted with hate. In the second, she is giving an interview shortly before her death. She looks worried, as if she is in way over her head.

Rachel Corrie - Flag Burning

Rachel Corrie - Interview

The tragedy of Rachel Corrie is a young woman full of promise, however misguided, who was never allowed to grow up and see the world as it actually is. Over the past 10 years, she has been made into a plastic saint by the left and a whore literally servicing Hamas by the right. I believe she was a young, idealistic, confused woman who has been used by many, including the ISM, the Palestinians, the left and even her own parents, to make her something she was not. I feel that she will never have a full life because the ideology of others was considered more important than her life.