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Blaming the Jews
Worm Hole  -

Crypt
Myths of Hatred

Back in 1982 there were some horrible massacres at two Palestinian refugee
camps in Lebanon. Christian Lebanese Arabs actually did the killing; but the Israeli army
was in the neighborhood, and was responsible, at some theoretical level, for keeping the
peace in the zone that included the camps. Because of this, the Israelis took much of the
brunt of the world's outrage at the killings. Commenting on these events, the Israeli Prime
Minister, Menachem Begin, remarked in disgust: "Goyim kill goyim, and they blame the Jews!"
(Derbyshire -
National Review)

Blame the Jews!

There are Antisemites and conspiracy theorists on various mailing lists and websites which
claim there were no Jews in the World Trade Center during the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11,
when in fact, hundreds of Jews perished there. and the Simon Wiesenthal Centre reports an
explosion of thousands of AntiSemitic hate sites on the InterNUT.
Israel is not a cause of any of this, except to the degree that Israeli culture is
essentially Western and hatred of the Jews has been built into Arab-Moslem culture since the
time of Mohammed.
Israel was reborn* in 1948 at about the same time that 22 Muslim states were
also established in the region as individually separate and independent sovereign
nation-states - all of them Muslim - but the one Jewish and secular state which is Israel is
constantly being condemned for being established even as a haven for oppressed Jews - but
the Muslim states, which are all the rest, are not condemned for being Islamic, even as many
of them constantly manufacture and sell their antisemitic myths of hatred.
Israel on the other hand has saved millions of Jews and non-Jews. It does not teach hate in
its schools whereas Muslim states do inculcate their youth with antisemitism in their
schools - and sends it's suicide bombers to kill innocent Jewish women, children and old men
- and all Israel wants is to be left alone.
Israel is condemned as a so-called "settler-state" even though every town everwhere began
with a settlement and chances are you live in a settlement somewhere and your parents came
from somewhere else yet in Israel Jews always lived on the land and some never left and some
new settlements were established for Israel's security and even in very many cases where
Jews have recently lived before and were expelled from them by Arabs.
What is often denied is the truth, that the intifada has been war by other means with one
ultimate goal only and that is to eliminate Israel and kill the Jews.
"In May 1994, on the eve of his planned return from Tunis to `Palestine,' Arafat took the
opportunity of an invitation to speak at a mosque in Johannesburg, South Africa, to state
his goals. In this address, Arafat maintained that he was forced into the peace process by
the economic conditions in the territories following the Gulf War. But that was a temporary
accomodation, he stressed, and in fact the Cairo agreement had just signed with Israel was
`the first step and nothing more than that' on the road to Jerusalem. `The jihad will
continue,' Arafat declared. `Jerusalem is not only of the Palestinian people, but of the
entire Islamic nation.......He urged his audience to join the Palestinian struggle. `You
must come to fight, to begin the jihad to liberate Jerusalem, your first shrine.' As for the
agreements signed with Israel, `I regard this agreement as no more than the agreement signed
between our prophet Muhammad and the Quraysh in Mecca,' Arafat stated, using the same
comparison that he had used a year earlier, on the eve of the Khartoum summit, `As the
Prophet Muhammad accepted it (the treaty of Hudaibiya),..we now accept the peace agreement
(with Israel], but in order to continue on the way to Jerusalem.' Arafat told his listeners
that the PLO needed them `as Muslims and as mujahideen.' he concluded by chanting: `Until
victory, until Jerusalem, until Jerusalem, until Jerusalem.'" (terrorism specialist  Yossef Bodansky, "The
High Cost of Peace", 2002 - Dr. Yossef Bodansky is the Director of Research for the International
Strategic Studies Association and Director of the United States Congressional Task Force on
Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare.)

"The Johannesburg speech, along with other, similar pronouncements, left no doubt that as
far as Arafat and his circle were concerned, no reconciliation with Israel---not even the
acceptance of the very existence of Israel--was possible. Given this enduring taboo in the
Arab world and the growing militancy of the Arab masses, Arafat realized that there was no
option but an explosion. He was now determined to be in the lead." (Bodansky)

Arafat used militant Islamism to fuel his jihad against Israel. BUT all those who condemn
Israel for responding to the orchestrated terror by the Palestinians often ignore the cause
and criticize Israelis for legitimate defense and those Jews, albeit left wing Jews, who
attempt to find fairness and truth are considered as being outside the acceptable or
legitimate left wing fold. I know, I have often been accused of beyond beyond the pale, but
Jews have always been considered `beyond the pale.'

And anyone who points out the intentions of Islamists to destroy Israel is suspect on the
larger left and even when they criticize Israel for its excesses, as Rabbi Lerner and many
others have done, these critics are told they are too soft on Israel. More often we are
seeing outspoken leftists who condemn Israel in the extreme, stating that Israel must be
eliminated. OR simply because Israel receives its support from the U.S. or others considered
anti-left, the left condemns Israel for its choice of friends - when those are the only
friends Israel may have in an increasingly unfriendly (to Israel) world. Blaming Jews for
Everything from 9/11 to the War in Iraq

During anti-war rallies around the world this ground swell of anti-war sentiment resulted in
the largest anti-war demonstrations world-wide ever, as-if any of it would sway the Bush
administration to stop his war, BUT, it is also not surprising that with such large numbers
of people taking to the streets that we all saw many of them attacking Israel and some
blamed Jews for everything from 9/11 to the war with Iraq. We heard all this from the right
who traditionally blamed the Jews for communism and world revolution and now from the left
who blame the Jews for capitalist exploitation, control of financial institutions (which is
also false) and blame them for a few neo-cons in the Bush administration and blaming Israel
for the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. How many Jews own any oil wells?

"Given the rhetoric at past rallies organized by this group, we are extremely concerned that
the message of this weekend's antiwar protests will be tainted with hateful calls for
Israel's destruction and comparisons of Israeli actions to the Nazi extermination of Jews
during the Holocaust, " said Jonathan Bernstein, Central Pacific Regional Director. "While
we have always said that there is a time and place for criticism of Israel, we remain very
much concerned and alert to those pro-Palestinian forces in this country who resort to
Anti-Semitism, and who may use the war in Iraq as a pretext for attacking Israel and Jews."
  [*]ADL warns that organizers of antiwar protesters in San Francisco have a history of
attacking Israel and Jews (02-14-2003) - US Newswire
"The antiwar rallies are primarily being organized by the International ANSWER (Act Now to
Stop War and End Racism) Coalition. Past rallies by ANSWER have included significant
anti-Israel propaganda, including claims that Israel is guilty of "war crimes" against
Palestinians and that Israel is a "racist state." The group was responsible for last year's
largest anti-Israel rally, the "National March for Palestine Against War and Racism" in
Washington on April 20, 2002, which served as a forum for supporting violence and terror
organizations, and a proliferation of antisemitic expression. Antisemitic messages were also
present at the January 18, 2003 rally in San Francisco." (ADL)

The organizers of the protest in San Francisco did not want a pro-Israel speaker at the
rally even though that speaker was against the war. Rabbi Lerner was banned from speaking
(even though he never asked to speak).
"(SAN FRANCISCO)--Imagine my surprise when I found out that I am banned from speaking at
a peace rally here this Sunday. As editor of Tikkun, the largest-circulation liberal Jewish
magazine in the world, I have been an outspoken critic of the proposed war in Iraq. I have
also unequivocally condemned Saddam Hussein's brutality and called for the world community
to bring him to justice for crimes against humanity. But we at Tikkun do not believe that
this war--in which thousands of Iraqi civilians are likely to die--will bring democracy to
the Middle East. Instead, it is bound to increase the threat of terrorism to American
citizens and provoke more violence. It will also fuel American fantasies of world economic
and political domination. (Rabbi Michael Lerner,  "The Antiwar
Anti-Semites: Peace protest organizers tolerate no dissent" - Wall Street Journal - Feb
12, 2003)

We should always be concerned about the anti-Israel rhetoric because it escalates.
Protesting the war in Iraq, at anti-war rallies, there were inflammatory anti-Israel
statements and some Jews, who expected it, did not go to the rallies for this reason. The
organizers of some of the antiwar protests have equated Zionism with Nazism and some groups
which were involved in the demonstrations were also calling for the destruction of Israel,
something which is heard on Internet mailing lists all to often. There has been a break with
many on the European and American left with the Israeli left because being a leftist in
Israel, unless the really far extreme fringe, one is still Zionist because even the Israeli
left does not support its own destruction. A lot of Jews may be nuts, but we're not that
crazy to support our own demise. And some U.S. and European Jews are no longer identifying
with the Left because of this increase in anti-Zionist antisemitism as-if it was a bad thing
to favor saving Jews. They should instead be asking themselves, "Where is the authentic
Palestinian left?" They, like most of the Israeli left already knows. would soon realize
there isn't any.
A Muslim progressive movement is as miniscule as it is for all intents and purposes
non-existent.
--Hank Roth

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