[Peace-discuss] Another vile and racist Israeli speaker sponsored by PJCS

[David Green]

The following excerpts are from articles written by
Amnon Lord, an Israeli journalist, published in the
Jerusalem Post between 2002 and 2004. The articles
from which they are pulled can be accessed through a
Lexis-Nexus search. While I apologize for pulling
these quotes out of context, it really isn’t a big
mystery what this guy is about. He’s a former Israeli
leftist who hates the current Israeli Left, tepid as
it is, as much as he hates the Arabs. Sounds familiar
(think Irving Kristol, etc.).

Lord has been invited by the Program for Jewish
Culture and Society to speak not about politics, but
about the Israeli cinema (Wednesday, September 20).
Nevertheless, the vile and racist nature of his
political views should be noted.

In the wake of the American-Israeli destruction of
Lebanon and the ongoing starvation of Gaza, it is a
feat of Eichmannesque (if not Goebellsian) proportions
for the U of I to host such a man to talk about
movies. Once again, the PJCS has proved that it is not
interested in promoting a vital and self-critical
debate about Jewish culture and society, but in
defining that culture with the hateful, racist, and
reactionary views of Jewish Israeli (invariably
Ashkenazi) “intellectuals.”

More shame accrues to the faculty of PJCS, many of
whom claim to be leftist, but unlike the Israeli
leftists so reviled by Lord cannot seem to get the
frog out of their throats. Ever.

What a sad and pathetic state of affairs.

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Excerpts from the Jerusalem Post, June 2002 – July
2004


The fact that Israel still exists, and does so as a
proven democratic state, is the long-term result of
its decision in June 1967 to go to war. The decision
and its execution were like a vaccination for many
years, maybe for generations, that created the
aggressive combative instinct necessary for a
democratic society to survive in an environment of
terrorist dictatorships.

____________

The Arabs have managed to instill in the mind of the
world community the idea that war is a natural
condition of the relationship between the Arabs and
the State of Israel. They have succeeded so
brilliantly that despite their ongoing crime of
maintaining war against Israel, it is Israel that is
expected to make concessions to the aggressors if it
aspires to live in the peace that was its birthright
to begin with.

____________

IN SPITE of all the evidence of Palestinian
intentions, we Israelis seem to be busy repressing and
denying the nature of the onslaught. Instead of facing
it, we talk of building a fence and behave like
butterfly hunters running around with ridiculous nets,
attempting to catch mosquitoes.

Israel's leadership, headed by Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, is
responsible for not defining this grave reality in the
clearest possible terms.

Cannot Peres, who called Khomeinism the new Nazism,
see that the whole of Palestinian society - from the
individual terrorist to the entire political echelon -
has come down with the same disease?

____________

In this current war the main goal of the Arabs is to
prove that no matter how good the Israeli Defense
Forces are, and no matter what international
assurances and agreements the Israelis have obtained,
the Arabs can still massacre the Jews and get away
with it. I therefor call this war Meoraot Tashsa,
because the terrorist attacks started on Rosh Hashana
Tashsa (2000).

________

The justification of terrorism against Israelis by the
British and European media is very similar to the
justification of the Stalinist terrorism by Pravda and
Radio Moscow. The regime defines a system of ideals
and lofty values, and whoever does not adjust
themselves to them, is defined as an "enemy of the
people" or "enemy of the revolution."

As long as all the demands of the "human rights"
organizations are not met, terrorism is justified.

____________

Today's world is divided into quarters: places where
anti-Semitic and anti-Israel Jews can come and go
freely, but which in every other respect are
judenrein; and places where Jews can huddle together.

Is this not the beginning of a new ghettoization
process of the Western, post-modern variety?

______________

In spite of the foul smell wafting from it at the
moment, the Likud is nevertheless the true centrist
party, both in terms of the state and in terms of
Zionism. Its size and its strength will determine
whether the next government is stable. Therefore, I,
for one, am going to vote Likud. The stronger the
Likud is, the greater the chances Binyamin Netanyahu
will be the next foreign minister. Netanyahu is the
only one who can lead the diplomatic offensive against
terrorism. A weak Likud means Shimon Peres again, or
even worse, Amram Mitzna, as foreign minister.

______________

There's nothing like a Hizbullah flare-up on the
northern border to illustrate, to Israelis and those
abroad, what lies in store for Israel behind the fence
in Judea. There is no indication that the prime
minister is planning to buy peace and domestic quiet
at the price of political concessions. Quite the
contrary: Defense Minister Mofaz recently told Defense
Ministry planning officials that in the next bout with
the Palestinians, Israel will no longer adopt a
strategy of limited confrontation, and will opt for
strategic victory.

Should the Palestinians infringe the cease-fire, said
Mofaz, "the Palestinian Authority's historical role
will come to an end."

As far as Israel is concerned, it will be the end of
experimenting with the lives of Israelis for no other
reason than to placate domestic or foreign
decision-makers, however powerful these might be.

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Since Sharon came to power in March 2001, Israel has
gradually had to nibble away at artificial red lines
in order to effectively confront Palestinian
terrorism. Initially, the "A" areas of the Palestinian
Authority were considered sacred, and when IDF forces
first entered them, they had to withdraw within a few
hours - due to "American pressure." Only after a blitz
of massacres, that lasted from June 2001 (the
Dolphinarium) to the end of March 2002 (the Pessah
massacre) were IDF forces permitted to operate for a
period of some two weeks inside "A" areas.

About a month before Operation Defensive Shield, the
forces operated - with success that surprised all the
pessimists - in the heart of the terror bases in
Jenin, Tulkarm, Nablus and Ramallah. But the arrival
of US emissary Gen. Anthony Zinni compelled the IDF to
withdraw its forces well before completing its
mission. The IDF paid heavily for this premature
cessation in its next operation in Jenin. The futile
negotiating process gave the terrorists in Jenin and
in other places precious time to organize to fight in
the midst of a civilian population.

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The Palestinians, led by Yasser Arafat, are waging a
revolutionary war against Israel on many fronts and
with various allies. The Israelis planning a
propaganda "ceremony" to sign the Geneva Initiative
are part of that system, even if we assume their
intentions are good.

It would be presumptuous and foolish to propose any
kind of "peace plan," because "peace plans" are part
of the total war the Palestinians are waging against
Israel.

_____________

It is time to present the accusers among us with a
real moral choice: If Israelis - by their very
existence and actions - are a criminal people, thereby
justifying Palestinian massacres against them, the
moral action for those intellectuals, artists,
refusers and fence-cutters is to pick up some
Kalachnikov rifles and start shooting at civilian
centers in Israel.

Why don't they join this just war against Israel with
their bodies?

Instead these intellectuals and peace activists choose
to participate in the terror fest by redesigning the
moral system so as to create a comfortable environment
for murder. Ophir and his friends bear a heavy
responsibility for creating the moral, conceptual and
legal vacuum that allows the Palestinians to execute
their terror campaign.

___________

The word "treason" is unsuitable in the context of
various figures on the Left and their actions. It is
an issue of an entire elite class turning its back on
its nation and country. Yossi Beilin and his people's
Geneva agreement expresses that moral collapse in the
most poignant way. It includes a willingness to
collaborate with PLO propaganda against Israel, a
surrender of matters of principle such as Jerusalem
and refugees, and especially a waiving of Jewish
sovereignty in Israel along with a waiver of our
ability to defend ourselves.

_____________

Shulamit Aloni, too, who in recent years blatantly
joined the anti-Israeli campaign, was originally a
member of Hashomer Hatza'ir in its Stalinist phase.
Although she learned to speak "democratic," her accent
is still heavily Stalinist... especially when
referring to "pluralism" or "universalism."




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