[Peace-discuss] More from the Pipes file

[David Green]

In a recent letter in the N-G, in response to liberal Zionist Urbana 
councilcreature David Gehrig's feigned concern with Islamophobia from Cal 
Thomas, I wrote that we should be more concerned about "mainstream" 
Islamophobia, including that promoted by local Jewish institutions. The sponsors 
for the Pipes event testify to that. If the more "respectable" people at the 
Program for Jewish Culture and Society (Matti Bunzl, Bruce Rosenstock, Michael 
Rothberg) object to Pipes, let them publicly say so, or forever hold their 
sanctimonious and cowardly tongues about racism, hate, and "Holocaust memory." 
The same goes for Gehrig--let him flaunt his pathetic liberal ACLU cajones with 
a few sharp words for the Pipester. It will never happen.

Here's an item from my files:

Daniel Pipes’ Acrimonious Remarks Embarrass Organizers of Portland Panel on 
“Healing Words”
 
By Elaine Kelley, from Northwest News, reprinted in Washington Report on Middle 
East Affairs, July 2001.
 
Pipes is well-known for his hawkish views and inflammatory statements. He 
recently angered Middle East peace advocates in his April 25 National Post 
commentary “Being nice won’t help Israel,” in which he asserts that Israel must 
“convince Palestinians not of its niceness but its toughness,” arguing that the 
more flexibly Israel behaved, the more “Palestinians smelled blood and became 
enraged at the very existence of the Jewish state.” 

 
Early in his comments Pipes had remarked, “It is deeply unfortunate that Ateek 
compares the Germans’ treatment of the Jews to Israel and the Palestinians.” 
Using innuendo, Pipes compared the final fate of the Germans after WWII with 
what Palestinians may have to succumb to in the future: “When the Germans lost 
World War I they came out with a sense of grievance and felt stabbed in the 
back; but when they were thoroughly destroyed in World War II they came out of 
that with something modern and new. It’s time for Arabs to move on.” 

 
What Israel should do, he added, is “respond with force. Punish those that would 
hurt [Israel], and their ambitions to do so will fail.” Asserting that “Arab 
people live in some of the worse conditions in the world, without freedom to 
travel or modern media,” he blamed those conditions on the Arabs’ “political 
obsession with Israel.” 



      
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