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About deception and decency
Originally published 28 Aug 2003 in
The Jerusalem Post
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Equality, freedom, democracy, justice, pluralism and other generalities at the New Israel Fund
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My previous column, “NIF’s not-so-hidden political agenda” (14 August 2003) claimed that the New Israel’s Fund website misrepresented its Negev Beduin program as yet another civil rights initiative. I thought it was a calculated effort to radicalize the Beduin and provoke a confrontation between an erstwhile loyal community and Israel.
Through its Shatil executive arm the New Israel Fund has supported Beduin who break Israeli law by seizing strategic government land, apparently with Palestinian Authority help and encouragement. Shatil activists named this project “The Palestinian Project,” even though the Beduin are Israeli citizens, not Palestinian ones. In this way they try further to erode Beduin fealty to Israel and transfer it to the PA.
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NIF’s not-so-hidden political agenda
Originally published 14 Aug 2003 in
The Jerusalem Post
The New Israel Fund’s director, Eliezer Ya’ari, recently denied charges that his fund, and its Shatil subsidiary, are exploiting the single mothers’ protest to promote a radical leftist and anti-Zionist political agenda, and that they have patronizingly imposed the unelected Knafo group as “representative leadership.”
He insisted that the NIF is “an apolitical civic organization” assisting “social change” and human rights, providing a voice to weakened sectors. Ya’ari never defines what kind of “social change” the NIF promotes, but the fact that almost all of the many organizations Shatil has spawned among immigrants and “development-town” residents espouse a radical leftist ideology, while none are centrist or right, makes it clear.
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Well, well! We belong here after all
Originally published 17 Jan 2002 in
The Jerusalem Post
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Israeli Declaration of Independence by Arthur Szyk, 1948
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It is sad, but true, that decades after the Declaration of Independence defined this country as “a Jewish state in the land of Israel,” the greatest achievement of a self-appointed group of opinion-shapers who formulated an updated Kinneret Compact, was that everyone who composes such groups agreed to forcefully reiterate the conviction that Israel must remain a Jewish state.
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Challenging Israel’s legitimacy
Originally published 8 Nov 2001 in
The Jerusalem Post
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"Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes..." Pirated British edition of The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
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Immediately after Oslo, the Palestinian Authority’s “cultural” organs started celebrating “Canaanite festivals.” They were designed to underscore the PA’s newly invented claim that the Palestinian Arabs — whose ancestors conquered Palestine in the seventh century, about 2000 years after the Jewish tribes settled the Holy Land — were actually descendants of the Canaanites, and therefore the land’s “original” inhabitants, possessing a prior claim to it.
Innocently, Israelis dismissed these claims as yet another harmless Arab fantasy. But recently, as widening Western circles subjected to Arab propaganda started questioning Israel’s rights to the land, and suggesting that it was stolen from the Arabs and should be returned to them, Israelis finally realized that the web of historical fabrications, distortions, and outright lies (like the insistence that the Temple Mount was never a Jewish place of worship) spun by the PA and its Western sympathizers is a serious challenge to Israel’s legitimacy and right to exist.
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The Stolen Car Process
Originally published 16 Apr 2001 in
The Weekly Standard
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Ford Taurus (someone else's)
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Try getting your Ford Taurus back from the Palestinian Authority, and you will learn why Oslo failed.
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