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Three “Nos” to Beit Hashalom Why the Rank Discrimination Against Jews? Herbert Zweibon the Surface Reasons Are Obvious Enough 37th Year of Publication December 2007—Issue #206 PUBLISHED BY AMERICANS FOR A SAFE ISRAEL Negev proper infrastructure on humanitarian grounds. Three “Nos” to Beit HaShalom Why the rank discrimination against Jews? Herbert Zweibon The surface reasons are obvious enough. The Olmert government makes no secret that it wants After years of negotiations and careful legal to make the home of the patriarchs an all-Arab city. process, the Jewish community of Hebron closed on When in 1979 Jews moved into the abandoned Beit the purchase of Beit HaShalom, a large four story Hadassah building it was against the wish of the Is- building between Kiryat Arba and Hebron, and families raeli government and subsequent governments have began moving in at the end of March. Eight families, also been hostile. If the Israeli government callously including many children (the youngest at this writing a expelled 8,000 Jews from their communities in Gaza, few days old, the grandchild of longtime leader in the despite the fact they had built their model communities Hebron community David Wilder) are now in resi- at the urging of successive Labor and Likud govern- dence. The Israeli military commander of the Hebron ments, how can the relatively small number of Jews in region has been supportive, saying this was a highly Hebron expect sensitivity to their needs? strategic location, so much so that he is using its roof But there are more fundamental reasons. as a lookout post to monitor the surrounding area. Yossi ben Aharon, who served as chief of staff to Unfortunately the story does not end here. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, recently described the When the identity of one of the Arabs involved in the transmutation of the terrible hostility toward the Irgun transaction came to light, in danger of being tortured that during Israel’s War of Independence led to Jews and murdered by fellow Arabs, he denounced the sale firing on fellow Jews on the Altalena into today’s ha- documents as forgeries. (He shrugged off film of him- tred of “settlers,” especially religious Jews in Judea, self counting the money he’d received for the build- Samaria and (until their expulsion) Gaza. Once again ing.) The Israeli Supreme Court ordered an investiga- it is a one-sided hatred, motivated this time by an irra- tion and the police found the papers in order, the pur- tional projection of blame for Arab (and Moslem) hos- chase legal. Not satisfied the highly politicized Su- tility on Jews living outside the 1949 Green (armistice) preme Court ordered a second investigation, with the Line. It is this mindset of much of the secular public police ordered to present their findings within 45 days. that has allowed the Olmert government to behave But the police repeatedly asked for extensions ruthlessly to the eight families of Beit HaShalom–and (probably because they could find nothing wrong). to pursue the morally and strategically insane policies With winter approaching this has meant se- leading it on a Roadmap to Nowhere. vere hardship for the families in the building, which is Now the Jews of Beit HaShalom face expul- little more than a shell. Without a special permit from sion. Ignoring that the case is before the Supreme the Defense Ministry or the quasi-military Israeli Civil Court (i.e. the rule of law), Olmert arbitrarily revoked Administration which is under its jurisdiction, they are the purchase and according to PA officials has forbidden to make any changes during “the investiga- “guaranteed” them that evicting the Jewish families tion.” The Hebron community leadership applied for a from Beit HaShalom tops his agenda. • permit on humanitarian grounds to install windows, put in electric lines for heat and tar the badly leaking roof. The request reached Defense Minister Barak who said In This Issue no to all three. This decision was appealed to the Civil Stop Them With Victory by Moshe Sharon ...3 Administration military panel—again the same re- Farewell Israel—A New Documentary ...7 sponse, no, no, no. Fortune Favors Fools by David Isaac ...9 What is going on here? David Wilder points The Cult Of Israel Hatred by Joel Pollak ...10 out that the Israeli courts have ruled that the govern- Identity Theft by Ruth King ...11 ment must allow illegal Bedouin settlements in the From the Editor of Medak) and current “prime minister” of the province. Needless to say the Journal did not provide readers with his terrorist resume. Lebanon, Moderate? The Bush administration soldiers on, intent on Journalist Tom Gross observes that while the encouraging another Moslem terror base. In a paper Lebanese government is routinely described as published by the Begin-Sadat Center, James Jatras “moderate,” the crazy anti-Semitic venom emanating and Serge Trifkovic write that with a veto by Russia from Lebanon rivals that from Egypt, Syria and Iran. blocking UN recognition of an independent Kosovo, For example, on October 22 the TV channel affiliated the U.S. threatens to recognize a unilateral Kosovo with Parliamentary Speaker Nabih Beri aired a pro- declaration of independence and hopes to entice other gram that stated “Jews use drug trafficking to control EU countries (along with Canada, Turkey and Israel) the world and subjugate other nations.” The program to go along. For Israel to do so would be the height of quotes that notorious forgery The Protocols of the Eld- folly. As the authors point out: “The theory that out- ers of Zion (which, Gross notes, is being distributed side powers can award part of a state’s sovereign ter- courtesy of Saudi money in mosques in London and ritory to a violent ethnic or religious minority would put Western Europe): “The third Zionist protocol states in question not only Judea and Samaria…but even that other nations must be left sick, poor, and lacking such areas as the southern Galilee and parts of the any determination or strength. Naturally, drugs are the Negev, where non-Jews have, or may eventually ac- most effective means to accomplish this goal.” quire, local majorities.” As for the U.S., its policy of currying favor with The Triumph of Bad Ideas the Islamic world is dhimmi-witted. Illegally tearing The notion that a Palestinian state in Judea, Kosovo from Serbia to fashion it into a second Islamic Samaria and Gaza will resolve the problems of the state in the Balkans (after Croatia) will merely stimu- Middle East is not the only false belief with terrible late jihadists in their campaign to subjugate the world consequences now sweeping the Western world. The to Islam. belief in man-made global warming is right up there, an artificially contrived “consensus” that has the poten- Hatikvah tial, if enough actions are taken against the alleged Dr. Ron Breiman of Professors for a Strong Is- environmental culprits, to wreck Western economies. rael explains the rationale for Hatikvah, a new nation- Latest to go on explosive record against the alist movement—and political party in the making. The phony consensus is John Coleman, founder of the party hopes to attract secular Jews who believe the Weather Channel, who calls global warming (on the Land of Israel belongs to the Jewish people and who website Icecap) “the greatest scam in history.” Says have no real address for their vote. Says Breiman: Coleman: “I have read dozens of scientific papers. I “We want to be that address for them, in order to re- have talked with numerous scientists. I have studied. I turn the State of Israel to Zionism. Instead of worrying have thought about it. I know I am correct. There is no about the ‘right of return’ for Arabs, worry about our runaway climate change. The impact of humans on return to Zionism.” climate is not catastrophic. Our planet is not in peril. I Chief of the planks of the new movement/party am incensed by the incredible media glamour, the po- is rejection of a Palestinian state and making army or litically correct silliness and rude dismissal of counter national service a precondition for the right to vote. arguments by the high priest of Global Warming.” We wish Hatikvah well. Although new parties tend to garner only a few seats (the ghastly Kadima is Kosovo an exception only because of Sharon’s decision to John Bolton has spoken out against what he head it when rebellion threatened within the Likud), calls the State Department’s anti-Serbian policy of the (continued on page 12) last fifteen years, the first important former administra- Outpost tion official to do so. In a Voice of America interview Editor: Rael Jean Isaac he declared that the U.S. should not recognize a uni- Editorial Board: Herbert Zweibon, Ruth King lateral declaration of Kosovo independence, which would simply reward bad behavior. Outpost is distributed free to Such voices, alas, are still being drowned out Members of Americans For a Safe Israel by a left-right “consensus.” Incredibly, as Julia Gorin Annual membership: $50. points out on Frontpage (Nov. 19) the Wall Street Journal recently published an article on the Americans For a Safe Israel “inevitability” and “rightness” of Kosovo independence 1751 Second Ave. (at 91st St.) by none other than Agim Ceku, the “former” terrorist New York, NY 10128 chieftain (among many other crimes he was the officer tel (212) 828-2424 / fax (212) 828-1717 responsible for slaughtering 200 Serbians–female E-mail: afsi @rcn.com web site: http://www.afsi.org rape victims were burned alive–in the Croatian village Outpost 2 December 2007 Stop Them With A Clear-cut Victory Moshe Sharon The Western world, in particular the United and fifty thousand Jewish refugees who were thrown States and Israel, have not yet come to grips with the out of Arab countries following the establishment of gravity of the global conflict.
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