BIEBER Opinion. Tradition. PROMPTS KERRY RANTS, THE BIRTH OF CALL FOR WHILE HEADING THE WORLD’S EXAM CHANGE TO OBLIVION OLDEST HATE IN ISRAEL A2. A9. A11. THE algemeiner JOURNAL $1.00 - PRINTED IN NEW YORK FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2016 | 16 Kislev 5777 VOL. XLIV NO. 2286 Netanyahu Seeking New Footage Shows Anti-Israel to Work With Trump Indoctrination at to Roll Back Iran New York State Nuclear Deal Elementary School BY LEA SPEYER Footage showing young children at a New York state elementary school being indoctrinated to hate Israel at an event last year has recently been released following a campaign by the popular blog Legal Insurrection. Th e event in question — a “Palestinian human rights” presentation to third-graders at the Beverly J. Martin School Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with CBS’s Lesley Stahl on “60 Minutes.” Photo: Screenshot. Bassem Tamimi (left) showing a video of his daughter dur- ing an anti-Israel presentation to third-graders at an Ithaca elementary school. Photo: Video screenshot. BY JNS.ORG Sunday on the CBS “60 Minutes” Palestinian peace process, saying in Ithaca, which took place in September 2015 — featured program. “I have about fi ve things that he would be willing to launch two radical anti-Israel activists. One was Bassem Tamimi Israeli Prime Minister in my mind.” negotiations “at any moment” — infamous for pushing his own children to provoke Israeli Benjamin Netanyahu said that Th e prime minister declined and dismissed the suggestions soldiers, and then catching the encounters on camera for propaganda purposes. Th e other, Ariel Gold, has described he has a number of ideas in mind to elaborate on these possibilities. that Jewish settlements are an his personal goal as “delegitimizing Zionism.” for how to roll back the Iranian “Well, I’d like to talk to obstacle to peace. News of the presentation was fi rst brought to light by nuclear deal once President-elect the president before I talk to “Th e real reason we haven’t Legal Insurrection last year, after Gold and another local Donald Trump takes offi ce. ’60 Minutes,'” Netanyahu told had peace is because of a persis- activist, Mary Anne Grades Flores, “bragged on Facebook “Th ere are various ways of reporter Leslie Stahl. tent refusal of the Palestinians to how they managed to bring…Tamimi to a third-grade class undoing [the deal],” Netanyahu Netanyahu also responded to recognize a Jewish state in any Continued on Page A3 said in an interview that aired questions concerning the Israeli- Continued on Page A5 Making ShabbatCalendar Parshat VAYISHLACH Times for New York City, Friday Candle Lighting Shabbat Begins: 4:12pm | Shabbat Ends: 5:16pm פרשת וישלח Gefi lte Fish Great Again P.O.B. 250746, Brooklyn, NY 11225-3203 Tel: (718) 771.0400 | Fax: (718) 771.0308 page A8 Email: [email protected] www.algemeiner.com © Copyright 2016 Th e Algemeiner Journal - All Rights Reserved. A2 | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2016 Opinion. John Kerry Rants, While Heading Towards Oblivion to perhaps one year. It’s mystifying why a ceasefire with the Russians, while they bomb anyone finds this comforting. rebels and civilians alike One of the worst aspects of the deal is that American’s top foreign policy priority in MITCHELL BARD the Iranians have used it to successfully black- the Middle East for more than 40 years was NEW YORK mail Obama. Any action that is objectionable to keep the Soviets/Russians from gaining to Iran immediately prompts a threat from a foothold in the region. The goal was finally Tehran that it will renege on the deal. Kerry and accomplished in the early 1970s, when Egypt Obama are so petrified of losing their signa- threw the Soviets out. From that point until John Kerry may go down as one of ture achievement that they are paralyzed from Obama’s arrival, the Russians were kept at bay, America’s worst secretaries of state, perhaps taking any action against Iran’s violations or the holding only a naval base in Syria. But look at surpassed only by his predecessor, Hillary broader threats posed by its ballistic missile the Russians now. Suddenly they seem to be Clinton. Together they have carried out development, sponsorship of terrorism, inter- everywhere. They are engaged in large-scale President Obama’s strategy to undermine ventions in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen and military operations in Syria to wipe out not our most fervent allies, such as Israel; make Libya, and bullying of its Gulf neighbors. just ISIS, but any opposition to Bashar Assad. catastrophic deals with enemies such as Iran; US Secretary of State John Kerry. Photo: Contrary to Obama’s naïve notion that Vladimir Putin understood that if Assad Wikimedia Commons. and, in a nod to Nero, fiddle while Iraq, Syria, Iran would moderate its views after signing fell, Russia would likely lose its last foothold in Lebanon, Libya and Yemen burn. the nuclear deal, the opposite has happened. the region. Now Russia is expanding relations The evil Israelis. Neither Kerry nor Clinton have had a Iran hasn’t abandoned its constant attacks on with Egypt, Saudi Arabia and other Middle Sounding much like the Iranians and significant foreign policy accomplishment, the “Great Satan.” Iranian leaders still threaten East nations. Kerry still doesn’t understand other enemies of Israel, Kerry parroted though some still contend that Kerry’s negoti- to destroy Israel, while also boasting of their the consequences of his catastrophic failure the tired old arguments, which showed ation of the Iranian nuclear deal represents victory over the US. Iran now feels safe to arrest to rein in the Russians. how deeply out of touch he has become as Obama’s single foreign policy success. American citizens, capture US Navy personnel Given all these problems, did Kerry use secretary. Specifically, Kerry accused Prime Those who are not sycophantic and use its military to harass American troops his last foreign policy address to lay out a plan Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s govern- supporters of Obama see the nuke deal as in the Gulf. Iran has also been allowed to inter- to save the people being slaughtered in Syria? ment of suffering from a lack of leadership, a disaster on multiple levels. The Iranians fere in Syria, Iraq and Yemen with impunity. It No, he didn’t. and explicitly cited Education Minister are already flouting the agreement, while does so knowing that Obama will not act for Did he speak about Russia’s role in Naftali Bennett’s recent comments lauding the IAEA and US administration ignore the fear of destroying the deal. murdering helpless civilians? the demise of the two-state solution as violations or conceal them from the public. Obama lost all credibility in the region No. “profoundly disturbing.” The agreement’s time frame is a blink in the when he failed to bomb Syria after Assad ignored Did Kerry express concern for the tens of Kerry also challenged Netanyahu’s claim context of Middle East history; the verifica- his red line and used chemical weapons. Instead, thousands of Shiites and Sunnis butchering that the failure to recognize Israel as a Jewish state tion regime is riddled with loopholes; and Obama was snookered by Putin, who convinced each other? is at the heart of the failure to reach an agreement. even Obama admits nothing will prevent Iran him to let Syria dispose of the weapons. The No — that wouldn’t fit his mantra of Islam Really? from getting a bomb when the deal expires. weapons were not all destroyed, however, and as a religion of peace. If the Palestinians are unwilling to The great accomplishment of the deal was to they continue to be used in Syria’s apocalypse. So what did Kerry talk about at the Saban accept the reality that Israel is a Jewish state, extend the breakout time from three months Meanwhile, Kerry has futilely tried to negotiate Forum in Washington? then what reason is there to believe they are Continued on Page A4 You Can’t Make Peace With Bad Leaders have these rebuffed for one simple reason: politicians as varied as former Israeli Presi- neither Arafat nor Abbas, never mind the dent Shimon Peres and former British Prime BEN COHEN Islamists of Hamas, have been willing to Minister Tony Blair, has counted for far more. NEW YORK make peace, philosophically or politically. But the most tangible result of this rejec- the The reason is that they reject the legitimacy of tionism has been to freeze negotiations on Algemeiner Journal Israel’s presence in the region as a Jewish and Palestinian independence. The result is that democratic state. two other solutions, both of them fraught with (USPS 927800) is published weekly In some ways, this persistent pattern risk, are now in the mix. On one of my first assignments abroad as (except for the week of Passover suggests that my Israeli interlocutor all those The first “solution” involves elements a rookie journalist in the early 1990s, I found and Succos) years ago was wrong: even if you don’t have of both Palestinian unilateralism and inter- myself in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, just as Subscription rate $40 per year an independent state, you absolutely can get national pressure on Israel; in essence, the violent disintegration of Yugoslavia was screwed over by your own leaders — when recognizing a Palestinian state without Israeli Algemeiner Journal getting underway. those same leaders decide to blame someone consent, and pressuring Israel to concede terri- 508 Montgomery Street One afternoon, while sitting with a group else’s leaders for your ongoing misfortune. tory that it currently controls.