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DoD · Guest

February 12 through the 18th saw the observance of "Israeli Apartheid Week"
on several New York universities, a series of events staged by anti-Israel
activists to equate the Jewish state with the racist regime of apartheid-era
South Africa. Evidently, however, one week was not enough, and the campaign
of demonization has now stretched into a third week, with California
campuses the current location.

Thus, at the University of California at Berkeley, the anti-Israel groups
Students for Justice in Palestine and the International Solidarity Movement
(ISM) recently hosted the Palestinian activists Mohammed Khatib and Feryal
Abu Haikal. As the head of a so-called Popular Resistance Committee, Khatib'
s full-time job is to organize weekly riots against Israeli soldiers and
border police in the West Bank town of Bilin. Haikal leads a similar
committee in the West Bank village of Tel Rumeida near the city of Hebron.
One of the organizers of the event was Paul LaRudee, an ISM activist who was
deported from Israel last June for his suspected connections to Hamas after
two articles appeared about him on FrontPageMagazine.com. About 85 people
showed up at the school's Dwinelle Hall to see this presentation, most of
them university students.

Mohammed Khatib began the evening by introducing the event as a "national
tour" by the ISM that "supports nonviolent resistance" -- this despite the
fact the organization has notable ties to terrorist organizations. The ISM's
LaRudee, for instance, recounted to this journalist that he had recently
returned from Lebanon where he worked in co-operation with Hezbollah.

Much of the evening was given over to a screening of videos critical of the
Israeli presence in the West Bank. There are about 400 Jewish settlers in
the West Bank who live in Hebron, and the surrounding areas have another
30,000 under constant threat from over 150,000 Arabs. However, anyone
watching the videos presented that night would have had the impression that
peace-loving Arabs are stoned and attacked relentlessly and without
provocation in Hebron's city center by fanatical Orthodox Jews.

To be sure, there were some videos shown, most over seven years old, of
Jewish children from settlements in the area throwing stones at ISM
anarchists or at Arabs. The time frame was not revealed to the audience, but
many of the scenes took place during the intifada in 2000. Stone-throwing by
either side is unacceptable, but any close observer could see that most of
the stone throwers revealed on film were less than 12 years of age, which
Feryal Abu Haikal suggested was a violence unique to the Jewish settlers.

History does not support the charge. During the first intifada, the late
Yasir Arafat used to bus Arab kids from schools to throw stones at Israeli
soldiers and police because Israeli laws are strict against arresting
minors. The evening's speakers also declined to dwell on the fact that the
police officers in the films frequently observed that often Arabs had thrown
the first stone. Such blatant reversals of the historical record have become
the hallmark of anti-Israel propaganda, whether deployed by the PLO or, now,
the sponsors of "Israeli Apartheid Week."

Khatib and Haikal had many other complaints, though none any more honest. At
one point in the evening, Haikal projected photos of Jewish communities in
the West Bank. Her intention was to show that these communities are
surrounded by large Arab populations. If one showed similar pictures of
black neighborhoods surrounded by larger white neighborhoods in America, the
cry of racism would immediately be heard. Yet the audience was supposed to
understand that these were Jewish communities that had no right to be there.

To underscore the point, Haikal pointed out a four-story schoolhouse in a
Jewish community and explained that the Israelis "just took the building"
for themselves, then added three stories to it. The problem with this claim
is that in Israel, just as in America, nobody can just take buildings and
land without legally obtaining permits and going through a legal process.
The one exception is Palestinian Arabs, who persistently build on property
they do not legally own. In many of those instances, the Israeli Supreme
Court has allowed Arab squatters to keep land to which they have no legal
claim, even in Jerusalem, while upholding the deportation of Jews in the
West Bank and Gaza who even have legal title to their land.

Equally misleading was Haikal's explication of another photograph. It
depicted Abraham Ave., a street closed down by the IDF for ten years near
the Mosque of Abraham because when Jews walked down it Arabs hurled stones
and concrete slabs from the balconies above. Rather than address this
inconvenient background, Haikal stood the facts on their head, explaining
that the closures were the direct result of Israeli Jews walking on the
street below and hurling stones up at the Arabs in their upstairs balconies.

When she wasn't offering outright fabrications, Haikal was eliding crucial
context. She explained that she is a headmistress at a girls' school in the
West Bank, then began a slide show alleging that Palestinian children cannot
go to school due to interference from Israelis. To be fair, this does happen
occasionally, but Haikal failed to explain that it happens when the IDF is
tracking terrorists who have just staged an attack or are known to be
planning one. Only someone unaware of or entirely indifferent to Palestinian
terrorism could have credited her remarks.

Khatib exhibited a similarly propagandistic approach. "There are roads only
the Israelis can use," he complained. What he did not explain was these
roads were necessary because Palestinian Arabs have been known to shoot or
throw stones at Israeli drivers. Nor are Arabs unconditionally banned from
using these roads. On the contrary, they can use these roads if they go
through a security clearance. Unsurprisingly, many Arab taxi drivers use
them all the time.

Another canard was that fences set up by Israel to protect Jewish
communities from Arab attacks were in fact set up to protect Arabs from
Israeli stone throwers. And, of course, there was the "Apartheid Wall" -- a
recurring theme of "Israeli Apartheid Week" -- a 25-foot-high concrete fence
set up to prevent Arab snipers from shooting into Jerusalem neighborhoods.
One wouldn't know any of this listening to Khatib, who assured his audience
that it was erected solely to torment blameless Palestinians.

Repeatedly throughout the event, Khatib tried to demonstrate what he called
the Palestinians' commitment to "nonviolent resistance." To this end, he
screened films of the "nonviolent demonstrations" he leads in the West Bank.
Unfortunately, these did not help his case.

In one film, a wheelchair-bound Arab activist casually mentions how an
Ethiopian Jewish border policeman lost his eye at the last demonstration. We
are next shown a "nonviolent demonstration" of wheelchair bound activists
parading into a closed military zone. When the police politely ask them to
disperse, they continue forward with their able-bodied international ISM
compatriots. The police mention that rocks were thrown, but, somehow, this
is irrelevant. The audience, clearly sympathizers, giggled at many films
shown of ISM activists and Arabs interfering with the police who, by and
large, showed exemplary patience in handling what are, in fact, violent
crowds.

To test Khatib's commitment to nonviolence, I put the following question to
him: Would he condemn the murder a few days earlier of Jewish settler Erez
Levanon by members of Islamic Jihad? Levanon was an Orthodox Jew who was
praying and meditating in the forest, as he frequently did, near his home in
Kfar Etzion, a Jewish community originally settled in 1943, lost to Jordan
in 1948, then returned in 1967. Levanon, a married father of four children,
had his throat slit and was disemboweled. Would Khatib denounce Islamic
Jihad's actions?

Instead of saying yes, he went into a long speech about how his movement
works with Islamic Jihad and Hamas, and how his movement and all who work
with him were "nonviolent." He never did condemn what Islamic Jihad's
murder. So much for "Palestinian nonviolence," a notion about as credible as
the "Israeli apartheid" that inspired the occasion.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=27221

BabaBey the Turk · Guest

"DoD" <thecats@ss.mil> wrote in message news:MRBHh.3387$dd.322@newsread1.mlpsca01.us.to.verio.net...
<snip the jewish lie propaganda>

The Jews are fixated on producing hate against Islam in the west.
People knowing the history of the Jews and their character know
that it is the main tactic of the Jews to badmouth others and to
spread hate among others, to make them fight each other.

I condemn all Jews who spread lie propaganda on the net,
shamelessly manipulate, forge, and fabricate quotes,
shamlessly impersonate others!

Such people are nothing but PoS SCM!

Theodore Herzl · Guest

On Mar 7, 8:35 am, "DuD" <thec...@ss.mil> wrote nothing:

<ZioNazi propaganda snipped>

Don't buy the racist propaganda from Front Page Magazine (a ZioNazi
Propaganda outlet) and instead rely on distinguished Nobel Peace Price
recipients such as Desmond Tutu, former US President Jimmy Carter,
Israeli Academics like Uri Davis (Author of Israel: An Apartheid
State) and the democratic body of nations known as the United Nations,
all of which have proven that Israel is an Apartheid regime..

Support the boycotts and divestment campaigns against the Apartheid
Israeli Regime on your campus and in your community by calling your
government representatives and vocally voicing your disgust with the
Apartheid policies of the Israeli regime.

docremington · Guest

Theodore Herzl wrote:

Panta Rhei · Guest

Blahblah Bey, the lobotomized Turk, writes:

Theodore Herzl · Guest

On Mar 7, 2:13 pm, "docremington" <docreming...@safe-mail.net> wrote:

docremington · Guest

Theodore Herzl wrote: