British conspiracy theories: The Jews pulled off the Entebbe hijacking

TO ANYONE GETTING HERE VIA RAIMONDO’S LINK: READ THIS FOR THE REAL STORY. Raimondo is lying to you. Entebbe happened, just as Wikipedia said it did. Occam’s Razor applies: If it looks like terrorism….


Okay. Get this. The British government has a file that blamed Israel for the Entebbe hijacking.

Yes, really.

In order to make people think badly of the PLO.

Yep. Conspiracy theories abound when it comes to Israel, apparently, even in the British government.

But it isn’t anti-Semitism. It’s anti-Zionism. Please don’t mistake this for any kind of anti-Jew hatred, just because it resembles typical anti-Jewish conspiracy theories.

Wow. I thought the Brits were crazy before this, but now I think they’re effing nuts.

The state of Israel was behind the hijacking of an Air France plane to Entebbe in 1976, and cooperated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in staging the affair, a UK government file compiled at the time of the occurrences and published by the BBC Friday revealed.

According to the file released by the National Archives, an unnamed contact told a British diplomat in Paris that the Shin Bet and the PFLP collaborated to seize the plane, which was hijacked in Athens and flown to Entebbe in Uganda, where 98, most of hem Israelis, were held hostage.

In the document, written on 30 June 1976 when the crisis was still unresolved, DH Colvin of the Paris Embassy wrote that according to his source, “the hijack was the work of the PFLP, with help from the Israeli Secret Service, the Shin Bet.

“The operation was designed to torpedo the PLO’s standing in France and to prevent what they see as a growing rapprochement between the PLO and the Americans.”

He added: “My contact said the PFLP had attracted all sorts of wild elements, some of whom had been planted by the Israelis.”

Okay. I get that there are a lot of things in government files, and some of them seem a little wrongheaded. But to make this wacky conspiracy theory into an official British government file is beyond the pale.

They used the typical anti-Semitic theory conspiracy elements: The wicked, evil Jews are sacrificing their own people to make their enemies look bad. Because it isn’t possible, I suppose, that people who hate the Jews do evil things because, gee, they hate the Jews. Like the PFLP and the PLO.

This is unbelievable. I can’t even make this stuff up. You wouldn’t believe me if I made this stuff up.

You would think I’d get used to this, but I am in utter shock that a British envoy to Paris saw fit to make an official government file out of this bullshit.

Un. Be. Lievable.

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Why Hamas wants the truce extended to the West Bank

So they can murder more Israelis. Lots more.

The Shin Bet exposed a plot by Hamas members in the Hebron area to carry out an attack against IDF forces on the trans-Judea highway between Kiryat Gat and Kiryat Arba, it was cleared for publication Thursday.

According to security sources, three Hamas members planted several explosive devices alongside the highway and intended to detonate
one of the bombs in order to draw emergency services and security forces to the scene before detonating the additional bombs. One of the bombs was supposed to be activated by a cell phone.

The terrorists were arrested by IDF soldiers at the beginning of April; dozens of kilograms of explosives were found in their possession, and two of the bombs were uncovered.

Sure! Let’s allow free passage from Gaza to the West Bank, so Hamas can plot more terror like this, and murder more Israelis! Why not? Hey, it will make the world a lot happier, right?

Shyeah.

Someone tell me again how Hamas is moderating, because I’m thinking that they never got the memo.

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Queers for Israel

Here’s something you will never see in a Muslim nation. Israel’s going to get its first gay political party.

A number of friends plan to set up a party for gay people that would contend for Knesset seats in the next general election.

The party will be called Magi, a Hebrew acronym for Gay Party in Israel, the Tel Aviv magazine reported Thursday.

Gay groups stepped up their campaign for more civil rights when their plans to hold a gay pride parade in Jerusalem were cancelled by the police for fear of confrontations with the city’s strictly religious residents.

Say, Queers for Terrorists: What do you think about this? Whoops, you’re still too busy blaming the Israelis for every bad thing in Israel and the terrortories to notice. Never mind.

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A Yourish.com poll

I have an idea of who reads my blog and why, but only an idea. You guys have been driving me crazy lately, because you’re simply not commenting, and it’s hard to tell which of my posts are working and which are not.

If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, you know that I go through periods where I try to find out what keeps bringing my readers back every day. I’m willing to change some things at your request, if those requests fit into what I like to write about, or my vision of this weblog. If they don’t, I pull the “This is not a democracy; it’s a dictatorship” card and overrule you. But I can’t make those decisions if you’re not speaking, so I’m going to try to figure out what to do by giving you some census questions to answer.

Please let me assure you that I have no access to any data other than the results of the poll, just like you. And please, please, please—answer the questions. Take a minute or two. Especially my “invisibles,” the vast majority of my readers who come here every single day, and never email, or comment, or do anything but read. (“Invisibles” is my term for what other people call “lurkers,” but I don’t understand why there should be a negative connotation for people who only read websites, but none for people who never write letters to the editor or call TV stations to complain.) You “invisibles” are the ones I want to get a bead on, so I can continue to keep you around. And maybe get you to bring your friends along.

Let me tell you, it isn’t easy figuring out what you guys want when you never say a word. My mind-reading capabilities are taxed to their utmost in your cases.

First question: Seniority.

How long have you been reading Yourish.com?
Less than 1 year
1-2 years
2-3 years
3-4 years
4-5 years
Since the first year. I rock!
  
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Next: Why you’re here.

Why do you read Yourish.com?
Israel news
Israel news with your snark added
Israel news and analysis that I can’t find many other places
The mainstream media is too biased against Israel
I don’t have the time to read the Israeli media myself
Cat posts
All of the above
All of the above except cat posts
None of the above; I don’t know why I’m here
  
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Next: Who you are.

What is your religion?
Jewish
Christian
Other
  
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Next: Who are my Christian audience? (Please don’t take offense in any way, I’m just really, really curious about my demographics.)

If you are Christian, do you consider yourself:
Christian Zionist
Evangelical
Christian, but not evangelical
Christian, but not particularly religious
Christian Zionist and Evangelical
  
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Next: What kind of Jew are you?

If you are Jewish, are you:
Orthodox
Conservative
Reform
Reconstructionist
Other
  
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Now, your politics:

What is your political viewpoint?
Hard left
Left
Center left
Center
Center right
Right
Hard right
  
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Next: Why don’t you comment? (This is not for my regular commenters. Please skip this question.)

Why don’t you comment here?
I don’t comment anywhere
Your commenting rules are a bit overwhelming and scary
Your posts generally don’t need comments; you’ve said what needs to be said
I disagree with most of what you write, and I’m too polite to say so
I disagree with most of what you write, and I’m too scared of you to say so
No, seriously, you scare me. I’ve seen what you do to some of the commenters around here.
None of the above
  
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Next: What else would you like to see?

What would you like to see more of?
National issues such as politics
Humor
Essays
Entertainment (TV and movies)
Nothing, don’t change
Something else
  
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I know many of you are going to complain that some questions require more than one answer. I tried to make the answers varied enough so that you can choose one that’s at least close to what describes you. But if you insist, I can make multiple-choice answer polls for some of the questions, but not until a whole bunch of you have taken this poll.

You can cheat if you want to. All that will do is make me not bother to find out what my readers want in the future. Ruling by fiat. Yeah, I can deal with that. I’ve always had a hankering to be dictator of the world. If only.

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Springboks? You bet!

The boycott fever consuming the fair island of Albion has erupted again yesterday.

Delegates at the first conference of the new University and College Union in Bournemouth voted by more than three to two to recommend boycotts in protest at Israel’s “40-year occupation” of Palestinian land and to condemn the “complicity” of Israeli academics.

There are some strings attached to the boycott resolutions, which will become clear as time goes by.

The 158 UCU members who voted for the motions are by no means a homogeneous group and there were several motivating factors that caused them to vote this way. I am not even trying to suggest anti-Semitism as a main factor, although it is definitely one of them. The problem with this specific subject is that the usual crowd will drag out the usual straw man “Jews always cry anti-Semitism”, and the resulting brawl will lead to a dead end.

Of course, sheer ignorance and indifference of the majority made it that much easier for the shrilly group of anti-Israeli lobbyists to pass the resolution. And the best proof of it is the fact that hardly anybody of the pro-boycott crowd ever tried to answer one simple question: why it is Israel that is singled out? And hardly anybody of the indifferent “pro” voters ever asked this question.

But all this is a subject for in-depth analysis of the whole story that will inevitably follow as the dust settles. I would like to focus on an example of a “grass-root” pro-boycott scientist, which example is courteously provided by that linked Guardian article.

During the debate, which lasted well over an hour, Michael Cushman, from the London School of Economics, said: “Universities are to Israel what the springboks were to South Africa: the symbol of their national identity.”

I don’t know from springboks and South Africa (interesting choice of imagery, by the way – kinda indicative of the trend). However, I am also not at all sure that universities are that symbolic. What about, you know, Jerusalem, the Western Wall, Ben Gurion, gefilte fish, “never again” and all this stuff?

Israel wanted to claim it was a normal democratic state and universities were integral to that, Mr Cushman said. “[But] it is not a normal state. They are not normal universities. “Senior academics move from universities into ministries and back again,” he said.

Only Mr Cushman knows what is the meaning of the above. How Israel is different from a “normal state” in these movements of academics is a mystery that shall remain unresolved without an investigation, and the question is hardly worth investigating. Anyway, here comes the main point:

“Regularly, lecturers take up their commissions in the Israeli Defence Force as reserve officers to go into the West Bank to dominate, control and shoot the population.”

This is really the essence of the primitive black and white vision so typical of the learned discourse one can easily find on the talk-backs and discussion forums of British press. This is the rotten fruit grown in a mix of ignorance, indifference and, in case of Mr Cushman who seems to be Jewish, an ardent desire to distance himself from the bloodthirsty Zionists.

Yes, Mr Cushman, you have succeeded admirably. You shall never be required by your dean to bring several fresh scalps of Palestinians from your reserve service, unlike your less fortunate brethren in Israeli universities. So rest assured that your “not in my name” was heard loud and clear and the next time they come for you, they will see that “Pass Over” sign on your door.

To end this long post, I have found another example of the mind-boggling sloganeering idiocy that shows the depth of analysis a scientist is able to display – when he/she wants to:

Is it unfair to single Israel out? It is not clear that there are other heavily militarised, nuclear-armed, expansionist apartheid states with extensive illegal settlement, land seizure and wall-building activity.

· John Chalcraft is a lecturer on government at the London School of Economics

Now – should we be surprised by the education level of some graduates with teachers like these?

Feh…

Cross-posted on SimplyJews.

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Jordan to Israel: Stop digging in Old City.

Meryl to Jordan: Eff off, you hypocritical bastards.

A tradition of three millennia, tenaciously preserved and reinvigorated by living presence until 27 May 1948, when the Jewish Quarter fell, could not be destroyed by the Jordanian conquest or edict. The “refugees” from the Old City awaited their return, which began the very moment Israel’s army liberated it from Jordan’s hands in the Six-Day War of 1967. What they found as evidence of Jordan’s attempt over 19 years to erase every memory of Jewish presence was monestrous scene of wanton destruction.

The following is a photographic record that is but a sample of the destruction. All but one the thirty five houses of worship that graced the old city for centuries were in shambles. Such was also the state of the revered Jewish graveyard on the Mount of Olives, a graphic testimony of callous, insensate sacrilegious profanation.

It is the story of hundreds of Scrolls of the Law, reverently preserved for generations, plundered and burned to ashes; of thousands of holy books committed to the flames; of synagogues razed to the ground or covered into hollow shells of their glorious former selves, there interiors used as hen houses and stables, filled with dung-heaps, garbage and carcasses, or as sites for latrines and sewage canals; of tens of thousands of tombstones torn up broken into pieces or used as flagstones, steps and building materials; of large areas of the cemetery leveled and converted into parking lots and a filling station; of graves ripped and skeletal bones scattered to the four winds, and an asphalt short-cut through the pitiful remains to provide as short-cut to a new hotel built incongruously upon the Mount of Olives.

Click on the first link to see what the Jordanian Muslims did to Jewish cemeteries. Or click on this link. Or this one, to see an ancient synagogue destroyed by the Jordanians.

Now listen to this hypocritical, lying asshat.

A Jordanian official called on Israel Wednesday to stop archaeological excavations in the Old City of Jerusalem, the official Petra news agency reported.

[…] “Israel must stop its continuos practices and measures to Judaize the city and change its Arab and Islamic characteristics,” said Abdullah Kanaan, the head of Jordan’s Royal Committee for Jerusalem’s Affairs.

Children, cover your eyes, because Meryl is angry and tired of pseudo-swears: Fuck off, you hypocritical, lying bastard. There is no need to “Judaize” Jerusalem, because the city was built by Jews. You stole it from us. Its Arab and Islamic character is, quite frankly, anathema to the Jewish character of what was once the City of David. And Israeli archeologists keep finding more and more proof that the Torah isn’t blowing smoke.

The greatest scientific and public interest was focused on more than 100 seals and signet rings, used as a means of authentication for written papyrus documents, from the time of the reigns of Kings David and Solomon. The seals bear various markings that, when deciphered, indicate the sender of the document and his or her location. The large number of such seals, archaeologists explained, indicate that the City of David area was a commercial and trading center.

[…] In 2005, a Hebrew University archaeologist and a leading authority on ancient Jerusalem, Dr. Eilat Mazar uncovered a clay seal in what she claimed served as the residential palace of Jewish kings from King David until the destruction of the First Temple, for a period of 450 years. That seal, dated from about 580 BCE, bears the name Yehuchal Ben-Sheleimiya, who is identified as a royal envoy and court minister sent by King Zedekiah to the prophet Jeremiah (in chapters 37 and 38 of the Bible’s Book of Jeremiah).

The Arabs and Muslims are trying their damnedest to cover up the Jewish roots of Israel.

They are failing. And they will always fail.

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Travel day today

But don’t worry, posts have been scheduled.

I am going to Northern VA to return my loaner computer. Which I’m starting to like better than this one, because it’s tiny. And light. Well, but it doesn’t have a 17-inch screen.

Which is why it’s tiny. And light.

Sigh. Can’t I keep ’em both?

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Yeah, that’ll work. The UN and Quartet condemn kassams

Wow, Hamas must be shaking in its sandals at this outpouring of condemnation. First, the Quartet.

The Quartet expressed its deep concern over recent factional violence in Gaza . It called for all Palestinians to immediately renounce all acts of violence and respect the ceasefire. It called upon the Palestinian Authority government, in cooperation with President Abbas and regional actors, to do everything necessary to restore law and order, including the release of kidnapped BBC journalist Alan Johnston.

The Quartet strongly condemned the continued firing of Qassam rockets into Southern Israel as well as the buildup of arms by Hamas and other terrorist groups in Gaza . It endorsed PA President Abbas’ call for an immediate end to such violence, and called upon all elements of the PA government and all Palestinian groups to cooperate with President Abbas to that end. The Quartet called for the immediate and unconditional release of Israeli Corporal Gilad Shalit.

And of course, there’s the usual call for “restraint” from Israel.

The Quartet urged Israel to exercise restraint to ensure that its security operations avoid civilian casualties or damage to civilian infrastructure. It noted that the detention of elected members of the Palestinian government and legislature raises particular concerns and called for them to be released. The Quartet noted its support for the May 30th Security Council Press Statement on the breakdown of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

Next, the UN Security Council, which issued a statement—not any kind of real action, mind you, because the Security Council almost never issues any kind of action against the Palestinians—and hoo-boy, is it harsh.

The members of the Security Council expressed their grave concern at the breakdown of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the resulting increase in violence. The members welcomed the efforts of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to establish a ceasefire, and expressed appreciation for the active support of the Government of Egypt in this regard. They urged all parties to join the members of the Council in supporting the call of President Abbas for an immediate end to the violence.

“Deep concern” from the Quartet. “Grave concern” from the UNSC. Wow. If this keeps up, the world community might just manage to frown on all of the kassam launches into Israel.

You know, the ones that have been happening for the past six years.

You know, the ones that have been happening for more than a year since Israel exited Gaza and Hamas took charge.

By the way, I’m kinda wondering: Where is the mention of kassam rocket launches in the UNSC statement? Because I’m seeing a Rorschach test, not an actual, meaningful statement:

Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Gillerman said in response to the statement, “This is a clear call for the Palestinians to cease fire.” Gillerman described the rocket attacks as “unrestrained and brutal Hamas fire at Israel, “saying, “Israel responds just as any democracy would in order to defend its citizens. The bloodshed can stop only after a the Palestinians decide to end the Qassam fire at Israel.”

Riad Mansour, the Palestinian observer to the UN, told reporters that he would have liked to see a more decisive and balanced statement, but that this may have been a first step towards a Security Council intervention in the situation in Gaza. Mansour also reiterated the Palestinian call for the UN to send a multinational force to the Strip.

Yeah, whatever. If the world community starts shaking its finger, we might have to actually notice that they’re doing something.

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In praise of cats

Lair links to a Rachel Lucas post where she gives advice to would-be online dating service success stories. The part that bothers Lair, of course, is where Rachel says not to put up photos of your cats.

Well. These are for you, Rachel.

First, we have the cutest picture ever taken of Gracie, who is all curled up and happy in her tissue-paper nest. You can see that her belly fur is finally growing back.

Gracie, all curled up in her nest

Next we have Gracie in the window, posing for me as I return home and letting me know she missed me.

Gracie waiting in the window

Then we have the Tig greetings. This is what I come home to about ninety percent of the time now. I open the door, and the kitty condo is right there.

Tig on the kitty condo welcomes me home

And here is the view from my kitchen window on a hot, sunny day. While I am cooking, or washing the dishes, or doing any manner of kitchen task, I can look out and see this:

Tig, relaxing on the patio

Why on earth would I be ashamed to publicize the fact that I own cats? It’s obvious that my cats are happy, healthy, and loved. A person who knows how to take care of an animal quite often also knows how to take care of another person.

Love me, love my cats. It’s that simple.

Would I put a cat picture in an online dating service profile? Beats me. I’ve never tried it.

Besides, if I decided to post a picture of, say, me holding Tig while not wearing a top, I’m guessing that would generate a hell of a lot of positive buzz. (He’s big enough to cover my entire torso, but still—you know people would link. I’m still getting hits every single day from the Blog Chicks Pix on whatshisface’s Beltway blog.)

Really. If a guy doesn’t want to pick me because he doesn’t like a picture of my cat, I’m thinking I don’t want to have anything to do with him in the first place.

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Briefs

Here’s a shock: Iran is supplying weapons to Syria, which in turn supplies them to Hezbullah. And Iraq, of course.

Turkey appears to have foiled an attempt to smuggle weapons from Iran into Syria, the Lebanese newspaper A-Nahar reported Wednesday.

The report said that security forces in Turkey’s southern Diyarbakir province busted open one of the cars of a train traveling from Iran to Syria, and found rockets and American-made rifles.

Say, isn’t there a UN resolution forbidding weapon transfers to Syria or something like that?

America trains Palestinian terrorists: We’ve been pointing this out for years, and yet, the U.S. continues to pour money and training down the terrorist toilet that is Fatah, even after Israel gives proof after proof that the training, and the American weapons, are being used to murder Israelis. And, in some cases, Americans.

According to Israeli and Palestinian security sources, Shawish, as a member of Force 17, received US training in 1997 at an American managed military base in the West Bank city of Jericho. The base continues to train Force 17 members. Multiple other Brigades members who also double as Force 17 officers previously received US training.

[…] Shawish doubled as the Ramallah chief of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group. He previously boasted of involvement in a West Bank shooting attack in December 2000 that killed Israeli ultranationalist leader Benjamin Kahane and Kahane’s wife, Talya.

Way to go, CIA! Another notch on your belt for the murderers of the world.

Well, that’s a no-brainer: A Palestinian collaborator says the only way to stop the kassams is the use of overwhelming force.

Qadia said that the short breaks are not a real solution for the anxiety brought on by the Qassams. “It’s only getting worse and with no end in sight, unfortunately I see no real leadership here, it’s every man for himself. Nothing else will work, we just need to go into Gaza, full force, and pound them, erase them completely, until it’s over. That’s the only language they understand and believe me – I know what I’m talking about. After all, I lived with them.”

Speaking of kassams: Yeah, they’re still falling. Another apartment hit, but luckily no serious damage to the residents.

Yeah, we knew that, too: Hezbullah has been completely re-armed, thanks to Syria and Iran.

Transportation Minister and former defense minister Shaul Mofaz said Wednesday that the Hizbullah has returned to its combat strength prior to the Second Lebanon War, Israel Radio reported.

Speaking at the local government summit at Tel Aviv University, Mofaz warned not to be fooled by the lack of Hizbullah outposts in southern Lebanon since he claims the group has bunkers underground near the the border with Israel.

Wonderful. Coupled with the news that Iran is revving up its activities in Europe, this is going to be a very, very hot summer.

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Ha’aretz on Britain’s anti-Israelism

Ha’aretz, the Israeli paper that is the darling of the left, trashes Great Brtain’s policy of constantly trying to delegitimize Israel as a nation.

Britain has become in recent years the battlefield in Israel’s fight for its existence as a Jewish state.

The number of British organizations calling for the boycott of Israel, their public campaigns, and their constant comparisons between Israel and the apartheid regime of South Africa have made the battle for British public opinion particularly significant.

On Wednesday, representatives of the new British University and College Union (UCU) will be meeting in Bournemouth. On the agenda is another proposal to boycott Israel’s academic institutions. These proposals have become as regular and as predictable as Qassam attacks on Sderot. The fact that studies at the Sapir Academic College in Sderot are not taking place because of the constant rocket fire from Gaza, even though the college is not in occupied territory and Gaza is no longer occupied, apparently does not bother British academia. The fact that Hamas, which controls the Palestinian Authority, does not recognize even pre-1967 Israel, and commits acts of terror against civilians, does not matter either. These nuances did not stop one boycott initiator from saying last week that justice in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is entirely on one side.

That is some serious trash-talking from Ha-aretz, the paper most willing to blame Israel for her problems with the Palestinians. This is the newspaper that all serious lefty (and anti-Israel) bloggers quote, and link to in their sidebars.

Taking off the gloves in this debate involves knowingly foregoing the kudos that British academia lavishes on all who are willing to express anti-Israel stands. The UCU has even had the termerity to proclaim that Israeli lecturers who disown the policies of the Israeli government will not be boycotted. It is British academics who should lose sleep over this McCarthyistic demand. Academic freedom means first of all an open exchange of opinions, without coercion, and not shutting people’s mouths. Moreover, the British boycott is directed at Israel’s academic institutions that in any case are a bastion of opposition to the occupation.

That’s telling them, Ha’aretz!

On the 40th anniversary of the Six-Day War, British academia should look realistically at peace efforts in the Middle East: Over the past decade, Israel has elected governments that have expressed the desire of a majority of Israelis for a bilateral solution of two states for two peoples and a withdrawal from most of the settlements. The withdrawal from Gaza was to have been the first stage. The victory of Hamas, which refuses to recognize Israel, cut off the process.

The anti-Zionist winds blowing in Europe, mainly in academia and in Britain, strengthen the position that the very birth of the Jewish state was a mistake. The European hard left regards the Law of Return as the root of all evil; however, without acknowledging the Jewish character of the State of Israel, there is not even a basis for dialogue. British academia is in fact demanding that Israel democratically cease to exist as a Zionist entity, and that it be swallowed up in the non-democratic region in order to pander to the latest trend.

One would be tempted to call those “anti-Semitic winds,” if one weren’t Ha’aretz. The current meme, that Israel’s existence was a “mistake,” is yet another way to tell the Jews that they are less deserving than the rest of the world. Sure, we gave you a country, they say (and they do say “gave” us a country, never mind that Israel was ours, and that we are the indigenous people, not “colonists”) but now that it’s turned out to be such a pain in the ass, we’re taking it back. Oh, you can stay there, they tell us, but only at the whims of the Arabs we declared indigenous, even though many of them came from the surrounding countries once Jews started to make the desert bloom again. And never mind that continuous Jewish presence in Israel all these centuries. They were the minority, so they don’t count. You left. It isn’t yours any longer.

That, they say, is democracy in action: Removing the world’s only Jewish state from the world stage, to add yet another Islamic dictatorship ruled by thugs and murderers, with Jews as second-class citizens in the nation they envision. Funny how these same people didn’t give a damn about “Palestine” when the Palestinians were being ruled by Jordan in the West Bank, and the Egyptians commanded Gaza. Funny how the sacred sites of Jerusalem weren’t a problem when Jordan was destroying Jewish shrines and holy sites, but they’ve become a problem now that the Israelis want to maintain the Western Wall and its environs.

Funny.

In a “Gee, something smells funny” kind of way.

Go get ’em, Ha’aretz. Not that it will make a difference. The Brits have hated the Jews for centuries. They need no excuse to continue.

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Tech question

I keep getting pop-up windows telling me I’ve got all kinds of system infections and I should click to download Errorsafe. Of course, I do not click to download, and in fact, am leery of closing the pop-up window until I’m sure it’s not scamming me into clicking “yes” somewhere.

The thing is, I can’t figure out where they’re coming from. I’m not sure I have Errorsafe or not, and Symantec insists that it’s preventing Errorsafe from infecting my system.

And yet, twice today, I have had an Errorsafe pop-up window asking me to d/l their annoying program. The first thing that happens when something like that occurs is my reaching for the cable modem and immediately disconnecting from the internet. Then I try to figure out what, exactly, I’m looking at.

Anyone have any ideas where this sucker is coming from? It hit me after I was surfing a Hot Air story, but that may be sheer coincidence. Then again, I went to some site called the Epoch Times, which may have been the source of the window.

If anyone else has had this problem, I’d love to hear about it.

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The International Red Cross: Nazi helpers

I thought I could not possibly loathe the ICRC any more than I already do.

I was wrong.

I was really wrong.

I’m sure the apologists will say that Eichmann just “slipped through” somehow.

That’s not good enough.

The passport used by high-ranking Nazi Aldolf Eichmann as he escaped to Argentina after World War II has been turned over to the Holocaust Museum in Buenos Aires after a judge stumbled upon it in a musty court file.

Eichmann, a leader of a campaign of mass deportation of Jews to extermination camps in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe during the war, fled to Argentina in 1950 under the alias “Ricardo Klement.”

I’m really not fond of Argentina, either. It astonishes me that even now, so many nations protect their Nazis, using the excuse that the survivors are now old and infirm. Yeah. They weren’t old and infirm when they were murdering Jews, though.

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The difference between old host and Bluehost

My new hosting service is Bluehost, a service that I have been extremely happy with. Here’s the main reason why:

In the last month with my old hosting service, I received a link from Instapundit. The resulting traffic caused my old hosting service to redirect most of the referrers from Glenn away from my site. No, I am not kidding. They forced a redirect error to reduce server load. The traffic was only several hundred hits per hour, according to Sitemeter, but I can’t tell if that was before or after their little miracle cure.

Well, I am currently undergoing about twice the amount of traffic with another Instalink. As far as I can tell, my site is unaffected by the extra load, which is just under 1,000 hits per hour.

Another great service from Bluehost: If I can’t get to my site due to server load from someone else on the shared server, I can go to a page to check my server. Every time this has happened, within about a minute, the message is changed to “An administrator is checking the server load,” and shortly thereafter, my site is back to normal.

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AP “centrist” party watch

Here it is again.

Ayalon, 61, has pledged to lead the centrist Labor out of its year-old partnership with Olmert if the prime minister’s Kadima Party does not choose a new leader.

Notes: The AP has not yet given Kadima an adjective. But they’re warming up the “hard-right” for Likud (which they already call “hardline”).

Opinion polls forecast the Likud Party, led by former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, would win handily if elections were held today. Likud takes a hard line against concessions to the Palestinians, whereas both Barak and Ayalon are willing to cede large chunks of land in a final peace deal.

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