SPOTLIGHT ON
THE EXTREMISTS
..."We are the last colonialists, since the end of South Africa," former Meretz leader Shulamit Aloni (and cabinet minister in the Rabin and Peres governments) told Ha'aretz in a November 12 interview. "Revolt and resistance are justified in every place that people are sent in order to kill and be killed for living space"...
...Why did Arab rioting erupt in September? "The Israeli decision to continue the imprisonment of Palestinian women and other prisoners" was one of the major reasons, according to the editors of the Jewish leftwing newsletter P.S.. No mention of the fact that they are being imprisoned because they are convicted murderers...
..."Arab-bashing" in Hollywood is the fault of the Jews, says Don Bustany of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. In a recent interview with the Jerusalem Report, he declared: "You and I both know that Marlon Brando was quite right when he pointed out that Jews run Hollywood.
The decision-makers, the play-callers, are Jews, completely out of proportion to their numbers in the population. I am convinced that individuals who identify with Israel feel that vilifying Arabs helps the cause"...
...The PLO-appointed mayor of Hebron, Mustafa Natshe, is unhappy that Jews are permitted to pray in the Tomb of the Patriarchs, Judaism's oldest holy site. In a November 7 interview with the Israeli news agency IMRA, Natshe was asked about future prayer arrangements at the site for Jews. He replied, "They can visit it." Asked specifically if he would let Jews pray there, Natshe said: "There is a synagogue nearby, the Ibrahim Synagogue. They can pray there"...
...Can a Meretz supporter represent a Likud government? That is the question many are raising as controversy intensifies over the behavior of Gideon Samet, Israel's Consul-General in Philadelphia. Samet, who was named to the post by then-Prime Minister Shimon Peres just prior to the May 1996 elections, is a former editor of the leftist Hebrew-language newspaper Ha'aretz,
as well as a "thinker and philosopher in Meretz,"according to a colleague of his, quoted in the New York Jewish weekly Forward. Since arriving in Philadelphia in September, Samet has repeatedly criticized the Netanyahu government, both in his public lectures and in private meetings with local Jewish leaders.
Asked whether he was comfortable in the role of representative of the current government, Samet declared, "What do you think I am, a fascist, who accepts anything the government does?" Samet said that while Netanyahu may want peace, he does not feel it "with the same sense of urgency as some Laborites." He publicly attacked the opening of the Jerusalem tunnel exit as "a mistake" and "unfortunate." According to Samet, the mass Arab
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rioting erupted because "this government's hard-line policies are frustrating the Arabs." According to one press report, Samet recently had a meeting with local pro-Israel activists, one of whom "referred, in passing to the fact that the six million Jews would not have been killed if there had been a Jewish State to which they could have fled in the 1940s. Samet became upset, and shot back, 'That's past history. Don't bring that up.
Why are you bringing that up? The Holocaust is not relevant'." At another meeting with Jewish leaders, according to the report, Samet expressed his hope that there would be "a creative solution to the tunnel controversy, such as, we could say, 'There are problems with the walls there; we are not sure if they're safe;' or we could say 'There's radon in the tunnel, so it's not safe, and we have to close it for a few months'."
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