SPOTLIGHT ON THE EXTREMISTS...Jerusalemite Ellen Horowitz, writing recently in the Jerusalem Post, revealed a fascinating incident that happened to her in 1986, when she was living in Boston. "I was working on the layout and design staff of a liberal Jewish newspaper supported by the New Jewish Agenda and New Israel Fund," Horowitz recalled. "The editor requested a cover design highlighting the year's human rights abuses. While researching the topic of children, I came across a passage describing how 'Rachel weeps for her children'...I sketched Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah all grieving against the backdrop of the Western Wall, which was covered in haphazard graffiti describing various oppressed peoples of the world. The caption read, 'Where are our children?' Upon receiving the sketch, the editor said, 'Can't you draw something a little less Jewish? ' "......A. James Rudin of the American Jewish Committee, in his Nov.17-23 Boston Jewish Advocate column, referred to an obscure cable-access television program, in New York, which once displayed a cartoon about Yitzhak Rabin that contained offensive sexual references. Rudin implied that the show's host was typical of Jewish opponents of the "peace process." In fact, the host of that show represents nobody but himself. Yet, there are individuals on the Israeli left, who hold positions of leadership, who have made sexually obscene statements about their opponents. For example, the March 1987 issue of Mapam Viewpoint, official magazine of the leftwing Mapam Party, contained an editorial cartoon depicting then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and Rabbi Avraham Shapira, an Orthodox cabinet minister, as rap-ists. Mapam is not an obscure cable tv program; it is a mainstream leftwing party that is part of the ruling Labor coalition. Likewise, Jerusalem City Councilman Dede Ben-Shitrit declared ( Jerusalem Post, June 5, 1987) that "most child molesters" are Orthodox Jews. Ben-Shitrit was a representative of the "One Jerusalem" party, the Labor Party affiliate on the Jerusalem City Council... ..."If necessary, I am prepared to shoot at settlers, preferably between the eyes, like one shoots at kangaroos in Australia, to kill." So declared Amir Yefet, of Kibbutz Palmachim, in a recent issue of the Kibbutz newspaper. Yefet also spoke about "raking the skin of settlers." Interviewed subsequently by Sharon Glick, correspondent for the newspaper Arim, Yefet refused to retract his statements... ...Former Congressman Paul Findley, a veteran Israel-basher, had this to say about Yasser Arafat's recent visit to New York: "His charm, wit and sincerity are infectious, and his distinctive attire is intriguing..." ...Although the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee claims to accept Israel's right to exist, the longtime leader of the ADC's Los Angeles division, Donald Bustany, declared in the Dec.1995 issue of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs that "3,000 years ago, the Jewish people, led by Moses...took by force the land of the people of Canaan. In this century--still led by Moses in a sense--they took by force and some unsavory diplomacy the land of the Arabs of Palestine..." |
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