...The Summer 1998 issue of Women's League Outlook, the journal of the Women's League for Conservative Judaism, featured an article by Brad Rubin, a law student in Washington, D.C., describing his experience as a summer volunteer worker for various agencies of the Palestinian Authority. In the article, Rubin alleged that the treatment of Arabs by Israel is comparable to the treatment of Jews during the Holocaust: "We have kept the hatred of the Holocaust alive by displacing it onto others"; and "In our zeal to prevent [the Holocaust's] recurrence have we forgotten the lesson of this tragedy? Have we changed the lesson from 'Never Again' to 'Never Again, to Us?'" Rubin also alleged that Israel carries out "the destruction and shattering of thousands of Palestinian lives," and claimed that Israel demolishes Arab homes "without compensation because they were close to future settlements or bypass roads." Four prominent Conservative rabbis have protested the article's appearance and urged the editors to issue a retraction--Rabbi Ephraim Rubinger (Massapequa, NY), Rabbi Barry Dov Schwartz (Lynbrook, NY), Rabbi Shalom Stern (Cedarhurst, NY.) and Rabbi Julian White (Los Angeles)...
...Although the editors of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs claim they are merely critical of Israeli policy, not anti-Israel or anti-Jewish, the May-June 1998 issue included an attack on the amount of federal funding received by the United States Holocaust Museum...
...Syndicated columnist Joseph Sobran, writing in a recent issue of his newsletter, Sobran's, charges that "Ziojournalism" --his shorthand for pro-Israel journalists--exaggerates the history of Christian anti-Semitism in order to win sympathy for Israel. "Christianity is the target," Sobran declares. This "Jewish animus against Christianity goes right back to the beginning and persists to this day." Public burnings of the Talmud in medieval Europe took place only when Christians "discovered" that there were supposedly anti-Christian references in Talmudic literature, according to Sobran. "Jews were generally tolerated in Christian Europe over the centuries and sought to live there," according to Sobran. "If the whole story could be fairly described as 'persecution,' the Jews would surely have had the sense to avoid Christian lands long before they endured two millenia of it." He criticizes Jews for not accepting part of the blame for anti-Semitism, and contends that all of this "is being replicated today in the Middle East, where the more extreme Zionists refuse to accept any responsibility for tensions with the non-Jewish natives of the 'Jewish homeland'"...
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collect their judgment.In other words, our State Department and our Justice Department were fighting against our efforts to help the Flatow family cause a price to be paid by Iran, the sponsor of this terrorist act. In other words, our government was protecting the rights of the State of Iran rather than the rights of the Flatow family and the rights of every Member of this House who voted for the Antiterrorism Act of 1996.
There has to be a price to pay. Ronald Reagan knew there had to be a price to pay. He told Qadaffi that there would be a price to pay, and there was a price to pay. The Libyans have been silent ever since on these subjects.
Our State Department must take note that, in the case of Khobar Towers, there was no price to pay. In the case of these two latest explosions, we will go through the process of grieving. We will go through the process of cleaning up the embassies. We will go through the process of some kind of a cursory investigation.
Unless our policies change, there will be no price to pay. Those who cause these types of actions must know that there is not only a price to pay, but that America will cause a heavy price to be paid.
September 1998 - 9 - Outpost