...The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, which claims to be against terrorism, is urging its members to pressure Congress not to pass a bill sponsored by Frank Wolf (R-VA) to create a National Commissionon Terrorism. The ADC said it is concerned that such a Commission might take "steps which target particular groups"...
...The Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream company is claiming that its refusal to do business with firms located on the Golan Heights was not a surrender to protests by pro-Arab groups, but one of those groups, "New Yorkers for a Just Middle East Peace," has distributed a letter to its supporters headlined "Ben & Jerry Surrenders!," and issued a press release headlined "Ben & Jerry's Succumbs to Pressure from Activists"...
...The American Committee on Jerusalem, whose first conference, two years ago, featured Thomas Friedman of the New York Times as one of its speakers, is accusing Israel of "ethnic cleansing" and "desecration of cemeteries" in its latest fundraising appeal...
...Marty Rosenbluth, director of the anti-Israel video documentary "Jerusalem: An Occupation Set in Stone?," is raising funds for a new, autobiographical documentary, titled "Stranger in a Strange Land," in which he chronicles "what it was like to be Jewish, living and working with Palestinians during the intifada." Rosenbluth's fundraising appeal leader reports that he has already received grants from the North Carolina Arts Council South Carolina Arts Council, and the Puffin Foundation...
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"Death to Clinton! Death to Israel!" Thus the double whammy for Jews of Clinton's latest Iraq exploit, and thus the strategic results of the State Department's embracing the Palestinians. The sop to Israel for this lethal bumbling was a pledge of $1.2 billion in aid, forthcoming when it yields yet more of Judea to Saddam Hussein's most fervent allies.
The emblem of all this deceitful stupidity was provided on the eve of Chanukah, as the President strolled down the Laureate's red carpet at Gaza. Seventeen-year old Tamar Klein of Shavei Shomron was stabbed in the back by one of her youthful peace partners. She was hurried to the hospital in Kfar Saba with the dagger's handle protruding from her body. Caught up in their hosannas for Mr. Clinton, New York Times reporters Deborah Sontag and James Bennet did not bother to mention the victim. Clinton's reception in Gaza "sounded like the Democratic National Convention," Sontag breezily scribbled. "It certainly seemed like a State visit," Bennet observed, then noted the supposed canceling of "clauses in the Palestinian charter obnoxious to Israel." What these clauses were, why they are "obnoxious," or whether they truly were repudiated (they were not) neither Bennet nor his bosses nor enough of his readers much care, any more than they seem to care about Jews like Tamar Klein. There is, as described by security analyst Meir Davidson, "a ladder of blood." A terrorist attack on Jews in Judea or Samaria means much less than an attack in Jerusalem which in turn counts for less than one in Tel Aviv.
So Tamar Klein. She played the part the powers have scripted for her and for Israel, getting knifed in the back. Like the naked hypocrisy of the proverbial Emperor, this emblem of the last thirty years of betrayals goes unmentioned. Unless friends of Israel bestir themselves, it will be repeated in literal, frequent, and terrible fashion.
Eugene Narrett teaches English at Boston University.
January 1999 - 9 - Outpost