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1. Opinion: Natural Disasters, Palestinian Barbarism
by Prof. Phyllis Chesler
The Fogel Family, massacred in Itamar
It is all happening and far more quickly than even I had anticipated;
and yet, the events are so surreal that they seem to be happening in
slow motion, as if we are dreaming or in a really bad movie.
That is because we view it all—but are helpless before it.
The natural disasters: an earthquake which may have killed more than
10,000 people in Japan and an unintended Japanese nuclear meltdown are
fully matched by the moral and man-made disasters in Libya and in
Itamar, the West Bank town in which Palestinians slaughtered five
members of the same Israeli family. In addition to the 35 and 36 year
old parents, Udi and Ruth, the child victims were thee months old Hadas,
4 years old Elad, and 11 years old Yoav. 
Palestinians were seen giving out candy to celebrate this Cowardly Kill. The President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas,
refused to condemn this cowardly attack. He mumbled something in
English about “all violence leading to violence” which means the
violence of the alleged Israeli “occupation” of the disputed territories
is what caused these murders. Palestinian Prime Minister, Salam Fayyad,
condemned the attack and, excellent propagandist that he is, insisted
that “There ought to be no doubt on where we stand on violence. We
reject it, and we have always condemned it.”
And my grandmother is a bicycle as they say. I really wonder what these Palestinian leaders have been saying in Arabic.
Palestinian terrorists are Baby Killers par excellence. From the beginning of the Second Intifada in 2000, they have killed at least 123 Israeli children—on
purpose, not accidentally. They have shot up teenagers while studying,
have tried to kill children in nursery schools and child care centers.
Palestinian terrorists have even killed children at Itamar. In 2002,
Habash Hanani did so, and he is currently being glorified by the
Palestinian Authority.
Palestinian terrorists are Baby Killers and yet Arab, Islamist, and
liberal fascist propaganda have managed to convince the world that
Israelis and Jews are Baby Killers—Israel, a country whose military
never uses civilians as hostages and which, contrary to Big Lie myth, is
exquisitely restrained when it comes to avoiding civilian casualties
during urban battle.
Arab and Muslim terrorists are Baby Killers. They kill their own in
order to kill the babies of their enemies. The Taliban in Pakistan
specialize in grooming 5-10 year old orphan boys to blow themselves up.
Muslims, Arabs, Islamist terrorists in general, and Palestinians and
Iranians in particular, brainwash, exploit, mere children and teenagers
as jihadists and as suicide killers.
Today, sickeningly, the western mainstream media, and some Jewish and
Israeli anti-Zionists as well, are implicitly, essentially, blaming the
settlers for their own murders! They are “settlers,” “radical settlers,”
“living beyond the green line,” not human beings, not Jews, not
Israelis, not even real victims. Real victims should not have been
living there, their geographical presence comprises an (understandable)
“provocation.” Similarly, women’s uncovered faces, infidel women
especially, constitute a “provocation” too so that they have only
themselves to blame when Allah-fearing Muslim men rape, gang-rape, and
assault them.
Real victims are the Palestinian terrorists who are forced to murder
babies in response to being “illegally,” and immorally Occupied.
In its firstpiece about this crime, the New York Times characterized Itamar as “home to some of Israel’s most radical settlers.”
Shoot that radical settler. No, stab him while he’s asleep in his bed,
better yet, why not stab his whole family? The international community
will not care.
Demonize settlers, isolate Israelis, insist that “Islamophobia,”
not Islamic terrorism, is the problem, (do so in the American
Congress), refuse to stop the wholesale slaughter of Muslims by Muslims
(think Libya, think Darfur), instead, blame Israel because the
Palestinians do not want a Palestinian state, lean on Israel to
negotiate harder, give up even more, give up every city, including
Jerusalem and then simply wait for the law-of-returning Palestinians to
overcome the last “settlement” standing: Tel Aviv—do so, even as the
entire Arab Muslim Middle East is exploding over non-Israel specific
problems--and inevitably, the Palestinian fiends will be emboldened to
act and will slaughter an innocent, peaceful Jewish family in their beds
and of course, on the Jewish Sabbath.
(sent by the author, also on http://www.newsrealblog.com/2011/03/13/natural-disasters-palestinian-barbarism/)) )
2. Israel Complains Over CNN Coverage of Itamar Murders
by Elad Benari
Israel’s Government Press Office Director, Oren Helman, sent a letter
of complaint on Sunday to the management of the CNN television network
and asked them to issue an apology and clarify claims the network made
in a report about Friday’s brutal murder of the Fogel family in Itamar.
Earlier, Israel National News reporters had reported the lack of
coverage and minimalization of the barbaric slaughter on CNN, BBC and
even the usually objective FoxNews in an article entitled "Dead Jews, Not News".
The report by Kevin Flower, which appeared on CNN’s website, was titled
‘Israeli family of 5 killed in ‘terror attack’, military says’. The
quotes around the words “terror attack” suggested that there is a doubt
that the massacre in Itamar was indeed an act of terrorism.
The body of the report said: “Five members of an Israeli family were
killed in the West Bank early Saturday morning in what the Israeli
military is calling a ‘terror attack.’
“According to a military spokeswoman, an intruder entered the Israeli
settlement of Itamar near the northern West Bank city of Nablus around 1
am, made his way into a family home and killed two parents and their
three children.”
In his letter, Helman wrote that he was shocked to see a report that distorts the harsh reality so much.
“Only you decided to use the term terrorist attack in quotation marks,
as if this were not necessarily the case,” Helman wrote. “There is a
limit to the extent of objectivity regarding such a horrific deed.”
Helman also demanded an apology from CNN executives over the incident.
This would certainly not be the first time that CNN distorts reports related to Israel. In November, a CNN report
on a three-year-old girl from Gaza, who was suffering from a disease
caused by kidney failure, was turned by the network into an article that
is uncomplimentary to Israel. Instead of praising Israel for accepting
Arab patients from Gaza, CNN led the reader to think that Israel is the
villain.
Previously, CNN's senior editor Octavia Nasr posted a comment on
Twitter, calling Hizbullah cleric Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah who
had passed away, “one of Hezbollah's giants [whom] I respect a lot.”
Nasr was subsequently fired from the network after Israel National News reported of her support for the cleric.
For a report on what worried the Israeli daily Haaretz on the day of the funerals, click here.
3. Israel Launches PA Incitement Index
by Gil Ronen
The Security Cabinet decided Sunday to establish an index that would monitor Palestinian Authority incitement against
Israel and the Jewish people. The "Culture of Peace and Incitement
Index" was developed by professional Government and security
establishment elements.
The announcement is linked to the horrific massacre in Itamar, which
the government sees as resulting from PA incitement. Vice Prime Minister
Moshe Ya'alon said Sunday that continued PA incitement would makes any agreement signed by it worthless.
The Index considers four main issues: Explicit incitement to violence,
encouraging an atmosphere of violence and terrorism, incitement to
hatred and demonization, and the failure to prepare people for positive
processes.
It was agreed that the Index would be constantly updated and presented
in various forums in order to influence the Palestinian Authority to
stop its ubiquitous incitement to, and education for, violence.
The high-profile establishment of the Index could signal a shift in
official Israeli policy vis-a-vis the PA. Israelis who favor appeasing
the PA tend to ignore incitement activity,
focusing instead on actual terror acts. These are usually not
officially authorized by the PA, and are often carried out by groups
whose connection to the PA leadership is difficult to prove. Moving the
focus to incitement lays the blame for terror directly at the PA's
doorstep and could put an end to the terrorist's shell game regarding
responsibilty for the actual attacks.
Familiar patterns
The Incitement Index of the last quarter of 2010 indicates a
continuation of incitement against Israel in the PA. Familiar patterns
of incitement reappeared, including – inter alia – the glorification of
terrorists and jihad as part of the national ethos, severe libels
against Israel, anti-Semitic stereotypes in the official PA media and the denial of any connection between the Jewish People and its holy places.
The Index checks – on a quarterly basis – the PA media, education
system curriculum, leaders' remarks, sermons, advertisements on the
Internet, basic documents, etc. The examination assesses the relative
weight of the foregoing in the incitement and in building a culture of
peace.
Among the findings revealed were several examples of the extreme
demonization of Israelis and the use of anti-Semitic motifs. Prominent
among these is a guide for a program on PA television that purports to
show methods of torture used by the Israel Prison service, such as
burning prisoners with irons and amputating organs.
4. Itamar Massacre Fails to Change Obama’s Anti-Settlement Policy
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
The Netanyahu government’s decision to build 500 new homes in Judea and Samaria (Yesha) as a response to Arab terror does not move the United States, which still insists that "settlements are illegitimate.”
The American criticism of Israel’s renewed Yesha building , restricted
to major population centers, was true to form. That criticism caused
National Union party chairman MK Yaakov Katz (Ketzaleh) to say that it
would be aimed at Israel whether 5000, 500 or 50 houses were built. no
matter where in Judea andSamaria they are built. He sharply criticized
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's announcement of only 500 new homes,
when the needs are much greater, as a sign of weakness and being “too
little and too limited.”
Knesset Member Katz explained, "The minuscule number of housing units
announced by the government serves as a reward to the foul murderers of
our people. The straight thinking public, those who love Israel and its
nation, have had enough of this cowering, spineless behavior and will
not forgive the Prime Minister's handing of the reins of building Judea
and Samaria and United Jerusalem over to [Defense Minister] Ehud Barak."
“The government's weakness," said Katz, "will stimulate the inner,
wholesome strength of the more than 600,000 residents of Judea and
Samaria [including United Jerusalem] and those who support them, who
will not rest until they replace the present jaded leaders with men of
integrity, until we are led by humble and unassuming leaders who believe
in the justice of their cause.”
The Obama administration’s criticism of Israel is based on its
acceptance of the Palestinian Authority demand that Israel surrender all
of the land restored to the Jewish state in the Six Day War in 1967.
The political lines before the war were referred to as the “Auschwitz
borders" by then-Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, Abba Eban.
The Israeli response of “they murder and we build” was tempered with a
statement that “measured construction” will be limited to the major
Jewish population centers of Maaleh Adumin, Ariel, Kiryat Sefer and Gush
Etzion.
Nevertheless, U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said the Obama
administration was “deeply concerned" over the new construction for
Jews. He repeated U.S. President Barack Obama’s declaration that the
Jewish communities in the area are “illegitimate” and added that the new
building plans "run counter to efforts to resume direct negotiations''
between Israelis and the Palestinian Authority.
The PA also denounced the new building plan.
Prime Minister Netanyahu imposed an unprecedented 10-month freeze
on building new homes for Jews in Judea and Samaria in September 2009
to satisfy PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s condition for resuming
negotiations for the establishment of the PA as an independent country.
However, Abbas then rejected the freeze as not being extensive
enough. After the freeze ended, the government allowed the continuation
of previously approved homes.
A de-facto freeze continues on new homes in most of Judea and Samaria
that have not yet been approved, due to Defense Minister Ehud Barak’s
refusal to sign necessary documents. He said he would agree to the 500
new units that a government ministerial committee approved Saturday
night, 24 hours after the Itamar massacre.
5. Samaria Chief Rabbi: “40 Years of Failure, New Approach Needed"
by Hillel Fendel
Today was supposed to be the installation ceremony of the Samaria
Regional Council’s first Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Elyakim Levanon of Elon
Moreh, but the event has been postponed because of the slaughter of the
Fogel family in Itamar.
Despite this, Arutz-7’s Shimon Cohen talked this morning with Rabbi
Levanon, who said that the terrorist massacre in Itamar must be viewed
from two angles: “We must not forget about the individuals – the Fogel
and Ben-Yishai families, and the three orphans, including of course the
12-year-old girl who discovered the catastrophe, and we must embrace
them with warmth and love and help… And at the same time, this must be a
watershed event on a national level. We must realize that we’ve been
knocking our heads against the wall for decades; our national policy has
registered failure after failure…"
"I agree with something that Netanyahu said yesterday," the rabbi said,
"that the terrorist attacks will not determine our future. It’s not
because of a particular terrorist attack that we will build a few more
houses in [Gush Etzion] or in Maaleh Adumim [as was announced on
Sunday]. Rather, we have to convene at our own initiative and decide
where and how we want to build; this is our land and our country.”
No Such Thing as Illegal Outposts
“We have to stop once and for all with this nonsense about ‘illegal
outposts,’” Rabbi Levanon continued. “They are illegal only because
Defense Minister Barak hasn’t signed the necessary papers; once he
signs, it becomes legal – and if he doesn’t sign, then another Defense
Minister will come along to sign them. We must begin a new path, a path
of independent thinking.”
Leave Itamar?!
Rabbi Levanon expressed great impatience with voices from abroad that
say, “What are they doing in Itamar in the first place? If they weren't
there, they wouldn’t get killed.” The rabbi said, “Perhaps we should say
the same about Israel altogether: If we weren't here in this country,
there wouldn’t be any wars! Let’s go back to the Diaspora – as if no
Jews were ever murdered in our years in the Exile! To say now that it’s
our fault for being here is not only small-minded and short-sighted, but
also evil… This is our home and our inheritance, and we must continue
building, and Itamar must become a city and a new center in the
Shomron.”
“Is the country ready for such an approach?” Cohen asked. “After all,
many in Israel also feel that we should not remain in Yesha…”
Rabbi Levanon answered, “Yes, a new national shift in thinking is
needed. The politicians apparently don’t have advisors who can formulate
a new approach; I’m not saying we should replace the politicians,
because we can’t know who will come after them. But let them find new
advisors who can propose a new alternative to replace the present
approach, which is not working. They must also propose how to explain
and present it to the nation.”
6. 'Peace and Dialogue' Muslim Group Angered by Jewish Kotel
by Maayana Miskin
The pan-national Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (ISESCO) is holding a meeting this week to plan how to
fight Jewish rights at the Western Wall. The conference, to be held in
Jordan, follows shortly on the heels of the group's participation in the
High Panel on Peace and Dialogue Among Cultures, which was hosted by
the United Nations.
Speaking at the UN, ISESCO Director-general Dr. Abdulaziz Othman
Altwaijri said the organization he heads, which has 50 member states,
strives to promote dialogue among cultures and to “disseminate the
justice and peace culture.”
Days later, Altwaijri was planning to fight “attempts by the Israeli
occupation authorities to Judaize Al-Quds Al-Sharif... as well as
Israeli plans to Judaize the Al-Boraq Wall.”
The site known to Muslims as Al-Quds Al-Sharif is known to Jews and to
many Christians as the Temple Mount, the site of the First and Second
Temples described in the Bible. It is Judaism's most holy site.
For centuries, Muslims barred Jews from the Mount, and the closest they
could get to the holy site was a retaining wall around the Temple. The
wall became a site of Jewish prayer, widely known as the Kotel, the
Western Wall, or the Wailing Wall. Jews were banned from the site
briefly following the Jordanian takeover of Jerusalem in 1949, but
regained control of the area in 1967 and have been praying at the Wall
ever since. The Wall is open to followers of all religions.
ISESCO is planning an international campaign to term Israel's presence
at the Wall, and efforts to renovate the area for worshipers'
convenience, as illegal. The group also accuses Israel of putting the
Al-Aksa Mosque on the Temple Mount in danger with its renovations.
At the meeting this week, archaeologists belonging to ISESCO will be
called to testify in support of the group's claims, and to write reports
for submission to “relevant international bodies.”
The Palestinian Authority issued a report in 2010 denying any Jewish connection to the Kotel. In a program broadcast on the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah, PA television termed Jewish prayer at the site "filth and sin."
7. Terror Victims Groups Calls for Death Penalty for Terrorists
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
Israel should implement the death penalty for terrorist murderers, says a terror victims organization after the brutal terrorist slaughter of parents and children at Itamar, in Samaria, Friday night.
The Almagor Terror Victims Organization, headed by retired IDF Lieutenant-Colonel Meir Indor,
also called on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to replace Defense
Minister Ehud Barak and halt the process of handing responsibility for
Israelis' security over to the Palestinian Authority.
Almagor’s call followed the brutal murders
of Rabbi Udi Fogel, his wife Ruth, and three of their six young
children, including a three-month-old baby, all of them stabbed to death
Friday night in their bedrooms.
"What is needed now is not promises to capture the murderers, since the
government regularly considers the release of terrorist murderers,
holding discussions of how many and which murderers to release in a deal
with Hamas," said Dr. Aryeh Bachrach, a bereaved father of a youth
killed by Arab terrorists.
"What is needed is a categorical change in how these crimes are
punished, and first and foremost a mandatory death penalty,” he stated.
"This is both morally appropriate and efficient in terms of security,
since other types of punishment are compromised by gestures and deals in
which terrorists are freed, and by unreasonably good prison conditions
for terrorists.”
Previous research by Almagor has revealed that terrorists released from
prison, often as “goodwill” measures to Palestinian Authority Chairman
Mahmoud Abbas, returned to terror and killed more than 150 Israeli civilians and soldiers.
Concerning the problem of security, Indor said, "The government must
stop ceding responsibility for security to the Palestinian Authority and
must return to the IDF control of the many places already transferred
to the PA."
"This requires the replacement of Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who is
among those pushing for ceding control to the PA, just as he was
replaced by the Israeli public with the start of the 'intifada' in 2000,
thus allowing Israel then to resume responsibility for security.”
Security checks have been relaxed or removed in the area of Shechem
(Nablus), located less than three miles from Itamar, where Friday
night’s murders took place. The IDF has not yet stated whether the
terrorists made use of the relaxation of security checks in order to
reach the Jewish community to carry out the murders.
"This time let's not wait for another round of murder victims,” Indor
said. “The public must be reminded that Barak has not changed. During
the intifada, he preserved the autonomy and security responsibilities of
the PA, and refused to permit military operations in Area A [totally
PA-controlled areas] despite hundreds being murdered and maimed."
"Barak also is the man who ended Operation Cast Lead in the middle, and who ordered a frenzied retreat from Lebanon in 2000. We must respect Barak's stubbornness and consistency and to afford him an honorable discharge."
8. 'Anat Kam Law' to Define Cyber Age Form of Treason
by Maayana Miskin
MK Otniel Schneller (Kadima) has proposed a bill that would define an
increasingly common and dangerous security offense in the cyber age. The
“Anat Kam law,” as it has been dubbed, would create a new category of
offense to describe a situation in which a person gathers classified
military material and uses it to harm national security, but does not
actually spy on behalf of an enemy.
The bill was approved Sunday by the Ministerial Committee for Legislation, and will face a first round of voting on Wednesday.
Currently, a person who illegally obtains classified security material
can be charged with illegal possession of the material or with spying.
There is no category to describe an offense more severe than the former,
but somewhat less severe than the latter.
The bill was inspired by the Anat Kam case, Schneller said.
“The difference between actual spying and undermining state security is
a small one; both are very serious. Anat Kam's actions were almost as
severe as spying even though they did not fall into that category
technically, and this proposed law would clarify the severity of using
classified security information without authorization, for purposes that
undermine state security,” he explained Sunday.
The bill would set punishments for two similar offenses. A person who
illegally shared classified information with the intent of harming state
security would get 15 years in jail, while a person who illegally
shared such information without the intent to harm would be sentenced to
10 years.
In addition, a person who deliberately takes possession of classified
information without authorization would face seven years in jail, and a
person who attempts to enter an area classified as secret would face
three years.
Anat Kam is accused of having stolen thousands of classified military
documents during her service in the IDF by copying them onto a thumb
drive and removing them from IDF premises. She might have taken
documents whose contents exposed secret plans, strategy or endangered
lives of soldiers. What is known is that she passed many of the
documents to Haaretz reporter Uri Blau,
who used them to write a report accusing IDF soldiers of assassinating
terrorists despite a Supreme Court ruling ordering the army to favor
arresting them. Many readers canceled their subscriptions to Haaretz over Blau's involvement.
The case against Kam unfolded over the course of several months during which she was under house arrest. Kam is believed to have been motivated by far-Left political ideology. In February, she reached a plea deal that will ensure she does not face more than 15 years in jail.
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