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1. Tens of Thousands at Funeral for Martyred Fogel Family
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
Tens of thousands attended the funeral for five members of the Fogel
family massacred at Itamar. The entrance to Jerusalem was blocked off by
police and vehicles diverted to an alternative entrance after the huge
attendance brought traffic to a standstill. Israel's major television
channels provided live coverage of the eulogies for the victims.
More building for Jews is the “revenge” for Arab terror, Chief Rabbi
Yona Metzger said at the funeral Sunday afternoon for the five members
of the Fogel family who were stabbed to death by Arab terrorists Friday
night. “The Creator, and not us, will avenge the spilled blood,” he
said.
Former Chief Rabbi of Israel Yisrael Meir Lau said, “There are times
when there are no words and when one feels helpless with pain and
anger.”
A survivor of the Holocaust, Rabbi Lau said that one would think the
vicious circle of violence ended 66 years ago but “the river of blood
continues to flow, and we stand here today helpless.
“What can you say when you see a two or three-month-old baby stabbed to
death? We read this past Shabbat the Book of the Torah that begins
with sacrifices, but who thought of sacrifices such as these?”
He turned to the surviving Fogel children and said, ”Your mother and
father need you. You are the ones who will say the Kaddish {mourner’s
prayer] and you will recite, “May His great Name be glorified and
sanctified. He Who makes peace in the Heaven will make peace for us and
for all of the People of Israel. Amen.”
Hillel Ben Yishai, brother of Ruth Fogel, sobbed that the victims were
“holy and pure and the People of Israel will learn to know who they were
– holy and pure. No one was sweet as Hadas,” the baby daughter of the
Fogels who was among those murdered.
“The people of Israel are strong, like Ruth, an iron lady,” He added.
2. Arab Terrorists Murder Family in Samaria, Including Infant
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
Arab terrorists murdered five people in a family in the Jewish
community of Itamar, in northeast Samaria, around 9 p.m. Friday night.
Click here
for photos of the murder victims that were released by the Fogel
family, who gave full permission for their use in order to report on the
horrific reality of murdering children and babies in their sleep
"simply because they are Jewish." Warning: These photos are extremely graphic and not intended for children.
The only survivors were a 12-year-old girl, who returned from a Bnei
Akiva youth group event to discover her parents and three of her
brothers and sisters,including a three-month old baby girl, dead in
pools of blood, and two younger brothers, who were sleeping a separate
room.
The IDF is searching for the murderers, who broke through a window and murdered the victims in their beds.
Officials immediately began a “blame game,” with Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu faulting Palestinian Authority incitement in schools
and mosques. Voice of Israel government radio actually implied that
Itamar residents themselves were responsible for improper security, an
accusation which has since been refuted.
The barbaric murders followed dozens of warnings from nationalists and
leaders in Judea and Samaria that the constant easing of security
procedures implemented by Defense Minister Ehud Barak would be the
prelude to terrorist attacks.
The army is investigating the attack, but it already is known that the
security fence did not include cameras and other equipment requested by
Itamar, according to Shomron (Samaria) Regional Council Chairman Gershon
Mesika.
An electronic warning system at the fence did not function. Voice of
Israel government radio openly questioned whether Itamar was not to
blame because it was aware that the fence was sub-standard. However, it
was the IDF that did not upgrade it. Voice of Israel also reported
that there was a general warning of a terrorist attack and that Itamar
security officials allegedly did not relay the information to the Israel
Defense Forces. This was found to be untrue, as it was later was
confirmed that there was only a general warning of an attack without any
specific indication that Itamar was to be targeted.
The United States, which has pressured Israel to ease security
procedures, condemned the attacks and offered its condolences to the
survivors and “to the Israeli people.” It urged the Palestinian
Authority to "unequivocally" condemn the murders.
A statement by PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad simply stated, "We are
against violence and condemn it regardless of the circumstances,
identity of the victims or the goals,” but he did not state that the PA
would help search for the perpetrators.
He also did not condemn the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, which took
responsibility for the attack. In a statement to the media, the
terrorist cell of the Fatah faction headed by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas
claimed that the attack was a “heroic operation, part of the natural
response to the massacres of the fascist occupation against our people
in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.”
Earlier, Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki condemned the
attack but implied that Palestinian Authority Arabs were not involved.
"No Palestinian in the past killed an infant and butchered people in
such a way based on a nationalistic or vengeful motive," he said. "This
raises doubt as to Israel's rush to accuse the Palestinians of
committing this act."
MK Dr. MIchael Ben-Ari, speaking on Radio Kol Chai shortly after the
end of the Sabbath, said that the terrorists gain impetus when they see
hundreds of Israeli police deployed to destroy houses in outposts such
as the recent Gilad Farm (Havat Gilad) incident where plastic bullets
were used against Jews, roadblocks leading to and from Arab villages
removed and Jewish construction effectively frozen, all actions
implemented under the control of Defense MInister Ehud Barak that
have the tacit approval of Prime Minister Netanyahu.
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that Israel would file a
complaint with the United Nations. "Israel is expecting to hear a strong
condemnation from all democratic states which in the name of human
rights hurry to denounce every caravan movement in Judea and Samaria but
as of last night have yet to condemn the heinous murder of an entire
family, including a three-month-old baby," he stated.
3. Victims Indentified as Family of Rabbi Fogel of Yeshiva Itamar
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
The victims of the brutal murders
at Itamar, in Samaria, Friday night are Rabbi and IDF tank unit officer
Udi Fogel, his wife Ruth, 11-year-old Yoav, four-year-old Elad
pictured) and three-month-old Hadas. Rabbi Fogel taught at the Itamar
post-high school yeshiva, whose senior rabbi is former IDF Chief Rabbi
Avi Ronsky.
Click here for
photos of the murder victims that were released by the Fogel family,
who gave full permission for their use in order to report on the
horrific reality of murdering children and babies in their sleep "simply
because they are Jewish." Warning: These photos are extremely graphic and not intended for children.
Their funerals will take place at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at Har Menuchot
Cemetery in Jerusalem. The survivors, 12-year-old Tamar, eight-year-old
Ro’ie and two-year-old Shai, are being cared for by their grandfather,
Chaim Fogel, a resident of Nevei Tzuf, also in Samaria.
After bringing his grandchildren from the home of the terrorist crime, he said, '"We saw the scene of the vicious murder.”
Defense Minister Ehud Barak said that an initial investigation
indicates that the parents, Udi and Ruth Fogel, fought with the
attackers, an act that may have been instrumental in saving the lives of
three of their children who were in another room. The attackers fled
immediately after murdering the parents and three of their children who
were in the same room with them.
The IDF has arrested approximately 20 Palestinian Authority Arabs for
questioning, but it not known how many terrorists were involved in the
murders. It is known that the terrorists jumped over the electronic
security fence.
Around 22:30 Friday night, they entered one house , where no one was
home, and then broke into the Fogel home to carry out the murders.
Tracks from the home led to the nearby village of Awarta. Saturday
night, Jewish residents in the area demonstrated at the nearby Tapuach
junction and marched north towards Hawara, near Shechem and where
Defense Minister Barak has removed several key security checkpoints and
relaxed security inspections.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said, "I noticed that several states
which rushed to condemn Israel for building a house in some place are
taking their time in condemning the murder of children.”
He also said he was shocked by the ambiguous condemnation of
Palestinian Authority leaders. PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas stated,
"Violence will only bring more violence – we must hurry to find a
comprehensive, just solution to the conflict.”
Following the remarks, Prime Minister Netanyahi stated, "I am
disappointed by the weak and mumbled statements. This is not how one
condemns terrorism. This is not how one fights terrorism. See how
Israeli prime ministers, myself among them, have reacted in similar
situations, but there has never been anything like this, in which
terrorists entered a home and cut children's throats.
"This requires sharp and unequivocal condemnation. This requires
something else. This requires a halt to the incitement.... The time has
come to stop this double-talk in which the Palestinian Authority
outwardly talks peace, and allows – and sometimes leads – incitement at
home. The time has come to stop the incitement and begin educating their
people for peace."
4. Three Year Old Stabbed in the Heart, Baby's Throat Slashed
by IsraelNN Staff
The initial findings of the investigation into the terrorist massacre
in the Israeli town of Itamar in Samaria Friday night show that the
Fatah ‘Freedom Fighters’ stabbed the Fogel family's sleeping three year
old in the heart and slashed the throat of his three-month-old sister.
Click here for photos on the murder victims (Warning: Extremely Graphic)
The IDF and police forces are conducting widespread searches in the
vicinity of the community since the barbaric terrorist murder of five
members of the Fogel family in their home on Friday night.
It is not yet clear how many terrorists took part in the massacre. About 20 Arabs have been arrested up to now.
One area in which the IDF is concentrating its investigations is
whether there were any intelligence warnings of terrorist plans before
the attack that might have alerted residents.
The community of Itamar has had no terrorist attacks since 2002, when
an advanced protection and security system called the Special Security
Area was installed. The electronic system, which includes varied methods
of observation and a wired fence, is kept in repair by the regional
authority rather than the IDF.
In addition to an electronic fence surrounding the community, there is
an inner, coiled wire fence. The community is allotted six non-army
security personnel from a recognized security firm who are on patrol all
the time. All signals go automatically to a central operations room in
the town staffed by two of these guards, and in addition there is a
company of soldiers on the adjoining hill.
The IDF investigation of the attack has discovered that at 20:59,
terrorists entered the community. They jumped over the fence and an
alert sounded. The guard on duty went to the spot from which the warning
was heard, but saw no evidence of infiltration and therefore, made the
erroneous decision that an animal had activated the electronic fence’s
warning signal. There are many false alarms of that nature in the
winter, but cameras would have shown the terrorists. However, the IDF
did not agree to fund a request to keep cameras working on the fence.
A security person who was in the vicinity said that since the fence was
not cut, the guard thought there was no infiltration and did not inform
the IDF unit that was less than a kilometer away.
The terrorists first entered one home, which was empty. They found a
weapon there, which they do not seem to have used. A group of youngsters
was having a Sabbath evening party at the Fogel house nearby, and at
22:20 they left, along with the Fogel’s 12-year-old daughter, for an
activity at the local Bnei Akiva youth group.
Between 22:20 and 22:30 the terrorists entered the house through the
living room picture window, did not notice the 6-year-old boy sleeping
on the couch and continued on to the bedroom where they slashed the
throats of the father and newborn baby who were sleeping there. The
mother came out of the bathroom and was stabbed on its threshold. The
evidence shows that she tried to fight the terrorists.
They then slashed the throat of the 11-year old-son who was reading in
bed. They did not notice the 2-year old asleep in his bed, but murdered
the 3-year old with two stabs to his heart. After that, they locked the
door, exited through the window and escaped.
Exactly two hours after the infiltration, there was another warning
signal from the same spot on the fence, as the terrorists left the way
they had come. Once again, the patrol did not identify the source of
the signal as infiltration.
The 12-year-old daughter returned home at 00:30 and found the door
locked. She asked a neighbor, Rabbi Yaakov Cohen, of the Itamar Yeshiva,
to help her. He brought a weapon with him once he noticed tracks and
mud near the house. The two woke up the 6-year old sleeping in the
living room by calling through the window and when he opened the door,
the Rabbi returned to his home.
When she entered the bedrooms, the young daughter saw the
horrific bloodsoaked scene and ran out of the house screaming. The
neighbor ran back and fired several shots in the air to alert security
personnel. Within a short time, large police and IDF forces arrived and
began intensive searches to see if the terrorists were still in the
community. At 03:30 a.m., military trackers discovered footprints
leading to the Arab village of Avrata.
“Sky Riders” Israeli UAV’s (unmanned aerial vehicles), continued the search Saturday morning.
The IDF Chief of Staff, General Benny Gantz, arrived at the family’s
home during the morning hours and said: “We will not rest until the
murderers are in our hands. This is a bestial act perpetrated by
barbarians. It is impossible to grasp the horrendous scene before us. We
are working non-stop on the intelligence and operational fronts.”
Defense Minister Ehud Barak held a situation meeting in IDF Tel Aviv
headquarters. Attending were the Chief of Staff, ISA head Yuval Diskin
and other high ranking IDF intelligence and security personnel. Barak
instructed those present to use every means at their disposal to find
the murderers as quickly as possible. He called on the leaders of the
Palestinian Authority to condemn the murders and on the Judea and
Samaria Regional Authority Heads to exercise restraint.
5. Netanyahu Demands End of ‘Double-Talk’
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
Prime Minister Netanyahu demands a thorough condemnation by the
Palestinian Authority of the Itamar massacre and an end to its
”double-talk.” President Shimon Peres said, “There are no words of
consolation in the face of this devastation. “
I would like to express my deep outrage, outrage which is certainly
felt by every Israeli over the murder of a young family – father,
mother, eleven-year-old boy, four-year-old-boy and four-month-old girl,
said the Prime Minister after the terrorist attack at Itamar, in
Samaria."
Click here
for photos of the murder victims that were released by the Fogel
family, who gave full permission for their use in order to report on the
horrific reality of murdering children and babies in their sleep
"simply because they are Jewish." Warning: These photos are extremely graphic and not intended for children.
The Prime Minister continued, “One of the girls saw her parents and
siblings stabbed to death. The family was brutally murdered in their
sleep on the Sabbath…
“I have noticed that several countries that always hasten to the UN
Security Council in order to condemn Israel, the state of the Jews, for
planning a house in some locality, or for laying some tiles somewhere
have been dilatory in sharply condemning the murder of Jewish infants. I
expect them to issue such condemnations immediately, without balances,
without understandings, without justifications…
"I am disappointed by the weak and mumbled statements. This is not how
one condemns terrorism. This is not how one fights terrorism.”
President Peres stated, "This is one of the most difficult and
despicable events that we have seen - the murder of parents and their
young children including a three-year old and [newly-born] baby, on the
Sabbath. It indicates a loss of humanity. There is no religion in the
world or any faith that allows these kinds of horrible acts.
“There are no words of consolation in the face of this devastation.
Our hearts are with the orphans and with the community of Itamar during
this extremely difficult time. I am sure that the security forces will
make every possible effort in order to capture the murderers and bring
them to the appropriate justice."
6. Fogel Family Slaughter Deliberately Incited by PA
by Chana Ya'ar
The Palestinian Authority government deliberately incited its population to terrorism long before the Sabbath slaughter of the Fogel family in the Samaria Jewish community of Itamar this past Friday night.
“Incitement against Israel, which frequently turns into genuine anti-Semitic incitement, is an inseparable part of the fabric of life
in the Palestinian Authority, “ noted Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu
in a statement issued by his media adviser following the
murder. “These anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic messages are regularly
heard in both the private and official media and in mosque sermons, and
are studied in school textbooks. Terrorists are given honored status and
become models for emulation in Palestinian society, both in the media
and via ceremonies held by institutions affiliated with the PA."
“Institutionalized and systematic incitement against Israel has never
ceased in the PA, even during the height of the diplomatic process in
the 1990s,” the PMO noted.
Recent Examples of PA Incitement
Praising numerous attacks by terrorists, the PA government has made
special efforts to encourage the murder of Israelis – and has not shied
away from praising those who kill children, despite protestations to the
contrary.
On the day before the brutal slaying of
the Fogel family, Sabri Saidam, adviser to Abbas and under-secretary of
the Fatah Revolutionary Council, told PA Arabs in a speech that “the
weapons must be turned towards the main enemy [Israel] and that internal
differences of opinion must be set aside.” Saidam denounced the low
monthly stipends to families of terrorists who murder Israelis. He also
called for the naming of another public square in honor of Dalal
Mughrabi, the bloodthirsty terrorist who led the 1978 Coastal Road
massacre that left dozens of Israelis dead, including 13 children.
On March 6, the Al Hayat Al Jadida
newspaper advertised the naming of a “youth” tournament for 19 year olds
honoring the memory of "shahida" (Martyr) Wafa Idris – the first female
PA Arab suicide bomber. As a Red Crescent ambulance volunteer, she was
able to bypass Israeli security and enter Jerusalem, where she murdered
one person and wounded more than 150 others in January 2002.
One week prior to the brutal attack
on the Fogel family, the Fatah faction led by Abbas held a ceremony at
the Deheisheh neighborhood of Bethlehem, honoring those of its homegrown
terrorists who were killed during the PA's terrorist campaign against
Israel in the years 2002-2005. Those “honored” included suicide bomber
Muhammad Daraghmeh, who murdered nine Israelis in Jerusalem, as well as
Saed Saud Abu Amar, Jad Mahmoud Atallah, Issa Zakri Faraj and Ayyat
Al-Akhras – who at age 17 was the youngest female suicide bomber, having
murdered two Israelis in her suicide bombing of March 2002.
On February 9, the official PA TV
station broadcast a clip from a campaign entitled “Women as Role Models”
during which Dalal Mughrabi was extolled as a prime example. Last
summer several children's camps were named in her memory.
Two months prior to the Fogel
murder, PA Chairman and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas awarded $2,000 to the
family of a terrorist who attacked and attempted to murder IDF
soldiers. Khaldoun Najib Samoudy raced towards IDF soldiers at the Hamra
checkpoint in December 2010, carrying two pipe bombs and screaming
“Allahu Akbar!” (G-d is Great). His act was lauded in the January 25
edition of the Fatah-backed PA newspaper, Al Hayat Al Jadida, which
covered an award ceremony in which Abbas bestowed a “presidential grant”
of $2,000 on the relatives of the “Shahid” (martyr) in the village of
Al-Yamoun. The article, in Arabic, was translated by media watchdog the Palestinian Media Watch (PMW).
On January 2, the Al Hayat Al Jadida
newspaper reported a speech by Azzam Al-Ahmed, a member of the Fatah
Central Committee, which expressed the PA government's support for
terrorism as a means of “resistance." During a gathering on the 46th
anniversary of the faction's founding, Al-Ahmed was quoted as saying,
“We emphasize today the aims for which the Fatah movement was
established,” adding Fatah is a mass movement which believes in popular
revolution and has wrested its right to use all means of resistance in
order to achieve its aim.
On October 26, 2010, PA TV broadcast
a documentary about the work of PA medical teams that included an
entirely fictitious scene in which an Israeli soldier shoots a PA Arab
in the head.
On June 21, 2010, a children's
program was broadcast on the official PA TV channel which taught that
“The Jews are our enemies,” and that “Israeli soldiers are wild
animals.”
On December 27, 2009, official PA TV
reported that Tayib Abd A-Rahim, a representative of Abbas, presented
condolences on behalf of the PA chairman to the families of three
terrorists killed by IDF soldiers after murdering Rabbi Meir Avshalom
Chai. A-Rahim said on Abbas's behalf, that “without doubt, the
Occupation authorities perpetrated a wild and barbaric assassination,
maliciously and in cold blood.”
In PA schools, the “History of the Arabs and the World in the 20th Century” is a 12th grade textbook used the Palestinian Authority to teach about World War II. The textbook includes material on Nazi ideology – but does not mention the Holocaust at all.
7. ‘Palestinian Authority Sings for Terror’
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
The Palestinian Authority “sings for terror,” IDF Brigadier General
Yossi Kuperwasser, director general of the Strategic Affairs Ministry,
said Saturday night, 24 hours after PA terrorists slaughtered five members of the Fogel family in the Jewish community of Itamar in Samaria.
He also contradicted American claims that the Palestinian Authority is making an honest attempt to combat terror.
He revealed that PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, hours after the massacre at
Itamar, met with a member of a song group that contributes to an
“atmosphere of terror.”
“The foundation of Fatah still is the use of terror -- which it calls
resistance -- as the preferred tool to ‘free Palestine,’" he said in a
special conference call with the media Saturday night. “Through songs
and school textbooks and by honoring terrorists,
the Palestinian Authority calls for terrorist attacks, and children are
told to prepare homework on a song written by an Egyptian in 1948
calling for terror.
“That is the kind of message the Palestinian Authority public gets from
its leadership, even though they say to the world, ‘We are against
violence because violence doesn’t pay, but that does not mean it is not
legitimate; people who commit violence are our heroes.’”
Kuperwasser (pictured) also accepted criticism from several journalists
that foreign governments, especially the United States, are not
receiving a clear message from Israel.
He said he will tell the Cabinet Sunday that Israel needs a clear, unified voice to negate J Street and Peace Now “blame Israel” messages. Four Kadima party Knesset Members attended
the annual conference of J Street, which until recently was a favorite
source of views on Israel for U.S. President Barack Obama. J Street and
Peace Now’s general policy is to blame a Jewish presence in Judea and
Samaria as the reason for Palestinian Authority terror, ignoring the
fact that there have been many more terror attacks in Israel's main
cities than in Judea and Samaria and that they began long before the
1967 War..
Kuperwasser contradicted American claims that the Palestinian Authority
has made a serious contribution to the reduction of terror in Judea and
Samaria. “They make cosmetic moves but incitement continues shortly
after every terrorist attack,” he stated.
He also said that the savage attack on the Fogel family Friday night
demonstrates there is no “culture of peace” in the Palestinian
Authority.
In response to a question from Israel National News on whether he could
connect the attack with the removal of key security checkpoints in the
area of Itamar, Kuperwasser said, “I hope not. We are investigating.”
The Brigadier General, a former senior intelligence officer of the IDF
Central Command, charged that the Palestinian Authority “index of peace”
shows that the Arabs are less involved in direct terror but are
involved in encouraging terrorism and violence. "They are building a
culture that refuses the right of Jews to live in the Land of Israel,
and this ongoing phenomenon and brainwashing have a lot do with the
background behind this inhumane attack [on Itamar],” he said.
8. FrontPage Editor at Bklyn College: Palestinians are Morally Sick
by Fern Sidman, INN New York Correspondent
David Horowitz, conservative commentator, prolific author and founder
of the FrontPage Mag web site, spoke out in response to ongoing Israeli
Apartheid Week on campus. A full house gathered at the Brooklyn College
library auditorium on Thursday evening, under exceptionally heavy
security, to hear him. A full house gathered at the Brooklyn College
library auditorium on Thursday evening, under exceptionally heavy
security, as
The speech, delivered one day before the barbaric massacre of five members of the Fogel family on Friday night in Itamar, became tragically prescient..
Describing the Palestinians, Horowitz said: "No people have shown
themselves as so morally sick as the Palestinians", adding, "In the
history of all mankind, there was never a people who strapped bombs on
their bodies and killed innocent people. No other people has sunk so low
as the Palestinians, and everyone is afraid to say it."
Describing Islam as a religion possessed by "hate, violence and
racism", he said that a resolution to the protracted Israeli-Palestinian
imbroglio could is not beyond reach. "If you disarm the Palestinians in
the Middle East there will be peace, but if you disarm the Jews, there
wil be further death and destruction."
Horowitz's speech, entitled the "Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Myths
and Facts", was sponsored and organized by Brooklyn College student
Yosef Sobel and Mitchell Langbert, an associate professor in the
department of business and economics. "Because the Hillel organization
on campus was too afraid to sponsor me, I must thank those who had the
courage to do so." said Horowitz. Despite numerous warnings prohibiting
verbal disruptions, Muslim student hecklers abounded and Horowitz's
remarks were often punctuated by the sounds of acrimonious attacks.
A native New Yorker and a graduate of Columbia University, David
Horowitz was once a self proclaimed Marxist and left-wing academic whose
political beliefs have now shifted to the right. As one of the founders
of the New Left in the 1960s, he was also the editor of its most
influential magazine, Ramparts. Along with Peter Collier, he is the
author of a number of best-selling dynastic biographies on the
Rockefellers, the Kennedys, the Fords, and the Roosevelts. With Collier
he also wrote "Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the
60s" (1989), a chronicle of their break with the 1960s Left.
His recent books include, "Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the
American Left" (2004), "Indoctrination U:The Left's War Against Academic
Freedom" (2007) and "Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton,
and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party" (2007).
Horowitz began by ruefully observing, "When I went to college you
didn't need all of this security on campus, but things have changed and
that's the reason we now need checkpoints on campuses. Checkpoints are
essential to defend against terrorists and and Jew haters."
Adding that he has been verbally and physically assaulted on campuses
around the country for his forthright views, he said, "Our campuses are
controlled by liberal fascists and it is a movement to suppress the free
speech rights of conservatives. He said that the International
Socialist Organization, a Marxist organization, is culpable for creating
a academic climate of intimidation and hate. "It is they who spread
lies about me and work with their Muslim allies towards the mobilization
of radical jihad against the West. The Muslim community needs to stand
up and defend democracy in this country and that's what we're all
waiting for."
Horowitz said, "There was no Palestine since the days of the Roman
conquest of the land of Israel, and there certainly was no Palestine in
1946. The war against the Jews started in the form of Pan Arab
nationalism and the PLO was created by the KBG. They advised Arafat that
the best way to succeed is to play the victim role and say that all
they want is their own state and that Israel is occupying Palestine."
Saying that the entire region around the Jordan River was created by
imperialist powers such as the Ottoman Empire, he emphasized that
"Israel was not built on Arab land."
As a "political Zionist", Horowitz said he believes that the Jewish
people have a right to exist and have a right to their own
state. Equating such terrorist organizations as Hamas, Hizbullah, the
Muslim Brotherhood and Mahmoud Ahmadimejad's Islamic Republic of Iran as
"Nazis in the Middle East", he said that their objective is "not to
create a Palestinian state but rather, to push the Jews into the sea"
because they can't live alongside a people of another faith. "In 1922,
80 percent of the land of Israel was ceded to become the state of
Transjordan that is now ruled by the Hashemite kingdom, and there are
more Palestinians in Jordan than in Israel."
"Democracy is a threat to political Islam, and they believe that
everyone who is not a Muslim is an infidel and is deserving of death.
The Christian population of Bethlehem once stood at 80 percent and is
now 12 percent because of Islamic influence," he said.
On Israeli Apartheid Week on over 55 campuses across North America,
Horowitz said, "Muslims have more rights in Israel than they have in any
Arab country in the world" and called the notion of Israel as a state
that practices apartheid as "disgusting". "If you want to know what real
religious and gender apartheid is just look at the entire Muslim Middle
East, and not Israel."
"Twelve million ethnic Germans were purged from Poland, but after the
State of Israel was established, no one expelled the Arabs, hoping that
one day rationality would take hold, but it never did,." he coninued.
He said that such organizations as the Muslim Students Association and
the Islamic Society of North America, who are the chief sponsors of
Israeli Apartheid Week, are "fronts for the Muslim Brotherhood" and are
"hate organizations" who make campuses unwelcome for Jewish students. On
campuses around the country, he said, the organizers of Israeli
Apartheid Week erect an "apartheid wall" and proffer the idea that "a
wall of lies" be built to counter their pervasive myths and distortions
of the truth.
Calling the expulsion of close to 10,000 Jews from Gaza in the summer
of 2005 as part of the disengagement a "mistake", Horowitz said, "a
normal people in a normal state would never have done so, but would have
driven out the 1.2 million Arabs because they are possessed by hate, as
manifested in their violent destruction of the thriving horticultural
industry that the Jewish population had created there, and their
incessant rocket assaults on such towns as Sderot."
"How is it that Jews do not get the narrative?" he queried. "The
Palestinians are suffering, but it is not by the hand of the Jew, but
rather their true oppressors are Hamas and Hizbullah" he said. Calling
the Palestinan Authority a "terrorist government", Horowitz said, "When
we see hate, we must call it so; we must label the enemy as who they
are. The Palestinians don't want peace. How can you negotiate with those
who won't recoginze Israel's right to exist? Look what happened
to those Arab leaders that have tried to establish peace with Israel.
They were assassinated by radical Islamist elements."
"Jihadist murderers" are tantamount to "Nazis and blatant Jew haters",
he said, and although they may appear to be perfectly decent, nice
people, a great many of them support Osama Bin Ladin and like
minded genocidal murderers. "Hitler did not publicly announce his 'final
solution' in the fear that the German people were too civilized to
accept it, but Ahmadinejad proudly and publicly announces his version of
the 'final solution,' and no Islamists condemn him. To the contrary,
they cheer him on and embrace his vision."
Yet, "Muslims are treated with kid gloves in America and are a
protected species." He said that 8 to 10 times more hate crimes are
committed against Jews than against Muslim in America. Pointing to the
case of the Holyland Foundation, a purported Islamic charity that was
found guility of funding terrorism on the West Bank by their direct
contributions to Hamas, Horowitz said that the unindicted
co-conspirators in this case were the Council on American-Islamic
Relations (CAIR) and that there has been "no signficant condemnation of
this group or others of this ilk". He unabashedly condemned Hamas as a
"fanatically religious, Jew hating, America hating, Nazi organization."
During the question and answer period, a male Muslim student drew a
parallet between Horowitz and the late Senator Joseph McCarthy, adding
that Horowitz was a racist. When asked by Horowitz if the student would
condemn Hamas, the student refused to do so. Referring to Horowitz as an
"ignorant racist" a female Muslim student who identified herself only
as Magdalene said, "He has no proof of anything that he's said here
tonight", adding that women in Muslim countries are "not persecuted by
the rules of Sharia law but by draconian dictators who serve American
political puppets."
According to Lauren Kunis, who sought entry into the auditorium but was
denied, "I had wanted to bring my Israeli flag in with me and was told
by the Brooklyn College security that I couldn't. I told them that I'd
wear the flag around my neck as the Arab members of the audience were
wearing keffiyahs around their necks. I was then strongarmed out by an
African American security guard. [It} seems like anyone who takes a
proud pro-Israel position is considered a troublemaker and an enemy
on campuses today."
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