Sharp Incitement

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We Need Two Decades of Undoing

I have repeated a message that it might probably will have to take two decades to reverse the educational processes Arab youth inn the area of the Palestinian Authority underwent since the Oslo Accords were adopted.

And now, in the NYTimes, Minister Yuval Steinitz does the same, writing about the Palestinian Authority's incitement:

...four core messages. First, that the existence of a Jewish state (regardless of its borders) is illegitimate because there is no Jewish people and no Jewish history in this piece of land. Second, that Jews and Zionists are horrible creatures that corrupt those in their vicinity. Third, that Palestinians must continue to struggle until the inevitable replacement of Israel by an Arab-Palestinian state. And fourth, that all forms of resistance are honorable and valid, even if some forms of violence are not always expedient.

Instead of being schooled in the “culture of peace,” the next generation of Palestinians is being relentlessly fed a rhetorical diet that includes the idolization of terrorists, the demonization of Jews and the conviction that sooner or later Israel should cease to exist.

....The fact that this anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic indoctrination persists, despite the much-touted relaunch of Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, constitutes a huge obstacle on the road to peace. It should have disappeared 20 years ago...

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I Have Another Video Ad Idea for Obama and Clinton

This story informs us that the

President of the United States Barack Obama and Hillary R. Clinton, the US Secretary of State, were featured in a thirty second television spot paid for by American taxpayers...that the US government disapproves of the...film [that] is blamed by many as the source of more than a week of rioting and violence by Muslims around the globe...The ad, which cost some $70,000,  aired on approximately seven different television markets in Pakistan, according to U.S. State Department Spokesperson Victoria Nuland.

The statement includes clips of the President saying, “Since our founding, the United States has been a nation of respect – that respects all faiths. We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others.”

When was the last (or first) time those two appeared in a clip aired by the Palestinian Authority's media outlets to denounce anti-Jewish incitement?

Like railing against a Mufti asking for Jews to be killed?

Some recently suggest they are not interested now, two years after, in a joint press conference with PM Netanyahu on July 6, 2010, President Obama said:

I think it’s very important that the Palestinians not look for excuses for incitement; that they are not engaging in provocative language; that at the international level, they are maintaining a constructive talk, as opposed to looking for opportunities to embarrass Israel.

Will there be a recorded appeal aired?

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Islamic Prevarication and Temple Denial

Official Islamic Temple Denial (and identity theft):

The Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO)...affirmed its rejection of what the so-called religious authority of the Israeli occupation army in the occupied city of Al-Quds did when they published a photo of Al-Aqsa Mosque without the Dome of the Rock. This photo, ISESCO underlined, depicts the true intention of the Israeli occupation authorities to judaize the city and establish the alleged Temple in the so-called “Temple Mount” on “the ruins” [?} of Al-Aqsa Mosque, especially as a model of the Temple has been built in front of Al-Aqsa Mosque [??], and the calls of the Jewish rabbis to demolish the First Qibla and the Third Holy Mosque have increased [???]...Likewise, ISESCO called upon the international society and competent bodies to preserve the historically proven rights of Muslim and Christian Arabs in Al-Quds’ Islamic and Christian sanctities, which are considered a red line that cannot be crossed.

What are they referring to?

So, let's add incitement to prevarication and denial.

(k/t=ChallahHuAkbar)

Feminist Voice on a Feminist Issue: Terror

Here's from Emily Amrousi's column today

...On Tuesday night, Abbas met with the murderer who seduced young Ofir Rahum to his death. We must not let him seduce us to our deaths.

It is time to remove the blinders. If Abbas tells us in every conceivable language that he is not a peace partner, maybe we should start believing him.

Read it all.


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This Is Incitement, Use It Judiciously, Mrs. Beinisch

Ever since 1995, the term "incitement" has taken center stage in the left-right divide in Israel's politics and and judicial considerations.

Incitement is a key buzz word that is employed to halt any robust discussion and it indicts, especially, the nationalist camp, religious or secular.

Even the President of the Supreme Court employs the language:

"This is a campaign of delegitimization led by a number of politicians, Knesset members and even cabinet ministers, who exploit their [parliamentary] immunity and give the general public false and misleading information that has deteriorated into incitement against the court, the justices and the judiciary's work," she said.

President Shimon Peres used it a month ago:

During an official memorial ceremony Tuesday night at the President's Residence, Peres honored Rabin and reflected on their relationship.

"We will never forget your walking down the road of hate and incitement, along a landscape of violence and provocation. You did not panic. You did not retreat. You did not stop your march," Peres said.

Haaretz's Akiva Eldar used it in a call to American Jewish leaders to intervene in Israel's democracy:

For several long months, the (mostly self-appointed ) "leaders" in the U.S. community have ignored the unbridled incitement launched by Israel against human rights organizations, the Supreme Court and the media.

Charges have recently been brought:

A-G orders incitement probe into Safed rabbi

Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein decided on Tuesday to open a criminal investigation against Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, chief rabbi of Safed, on suspicion of incitement to racism.

The investigation will be based on a number of statements Eliyahu made in reference to the Israeli-Arab community which were publicized by the media.

So, should we not try to ascertain what "incitement" is in a democracy other than Israel?

This is what is incitement in America:

State v. Turner, 2011 WL 4424754 (Conn. Super. September 6, 2011)

A Connecticut state court held that prosecuting a blogger for posting content online encouraging others to use violence did not violate the blogger’s First Amendment right to free speech.

Defendant was charged under a Connecticut statute prohibiting individuals from “inciting injury to persons or property.” Angry about a bill in the state General Assembly that would have removed financial oversight of Catholic parishes from priests and bishops, defendant posted the following statements to his blog:

•[T]he Founding Fathers gave us the tools necessary to resolve [this] tyranny: The Second Amendment
•[My organization] advocates Catholics in Connecticut take up arms and put down this tyranny by force. To that end, THIS WEDNESDAY NIGHT ON [my radio show], we will be releasing the home addresses of the Senator and Assemblyman who introduced bill 1098 as well as the home address of [a state ethics officer].
•These beastly government officials should be made an example of as a warning to others in government: Obey the Constitution or die.
•If any state attorney, police department or court thinks they’re going to get uppity with us about this, I suspect we have enough bullets to put them down too

Defendant challenged the application of the state statute as unconstitutional. The court disagreed, finding there to be “little dispute that the defendant’s message explicitly advocate[ed] using violence.” Moreover, the court found the threatened violence to be “imminent and likely.” The blog content said that the home address of the legislators and government officials would be released the following day.

Though the court did not find that a substantial number of persons would actually take up arms, it did note, in a nod to 9/11, “the devastation that religious fanaticism can produce in this country.” As such, there was a sufficient basis to say that defendant’s vitriolic language had a substantial capacity to propel action to kill or injure a person.

Mrs. Beinisch, learn to use words judiciously.

For the law's sake, for Israel's democracy sake.


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Just Who Is Doing The Inciting?

I'll host David Gerstman:

...there's something troubling about the coverage of this evil [in Norway] by the New York Times.  The title of the news report says a lot, Killings in Norway Spotlight Anti-Muslim Thought in U.S.

This is a key argument of the article:

Marc Sageman, a former C.I.A. officer and a consultant on terrorism, said it would be unfair to attribute Mr. Breivik’s violence to the writers who helped shape his world view. But at the same time, he said the counterjihad writers do argue that the fundamentalist Salafi branch of Islam “is the infrastructure from which Al Qaeda emerged. Well, they and their writings are the infrastructure from which Breivik emerged.”

“This rhetoric,” he added, “is not cost-free.”

The reporter, Soctt Shane got an expert to say (in sequence) 1) you can't tie the actions Breivik to the ideas in the anti-Islamist blogs but 2) if you use their own standards, then their writings did indeed encourage Breivik. In other words, in a rather roundabout way, Shane got his expert to confirm the thesis of the article.

Contrast that with how Isabel Kershner dealt with the subject of Palestinian incitement following the Fogel murders:

Yossi Kuperwasser, a retired Israeli general given responsibility by the Israeli government for monitoring Palestinian incitements to violence and to hatred of Israel, said in a telephone interview that while Mr. Abbas and the Palestinian Authority prime minister, Salam Fayyad, had been careful in their words, “they too encourage an atmosphere of terrorism.”

He noted, for example, that a senior Abbas aide had paid a call to the families of three Fatah militants killed by the Israeli military, conveying condolences from Mr. Abbas. Israel held the three responsible for the fatal shooting of a rabbi in the West Bank in December 2009. In addition, Israeli officials note, streets, summer camps and youth tournaments in the Palestinian Authority have been named for people who committed terrorist attacks.

The new focus on incitement against Israel, together with Israeli dissatisfaction over the Palestinian response to the brutal attack, seemed to pose a question about the Israeli government’s readiness to deal with Mr. Abbas as a serious peace partner — even though Mr. Abbas and Mr. Fayyad are widely considered moderates who have repeatedly said they would never resort to violence.

Instead of making the case that Palestinian incitement leads to terror, Kershner allows the Israelis to make the case. Then she inserts herself into the debate arguing that 1) incitement is a means Israel uses to avoid making a deal with the Palestinians and 2) even if it's it true Abbas has nothing to do with it. Of course, given that much of the Palestinian incitement takes place in the official media or official mosques of the PA, it really doesn't matter what Abbas utters when microphones are on, his government is promoting the incitement. Of course, unlike Shane this week, Kershner portrays the effects of Palestinian incitement as non-existent.

The other thing that's missing from Shane's report is any reason the anti-Jihadist bloggers might feel as they do.  A quick search of the New York Times website, shows that since January 1, 2009, there has been precisely one article that contained both the words "Malmo" and the word "Jews" in it. And it was a letter to the editor written by Abraham Foxman of the ADL, Antisemitism in Sweden.

The Swedish Committee Against Anti-Semitism has also lamented that “prejudice against Jews is spreading under a very thin veneer” of anti-Israel activity. Riots greeted an Israeli tennis team at a Davis Cup match in Malmo, whose mayor said (on another occasion), “We accept neither Zionism nor anti-Semitism,” equating Jewish national self-determination with the oldest form of bigotry in the world.

Yet Malmo has been in the news, because the increased antisemitism has been pushing Jews to leave. And one of the driving forces of the antisemitism have been the Muslim immigrants

Great analysis.

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Incitement - Sometimes

Anti-Semitism

In both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, Palestinian media published and broadcast material that included both anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic content, which sometimes (?) amounted to incitement. Rhetoric by several Palestinian groups included expressions of anti-Semitism, as did sermons by some Muslim religious leaders. Some Palestinian religious leaders rejected the right of Israel to exist. Hamas's al-Aqsa television station carried shows for preschoolers extolling hatred of Jews and suicide bombings.

Palestinian media not under the control of the PA, particularly those controlled by Hamas, continued to use inflammatory anti-Semitic language. Unofficial Palestinian television broadcast content that sometimes praised holy war to expel the Jewish presence in the region. Some children's programs shown on Hamas television legitimized the killing of Israelis and Jews via terrorist attacks.

Source:

Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
2010 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
April 8, 2011

And There Is Incitement in Jaffa

Over the past 2-3 years, a major incitement campaign has been underway - no, not instigated by the Palestinian Authority against Jewish revenants in Judea and Samaria - but by Jews and Arabs against Jewish residents in Jaffa.

Like:

“We have no problem living peacefully with Jewish neighbours,” said Omar Siksik, an Arab councillor representing Jaffa in Tel Aviv’s municipality. “But these Jews are coming here as settlers.

“Like in Hebron, their policy is to weaken us as a population and eventually push us out of our homes,” he said, referring to a West Bank city where an enclave of a few dozen settlers has severely disrupted life for tens of thousands of Palestinians.

And

"If they come, the community will be polarised," local historian and political activist Sami Abu Shehadeh told the Observer. "Those people that say Jaffa is a model of coexistence will be silenced." Their objective, he claims, is to "Judaise" a mainly Arab neighbourhood.

More background.

And the result?

Here:-

An Israel Defense Forces soldier was lightly to moderately wounded in a Jaffa stabbing attack on Sunday, in what police say may have been being an attempt to snatch his rifle.

The IDF soldier was approaching Jaffa's Yerushalaim Blvd. during the busy morning hours, when an unknown masked assailant pushed him over and attempted to take away his weapon.

A struggle ensued, which culminated with the assailant stabbing the soldier in the shoulder with an ice pick and running away with the rifle.

The suspect fled the scene, only to quickly dispose of the stolen weapon as soon as civilians began to chase him down the street; the soldier was evacuated to Tel Aviv's Ichilov Hospital in what was defined as moderate to light wounds.

This happened previously:

A group of five Jews was attacked in Jaffa (Yafo) on Saturday night near an ice cream shop. The five, four women and one man, are all IDF soldiers, but they were not wearing their uniforms or carrying weapons. They stopped for ice cream after a day at the beach, they said, and were set upon by ten Arab youths with sticks.

The Arabs began hitting the front windshield of their car and attempted to forcibly drag one person from the car. The Jewish victims managed to drive away, but not before their vehicle sustained damage from the attack.

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No? Really? No Evidence?

The NYTimes copies an AP report that contains this:-

Abbas says there is no incitement in mosques and called for a joint Israeli-Palestinian-U.S. team to examine claims of incitement in Palestinian textbooks.   Israel has not produced evidence that incitement contributed to the killings

You don't really believe that nor that the NYTimes believes that, do you?  Nor AP which had it thus:

Abbas rejected Israel's allegations that Palestinian clerics preach incitement, saying his government hands out a uniform sermon to be delivered by all. And he called for a joint Israeli-Palestinian-U.S. team to examine claims of incitement in Palestinian textbooks.

['hands out a uniform sermon'?  no freedom of religion or expression?]

You know they do know of the incitement.  They've be sent this material by Palestine Media Watch and much more over the years.  (See new PMO powerpoint presentation on incitement, too)

Maybe they'll claim that since no suspects have been arrested, we can't interrogate them to confirm they were incited.  Would they make make that claim?

I checked Pal. sources to be sure (you can't trust the media anymore).

WAFA has this:

RAMALLAH, March 12, 2011 (WAFA) - President Mahmoud Abbas condemned in a statement on Saturday the attack on Itamar settlement near Nablus that left five Israelis from the same family dead.  Abbas “stressed his rejection and condemnation of all violence directed against civilians, regardless of who was behind it or the reason for it,” said a statement issued by his office. It said the President also stressed that “violence produces violence and what is needed is to speed up a just and comprehensive solution to the conflict.”

But that seems an earlier statement.  Besides, this statement promises "a big trouble" - would that be continued terror?


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Such An Ignorant Person

Here's the thinking of a Jew for Peace:-

To the Editor:

It is good to read Gadi Taub call on the Israeli government to stop the religious settlers from undermining peace talks and to recognize that the future of Israel relies on a Palestinian state alongside Israel. The Obama administration should take his words as its core principle in guiding the talks starting this week.

President Obama must use all the carrots and sticks, mostly sticks, at his disposal to persuade the Israeli leaders to extend the moratorium on settlement expansion. This should not be difficult considering that all settlements are illegal.

The United States must be ready to bring the settlement issue to the Security Council. If religious Jews want to live in the West Bank, they may continue to do so, as Jewish citizens of Palestine, not as Israelis.

Jeff Warner
La Habra Heights, Calif., Aug. 30, 2010

The writer is the action coordinator for L.A. Jews for Peace.

Now, let's ask Mahmoud Abbas what he thinks about all this:

Abbas to Jews: This land is not yours!

...Speaking to reporters accompanying him on the flight to Washington, Abbas told the Jews that Judea and Samaria (the so-called "West Bank") is not theirs, and suggested Jewish settlers living there would be wise to pack up and leave.

Asked by the editor of the Bethlehem-based Ma'an news agency what he wanted to tell Israelis living in the West Bank ahead of the peace talks, Abbas replied:

"The settlers are sitting on lands that are not theirs. I tell them that this is not your land and you know that. You can't impose facts on the ground, because the settlements are illegal and will be removed."

Hey, Jeff, you know what, if you ask, the majoirty of Arabs here think that Tel Aviv is a settlement and their children are being taught that.

Read this:

PA TV to kids: Israeli cities Haifa, Jaffa, Lod, Ramle, Acre are all "occupied cities"

Official Palestinian Authority TV continues to teach children that all of Israel is "occupied Palestine." A repeating message on the children's show The Best Home, currently broadcast three times a week during the month of Ramadan, is that all Israeli cities are "occupied" Palestinian cities.

The PA TV host refers to cities in Israel alternately as "1948 occupied cities," "occupied cities" or "occupied territories." The Israeli cities described as Palestinian cities include Haifa, Jaffa, Lod, Ramle and Acre.

Read more and see the clip.


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A Call To Act Against An Inciting Media

This is the second list of companies that advertise in the media which three bodies, "Our Land of Israel", "Kommemiut" and "Mattot Arim", demand that consumers not purchase their goods and services since, as the headline announces, "The Media Is Killing Us":




and they want to fight back: "Don't Purchase!". "On Incitement, They'll Pay".

They note that to boycott the media is impossible from an economic point of view but to halt the income of the advertisers is a better tact.

The first list can be found here (in Hebrew).

Left-wing Incitement

Last week in Tel Aviv, I spotted this election sign for Oren Shachor. Shachor was a very pro-Oslo person, formerly a a former IDF general who was forced to resign for having leaked details of secret Hevron negotiations to then-opposition leader Shimon Peres. (Bio*)

He's running for mayor of Tel Aviv.



Now, what caught my attention is the word מתעלל in the ad. I'll explain.

The ad translates as: "52% Assert That Huldai Is Abusing Them. Huldai Is Abusing You. 200 million NIS is Parking Fines"

[Huldai is the current Mayor]

In Hebrew, מתעלל conveys not only a sense of abuse in the psychological realm but of real physical pain.

For example:
וּלְמַעַן תְּסַפֵּר בְּאָזְנֵי בִנְךָ וּבֶן-בִּנְךָ אֵת אֲשֶׁר הִתְעַלַּלְתִּי בְּמִצְרַיִם
Exodus 10:2 - "And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what things I have wrought in Egypt"
or
וַיַּחֲזֵק הָאִישׁ בְּפִילַגְשׁוֹ וַיֹּצֵא אֲלֵיהֶם הַחוּץ וַיֵּדְעוּ אוֹתָהּ וַיִּתְעַלְּלוּ-בָהּ כָּל-הַלַּיְלָה עַד-הַבֹּקֶר
Judges 19:25 - "So the man took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her and abused her throughout the night"

Now, why would a leftist politician use such a harsh word?

Moreover, if rightwing demonstrators would have accused this government of "abusing" them, the media and the officials in the Justice Ministry would immediately be crying "danger! assassination" or "danger! Jewish extremists are threatening".

In fact, even without that word they are doing that already.

So, why can Shachor do what I can't?




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Maj. Gen. (res.) Oren Shachor President of the Eilat-Ashkelon Pipeline Company. Previously served as Chairman of the Board of the I.S.C. Holdings Group and as Acting Chairman of the Board of Amidar, the largest public housing company in Israel. Served in the IDF for thirty-three years in such senior positions as Coordinator of Government Activities in the West Bank and Gaza, Chief Intelligence Officer and Intelligence Officer of the Southern Command. Holds a B.A. in General History from Tel Aviv University. Currently pursuing an M.A. in International Relations from Haifa University. Graduate of the IDF Staff and Command College.