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Date: April 7, 2015

Parasha: Shmini / ?????

Title: “The Immoral Futility of Negotiations”

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Shalom laYehudim, Shalom laBnai Noach, Shalom laGoyim. ?? ???? ???”?

It’s the evening of the 4th day yudkhes beNisan, tav-shin-ayin-heh, Parashas Shmini, the evening of the 3rd day, Tuesday, 7 April 2015, webcasting from Eretz Yisrael in the middle of Passover Week, when we celebrate our deliverance from Egyptian tyranny.

Maybe this fact is contributing to the rising tide of anti-Jewism and eruptions of antiJewitis that come in different forms: envy of our pleasure. For example, hardly a week goes by now without news of a Jewish cemetery in Europe and elsewhere being vandalized, spray painted with swastikas, tombstones toppled. Such activities are carried out presumably by the less intellectually gifted, Jew-hating goyim with access to, say, a tow-truck or pick-up truck with winches used to pull down the stones.

But then there are more refined types such as university students who act out their Jew-hatred by organizing Israel Apartheid Weeks and other pro so-called Balestinian activities.

Though some university was reported today, I forget where, also to be the scene of an anti-Jew, one or more of them with spray cans, acting like two year-olds with crayons scrawling on the dining room wall until mommy takes the crayons away, only here their graffiti expressed their Jew-hatred on university buildings.

And then there are highest: the major players in the U.S. State and Defense Departments and schools of diplomacy who exercise their antiJew impulses by signing statements of support for the Muslim in the Oval Office and his plan to let Iran keep essential infrastructure for building an atomic bomb to drop on the world’s only Jewish state G-d forbid.

Do a Google on The Iran Project and read the statement put out yesterday and signed by fifty big shots in support of the Muslim antisemite in the White House who has become the mouthpiece for the government in Iran. How powerful is the Jewish idea and its antagonism. Anti-Jewism comes in all sizes, styles and levels of education.

We are not surprised to see among the signatories Zbigniew Brzezinski, the notorious anti-Israelite whom I once caught in a New York Times op-ed charging IDF soldiers with indiscriminately shooting what he called “Palestinians.” This is unheard of in the IDF for several reasons. In general, Arabs behave this way; Jews don’t. Any IDF soldier acting that way would be seen by comrades-in-arms and they would be appalled by his behavior and they would stop him. In effect, Zbig was equating our soldiers with the PLO’s terrorists known to murder people at random in airports and bus stops. He was basically calling our sons murderers just like them. Tell lies about Jews and that is antiJewism.

What Brzezinski did was equate Jewish behavior with Arab behavior and that was a huge lie. Tell a huge lie about the Jews and you are antiJew.

Another signatory is former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright who denied her Jewishness all her life and would not be caught dead siding with that dreadful Mr. Netanyahu against His Excellency Barack Hussein Obama, her respected president.

Then there is Samuel Berger, another professional Jew-boy who served as National Security Advisor to Bill Clinton when the most frequent guest at the White House was that slime ball mass murderer of Jews Yassir Arafat. “Sandy” Berger also signed on.

On the list as well is the de-Judaized Leslie Gelb, former New York Times journalist who views Israel exactly as his former employers wanted him to; like a WASPy State Department anti-Jew.

Then there is Richard Murphy, a villain in my book; Brent Scowcroft and the usual suspects, etc.

Apart from them, on Sunday in the New York Times, there was LTF, Little Tommy Friedman, who wrote up his interview done in the White House no less of His Majesty Sultan Barack the First which lasted 46 minutes. LTF published long sections of the transcript on Sunday in his column, though in all honesty I neither watched the interview — it’s available on line, of course — nor did I read his hard copy column because I am past the point with both LTF and Barack Hussein of thinking I will see something new from either of these anti-Jews.

I did not watch and I did not read because I am, frankly, first, a bit dumbfounded by the weird behavior on the part LTF who decided to interview him at all. I mean, after six years in office, Barack Obama has often enough been exposed – exposed himself, really – as a chronic liar. What is the point of interviewing this man when he is a known, compulsive distorter of truth? What does it matter what he said in that interview because he is a chronic, habitual liar about healthcare, about Benghazi, about IRS corruption?

In the first speech of his that I ever watched I felt this was a man who did not believe a word he was saying. His whole effort was presenting himself as an impressive orator with his fine baritone voice and the rhythm of his speech.

But as for the content? Bromides, vague promises, and in any case, I found him detached even from the lightweight content.

Over the years now we have seen him not only take the side of the Arabs and Muslims, he thinks and behaves like one. In Arab Islam, truth is not objective but subjective. All that matters is the truth of one’s one feelings and appetites and desires about which one can say anything. Objective truth is irrelevant. All that matters is managing the present towards one’s advantage. I did not watch the Friedman interview nor read it for I have seen and read him so many times as well. He is a fool and slave of his need to distance himself from the Jewish people he was born into and that includes solemnly interviewing Barack Hussein Obama over his foreign policy philosophy toward Iran as if Obama’s complete mishandling of Libya, Egypt, Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria never happened.

Obama is a proven either ignoramus or incompetent at best in the Middle East, yet Freidman takes him seriously in his views on Iran, Israel, the Ancient Ones and etc.

What a bizarre scene, this interview: LTF respectfully interviewing this proven delusionist who thinks that the Ft. Hood massacre had no Islamic dimension; who thought it was a good idea to topple Mubarak and bring in the Muslim Brotherhood.

I emphasize that at best Obama is a proven loser on the Middle East because the alternative is much worse: a conscious, traitor sabotaging American interests in the Middle East. In this he would be not a loser but a great victor.

One oddity of Obama’s pro-Iran negotiation at Lausanne was that besides the existential threat to Israel that his plan poses, the Arabs no less feel they have been thrown under the bus by this man.

How to explain this? On the one hand, we saw him obsequiously bow to the king of Saudi Arabia, homeland of his beloved Islam; and in Indonesia, which is almost totally Sunni, he likely lived for a time as a Muslim, Sunni style, so why side with Iran and infuriate the Saudis and other Sunni regimes?

I suspect Obama is less concerned with the Sunni-Shia split than his obsession with Israel which was evident in his inaugural speech and his first day in office. He has become an advocate for Iran because Iran is the strong horse, the one closest to building an atomic bomb to either drop on Israel, G-d forbid, and or use to scare away tourists and foreign investment.

For Muslims like Obama, the mere fact of Israel’s existence and its possession of an atomic bomb stimulate a Muslim’s eternal envy and covetousness that drives them to larceny. If the Jews have an atomic bomb and they don’t, why, that’s not fair.

Obama wants to see Israel reduced as the king of the hill, so to speak, in the Middle East as being the only nuclear power. Obama wants to see Iran the big shot in the region. As he wants the US to lower its profile in the world, come down from his dominating perch, so Israel must be humbled as well.

That is why he has been trying to join forces with Iran since his first days in office. It is part and parcel of his antiJew obsession.

This whole business of Obama’s deal with Iran that continues to be front-page news here is simply sickening. Probably due to an intentional Israeli leak, the Daily Telegraph in London wrote up the stream of money from Iran to Hamas in Gaza being used to build anew the death tunnels.

Here is Iran behind this devilish effort by the Hamites in Gaza to tunnel into a Jewish community’s kindergarten, to pop up in the middle of it and murder all the children, G-d forbid.

In the media we have seen photographs of the P5+1 countries’ representatives at Lausanne posing and smiling at the Iranian FM Javed Zarif. Muslims like him are today’s Nazis for their diabolical fantasies of murdering Jews like this, yet here is Zarif standing next to EU Czarina for Foreign Policy, the erstwhile youthful Communist Party member Federica Mogherini, all of them all smiles.

In a better world, all these countries would unite like the Allies of the 1940s against Iran, but they do not. It is as if one important lesson of the Holocaust in Europe has not been learned. As in the 1940s when the Allies fought and defeated the Nazi when their ideology of Jew-hatred was central to their political platform, so Iran is a country burning with the same flames of Jew-hatred; and here are the P5+1 knuckling under to Iran. They have not learned the lesson that stoking the fires of antiJewism can lead to an explosion that brutalizes the Jews but even many more gentiles.

Hysterical homicidal Jew-hatred is bad for everybody.

The word this week is that Iranians are celebrating in the streets over the Obama agreement.

In Israel, the Prime Minister everyday defends the country by going on the offensive against this nauseating capitulation. Iran’s entire nuclear project will remain in place, un-dismantled.

But Congress in Washington is, in fairness, seeming to bestir itself. Yesterday Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat, joined Republicans in supporting a bill to hamstring the Muslim in the White House. This guy Obama, with his track record over the last six years, is like a fellow who thinks it’s okay to let little kids play with matches. Iran is recognized as the greatest sponsor of terror attacks in the world; its tentacles are now extended all over the region, and it is simply an abomination, an offense against civilization, that the P5 +1 states tolerate the existence of this regime let alone let it have an atomic bomb. The Allies should come together and bring down this regime as the regimes in Berlin and Tokyo were once brought down.

Instead, when sanctions proved their power to force Teheran to the negotiating table amid vocal unrest in the country due to the sanctions, it was inhumanly illogical to, at that point, remove sanctions. Having proven their effectiveness, they should have been increased and increased until Teheran had to relent.

Instead, Obama went in the other direction. At first, he huffed and puffed that there would be no centrifuges when these negotiations began, and here he is saluting the continued presence of thousands of them. He said he would not tolerate a nuclear Iran on his watch, and I believe him, for such a statement does not contradict accepting a nuclear Iran after his watch, after he leaves office, which is what his plan could lead to.

It is nothing less than disgusting that the P5+1 sit politely across the table from this outlaw regime, this enemy of freedom and democracy, this totalitarian, antisemitic dictatorship run by Muslim priests whose sermons spew hatred and death.

Reuters ran a photo the other day of an Arab, a pro-Houthi Arab in Sana’a, capital of Yemen; you know, from the movement backed by Iran, one of its tentacles. Pasted on his forehead was the movement’s poster language which contains five lines of text: first, “Allah Akbar,” meaning G-d is the greatest and superior to the gods of non-Believers. Lines 2, 3 and 4: “Death to America, Death to Israel, A Curse Upon the Jews.” Line 5: “Victory to Islam.”

Five lines, that’s all. One reference to America, two to Israel and the Jews, and Victory to Islam that presupposes a competition, even a war between Islam, the Jews and America.

AntiJew hatred burns at the core of Islam in a way it does not in Christianity. It is in the core of that religion but not the whole story. With Islam, hatred of the Jews is basic and scattered throughout the text.

But, here is Barack Obama and his bootlick LTF Tommy Friedman, and Madeleine Albright and soul-mate Danny Kurtzer who also signed that statement, all siding with Iran in its desire to hold onto the machinery it needs to make atomic bombs if not right away and then a few years away.

Islam is the great threat to Israel and Western civilization, and here are these foreign policy big shots siding with this regime that kidnapped and psychologically tormented 52 American embassy personnel for 444 days; the same regime that terror-bombed to death 241 Marines in Beirut two years later; that has been behind other war-like attacks against America, being catered to by otherwise distinguished foreign policy experts who should know better.

Or are they so hostile to Israel they ignore American interests? A nuclear Iran would be a menace to the States no less than to Israel. But, you know, the human mind when focused on the Jews tends to operate in screwy ways.

Now here’s a news item that illuminates who our enemies are and why surrendering any more land to them defies human common sense.

Last Friday, Makor Rishon reported that in the wake of the death this past winter of little 4 year old Adele Biton, h’y, two years after an Arab rock attack resulted in the shattering of her skull and brain, the Arabs are spreading the Muhammad ad-Dura-like story, a hallucination, that the five 16 and 17-year-olds arrested for that crime were arrested and tortured by Israel and imprisoned when they had nothing to do with an “accident.” They claimed two Israeli cars collided, driven by settlers, and that the settlers decided to blame some Balestinians.

Now the PA wants to bring the case of this Israeli “crime” against the five boys before the European Union. This case is now becoming popular among the European Left, and what a coincidence the similarity between classical religious Jew-hatred and that of the atheistic Left. In both systems, the Jews are accused of crimes they do not commit and on that basis they are hated and abused and attacked. In this case, Arabs threw stones that caused an accident and the ultimate death of this little Jewish girl. The perpetrators were arrested but the Euro-Left turns it into a case of the Jews killing her and arresting and torturing innocent Balestinian youth under a false pretext.

It is thinking like this which fuels the endless aggression against Israel in particular and the Jews in general. Be it the work of some drunken Pole with a tow-truck or pick-up truck who thinks it would be great fun pulling down Jewish headstones one night, or foreign policy big shots who sign statements supportive of Iran against Israel, at the core of which is a belief, in both cases, of Jewish guilt.

For such as Brzezinski and Albright and Kurtzer and LTF, with Israel surrounded on three sides by 550 million Muslims who deny the Jews’ right to independence, it is Israel that is the guilty party responsible for the absence of peace and justice for the poor, poor putatively Paleolithic Palestinian people.

In this, these sophistos with the PhDs in Political Science are no different from the semi-literate, stone-throwing Arab teenager who thinks the Jews stole Balestine from the Balestinians.

It is a world fit for the dark side of the moon, a world of lunacy. Last Friday in JPost hard copy, Khalid Abu Toameh reported on the arrest by the IDF in Ramallah of a woman, a member of the so-called Palestinian parliament — which has not convened for years — who is also a senior representative of the PFLP, George Habash’s Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The IDF arrested this Khaleda Jarrar for violating an IDF order confining her to the Jericho area because of her suspected involvement in planning terror. But she went to Ramallah anyway and was arrested in a pre-dawn raid.

And yours truly, for one, could not get over the fact that in the bizarre world of the phantom Palestinian Nation, a high member of the terrorist PFLP with its decades of terror atrocities, could also be a parliamentarian.

Then again, since the so-called Palestinian parliament, its Legislative Council, was the creation of terrorist criminals in Fatah, the presence of criminals sitting in its assembly hall should not surprise. In my book, I cite Arafat declaring his aspiration to introduce the “Palestinian” nation” to the world as “freedom-fighters,” which in practice meant a people known for its crimes of atrocious violence; a people not known for its scientists and doctors, poets and artists, but its murderers of innocent people.

These are the criminal enemies of civilization with whom the peace processors have demanded that we in Israel negotiate and have been demanding that we do so for over twenty years now. The Oslo peace process was premised on the value of negotiating with the PLO over fighting their violence with superior violence; and so today the same mind is at work in the head of Obama and his flacks who think they can sign a deal with Iran that Teheran will keep.

The power of antiJewism is so great, it can demolish common sense and basic human wisdom. Evil murderers must never be judged to be those who keep their word, so what is the point of mankind making agreements with them?

Lastly, I hope you have taken note of the crushing of a PLO UNRWA area outside of Damascus mentioned last time by ISIS. It is called the Yarmouk Camp. Predictably, the self-styled Palestinians here, like MK Ahmed Tibi, are shrieking that the international community to do something to help these people being massacred.

Notice, as always, it is always something external to the self that is the target of Arab accusation. It is the international community that is derelict in not rescuing the people in Yarmouk.

Never is there a moment of reflection on the Arab character that produces such ghastly atrocities again and again. Most significant of all, they are their own worst enemies. In my lifetime, there has been no decade without Arabs killing Arabs like this somewhere in Araby, and I reckon it has been like this in every decade for centuries, even millennia.

One chapter title in my book is “Fratricide as a Way of Life.”

Well, that is about it for this evening. Israel is on vacation this week; endless streams of families in cars, picnicking, another reason our neighbors hate us so. Compare and contrast, class, life in Syria these days and life here during Passover Week. How they envy us, our peaceful society that is so different from theirs.

Oh, how they whine about our alleged crimes against them, when no one brutalizes Arabs like fellow Arabs. Well, have a good rest of the week and I will return to the regular schedule after the Holy Sabbath. Until them

Moadim li-simcha from the hills of Judea.

Sha’i ben-Tekoa’s

Sha’i ben-Tekoa was born, raised and educated in the United States of America. He received a B.A. in Comparative Religion from Columbia University and did graduate work in same at the University of Chicago Divinity School. A traveler in Arab lands, he served in the Yom Kippur War effort of 1973. His articles on the Arab-Israeli conflict, terrorism and Islamic fundamentalism have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, National Review, Midstream, Congress Monthly and other publications. He appeared on American Public Broadcasting’s The MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour. In preparation for 1991’s historic Arab-Israeli peace conference in Madrid, he worked on assignment for the Office of the Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Shamir. He was formerly lead English language commentator for Shamir. He was formerly lead English language commentator for IsraelNationalNews.com.

Sha’i broadcasts his Internet radio commentary and music program from the hills of Judea 3 nights a week. These webcasts, other articles & videos can be seen or heard by signing up on his Website:www.deprogramprogram.com.

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Sha’i ben-Tekoa is the author of the book: Phantom Nation: Inventing the “Palestinians” as the Obstacle to Peace available at Amazon.com on Kindle or 3 Volume Paperback. Check out the reviews on Amazon.com Book Description: Publication Date: January 4, 2014

If you are a supporter of Israel, “Phantom Nation” is a must-read book. If you support the putatively Paleolithic “Palestinians,” you had better read this book. Sha’i ben-Tekoa skewers the myth of a “Palestinian” nation with rights to land the League of Nations specifically recognized as Jewish. The author, hired for a research project by the Office of Israel’s Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir discovered the first mention ever in a United Nations resolution of “Palestinians” in the year 1970, three years after Israel conquered Judea and Samaria, a.k.a. the “West Bank.” The author also shows how this very no-name of a name, “West Bank,” had to be invented for hills the Arabs never had a name for. Hence, the sterile, topographical description lacking all historical associations, which exposes the fraud that is the “Palestinian” counter-claim to land the League said was Jewish. Before 1959, when Gamal Nasser of Egypt conjured up the idea of a phantom “Palestinian” nation, the record of Holy Land history is perfectly empty of any mention of them.

After Ben-Tekoa’s government assignment ended, he went in search of the full story surrounding the birth of this allegedly archaic community, and the story he tells covers the entire sweep of Zionist and Israeli history, its wars and waves of Arab and Muslim massacres (terrorism) and the birth of this notional nation a Biblical generation of forty years after the League of Nations’ decision. He likens the rise of “Palestinian Nationalism” to Holocaust Denial as a twin perversion of history; as our generation’s successor ideology to medieval Christianity and Nazism as forms of homicidal anti-Semitism. It is our time’s way of justifying the mass murder of Jews. “Phantom Nation” is also a crackling, riveting, great read.

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