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Steven Plaut teaches business administration and economics at the University of Haifa in Israel and is the author of The Scout.
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By Steven Plaut
November 5, 2004
Modern Israeli events are increasingly resembling the Biblical story of the ten plagues, right out of the Book of Exodus.
First the Oslo team supplied us with plenty of Blood and Deaths of the Firstborn. For Frogs, look no further than the photos of His Ugliness in France. The Lice are those tenured traitors at Israeli universities calling for boycotts of Israel. The Vermin are now running the Gaza Strip. Darkness has long covered over Israel's entire media.
This week the locusts are arriving. Seriously.
Meanwhile, these days the Israeli media are overflowing with all sorts of "warnings" placed there by the political establishment about how right-wing anti-Oslo protesters supposedly represent a clear and present danger threatening new political assassinations. New political murders are just a question of time, with hose awful "settlers" arming themselves and preparing for violence. Labor Party McCarthyites are gushing their compassion for Ariel Sharon, supposedly being targeted for murder because of his promoting the Mitzna Plan for Gaza.
The press is repeating morning to night all those old McCarthyite lies about how Rabin's death was the direct result of the exercise of freedom of speech by anti-Oslo dissidents, how Yigal Amir was simply an extension of Israel's anti-Oslo camp and the embodiment of their rejectionist ideas. Thus the entire anti-Oslo Right is a murderous criminal political movement that needs to be suppressed by democracy-loving leftists.
Missing in all the posturing and self-righteous McCarthyism of Israel's leftist establishment is any mention at all of Tali Fahima, the arrest of a 29-year-old Jewish leftist woman who assisted her Palestinian "lover" in planning anti-Jewish atrocities. After years of insisting that political violence can only come out of Israel's Right, with the proof being that during 60 years a single fringe character from the Right murdered a single leftist political leader, the media just cannot bring itself to acknowledge the role of Israeli leftists in helping terrorists murder Jews.
The Israeli press and politicians are so busy inventing lies about some non-existent amorphous threat of violence from the Right, but never quite gotten around to speaking up about the threats of violence from leftist traitors. The evidence for the existence of a clear and present danger of violence from far-leftists is not some theoretical or abstract conjecture. The role of Tali Fahima proves that at least some of Israel's leftist extremists are willing to collaborate with Palestinian terrorists in planning and carrying out mass murder and Islamofascist terror.
While no one at all on the Israeli Right has ever endorsed or identified with Yigal Amir's crime, almost the entire Israeli Far Left is cheering on Tali Fahima and making it clear how passionately they support her. Not convinced? Take a look at israel.indymedia.org.
Yesterday Israel Supreme Court Justice Ayala Prokatsia rejected a motion by the lawyers representing Tali Fahima to let her out of administrative detention. The judge added that the evidence already presented proves that Fahima represents a clear and immediate concrete direct threat to the security of Israel, and if she is released on bail she could participate in new terrorist activities directed against Israeli civilians (Maariv Nov. 5, 04). The judge's words! And no one has ever suggested this judge is right of center.
Tali's lawyers say she was meeting and collaborating with the Jenin terrorist commandants because she was promoting humanitarian projects.
The Israeli media, using Big Lie repetition tactics over the past 9 years to demonize and delegitimize over half the Israeli polity, assaulting over and over the rights of free speech of those who oppose the Left, screaming every day about imaginary threats of violence from Israel's anti-Oslo Right, have nary a word to say about Israel's leftist gyno-terrorist.
That's a plague with which we have yet to come to terms.
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