Reply #25: And until then, close your eyes to everything he does right? [View All]

Those of us who are pro-Israel are hoping that the day soon comes when Israelis feel comfortable enough about their security, or sick enough of Sharon, that they vote him out of office.

Once he's done all the killing necessary to make Israel secure, they you can vote him out of office and wail about what an evil man he was but for right now it's 'alas, an unfortunate necessity' right? The man has got you in an evil Catch-22 by preying on people's fears of the very Anti-Semitism he's bent on fuelling.

The author of the following article is, by the way, Jewish.

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Sharon's best weapon

Anti-semitism sustains Israel's brutal leader - the fight against it must be reclaimed

Naomi Klein
Thursday April 25, 2002
The Guardian

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For Ariel Sharon, it is the fear of anti-semitism, both real and imagined, that is the weapon. Mr Sharon likes to say that he stands up to terrorists to show he is not afraid. In fact, his policies are driven by fear. His great talent is that he fully understands the depths of Jewish fear of another Holocaust. He knows how to draw parallels between Jewish anxieties about anti-semitism and American fears of terrorism, and he is an expert at harnessing all of it for his political ends.

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The primary and familiar fear that Sharon draws on, the one that allows him to disguise all aggressive actions as defensive ones, is the fear that Israel's neighbours want to drive the Jews into the sea. The secondary fear Sharon manipulates is the fear among Jews in the diaspora that they will eventually be driven to seek a safe haven in Israel. This leads millions of Jews around the world, many of them sickened by Israeli aggression, to shut up and send their cheques, a down-payment on future sanctuary.

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Jews outside Israel now find themselves in a tightening vice: the actions of the country that was supposed to ensure their future safety are making them less safe right now. Sharon is deliberately erasing distinctions between the terms "Jew" and "Israeli", claiming he is fighting not for Israeli territory but for the survival of the Jewish people. When anti-semitism rises at least partly as a result of his actions, it is Sharon who is positioned once again to collect the political dividends.

It works. Most Jews are so frightened that they are now willing to do anything to defend Israeli policies. So at my neighbourhood synagogue, where the humble facade was badly scarred by a suspicious fire recently, the sign on the door doesn't say, "Thanks for nothing, Sharon." It says, "Support Israel - now more than ever."

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,690226,00.html

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And for the locked threads? Here's a prime example from a few days ago: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=534364

because heaven forbid people discuss groups such as the following:

Shalom and Welcome to the Jewish Peace Fellowship - http://www.jewishpeacefellowship.org
Founded by Rabbis in 1941. Supports conscientious objectors.

Tikkun Magazine - http://www.tikkun.org/
Pacifist voices of conscience and reason, edited by Rabbi Michael Lerner in San Francisco.

Yesh Gvul - http://www.yesh-gvul.org/english.html
The movement for soldiers of the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) refusing to serve in the Occupied Territories.

Gush Shalom - http://www.gush-shalom.org/english/index.html
The website of the prominent Israeli peace movement features thought-provoking articles by its dissident director, Uri Avnery.

PEACE NOW! - http://www.peacenow.org.il/English.asp
Israeli pacifists for Palestinian self-determination within 1967 borders.

Not In My Name: Taking Action for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine - http://www.nimn.org
NIMN, based on their belief in Judaism, oppose "Israeli Government brutality against Palestinians".

Junity - Jewish Unity for a Just Peace - http://www.junity.org/
Jewish peace groups which agree on ending abuses of Palestinian human rights and Israel's self-destructive settlement policy.

B'tselem - http://www.btselem.org/English/Publications/index.asp
The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, reports on Israeli abuses such as torture, shootings, home demolitions, and settler violence.

Jewish Voice For Peace (SF Bay Area) - http://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org
This SF Bay Area grassroots organization is dedicated to the rights of Jews, Palestinians, and all peoples in the Middle East. They believe conflict won't end until Israel removes settlements. Site includes petition, listserver, resources, media.

Why do they hate US? by Stephen Shalom - http://www.zmag.org/shalomhate.htm
Time-line of US interventions in the Middle East from 1948.

Open Tent Middle East Coalition - http://www.opentent.org
Arab and Jewish groups of mutual goodwill. California-based.

The 94 Percent Solution: A Matrix of Control (Middle East Report) - http://www.merip.org/mer/mer216/216_halper.html
Jeff Halper, director of the Campaign Against House Demolitions, explains how the chicanery of apartheid chokes off Palestinian life in myriad ways.

oznik.com: news headlines - http://oznik.com
A small I/P resistance news-service publishes reports from Palestine under IDF occupation, with the motto "We are all Palestinian Refugees".

Building Settlements, Killing Peace (Antiwar.com) - http://www.antiwar.com/hacohen/h052601.html
Ran HaCohen writes "The Settlements are the Occupation" and "The Fallacy Industry".

Jews NOT Zionists - Torah-true Jews against Zionism - http://www.jewsnotzionists.org /
"Any form of Zionism is heresy from the Torah viewpoint and the so-called 'State of Israel' is illegitimate". Menu includes links and quotes to Anti-Zionist Jewish organizations and statements, and the wisdom of Judaism on the Middle East Quandary.

Australian Jewish Democratic Society - http://www.ajds.org.au
"Committed to Peace and Social Justice, Reconciliation between Nations and Peoples, and Nuclear Disarmament". Contents include News, Mid East Conflict, Library, Peace Links, Readers' Forum, Newsletters, and Activities.

Tom Segev's "One Palestine, Complete" Book Review - http://www.salon.com/books/int/2001/12/08/palestine
Segev wrote in "One Palestine, Complete" how the British Mandate favored Zionism. In this interview he sees an evolution of Israeli willingness to accept responsibility for the Palestinian tragedy.

Noam Chomsky Lecture at MIT on Mideast Crises, Dec 14, 2000 - http://www.media.mit.edu/~nitin/mideast/chomsky_lecture.html
One of America's most brilliant intellectuals portrays two rogue states against the world - the US and Israel.

"Israel Isn't David . . . It's Goliath" - http://www.progressive.org/mr0701.html
Matthew Rothschild of The Progressive magazine interviews Irena Klepfisz of The Jewish Women's Committee to End the Occupation

Right livelihood awards - http://www.rightlivelihood.se/recip1987_5.html
Israeli scientist Mordechai Vanunu, kidnapped by Mossad abroad and life-sentenced to solitary confinement for revealing that Israel has nuclear warheads, is commemorated here for his courage and sacrifice.

Matzpun = Hebrew for Conscience - http://www.matzpun.com
"The authors of this appeal are Jews whose families have been victims of racism and genocide, and who feel they cannot remain silent." They appeal to the world to boycott Israeli goods and leisure travel.

Taayush - http://minerva.tau.ac.il/~alon/taayush.html
Food convoys to the territories, articles.

Neturei Karta - http://www.netureikarta.org/
Orthodox Jews who condemn Zionism and the brutal treatment of the Palestinians as a heresy and violation of the Torah.

Zionism in the Age of the Dictators, by Lenni Brenner. - http://www.marxists.de/middleast/brenner/index.htm
Full-length, on-line history book with details of political infighting, including how and why Zionists fostered Hitler as a "godsend" to force the creation of the Jewish state, whatever the cost. Bibliography.

Writings of Israel Shamir - http://www.israelshamir.net/
Apartheid dissolves in this brilliant journalist's lyric vitriol. His articles, bio and links to friends and adversaries are found on his page.

Press Freedom Heroes: Amira Hass (Haaretz) - http://www.freemedia.at/IPIReport2.00/22Hass.htm
This dissident Israeli journalist reports from the Gaza Strip and Ramallah, where she has taken up residence.

SF Jewish Film Festival - Al-Nakba - http://www.sfjff.org/sfjff18/programs/p0722b.html
The Palestinian Catastrophe 1948, a documentary.

Nathan Weinstock: Zionism - False Messiah - http://www.marxists.de/middleast/weinstock/index.htm
This on-line book continues the analytical tradition of Karl Marx' anti-nationalist and anti-colonialist view of The Jewish Question.

Closure and Apartheid: Seven Years of "Peace" through Separation, by Allegra Pacheco - http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/pachec1.htm
Allegra Pacheco, an Israeli human rights attorney, noted for prosecuting the first Israeli torture trial, describes how the closure of the West Bank and Gaza since 1993 is in violation of international law, and an extreme hardship for the people.

MidEastFacts Select author index - http://www.mideastfacts.com/index_author.html
Articles by over 100 prominent anti-Zionist authors, of whom about one-third are Israeli.

Securing Occupation: The Real Meaning of The Wye Memorandum - http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/id66.htm
Norman Finkelstein, author of "The Holocaust Industry", analyzes how Israel expels the indigenous population in defiance of the UN.

Israel Shamir Archive - http://shamir.mediamonitors.net/index.html
Palestine is not a dead object, she is a living country. Palestinians are her soul.

Jewish Opposition to Zionism - http://codoh.com/zionweb/ziondark/zionoppdex.html
Historical documents showing persistent Jewish support for pluralistic democracy rather than segregation.

Rodfei Shalom - Jewish Peacemakers Delegation to Israel/Palestine - http://www.geocities.com/jewishpeacemakers/index.html
"Olive Tree Summer 2001" was a delegation of Jews from North America and the world to Israel / Palestine to participate in nonviolent protest.

Jewish Bulletin: Israeli who protects Palestinians from IDF's bullets speaks here (November 09, 2001) - http://www.jewishsf.com/bk011109/eb20.shtml
Liad Kantorowicz, 23-year-old Israeli-American activist, says Israelis feel victimized while they are the ones victimizing Palestinians, and works against apartheid to make Israel a better place to be from.

Palestine: What Americans need to Know -- but probably won't be told -- to Understand Palestinian Rage - http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/palestine/eduardoCohen.html
Eduardo Cohen of KPFA sees the depth of Israeli racism and repression in Palestine, and of incomprehension and censorship on the subject when he returns.

Felicia Langer - A portrait. Al Ahram Weekly - http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/1998/402/pal2.htm
Ostracised and repeatedly threatened with death at the hands of her own people, lawyer Felicia Langer has not flinched since she adopted the Palestinian cause.

Build Palestinian Confidence in What? (IHT) - http://www.iht.com/articles/26300.htm
Henry Siegman of the Foreign Relations Council, former executive of the American Jewish Congress, points out that Israel has not offered peace, but only continued occupation.

A Spokesman For Justice: A Tribute to Rabbi Elmer Berger - http://www.washington-report.org/Washington-Report_org/www/backissues/1096/9610012.htm
by Grace Halsell. Founder of American Jewish Alternatives to Zionism (AJAZ), believer in core values of Judaism and democracy which Zionism tramples on.

Jeff Halper: Simply look at the maps - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JewishPeaceNews/message/400
Israeli anthropology professor shows how Barak's "best offer" makes geographical shreds of Palestine.

Like Father, Like Son: A Tribute to Moshe and Yehudi Menuhin, by Grace Halsell - http://www.washington-report.org/Washington-Report_org/www/backissues/0796/9607018.htm
"Jews should be Jews, not Nazis" - Moshe Menuhin on Israeli oppression of Palestinians.

The Jews Are Not A Race! - http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/7891/notrace.html
Alfred Lilienthal debunks the Hebrew descent of European converts to Judaism.

Benjamin Freedman - A Jewish Defector Warns America - http://www.themodernreligion.com/jihad/freedman.html
The famous 1961 speech by this New York businessman exposes "Zionist control of the US Government," including the plot to push the US into WWI in order to annex Palestine, thereby sowing seeds of Nazism and Communism.

Palestine Media Watch - http://www.pmwatch.org/pmw/links/jewishorganizations.html
List of Pro-Palestinian Rights Jewish Organizations.

Gideon Levy: Like the old days in South Africa - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JewishPeaceNews/message/773
Raymond Louw, editor who fought apartheid in South Africa, finds Israel even worse, because it aims at expelling the indigenous oppressed.

"The Second half of 48" - The Sharon-Ya'alon Plan (by Tanya Reinhart) - http://www.mediamonitors.net/tanya8.html
How Alon became Ya'alon - Oslo as a tool to "finish the job" of liquidating the people of Palestine.

Albert Einstein and Martin Buber Quotes - http://www.aai-us.org/main.html
Einstein: "I should much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the basis of living together in peace than the creation of a Jewish State." Buber: "our murderous sickness of causeless hatred is bound to bring complete ruin upon us. Only then will our land realize how great was our responsibility to those Arab refugees in whose towns we settled."

Amy and the Jews - http://courant.ctnow.com/news/special/ne/amy_0715.stm
Amy Pagnozzi, the Hartford Courant's spunky columnist, plunges into a media firefight.

WRMEA: If All Rabbis Were Like Arik Ascherman, Middle East Peace Would Be Attainable - http://www.wrmea.com/archives/october01/0110015.html
Rabbi Ascherman of Rabbis for Human Rights actively protests the demolition of Palestinian homes, and admits the right of return of refugees to a secular democratic state.

An Unconditional Withdrawal from the Territories is Urgently Needed (lemonde/zmag) - http://www.zmag.org/content/Mideast/ayalonwithdr.cfm
Ami Ayalon, chief of Israeli security Shin Bet 1996-2000 , places blame for violence on Israel and calls for withdrawal and acceptance of a contiguous Palestinian state.

Jews Speak Out Against the Occupation - http://www.cam.org/~rsilver/jewspeakout.htm
Pacifist, dissident Montreal organization's call on Jews to stand up and demand an end to war and apartheid, with list of signers.

The Bible Unearthed (rense.com) - http://www.rense.com/general18/bible.htm
Larry Saltzman, a horticulturalist, actively opposed the occupation upon Israel's wanton destruction of orchards. He reports on a new archaelogical consensus that undermines Zionism: ancient Israel was Canaanite, not Hebrew.

Muhammad's Killer - http://www.mediamonitors.net/netagolan1.html
Chatting with a stranger, activist Neta Golan discovers the young soldier who gunned down her young Arab friend in cold blood.

In Memoriam, Israel Shahak. Obituary by Norton Mezvinsky (WRMEA) - http://www.wrmea.com/archives/october01/0110071.html
Eulogizes a man of courage and conviction, born in a Polish ghetto, died in Jerusalem, who blazed a scholarly trail with radical writings on the reactionary character of Zionism and Talmudic Judaism.

Interviews in Occupied Territory. - http://www.occupied.org
Mainly audio - video dialogue around demolished houses in Hebron.

With Jews Like These... - http://masada2000.org/selfhate.html
Denouncing Jews who are active in the peace movement, or who question Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, as self-hating enemies of the state.

Siege of the Innocent by Rachelle Marshall - http://www.koutayba.com/palestine/siege.html
A Jewish home in Palestine built upon bayonets and oppression is not worth having. Rabbi Judah Magnes, letter to Chaim Weizmann, 1929.

Independent News: British Jews at odds after rabbi criticises Israel - http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=101898
A prominent liberal, Rabbi Dr David Goldberg, provoked consternation by describing Israel as the "last colonial power in the world" and "a golden calf."

South African Jews Polarized Over Israel (washingtonpost.com) - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63012-2001Dec18.html
Anti-Racism Leaders Equate Country's Treatment of Palestinians to Apartheid.

Yahoo Groups : JewishPeaceNews - http://www.egroups.com/group/JewishPeaceNews
This public news list on the Middle East Conflict and US intervention posts current news and comment pieces, moderated by pro-Palestine American Jews.

Victor Ostrovsky - http://www2.southwind.net/~amfirst/ostrovsk.htm
A former Mossad spy talks about Israel's behind the scenes influence on the U. S.

On the Palestinian Right of Return - http://tari.org/marc_Ellis.htm
This Essay by Marc Ellis is "A Jewish Meditation on History, Rights and Return".

Yahoo! Groups : al-awda-unity - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/al-awda-unity
Jewish activism for Middle East justice.

Ariga: from the Intersection of Three Continents since 1995 - http://ariga.com
Israeli e-zine linking to Human Rights Groups, Rabin's Last Speech, historic documents, Jewish-Arab Dialogue, Non-supremacist Religious Zionism, News from Ha'aretz, Dukium - the Negev Coexistence Forum, Shalom/Salaam/Welcome Peace Links, Magazines Supporting Peace, Stop the 911 War.

Jews against the Occupation - New York City - http://www.angelcities.com/members/jato
Activism, events, resources, discussion board.