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Politics : GENEVA ACCORD -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Eashoa' M'sheekha who wrote (44)	12/6/2003 1:27:18 PM
From: Eashoa' M'sheekha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 190

The left fans the flames By Uzi Landau Israel's haters no longer need to make the effort to turn the wheels of anti-Semitism in Europe. Israeli leftists, led by the initiators of the Geneva "Accord," do it better and their good intentions are paving the road to hell for all of us. Here are three stories about how the Israeli left contributes to the Jew-hatred sweeping all of Europe: The Dutch Channel 3 television station ran a film called "The Fence" by Israeli filmmaker Benny Bruner. The movie, made by Israelis, was mostly made in the "West Bank," with the participation of senior journalists. In it, photographer Miki Kratzman tells of an Israeli tank that for fun shot at a Palestinian family working in a field. The tank killed a woman and a child was decapitated by the concussion. According to the father of the family, said Kratzman, the soldiers ordered him to undress and stand naked next to the bodies of his dead wife and son. Haim Hanegbi takes the film crew to an Arab house near Har Homa. He explains to the audience that the Zionist movement is racist, like South Africa, and steals the land and property of a weak nation. Amira Hass criticizes the separation fence policy. There's no spokesman for the other side to explain the construction of the fence and the closure policies. Under the headline "Contemporary Zionism" - and in English, "A Failed Israeli Society Collapses While its Leaders Remain Silent," former Knesset speaker MK Avraham Burg publishes an article that describes Israel as a country of nationalistic discrimination that keeps the Palestinians under the boot of storm troopers. It is one of the most damaging indictments ever of the Zionist state. In his article, Burg even expresses understanding of suicide terrorists. "Israel, having ceased to care about the children of the Palestinians, should not be surprised when they come washed in hatred and blow themselves up in the centers of Israeli escapism. They consign themselves to Allah in our places of recreation because their own lives are torture. They spill their own blood in our restaurants in order to ruin our appetites because they have children and parents at home who are hungry and humiliated." Is he bothered by the use that Israel haters make of his statements? That argument, he told Ari Shavit in Haaretz on November 14, doesn't interest him. The Geneva "Accord" delegation went on its way while Israel is subject to an unceasing terror attack, and all Jews are exposed to a world-embracing anti-Semitic assault meant to undermine the right of Israel's existence. Ever since the negotiations between the Barak government and Arafat blew up, Israeli governments have presented a consistent policy: Israel has no partner. Arafat and his terror organizations are doing our public relations work for us and making clear they won't disarm Hamas and Islamic Jihad. In other words, the terror will continue. The Palestinians are the victim and Israel the storm trooper - that's the picture shown around the world by Israeli journalists and other representatives of the Israeli left. Arafat and his government are partners for peace, while Israel is warmongering. "The most terrible thing is that the Europeans always find Jews and Israelis who openly criticize the Jews and Israel, which the Europeans want to hear," says the head of the Berlin Jewish community, Alexander Brenner, in an interview with Eldad Bek in Yedioth Ahronoth on November 28. No wonder the Europeans support Geneva, said Prof. Shlomo Avineri on Israel TV - their policies are unequivocally pro-Palestinian and anti-Israeli. Indeed, all our bitter rivals - France, Belgium, and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, whose goal is to ruin Israel's foreign policy - give the Geneva people a king's welcome, raise lots of money for them and encourage them to continue their activities. After being exposed to "Israeli public relations" of the kind presented here (and this is just the tip of the iceberg), no wonder the Europeans, and not necessarily the anti-Semites among them, regard Israel as the most dangerous country in the world to world peace, before Iraq, Iran and North Korea. When the festival trumpets fall silent, the self-righteous leftists - starting with Beilin and Burg - should ask themselves what they contributed to the new anti-Semitism and the call that comes from those anti-Semites: Jews out of Palestine! Dr. Landau is a minister in the Prime Minister's Office, responsible for oversight of the secret services and the strategic dialogue with the U.S.