Anti-Zionist show trials

Anti-Zionist show trials

by Carolyn Glick, JPOST

[..]There, two former senior staffers from the pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC, Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, will be tried on charges of "conspiracy to communicate national defense information to people not entitled to receive it," which carry a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison. The two are suspected of having received classified information from former Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin and of having passed this information to Naor Gillon of the Israeli Embassy in Washington.

As Eli Lake points out in the current issue of The New Republic, "prosecution of this kind is unprecedented." And yet, given the anti-Israel and anti-Semitic build-up it received since word of Franklin's investigation was leaked in August 2004, it would seem that this unprecedented case, which ascribes criminality to lobbyists engaged in work that Washington lobbyists and journalists engage in on a daily basis, is simply a step forward in the five-year assault on Israel and its advocates among world Jewry.

Almost as disturbing as the decision to prosecute Rosen and Weissman is the meek reaction that their indictment has elicited in the American Jewish community. Rather than launching a concerted and indignant public defense of these men, the organized Jewish leadership has remained mainly silent.

[..]BUT PEOPLE in glass houses shouldn't throw stones and in Israel we have our own brand of anti-Semitism and our own anti-Zionist show trials. In Israel, the international Left's rejection of the Jewish state has caused an abandonment of Zionism by its Israeli fellow travelers. Israeli leftists – first at the fringe and subsequently in its mainstream establishment – have accepted the view propagated by the international Left that Israel has no right to exist or to assert its sovereign rights as a Jewish state.

[...]In many respects, Ran's trial, like Rosen and Weissman's trial, is supposed to be a forum for determining whether he is guilty of criminal activity. However, given the ideological basis for the prosecution's pursuit of Ran, both in this case and in the case brought against him by David Nir two years ago, and in light of the prosecution's refusal to even look into Ran's complaint of trespass, the case, like that of Weissman and Rosen, has become much greater than the sum of its parts. The question that will be raised before the magistrate's court next Tuesday will quite simply be whether a Jew in the Land of Israel has a right to defend his land against those who seek to maliciously trespass his property. That is, the entire idea of Zionism is about to be put on trial.

As Ran himself put it in a television interview last July, "In the Supreme Court I understood that the legal system is willing to take views and a political situation and to manipulate them to advance processes that suit its own interests. I understand that what I am saying is terrible. There is a civil war going on here. But it isn't a war between brothers and it isn't being fought by both sides." No, as in the case of the prosecution of Rosen and Weissman so in the case of Avri Ran, this war is being fought against the Jews by those who have internalized the anti-Semitic view that Jews have no right to defend themselves

Posted by Ted Belman at October 7, 2005 06:35 AM

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1. Shoshanah [TypeKey Profile Page] said:

Glick is right, of course-- Israel has a huge leftist population consisting of Jews who are afraid to stand up for the right to freely be Jewish. However, if we could derive any hope from the activities surrounding the Disengagement, we can do so by looking at the thousands of Israelis who not only stood up for the right to be freely Jewish, but the right to claim ownership of the land! Meanwhile, those same passionate Israelis who slept in tents and joined hands across Israel for Gush Katif were shocked and awed by the incredibly overwhelming lack of support from American Jewry. At one point, Israeli Orthodox Jews were questioning why Evangelical Christians in America were more supportive of Gush Katif than American Jews were.

What can we, the Jewish Right in America, do to inspire the rest of our American Jewish family to action on behalf of Israel and the right to be Jewish? How can we motivate them the way the Israeli Right motivated thousands in the Land? Have American Jews on the whole internalized "too Jewish" notions to such a degree that there is no hope? The existence of the Jewish Right proves this theory wrong. So, like any good Jew, I ask: What can we do about it?

Posted by: Shoshanah [TypeKey Profile Page] on October 7, 2005 09:11 AM

2. BobW said:

What is "organized Jewish leadership" ? Morton Zuckerman left for greenhouse farming. Edgar Bronfman now works at the UN General Assembly. Dr Mendy Ganchrow left the Orthodox Union to serve as attending physican to Senator Hillary Clinton. The only Jewish leaderp I know of is Gary Bauer and he's Christian.

What is more important, Jewish destiny or defeat of the Central America Free Trade Agreement? American Jewish World Service President Ruth Messinger places CAFTA at the top of the list. Hadassah is busy lobbying for embryonic stem celll research. Jewish War Veterans is too busy fighting against job outsourcing. The National Council of Jewish Women must recooperate from their recent fight to oppose John Roberts becoming one of the Supremes. With the typhoon season picking up in Asia, Jewish organizations are ultra busy with priorities. Israel Jewish organizations are still working to send divers to New Orleans.

Maybe America's leadership starved Jews can look northward and ask for help from Allan and Susan Fenwick of Toronto. Someone told me about this couple but I'm at the supersaturated level of Kafkaesque insanity.

We've got to call a shovel a shovel and a shoebox of el-gelt-o a shoebox of el-gelt-o. Lobbyists do commit crimes if they commit crimes. I believe AIPAC is a setup but readers of Carolyn Glick's JP article must understand that even lobbyists can commit crimes if there are witnesses present. America's lobbyist paradox is that it's not clear when an industry contribution to a politican is, in effect, an inducement for voting on behalf of the industry position or just a way of appreciating hard work in the legislative process. I'm sure the money does not influence America's politicans.

To close on a negative note, besides the AIPAC criminal charges issue, if AIPAC represents a foreign government, they must register as a foreign agent.

I look forward to learning who America's Jewish leaders are. Thanks in advance.

Kol tuv,
BobW

Posted by: BobW on October 7, 2005 12:21 PM

3. BURT said:

Some answers to the question of what to do:

Some answers to the question of what to do:

Above all, worship HaShem ("Jehovah". obey his laws and heed the words of the Nevi'im (Prophets), and the Tzadikkim/Sages.

"Evangelize"-

Extol the greatness of Hebrew Jewish civilization. All that's required is money which there is plenty of. It will speak for itself and easily demonstrate its superiority or, if you wish, its primacy. "Jehovah," Abraham, Moses, Jesus the Jew, and all the subsequent worthies are the greatest "figures" in Western Civilization. Jewish liturgical music is among the greatest in history. It is never heard.
Give'm that ole time religion and show'm where it’s at. Re-patriate what was stolen by the theoklepts.

Update conversion laws and other aspects of Rabbinism. The Oral Law is a great body of work, worthy of obedience and veneration, but all the poseks (halachic decisors) with all the rules of halachic decision, great as they were and are, are still just men making laws. The time is NOW. There is much interest in Judaism, Jews, Judaization of western culture, Kabbala etc. A reckoning is coming. The reckoning that the dispensationalists think will be the Armageddon and the conversion of the "Jews" are in for a big surprise. Be ready for it.

Induce Jewish critical geniuses to cease the fruitless, unheard complaining about the world Arabian media conspiracy. Have their pens working on exposing and denouncing that media. Have the leftist "deconstructionists" looking into the barrels of their own guns when they are exposed as supporters of fascism, slavery and the oppression of women - and men. Their attack on Zionism is an attack on freedom and justice.
Demonstrate that Israel is the HOPE OF THE WORLD. This is easily done. Just recite the history books. Weep copiously in private when you do so.

The Blacks in the pre-WW2 South had a better chance of getting a fair hearing in a Southern newspaper than the Jews now have in getting fair treatment in any Arabian controlled media. The real Jews, the ones who stand up for Jewish religion, Jewish culture and Israel are the niggers of the world. Get mad about that. Get mad about the oppression of the righteous! The SAME oppression that occurred before the fall of temples 1 and 2.

Expose the real interests of the Arabian controlled media, of the Arabian controlled world financial system. Problem: Many Jews feel that they have no choice other than to be co-opted by the Arabian imperialists. Solution - Show them how great their very own traditions are: The tradition that "Einstein was a Jew" is about Jews and JUDAISM not Einstein.

The voice of those that have the power and will to speak for the HOI is getting louder.
Help them avoid any need to toady to the world Arabian imperialists.


Tell some history. The "Russian Revolution" was really the Jewish Revolution and it was the greatest force for world historical change in this era. "Judaic" terror squads executed the Romanovs, "Judaic" commanders and governors destroyed the last vestiges of feudalism. The State that the Judaic Russians created destroyed Hitler. Russian Jews led Zionism to victory. Moral of the story: Hashem destroys or demeans those who would destroy his people: Babylonians, Rome, Greece, Spain, France, England (last major defeat of the British Empire - The battle for Israel),Russia Germany, etc. Now, the ultimate enemy, as prophesied, has arisen.

What will the Jewish people do? Heed the prophets and the sages or be heedless and be destroyed again?


Posted by: BURT on October 7, 2005 06:33 PM

4. BobW said:

Shalom Burt,

I know the Russian Revolution ("the Jewish Revolution" [?]) recategorized the Ukraine from "the breadbasket of Europe" to an area identified with starvation.

Can you augment your point that the Russian Revolution was a greater force than the fighting 1914 to 1917 up until the Russians pulled out of the alliance conflict?

I'm sure there were even more than vestages of feudalism throughout Russia but wasn't the real prime mover Czar Alexander II, 60 years earlier when the "Czar Liberator" freed the serfs? The movement started with him and opposed by the antiSemite Nicholas II, but the movement started no less than Napolean changing the complexion of the other side of the continent.

I do agree that the Soviet Red Army destroyed the Nazi land warfare machine but without US Lend-Lease the Yevsektzia economist Commissars would have faced the Wehrmacht with only hammers and sickles.

I enjoy reading your posts thus I ask you to amply re the Russian - "Jewish Revolution".

Spuhseeba und Danka in advance,

Kol tuv,
BobW

Posted by: BobW on October 8, 2005 06:10 AM

5. BURT said:

Dear Bob W.

Thank you for taking the time to reflect on my comments:

You ask: "Can you augment your point that the Russian Revolution was a greater force than the fighting 1914 to 1917 up until the Russians pulled out of the alliance conflict?"

Yes. The Russian Revolution led to the division of the world into 2 camps, which fact ultimately characterized the entire 20th Century. It also led, as I noted, indirectly to the rise and victory of Zionism and, by extension, to the division of the West into the two "camps" of today: the Stalinist left and the traditionalists. Zionism, led by Russian Jews, has become the fulcum of geopolitics as, e.g., in the UN. It is Zionism, borne out of the pogroms suffered by the Russian Jews, that is really the rallying point for all those who would oppose Euro-Arabian imperialism.

The fact that the Red Army needed help to destroy the fascists, does not change the fact that it did and millions died in the battles.

You also ask: "I ask you to amply re the Russian - "Jewish Revolution". Amplification:
Lenin was part Jewish and philo-semitic, Trotsky, the Red Army Commander was Jewish, the vanguards of the revolution were almost all Jews, the Romanovs were executed by Jews, the regime of Stalin had Jews in the highest positions of authority. The fact you cite, i.e., "... the Russian Revolution ("the Jewish Revolution" [?]) recategorized the Ukraine from "the breadbasket of Europe" to an area identified with starvation..."
was the brutal, immoral work of V. Molotov and L.Kaganovich. Kaganovich was a confidante of Stalin (they were both cobblers). Kaganovich's family was destroyed by the pogroms led by some of the same people who were eliminated in 1929-30. The ideology of the Russian Revolution was that of Jews and lapsed Jews. In WW2, the Jews were awarded, proportionally, more high military decorations than any other Soviet nationality and were a decisive factor in the destruction of Hitler. Res ipso loquitor.

B'ezrat Hashem, the righteous will triumph.

Toda Raba and Baruch Hashem

Posted by: BURT on October 8, 2005 02:36 PM

6. BobW said:

B"H

Shalom Burt,

Appreciate the material; thank you.

With the disclaimer for all here-not just us-these new-fangled telegraph keys do not substitute for a conference room to discuss in detail with clarity.

Before reading the above-and I will ponder the material later-I had considered the Russian Revolution as another episode of the original Act 1, Scene 1: the French Revolution. I look at the Russian Revolution as a follow on success on the line graph with others such as the failed Revolution(s) of 1848, and perhaps the Bavarian Socialist Republic.

I'll look further into the Jewish/lapsed Jewish component of the Russian Revolution's ideology. My beliefs had been gleaned from Sigmund Freud;

"Once before an attempt of this kind was made to substitute reason for religion, officially and in the grand manner. Surely you remember the French Revolution and Roberspierre? And you must also remember how short-lived and miserably ineffectual the experiment was? The same experiment is being repeated in Russia at the present time, and we need not feel curious as to its outcome." "The Future of an Illusion", Section IX.

And

"The communists believe that they have found the path to deliverance from our evils. According to them, man is wholly good and is well-disposed to his neighbor; but the institution of private property has corrupted his nature." "Civilization and its Discontent", Section V.

Ref the 2 camps of today, the "Stalinist Left" and the "Traditionalists", can you mention some prominent personalities for each category so I can clarify in my mind the arrangement? Eg where does Senator Arlen Specter get plotted? Senator Joseph Lieberman? Henry Kissinger? Ann Rand, the Lubavitcher Shlita, etc. Just need a couple for focus purposes.

Kol tuv,
Bob

Posted by: BobW on October 8, 2005 03:42 PM

7. BURT said:

To Bob W.

Thank you for your interesting comments. I wish I could answer them all, but I have other things to do.

Keep up the outstanding work,

Respectfully,

Burt

Posted by: BURT on October 8, 2005 05:19 PM

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