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December 01, 2006
Been Betrayed Before
The time-tried truism that the more things change the more they stay the same is gallingly vindicated with unpitying recurrence. There's no let-up. Just last week we were treated to yet another dog-and-pony show, courtesy of Israel's ignoble species of ultra-leftist self-loathing Jews and The New York Times, whose history is replete with the most pathological of Jewish self-hate syndromes.
Last week Peace Now produced one more great snitching extravaganza, which failed to surprise. Neither did the Times's obliging resonation thereof. Peace Now rushed to squeal to the entire waiting world that most of Israel's settlements in Judea and Samaria, including whole Jerusalem metropolitan area neighborhoods, were constructed on "usurped Arab private property."
Never mind that most of the info is brazenly fraudulent (in part relying on the fact that Arabs continue to claim lands they sold to Jews for exorbitant prices). Never mind that the world, Jew-baiting and hostile to the Jewish state's self-preservation, awaits such calumny with insatiable carnivorous craving. Never mind that the history of how Shimon Peres and his Labor government, for instance, approved the construction of Ariel in 1977 is hardly as pressing as current life-and-death ordeals of survival besetting Israel.
Nothing whatever new here. Peace Now's ideological forebears were every bit as callous to the plight of existentially vulnerable Jews, even on the eve of their bleakest hours, as the Holocaust loomed and darkened our horizons.
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Posted by Robert J. Avrech at December 1, 2006 09:43 AM
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the big problem is that the problems with these statistics didn't really get into the New York times.
The reason they didn't is that actually this was a surprise attack. Nobody understood what wasa going on so nobody could comment. But the statistuics are as bad as the ones that show much to many people died in Iraq.
(which really the New York times should not have been dumb enough not to understand. the new York times didn't even have that it came from an identifiable Israeli political group)
The New York Times did not even reveal it ame from Peace Now.
The assertion is somewhat implausible on its face, as if something like taht were true, it could not be news.
the bog problem is not that land was secretly sold and then denied - the big problem was what they were categorizing as private land.
To complete the fraud, apparently one or twio clear examples were used - like the synagigue built outside the limits.
I read in some places - not the New York Times - that confiscation of land actually stopped in 1979. It went on before but also inside Israel.
This is well known. A lot was taken by kibbutzim in the years after 1949. They even took land from Arabs who were living within the boundaries of Israel - Arabs who fled but then wound up inside the boundaries of Israel (legally it was abandoned exceopt maybe in some cases it wasn't.
Across the Green line the main examples would be land first seized for securioty reasons and then turned over to private hands.
Of course terrorists prevent any Arab from acceoting compensation from israel for anything.
Posted by: Sammy Finkelman at December 1, 2006 11:43 AM
"Nobody understood what was going on..."
Exactly. When I saw that front page story (with big color photo), my head shook and I said, "Whuh...?"
Posted by: Jeremiah at December 1, 2006 02:41 PM
Jeremiah:
Yup, ignorance and self-loathing is these people's best friend.
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at December 1, 2006 02:47 PM