Self-Demeaning Plaints

[CANAAN51USA - Alfred De Grazia]

Self-Demeaning Plaints

Consider for a moment the Toronto Film Festival (Jane Fonda et al.)
that reacted against blatant boasting that it would promote Israel
positively. It failed: cultural boasting fails, assassinations fail,
blockades fail, violent aggression fails, continual Holocaust recitals
fail, flying planeloads of gushing Congressman to Israel fails. What
in the world can be done?

Nothing that hyper-Israelis and their government do, it seems, will
raise Israel from its lowly position as the world's worst threat to
peace and neighborliness.

All right! It is our turn: we here, in our modest blog, can raise
Israel to the heights of world esteem with Canaan State, USA 51.

Practically the whole range of rogueries and other misbehavior of
Israelis, Americans, Palestinians, and their agents will plummet,
cease abruptly - if not disappear, and at worst drop to the normal
(still too high) level of everyday American misbehavior.

Mighty indignants howls have been assaulting the UN Goldstone
commission report that favors international action against mostly
Israeli offenses, but also in some cases Palestinians. There would be
little occasion for all this if Jews and Arabs of Israel and Palestine
were let to make their way in Canaan, USA. I quote a Jewish Telegrah
Agency Report by Ron Kampeas:


"A battery of Israeli officials are touring Washington and the United
States in an attempt to convey the impression that Israel is more open
to negotiations than the Palestinians and that the principal threat in
the region is Iran. The report gives Palestinians and Arab nations an
opportunity to complicate that effort. (Note: Sending an emergency
anti-guilt crew out.)

Jewish groups said the strategy now should be to get the United States
to dismiss the report as hopelessly biased. Statements Tuesday by
Israel's Foreign Ministry, as well as by Jewish groups that maintain
U.N. bureaus such as the American Jewish Committee and B'nai B'rith
International, adopted that strategy. (Note: burdening Uncle Sam with
another dirty job.)

"Israel does not require any external reminder to probe its just
actions, especially from a radical body which is comprised from
'moral' nations the likes of Malaysia, Syria, Pakistan and Somalia,"
Israel's Foreign Ministry said. (Note: How happy these poor sods are
to shame Israel!)

"Let us not forget that this commission was a creation of the Human
Rights Council, arguably the U.N.'s most flawed body," David Harris,
AJC's executive director, said in a statement. "The Council has
consistently demonized Israel, while giving a free pass to some of the
world's worst tyrants, from Sudan to Iran." (Note: Trying to disgrace
international organs which have at best dreadfully hard tasks.)

Daniel Mariaschin, B'nai B'rith's executive vice president, told JTA
that the report was a case of "There you go again." He said his group
would intensify outreach to member nations to mitigate the report's
damage. (Note: "There you go again" applies to causes as well as
consequences.")

Left-leaning Israeli and pro-Israel groups said such an approach
misses the broader point: Israel must account for its actions beyond
the internal Israeli army reviews under way. (Note: Hard to dispute
this point, but call them leftist anyhow.")
"The obstacle to peace is the festering anger" in Gaza, said Mitchell
Plitnick, a spokesman for B'Tselem, an Israeli human rights group.
(Note: Palestinians are not entitled to "festering anger.")

Concerns about the report's bias date back to the Human Rights
Council's mandate last February when it created the fact-finding
mission and asked it to probe "grave" Israeli "violations of human
rights" during the war, launched by Israel on Dec. 27 after Hamas-
sponsored rocket fire from Gaza had intensified significantly. (Note:
Repeated complaints that 1 equals 10,000 when it comes to an exchange
of blows.)

Israel and Jewish groups slammed the council for pre-emptive
conclusions and for not accounting for the intensification of rocket
fire under the rule of Hamas. (Note: See above: now 1.5/10,000.)

Goldstone obtained the council's permission to broaden his mandate and
consider Hamas war crimes. The report released Tuesday considers the
years of rocket attacks on Israel that preceded the war and concludes
that Hamas committed war crimes and crimes against humanity. (Note:
Was Goldstone not unnecessarily fair and even-handed?)

Nonetheless, Israel refused to deal with Goldstone or the council,
despite Goldstone's Jewish credentials and longstanding ties to Israel
- he's a trustee of Jerusalem's Hebrew University, among other things.
Foxman suggested that the United Nations was using Goldstone's
credibility to disguise an inherently biased report. (Note: As my
mother used to say, "There's just no way to please some people.")

None of the charges in the report's executive summary are new; the
summary appears to compile and replicate many of the charges that were
made by some international and Israeli human rights groups. (Note:
Says the Defense Lawyer to Judge: "Your honor, my client has been
before this Court 19 times on such charges.")

Among other allegations, the report accuses Israel of having created
an "emergency situation" in Gaza through its blockade prior, during
and after the war; describes as excessive Israel's use of white
phosphorous, a chemical irritant used as an obscurant during the war;
dismisses as unfounded Israel's claims that all of the approximately
240 policemen slain during the war were combatants; and chronicles
about a dozen allegations of Israel shooting unarmed Palestinians
without provocation. (Note: All of these are practically impossible -
even as allegations - in the State of Canaan, USA.)

Eli Ovits, a Jerusalem-based spokesman for The Israel Project,
suggested an on-the-ground approach to countering whatever deleterious
effects the report may have on Israel's efforts to shape the
conversation on talks with Palestinians and Iran. (Note: Could "on-the-
ground approach" mean pledges never to do such things again?)

Ovits said his advocacy group would continue to highlight the post-
traumatic stress disorder suffered by Israelis within range of Hamas
rockets and also would note that in the aftermath of the war,
Palestinian moderates have grown in popularity at the expense of
Hamas. (Note: Israeli PTSD is already exceedingly high, and where are
Palestinians mentioned here, among whom, if the disease exists, it
rapidly approaches the pandemic level of Shoah effects.)"



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