From Tel-Aviv to Teheran, with love (Caroline Glick)

Two weeks ago, the Palestinians and their anti-Zionist Israeli and international partners finally produced a smoking gun. They had a videotape of evil settlers brutally attacking poor, defenseless Palestinians as they innocently picked olives with their enlightened supporters in a grove by the Tel Rumeida neighborhood in Hebron.

The local media went into a feeding frenzy. The footage led the television news broadcasts. Photos taken from the video were plastered across the front pages of the newspapers. Radio talk show hosts denounced the criminal settlers and celebrated the guileless Palestinians and their heroic Israeli supporters. The Olmert-Livni-Barak government was quick to weigh in, promising stiff punishment for the Jewish fascists involved and a curtailment of their supporters' civil rights.

In the weeks that have followed, and with elections looming, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Defense Minister Ehud Barak have stepped up their attacks on the evil right-wing extremists. At Saturday night's memorial ceremony/political rally for slain prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in Tel Aviv, Barak called right-wing activists "cancers." He claimed that they are a "threat to democracy." And he pledged, "We will uproot this evil from within us."

The crowd loved Barak's statement. The few audience members who might have booed him had already been beaten and arrested by police for disturbing the peace. A handful of anti-leftist activists from the student group Im Tirtzu came to Rabin Square carrying signs decrying leftist demonization of the Right. The police beat them and carted them off before the rally began.

If it were true that settlers are marauding around Judea and Samaria beating innocent Palestinians, perhaps it would be possible to understand this assault against the Right. But as it works out, the videotape that was supposed to be the definitive proof that settlers are violent criminals was a fabrication.

The Israeli media is as hegemonist leftist as its American counterpart. The facts go unmentioned if it doesn't fit their anti-Right narrative. That sounds familiar.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

2 posted on 11/10/2008 10:30:22 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)

IT GOES without saying that the local media have chosen to ignore the court's exposure of the latest hoax. The truth doesn't fit their anti-right-wing narrative and so it isn't being covered.

Kind of sounds familiar.

3 posted on 11/10/2008 10:59:23 PM PST by smokingfrog (<|- The .44 magnum = 1,500 fps |=|=| The 44 Obama = 186k $ps -|>)

Ehud Barak, eh?

Why is that when anyone seems to have the name “Barak,” it leads to his desire for humilating defeat of whatever nation he belongs to?

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5 posted on 11/11/2008 4:54:14 AM PST by SJackson (http://www.jewish-history.com/emporium/)

Both Bush and Ehud Barak are lame ducks now. Lets pray they don’t get together to create a legacy for themselves and give away more land and Jerusalem. Every US Preesident has tried for that legacy in a last minute frenzy to do for themsleves not Isreal.

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