Middle East Translator

And the Ten Best Reasons Why Arik’s "Fence" Will Not Work

June 19, 2002

by Steven Plaut

We propose installing an automatic online Middle East translator on your machines to help you read the news.

Here are some examples:

Israeli Racism - Translation: When Israel builds a fence or barriers to keep suicide bombers and other terrorists from murdering Jewish children and civilians.

Fighting against Racism - Translation: When Palestinians randomly murder hundreds of Jewish civilians.

Crimes against Humanity, as in yesterday’s speech by the Swedish Foreign Minister denouncing Israeli Crimes against Humanity - Translation: Defending the Lives of Jews

"Zionist Racism," as in Arafat’s Speech yesterday calling the fence construction Zionist Racism - Translation: Any attempt at Preventing Arabs from murdering Jewish children

Unilateral Action, as in yesterday’s State Department statement denouncing Israel’s building a security fence - Translation: Israel deciding unilaterally to protect Jewish children from being murdered.

(The PLO unilaterally deciding to murder 900 Israelis since signing a "peace accord" is not unilateral action that the State Department is concerned about.)

Illegal Settlement - Translation: Anywhere Jews live

Obstacle to Peace - Translation: Israel defending its children

Nonviolent Protest against Occupation - Translation: Blowing up civilian busses

Terrorists - Translation: People who kill Americans in Pakistan

Militants and Activists - Translation: People who murder Jews

Anti-Racism - Translation: Moslems determined to destroy any non-Moslem political entity in the Middle East.

Anti-Racism - Translation: Arabs randomly murdering Jews anywhere in the world

Patriotism - Translation: Israeli Leftists fomenting mutiny in the Israeli army

Peace Seeking - Translation: Israeli Leftists urging people around the world to embargo and boycott Israel and Jews

Moderation - Translation: Agreeing with Arab extremists and fascists

Free Speech - Translation: Protecting the Right of Azmi Bashara to demand openly that Israel be destroyed and all the Jews murdered.

Criminal Incitement - Translation: Any sentence with which Israel’s Extreme Left disagrees

Equality - Translation: Exempting Arabs from Israeli military conscription

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Comrades, you have all been suffering from a delusion. You seem to think that the past nine years have been the story of nonstop atrocities by Palestinians against Jews, mass murders of Jewish children and civilians, busses blowing up, cafes blowing up, Jewish body parts everywhere. You think that almost 900 innocent Israelis have been murdered by the PLO and its affiliates ever since the PLO signed a "peace accord."

How naive and silly of you. You just do not read Haaretz.

You see, if you read Haaretz you would know that in the entire past 30 years or so, the only act of terrorist criminal murdering of civilians by a terrorist villain was when Baruch Goldstein shot up the Hebron Mosque in 1994. Yes of course it turns out that Goldstein killed the same number of people exactly as the PLO murdered at that Passover Seder in Netanya a few weeks back and also in God knows how many other atrocities, but the Netanya massacre never took place and the other massacres do not count. Never mind that most of those murdered by Goldstein were themselves terrorists wanted by the Israeli military and police and so hardly innocent. And never mind that absolutely no one in Israel, except for a handful of people within the Kach movement (JDL) who were even denounced by other Kach people, justified the Goldstein murders. You just do not understand.

You see, every single act of violence since the Oslo "peace accords" were signed has been all the fault of Baruch Goldstein. Just ask Akiva Eldar of Haaretz (al-Ard), he will explain it. Goldstein kills 28 Arabs in Hebron and is condemned by the entire Jewish world but of course it is understandable that the PLO will then murder 900 Jews, often targeting children. Who are the Jews to complain? We all know that Oslo would have long ago produced peace except that Goldstein and Bibi and the rest of the Jewish dissident Right sabotaged Oslo. Oslo was a brilliant strategy for peace and would have succeeded had the Left stayed in office, but because Bibi sabotaged it by signing Wye and handing Hebron over to the savages, we now all have to pay the price for preventing Oslo from succeeding. And the solution now is to elect Yossi Beilin Prime Minister.

Really. Trust us. When have we ever been wrong?

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More of that Meretz First Amendment again. Yossi Sarid, the Commissar of the semi-Marxist Meretz party, has demanded that the head of the international Likud movement (which has chapters around the world) be barred from serving on the board of the Zionist Federation. The reason? The Likudnik, Jacque Koppfer, made some statements with which Meretz disagrees. He stated, back before Rabin was assassinated, that Peres and Rabin were behaving like the Vichy leaders of France. Nine years after Oslo Peace and 900 murdered Israeli later, there are still people who have yet to understand that Rabin and Peres DID behave like the Vichy leaders. So, as you can see, stating the truth is a crime in the view of Meretz.

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A pair of homosexuals is petitioning the Supreme Court to allow it to "adopt" a baby as "parents." Knowing this Supreme Court, which has no interest at all in basing its rulings on any laws, the gays are shoe-ins. My question is, who will be paying for the millions in damages this baby will sue for when he is 25 years old, when the baby demands compensation for the crime the Court will perpetrate against him?

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The Ten Best Reasons Why Arik’s "Fence" Will Not Work

1. Sharon is Trying to Resolve the Problems of the Barbarians with technology from the second century AD which failed to work even back then. Just ask the Chinese and the Romans, and see how well their walls worked. Did they keep out the barbarians?

2. You can shoot mortars and missiles over the fence. Sharon is not planning to build a fence that is 17 miles high.

3. You can dig under any fence.

4. You can sail from Gaza around any fence.

5. You can blow holes in any fence.

6. The fence is not fencing in the Palestinians in small terror enclaves, it is fencing them OUT of Israel by fencing the Jews IN, by putting the JEWS inside cages! In other words it is a form of putting the Jews under siege, not the Palestinians.

7. The fence serves as marker, precedent, and "focal point" in the sense of Schelling, in demarcating the Green Line as the borders of some Palestinian state.

8. The delusion that Israel can just forget about whatever happens on the other side of the fence and go about its business means that the area beyond it will be filled sooner or later with Iraqi, Iranian, self-hating New York Jewish Marxists, and other "volunteers" fighting with the Palestinians. It will be an ideal terror training area that will make the mountains of Afghanistan look like the Catskills.

9. It is yet another excuse for Israel’s politicians to pretend the country is not at war.It is make-pretend "action" that serves as figleaf for the total inaction of the Israeligovernment.

10. It abandons the Jews living beyond the Green Line and signals that Israel considers them legitimate targets for terror. It sacrifices those Jews to the Oslo pagan goddess.