OpinioNet Contributed Commentary

Date - June 26, 2001
Author - Steven Plaut

Darned Inflation...
(and related items of current interest)

  1. Let me tell you something, this INFLATION has really gotten completely out of hand.

    A British researcher, Stephen Hughes, has a new book out, "Morocco Under The Rule of King Hassan," in which he claims that in the 1950s Israel paid $250 to Morocco for each Jew that would be allowed to leave and make aliya to Israel.

    I mean, it really makes you think about inflation! Do you realize how many times that figure Israel paid to the PLO over the past decade per each Jew murdered by the PLO?

  2. The Shimon Peres Peace Center, dedicated to proliferation of the pagan cult of Simple Shimon, has a new head guru, Ron Pundik, one of the two nitwit academics who originally negotiated the Oslo deal with the PLO at Yossi Beilin’s behest in the early 1990s. He takes over for Carmi Gilon, the ex-head of the Shin Bet who employed Avishai Raviv and neglected to make sure Rabin was adequately guarded, now having completed his tour of duty there.

  3. The Israeli military is peacocking about cause it finally caught the perps of the lynch of the two reservists in Ramallah this past year. And what will be done with them? Were there homes demolished and extended families expelled? Will they be executed?

    Nope. Why, they will be kept as guests of the prison authorities till the next time the Israeli government releases some terrorists as a new goodwill gesture to get the PLO to sign a ceasefire, or in exchange for some kidnapped Israelis. No, the perps will not be given a Timothy McVeigh sendoff party.

  4. The bill that would have made incitement to violence a crime was voted down yesterday in the Knesset, so Azmi Bashara and his followers can continue to call openly for genocide of Jews. Before voting on it, however, the Knesset, including much of the Likud and led by the Left to which the Likud now belongs, first voted to STRIP the bill of that clause that would allow people to express approval of the use of violence against terrorists and enemies of the country. Because of this, SHAS at the last minute refused to back the bill.

  5. Guess whose new official mantra is "There is no military solution to the problems of terrorism and PLO violence."

    Is it the Arab communists? Maybe Yossi Beilin and Ron Pundik? How ’bout Shulamit Aloni?

    No, grasshopper, it is the new slogan of Ariel Sharon. Spoken Saturday night. See Moshe Arens’ Op-Ed citing it in Haaretz today.

  6. Hebrew University now hosts a faculty person in "Political Violence and Terrorism", one Molly Peleg. She has an Op-Ed in today’s Haaretz (June 26).

    It goes without saying that she is all in favor of violence and sees Sharon’s conditioning further appeasements on a real ceasefire as an outrageous act of demagoguery and human rights abuse.


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