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From Magic City Morning Star R.P. BenDedek R.P. BenDedek (pseudonym) is a conversational English Teacher in China (Hubei Radio and TV University Wuhan), and writes for Magic City Morning Star News. In addition to his 'Stories from China', he is the author of 'The King's Calendar:The Secret of Qumran' at www.kingscalendar.com. As a subscriber to various newsletters, I often come across information and opinions not as 'out there' as they might be if they were published on the front pages of the polular press. I have been granted permission to republish the following article, because it is one side of a news story you will probably not have read in the popular press. The article touches on such things as Democracy, Freedom of Speech, and Terrorism. Kristallnacht - Redux; Dear Friends, I am proud of my fellow Americans! The great majority of them have that precious commodity, common sense, and don't buy the propaganda disseminated by the Israeli media on behalf of the Sharon Regime. A new opinion poll commissioned by the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) found that Americans oppose Israel's Gaza withdrawal plan by the majority of 63% to 16% (4 to 1) and by a margin of 50% to 28% believe the Gaza Plan rewards terrorism. This poll was carried out by McLaughlin and Associates, a major national polling company, on June 26-27, 2005. ZOA President, Morton A. Klein said: "This national poll exposes the myth that Americans support the Gaza/Northern Samaria Withdrawal/Expulsion Plan. Americans realize that it is a bad deal for Israel to make these major concessions without getting anything in return. They also understand this rewards the Hamas and Fatah suicide bombing terrorists whose counterparts are killing Americans every day in Iraq. This Plan harms the US war against radical Islamic terrorism by sending a message that terrorism pays and pays well." The Israeli Media is in cahoots with Ariel Sharon, because the majority of them are Leftists. "Wait a minute", you might say, "doesn't the Left hate Ariel Sharon?" Of course, they hated him with a passion, when he built communities in the Biblical Heartland of Yehuda, Samaria and Gaza. Now that he has made a 180 degree turn from his previous beliefs and is willing to destroy what he once built, they just love him. "Only Sharon can rid Israel of those religious fanatics, who insist that G-d's Word in the Bible is still relevant. That is why we must support him", they proclaim. In the words of a prominent Israeli journalist, Amnon Abramowitz: "We have to protect Sharon like an Etrog!" (The Etrog is a citrus fruit used by religious Jews as part of a blessing on the Holiday of Succot. It cannot be used for this purpose if it is damaged in any way whatsoever). Cooperation between the Sharon Regime and the Leftist Media is to be expected. After all, Sharon and the media have a common agenda - to forcibly expel 9,500 Jews from their homes, businesses, schools and synagogues in Gush Katif and Northern Samaria. But the media, with the probable cooperation of Sharon, staging a "lynching" of an Arab youth, crosses all boundaries of attempted political manipulation. The most famous Hollywood movie director could not have planned a more successful make-believe scenario. First we hear stories about the Palm Beach Hotel in Gush Katif, which has been in disuse for at least five years. The initial shots show an abandoned and rundown building in Gush Katif. Then we have shots of Kipa-wearing young men with their families illegally moving into the hotel. The young people are continually described as "radical extremists". The action moves into high gear with the following Government provocations:
The near lynching of the Arab was used as the reason for the storming of the Palm Beach Hotel. In order to prevent the radical extremists from committing further such atrocities, the Israeli police forcibly evacuated the radical extremists from the hotel in a "daring" operation. What Really Happened and Why? Ariel Sharon planned to take over the Palm Beach Hotel from the very beginning so as to put the army in a strategic position, in the middle of Gush Katif, with access to the sea. The army offered a fortune to the hotel owners if they would agree to lease it to them. The hotel owners did not want to lease their hotel to the deportation forces. Instead they preferred to lease it to those faithful to Eretz Israel, and Nadia Matar was made the Legal Representative of the owners and the Manager of their hotel. It was understood by Ariel Sharon that legally he had no possibility of expelling the families now living in the hotel. Hence, he ordered provocations and a campaign of delegitimation against the residents of the hotel, so as to provide him with a pretext to have the army take over the hotel. That is the reason for the provocations 1, 2 and 3 listed above. The final part of the movie inspired by Sharon deserves the Oscar for the most imaginative fiction of the year! Israeli TV crews who are in the right spot at the right time capture the terrible scene of an Arab youth bloodied, lying semiconscious, while Kipa-wearing teenagers seem to throw stones at his inert body, possibly from behind a wall? Israeli reporters describe the "victim" as unconscious and in critical condition. An IDF soldier is said to have protected the Arab from being killed by protecting him with his own body. That is the end of a very successful Sharon Movie Production! Back to reality! The Israeli and world media, of course, went into a frenzy and condemned the Religious Right for this "lynching". But there was no truth whatsoever to the story. Several eye witnesses have come forward to say that they heard the Israeli cameramen asking the Arab youth to "lie down and look unconscious so that we can get a good picture of you". The Arab himself admitted in an interview with Israel's radio reporter Avi Yisakharov that the reason for blood on his face was that he was hit in the head by the butt of an IDF soldier's rifle. He said that this soldier also hit him in the ribs and the face. (The IDF soldier claimed that he did this because the Arab was holding a knife). Some hours after the Arab was listed as "critically injured" he was seen standing and laughing with his friends. He had miraculously become very lightly wounded. Unfortunately, the blood libel of Jewish teenagers trying to lynch an Arab lives on with the encouragement of the Israeli media. Every day the newspapers remind us of the moral degeneration of Religious youth who would engage in such lynching. IDF Chief of General Staff, Lt-Gen. Dan Halutz, told the soldiers that: "On your young shoulders rests a huge responsibility to carry out the mission decided by the Government, and to maintain the State as a democratic and lawful country ... The photos we saw of an IDF soldier using his body to shield a Palestinian from people trying to kill him is a very important image which reflects the values that we, as soldiers, abide by and want to live by." (Jerusalem Post article: "Mofaz, Halutz boost morale of Gaza troops"). It is difficult to believe that the IDF Chief of General Staff does not know the true facts a whole week after the staged lynching. Or does he feel compelled to follow the government line? These staged pictures from the "lynching" were the pretext for the storming of the Palm Beach (Maoz Ha-Yam) Hotel. There you have the real un-staged movie. About 1,000 police and IDF soldiers forcibly evacuated the "radical extremists" from their hotel. Amongst them the legal representative of the owners of the hotel, Nadia Matar, her two year old baby, Nava, and her fifteen year old daughter, Talia. Word had reached the residents of the hotel that Sharon wanted a blood bath, with residents of the hotel attacking the police and soldiers. If there was anyone resisting the evacuation forcefully, the orders were: "Shoot to kill!" Nadia made it clear to the approximately hundred residents, many of whom were babies and small children, that there should be no resistance whatsoever, as per the example of Martin Luther King. Everybody sat down on the floor, linking arms. Nadia and other mothers of babies held them closely. When the police told the residents that it would make it easier for all of them if they just walked out willingly and peacefully, Nadia told them: "We are here legally and we will not cooperate with you by leaving voluntarily. You will have to carry us out!" And carry them out the police did, quite brutally. On television, I saw my granddaughter being manhandled by male police (the Law says that only female police officers are allowed to bodily handle girls and women). One policeman dragged her by the legs, one held her arms, and another used a painful choke hold. Baby Nava at first looked puzzled at what was happening, and then clung to Nadia for protection with tears streaming down her little face. The army and the Sharon Government declared a major victory in the war against the right-wing, radical, extremist settlers. I am a Holocaust survivor. These scenes which I saw on television reminded me strongly of Kristallnacht. I was eight years old at the time. The Nazi stormtroopers dragged my family out of our home in Austria in the same brutal fashion. I cannot imagine anything sadder than to see, at the age of 75 years, the very same thing happening to my children and grandchildren. These scenes on television were not staged. They were very real. What results did the Sharon Government hope for from this operation? My friend, Rachel Saperstein, a Women in Green who lives in Gush Katif, wrote a moving article entitled: "Posing for Pictures". She feels that the Government has very clear hoped-for results from this operation: to frighten the residents of Gush Katif into submission. "The message is clear: This is what awaits you. You will not succeed in evading your fate. See how efficient the army is. The roads will be blocked. Not one of your friends will be able to come in and save you. Get packing! Sign away your home and property now! Get out now! The posed pictures and the disappearance of evil teenaged rock-throwing settlers point to a well-planned government operation to tear down our resolve. The government has activated the General Security Service's Jewish Desk to create scenes of violence to undermine the love of the people of Israel for the Jews of Gush Katif. Each scene of violence, with hysterical media coverage and vicious condemnation and accusation by the government helps maintain the climate of confusion and fear that is ripping apart this country. The Israeli media and government are staging scenes to promote the expulsion of Jews." Please do not give me sanctimonious admonitions that I must not mention Nazi stormtroopers in the same breath as Sharon's Jewish police. What happened to my daughter-in-law, Nadia, my grandchildren, and the other residents of the hotel, is just as evil as Kristallnacht, in some ways even worse. Here, Ariel Sharon, an Israeli prime minister, is the one who orders Jewish police to brutalize fellow Jews. Another terrible example of police brutality can be seen on the Arutz Sheva website www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=85048 , when policemen attacked a demonstrator. An Arutz Sheva photographer filmed it with his digital camera. There were many other press photographers there at the time. Nobody else filmed this dreadful scene. I offered to give this material to the three main television channels - Channel 1 (Israel Broadcasting Authority), Channel 2 and Channel 10 and none of them showed interest in receiving it. Some of the reporters told me, off the record, that it was a waste of effort because their editors would not approve it in any case. Dear Friends, raise your voices in righteous protest! Alert the world as to what is happening in the Holy Land. Contact President Bush, Condoleeza Rice, your Senators and your representatives, and point out to them that the American people are against the Gaza Withdrawal Expulsion Plan (the ZOA opinion poll). Also alert your Minister, your Rabbi, your newspaper and your television station as to the dangerous brutality against opponents of the Disengagement Plan by Sharon's police. If you remain silent, you become a partner to Sharon's crimes against the Jewish People and humanity at large. With Blessings and Love for Israel, Ruth Matar P.S. I just received a telephone call from my daughter-in-law and co-Chair, Nadia Matar, that she has been indicted for insulting a public servant, Yonatan Bassi, the Head of the Disengagement Authority. She was interrogated by the police several months ago. We believed that the government had given up on this ludicrous charge, railroading Nadia, but I guess that the defamation of Nadia Matar and Women in Green is gathering steam again. Women For Israel's Tomorrow (Women in Green) mailto: michael@womeningreen.org www.womeningreen.org To make a contribution via our secure server or through Paypal, go to: https://host5.apollohosting.com/womeningreen/funds/donation/donation.html To subscribe to the Women in Green list, please send a blank email message to: list4-subscribe@womeningreen.org R.P.Bendedek Email: rpbendedek@hotmail.com
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