World silent as fascists join Israel government
Ali Abunimah,

In a frightening but long expected move, Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert has brought the Yisrael Beitenu party into his coalition government. The party's leader, Avigdor Lieberman, is to be vice prime minister and, as "Minister for Strategic Threats," a key member of Israel's "security cabinet" in charge of the Iran portfolio.

Yisrael Beitenu is a dangerous extremist party with fascist tendencies that has openly advocated the "transfer" of Palestinians, including the transfer of Arab towns within Israel to a Bantustan-like future Palestinian entity. It has made clear that a Jewish supremacist state is more important than a democratic one. The party, whose strongest base is among Russian immigrants brought to Israel in the 1990s, surged at the Israeli election earlier this year, taking eleven seats in Israel's 120 seat Knesset.

Last summer, Israel launched a disastrous war of destruction against Lebanon, and continues its siege and onslaught against Palestinians in the occupied territories which has killed nearly three hundred people in three months and left hundreds of thousands without sufficient food, water and electricity. Lieberman has advocated even more harsh and criminal measures against the Palestinians and Israel's neighbors.

It is dismaying that the European Union, a key international actor, seems set to maintain warm, normal relations with this extremist government, thus giving it encouragement and legitimacy.

"You will understand that we cannot interfere with the setting up of a foreign government. This is a matter for which the concerned State alone is responsible," wrote Cristina Gallach, the official spokesperson for Javier Solana, the EU High Representative for foreign policy, in an email responding to a query about whether the EU would impose sanctions on Israel if Yisrael Beitenu joined the government.

Gallach added that "We think that both Israel and the Palestinians are aware of the responsibility they have in creating the favorable conditions for reactivating the Peace Process with the ultimate goal of having two States living side by side in peace and security." Other than such bland and cynical platitudes, Solana's spokesperson offered no hint of EU concern about the horrifying political developments within Israel that are certain to bring about further violence, escalation and needless suffering.

In an interview with an Israeli newspaper in September, Yisrael Beitenu leader Lieberman said: "The vision I would like to see here is the entrenching of the Jewish and the Zionist state...I very much favour democracy, but when there is a contradiction between democratic and Jewish values, the Jewish and Zionist values are more important." (Scotsman, October 23, 2006)

Avigdor Lieberman (Photo: Israel MFA)
In addition to espousing ethnic cleansing, Lieberman has a long history of inciting discrimination, hatred and violence against Palestinians within the Jewish state and living under Israeli military occupation in East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza Strip. When he served as minister of transport in a previous government, Lieberman called for all Palestinian prisoners held by the Israeli occupation authorities to be drowned in the Dead Sea and offered to provide the buses ("Lieberman blasted for suggesting drowning Palestinian prisoners," Ha'aretz, July 11, 2002). He has proposed to strip the citizenship of, and expel any Palestinian citizen of Israel who refuses to sign a loyalty oath to the Jewish Zionist state ("A Jewish demographic state," Ha'aretz, June 28, 2002).

In 2002, Lieberman declared, "I would not hesitate to send the Israeli army into all of Area A [the area of the West Bank ostensibly under Palestinian Authority control] for 48 hours. Destroy the foundation of all the authority's military infrastructure, all of the police buildings, the arsenals, all the posts of the security forces... not leave one stone on another. Destroy everything." He also suggested to the Israeli cabinet that the air force systematically bomb all the commercial centers, gas stations and banks in the occupied territories (The Independent, March 7, 2002). And, he has proposed bombing Egypt's Aswan Dam, despite that country's peace treaty with Israel since 1979. What will he propose to do to Iran?

Hebrew University professor Ze'ev Sternhell, a leading Israeli academic specialist on fascism and totalitarianism, was quoted by the Scotsman newspaper as terming Lieberman "perhaps the most dangerous politician in the history of the state of Israel."
I would not hesitate to send the Israeli army into all of Area A for 48 hours. Destroy the foundation of all the [Palestinian] authority's military infrastructure, all of the police buildings, the arsenals, all the posts of the security forces... not leave one stone on another. Destroy everything.

Urgent action is needed to stem the growing threat to international peace and security that Israel presents. Rather than do anything of the kind, the office of the EU High Representative has set a new low standard, offering only appeasement and accomodation for Israeli extremism and apartheid. The claim that the EU does not interfere in the internal affairs of foreign governments is just a fig leaf for political cowardice and unwillingness to stand up to Israel or its backers; it is not remotely consistent with past or present practice in other cases.

Most glaringly, since Palestinians under occupation elected Hamas to lead the Palestinian Authority last January, in the Arab world's most free election ever, the EU has interfered in their affairs in the most irresponsible manner, imposing a total siege and cut off of aid that has directly penalized the Palestinian population, causing widespread hunger and deprivation. This siege is explicitly intended to force the Hamas-led authority to abandon the platform on which it was elected, or to force it out of office completely. (The EU claims it wants Hamas to recognize Israel and end violence, even though Hamas has observed a 22-month one-sided truce, halting attacks on Israel, and its leaders have issued repeated statements in favor of reaching a long-term agreement with Israel on the basis of equality and mutual, not one-sided, recognition.) The European Union, under Solana's personal stewardship, orchestrated this gross interference in the development of Palestinian democracy and punishment of those who tried to practice it.

And in 2000, EU countries took the unprecedented measure of imposing diplomatic sanctions on one of their own member states, Austria, after the far-right Freedom Party joined the government following elections. Although many voices criticized the EU for meddling in the internal affairs of a democratic country, one of the most vocal supporters of the sanctions was none other than Javier Solana, who on that occasion declared "I think Europe has given a very good example of how in important things -- things that have to go with principles, with values -- there's no possibility of compromise." ("Sanctions hit Austria," Reuters, February 4, 2000).

But when it comes to EU member states discharging their responsibilities to hold Israel accountable for its escalating violations of the EU-Israel Association Agreement, the Fourth Geneva Convention, numerous UN Security Council Resolutions, and basic human decency, the principles that Solana and many powerful others are so proud to boast of are nowhere to be found.

In this moral and political vacuum, it is ever more urgent to heed the call of Palestinian civil society to join the growing global campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions.

Ali Abunimah is co-founder of The Electronic Intifada and author of "One Country - A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse" (Metropolitan Books, 2006)

This guy is every anti-zionist's best friend. He's just taking Israel another necessary and inevitable step along its path to complete political self-destruction.

...in popular useage, but Orwell is a really lousy person to quote on this, since he himself, as a propaganda writer for the British government, was one of the architects of its meaninglessness.

Meanwhile the straightforward definition of fascism -- anti-Bolshevik/Marxist/communist counterrevolutionism -- has been systematically suppressed, because if people were to understand what fascism really is, next they'd realize it didn't remotely die with the Nazis, but instead was picked up and carried forward on a grander scale than ever by WWII's victors. The US has been the #1 torch-bearer of fascism in the world for the past 60 years. None of this shit we're seeing today is new! It's incredible how lousy people's memories are!

Orwell's best-known works (Animal Farm, 1984) were virulent Cold-War-era anti-communist propaganda. In other words Orwell was a fascist HIMSELF

Gehrig is another lousy pick for "enlightening" us as to the misuses of the word "fascism." As a fanatical zionist psy-operative, his number one interest is in equating "fascism" forever after with persecution of Jews. It's no coincidence that this is today the single most widespread misconception about fascism. At the same time gehrig is hell-bent on concealing an absolute textbook fascist: the violent anti-Bolshevik fanatic, Mussolini supporter, and Israeli nationalist Vladimir Ze'ev Jabotinsky, the founding father of zionist extremism.

Back before 1967 (the year American Jews began permanently succumbing to zionist crypto-fascism) even Jewish leaders here were calling this spade "a spade":

Criticizing Jabotinsky's main political heir, Menachem Begin, and his fellow extremists:

"Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the “Freedom Party” (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and *FASCIST* parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine.

The current visit of Menachem Begin, leader of this party, to the United States is obviously calculated...

The public avowals of Begin’s party are no guide whatever to its actual character. Today they speak of freedom, democracy and anti-imperialism, whereas until recently they openly preached the doctrine of the *FASCIST* state. It is in its actions that the terrorist party betrays its real character; from its past actions we can judge what it may be expected to do in the future...

The discrepancies between the bold claims now being made by Begin and his party, and their record of past performance in Palestine bear the imprint of no ordinary political party. This is the unmistakable stamp of a *FASCIST* party for whom terrorism (against Jews, Arabs, and British alike), and misrepresentation are means, and a “Leader State” is the goal."

These passages from a must-read 12/4/1948 letter to the New York Times
http://www.allthatremains.com/Jerusalem/Dayr-Yasin/Story1686.html

signatories:
ISIDORE ABRAMOWITZ,
HANNAH ARENDT,
ABRAHAM BRICK,
RABBI JESSURUN CARDOZO,
ALBERT EINSTEIN,
HERMAN EISEN, M.D.,
HAYIM FINEMAN,
M. GALLEN, M.D.,
H.H. HARRIS,
ZELIG S. HARRIS,
SIDNEY HOOK,
FRED KARUSH,
BRURIA KAUFMAN,
IRMA L. LINDHEIM,
NACHMAN MAJSEL,
SEYMOUR MELMAN,
MYER D. MENDELSON, M.D.,
HARRY M. ORLINSKY,
SAMUEL PITLICK,
FRITZ ROHRLICH,
LOUIS P. ROCKER,
RUTH SAGER,
ITZHAK SANKOWSKY,
I.J. SHOENBERG,
SAMUEL SHUMAN,
M. ZNGER,
IRMA WOLPE,
STEFAN WOLPE.

These were savvy Jewish leftists/liberals who knew what the word REALLY meant, and validly applied it in this way gehrig the zio-gatekeeper never EVER wants you to glimpse.

"This letter was never published in the NYT's. Its not in their archives"

If not, then obviously some zionist psychopath mole in the NYTimes pulled it out of the fucking archives and BURNED IT. Was it published in the NYT or wasn't it, BJ? If it was, are you saying the NYT just MADE IT UP?

Several people here

http://phys4.harvard.edu/~wilson/NYTimes1948.html

Attest that the letter was published that day (12/4/1948), as recorded on microfilms. Is this site reputable enough for you?

Such a film can supposedly be viewed online at this URL (registration required):
http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?
index=7&did=96605844&SrchMode=1&sid=1&Fmt=10
&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=HNP
&TS=1147628372&clientId=13766

That's funny, the reporting sure isn't!

http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_independence_war_diryassin.php

Gee, I wonder what might have been BUTCHERED in the "translation?" Anything about hate-crazed Israeli psychopaths, mebbe?

This site is obviously the mind-vomit of a pack of frantic hasbarah freaks, which would explain why they don't want you to know who they are

http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_faq.php

There isn't even an author given for the Deir Yassin article! Real shady!

So I do a WHOIS search and guess what? Palestinefacts.org is a sneaky sleazy little mouthpiece of the ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA

http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/results.jsp?whoistoken=0

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Try again, Hun-neeeeeeeee

The kibbutz and moshav sysytem are for Jews only. In other words, they are racist to the core.

Why was this hidden?

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2006/11/186045.php

Why don't they want you to see this?

This was a good search and the documents were sourced. Raw nerve?

Hi,
I'm Becky.

Unlike me, the letter signed by Einstein is clearly authentic, was obviously published in The New York Times, and the microfiche copy proves that my arrogant assertion to the contrary was false.

To maintain the illusion of integrity, honesty, and infallibility, it was necessary to hide that fact.

love,
Becky Hide

And it is NO coincidence that US SENATOR JOSEPH LIEBERMAN is the head of the COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY as his "distant" relative is raising hell in ISRAEL......???

And it is NO coincidence that US SENATOR JOSEPH LIEBERMAN is the head of the COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY as his "distant" relative is raising hell in ISRAEL......???

hey that was a great blast from the past!
the link:
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2006/11/186045.php
( hidden )
about the NYT published letter by Einstein, declaring zionism as fascism.

The racism inherent in supposed "anti-zionism" is that it is only ONLY Jewish nationalism, not ANY other, that they have an issue with. Any pretextual concern for the "Palestinians" is just a ruse. Its crystal clear.

so now it's nationalism instead of "self-determination"?
Same nazi ideology different times. Still trying to epoxy all Jews to the cult of zionism, huh? Big surprise.

thanks for confirming the double standard, typical "anti-zionist" hypocrite, its why your opinions are ignored.

"Jewish nationalism and self determination=bad"

"Palestinian nationalism and self determination=good"

what you're calling Palestinian self determination amounts to surviving a directed genocide ( don't even bother about your cooked stats because it's clear genocide IAW the Geneva Convention ) against them by heavily armed invaders. Who have no right to claim that land against the wishes of the people who were living there before the Nabka. No mater religious extremists claiming that god gave them a free ticket to wipe these people off the maps.