By Schmoel Yitzhak
One of my favorite popular tunes of all-time is titled "What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry?" It's an apologetic love song delivered by one sweetheart to another.
When it comes to Israel's National Security head, Yaakov Amidror, and his recent confrontation with twenty-seven European Union ambassadors, I would alter the title to "What Can I Say After I Say I'M NOT SORRY?"
Tsk! Tsk!
Should we weep crocodile tears because a number of the EU ambassadors to Israel got a temporary case of lockjaw after being deservedly admonished by Amidror at the political-security briefing?
Or should we give landsman Amidror endless kudos for calling a spade a "spade" in terms of the EU's one-sided behavior in which the Arabs -- disguised as Palestinians -- are favored by the EU about eleven times out of ten!
If, as the bromide goes, "Honesty is the best policy," then there's no question about the answer; brother Amidror deserves a standing ovation, diplomatic protocol or no diplomatic protocol.
And what was it that upset the darling Europeans? They got a good taste of what my Uncle Benyamin called tooches ufen tisch; Amidror put his cards on the table and the EU gentry didn't like what they saw -- or heard. Viz and to wit:
* The European Union always is critical of Israel while never admonishing the Palestinians. (TRUE. Deny that if you can, EU; I dare you!)
* The European Union is unable -- and/or unwilling -- to take a balanced stance when it comes to addressing the Israeli-Arab tug-of-war. (TRUE. And when was the last time the EU ever favored Israel in the endless conflict?)
* Israel cannot be blamed for everything. (And, yet, at virtually every political turn in the eminently mis-called "Peace Process," the EU points an accusatory finger at Jerusalem while conspicuously ignoring the Gaza Gang and Abbas
"You (the EU and its ambassadors) only address the portion of (President Barack) Obama's address that's good for the Palestinians and not portions that are good for Israel," Amidror asserted.
One member of the EU contingent took his head out of the Arab sand long enough to deliver this pathetic beef:
""Amidror was aggressive, contemptuous and arrogant," said the apparently shaken European. "Some ambassadors were genuinely traumatized."
Well, if those EU Nervous Nellies really want to get traumatized, I suggest they spend some time in Sderot, Ashkelon and other Negev environs where an assortment of Gaza-based missiles still are regularly being fired into Israel.
Are these European nitwits being traumatized by the truth? And when was the last time EU representatives spent time with the beleaguered Sderot citizens to learn what warning sirens are all about and how fatal it is for innocent Israelis to be struck by a Grad missile, among the many other destructive rockets so easily smuggled into Gaza.
Did we hear the word "contemptuous?" And does that term bother the EU reps?
Well contempt is precisely what the EU deserves for its endless and unapologetic bias in favor of the Arabs.
Amidror is to be commended not condemned for his aggressive -- instead of defensive -- behavior because the time for appeasing phony, one-sided diplomats is over.
I completely agree with Israel's national security head when he warns that unless the EU alters its position, there's no reason to resume negotiations between the Arabs and Israel.
Ditto for Israel Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman who insists that Jerusalem cut off all contact with the Palestinian Authority including security.
Why not?
The PA currently is negotiating -- yet again! -- reconciliation with Hamas. The PA does everything in its power to undercut Israel as The Jewish State. It refuses even to come to the negotiating table unless Prime Minister Netanyahu submits to endless demands.
When the European Union gets around to appreciating these realities of Middle East life then, maybe, its ambassadors won't have to hear blunt reprimands that can only be equated with the truth.
Until then, the Amidror-Lieberman theme song must remain "What Can I Say After I Say I'M NOT SORRY?"
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Saturday, August 6, 2011
ONE MASSACRE TO ANOTHER
By Simon Fischler
The view from Coffee Anan (Anan means Cloud in Hebrew) on top of Mt. Bental in the Israeli Golan Heights is amazing.
On a day like today, a day that is sunny and dry, there is an unimpeded view from the Heights of the Hermon, to the Hula Valley and almost all the way down to the Kinneret.
When looking East, you can see the Syrian City of Quenitra and deep into the heartland of Syria.
As I sit comfortably on the Israeli side of the border enjoying these amazing views, enjoying the freedoms granted to me and my fellow citizens, it makes me acutely aware of what is happening on the other side of the border.
Atrocities are being carried out by the Syrian government against her own citizens at this very moment.
As I write, human beings -- it makes no difference to me at this point that they happen to be Arab Muslims -- are being mass murdered by a megalomaniac.
Can this really be happening? Is it really the twenty-first century? If so, has the human race really made so little progress?
How can the US stock market crashing be more of a headline story than a minority ruler carrying out the mass murders of his own people?
Is this a bad joke?
How can the world let this happen?
Should Israel intervene and help the people of Hama? If the answer is no, why is it no?
Why is the Arab League diddling around with wording on documents for a Palestinian State and not condemning the Assad regime and rallying support for the citizens of Syria?
Why is Mr. Tom Friedman so concerned with how the Israeli leadership does what it can to protect its citizens, but NOT with the fact that Bashar Assad is making lemonade out of his own people?
Where are the immediate United Nations Security Council sessions, resolutions and inquiries into Syrian Human Rights Violations?
Is it not sick that when Israel dared to enforce her LEGAL maritime blockade of the Gaza Strip, the world went into an uproar? The world denounced Israel and called the killing of nine Muslim fundamentalist Turks (who were just trying to LYNCH a few IDF soldiers) a massacre.
Yet the murder of more than 2,000 Syrian citizens (more than 200 in the last few days alone in Hama) has garnered far less criticism.
Is this also a bad Joke?
Doesn't this now completely expose the sick, twisted and anti-Semitic bias against Israel?
Why are Syria and Iran still allowed to be members of the United Nations? Are the rest of the world’s nations united with this type of criminal leader?
If so, I do not want to be part of or united with nations they fail to stop a monster like Assad.
Where is President Barak Obama? He was so brave when it came to stepping up to Mohamar Qaddaffi – at least verbally. But then, Mohamar did not have Iran backing him up, did he?
If this American administration fails to back up the Syrian people and rid this world of the monster calling himself Bashar Assad, then it will be a catastrophe.
Just as Iran and Hezbollah are assisting the Assad regime on the ground, America must rally her Arabian allies -- Saudia Arabia and Jordan especially -- and assist the Syrian people to gain their freedom.
This massacre must be stopped and this ruthless megalomaniac must be brought down.
“NEVER AGAIN” should not just apply to the Holocaust and the Jews. “NEVER AGAIN” must become the motto of the world in the Twenty-First century; and of a New United Nations.
This new United Nations could then do what the original one was supposed to do: to administer and protect international law; to stop psychopaths like Basher Assad from murdering his citizens.
But, instead of condemning leaders like Assad, today’s UN is too focused on condemning the one democratic country in the Middle East that protects international law -- because it happens to be the Jewish Nation State.
Wake up, Free World; you have been had.
The cause of the problems in the Middle East is not Israel and the Israeli towns and cities in Judea and Samaria. The problems in the Middle East stem from one place only: Arab leadership. Leaders like Bashar Assad, Mohamar Qaddaffi, Yassar Arafat, Khaled Meshal and Hassan Nashrallah. Leaders who rule as the feudal kings of Europe ruled in the Middle Ages.
THE WORLD MUST STOP BLAMING ISRAEL FOR THE PROBLEMS ARAB LEADERS HAVE CREATED FOR THEIR OWN CITIZENS. Instead it needs to re-learn the meaning of truth, justice and international law -- to help the citizens of Syria and the Arab world realize it is not Israel who denies them their freedom and the keeps them down, but their own leaders.
From Hama of the Eighties to Hama of today it is but one massacre to another.
The view from Coffee Anan (Anan means Cloud in Hebrew) on top of Mt. Bental in the Israeli Golan Heights is amazing.
On a day like today, a day that is sunny and dry, there is an unimpeded view from the Heights of the Hermon, to the Hula Valley and almost all the way down to the Kinneret.
When looking East, you can see the Syrian City of Quenitra and deep into the heartland of Syria.
As I sit comfortably on the Israeli side of the border enjoying these amazing views, enjoying the freedoms granted to me and my fellow citizens, it makes me acutely aware of what is happening on the other side of the border.
Atrocities are being carried out by the Syrian government against her own citizens at this very moment.
As I write, human beings -- it makes no difference to me at this point that they happen to be Arab Muslims -- are being mass murdered by a megalomaniac.
Can this really be happening? Is it really the twenty-first century? If so, has the human race really made so little progress?
How can the US stock market crashing be more of a headline story than a minority ruler carrying out the mass murders of his own people?
Is this a bad joke?
How can the world let this happen?
Should Israel intervene and help the people of Hama? If the answer is no, why is it no?
Why is the Arab League diddling around with wording on documents for a Palestinian State and not condemning the Assad regime and rallying support for the citizens of Syria?
Why is Mr. Tom Friedman so concerned with how the Israeli leadership does what it can to protect its citizens, but NOT with the fact that Bashar Assad is making lemonade out of his own people?
Where are the immediate United Nations Security Council sessions, resolutions and inquiries into Syrian Human Rights Violations?
Is it not sick that when Israel dared to enforce her LEGAL maritime blockade of the Gaza Strip, the world went into an uproar? The world denounced Israel and called the killing of nine Muslim fundamentalist Turks (who were just trying to LYNCH a few IDF soldiers) a massacre.
Yet the murder of more than 2,000 Syrian citizens (more than 200 in the last few days alone in Hama) has garnered far less criticism.
Is this also a bad Joke?
Doesn't this now completely expose the sick, twisted and anti-Semitic bias against Israel?
Why are Syria and Iran still allowed to be members of the United Nations? Are the rest of the world’s nations united with this type of criminal leader?
If so, I do not want to be part of or united with nations they fail to stop a monster like Assad.
Where is President Barak Obama? He was so brave when it came to stepping up to Mohamar Qaddaffi – at least verbally. But then, Mohamar did not have Iran backing him up, did he?
If this American administration fails to back up the Syrian people and rid this world of the monster calling himself Bashar Assad, then it will be a catastrophe.
Just as Iran and Hezbollah are assisting the Assad regime on the ground, America must rally her Arabian allies -- Saudia Arabia and Jordan especially -- and assist the Syrian people to gain their freedom.
This massacre must be stopped and this ruthless megalomaniac must be brought down.
“NEVER AGAIN” should not just apply to the Holocaust and the Jews. “NEVER AGAIN” must become the motto of the world in the Twenty-First century; and of a New United Nations.
This new United Nations could then do what the original one was supposed to do: to administer and protect international law; to stop psychopaths like Basher Assad from murdering his citizens.
But, instead of condemning leaders like Assad, today’s UN is too focused on condemning the one democratic country in the Middle East that protects international law -- because it happens to be the Jewish Nation State.
Wake up, Free World; you have been had.
The cause of the problems in the Middle East is not Israel and the Israeli towns and cities in Judea and Samaria. The problems in the Middle East stem from one place only: Arab leadership. Leaders like Bashar Assad, Mohamar Qaddaffi, Yassar Arafat, Khaled Meshal and Hassan Nashrallah. Leaders who rule as the feudal kings of Europe ruled in the Middle Ages.
THE WORLD MUST STOP BLAMING ISRAEL FOR THE PROBLEMS ARAB LEADERS HAVE CREATED FOR THEIR OWN CITIZENS. Instead it needs to re-learn the meaning of truth, justice and international law -- to help the citizens of Syria and the Arab world realize it is not Israel who denies them their freedom and the keeps them down, but their own leaders.
From Hama of the Eighties to Hama of today it is but one massacre to another.
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