Right-wing celebrations of Tel Aviv attacks 'huge warning sign'

[Israeli]

Several hours after the June 8 terror attack that killed four people in Tel Aviv, and even before the city returned to business as usual, social networks began buzzing with posts and reactions by right-wing Israelis ecstatic that the very heart of Tel Aviv had been targeted in the murderous incident.

They didn’t seem to be a bunch of crazies letting off steam. Rather they appeared to reflect an array of people for whom Tel Aviv is the capital of the left-wing that supports a two-state solution and an end to the occupation, or, as they see it, the capital of the “Arab lovers.” As far as the right is concerned, it seems, the left is the worst enemy of the Jewish state.

A young woman named Emily Moghrabi, for example, wrote, “The important thing is that it happened in Tel Aviv. Such a pleasure.” After her incitement got lots of shares, Facebook removed the post, but not to be deterred, she then posted (since removed as well), “One of those killed in the attack was a Peace Now activist (referring to Michael Feige). Stop. I can’t stand this happiness … Elor Azarya [the soldier who shot dead an injured Palestinian attacker in Hebron on March 24], this is for you.” That post got 130 shares.

Moghrabi is by no means alone, as evidenced by the dozens of supportive comments and praise for her posts, some of which dubbed her a “queen.” A guy by the name of David Benayoun wrote, “Being a leftist is being a German,” and another named David Eliran said that leftists are “sick and ugly creatures; Hamas is welcome to kill all the leftists.” And so it went.

Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/06/tel-aviv-israeli-right-left-assasination-yitzhak-rabin.html#ixzz4BXC6Pag0

[MFM008]

1. Jeez

everyone is jumping the shark all over the place.

[Israeli]

2. continued.........

Zionist Camp Knesset member Merav Michaeli, stunned by the unbelievable wave of hatred by Israelis happy about the murder of other Israelis, posted a video in seeking to appeal to the reason of the revelers: “I refuse to believe that you [Emily Moghrabi] and Nick Vassat [who also “celebrated” the murder of the Israelis] really think that Israeli women and men deserve to be murdered in a terror attack, even if they are leftists.”

( see video @ https://www.facebook.com/MichaeliMerav/videos/vb.213793465311034/1179151322108572/?type=2&theater )

It would seem that many Israelis, among them Michaeli, refuse to understand that the point of no return was passed a long time ago. It is not a case of “stray weeds,” the sobriquet applied to those at the margins of society whose incitement led to the 1995 assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. This is a widespread phenomenon reflected in Israel's daily public discourse, including in newspapers on the right. It is reinforced and encouraged by right-wing politicians, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has turned hatred of the left into a self-serving tool.

In October 1997, while I was diplomatic correspondent for Channel 1 TV, Netanyahu visited the Jerusalem synagogue of the kabbalist Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri. Israel Radio reporter Haim Rivlin and I stood near the prayer podium and saw Netanyahu lean toward the rabbi and whisper something. No one heard what Netanyahu said, and it is highly doubtful that Rabbi Kaduri, 99 at the time, could have heard anything either in the noisy room. Netanyahu's remark, however, was quite audible on a tape recording, which was overlaid on the footage shot by the television cameras: “Those on the left have forgotten what it means to be Jewish,” he had said.

It’s been almost 20 years, and the consequences continue to be suffered to this day. Netanyahu has consistently depicted the left as seeking to undermine the foundations of the state, and if the head honcho says it, why shouldn’t others? Netanyahu as prime minister signposted the way for many on the right, including politicians, rabbis, analysts and activists. As far as they are concerned, the left is an enemy to be vanquished, and indeed, they often use the terminology of battle and war to goad the left. They unabashedly describe the left as colluding with the enemies of the state to destroy it.

Right-wing activist Haim Shine is a senior analyst for the popular freebie newspaper Israel Hayom, owned by the American billionaire Sheldon Adelson, a close Netanyahu associate. On May 23, Shine penned an article headlined “The left cut itself off from society.” He states that the left “had better understand that the Jewish nation has been reinstated in Israel for eternity. Let them [the left] not waste their despair, they will need it for many years to come.”

Here’s another example: In the 2015 election campaign, the state-backed Council of Samaria Settlers aired a video clip comparing the Israeli left to traitors being led to the gallows. The clip is titled “The Eternal Jew,” like some 1940s Nazi propaganda film. In it, a European man is seen in his office reading a newspaper called “The Left,” as his secretary, who calls him “Herr Sturmer” (as in the Nazi weekly Der Sturmer), tells him there’s a Jew who wants to see him.

There are numerous such examples. In other words, the expressions of hatred for the left after the attack in Tel Aviv are not by way of being writing on the wall. They are a huge warning sign. A civil war seems to be underway in Israel, and the next political assassination is just a matter of time. Every political assassination has been preceded by incitement and demonization, turning a political opponent into a dangerous foe who must be stopped at all cost, even the cost of murder. That is how Rabin came to be assassinated — after being portrayed by the right as a traitor, a Nazi. His assassin, Yigal Amir, pulled the trigger of a gun loaded with the hateful remarks of rabbis and politicians. Then, too, no one believed a Jew would kill a Jew.

Source: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/06/tel-aviv-israeli-right-left-assasination-yitzhak-rabin.html#ixzz4BXEPq4L3

[Little Tich]

3. I really hope the OP is exaggerating, but even if it does, it's still pretty horrible... n/t

[Israeli]

5. He is not exaggerating Little Tich.......

.....we are a house divided (and have been for a long time now) .

Israel 2016: A house divided

Sunday, June 5, 2016 - forty-ninth anniversary of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. This year it intersected with "Jerusalem Day," when the government of Israel and the extreme right celebrate according to the Jewish calendar what they call "The Liberation and Unification of Jerusalem". It also coincided with the start of the Muslim fast of Ramadan. On that day I stood among several hundred demonstrators on the balcony of the Jerusalem Town Hall, to protest the annual "Dance of the Flags" held by the young Nationalist-Religious-Messianic of all types.

Along Jaffa Street below us the procession flowed, a forest of Blue and White Israeli national flags and sprinkled among them some flags of the Movement for Building the Temple and a Yellow flags held by fans of the notorious Beitar Soccer Club. The chants made by protesters on the balcony included "You have no shame - no holiness in an occupied city!" and "Jews and Arabs Refuse to be Enemies". There were signs "Standing together against the occupation! "," Standing together to build hope!"and "The one who shouts 'Death to the Arabs" is not a Jew! ". The most enraging for the Flag Dancers on the street was a big banner reading in Arabic and Hebrew: " Ramadan Karim – we wish our Muslim friends an easy fast". Many of them approached us with their flags, furiously shaking their fists, on their way to the Muslim Quarter of the Old City. They repeatedly sung the national anthem "Hatikva", followed by "No fear, Jews / No fear! / For rampant lions you are/ Rampant lions! / When the lion roars / Who is not afraid?. This was answered by the incessant drumming of the Peace Drummers, each drum roll accompanied by the thundering chant "End the occupation! End the occupation! ". Only a short distance separated us from them. Five steps on which the police stood guard to prevent any direct contact.

On the following day Jerusalem Post published my article:

Israel 2016: A house divided
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Israel-2016-A-house-divided-455680

A hundred and fifty-eight years ago, an American politician named Abraham Lincoln, running for the Senate, made a famous campaign speech: "A house divided against itself cannot stand.

I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it on the course of ultimate extinction – or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, North as well as South."

Our own Israeli house became divided, its government "half slave and half free," in that week of glorious victory in June 1967. Since then, inside the Green Line we have an elected government, issuing from reasonably free multi-party elections. On the other side of the Green Line, the same government is a military dictatorship. It rules by force over millions of disenfranchised Palestinians, making no pretense that its rule there is based on anything remotely resembling the consent of the governed.

This was supposed to be a strictly "temporary" measure, pending unspecified negotiations at an unspecified future time. Forty-nine years later, Israeli military rule over the Palestinians is still an overwhelming reality, not substantially changed by the creation of a powerless "Palestinian Authority." Nor was the essential fact of Israeli domination changed by the "disengagement from Gaza," whereby direct military rule was replaced by a harsh siege, strangling Gaza’s economy and effectively making it a huge open-air prison.

Come Knesset elections time, a polling station is placed at the heart of Hebron. Entitled to cast their votes there are about a thousand Israeli settlers. Excluded from the vote are some 200,000 Palestinian Hebronites.

These 49 years of Israeli military rule have seen the relentless advance of the settler movement, spreading in ever greater numbers over the West Bank and taking up still more Palestinian land. Religious-Nationalist Messianism, which burst on the scene in those euphoric days of June 1967, is becoming ever more militant, ever more powerful and dominant.

Israelis who still adhere to such concepts as democracy, or human rights, or simply common decency, increasingly feel beleaguered and threatened – and not only left-wingers.

Moshe Ya’alon, defense minister until a week ago, a peace skeptic and outspoken supporter of continued military rule, still had some scruples about the outright killing of a disarmed prisoner. His place is being taken by the blatantly brutal Avigdor Liberman – guaranteed free of such squeamishness.

The Israel of 2016 is getting increasingly out of tune with the international community. It is also getting out of tune with a growing number of Jews worldwide – especially the younger generation of Amercian Jews, deeply imbued with those same democratic values which are under threat in the Israeli society. It is strange and unsettling to Israelis who have not given up the hope of peace to find that we can rely on the government of France rather than on the government of Israel.

A year from now, Israel’s occupation of the Palestinians will be 50 years old. It is common to call a 50-year anniversary "a jubilee" – a word which is derived from the Hebrew "yovel" and from the Jewish scriptures. There, it denotes far more than the simple passage of 50 years.

A Jubilee was supposed to be a very special kind of year – a time when slaves and prisoners would be freed, debts would be forgiven, and alienated land returned to its owners.

Inspired by this biblical verse, American Civil War soldiers sung "Hurrah! Hurrah! We bring the Jubilee!" when marching to set slaves free.

"You shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land. You shall make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants" so says the Book of Leviticus.

Shall we still live to see the coming of the Jubilee to our land?

Source : http://adam-keller2.blogspot.co.il/2016/06/israel-2016-house-divided.html

[PeoViejo]

4. It seems the Stern Gang never went away.

There's a lot of terrible History about this.

[shira]

6. Both the far Left and far Right are a "huge warning sign". n/t

[Israeli]

7. Actually shira .....

....this is the "huge warning sign". ....

Map of the West Bank Settlements

@
http://peacenow.org.il/eng/APNmap

Which the Right are for and the Left is against .

[Israeli]

8. Barak calls to oust government if it doesn't come to its senses

'If the government doesn't get back on track, all of us must get out of our seats and topple it through civil uprising and the ballot box before it's too late,' former prime minister says at Herzliya Conference.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been under attack on Thursday by not one but two of his former defense ministers, Moshe Ya'alon and Ehud Barak.

After Ya'alon declared he intends to run for office, criticizing the government's use of scare tactics to "divide and rule," Barak called to oust the current government.

"I call upon the government to come to its senses and get back on track," Barak said at the Herzliya Conference on Thursday evening. "If not, all of us, yes, all of us, must get out of our seats and topple it through civil uprising and the ballot box before it's too late."

Barak, a former IDF chief, defense minister and prime minister, warned of telltale signs of fascism in the government.

"If it looks like the 'beginning of fascism,' walks like the 'beginning of fascism,' and quacks like the 'beginning of fascism,' then it is the 'beginning of fascism,'" he said.

Barak warned of the danger in attacks on democracy, noting there have been attacks on the Supreme Court, the civil society, the freedom of expression, the media's independence, the State Comptroller, the Attorney General, senior officials in the IDF, the Shin Bet and the police, the anti-trust regulator, and others. "And unfortunately even on school principals and educators who demonstrate 'too much independent thought.'"

He listed a series of legislation proposals that he saw as posing a threat to Israeli democracy, including the Suspension Law, the NGO Law, separate transportation for Jews and Arabs in the West Bank, and a bill seeking to apply Israeli law to Jewish settlers in the West Bank.

"Only a man who is blind, pretending innocence or one who has become ideologically defiled can't see the erosion of democracy in all of these bills and the first signs of fascism that have taken hold of this government," he said.

He also noted a series of extreme incidents of violence and incitement that he saw as warning signs, including the murder of 16-year-old Palestinian Mohammed Abu Khdeir, the murder of the Dawabsheh family in Duma, the Jewish radicals who try to smuggle young goats onto the Temple Mount so they could sacrifice them, the Hebron shooting incident, and posters showing the IDF chief and the defense minister wearing kaffiyahs, among others.

The 'Hitlerization' of every threat

Barak accused Netanyahu of the "Hitlerization of every changing regional threat," naming Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as people Netanyahu has branded as the "Hitlers of our time." Barak said it was this that truly "cheapens the Holocaust."

Barak, who is now out of politics, said Netanyahu's Likud party was been taken over by an "extreme ideology" that instead of pursuing peace with the Palestinians is leading Israel toward a "one-state" reality in which Israel becomes an apartheid-like country or a "binational state" with a Jewish minority.

"Indifferent extremism, hubris and blindness have taken hold of the prime minister and the Israeli government, and in the name of an agenda, theoretically hidden, with a 'touch of messianism,' it is dragging us all into this moral and operational abyss," he continued.

"And how is all of this happening, day after day, in contradiction to national interest, at the expense of all citizens, against even the interest of Likud and right-wing voters," Barak wondered.

“We are being led by a weak prime minister and a weak government,” Barak concluded.

Continued @
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4816902,00.html