To the Jewish tourists who love to shop in Rome, rent cottages in Tuscany and worship the art of Florence and Venice, here
is something that may want to make you reconsider your next trip to Italy.
it is a piece by the brilliant columnist, Caroline Glick, of the Jerusalem Post.
I still feel that Europe started facilitating a Second Holocaust against the Jews, not too many years after their first try
at a Holocaust against the Jews.
As I showed in my blog about the 1972 Munich Olympics, the evidence of a post-World War 2 war against the Jews has been
there for all to see. The problem is that too few people want to open their eyes.
In the end, the global jihad, and the West's fickle response to radical Islam's assault on its
civilization, is about hating Jews. This truth, never wholly hidden from view, was exposed in all its ugliness in recent
months with startling disclosures by former Italian president and Senator-for-life Francesco Cossiga.
In a letter to Italy's Corriere della Serrain August, Cossiga acknowledged that during the early
1970s, then Italian prime minister
Aldo Moro signed an agreement with Yassir Arafat's PLO and affiliated organizations that enabled the Palestinians to field
terrorists, operate bases and store weapons in Italy in exchange for immunity from attack for Italy and Italian interests
worldwide. Cossiga also acknowledged that even when the Palestinians murdered Italians, the government still protected
them. Indeed, he admittedfor the first time
that the largest terror attack ever to take place on Italian soil - the bombing of the Bologna train station in July 1980
which killed 85 people - was the work of PLO-affiliated terrorists from George Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine.
At the time of the bombing, Cossiga was Italy's prime
minister. Right after it occurred, he blamed the atrocity on neo-fascists. In his words at the time, "Unlike leftist
terrorism, which strikes at the heart of the state through its representatives, black terrorism prefers the massacre
because it promotes panic and impulsive reactions."
In August, he claimed that it was the work of the PFLP and asserted that the bomb exploded inadvertently. That is, the
Palestinians hadn't meant to kill non-Jews - so Italian authorities protected them.
On Friday, Cossiga expanded on his disclosures to Corriere della Serra in an interview with Yediot
Aharonot's Rome correspondent Menachem Ganz. Cossiga admitted that it wasn't just Israeli targets that Italy permitted
the Palestinians to attack with impunity, but Jewish targets as well. Indeed, in at least one and probably two incidents,
the Italians colluded with the Palestinians in their attacks against Jews. On October 9, 1982, six terrorists opened fire
on worshippers leaving Rome's Great Synagogue. Dozens of Jews were wounded and two-year-old Stefano Tache was murdered.
Hours before the attack the Italian police detail charged with securing the synagogue was withdrawn.
Then too, in December 1985, Palestinian terrorists opened fire on the El Al ticket counter at the Rome airport. Ten
people were killed. Another seven people were murdered in a simultaneous attack against the El Al ticket counter at the
Vienna airport. According to Cossiga, Italian intelligence agencies received prior warning of the attack but didn't bother
to share the information with Israel.
Cossiga explained to Yediot, "No Italian targets were hit. They attacked the Israeli airline at the airport. The murdered were all Israelis, Jews, and Americans."
Then there was the hijacking of the Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro off the Egyptian coast in October 1985.
Palestinian terrorists led by Abu Abbas commandeered the ship. They shot wheelchair-bound American Jewish passenger Leon
Klinghoffer and threw him overboard while he was still alive. The Egyptians freed the hijackers and sent them off on a
flight to Libya. American jets forced a plane to land at a NATO base in Sicily. The Italians refused to permit the
Americans to take the hijackers into custody and freed Abbas. The Italians cast the standoff as a victory against American
bullies. But it really amounted to a surrender to Palestinian murderers. As Cossiga explained, "Since the Arabs were
capable of harming Italy more than the Americans, Italy surrendered to them."
COSSIGA ALLEGES that his country's agreement with the Palestinians has recently been expanded to include Hizbullah.
After the Second Lebanon War, Italy agreed to command the UNIFIL force charged with preventing Hizbullah from reasserting
control over southern Lebanon and blocking its re-armament efforts. Yet Cossiga asserts, "I can state with absolute
certainty that… Italy has a deal with Hizbullah according to which UNIFIL forces turn a blind eye to Hizbullah's rearmament
so long as no attacks are carried out against soldiers in the force."
Ganz notes ruefully that although Cossiga's statements provoked the Italian Jewish community to demand that
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi investigate the government's
collusion with Palestinian terrorists, no such investigation is likely to be forthcoming. Ganz explains that Berlusconi
himself is not immune to the anti-Semitism that caused his predecessors to abstain from protecting Italy's Jewish citizens.
When he addresses Italian Jews, Berlusconi often calls the Israeli government "your government," and so exposes his
adherence to the view that Jews are not true citizens of any country other than Israel.
The anti-Semitic belief that all Jews are Zionists and therefore all Jews are fair game in the war against Israel -
itself simply another round of the age-old war against the Jews - allows anti-Semites to obfuscate the fact that their
anti-Israel rhetoric is simply warmed over Jew-hatred. People like Iranian leaders Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Ali Khamenei,
and Palestinian terrorists from the PLO and their progeny in Hamas and Hizbullah nearly always limit their threats to
"Zionists," and so pretend that they aren't actually anti-Semites.
Their razor-thin deception is eagerly embraced by their fellow travelers in the West - from university professors like
Juan Cole, Steven Walt and John Mearshimer, to policymakers like Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski, to Western
decision-makers and European heads of state, and an alarming number of American politicians.
This deception is par for the course of anti-Semitism. Throughout history anti-Semites have used Jew-hatred as a way to
rally their troops. By attacking Jews as the collective enemy, tyrants have given their people a convenient, weak culprit
to attack to deflect criticism away from their own failures or to hide real enemies from pacifistic publics uninterested in
fighting. Anti-Semitism appeals to people's basest instinct. But people don't like to acknowledge how much they hate Jews,
and Jews have always preferred to deny that they are hated.
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I have written recently about how the situation with Iran and Israel is completely intertwined in the West's weak response
and confused thinking about both.
Here, Caroline Glick comes up with an original take on the West's inaction towards Iran on the grounds that Israel will take
care of the problem. It seems the West can't quite decide whether the Jews (of Israel) are the cause of the
problem with the Islamists and Iran, or whether they are the solution for the problem. The French and the
Italians and the rest of the Tolerists in Europe and America are all wrong of course, The Jews are neither the cause nor
the solution. We are all in this together. And, as usual, the Jews are, as I described them in my internet book,
Second Generation Radical: The Struggle Against the Second Holocaust, the "canaries in the mine"; the miners
in the West better start paying attention that the air for all of us is getting more difficult to breath.
(Excerpted from Jerusalem Post column of October 6, 2008.)
"So anti-Semitic leaders have disguised their appeal to base instinct by pretending that they are actually
appealing to sublime aspirations. In the case of the Nazis for instance, Adolf Hitler and Josef Goebbels appealed to
Germanic pride and love for the Fatherland. Today, the Left appeals to people's aspirations for peace and justice. It is only by permitting and indeed enabling Jews to die and the Jewish state to be
destroyed that "peace" can be secured and the Palestinians can receive
"justice."
THIS STRATEGY appeals to European - and to greater and lesser degrees American -
policymakers for two reasons. First, as French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner made clear in an interview withHa'aretzon Friday, while the West understands
that Islamic jihadists seek the destruction of Europe and the US, they believe - in part because their own anti-Semitism
leads them to exaggerate Jewish power - that they will get away with coddling the Arabs and Iran because Israel will
protect them.
Referring to Iran's nuclear weapons
program, Kouchner said that no one is particularly worried about Iran's nuclear threat because everyone believes that
Israel will attack Iran for them. In his words, "I honestly don't believe that [a nuclear arsenal] will give any immunity
to Iran. First, you [Israel] will hit them before [they acquire nuclear
weapons]… Because Israel has always said that it will not wait for the bomb to be ready. I think that they [the
Iranians] know. Everybody knows."
What is ironic about this view is that it exposes the inversion of anti-Semitic rhetoric. Five years ago, former
Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamed told an approving audience of Islamic heads of state, "The Jews rule the world by
proxy. They get others to fight and die for them."
But the West's belief that Israel will protect it from Iran shows that the opposite is true. The
West is absolutely certain that Israel is its proxy, and that Jews
will fight and die protecting it from the forces of global terror and jihad.
THE SECOND reason the Western champions of "peace" have opted
to sell Israel and the Jews out to the jihadists is because as anti-Semites, Western "anti-Zionists" fear Jewish power and
therefore want us to be weak. So it is that for the past 40 years, European governments and the US State Department have
bankrolled anti-Zionist groups in Israel like Peace Now, B'tselem and
Four Mothers. So it is that they have blamed Israel for Palestinian terrorism. And even when Israel succumbs to all their
demands for territorial withdrawals, they always manage to demand still more.
In the same interview with Ha'aretzfor instance, Kouchner on the one hand praised
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni for their willingness to surrender Jerusalem, Judea and
Samaria to the Palestinians, but argued that this is still not enough. Israel must also accept the free immigration of
the hostile descendants of the Arabs who left Israel in 1948. That is, Israel must also agree to its own destruction in
order to pave the way for "peace." In his words, "The main problem
is the refugees and Jerusalem, but more the refugees. Olmert and Livni do not have the perception of this."
Kouchner for one is certain that Livni will come around to recognizing the need to allow hostile foreign-born Arabs to
move here. "I think she will change. This is always the case for people that are in charge for politics and for life," he
claimed.
Kouchner soothed the reporters' fears of national destruction by claiming that he's probably not talking about more than
100,000 hostile Arabs immigrants. But that's today.
If Livni does form a government and comes around to this view, leave it to the West to explain that placing "arbitrary" limits on Arab immigration is a human rights abuse, and that
Israel's Zionist racism is compelling the Arabs and Iran to kill Jews and Westerners around the world.
AND THIS brings us to perhaps the greatest irony of the West's collusion with the Arabs and Iran in their war
against the Jews. The logical outcome of the twin delusions of anti-Semitism - that Jews are all powerful and that the Jews
must be cut down to size - is the destruction of Israel. And if that happens, the West will find itself in jaws of the Islamic jihadists they have been feeding the Jews to for four
decades.
The West's subversion of the Israeli elite has fomented a situation where many Israeli leaders have embraced their
anti-Semitic views of Israel. Leaders like Livni and Olmert, and the media and academia in Israel, have largely accepted
the notion that Israel is to blame for the global jihad. Today these leaders uphold Jewish weakness as an ideal. The longer
these Western-supported elites remain in power, the larger the chance that Israel won't attack Iran and that Israel will
allow itself to be destroyed in the interest of pursuing "peace" with
Palestinian terrorists.
And if Israel is destroyed, the West won't be able to depend
on us Jews to fight and die for them anymore. They will be all alone.
And on the annversary of the Rodney King beating at that:
The French Constitutional Council has approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists.
More than a dozen Peel police officers facing Police Act charges have now been named in a $12 million lawsuit filed by two young men who claim they were roughed up after filming a wild booze party last summer.
For more details of the rantings of a demented moonbat, head over to Little Green Footballs lgf: The Moonbat
Monologues.
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This week we put the boot in to Ken Livingstone with the aid of Daniel Pipe's debate sidekick: Douglas Murray. But don't let that fool you: Douglas Murray delivered all the best lines. Douglas Murray is the author of "Neo-Conservatism: Why We Need It"
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Douglas Murray's recent book, Neo Conservatism: Why We Need It is a defence of the most controversial political philosophy of our era. Douglas Murray takes a fresh look at the movement that replaced Great-Society liberalism, helped Ronald Reagan bring down the Wall, and provided the intellectual rationale for the Bush administration's War on Terror. While others are blaming it for foreign policy failures and, more extremely, attacking it as a Jewish cabal, Murray argues that the West needs Neo-conservatism more than ever. In addition to explaining what Neo conservatism is and where it came from, he argues that this American-born response to the failed policies of the 1960s is the best approach to foreign affairs not only for the United States but also for Britain and the West as well. of the most controversial political philosophy of our age.
The whole debacle of the Little Green Balloons can be followed in great length on Meryl's blog here.
The Community Security Trust report mentioned can be found on their website here. I found the comments at Harry's Place interesting too.
President Chirac's indiscreet comments have also been widely reported.
Meryl Yourish is giving us birth control tips. "Pull Out Now!". She borrows liberally from Age of Hooper for her clips and many of these can be found (if you have the stomach) here.
Mayors are for making the buses and trains run on time. At a push they should promote the city to foreign investment. Declaring that Israel should never have been created is not part of the job description.
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Walid Phares talks with Tom Paine in the first of a two part interview. They discuss Dr Phares's book Future Jihad.
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Walid Phares talks with Tom Paine in the first of a two part interview. The discuss Dr Phares's book Future Jihad. They discuss the search for the moderate Muslims, where the Jihad comes from and much more besides.
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For more details of the 751 ZUSs in France take a look at some of the comments over at the Daniel Pipes blog.
Michelle Malkin has a good take on the San Francisco battleship building brouhaha.
I give a plug to Andrew Ian Dodge's Creative Destruction in the Music Industry. Have a look through it for some thought provoking ideas and a good side swipe at the BBC.
This week's closing quote is once again by Winston Churchill.
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It's Egyptian Sandmonkey this week talking to Tom Paine about the Eid sex riots in Cairo. Ignored by the international media, suppressed by the Egyptian media, once again blogs are the only source that matters.
SNN Founding Father "Tom Paine" talks to the Egyptian Sandmonkey. Head over to his blog for the full story.
You can find the list of 751 no-go areas in France here.
The messages for Sunnis and Shias were written by the incomparable Hugh Fitzgerald and published on The New English Review which I can't recommend highly enough. Make it a regular stop for intelligent discourse.
Meryl Yourish is back and on the case of the UN and France again.
Laurence Simon has some thoughts on the state of the Union. God help us all, Democrats in the house.
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In blog news this week we cover the French vote to ban the denial of the Armenian genocide committed by Turkey in 1915. Historical payback's a bitch, eh Mustapha?
Israellycool Dave provides some humour with his Palestinian Authority TV schedules. Take a look over at his site for more here, here and here.
Later on I mention the Biased BBC Blog which performs a sterling job of tracking the BBC Bias.
Damian Penny is back with another Voice of Damnation.
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Closing down freedom of speech in France. From the BBC (via Bourque):
Turkey has condemned a French parliamentary vote which would make it a crime to deny that Armenians suffered "genocide" at the hands of the Turks. Turkey called it a "serious blow" to relations and has threatened sanctions. The vote was also criticised by the EU.
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The French vote came as controversial Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature.
He has faced prosecution in Turkey for talking about the murder of hundreds of thousands of Armenians during World War I and thousands of Kurds in subsequent years.
The charges have since been dropped.
This reminds me that it is time for me to do a post calling for the repeal of the Hate Laws in Canada.
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