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Cover StoryNefesh B’Nefesh held

a unique Yom Haatzmautparty in Jerusalem recently inhonor of the 250 new Israelibabies born this past year toNBN Olim, who celebratedtheir first Yom Haatzmaut.Since its founding in 2002,over 2,100 ‘sabra’ babies havebeen born to the 27,000 NorthAmerican and British Olimthat Nefesh B’Nefesh hasassisted with their Aliyah,together with the JewishAgency and the Ministry ofImmigrant Absorption.“There is no greater satisfac-tion than to see Israeli babiesborn to Olim who we helpedmake Aliyah,” said ErezHalfon, Vice Chairman ofNefesh B'Nefesh. "This yearNefesh B’Nefesh expects tobring over 4,800 Olim fromthe United States, Canada andthe UK and we look forward tocelebrating Yom Haatzmautnext year with even more new ‘sabra’ babies.”Photos Sasson Tiram

The recent Hamas-Fatah reconcilia-tion pact, assuming it ends Palestinian dis-unity, has not made war in the Middle Eastinevitable. But it has dealt a blow to analready moribund peace process. PresidentShimon Peres may not rule out talks withHamas. A group within the ForeignMinistry itself argues that “Palestinian unityis an opportunity, not a threat”. The left-leaning Ha’aretz newspaper writes that it isin the country’s best interests to “recognize”the new Palestinian unity government. Butfor now Benjamin Netanyahu reflects theview of most Israelis and, we might add,Jews in the Diaspora, when he tells anyonewilling to listen that there is no possibility ofa return to the negotiating table when half ofthe Palestinian power structure stillbelieves that Israel is sitting on sacredIslamic soil.

The problem for Israel, however,goes far beyond the immediate impact ofAbbas choosing the “wrong” negotiatingpartner. The Palestinians will soon be head-ing to the United Nations seeking to becomepart of the comity of the world’s nations.Israel seems have pinned its hopes entirelyon a US veto of the statehood resolution.

The Palestinians, however, everdetermined to express their national will,may have found a way around a SecurityCouncil veto. Adopted in November 1950,“Uniting for Peace” Resolution 377 statesthat if the five permanent members of theSecurity Council are deadlocked, making itimpossible for the Council to exercise its“primary responsibility for the maintenanceof international peace and security”, theGeneral Assembly can issue its own “appro-priate recommendations” to resolve the dis-pute. That is precisely what the GA did in1981 when South Africa preventedNamibian independence. While the GA’sauthority under Resolution 377 is not bind-ing, Israel’s most recent ambassador to theUnited Nations, Gabriela Shalev, warns that“those who believe that the UN GeneralAssembly’s deliberations are of a solelydeclarative importance are mistaken”.Boycotts and sanctions, along with militaryaid to the now recognized Palestinian state,are just a few of the diplomatic problemsIsrael could face.

If Israel is to prevent what DefenceMinister Ehud Barak has called a “diplo-matic tsunami”, the government ofBenjamin Netanyahu must change itsstrategy. Israel may have all the legal argu-

ments on its side. The declaration of aPalestinian state is, of course, a clear andobvious violation of the Oslo Agreements.But that will have little bearing on the deci-sion of the Security Council and/or theGeneral Assembly whose members will lookto statements made by the IMF and the WorldBank as they prepare to cast their votes.Preaching to the converted at AIPAC, or evenin the US Congress, does nothing to sway theminds of Israel’s critics.

Benjamin Netanyahu cannot justkeep telling world leaders that Israel won’tnegotiate with an entity that includes a ter-rorist faction. The leaders of Germany andFrance may acknowledge that a group thatprotested the elimination of Osama BinLaden poses a real threat to Mid-East sta-bility. But neither that, nor the fact thatAbbas has shown absolutely no flexibility, ispreventing many nations from voicing initialapproval for what they see as the solution tothe unhealed wounds of the Palestinianpeople.

We believe Netanyahu would be wiseto drop his demand that Abbas choosebetween Israel and Hamas. The prime min-ister knows full well that contact betweenIsraelis and Palestinians will continue on avariety of levels - economic, medical and evencultural. Security coordination between theIDF, Shin Bet and the Palestinians willremain in place. Indeed, during the recentNakba uprising, the calmest border was theWest Bank due in no small part, says IDFspokesman Capt. Arya Shalicar, to the coop-eration of “our Palestinian partners.” ThePrime Minister’s case would be strengthenedfurther if he silenced those Ministers in hiscabinet who see the Fatah-Hamas pact as anexcuse for Israel to annex every single out-post on the West Bank.

Benjamin Netanyahu will have toconvince seven members of the SecurityCouncil that he is willing to put the coreissues on the table. He will need to proposediplomatic initiatives that remove lingeringdoubts that Israel must be curbed of its“unlimited greedy aspirations”. He must tellthe world, as Kadima leader Tzipi Livni toldAIPAC, that “Israel is strong enough to makedecisions.” If he does not present “new ideasand formulations”, a Palestinian state withinthe 1949 armistice lines could become a real-ity. Massive support for UNGA Resolution194 on the “right of return for refugees”would surely follow. So, too, will Israel’sgrowing isolation.

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U.S. Economy andthe Holocaust

only to say, we are seeingeclipsed in front of our eyesa similar death and a simi-lar taking away. It is thisdisenfranchisement that Ithink we have to answer to.”

Bachman has alsomade clear that her supportfor Israel is unconditional.“I am convinced in myheart,” she is on record assaying,” that if the UnitedStates fails to stand withIsrael, that is the end of theUnited States”.

It’s seems a bit of astretch but RepublicanCongresswoman MicheleBachman, a possible presi-dential candidate, told agroup of New HampshireRepublicans that currentAmerican fiscal policy willcause future generations toask what their elders did tocounter it, just as her gen-eration asked their parentswhat they did to “stop” theHolocaust.

Bachman told heraudience that she was horri-fied as a child when shelearned about the tragedy ofthe Holocaust and keptwondering if her mother haddone anything to prevent it.And she was appalled thatso many millions ofAmericans claimed theywere unaware until after thewar that European Jewswere being slaughtered.

“I tell you the story”,Bachmann continued,“because I think in our dayand time, there is no analogyto that horrific action. But

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THE ARAB PRESS REACTS TO THE KILLINGof Osama Bin-Laden. All cartoons courtesy ofMiddle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI)Translations by N. Samni. See also pages 21 and 24.

Madoff’s FamilyDid Not Know - Author

Diana B. Henriques,a New York Times businessreporter, maintains in herrecently released book, TheWizard of Lies: BernardMadoff and the Death ofTrust, that the convictedfraudster’s family had noknowledge of the ponzischeme Madoff was operat-ing.

Henriques, who wasgiven the first behind barsinterview with Madoff, hasconcluded that the mediawere wrong to imply that

wife Ruth and sons Markand Andrew were alsoinvolved in the scheme.Henriques pointed to son

Mark’s suicide and to thefact that both hired thesame criminal lawyer as



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Sheikh Raed Salahstood up, wiping his handsfrom the earth that stuck tothem after planting an olivesapling in the backyard of

the Al-Kurd family in theeast Jerusalem neighbor-hood of Sheikh Jarrah.Head of the Northernb r a n c h o f t h e I s l a m i c

Movement in Israel, Salahhad come to the neighbor-hood to show solidarity withthe Al-Kurds, who havebeen forced to share theirhome with a group of eightIsraeli Jews.

Normally outspokenand combative, Salah mum-bled a few words and quick-ly left. But an aide articulat-ed his boss’ message. "Yourheroism has inspired us alland has shown the worldwhat the Palestinians arefacing," he told a localwoman who had come toattend the planting ceremo-ny. A young child lifted herhands to show the victorysign, holding up a smallsapling.

Salah isn’t the onlyone making a political pil-grimage to the compound ofhomes, a few minutes’ walk

from the walls of the OldCity. The British author IanMcEwan stopped by inFebruary when he was intown to accept an Israeli lit-erary prize. Former U.S.President Jimmy Cartercame to support thePalestinians last Octobertogether with the formerpresident of Ireland, MaryRobinson. Every week, hun-dreds of Israelis and for-eigners protest thereagainst the Jewish pres-ence.

The neighborhood –known as Sheikh Jarrah toPalestinians and ShimonHatsadik to Israelis – is oneof several battlegroundsdotting the eastern part ofJerusalem where Israelisare gaining control of prop-erties through real estate


IN EAST JERUSALEM ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANS DENY EACH OTHER’S EXISTENCE

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before.“I’m not so

sure the average Israelis inthe street gives a damnabout this, but I do thinkthat most Israelis don’t dis-miss this and do care whatis being said abroad aboutthem,” Yigal Palmor,spokesman for the IsraeliForeign Ministry, told TheMedia Line.

Still, Palmor main-tained that the anti-Israelcampaigns weren’t main-stream and popular mostlyin pockets, such as acade-mia. “It is not expandinglike an oil stain in say theGulf of Mexico, but it is stillugly,” Palmor said.

A recent BBC poll

put Israel along with Iran,North Korea and Pakistanas the most despisednations on earth. Israelileaders and security officersrefrain from travelingabroad at the risk of beingarrested for alleged warcrimes. Rock stars such atElvis Costello, have beenpressured to cancel perfor-mances in Israel. Boycottshave also put a dent inexports.

“There is a processof delegitimizing Israel. It isa form of political warfare,and it’s a serious threat,”said Gerald Steinberg, whoteaches international rela-tions at Bar Ilan University.

ISRAEL MARKED INDEPENDENCE DAY WITH PRIDE AND APPREHENSION

By ARIEH O’SULLIVAN, MEDIA LINE

Israel kicked off its63rd Independence Day cel-ebrations, as security forcesbeefed up their presencethroughout the country andIsraelis paused to ponderbetween efforts to delegit-imize the state’s existenceand what meat to put on thebarbecue.

Caught in a doublebind as a paranoid peoplewith real enemies, Israelisstill feel frustrated thattheir state is held by its foesas an ephemeral entity thatthe world refuses to recog-nize and hopes will disap-pear as a failed experiment of Zionist colonialization.

Still Israeli PresidentShimon Peres said that even

after 63 years, Israel washopeful the “winds ofchange sweeping our regionwill herald new opportuni-ties of peace, security andprosperity for all.”

"We are determined,together with our support-ers everywhere, to fightAnti-Semitism and delegit-imization," Peres said in hisIndependence Day state-ment.

Anti-Israel move-ment by a host of non-gov-ernment organizations(NGOs) have been waging asuccessful public relationsbattle in the West that haveraised greater doubts aboutIsrael’s legitimate standingin the wor ld than ever



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FORCED TOBE SILENTWHEN JOURNALISTS ARE FORCED TO KEEP

NEWS TO THEMSELVES

By MIKE FEGELMANMike Fegelman is the Executive Director of

HonestReporting Canada (www.HonestReporting.ca), a non-profit organization that ensures fair and accurate Canadiannews coverage of Israel and the Middle East - The Editor

When reporting inthe closed societies of thebroader Middle East, jour-nalists are being vigilantlywatched, harassed, andabused by authoritarianregimes, secret police, andmedia manipulators whowork for terror proxies.

Their work and theirsafety are always at risk.Constantly intimidated andcensored from reporting thetruth, reporters languish inprisons or are murdered tosilence a story and toremove a vital witness toimportant events.

In 2003, then CNNnews executive, EasonJordan, revealed that CNNknew about scores of atroc-ities that Saddam Hussein’sregime had perpetrated butthat “could not be reportedbecause doing so wouldhave jeopardized the lives ofIraqis, particularly on our(CNN’s) Baghdad staff.”

As a result of state-sanctioned violence andthreats against journalistsby ruthless thugs, present-day media often timesrepress a narrative for fearof persecution, detention, ordeath. When the mediaignore the growing intimida-tion of their own colleaguesand don’t report it to thepublic, that silence becomescomplicity.

According to the2010 Press Freedom Indexproduced by ReportersWithout Borders, out of 178countries ranked, the fol-lowing Mideast, Arab, and

North African nations sawjournalists face what itdescribed as "very serious "and "difficult situations"with Iran ranked as the175th worst offender, Syria173, Libya 160, SaudiArabia 157, Palestinian ter-ritories 150, Afghanistan147, Bahrain 144, Iraq 130,Egypt 127, Qatar 121, andJordan at 120.

In Libya, underMoammar Gaddafi's ruth-less thumb, Western andArab journalists are regu-larly imprisoned. Sky Newsreporters were intentionallyshot at, and WashingtonPost journalists describeworking under conditions of"luxury imprisonment."Other media professionalsare used as human shieldsand are subjected to mockexecutions by pro-Gaddafisoldiers. This regime, alongwith other Arab autocraticcountries, has also fordecades reportedly bribedArab journalists from docu-menting the lack of humanrights in their own respec-tive countries.

In Gaza and theWest Bank, PalestinianAuthority and Hamas goonssystematically intimidateand abuse Palestinian andWestern journalists, confis-cating and destroying theirequipment. Gaza's Hamas"cops" are reviled for usingbeatings and stun guns onfemale journalists. Hamascontinued this trend ofintimidation recently by


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OBAMA,LIBYA AND

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OBAMA OFFERS A CHANGE IN U.S. POLICY

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President BarackObama and his supportershave defended U.S. militaryaction in Libya by invokingAmerica’s failure to respondto mass murder in Rwanda,Bosnia, and even theHolocaust. Do those experi-ences indeed offer usefullessons for the current cri-sis?

In his nationaladdress on March 28, thepresident pointed out that“when people were beingbrutalized in Bosnia in the1990s, it took the interna-tional community morethan a year to intervenewith air power to protectcivilians.” White HouseMideast adviser DennisRoss reportedly said at abriefing for foreign policyexperts on March 23 thatthere was a danger in Libyaof a “Srebrenica on steroids”- referring to the 1995 mas-sacre of 8,000 BosnianMuslims by Serb militia-men.

National SecurityCouncil official SamanthaPower, who reportedlyplayed a major role in theU.S. decision to intervene inLibya, has described herunsuccessful attempt (as ayoung journalist) to alertthe world about the immi-nent attack on Srebrenica

as one of the formativeevents in her life.

Washington Postcolumnist Richard Cohencited the Evian conference,in 1938, at which theUnited States and othercountries refused to opentheir doors to Jews fleeingNazi Germany. “Lives wereclearly at stake [in Libya]and something had to bedone,” Cohen wrote. “Theworld could not simplyshove its hands in its pock-ets and stand by as somemadman had his way withpeople in his grip - in spirit,a reprise of the Evian con-ference.”

“We learned a lot inthe 1990s,” Secretary ofState Hillary Clinton hassaid in her comments onthe Libya action, referring tothe importance of notrepeating the world’s slowresponse to the killings inBosnia and Rwanda.

The people of Libyaundoubtedly appreciatethat they are the beneficia-ries of the current adminis-tration’s effort to learn fromAmerica’s past mistakes. Ofcourse, the people ofBahrain or Syria may bewondering what disqualifiesthem from U.S. militarysupport. Secretary Clinton’s




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Gamal Helal, whohas spent two decadesadvising US presidents onthe Middle East, toldreporters at Asharq Al-Awsat that presidentObama's statement con-cerning the pre-1967 bor-ders being the basis ofnegotiations is not in prac-tice a surprise to thePalestinian side.

This is because sincethe start of the peaceprocess, the Arab stancetoward negotiations - includ-ing the Egyptian -Israeli andthe Jordanian -Israeli nego-tiations - always started andended on the considerationthat the 1967 borders arethe basis of negotiations.However, the surprise is thatObama has considered thisprinciple from now on to bethe basis of US policy in theissue of the Middle Eastpeace process.

In an exclusiveinterview with Asharq Al-Awsat Helal said thatPresident Barack Obama'sstatement is the first timethat the United States hasadopted an interpretation ofthe UN Resolution 242,which is considered the"cornerstone" in the Arab-Israeli negotiations. Thisresolution was issued inEnglish and French; theEnglish text stipulates thereturn of "territories" occu-pied in 1967, while theFrench text stipulates thereturn of "the territories"occupied in 1967. The Arabside always demanded thereturn of all the Arab terri-tories occupied in 1967, asit happened in the cases of

Egypt and Jordan, whilethe Israeli side says that itis prepared to return occu-pied territories, but not"all the territories." Helaladds: "Actually and practi-cally, what Obama hassaid about the 1967 beingthe basis of the negotia-tions is completely differ-ent from the Arab andPalestinian stance, whichsays that the 1967 bordersis what should be the con-clusion of the negotia-tions."

The former adviserto US presidents, who par-ticipated in all the peacetalks since 1993, explains:"The US stance in all thepast years has been to agreeto the solutions agreed by



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AS TOLD TO ASHARQ AL-AWSATGamal Helal is a former adviser to U.S.

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deals and court suits; set-ting up home in areas onceexclusively Palestinian.

But more than theother flashpoints, SheikhJarrah/Shimon Hatsadikcaptures the city’s compli-cated past as much as itstense present. Its veteranPalestinian residents andits newer Israeli ones occu-py different rooms in thesame house and bump upagainst each other more

closely than anywhere elsein the city. The neighbor-hood was once inhabited byJews who were forced toleave, but its Palestinianresidents are refugeesthemselves from what isnow Israel.

The Jews came backin August 2009 after theIsraeli Supreme Courtended a 40-year legal dis-pute by ruling in favor of

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First it was SanFrancisco announcing thata bill to ban male circumci-sion had gotten the requirednumber of signatures tomake it on to the November2011 ballot. Now the groupMGM, which stands formale genital mutilation, haslaunched a similar cam-paign in Santa Monica.

Circumcision ofmale infants is a religiousrequirement in Judaismand many experts say that

a ban would be a violationof the 1st Amendment pro-hibition against governmentinterference with an individ-ual’s religious practices.

Should the bill passin San Francisco, and notbe found in violation of the1st Amendment, circumci-sion would be prohibitedamong males under the ageof 18. Conceivably Jewishparents could be fined up to$1000 or be sentenced toone year in prison.



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Jewish ownership. FourPalestinian families wereevicted from homes theyhad lived in for over fivedecades and Jewish familiesmoved in. Nahalat ShimonInternational, a Jewishorganization that boughtthe land from its originalowners – the JewishSephardic community,which had acquired theland in the late 19th centu-ry - gave the young Jewishfamilies the right to takeover the homes.

The Ghawi andHanoun families didn’t giveup. They set up a tentacross the street from theirformer homes and campedout for six months. TheJerusalem municipalityconfiscated the Ghawi fami-ly tent 17 times, fining thefamily 430 shekels ($125)each time for erecting anillegal structure.

The dispute over thehomes isn’t a simple prop-erty dispute, even if thecourt related to it that way.Jerusalem’s eastern halfwas taken by Israel duringthe 1967 Six-Day War andannexed by it shortly there-after. In the decades follow-ing, Israel was content tosolidify its control over thecity by establishing neigh-borhoods on empty land atthe city’s outer edges.

But in the lastdecade, right-wing Israelis –often financed and encour-aged by American Jews –have sought to reclaimneighborhoods inhabited byPalestinians in and aroundthe city’s historic core.Sheikh Jaarrah/ShimonHatsadik is one. Othersinclude Silwan, the MuslimQuarter and the Mount ofOlives.

The settlement drivehas prompted strongPalestinian opposition and –because Israel’s control ofthe city is not accepted bythe international communi-ty – foreign concerns aswell. When Israel’s Supreme

Court upheld the claim ofJewish ownership, interna-tional condemnationensued, calling the evictionof Palestinians "appalling"(UK) and "totally unaccept-able" (UN).

And as much as thecompound is a dispute overproperty and politics, it alsorepresents a deeper conflictover history and historicalrights. Sheikh Jarrah is arashomon in which threenarratives collide - that ofthe Palestinians, of theJewish settlers and of theSheikh Jarrah SolidarityMovement, comprised mostly

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and Works Agency (UNRWA)on a 70-acre plot after the1948 war that led to the cre-ation of Israel. In exchangefor the houses constructedon the plot, the familiesrenounced some of theirentitlements as recognizedrefugees.

"The Jews destroyedour home," Rifqa Al-Kurd,90, tells The Media Line. "Ihave lived in this home for56 years and am a refugeefrom Haifa. No Jews livedhere at the time."

As Palestinians seeit, Jerusalem is aPalestinian Arab city that isgradually being taken overby Israel – first by conquestand now home by homethrough any means at itsdisposal – in order to“Judaize” it. Nabil Al-Kurd,Rifqa's 67-year-old son saysthe Palestinian familiesrefuse to recognize thevalidity of Jewish claimsover the land they inhabit.

"We have the powerof justice whereas they onlyhave the power ofNetanyahu, the army andthe Shin Bet," Nabil Al-Kurdsays, referring to Israel’sprime minister and itssecret service. "The Jewsdon't treat us democratical-ly – Israel doesn't want anyPalestinian insideJerusalem," he tells TheMedia Line.

Graffiti adorns theentrance to the Al-Kurdannex, built illegally by thefamily in 1999 and nowinhabited by eight youngultra-orthodox Jews. Starsof David are spray paintedaround the door, some cov-ering Hebrew graffiti writtenin pen reading "Jewish ter-rorists."

"Do you see thatlemon tree over there?"Nabil asks, pointing to anewly planted tree in hisfront yard. Referring to aJewish inhabitant of thehouse, he says, "That doginside broke it with hishands."

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have nothing against Jews,"he stresses.

Yehonatan Yossef, aspokesman for the Jewishresidents of the neighbor-hood, says the return ofJews to the area is an act ofhistoric justice.

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Knesset Benny Elon in1997, when an ancientJewish synagogue wasreclaimed and settled, thefirst Jewish presence in theneighborhood.

The Jewish name forthe neighborhood, ShimonHatsadik (Simon the Just),memorializes a SecondTemple-period Jewish sagebelieved to be buried in thecompound. It recalls theJews’ ancient connection to

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the city as well as theirmore recent presence in thearea starting in 19th centu-ry.

"The PalestinianAuthority undertook everyeffort to uproot all Jewishremnants from eastJerusalem," Yossef tells TheMedia Line. "Their agenda isbased on a lie. They have nohistoric connection to thecity, or at least none thatprecedes the Jewish con-nection. History is not ontheir side, it's on ours."

Yossef says 21Jewish families and ninesingle men live in the neigh-borhood. He adds that thereis a waiting list of 70 Jewishfamilies yearning to inhabitthe neighborhood homes. Incontrast to the Al-Kurds’neighbors, most of the fam-ilies belong to the modernorthodox community andhave served in the Israeliarmy.

Yossef insists that ifthere is any violence in theneighborhood, it is instigat-ed by the Palestinian resi-dents, or leftist Jewishprovocateurs.

"I have debriefed theguys not to raise an arm orthrow a stone. This hasnever happened and willnever happen. Cases of vio-lence come from the out-side, from visitors whoweren't debriefed and wereduped by provocations ofB’tselem,” he says, referringto an Israeli human rightsorganization.

Hillel Ben-Sasson, a32-year-old doctoral stu-dent in philosophy at TheHebrew University, is thespokesman for the SheikhJarrah Solidarity move-ment, a group of mostlyJewish protesters who havebeen demonstrating nearthe homes every Fridayafternoon ever since theeviction in August 2009.

For Ben-Sasson, thestruggle isn’t betweenPalestinians and Israel orbetween Jews and Muslims.It is over the character ofIsraeli society and its demo-


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cratic values. Set in thoseterms, it is very clear to himwho the "good guys" are.The Palestinians are fight-ing for their legitimaterights. His fellows Israelisare violating them.

"Something hap-pened here that awoke thesleepy Jerusalem left,"Ben-Sasson tells The MediaLine. "A combination of theterrible injustice sufferedby Palestinians and thebrutal arrest of ouractivists by the Israelipolice created an entirelynew phenomenon here inJerusalem."

Ben-Sasson says hisorganization has carriedout round-the-clock sit-inswith Palestinian neighbor-hood residents for over ayear. As a result, he says,the neighborhood – whichhad started becomingJewish – has nowreclaimed its Palestiniancharacter.

"Our tactic is non-violent struggle and ourstrategy is ending theregime of privileges inIsrael," Ben-Sasson says.“The Zionist revolution hassucceeded and now we needto create a completely egali-tarian democratic society,not a closed Jewish ethniccommunity."

His movement hasrecently expanded itsactivity to protest Israeliland confiscation in otherparts of the country. OnLand Day, which is markedevery March 30 by IsraeliArabs to highlight theirclaims to equal rights toland, they demonstratedalongside the Arab resi-dents of Lod, a mixedJewish and Arab city nearTel Aviv.

"The youngstersthere were shouting 'withblood and spirit we willredeem you, O Palestine!'but I know they will settlefor simple equality asIsraelis," Ben-Sassonsays.

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Israel is unique. There is noother country in the worldwhose right to exist, partic-ularly after 63 years, is stillbeing opposed in the inter-national arena.

He said that sincethe United Nations voted onthe partition of Palestine in1947 into separate Araband Jewish states, the dom-inant strategy by Israel’senemies was to “roll backJewish sovereignty.”

“Sixty three years isnot a long time in MiddleEast history, but theseimages of Israel as aCrusader-like state, a tem-porary Zionist project is stilla dominant image. If onetactic doesn’t work they tryanother. They tried conven-tional war. It didn’t work.They tried terrorism. It did-n’t work. This is an out-growth of that problem”

said Steinberg, who is alsothe chairman of NGOMonitor, an Israeli organiza-tion that seeks to expose aperceived anti-Israeli bias innon-governmental organiza-tions.

“There’s no cost forbeing anti-Zionist and it hasbeen in some ways a verylucrative business,” he said,adding that over 100 millioneuros ($143 million) isspent annually on cam-



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paigns to delegitimize Israel.Steinberg said the

Israeli establishment hasmodified its approach to thedeligitimization campaignand is mostly taking it veryseriously, sometimes solicit-ing professionals to helpcounter the anti-Israelimessages.

As the nation bowedits head on RemembranceDay for the Fallen of Israel'sWars, when it remembersthe 22,867 who dieddefending the state, theCentral Bureau of Statistics(CBS) estimated thatIsrael's population hadgrown more than tenfoldfrom 806,000 in 1948 to7,746,000 today.

Seven out of 10Israelis were born in theJewish state. Some 75% ofthe population is Jewishwith their number slightlybelow the symbolic six mil-lion mark (5,837,000) while20.5% were Arabs andanother 4.2% listed as non-Jewish immigrants andtheir children, according tothe CBS.

It said some 24,500people immigrated to Israel,including some 6,500returning Israelis, butabout half that number leftthe country since lastIndependence Day.

Israelis mark theday according to the Jewishcalendar, which this yearplaced the holiday on May10. Palestinians mark theoccasion on May 15, whenthey commemorate theNakba, or "catastrophe" ofthe creation of Israel, whichsparked the exodus of hun-dreds of thousands ofPalestinians. The army hasimposed a closure onPalestinians entering fromthe West Bank as a precau-tionary measure. And theWest Bank remained calm.

Remembrance Daybegan on a Sunday nightand ushered in 24 hours ofmourning. Across the coun-try a two-minute sirenwailed at 11:00 a.m. bring-


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to sing, dance and party.Blues musician Eli

Marcus, busy preparing hisapartment in Tel Aviv for hisannual reunion of formerarmy buddies, consideredthe bashing he believesIsrael receives in interna-tional forums and in worldmedia.

“Israelis want to beliked and appreciated, butunfortunately the propa-ganda has been much moreeffective, not in persuadingthe Europeans orAmericans, but in confusingthem with disinformation,”Marcus said.

He noted that Israeliinnovation has not only leftits mark in high technologybut also in the arts andmusic.

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more and more Israeli musi-cians who are making itvery big overseas as eitherleading or accompanyingartists, and it doesn’t seemto bother people that theyare Israelis,” Marcus said.

Palmor, the ForeignMinistry spokesman, notedthat fretting about fitting inwas part of the Israeli char-acter.

“The Israelis andlater the Jewish people havealways been a very smallpeople in a region wherethey were surrounded bymuch bigger powers. Andbeing pushed and finallybeing exiled twice and thenwhile in exile as a smallminority tolerated at bestand persecuted at worst, itmakes one really want andcrave for other people to likethem,” Palmor said.

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telling a Gaza journalistthey would kill her and herson if she reported on thenational unity protests. Notto be outdone, in 2007, Al-Qaeda linked terrorists kid-napped BBC reporter AlanJohnston, holding himhostage for 114 days.

In Bahrain,reporters live under harrow-ing situations as theirphones and emails areclosely monitored.Meanwhile, three editors ofAl-Wasat, Bahrain’s mainopposition newspaper, willgo on trial, facing charges of“publishing fabricatednews,” “harming publicsafety” and “damagingnational interests.”

In Syria, the top edi-tor of the official Syriannewspaper, Tishrin, wasfired for questioning officialSyrian accounts aboutrecent demonstrations thatsaw non-military gunmenopen fire on protestors. TwoLebanese Reuters journal-ists were also recentlydetained and released bySyrian authorities.

In Egypt, securityforces captured and thenreleased Globe and Mailreporters Patrick Martinand Sonia Verma, CNN cor-respondent AndersonCooper was punched byunknown assailants, andCBS News correspondentLara Logan was brutally




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raped and assaulted byEgyptian protestors.Egyptian authorities havealso throttled and shutdown internet access tosuppress dissent and freespeech. Recently, anEgyptian blogger was sen-tenced to three years in jailfor publishing a blog postcritical of the governmentand army.

In Lebanon,Hezbollah minders manipu-late the media by creatingheavily orchestrated P.R.events where scenes arestaged for foreign media toreport on. Journalists aretaken on Hezbollah-guidedtours where their interviewsubjects are strictly man-aged and screened.Hezbollah handlers intimi-date reporters saying "weknow who you are, we readeverything you write, andwe know where you live."

And last but notleast, Iran, described as the“world's worst jailer of thepress” alongside China andTurkey, imprisoned 34 jour-nalists in 2010 alone. Let’snot forget about ZahraKazemi, the Canadian-Iranian photojournalist whoin 2003 was arrested whiletaking photographs outsideIran`s notorious Evinprison. Kazemi died twodays following her detentionafter being tortured andraped by her captors. Thenthere’s the case of MaziarBahari, a Canadian-Iranianjournalist at Newsweekmagazine, who was held ina Tehran jail for 118 days in2009 for filming scenes ofIran's militia shooting atprotestors. Iran also sen-tenced HosseinDerakhshan, the Iranian-Canadian "blogfather" ofTehran, to 19½ years inprison for writing dissentingopinions about the Iraniangovernment and for trainingothers to blog and podcast.Derakhshan was temporari-ly released on bail this pastDecember.

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explanation on “Face theNation” that Syrian dictatorBashar Assad, unlikeMoammar Qadaffi, is “areformer,” probably will notimpress many of Assad’svictims. Chinese dissidents,for their part, have beenquestioning Mrs. Clinton’sjudgement ever since herassertion, during herFebruary 2009 visit toChina, that human rightsissues “can’t interfere with

the global economic crisis,the global climate changecrisis, and the security cri-sis” that she was discussingwith Beijing’s leaders.

Still, there can be nodenying the fact thatAmerica’s action in Libyaconstitutes a significantchange from the policies ofsome previous presidents. Itwas not so long ago, afterall, that another secretary ofstate was telling the presi-dent that “if they put Jewsinto gas chambers in theSoviet Union, it is not anAmerican concern.” AndFranklin D. Roosevelt, whowas president during theyears when Jews from the(Nazi-occupied) SovietUnion were indeed put intogas chambers, likewisethought it was not anAmerican concern.

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has “responsibilities to ourfellow human beings.” That“preventing genocide” is“important to us” and one ofour “core principles.” That“some nations may be ableto turn a blind eye to atroc-ities in other countries [but]the United States ofAmerica is different.”

The people of Libyaare not comparable to theJews of Europe during theHolocaust. Neither are thepeople of Syria or Bahrain.

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The most visitedfree-to-enter sites in Israelin 2010 include the WesternWall (77%), the JewishQuarter in Jerusalem(73%), the Church of theHoly Sepulcher (61%), theVia Dolorosa (60%) and theMount of Olives (55%).Jerusalem is the city mostvisited by incoming touristsin Israel, (76% of alltourists). Tel Aviv-Jaffaholds second place with54% of all tourists havingvisited and in third place,the Dead Sea area with49%. Tiberias holds fourthplace with 42% of alltourists followed byNazareth with 39%.

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the sides through the nego-tiations without the UnitedStates stipulating anythingso that this stipulationwould not be an obstacle atthe negotiations."

He added that: "Thisnew thesis, which PresidentObama presented in hisspeech, supports the Arabviewpoint, and is a basichindrance for the Israeliside, which links the size ofIsrael before 1967 to theability to defend it, as theIsraelis say that if Israel isof small area, it will be diffi-cult to defend it."

Helal doubts thepossibility of resuming thepeace talks between theIsraeli and Palestinian sidesat the current time. Hesays: "I don’t believe thatthe circumstances are suit-able for conducting anynegotiations, because theclimate in the Arab regiondoes not allow this. Theabsence of governmentson the Arab side who are

prepared to put theirweight behind the peaceprocess makes it more dif-ficult to find regional sup-port for the peace efforts.The climate in the Arabcountries in general is hos-tile to the United Statesand Israel. I believe thatthe mistake is not in whatPresident Obama has said,but it is in its timing,because had he adoptedthis stance immediatelywhen he assumed thepresidency, this wouldhave been better than hisinsistence of halting thesettlement activities. Thisis because halting the set-tlement activities during atransitional period inwhich peace has not yetbeen achieved is somethingthat no Israeli prime minis-ter has agreed to as aresult of the domestic pres-sure. Moreover, this hasnot been a demand or acondition stipulated by thePalestinian side, even dur-ing the period of signingthe Oslo Accord."

Helal stresses thatthe loser in this battle willnot be Israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu, butthe loser will be the USPresident. This is becauseof many reasons, the first ofwhich is that the USCongress is not in thehands of the Democrats,but it is in the hands of theRepublican Party, which isprepared to understand theIsraeli situation, and tosupport the Israeli primeminister. The second reasonis that, so far, there is noArab country that is pre-pared to support the UnitedStates publicly, and engageas a fundamental partner inpushing forward the peaceprocess.

The third reason isthat the peace process has




NOT A SURPRISE(Continued from preceding page)stopped for more than ayear, and hence there isnothing to which the nego-tiators can return. Thefourth reason is that thePalestinian national unitybetween Hamas and Fatahwill be exploited byNetanyahu to promote theconcept of the hostility ofthe Palestinians to the Stateof Israel, especially asHamas is classified accord-ing the US law as a terroristorganization.

With regard to thePalestinians' intention toget a resolution to establishthe Palestinian Statethrough the UN GeneralAssembly in September2011, Helal says: "There is adifference between the UNSecurity Council resolu-tions, and those of the UNGeneral Assembly, as theresolutions of the latter aresemi-honorary, and are notbinding to any side. TheUnited States' acceptanceor rejection of this resolu-tion will depend on the lan-guage of the draft resolutionpresented for voting, i.e. ifthe Palestinian demand atthe UN General Assembly iscompatible in all its articleswith the stances and poli-cies of the United States(especially after Obama'sannouncement specifyingthe pre-1967 borders as abasis for the negotiations)this will make it difficult forthe United States to rejectsuch a resolution.Nevertheless, generallyspeaking, a vote in the UNGeneral Assembly in favorof the Palestinians will notlead to the establishment ofthe State of Palestine."

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their father to representthem. Had they beeninvolved they would havehired separate lawyers toinsure protection in casethe other brother con-fessed as part of a pleabargain.

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Henriques visitedMadoff twice, seeing a dif-ferent person each time.On her first visit she saysthat Madoff seemed in con-trol and ”in a state ofdenial” that he had inflictedso much pain on people.But on the second visit, fol-lowing Mark’s suicide, shesaw a changed man. “Hewas barely recognizable”,she said.

Madoff is apparentlyin the process of readingHenriques’ book. But hehas already expressed hisdisappointment. “He felt”,said the author, “that it washighly sensationalized.

Wiesenthal CenterHonours Tom Cruise

The SimonWiesenthal Center recentlypresented its HumanitarianAward to actor/producerTom Cruise for his longtime

support of the center’sMuseum of Tolerance.

Accepting the awardCruise told the audiencethat “our challenge is tomake sure that we do all inour power to see to it thatthere will be no moreAuschwitz-Birkenaus, nomore Rwandas, no moreDarfurs on our planet.A

The WiesenthalCenter also presentedMedals of Valor to Luisalberto Urzua, the foremanof the 33 trapped Chileanminors, and Gyongyi Mago,a Catholic schoolteacher inHungary determined tokeep the memory of theHolocaust at the forefront ofeducation in his countrydespite the opposition of thegrowing far right movement.The final award was pre-sented to Peter Bergson,who had the courage to tella re luctant Rooseve l tA d m i n istration and an

somet imes apathet icJewish establishment thatthe rescue of Europe Jewsshould be a priority,

vastation in Joplin, Missouridid not spare the city’s tinyJewish community. At leasttwo Jewish brothers aremissing and the remainingfifteen or twenty Jews are indesperate need of food andclothing.

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Rabbi Yehuda Weg,who is the Tulsa baseddirector of Chabad-Lubavitch of Oklahoma,confirmed that the twobrothers are active mem-bers of the Jewish commu-nity. Weg, himself, drivestwice a month to Joplin tosupervise kosher produc-tion lines at several foodmanufacturers and to meetwith local Jews.

Omer Mani, anIsraeli expatriate who oper-ates a kiosk at a local mall,says that the mall withstoodthe winds. When hereturned home, however,he found enormous dam-age. “Everything isdestroyed”, said a shakenMani. “I lost everything”.

And yet Mani didfind one small miracle. Hediscovered that his tefillin, aHebrew prayer book and abound copy of the five booksof the Torah survived.

Strauss-KahnChooses the Best

He’s defended rap-pers Sean “Diddy” Combsand Jay-Z. He stood by thelate Michael Jackson. Evenmembers of the Mafia havebeen his clients. And nowanother “celebrity” in trou-ble has hired the renownedOrthodox lawyer BenjaminBrafman. Former IMF chiefDominique Strauss-Kahnis Brafman’s latest highprofile challenge.

Brafman will notmake the prosecution’s lifeeasy. The son of Holocaustsurvivors, he is known forbeing charismatic and per-suasive. “He is”, says a col-league,”something of a starhimself, a guy with a realHollywood style - and abackground in perfor-mance”. Indeed, Brafmanhoned his courtroom skillsduring a brief career as astand-up comedian.

Brafman acknowl-edges that his cases oftenpose immense challenges.“The baggage that comes



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there was a brief period inwhich Jewish culture waspromoted. But that endedafter his death in 1924 andthe rise of Joseph Stalin.Ulyanova wrote to Stalinafter Lenin’s death toinform him that her brother“had always thought ofJews very highly” and thatshe was sorry his origin wasnot known during his life-time.

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with a remarkable trackrecord”, he says, “is thatpeople feel that you can pulloff an acquittal despite whatseems overwhelming evi-dence. But you can’t do itevery time.”

Russia AcknowledgesLenin’s Jewish Roots

Russia’s StateHistory Museum has put onpublic display documentsconfirming rumours thatVladimir Lenin had Jewishancestors. Among the doc-uments is a letter written byLenin’s sister, AnnaUlyanova, claiming thattheir material grandfatherwas a Jew from the Ukrainewho converted toChristianity to escape per-secution.

During Lenin’s rule

But if Ulyanova washoping that her letter wouldhelp combat the virulentanti-Semitism now spread-ing under Stalin’s rule shewas very much disappoint-ed. Stalin instructed her to“keep absolute silence”about Lenin’s background.

The 1932 letter wasdiscovered in the early 1990sbut was kept secret pendingproof of its authenticity.


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