Friday, March 25, 2016

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Talk-back internet rebellion in support of IDF soldier who neutralized Arab-terrorist in Hebron

The soldier who shot an Arab terrorist in the head after the terrorist already succeeded in wounding two Israeli soldiers Wednesday in Hebron, and after he was already on the ground, has triggered serious virtual discourse on Israeli social media. The talkback response  of the overwhelming majority of Israelis has given sweeping support for the soldier and stark condemnation of PM Bibi Netanyahu, Defense Minister Bogi Yaalon, and Chief of Staff Eizenkott who have all harshly condemned the soldier and who all claim that his behavior is diametrically opposed to IDF ethics and morality – to shoot a terrorist who is apparently already neutralized. Bibi, Bogi and and Eizenkott continued to blast the soldier who has already been arrested despite the fact that eyewitness testimony support the soldier's  version of the story that claim the terrorist had moved and that there were shouts that he had a bomb strapped under his bulky jacket that he was about to set off. Not an uncommon scenario. The spirit of the talkbacks are angry - ranging in demands for Bibi, Bogi and Eizenkott to resign for their defeatist policies, to demanding the arrest of the IDF leadership and the politicians - for abandoning IDF soldiers and the citizens of Israel.

Motti Almoz, the IDF spokesman was attacked virtually by hundreds on his facebook page for condemning the soldier's actions. People attacked him for listening to Bibi, Bogi and Eizenkott. Clearly people are fed up with the constant wave of terror and with the fact that their leadership is siding with the left, the Arabs and the International Community and not with the IDF soldiers who are on the frontlines in this complex battle. Only a handful of rightwing politicians have taken the side of the soldier, declaring him innocent until proven guilty.

IDF Last Holy-Cow in Israel
What happens when IDF Generals and the politicians who define the laws of engagement in battle verbally lynch an IDF soldier in the media? The IDF has been the holy cow of Israeli society since the birth of the modern state of Israel. While the police, Knesset members and judges all lag at the bottom of popularity contests in the polls, the IDF has consistently maintained a most favorable rating. Even the unpopular expulsion from Gush Katif, which could not have been executed without the aid of the IDF, left the IDF almost unblemished politically. If anything, the majority of Israelis who opposed the surrender of Gaza and Northern Shomron, blamed the politicians for forcing the army to participate in the politically controversial disengagement-expulsion debacle. "Keep the army out of politics," was the commonly felt sentiment of the nation.

However, people see the simple soldier and the not the generals as the IDF they so adore
And so we have a mini-revolution albeit only in internet forums and on the Israeli social media network. The nation of Israel and the simple soldiers pinned against the leadership of the army, the politicians, the Arabs and the international community. The soldiers and the nation fear for their lives, the politicians and the Israeli left fear international opinion. The smart populist rightwing-politicians, hope to reap the political coupon. In the meantime the state continues down a road of self-destruction, and when new elections are called all of the politicians will again pretend to be clones of Kahane, that is until they get reelected after they again have duped the people of Israel.

Timely poster ad campaign that depicts Eizenkott as Ahashaverosh
Posters have been plastered around the country placing Eizenkott in the garb of Ahashverosh, calling for the resignation of Eizenkott and asking him to take Bibi and Bogi with him. The timely posters attack Eizenkott for ridiculing Jewish law and the imperative to "wake up and slay one who comes to slay you first." The poster quotes the verse from the Megillah about Ahashverosh giving the Jews license to slay those who merely plotted to kill Jews, and concludes that Eizenkott, Bibi andf Bogi are even worse than  Ahashverosh.

The online rebellion and the theme of the poster campaign could lead to real change
Clearly this is the way to combat the insane orders being passed down by the politicians and the high- command of the army. This is the way to combat the allegiance that Israeli leaders show to misplaced mercy and distorted perceptions of "purity of arms" dictated by the left and the international community. There needs to be massive propaganda that shows how the politicians and the leaders of the IDF are pinned against the interests of the nation and against the simple IDF soldiers. The propaganda needs to show how the politicians merely use and abuse the masses to get elected and how they then betray their promises and the security interests of the people and the soldiers.

Bibi - wake up - This could turn into the demise of your political career
If I were Bibi, Bogi, Eizenkott, the Israeli left, the European Union or the Obama Administration I would pay close attention to the online rebellion supporting the IDF soldier over the generals. The nation of Israel is placing a wedge between the simple soldiers and the generals. The nation is fine with dumping its generals and embracing the rest of the army. This sentiment is translating into action. Soldiers are beginning to disregard the generals, nothing the elitist generals did not bring upon themselves from their ivory towers. Finally the Jew in Israel is being forced to decide between Jewish values and survival vs anti-Jewish values and suicide; between the dictates of G-d and common sense vs the dictates of Washington and the European Union.

The good Jews will win in the end
In the end the will of the nation and the Jewish Way will win out. Even dictatorships have to take into account popular opinion. Certainly a state that calls itself a democracy will be forced to listen to the voice of the people. Today that voice is only being spoken on the internet and in private parlors, but it is only a question of time before the angry sentiments being expressed online will flow offline and onto the streets. This is why the Israeli government has implemented draconian decrees against those who have the courage to speak out clearly against government policy. This is the real reason why people like Meir Ettinger have been arrested and held without trial and due process; without charges and without having committed a crime; without indictment or basic rights afforded to other prisoners.

The soft voice of the people is getting louder and angrier, if the current talk-backs online are any indication
Find attached a picture of the posters which have been plastered in strategic areas such as the Kirya in Tel Aviv, the Israeli "Pentagon", as well as other areas across Israel. There is yet hope because the majority of Israeli Jews and the simple soldiers are still healthy, and not yet corrupted by the galut complex that plagues the Israeli leadership. The virtual uprising is something new. When the people are forced to decide whether they support Jewish survival and the IDF soldiers or the brass and politicians, they have unequivocally voiced their support for life, Jewish values and IDF soldiers over universalism, misplaced mercy and values imposed by the United Nations, the European Union and the Israeli left.


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Thursday, March 24, 2016

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AIPAC Rebukes Trump’s Obama Truth telling, Ignores Hillary’s Insult to AIPAC | The Jewish Press

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AIPAC, Trump, and the Land of Shadows

by Alexander H. Joffe  •  Mar 23, 2016
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Donald Trump delivers a prepared speech at AIPAC on March 21.

... And then Trump took the stage. No, not as the final speaker but, unexpectedly, the penultimate one. Everyone looked around; where were the Reform rabbis who were going to get up and leave? How many were they supposed to be, a thousand? Two thousand? Nothing. There were awkward cheers and applause, the blobby shape of politeness, and suddenly it was clear that Trump was reading a prepared speech. He wasn't winging it, free associating, but carefully reading prepackaged points to a specific audience. No one knew how to react; Tweets snarked on the awkward and halting delivery. Ha, he's not such a good reader, is he? But then he began to zero in, he relaxed, he paused, and mugged, and waved his finger, reading the room, ad-libbing more and more.

High quality demagoguery is hard to find these days. The words "fascist" and "racist" are thrown around too freely as epithets and have lost their meaning as definitions or categories. But seeing an experienced demagogue at work is a special experience; you don't really know what you're experiencing. You, the average well-educated, well-intentioned listener, sit there with your stubborn preconceptions, smug in your ability to filter fact from fancy, hyperbole from reality. But with a rising and falling cadence, the repetition of 'believe me,' the mugging, the finger waving, and – it must said – the recitation of actual facts about Iran, Palestinian incitement and terrorism, the crowd  – you, even you – are sucked in.

Seeing a skilled demagogue at work is a special experience.

"Believe me," he said, over and over. Of course we don't believe you, you don't even believe you, do you? Or maybe, just maybe, he does believe himself. By sheer repetition, by understanding that crowds really do want to believe in something today, to hang on to something that is not a shadow, that has substance, resistance is worn down.

It didn't really matter what he said, but the way he said it. He stayed close to his script and avoided disaster and sounded sort of sensible, on the Iran deal (it's a bad deal), Palestinian terrorism and incitement, and more. Trump's particular gift is to take a sensible observation and make it sound outrageous (illegal immigration, terrorism, whatever) and to fix it in your mind through excess. He's right, but he's wrong, but he's right, also confuses matters by its nonlinear structure, as of course do his more wacky statements. So what if he walks everything back? But are we supposed to be outraged by that, or the original statement?

Does he really believe that NATO is useless, like the UN? Who knows? So what if he said the other day that he could be neutral between Israeli and Palestinians. Maybe this way he confuses friend and foe alike. Few took heed of his use of 'Palestine,' not Palestinian Authority. This is instantiation, the giving of substance to something, not perhaps to create a Palestinian state but to bury it. And there was nothing about closing the borders, or hating all Muslims, or building a wall, which Mexico would pay for. But there was Palestinian incitement, and the murdered American, Taylor Force, and the Iran deal. It's a bad deal.

Trump's performance was simultaneously masterful and preposterous.

It was simultaneously masterful and preposterous. But the willful suspension of disbelief is intrinsic to the show. Why should American Jews be any different than the hundreds of audiences who have been willingly taken in? Why should they be so much smarter? Another stupid conceit that, when applied from the outside, is more than a little antisemitic. The essence of the con is knowing you're being conned, subconsciously appreciating being conned, because it flatters you. Jews are no different. The essence of AIPAC is first being flattered by politicians, then attempting to hold them to their promises with lobbying and political pressure.

But Trump confounds this; he is only of the moment. How do you put pressure on a shadow whose shape changes from hour to hour? But is he so different than Hillary, who said more or less the same things as he did, minus the embassy moving and the rhetorical flourishes and the orange face? The most frightening thing to pundits was that Trump could be under control, that he could calibrate, that he sounded almost sane and plausible, that he could connect even with this audience. They've seen the Keyzer Soze trick a million times — "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist" — but it still scares them, because the keep getting fooled. But that says more about them than Trump. Maybe they're scared because he's not different in category than Hillary, only in degree.

Only two lines — "[Obama] may be the worst thing that ever happened to Israel, and you know it" and "Yay! Obama is leaving" — showed a real spark of subversion, and, of course, Trump's secret access to the collective id. Of course it was applauded. Because he was right. Of course, the next day, AIPAC issued a condemnation, saying that it really, really respected our president, and that some people's feelings were really, really hurt. Because they do, they were.

The specter of a Trump blowup hung over the entire affair; damage control is a well-rehearsed dance routine, hardly Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, more of an improvised throwdown. Everyone expected worse. Of course, The Affair of Trump at AIPAC will be turned into the Worst Insult Ever By a Racist Who Shouldn't Have Been Invited That Tarnishes AIPAC and the Entire Jewish Community. But the damage done? Only in the eyes of those who obsess over every word uttered by, for, in front of, in the context of, in the general vicinity or penumbra, of Jews. That is to say, first and foremost by official Jews, and antisemites, followed by Jews who Fret, then by those Who Care, and finally everyone else. Trump, the uniter.

People cheered, loudly and repeatedly, when they were told things they wanted to hear.

As for the protests, the promised walkouts, these were shadows, camera phones theatrics invisible to spectators, much less official feeds. So much for strident statements from movements and magazines alike, puffed up talk from righteous moralizers taking a Bold Stand against Racism. Of course, the focus will not be on them but on AIPAC -oh my God, did you hear the applause? AIPAC fell for Trump, AIPAC supports Trump, American Jews are racists and fascists because they laughed at his jokes. Of course, it's never about the moralizers, it's just about the Jews. All of them. Which is to say, it's really about the feelings of moralizers, the League of Indignant Jews and their self-image as The Kind and Caring Jews™.

People cheered, loudly and repeatedly, when they were told things they wanted to hear. The shame of responding to a con man is hardly greater than the thunderous applause that had earlier greeted a felon, guilty of numerous violations of the Espionage Act and lying before of Congress (remember, her bathroom server -is- the smoking gun). No shame there? Go read 18 U.S. Code § 793 — Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information.

Are those in attendance likely to remember the protests, or what Trump actually said, or what he unsaid, or the AIPAC president's scolding, but what was very nearly a genuine emotion from Trump, about his daughter's forthcoming "beautiful Jewish baby?" Mother and forthcoming child should only be healthy. ...

Alex Joffe is editor of The Ancient Near East Today, the monthly e-newsletter of the American Schools of Oriental Research, and a Shillman-Ginsburg Fellow at the Middle East Forum.

Related Topics:  Israel & Zionism, US politics  |  Alexander H. Joffe

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