Re: Joseph Gutnick

What bearing does Joseph Gutnik have on this and what is the relevance to
football?
..........................................Shamus.


"Daniel Balint" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Ayoon wa Azan (New Definition Of Anti-Semitism)
> Jihad Al Khazen     Al-Hayat     2003/10/6
> Over the past few weeks, I noticed that an increasing number of Jewish
> Likudniks around the world have been reading the Arab press, especially
the
> press that is translated to English and published on the Internet. They
> either make comments or respond, and most of the time they accuse the
> reporter of this broad accusation of "anti-Semitism."
>
> In the past, anti-Semitism used to mean a person who hates Jews. Today, in
> the era of Sharon's Likudnik immorality, it means any person hated by the
> Jews. I used to object to letters I received complaining about what I said
> about the Israeli government and its practices. The people sending me the
> letters considered what I said as being against the Jews in general,
> although I am always cautious and rarely attack Israel without mentioning
> that the majority of Jews in Israel still wish for a peaceful solution and
> that the majority of Jews in the world are moderate liberals with whom it
is
> easy to make peace.
>
> This was and still is my opinion, and I have always objected to my
articles
> being read in a selective manner; nevertheless, I found some consolation
> when Edgard Bronfman, a committed Zionist presiding the World Jewish
Forum,
> was victim of a defamation campaign, waged by radicals who have blood on
> their hands, such as Ariel Sharon. He had dared send President Bush a
letter
> objecting to Israel's construction of the security wall on Palestinian
> territory.
>
> The security wall means that it is impossible to reach a peaceful
agreement,
> because if it is completed the way Sharon and the war criminals around him
> want it, it could take up 40% of the West Bank territories. Once, Mahmoud
> Abbas told me that if the Israelis want to build such wall for security as
> they claim, nothing prevented them from building it on their own land.
Abbas
> insisted that it would be impossible to reach an agreement if the wall was
> completed according to Sharon's official plans.which would mean that the
> wall's construction comes against the Israeli people's desire for peace,
> which is vindicated in the opinion polls.
>
> What matters is that Bronfman (along with Lawrence Eagleburger, the former
> U.S. Secretary of State) dared express the desire of the majority of Jews
> with regards to the wall, and the result was that one of Sharon's
supporters
> attacked him and accused him of being disloyal.
>
> I read that Bronfman's letter reached Izy Leibler, the deputy president of
> the World Jewish Forum, so he launched a campaign on the president and
asked
> him to withdraw his letter and apologize because his duty is to promote
the
> Israeli government.
>
> Bronfman is a billionaire who presides SEGHAM. He constitutes along with
his
> family one of the pillars of the world Jewish support to Israel. The
reason
> why he is treated so disrespectfully is because he expressed the stance of
> the majority of Jews; so the reader can only imagine how an Arab writer or
> any commentator is treated if he dare criticize Israel.
>
> Trying to control the media and silencing the opposition to Israel goes
> along with the process of killing Palestinians and destroying peace.
Before
> Bronfman, George Bush was subject to a harsh campaign that reflected the
> endless impudence of Israel and its supporters.
>
> This was in the beginning of the summer, when a truce between the
> Palestinian factions and Israel was worked out so Abbas' government would
be
> able to implement the Roadmap; but Israel tried to kill Dr. Abdulaziz
> Rantissi, who escaped, but killed a woman and a three-year-old child, also
> injuring 27 people. President Bush's comment on that was that he was
> concerned about the attacks of the Israeli helicopters and that he was
sorry
> for the loss of lives, adding, he did not believe the attacks helped
> Israel's security.
>
> Israel and its supporters in Congress replied to these simple words by
> objecting and denouncing. Tom DeLay, the leader of the Republican majority
> in Congress, threatened President Bush that Congress would issue a
> resolution supporting the Israeli attacks if the President did not declare
> his unconditioned support for Israel.
>
> I would add here that Hamas retaliated the next day of the murder attempt
> through a suicide attack in Jerusalem, where 16 people were killed. I
insist
> that it was the war criminal Sharon who killed them and not Hamas, because
> he knew his crime would be punished. He probably even welcomed the
> retaliation in order to justify his next crime.
>
> With the mounting Israeli crimes, there is a wide campaign to ban any
> criticism of Israel. One of the official members of the Jewish lobby AIPAC
> wrote in the Denver Post that the unacceptable side of anti-Semitism today
> is to criticize Israel, which, he added, is the only state in the world
> controlled by Jews (he forgot to mention the U.S.) then he complained
about
> focusing on Israel and neglecting the violation of human rights in other
> countries.
>
> What I understood is that human rights violations in other countries
justify
> their violation in Israel. Most important is silencing the media, in the
> lobby's member sayings, an attempt we followed in Europe as well, for in a
> conference about anti-Semitism the representative of French Jews called
for
> banning Al-Jazeera, claiming that it provoked anti-Israeli feelings. Some
> people in the conference called for controlling the Internet and finding
> ways to ban any criticism of Israel under the excuse of fighting
> anti-Semitism.
>
> As I write, I have before me a paper clip about Israel and its supporters'
> attempt to ban a novel called A Little Piece of Ground written by
> award-winner novelist from New Zealand, Elizabeth Laird, in which she
tells
> the story of Karim, a Palestinian boy living under the occupation who sees
> his father threatened and humiliated and the family's land stolen by the
> settlers. The result was that Jewish groups threatened the publisher
> McMillan and called for destroying all copies of the book.
>
> George Orwell talked about Big Brother, who controls the minds and decides
> on behalf of the people, but he had expected the Big Brother would come
from
> some great country and not from the criminal state of Israel, protected by
> the U.S., which gives it free reign to control and subdue us all.
>
>