"REAL Jews" with Kishkes -A Stone for His Slingshot -By Ben Hecht

What is in my mind is the infamous speech given by the famous Hollywood screen writer Ben Hecht in 1947 entitled A Stone for His Slingshot -By Ben Hecht which has parts very, very salient to what is occurring today in American Judaism. I will paraphrase him so it will be understood.

The Palestinian dezinformatsiya campaign (BDS) had brought my Jewishness to the surface several years ago because of their mass media campaign of lies and incessant attacks on “My Tribe,my people - Israel”. I feel a deep and sincere anger towards the Tragedy Tourists of the perpetual Nachba, their cronies and most of all to their JINO sympathizers.

I too have put my furious pen to work chastising “Americanized Jews” for their silence in the face of the growing Palestinian Negation of Israel dezinformatsiya campaign. These "JINOs" who support these haters all write that they are proud of being "Non-Zionist Americans" and that they are sick to death of Israel and the "Occupation" and "Settlements". These rabidly "Non-Zionistic" Joos hate Israel with a fervent passion in-order to achieve recognition and "love" from their fellow "PC" millennial's. They try their best to be even more extreme in their hatred of Israel to show just how far they ae willing to go to distance themselves from the mere mention of Israel or god forbid "Zionism".

So here I reprint the article I once saw regarding a famous incident in Zionist History when "REAL Jews" with Kishkes existed in America.

A Stone for His Slingshot -By Ben Hecht | Stuart Schoffman  Spring 2014

Intro:

Ben Hecht (1894–1970) was a noted journalist, playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. He worked extensively on behalf of Zionist causes and was the chairman of the American League for a Free Palestine.

Stuart Schoffman, was a former Hollywood screenwriter, journalist and translator that is living in Jerusalem. His most recent piece in these pages was “Hollywood and the Nazis” (Winter 2014).

Tucked amid the Ben Hecht Papers at the Newberry Library in Chicago is an undated typescript of 21 pages, with a penciled heading: “Speech at dinner at Slapsy Maxie’s, L.A., financed by Mickey Cohen.”

Hecht was, of course, a fabled writer for stage and screen, Mickey Cohen was the notorious Los Angeles gangland boss (recently portrayed by Sean Penn in the movie Gangster Squad), and the speech, which has never before been published, is one of the most riveting and remarkable Jewish fundraising speeches ever delivered. What gives?
The outrageously prolific Hecht—writer of reportage, novels and short stories, Broadway theater and Hollywood movies, and eventually Jewish propaganda—was always attracted to outlaws. The first of his six or seven dozen produced (though not always credited) screenplays was Underworld, a 1927 silent film directed by the Austrian-Jewish immigrant Josef von Sternberg. In his freewheeling autobiography, A Child of the Century, Hecht wrote:

I made up a movie about a Chicago gunman and his moll called Feathers McCoy. As a newspaperman I had learned that nice people—the audience—love criminals . . . It was the first gangster movie to bedazzle the movie fans and there were no lies in it—except for a half-dozen sentimental touches introduced by its director.

Hecht won an Academy Award for Underworld, at the very first awards in 1929. (He was nominated five more times but never won another.) In 1932, he wrote Scarface for Howard Hawks, proudly claiming that “two Capone henchmen” showed up after midnight demanding assurance (which he disingenuously provided) that Scarface was not about “the great gangster.”

Meanwhile, Hecht had established his own reputation as a literary outlaw, notably with his novel A Jew in Love, a rapier-sharp vivisection of a contemptible book publisher named Jo Boshere, Abe Nussbaum. Published in 1931, it sold some 50,000 copies and was voted best novel of the year by the senior class at New York’s City College, but influential Jews accused Hecht of self-hatred. The New York Times quoted Rabbi Louis I. Newman, of the Reform Congregation Rodeph Sholom, as saying that the book was “an atrocious malignment of the Jew.”

In A Child of the Century, Hecht tossed off the fictional Boshere as “this worthless fellow, who cost me much trouble with Jews who do not like the word ‘Jew’ used in a title.” Not quite. Hecht described one character as having “a face stamped with the hieroglyphic curl of the Hebrew alphabet” and elsewhere wrote of “that glandular degeneration that produces the Jew with the sausage face.” Writing for The Sentinel, a Chicago Jewish weekly, Bertha Loeb Lang wondered if Hecht was deliberately pandering to anti-Semites. Hecht, she wrote, “should seek something inspiring to wing his thoughts to higher realms.”

Such inspiration hit him hard in 1939, when Hecht, as he put it, “turned into a Jew.” As he recalled: “The German mass murder of the Jews, recently begun, had brought my Jewishness to the surface. I felt no grief or vicarious pain. I felt only a violence toward the German killers.” He put his furious pen to work in a daily column for P.M., the liberal New York newspaper, chastising “Americanized Jews” for their silence in the face of the growing massacre. In 1941 he wrote a column called “My Tribe Is Called Israel”: “My angry critics all write that they are proud of being Americans and of wearing carnations, and that they are sick to death of such efforts as mine to Judaize them and increase generally the Jew-consciousness of the world.”

Hecht’s two-fisted polemic caught the eye of a young Palestinian Jew living in America: Hillel Kook, a nephew of the great Rabbi Kook who went by the nom de guerre Peter Bergson, so as not to embarrass his family. Bergson was a disciple of the late Revisionist leader Vladimir Ze’ev Jabotinsky, who had died in New York exile in 1940. He enlisted Hecht in a campaign to fight Hitler and promote militant Zionism in America. Hecht churned out caustic newspaper ads about American and British indifference to the plight of the European Jews. He crafted the 1946 Zionist stage play A Flag Is Born, which drew large crowds and made so much money for the right-wing Irgun that they named a ship for him. (While illegally transporting 600 Holocaust survivors to Palestine, the S.S. Ben Hecht was intercepted by the British in March 1947; the refugees were detained in Cyprus, and crew members were jailed in the Acre prison.)

Hecht’s advocacy for the outlawed Irgun reached a brazen climax with a broadside that ran in the New York Post and elsewhere in May 1947, called “Letter to the Terrorists of Palestine.” “My Brave Friends,” he began, “the Jews of America are for you. You are their champions. You are the grin they wear. You are the feather in their hats . . . Every time you blow up a British arsenal, or wreck a British jail, or send a British railroad train sky high, or rob a British bank, or let go with your guns and bombs at the British betrayers and invaders of your homeland, the Jews of America make a little holiday in their hearts. Not all the Jews, of course.” The dissenters, Hecht went on, “unfortunately” included “practically all the rich Jews of America, all the important and influential ones, all the heads of nearly all the Jewish organizations whom the American newspapers call ‘The Jewish Leaders.’ They’re all against.” Ben’s big finish: “Hang on, brave friends, our money is on its way.”

Hecht’s fierce embrace of Zionism is a by-now familiar story of Jewish return, akin to the classic trajectories of Herzl, Heine, and Moses Hess. But it also suited Hecht, the perennial contrarian, to poke a stick in the eye of “Jewish respectables,” as he called them. It seems almost inevitable that the next stage in his evolution as a Jew was a fundraising partnership with Mickey Cohen (1913–1976). Cohen “took to burglary and violence as a duckling takes to water,” as Hecht wrote of him in the 1950s. He was a prizefighter, armed robber, occasional killer, extortionist, and bookmaking czar; he was also a germ-phobic dandy who shunned alcohol, hobnobbed with Hollywood stars, and craved publicity.

Mickey and Ben were both tough Jews, born in New York to immigrant families, but their commonality ran deeper: “Story-telling is the chief social activity of the underworld,” wrote Hecht in his Cohen piece (published posthumously in 1970 as “The Incomplete Life of Mickey Cohen” in the short-lived Scanlan’s Magazine). “Nearly every heister and gunman I have known was eager to play Scheherazade.” As Cohen told the story in his autobiography, Hecht contacted him in 1947: “At first I thought the guy was conning me—playing on me being a Jew kid.” The gangster and his bodyguard Mike Howard went for dinner at Hecht’s house in Oceanside, north of San Diego. Also, present, says Cohen, was a representative of the Irgun:

This guy got me so goddamn excited. He started telling me how these guys actually fight like racket guys would . . . And then I threw a big affair to raise funds for the Irgun at Slapsy Maxie’s, which I had a piece of. There were judges there, people from all walks of life—every top gambler that was in the city or nearby.

Cut to Slapsy Maxie’s Cafe, a popular nightspot on Wilshire Boulevard, east of Fairfax, operated by a Hollywood haberdasher called Sy Devore and his brother Charlie. It was at least partly backed by Cohen and fronted by the eponymous Maxie Rosenbloom, a onetime light heavyweight boxing champion and B-actor (he played himself in the 1941 comedy Harvard, Here I Come!). The date of the big Irgun affair is not to be found in Cohen’s memoir, nor in Hecht’s version in A Child of the Century. As Saul Bellow deadpanned in his Times review of the book: “Hecht is a rather difficult man to pin down.” Cohen’s biographer Brad Davis says it was “in June 1947, just prior to Bugsy’s murder,” but incorrectly places Menachem Begin in the room that night, “on the lam for the King David Hotel bombing.” Elements of Hecht’s speech clearly point to 1948, shortly after the establishment of Israel.

Hecht described the scene: “I addressed a thousand bookies, ex-prize fighters, gamblers, jockeys, touts and all sorts of lawless and semi-lawless characters; and their womenfolk.” Imagine a huge smoky nightclub out of Guys and Dolls with Ben, still shaky after gall bladder surgery, reading out an impassioned 45-minute pitch for the soldiers of the Irgun. (He even has a good word for the rival Haganah.) Hecht is fast and loose with facts about the Warsaw ghetto, FDR, refugee ships, Lord Moyne, and more. He slides into hyperbole, soars over the heads of his audience, but also hammers home a core concept of classical Zionism: “A Jewish nation will remove our mystery and give us origins and permit us to thrive in the world—on an equal footing with other nationals.” And his grand peroration still stirs the Jewish soul, if only as nostalgia: “A David stands against Goliath. I ask you Jews—buy him a stone for his slingshot.”

The hat was passed. The Hollywood demimonde ponied up with cash and pledges. Cohen shoved Mike Howard to the stage, ordering him to demand that everybody give double. “Quit crabbing,” Hecht reports Howard as replying, before he took the microphone, “We raised two hundred G’s. Furthermore, we been here three hours and nobody’s taken a shot at us.” The take for the night, according to the journalist Sidney Zion in Scanlan’s, was “$230,000 and no welshers.” Cohen’s rival mobster, Jimmy Fratianno, later said it was a scam and Mickey kept the money. Then again, Fratianno tried to kill Cohen in a shootout on Sunset Boulevard only a year later, and his nickname was “The Weasel.” For his part, Cohen claimed in his memoir that it was he who urged the Irgun to hang British soldiers in Palestine in revenge for the hanging of Jews: “If you don’t, that’s going to be the end of my involvement . . . And they done it.” (Indeed so: in Netanya, on Begin’s orders, in July 1947, though whether he was heeding Cohen’s advice is another matter.)

Hecht made another, much shorter speech in November 1948, at the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan, at a big banquet in honor of Menachem Begin. This speech, too, may be found at the Newberry: “For some of us who are present here tonight,” Hecht began, “this fine scene is the ending of a story.” The Irgun, by the fall of 1948, had ceased to exist, along with its American arm, the American League for a Free Palestine. “Tonight,” said Hecht, “we scatter, we who rang doorbells, passed the hat, put on rallies, cheered the spectacle returned to Palestine of David standing against Goliath—we go back to smaller things.” For Hecht, who had recently written Spellbound and Notorious, “smaller things” included Hitchcock’s Rope and the film adaptation of Guys and Dolls, both as an uncredited “script doctor.” He published A Child of the Century in 1954, which, until now, together with Cohen’s memoir, constituted the only published evidence of the night at Slapsy Maxie’s. In 1961, he published Perfidy, a denunciation of Labor Zionist treachery that remains canonical in some right-wing circles.

Hecht’s last, unfinished project was a book called Shylock, My Brother, whose manuscript I also examined at the Newberry. “I have felt sorry that so many Jews . . . fail to recognize Shylock as their brother, and turn their backs on him,” he wrote. “I have never found Shylock to be the villain against whom Jews keep protesting as a libel of their kind. To the contrary, he is one of the few heroic Jews in classic literature, perhaps even the only one.” Jabotinsky, Hecht reported, had argued “that Shylock was a valiant vindicator of Jewish grievances.” But for the timid Jews who fear “unfrightened Jewish voices,”

Hecht scoffed, “the silent Ben-Gurion of Israel and not the cantankerous Shylock of Shakespeare is their idol.” He would have approved of Al Pacino’s recent aggressive portrayals of Shylock. To the end, Hecht was out to provoke. Speculating on Shakespeare’s motives, he concluded that the Bard was a crypto-Jew. Hecht died suddenly in April 1964, at the age of 70, in his apartment on West 67th Street in New York. Rabbi Louis I. Newman, his erstwhile antagonist, officiated at his funeral at Rodeph Sholom, and Menachem Begin flew in from Israel to deliver a eulogy.

EDITORIAL NOTE: Ben Hecht’s typed speech has been modified here only slightly in matters of punctuation and spacing to enhance its readability. Some idiosyncrasies of have been left in order to retain the feel of the original document.

I am going to speak of unhappy things tonight, things you will not be pleased to hear—and things I shall find no pleasure in saying. But Menachem Begin [sic], the Commander of the Irgun and military leader of the embattled Jews in Palestine, has cabled me from Tel Aviv asking of me a favor. He asks that I do what I can to arouse among the Jews who are not fighting in the Holy Land, the knowledge that without them the Holy Land will be lost. And with it will be lost forever the hope of the Jews taking their place as equals in the human family.

“We are fighting against great odds,” the Irgun commander says. “The enemy outnumbers us and is better equipped. His resources are unlimited. Great Britain is supplying him with its millions, its munitions, and its manpower. We have only ourselves. No nation will come to our side as ally or give us aid. We have only our brave soldiers and the long-dreaming soul of the Jews of the world. Speak to that soul wherever you can. If it can be awakened, we shall win.”

I shall speak to it tonight as well as I can. The soul of the Jew is an ancient and complicated business. It has been trained by disaster and calumny to live in caution, to hide itself cozily behind good deeds, to overlook insults, to charm its enemies, and to avoid getting its enemies angrier than they are. Thus hidden, thus full of cunning modesties and suicidal graces, it has remained nevertheless a brave soul—when destinies other than its own are at stake. It has fought and died valorously in defense of every cause but its own. Yes, it has the courage to fight and die for others. But it has hardly the guts even to speak in its own behalf. I know this soul of the Jew because I am part of it. And when the Irgun commander asks that it be wakened, he asks for a miracle. Awaken Jews into espousing their own cause—into believing in themselves—into grasping the battles of Palestine as their own bid for freedom; awaken them to knowing that victory in Palestine is a victory over anti-Semitism in every corner of the world. Commander Begin asks for this miracle because he is a part of this miracle himself. He is the leader of an army of liberation that all the military power and political bedevilments of Great Britain were unable to dislodge.

While all the other Jews of the world and all their various synods and agencies cooed and hobnobbed with the British betrayer and usurper of their homeland; while all the other small Jews of the world let themselves be hornswoggled out of their honor and their hopes, the fighting Jews of the Irgun and their brave youthful allies named the Stern Gang—stood undaunted and uncompromising and battling as heroically as the Jews of the Warsaw ghetto. With one difference. They did not lose—not yet. The British lost.

For twenty-five years the mighty nation of Great Britain sought to steal Palestine—and failed. Because of the Irgun. Because Irgun soldiers died in battle. Because Irgun soldiers went singing to the British gallows—to hang where all the world could see—and did see—not a terrorist punished for crime but the look and sight of a Jewish patriot dying for his country. Now the Irgun asks for more miracles. It asks for us.

Let me remind you—who we have been. A few years ago, in the days when the Germans were burning six million Jews in their lime pits and incinerators—a great and historic thing came to our ears. Thirty thousand Jews waiting in the ghetto of Warsaw to be taken off in the cattle cars to the German furnaces cried out to the world and to us, the Jews of the world—that they were not going to yield like sheep to the German butcher. They proclaimed that they were going to die in battle rather than let themselves be taken naked and unresisting to join the garbage pile of the Jewish dead. News of this event came over the radios of the world. It appeared in all the headlines. Thirty thousand Jews armed with pike poles, old guns and bombs made out of tin cans were giving battle to the German army in Warsaw. The German army marched upon the Warsaw ghetto with tanks, cannon, and flame-throwers. Outnumbered as in a nightmare, the Jews of Warsaw fought for twenty days, fought with wondrous valor—and with one eye on the sky.

They were waiting for help, for planes to appear and parachute weapons and supplies to them. No planes appeared. No weapons or supplies came out of the sky. No nation, fighting those same Germans, sent even a token pat on the back to these doomed warrior Jews. And from all the Jews of the world—from all of us—came not a single plane, a single gun, or a single loaf of bread to the thirty thousand who were battling not for their own survival—there was never any hope of that—but who were battling to bring a glow of human dignity to the pitiful and humiliated name of the Jews; our name as well as theirs. They were all killed—these men and women of Warsaw who fought for the honor of their kind. And the last of them who stood in the wrecked streets of their ghetto with their ammunition used up—and the German tanks and flame-throwers wiping them out—the last of them shook their fists at the sky; not at the Germans, but at the friendless sky.

Let me tell you why the sky under which the thirty thousand Jews died remained empty—why there was not a single package to fall from a single plane. Let me tell you also why none of the nation's fighting for democracy—not even our own country—spoke up as a government officially, spoke out officially as a nation to offer aid, hope, or even that recognition of valor for which the Jews of Warsaw fought and died. The reason is this. The Allies fighting for democracy had a policy toward the Jews, a very definite and strategic policy. This policy had one basic objective—a refusal to recognize the existence of the Jews of Europe whether they died in the Warsaw ghetto fighting or were burned by the millions in the German lime pits and incinerators.

It is unpleasant to hear this. It is unpleasant to say this. But it is the truth.

I am going to name a date and a fact. Write it in your Jewish memories. This is the Moscow conference of the Allies in 1943. A great document is being drawn up by Great Britain, Russia, and the United States. This document is called officially “Statement on the German Atrocities.” And it states that the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union have received from many quarters evidence of atrocities and cold-blooded mass execution done by the Germans. And in this Statement the Allies pledge themselves to avenge these monstrous deeds. They list—in their Statement—the wholesale massacres of Polish, French, Dutch, Belgian, Norwegian hostages. They list the peasants of the island of Crete—as German victims. They list sixty-two different categories of German victims. Every name is listed but the name of Jew.

There is no reference in this Statement to the bloody fact that three million Jews have been murdered—for no other crime than that they were Jews—and that another three million are waiting to die in the German ovens. At the time this statement is being written—a genocide bloodier than any in history is taking place—a race of people is being exterminated. And this fact has been proclaimed by the German exterminators—who stand red-handed before the world boasting of their deed—that the Jews are being wiped out—because they are Jews.

This Statement ignoring the killing of three million unarmed Jews, and turning its back on the impending murder of three more million, was signed by Prime Minister Churchill, Premier Stalin, and President Roosevelt. I know of no political gesture in history as bold and inhuman as blissful silence. A silence that was like a door closing furtively and surreptitiously on the murderer and his victim—our Jewish people.

Let me tell you why this door was closed—why the word Jew was erased not only from the eyes of the world but from its own tomb. You will believe me when I tell you … because on my honor, I tell you the truth. And it is a truth you will recognize because it has always been in your mind—as well as my own—whether you spoke it or not. The truth was that Great Britain did not want any official recognition of the Jewish massacre to be put in the record. It did not want the desperate status of the Jews recognized officially. It did not want the conscience of the world stirred up by the foulest crime in history. It did not want this done because there was only one place for the doomed Jews of Europe to go—only one place eager to welcome them—Palestine.

Great Britain did not want the world’s attention called to the spectacle of a good and noble race being exterminated. This might undermine their shabby little plan to steal Palestine for themselves. Official acknowledgement that Jews had been killed and their killing would continue until they were a race reduced to bones and ashes might startle even the befogged mind of the world of 1943 and set it crying out for a remedy. And what might this remedy be? Only this—to open the ports of Palestine given to the Jews twenty years before—and let in the Jews not yet slaughtered. The British were opposed to this remedy. British policy preferred that all the Jews of Europe be murdered—and that they die incognito in the German furnaces rather than that a single Jewish refugee enter Palestine.

Here is another fact to keep in your memories. During the height of the German massacres, two ships carrying several thousand such refugees arrived at the Palestinian port of Haifa. A man named Lord Moyne, the British governor of Palestine, looked on the thousands of men, women, and children who had come crawling out of the pogroms, blackened by the smoke of massacres; looked and refused to allow these two ships to land, and their passengers to disembark. Lord Moyne ordered the two battered refugee ships—called the Struma and the Patria—to sail off. They sailed away. He sent them back into the Mediterranean. They were blown up by English or German mines. Every human being aboard them was killed. Lord Moyne had stood at the breach. He had kept British policy intact.

And where was American policy during those wild days of a people’s extermination? Let me tell you. It stood firmly, grimly, side by side with Great Britain. Mr. Roosevelt concurred in this British plot to lock the Jews away with their German murderers—and ignore the deed—and let them all be killed rather than let the ports of Palestine be opened. President Roosevelt concurred on the Struma and the Patria.

And here is another fact to hold in your Jewish memories. Let me tell you of another secret American agreement—of President Roosevelt’s and his State Department’s concurrence in the murder of three hundred thousand Jews of Romania [sic]. This is also not a pleasant thing to hear, nor yet to say. For Great Britain and the United States are both honorable countries—dedicated to honorable aims. And so far as it is possible for human masses to be kind and good, such kindness and goodness are to be found in the peoples of England and America. But—as always in history the Jews are the wrong yardstick with which to measure the virtues of nations, or of their leaders. But it is the only measure a Jew has—who kills him, who lets him live.

It was early in the war. Romania was not yet overrun by German troops and officials. The Romanian government sent out word that payment of fifty dollars apiece, it would release the Jews of Romania before the Germans came in and started their extermination. The fifty dollars a head was to cover transportation expenses to Palestine. We published and advertised this fact, in a score of newspapers. The American State Department branded our information as a lie. Mr. Roosevelt branded the Romanian government’s offer as a myth. There were no such Jews to be saved. And we who tried to rouse the conscience of the world to save them—we were liars and sensation makers. Pressed to take action, our government informed us angrily that it was unaware of this Romanian offer.

It was our government that lied—not we. The truth has come out in the published letters of the State Department. There was such an offer made by the Romanians. And our State Department wrote secretly to Arab leaders—Ibn Saud among them—not to fear an influx of Romanian Jewish refugees into Palestine. These letters assured the Arab leaders that the United States would secretly quash the rescue of the three hundred thousand Romanian Jews—among them fifty thousand children.

And it did. It held the breach—with Lord Moyne. It stood firm for five months—till the Germans swarmed into Romania. And then our State department relaxed. For the Germans took care of the rest of the job of keeping the Rumanian Jews—including their fifty thousand children—out of Palestine. They were all slaughtered.

All these unpleasant things I have said to you not to arouse futile angers against villainy past and gone. I have said them only to point out the danger in which the Jew stands today. In his hour of destruction, the Jew of Europe was without friends. Today in his desperate hour of rebirth the plot is still the same. The Jew is still without friends.

He fights alone in Palestine—against great odds, against increasing odds. And if we Jews whose souls are being fed and strengthened by his courage—whose status in the eyes of the world—is being forged by his valor—if we dreaming Jews of the four winds believe that any nation will ride to his aid—we are fools.

There will be no help from governments. The governments will continue to play their immemorial and secret games of sabotage against the Jews. In Palestine the outnumbered Jews battle today against an enemy officered, armed, and financed by the British. And like the Jews of Warsaw these Palestinian heroes battle with one eye to the sky. They wait for us. We are their arsenal. Not the Four Freedoms, not the good old U.S.A.—but we, the Jews of the four winds. But this you know, or you would not be here. And it is not to awaken you that I speak. You are awake or you would not be here. It is to arm your wakefulness and help you to waken others that I speak.

You will be asked—and you may even ask yourself—what is the stake of the American Jew in Palestine? What has he to gain by the birth and triumph of the new nation of Israel? I will answer this question, first, with another question. What did the American Jews lose in the mass murder of the six million Jews of Europe? That which he lost—he will never lose again if there is a nation in Palestine called Israel. For only a Jewish nation sitting among the other nations of the world will be able to prevent ever the mass executions of Jews that have been going on since the year Four Hundred.

In the fifteen hundred years of their wooing of Europe, the Jews have never been able to halt a pogrom. In fact, the more important, the more assimilated the Jews in a given country became, the more certain was their ultimate status in that country—disfavor and destruction. Out of this one fact—that they were a people who could be slaughtered with impunity—that there was even honor to be won in their slaughtering—has risen much of the anti-Semitism that hangs likes an ever-darkening cloud over the world’s Jewry. When the sky is clear above you, you may be sure the cloud is elsewhere. It shifts from nation to nation, from century to century. It does not go away. All the relationships made the Jews, all the honors won, all the medals hung on them have not been enough to move even our own most civilized of countries to raise a hand in their behalf—when the hour of doom struck in Europe.

Here is our record as American Jews—in that pogrom. We allowed ourselves to be bamboozled by the British policy in Palestine—which was also the American policy—of keeping the Jews out of the Holy Land. We went along with the delusion that the British and American governments were kindly governments and kindly friends of the Jews. We could not believe otherwise, being who we are and where we are, part of those governments.

We went along—cheering for those governments who with their mighty right hand were winning a war against the Germans—and with their sly left hand locking the Jews of Europe away with their exterminators—by closing the ports of their only refuge—Palestine. We cheered a war—and we cheered the extermination of six million Jews.

Behind the cloak of pretended military emergency, the British—and their American State Department conjurers'—plotted the future of Palestine—a Palestine to be held by the British as a military base—a Palestine to be handed over to an Arabian puppet king—already established in Trans Jordan [sic] by the British. And as a sop to what was known as Jewish world opinion the British explained that they could not let the Jews into Palestine during the war—and during their extermination—because German spies might come in with them—and German sympathizers.

These are the same British who whistled the Grand Mufti and his colleagues back from their Hitler honeymoon—and spread a red carpet for their re-entrance into Palestine. They were Nazis, they had fought on the German side in the war. But this was a minor facet of their natures—a peccadillo to be forgotten and condoned in the light of the more important fact that they hated Jews and were willing to help the British drive the Jews out of Palestine.

Only one group of Jews in the world did not concur in these secret plotting's and undermining's of Jews. This was the Irgun Zva Leumi—that fought and publicized with their blood each step of the robbery—whether it was robbery of honor, freedom, or land. And with their help, for they are now being forged into the fabric of the new Jewish state—the State of Israel will not, when the time comes again—be as daft and dizzy as we American Jews were. It will not be spun about by the fear of divided loyalties as we were. It will not be duped by the siren song of patriotism that ignore the carnage of the Jews.

However, muddled such a Jewish state of Israel may be, it will have a long memory—and a clear head toward Jews. And when the time of pogrom comes again—it will raise a clear voice, backed by a strong arm—for Jews. And this is the only weapon the Jews need to prevent another time of butchery. For the world is not a place of evil. The conscience of the world is a Godly and aspiring one. Its head is perpetually in a fog, but there is a light in its heart. A clarion voice such as will come from the nation of Israel—and such has never come from the scattered, duped, and bewildered Jews wooing their way in other lands—such a voice will halt the pogroms and mass executions of tomorrow.

Tonight, the battle rages in the land of Israel. Let us also look on our record as American Jews toward this present war. We Jews made this war possible. We concurred in it. Not only we American Jews who think only of America, but the Jews who were already planning the future of Palestine. They, too, concurred in this war and abetted the enemy. They did worse. They blessed it—to win a smile of approval from the British, their good friends. I will explain: Twenty years ago when the British held Palestine under a League of Nations mandate—to prepare a Jewish homeland in Palestine—that was their assignment and their sworn task—twenty years ago the British in defiance of that mandate sliced off a major chunk of Palestine—called it Trans Jordan and handed it over to a puppet king named Abdullah.

There was an outcry from the Jewish patriots of Palestine—from the Irgun Zva Leumi. But these were merely Palestinians. The great and important Jews who handled the future of Palestine were English citizens and American citizens. These accredited leaders of Jewry thought the rape of Palestine by the British and the lawless invention of an Arab state by the British—an unfortunate but an unpreventable thing. They protested—but never loudly enough to jeopardize their standing as British or American citizens. They protested—but they were good sports about it. And the warnings of the Irgun leaders that Great Britain was preparing a war against Palestine—the war that is going on now—were drowned in the polite concurrences of English and American Jews.

The British were able openly and lawlessly to finance this Arab state in Trans Jordan—on loans given them by the U.S.A. They proceeded openly to pour military equipment into the Arab state, to send thousands of British officers and strategists to King Abdullah’s side, to ship him planes, tanks, and all their latest military gadgets—and to pay the salaries of his army. This is the army—the Arab Legion—that fights the Jews today. Not the Palestinian Arabs who have lived in friendship with the Jews—but this British trumped up Legion—fattened by British gold and British propaganda for a generation.

And why did the British do this? Why this long and foresighted plan against the Jews? The answer is that the Arabs make better British Colonials than the Jews. The answer is that the Arabs, do they win Palestine, will not harass British trade and prestige in the east by building up a thriving industrial nation. The answer is that the Arabs will create a nation content to live off Great Britain, content to be its not too civilized vassal, cohort, and noncompetitive ally. And the Jews if they win—will not be that—despite the fact that an English citizen sits today as the first president of Israel. This is a hope for the British—but a small one. The Jews of Palestine—being shot down today by British guns, blasted by British planes, will be Jews when they win—a nation and not a vassal suburb of Downing Street, London.

And what have we American Jews to gain by the triumph of the Jewish nation now battling in Palestine? We are a happy people in the U.S.A. But we are happy as Americans, not as Jews. Not entirely happy—as Jews. The slaughter of our kind in Europe has left a wound in our spirits that our victory as Americans in the war has not entirely healed. It is a Jewish wound kept always open by the fear of the future. And despite the honors and positions we have won in America, we are no different as Jews than our fathers and grandfathers in Europe. We are like them, as Jews—uncertain, despairing, disenchanted, and always singing ourselves to sleep with the happy news that we have friends in court.

The Jews have always had friends in court—but they have never won a verdict. They have been always a noise without power, a talent without roots, a home lover without a doorstep of their own. They have worn fine clothes—and remained a fine nobody. They have always been going somewhere—but they have come from nowhere. And a man who comes from nowhere is a lesser man than one who comes from a place. There is always mystery and suspicion about such a man.

The nationalized soul of every nation, however civilized, abhors instinctively the nationalistic vacuum out of which the Jew is perpetually emerging. Having no land of his own, the Jew is looked on as a man who would—if given the chance—usurp the land of his host.

This has been true even of our own melting pot—a pot in which every immigrant has fused away his antecedents—except the Jew. A man from Sweden, Ireland, Luxembourg, Hungary, Italy—as soon as he loses the accents of those places—can become an American without suspicion or hyphen attached to him. The Jew, with or without accent—can become only an American Jew.

This is part of our stake in Palestine. A Jewish nation will remove our mystery and give us origins and permit us to thrive in the world—on an equal footing with other nationals. We can paradoxically become American then—for we will not be carrying around in our souls the confusion of what we are—and spreading this confusion among our always easily confused neighbors.

And we will not seem like the remnant of some stubborn religious sect given to weird and alien religious practices. Without losing our religion we will lose our two-thousand-year-old dangerous identity as religious fanatics—an absurd identity, but an identity ready made for the devilish schemes of bigots and rabble rousers; an identity that has brought intolerance and disaster down on us. We will lose that identity, for the land of Israel will have a flag, an army, and a congress to prove we are like other people—and that we stem from a normal state and not be black magic out of a hole in the past.

But there is a stake beyond these stakes of convenience and aggrandizement that we Jews have in the battle for Palestine. Is that battle lost—we Jews, all of us, are lost for another seven generations. We will have made our bid for human national status—whether we helped or hid our heads in a bag—and if this bid fails we will become a gabby and empty people, a gabby and defeated people—more so than ever in our history.

We will become losers. And this name will track us down in every city and village of America—and fasten itself to us. Not losers of a war—every nation has had that tag on it, but losers of the right to exist as anything but what we have been—the dubious guest in the house. If our bid for a flag and a homeland fails, we will all of us stand guilty before the world of an unworthiness. And this unworthiness we will, for a change, have deserved—if it comes to us. It is our duty to see that it does not come to us. It is in our power to prevent its coming. We will win—if the long dreaming soul of the Jew is wakened. Thus, speaks the leader of the Irgun forces.

Let me remind you—once more—who this leader is and who these Irgun fighters are. Menachem Begin and his troops are the Terrorists. That was what they were called when their stalwart hearts launched the battle against the British betrayers and invaders of their homeland. They are the same not-to-be-vanquished and not-to-be-silenced soldiers whose underground fight wrenched the Jewish situation out of the sly British hands; whose unceasing attacks and demands swept away the political fogs behind which the British were silently maneuvering the Jewish state into limbo.

These men and women of the Irgun stood alone. They had no friends in any court—not even the Jewish court. The common people of Palestine loved them, hid them, glowed with pride over them. But the accredited leaders of the long Jewish negotiations for a homeland looked with terrified eyes on this heroic spearhead of Jewish freedom—the Irgun. These leaders joined with all the other nervous, flag-frightened Jews of the world—in denouncing them. And for years the soldiers of the Irgun who fought with a British noose around their necks were called gangsters and terrorists, pirates and lawbreakers—as were the handful of intrepid folks who once rallied to the new flag raised above Lexington and Bunker Hill.

But this is past. The denunciations are done with.The accredited leaders of the world’s organized Jewry survive now or die forever behind the army that has come out of the Palestinian underground. And the Jews of the world who called names and were fearful, are proud today of these same Terrorists. For history has revealed them in their true guise—not that of Terrorists but of champions risen to restore the people of Israel to their lost estate as human beings. The Irgun is a dedicated army. It leads the fight. And beside it fights the brave army of the Haganah. They were political rivals of the Irgun. They are brothers in arms tonight.

Jewish money has poured into a thousand causes.But there was never any cause in Jewish history like this one. In Palestine,the ancient land of miracles—another miracle is happening; a miracle as sweet as any recorded in the Testament. A two-thousand-year-old dream of the Jews is coming true—a dream of manhood hidden away in the prayers and lamentations of two thousand years. [Two paragraphs in the original text crossed out by Ben Hecht.]

In these dark centuries that have never ended—the Jews carried the dream of Israel in their hearts. The Hebrew Nation of David and the Kings had been hammered to bits—but the bits refused to die. Every Jewish poet, every rabbi, and every worker at his bench kept alive this dream. In Spain after a thousand years of torment—the Jews still sang of their Jerusalem and their Holy Land. Yehuda Halevy [sic], the Hebrew poet of Spain, wrote of a homeland no Jew had seen for a thousand years:

Jerusalem, oh City of Splendor, oh bright home of the Jews—our spirit flies to you from many lands. In the East—in the far land of the cedar and the lemon trees our hearts lie. And our souls' dwell beside the sun gone down on Israel.

The sun is no longer down. A champion fight's in Palestine. He will not surrender. But he calls on us. He needs us. If he loses, he will lose because we did not put a gun in his hand. He will lose because we—and not he—were too small for the hour of Jewish destiny. He will lose because the Jews of the world dreamed away the days of battle. But these are only words I speak—words to wake up Jews if there are any asleep. He will not lose. No, cause that had behind it the sweet and powerful dream of freedom—has ever lost. This dream does not stand on the battlefields alone. It stands in us. There are twenty-eight million Arabs. There is British wealth and British officers—and British military equipment. There are eight hundred thousand Jews—besieged and encircled by this Goliath tonight. A David stands against Goliath. I ask you Jews—buy him a stone for his slingshot.

Ignorance from the lack of knowledge

"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech." Benjamin Franklin

And as they all blithely sing the infamous words of total ignorance: "We don't need no E*D*U*C*A*T*I*O*N!!!"

Right….Oh how I just love these new stories of idiocy that have come to life in "Merika"...the tearing down of statues from the memorials to leaders of a Civil War fought by dead soldiers who fought and died for THEIR beliefs based on a cause immersed in a past culture and society that for that period of history was accepted by those who survived.
As it is known to any person with minimal intelligence not only is history written by the victors but as time goes by societies and cultures change. And with this change hidden facts and truths are "rediscovered" and brought to life. The cultural and historical revisionists are like lemmings following a few mentally ill psychopaths who have been bamboozled and brainwashed.

My question is: "Why do the vast majority of enlightened and patriotic Americans allow these "haters" to get away with their dezinformatsiya?

More importantly; "Why are more and more Universities and supposed learned professors allowing this hideous obscenity of the perversion of history to be "taught" and allowed to spawn?"

Since the bursting of the bubble, of what I term the "Kumbaya Fantasia", and the sudden deflation of the "Hillary WILL BE Prez euphoria", in her ignominious defeat of 2016. The radical anti-American values hate fest; led by KGB indoctrinated provocateurs of the Liberal "socialist" left wing from before and during the 1960' anti-Viet Nam war and "Civil Rights"(read Black Panthers) period, have crawled out from under the rug.

These provocateurs have been elevated into the spotlight and have overwhelmingly received credibility status by Hollywood Narcistic personalities who have grasped the horns of the charging bull of hate Trump wave which has swept America.

Hate, hate, hate, hate who's the anti Trumpster that has the most hate for Dumpf...(sung to the tune of the Mickey Mouse Cub intro .....

After reading several articles, tweets and posts regarding "Columbus Day" I saw where the mass "bamboozlement" and brainwashing hate fest of dripping vile disgusting hatred of the "Privileged WHITE"* by anti-American, BLM, pro-Moslem, fanatical anti-Trumpsters and the pro-falestinian Tragedy Tourists, I realized the fruitcakes were on full meltdown and in a rampage.

Now for those who DID study in school and WHERE E*D*U*C*A*T*E*D it is a historic fact that Columbus did not introduce cruelty to the peaceful, benign indigenous people since they were already cruel to one another in the Americas.
Mass classification was an item in the Communist purges with that being stated. How was it "our"-the vast majority of "White" Americans, fault when we as school children sat through classes taught by teachers, who themselves had been taught the "White man's Truth" for generations, were taught the story of the "Victors". 

Yes, there is no doubt that the Spaniards starting with Columbus and the conquistadors who followed enslaved and slaughtered the indigenous people on a mass scale. As Kyle Smith pointed out in his article; "Columbus Day haters are missing the entire point of the holiday:

"Iroquois Indians were famous for their practice of torturing enemies to death over a period of days. The Kwakiutl Indians in the Pacific Northwest practiced cannibalism. A mass grave dating to the 14th century, in what is now South Dakota, turned up 500 murdered, dismembered and scalped bodies of men, women and children. Many tribes scalped their victims alive.
Ritual child sacrifice was common among the Mayans, the Aztecs and many other peoples. The Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan contains the remains of 42 children around age 6 who were murdered to appease the god who made the rains fall. Because the tears of children were required to prime the pump, some of the kids’ fingernails were torn off to make them cry.
The Incas would drug little girls with alcohol and coca leaves, then freeze them, then mummify them. In a spot that today is right across the Mississippi River from St. Louis was a burial site where scores of teen girls were ritually sacrificed. There is a theory that poor people and slaves captured in war were literally fed to rich Aztecs because protein was so scarce. In the 15th century, life was cruel. Columbus didn’t invent cruelty in the Americas."

With that being said the explanation of the WHOLE story needs, no cries out to be fully explained to the idiots who are attempting to change history. That the discovery of a whole new continent by Columbus kicked off an era of rapid European expansionism, technological advancement and cultural ferment.

While the clash of civilizations was bloody, celebrating Columbus Day is not a salute to conquest it paved the way for the world’s first modern democracy and was a gigantic leap forward for human liberty and the opening up of possibilities for human flourishing that go with the liberties offered in the colonization and formation of America albeit at the expense of the indigenous  population.

Yes, America was NOT discovered by Columbus but WHO wrote that history?
How did that story become THE accepted story for over 500+ years?
Is there "someone" to blame or was it a natural occurrence that those who survived and where the victors wrote their version as THE VERSION, while as has happened throughout recorded history the real story, testimonies and historical recorded evidence has been buried, stifled or hidden away.

And most definitely the TRUE story of what happened to the "Native Americans" cries out to be taught in schools! To test YOUR knowledge, answer the following:
• Do you KNOW who "Discovered" North America?
• And what did they call it?
• Why is America called America?
• WHY did Columbus set sail for India in the first place?
• Who sent him?
• Who paid for the voyage?
• Is Columbus Day a Spanish or Italian "celebration day"?
• Who was Cristóbal Colón? Where was he from?
• Was Cristóbal Colón Jewish?
• And what of the "Infamous" year that he, "set out to sail in the ocean to"?
• What historical incident occurred that year in the Roman Catholic Empire of Spain?
• And how is all this linked to Portugal and the Pope?

How many know that Don Isaac Abarbanel, Luis de Santangel and Gabriel Sanchez. who were “conversos - marranos” or "secret Jews" that had been forcibly converted to Christianity, because of the Castilian Alhambra Decree were the moneylenders to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain who financed the commissioning of an exploratory voyage by Christopher (Colon) Columbus to search for a new sea route to India?

• How many know, or were educated in the knowledge to realize that during that period of history there were NO banks?
• How many today know that the Catholic Church which dominated the Christian World up until the revolt of Martin Luther and Henry the Eighth of England forbid "usury" - I refer you to the greatest controversial play "The Merchant of Venice".
• How many know that Jews were terribly treated and forced to live in intolerable conditions, confined to "Ghettos"? That Jews in "Christian Europe" lived knowing that at any moment they could be in the least expelled from the lands they lived in or worse their existence could be terminated in mass murder as occasioned in the massacre of York in England and throughout the Rhineland of Europe?
• How many know that the "edict of expulsion" of the Jews of Spain was signed on March 31, 1492, and the Jews were given exactly four months to put their affairs in order and leave the country?
• How many know the significance of the 9th of Av -Tisha B'Av and WHY it is significant and what it symbolizes to Jews?
• How many realize that the date of departure from Spain that Columbus was to set sail from on July 31, 1492, which was the 9th of Av, was changed to the 3rd of August.

How was it that Jews were able to survive under the severe handicaps imposed on them by the European Christian monarchs? What professions and trades were Jews "Allowed" to participate in? 
Very few of today's detractors of the Jewish people realize what hardships WE Jews faced in lands and society's that were not ours. That in Christian Lands we were treated terribly  and in Arab lands were and still are considered to be Dhimmi's. The dream of a homeland and a return to "Zion" never left our people while we were under duress and hatred. This was the truth in Europe until the age of Napoleon and the "Enlightenment" when Western European Jews breathed the air of freedom and sought to schieve appeasement with their neighbors through assimilation and "reform". 

That what explanation can there be to the continuousy of Jews to survive other than by our advanced intelligence, education and "tribal" relations. Jews were acute businessmen and traders of goods from Europe to China. And because of the knowledge of Hebrew, Jews could communicate and vouch for payments of goods across great distances. Because of the accumulation of wealth, they became the "banks" Jews like Don Isaac Abarbanel, Luis de Santangel and Gabriel Sanchez who were those whose personal wealth was used to finance King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain and their desire for more wealth in "India".

Another item that is missed in this "factoid" of history is WHY did Christopher Columbus sail due West and not East along the known route of Africa?

The reason was that that route was already "owned" and colonized by the Portuguese.
Has it ever crossed your mind or have you ever realized that THE only country in the "New World" that speaks Portuguese is Brazil? And Why?

Few realize that Columbus's discovery of the "New World" set off a feud in the Catholic Monarchies of Portugal and Spain that resulted in the Papal Bulls "Inter Caetera," issued by Pope Alexander VI in 1493 (ratified by Pope Julius II in 1506). The document supported Spain's strategy to ensure its exclusive right to the lands discovered by Columbus the previous year. The Papal Bull was also known as the "The Doctrine of Discovery" which established a spiritual, political, and legal justification for colonization and seizure of land in the name of their sovereign not inhabited by Christians.

The Treaty of Tordesillas, signed at Tordesillas in Spain on June 7, 1494, and authenticated at Setúbal, Portugal, divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between the Portuguese Empire and the Spanish Empire, along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa. which divided the New World into Spanish and Portuguese spheres of influence. The treaty amended papal bulls issued by Pope Alexander VI in 1493. These declarations had granted Spain an exclusive claim to the entirety of North and South America - with ONE exception Brazil!

Ah yes, the generation that follow Roger "the I'm a psychopathic fool" Waters who's claim to fame in Pink Floyd was immortalized in his line "We don't need no Education" speaks volumes about the gross "guru" of falestinian dezinformatsiya and historical revisionists....

 As for those in America, unless a cultural war is fought to regain the sanity of historical truth, our institutions of higher learning specifically designed to teach young people about their place in the world and in the true history of America and the shining example of liberal democracy and human rights it became. America as we know it will go down the path of lost Empires dismembered and drained of what once made it great.

A non-Jews take on why she dislikes anti-Semitism

What is on my mind are the very kind words of a Facebook acquaintance regarding why dislikes antisemitism.

She wrote:

"The reason why I am personally interested in fighting antisemitism, despite not being Jewish and not having any relatives or close friends who are Jewish, is not based only on guilt for what was done to them, but mostly on gratefulness for what they have brought to humanity over the centuries.
Also, Israel appeals to my sense of justice. You're right that the quality of this community should be showcased more."

My reply to her was;

"I personally thank you for your kind words Julie. Most of "us" have tried to live "normal lives" and to contribute to mankind.

Two of the most unselfish and generous contributions to ALL mankind were by a very distant relative on my Mommas side -(Oy big Sigh my Momma would kvell about) – Albert Bruce Sabin who developed the Oral vaccination that helped eradicate Polio....and I must also mention Dr Jonas Salk who discovered the Polio vaccine."
Can you grasp how this overly generous contribution to mankind has saved the lives of millions was literally donated to mankind for free and out no financial gain by the two researchers. How much would it have added to the cost had they applied patents to their discoveries for personal financial gain?
This LITERALLY flies in the face of the antisemitic canard of the "money hungry Jew".

I continued:

It has been a "Jewish thing" -and now an Israeli Jewish "Thing" to create, invent and research things to make the world a better place for all. To me, and in reply to my friend Ryan, when asshats belittle the Holocaust my mind's eye goes to the faces of those children who perished in such horrific manners. Those beautiful intelligent human beings who may have been child prodigies who would have created, researched and made other discoveries that or could or would have benefited mankind.

It truly saddens me that many of today's secular American young Jewish people are so brainwashed with such bitter hatred of their own people do not realize nor comprehend the real truth of the pain of their estrangement.

In many cases I cannot blame them for these young millennials have NEVER been taught the truth. They are hapless victims in the face of the omnipresent anti-Israel pro-Palestinian lies and revisionist history. It is reprehensible that many of todays "educators" themselves are the products of the anti-American distortion of history that has been incorporated into the American educational curriculum as was recently attempted in California.

The rebirth and recreation of our homeland that we "Baby Boomers" witnessed is lost on the young Jewish millennials today who have been brainwashed by falestinian dezinformatsiya due to the totally secular Judaism that our parents raised us in.

In a Freudian way it was THEIR response to the post WWII-"Gentlemen's Agreement" and anti-Semitism that prevented many their opportunity to achieve and climb the social ladder. Many of our parents' generation, and the interim generation, married "outside the faith" and attempted to hide and assimilate -and there are many famous examples of this. Because many Jews who had immigrated to the west during the last two decades of the 19th century had been active communists and socialist -as Senator Bernie Sanders parents. They feared the response of being labeled "unloyal" as was witnessed during the hearings carried out by Senator Joseph McCarthy and the case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

Many Jews in America witnessed the Holocaust and blamed the hatred on Zionism but they ignore the fact that their predecessors had on the whole been unreceptive to the challenges of hard pioneering life in Eretz Yisrael of the Ottoman Jewish Empire and had sought refuge in Communism and Socialism as a means of improvement in Russia and many had sought refuge and monetary gain to afford the transfer of relatives abroad to the West- primarily England, the USA, Canada and Argentina.

It was a "thing" that a member of a "Shtetl" would leave for abroad and once situated would send for a wife and /or sibling to come to escape the brutality of life in Czarist Russia. It was these Jews who created the Labor Unions to elevate the life of the workers individuals like Samuel Gompers who helped found the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions in 1881.

With all these developments I see my own Sabra born children and now grandchildren who are concerned about living normal lives under the constant threat of extinction and immediate death from Iran and its proxies of Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza and Judaea and Shomron.

Just as in World War II with the rise of Nazism and the Holocaust once more the world is silent. And many revisionist reconstructionist secular Jews, in America have rushed to hide in their anti-Israel, anti-Zionism pro-Palestinian hatred.
THIS makes me livid with anger!
Oh yes you can complain but if you don't like the government we have come here and live with us and vote to change it! Don't pack it in and run away. As in any relationship if you love your partner running away is NO solution. Quiting is for losers. You do not run off. You stay and fight to try to correct the issue.

Since the early 1970's the world has been blinded and bamboozled by the Palestinians and their hate filled proxies for way too long. The Palestinian's negation of Israel media campaign uses the super-secret KGB discipline responsible for disseminating information, reports and documents fabricated around a kernel of truth, but unattributable to the them know as the “science” of dezinformatsiya. This form of Palestinian dezinformatsiya propaganda was taught to Yasser Arafat who was a surrogate of the Soviet KGB according to Lt. Gen. (ret.) Ion Mihai Pacepa a former three-star general in the Securitate, the secret police of Communist Romania, who defected to the United States in July 1978 from his book , “Red Horizons,” published in 1987.

Dr. Carl Sagan once said: "One of the saddest lessons of history is this: IF we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle.
We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge even to ourselves, that we have been taken.
Once you give a Charlatan power over  you you almost never get it back."

As per the super-secret KGB discipline called dezinformatsiya, they have blinded the world and manipulated the world media with historical revisionism, fabrications and lies to obscure the real solution for peace that has been there for years -The actual absorption and resettlement of the Arab refugees in the lands they ran to and the erasure of the "Right of Return" -which is based also on lies. One cannot return to a place that was NOT theirs to begin with!! Though they march and demonstrate with the "fabled key" to "homes" -many were mere sharecroppers who had no ownership papers to the land or the homes - "Taboo". And as refugees in a conflict, as has happen throughout the world, enemy populations who participated in the conflict are not guaranteed a return.

As for Judaea and Shomron it is OUR indigenous Homeland and belongs to us.

Any Arab who cannot live in a Jewish majority country and cannot accept it is free to sale what they have and to leave -something that was denied US the Jewish people in the European mass genocide and in the expulsion of 900,000 Jews of Arab lands.

THIS, this is THE issue. We only wish to live in peace but we will always stand in guard because we are moralistic and the world has proven itself NOT to be moralistic.

Such is our fate....but we continue to live Am Yisrael Chai.

Possible Tour Scenarios of Tlaib-Omar

It takes an extraordinary amount of sheer Chutzpah (Nerve) and self-righteousness, from the assimilated brainwashed and bamboozled Diaspora Jews -specifically the JINO anti-Zionists of #IFNOTNOW, the New Israel Fun, JVP and JStreet, who have for over four decades swallowed the sheer overabundance of falestinian dezinformatsiya, to level any form of criticism at Israel.

The absurd confidence of un-self-awareness in a person to presume that he or she is more intelligent and better informed than the men and women running the Israeli security establishment is par for the course in their show of ignorance.

This un-self-awareness of course is further complicated by the geographic location of most of the critics and presumers of the Israeli government policies, whether they reside in; suburban North America and Canada, England, Australia, Central Berlin, Western Samoa, etc.

This un-self-awareness of course is further complicated by their particular stance or their POV of the Jewish State.
The comments on Twitter:
"What a mistake!"
"What a horror!"
They blurt out in childish statements of fear as they wring their hands and quiver in fear and hatred of the right wing "Zionist Regime" of Bibi and the "Settlers" in upsetting their existence in the Diaspora!
Yet never, thats right N*E*V*E*R! has it been mentioned that some 50% of the citizens of Israel have voted in D*E*M*O*C*R*A*T*I*C elections against the "Rightwing" Likud government?

This sheer utter hypocricsy is exhibited in the cold hard fact that NARY A WORD has been spoken of how the Palestinians have negated ALL previous peace proposals by NON Likud "Leftist" governments that made expansive concessions!!

To them, the "assimilationist JINOs" to have had the Israel government bar these overally vocal detractors of the Jewish state (even with the explicit support of the US government) from entering the country was to say the least too upsetting!!

They imagine that THEY are more aware of the certainty of not only the "PR damage" to Israel to which Netanyahu and his "yes men" are blind, but how it will affect their standing among the "Goyim".

These assimilated diaspora Jews themselves seem to be, not only un-self-aware, but also utterly unaware of the obvious risks inherent in letting these two haters in.
They are conviently blind to the previous statements on Twitter and actions of Tlaib and Omar.
They are in utter denial that Tlaib and Omar wanted to get to "Palestine" with a clear malign agenda in mind.

Did any one think to ask WHY? or GOD FORBID mention WHY? they deliberately choose to travel separately from the pro-Israel Democratic delegation that preceded them?

It is quite evidently clear that by the published itenary, seen here on the left,that they had intentions and plans to score several propaganda coups against the Jewish state, and they had the Chutzpah (Nerve) and the ground support to carry them out in in conjunction with Israel's self-destructive extreme left wing groups and Hanan Ashrawi's MIFTAH group.

Here are a few, not merely possible, but likely scenarios that readily come to mind:

Scenario "Alef" (First):

Tlaib and Omar arrive at an Arab village and join a mob of thousands of Arabs to the Israeli checkpoint nearby, where the mob starts pressing and menacing IDF soldiers. As is done on a weekly basis at flash points chosen by the Abbas Cronies in Judaea and Shomron. Young teenagers throw stones or hurdle stones with sling shots. Suddenly a rioter on cue from the Hamas or PLO higher command throws a Molotov cocktail, or hurdles a makeshift pipe bomb escalating the violence.

An IDF soldier is is hurt or killed and deadly force is now applied against those who attack the  Border Patrol and IDF security forces.
In the now deadly exchange civilians(read cannon fodder) would be caught among the rioters,(As happens weekly on the Gaza Border) There is a possibly that the terror supporting Congresswomen would be injured.
And of course dozens of pro palestinian "stringers" paparazzi cameramen would be readily on hand to catch the act. They of course would be scrutinized by their Hamas PLO handlers before releasing only "THOSE" photos that support and adhere to the favored defamation of Israel narrative.

Scenario "Bet" (Second):

Tlaib and Omar ignore the Israeli government's approved itinerary and defy their *COGAT minders to visit an area explicitly forbidden to them.
An attempt is made to stop them.
People are jostled, fall, and are hurt in the melee - including the terror-supporting Congresswomen.

There are Pulitzer prize winning paparazzi photos of the event-taken by pro palestinian "stringers" and the articles are written from the slanted pro palestinian "stringers" journalists and printed in front page news all over the world.
(*The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories is a unit in the Israeli Ministry of Defense that engages in coordinating civilian issues between the Government of Israel, the Israel Defense Forces, international organizations, diplomats, and the Palestinian Authority)

Scenario "Gimmel" (Third):

Tlaib and Omar arrive at the Temple Mount in a pre-approved visit.
They are followed by a mob of *Sheikh Ra'ed Salah financed banshee supporters,(*the leader of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel" whose women harass and scream at all Jewish Visitors.

Suddenly as happens almost every week these "supporters" begin provoking the Israeli Police -Border Patrol Forces controlling the entrances.

Maybe a youth or two of the hate filled brainwashed Palestinian's will rush the Israeli guards-on cue from their controllers, like the other day with butcher knives from within the Temple Mound, slashing and stabbing the unsuspecting young Border Policemen or Women.
Shots are fired the terrorist murderers are "neutralized" a riot ensues in which either Tlaib or Omar get injured. The injuries don't need to be severe: just a bruised knee, or a light concussion. Even disheveled hair will do. Or the Congresswomen are not injured themselves, but they rush to help those who have fallen to the ground (which is a real easy thing to do).
It's all very dramatic and it's all on film. Israel will try to explain who started the trouble, and the world will laugh as usual and call it an Apartheid state.

Scenario "Dalet" Fourth:

Best case scenario. All goes as planned.
No riots.
No scuffles.
No injuries.
No deaths.
There are only pictures of Tlaib hugging her grandmother, embracing her distant cousins, tears filling her eyes and theirs.
There are photos of Omar praying at the Temple Mount with a throng of adoring Muslim women, raising her hands to the sky in supplication against the Zionist occupier, and shedding tears of Muslim solidarity which will be seen by every one of the 1.2 billion Muslims from Jakarta to Detroit.

We must remember that violence is a preferred, as can be seen on a weekly basis but not a necessary, condition for Pallywood productions.
You see we the Jewish citizens of "Left" and "Right" have sustained in the past two weeks:

• multiple rocket attacks into civilian cities in the past 72 hours
• two thwarted cross-border terror incursion from Gaza;
• a critical-injury terror ramming attack against a brother and sister returning home for Shabbes a day ago in Gush Etzion
• a lethal abduction and murder of a pre-army kid a week ago in the same area;
• a stabbing and riots on the Temple Mount last week,
• The weekly "March of Return" on the border with Gaza
• and of course the daily bellicose murderous warnings of annihilation from Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas throughout.

I fully supported US Ambassador Ron Dermer's decision to allow the two terror-supporting Congresswomen into Israel, based on the close ties between the US and Israel.
It is my default position to support the democratically elected government of Israel, and of course I assumed that the security establishment had evaluated the risks and benefits carefully.

I was especially proud of Israeli Interior Minister Aryeh De'eri's willingness to allow US Rep Rhasid Talib in to visit her 90 year old "sity" as she requested in her letter.....
 However Talib who secretly wished to visit her grandmother was too ashamed of the absolute rebuttals of her "humanitarian request" by her followers that she switched back to her cynical hate

In conclusion, if you think for an instant that I am not sufficiently broad-minded and morally fit enough for American Jewry's noble standards to want to allow openly sick virulent Jew-hating US officials who avidly support the negation of Israel and the extermination -expulsion of all Jews entrance to MY country then "tuff shit"!
If I have upset your little kumbaya group from your being able to kiss up to those who wish to erase MY homeland and sliver of land I call my home, well as my Bubbe would say; "tush mir tuckas!"

* cudoos to Abe Haak and Dave Bender for the original format

The Liar Queen of falestine and MIFTAH

What is on my mind is all the news media talk about the cancellation and then the cynical request by US Rep Rhashid Talib for a "humanitarian visit" that she used to defame Israel.

I am writing this so you may share the knowledge with others. Just WHO is this group that funded the heinous "trip / visit" of US Reps Ilahan Omar and Rashid Talib?
MIFTAH is a Palestinian, non-governmental organization (NGO), established in Jerusalem in December 1998. Its Secretary-General is the long-time PLO spokesperson Hanan Ashrawi.
According to its mission statement MIFTAH's main goal is:

“to engage local and international public opinion” in support of “the Palestinian cause by disseminating the Palestinian narrative and discourse …”. 

In short, Miftah is clearly a propaganda organization that has frequently published numerous accusations to bash the Jewish State of Israeli with “cultural genocide,” “war crimes,” and “apartheid”, through posts in English and Arabic on their web site. MIFTAH also promotes anti-Israeli BDS (boycotts, divestment, and sanctions) campaigns to defame Israel as well as to circulate articles glorifying terrorism.
"An example of this "Glorification" was in a piece by Johorah Baker;who has been identified as the group’s “Director of the Media and Information Department.” Elsewhere on the Miftah website, she is listed with other titles.

Johorah Baker's article was entitled; “Palestinian Women and the Intifada” from the 5th of July 2006 that focused on Palestinian women who: “decided to join the ranks of the resistance movement."
Now who did she exactly select to glorify? She chose Wafa Idris a 28-year-old, divorced Red Crescent Volunteer who lived in the Am'ari Refugee Camp in Ramallah. Idris is glorified as “the beginning of a string of Palestinian women dedicated to sacrificing their lives for the cause.” On the 27th of January 2002 shortly before 12:30 PM Idris detonated a 22-pound bomb in the center of Jerusalem outside a shoe store on Jaffa Road that killed her and Pinchas Emanuel Tokatli, 81, of Jerusalem. Over 150 people were wounded in this suicide bombing.
Pinchas Tokatli had been returning home from a painting class via the downtown area, where he was going to buy some paints as an amateur painter, when he was murdered, according to police, Pinchas had been standing near the female suicide bomber when she blew herself up. Regretfully he died only a short distance from the very spot on Jaffa Road where, in the 1940s, British soldiers beat him up, damaging his vision.
Another falestinian "heroine" that was chosen for "Glorification" by Johorah Baker was Hanadi Jaradat.
Hanadi blew herself up on Saturday, the 4th of October 2003 in a suicide attack in the beach front Maxim restaurant in the northern Israeli city of Haifa. The bomb Jaradat wore included metal fragments packed around an explosive core, that sprayed around the restaurant, maximizing lethal effect.
According to Haifa police sources, the aftermath was gruesome, with some of the dead still sitting upright at their tables, while others, including children and babies, were slammed against the walls. Due to the force of the explosion, all that remained of Jaradat was her head. In this particularly gruesome attack 21 innocent Israeli citizens who were peacefully eating, including five members of the Almog family from Haifa and five members of the Zer-Aviv family from Kibbutz Yagur near Haifa-were among those murdered and included four children and four Christian Arab Israelis. The explosive charge she used included metal fragments packed around the explosive core, that sprayed around the restaurant, maximizing lethal effect. Her father Taisir stated: that he was proud of what his daughter had done, and that "I will accept only congratulations for what she did. This was a gift she gave me, the homeland and the Palestinian people. Therefore, I am not crying for her."

Johorah Baker also wrote an article, titled “Let Us Honor Our Own,” which to this day appears on the Miftah website. The article strongly defends the right of the Palestinian Authority to pay salaries to imprisoned terrorists and the families of dead terrorists.
In this particular article she praises the terrorist Dalal al-Mughrabi who led the infamous terrorist attack known in Israel as the Coastal Road Massacre. Dalal Mughrabi and her terrorist group slaughtered 38 Israeli civilians, including 13 children and 71 were wounded. One member of the IDF was killed in the assault. The Coastal Road Massacre was the highest casualty toll in any terrorist attack in Israel’s history.

On March 9, 1978, a Palestinian terrorists from the  PLO faction of Fatah, led Dalal Mughrabi, left Lebanon on a ship headed for the Israeli coastline. They were equipped with AK-47 Kalashnikov rifles, RPGs- rocket propelled grenades, light mortars and high explosives
In their fear of being discovered by a Israeli Navy patrol early on the morning of March 11th, 1978, they transferred to two Zodiac boats and headed towards the shore. One of the Zodiacs capsized in the rough weather, and two of the terrorists drowned, but the surviving 11 carried on with their mission
The plan made by Abu Jihad was to seize a luxury hotel in Tel Aviv and take tourists and foreign ambassadors hostage in order to exchange them for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel and to "kill as many Israelis as possible".
On that fateful morning of March 11th, 1978 Gail Rubin, an American nature photographer, happened to be taking photos that early morning on the beach near Kibbutz Ma'agan Michael. Dalal Mughrabi asked Rubin where they were and immediately after she told them, Mughrabi shot her in the head. Both surviving attackers claimed that Mughrabi shot Rubin, who was a niece of United States Senator Abraham A. Ribicoff.

After the murder of Rubin the terrorist teams approached the coastal highway where they opened fire at unsuspecting passing civilian vehicles. When several vehicles were damaged and abandoned the terrorists blocked the road and hijacked a taxi, killing its occupants. They chased down a passing bus with the taxi and seized it and headed to Tel Aviv. They then hijacked another bus, moving the now 71 hostages to the first bus of the Egged national carrier carrying employees and their families who had set out on a holiday.
The bus was finally stopped by a large police roadblock set up at the Glilot Junction the main highway north of Tel Aviv near Herzliya were the traffic police had spread spiked strips on the road to puncture the bus' tires. Due to the speed at which the attack was transpiring, Israeli counter-terrorism squads had not been able to mobilize quickly enough, and the roadblock was manned by ordinary patrolmen and traffic policemen, who were lightly armed in comparison to the militants and untrained in dealing with hostage situations. A firefight quickly erupted, and police broke the bus' windows and yelled at passengers to jump. Escaping passengers were shot at by Mughrabi. According to the Israeli police, Assaf Hefetz, then head of the Israeli Police counter-terrorism unit, arrived at the scene before his unit, and stormed the bus, killing two terrorists. Hefetz sustained a shoulder injury during the battle, and was later awarded the Israeli Police Medal of Courage. The Palestinians allege that Mughrabi raised the Palestinian flag and declared the establishment of a Palestinian state, but no flag was ever found.
The MIFTAH article “Let Us Honor Our Own," from August 29, 2011 strongly defends the right of the Palestinian Authority to pay salaries to imprisoned terrorists and the families of dead terrorists and she denounces Israel for objecting to such salaries and for objecting to the PA’s policy of naming parks, streets, and other venues after Mugrabi and other terrorists.
The Palestinian Authority dedicated the public square in the city of al-Bireh to Mughrabi and it bears a plaque that depicts Mughrabi cradling a rifle against a map of Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
In addition, the Palestinian Authority launched a seminar called "Martyr Dalal Mughrabi Camp," to be held in Jericho. In May 2017, the Palestinian Authority via its organisation Women's Affairs Technical Committee (WATC) named a women's center in the town of Burqa after Mughrabi and celebrated her as a role model.
Here’s what Ms. Johara Baker wrote about Mughrabi:

“When Palestinians named a square after Dalal Al Mughrabi, a Palestinian fighter who was killed during a military operation against Israel in 1978, Israel was up in arms, claiming the Palestinians should not be allowed to name streets or squares after ‘terrorists.’

"… Countries should not interfere in the internal affairs of others. If the Palestinians want to name a street after one of their national heroes, regardless of how this person is perceived by Israel, that is their business.”

Baker’s use of quotation marks around the term “terrorist” in her article makes it clear that she rejects that description. Baker writes that the murders Mughrabi carried out were “a military operation” so,  according to MIFTAH the murderer of a US senator’s niece is “a Palestinian fighter” and a “hero.”

In addition to the praises and "Glorification" of terrorists there is the the atrociously antisemitic canard by Nawaf al-Zaru who published an article lambasting then President Obama that repeated the infamous blood libel against Jews.

Or “Passover” and “Jewish blood rituals..?!Much of the chatter and gossip about historical Jewish blood rituals in Europe are real and not fake as they claim; the Jews used the blood of Christians in the Jewish Passover …"

This disgusting antisemitic myth was the cause for many deadly pogroms against Jews in medieval Europe, resulting in the murder of thousands and the brutal elimination of entire communities. In the 19th century, accusations increased, expanding as far as Damascus, and also fueled Nazi propaganda, including in Der Sturmer.
This vulgar antisemitic libel, like the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, have been widespread in Arab and Muslim media, including in the publications of “mainstream” NGOs, such as Miftah, and is included in a deadly mix of Arab and Neo-Nazi anti-Israel propaganda and incitement.

Miftah has acquired a visibility and impact as the result of massive funding received from donors who, while publicly condemning antisemitism and incitement, turn a blind eye to its practice.

In 2011 (the latest available report), Miftah’s funder/enablers include the European Union (via the Anna Lindh Foundation), the governments of Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, and the Netherlands, Ireland, Norway, Italy, and Austria, as well as two official German political foundations (the Heinrich Boell and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung), and the UK branch of Oxfam (itself a recipient of state funding). As well as, the US-based taxpayer supported International Republican Institute,which provided money between 2007 and 2012.
Surely, European and American government officials who approved funding this and other such NGOs should have considered the highly antisemitic much less virulent anti-Israel / Zionism hatred expressed by the web site and their representatives.
Similarly, the members of parliaments; who approved the budgets in most cases, without access to any of the details, (which EU and other officials have labeled top secret), and the journalists, who showed no interest in the virulent hatred and its consequences, share in this moral failure.

Funders, particularly those who use the money provided by taxpayers, are also enablers, and are thereby accountable for all of the activities, including antisemitism, of the organizations in which they invest. The massive damage, that has already been done by European governments, enablers and US NGO groups as a result irresponsible support for Miftah and its counterparts, is immeasurable, and every additional grant does further harm and strengthens the abysmal hatred.