Jerusalem News (10 April, 2013, Nissan 30, 5773)
Contents:
1. License to Murder: It's Not Just Amira Hass by Meir Indor
2. Is Iran guilty of an incitement to genocide? by Michael Gerson
3. Recommended Blogsite: This Ongoing War
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1. License to Murder: Â It's Not Just Amira Hass
by Meir Indor
 www.imra.org.il
Extracts:
The Palestinian Authority is the official body behind the recent 'intifada'
of rocks and Molotov cocktails, and Haaretz journalist Amira Hass has long
been the Palestinians' unofficial spokeswoman. When she wrote an article
this week legitimizing rock throwing, she was doing her part in the PA's
effort to stretch a defensive umbrella over the young brutes lobbing rocks
and incendiary bombs. They are the ones who mortally wounded baby Adelle
Biton. They are the ones who seriously injured musician Itzik Kalah's wife,
Tziyona, four months ago near Beitar Ilit. Both events occured in the
so-called settlements blocs: the Palestinians do not discriminate.
The Central Command of the IDF won't admit it, but a rash of so many
terrorist attacks at the same time and with such scope is impossible unless
it is centrally organized. The PA, meanwhile, is not in the least
embarrassed by what it dubs a 'popular intifada.'
The terrorist organizers don't only deploy terrorists. They also deploy
collaborators and lawyers, as well as sympathetic media coverage from within
the civilian population under attack (in accordance with the doctrines of
terrorism first developed in the Soviet Union).
I don't have any intention of taking on Amira Hass. She turned traitor long
ago, and her case is one for the legal authorities. But is Hass the only
journalist in the service of the 'popular intifada'? What about the other
news media, are they doing their job? Or are they also collaborating, by
keeping silent?
Most of the media do not report most rock-throwing attacks. I encountered
this reality in the past when my wife and I were nearly lynched on our way
home from visiting my parents' graves on the Mount of Olives. Only a few of
the media reported on the injury to my head, even though pictures were
provided to them on a silver platter. ..
There was my wife's angle too. She was the one at the wheel. Aside from
the fear and the terror, the trembling and the tears that gripped her, the
post-traumatic symptoms, she was left with a sense of betrayal. My wife is
a nurse, and she has occasion to provide treatment to residents of the Arab
neighborhood where we were attacked, while virtually all the teachers from
the little terrorists' school stood outside watching as their students set
upon us. ...
So when did the media report on what was happening in the area? Just one
day after I was wounded, when City of David head David Be'eri lightly
injured an Arab youth who was throwing rocks at his car as he drove through
the area. The footage taken by the photographers who had been invited to
film the Palestinian ambush, showing the youth being injured by Be'eri's
car, was broadcast repatedly.
Why does this matter so much to me? Because even aside from the media's
rightful function of delegitimizing terrorism with cold weapons, coverage
makes a difference. A big difference. In a country where the media are so
powerful that they dictate how many resources go to a given criminal
investigation, reports carry a lot of weight. When rocks were thrown at an
Arab woman last month in Jerusalem, media pressure brought out a slew of
investigative teams, and all those who had been involved were quickly
arrested. The powers that be made it crystal clear that the law is supreme,
and it is enforced, Â the problem being that it is enforced selectively.
Here is a different angle on the same issue: in the absence of media reports
to the contrary, Barack Obama could sell the PA to the Israeli public as a
an entity with which it is possible to make peace.
Despite all the bad experience with restraint as defense policy, we are
going in that direction yet again. The combination of the media's
indifference to the wounding of Jews and senior IDF officers' instructions
to exercise restraint in the face of Palestinian terrorism is interpreted by
those organizing the attacks as a blank check to keep them coming. Once it
was small groups of terrorists with their faces covered who threw rocks at
IDF forces. Now it is in the open, often with masses of attackers, who know
that nothing will happen to them as long as no Israeli is dead yet by the
end of the event. This is a fact. How many of the people who participate
in these rock-throwing demonstrations have been arrested, after being
photographed and filmed while there? The IDF could go into their towns at
night and collect them by the hundred. But in practice very, very few are
apprehended.
The Palestinians take advantage of this. Intelligently, craftily they put
youths and minors to work on the rock-throwing front, knowing that they are
protected by Israeli and foreign NGO's, as well as the Israeli media, which
rush to the scene the moment an investigator strays from his orders while
trying to extract vital information or a confession. Welcome to the
paradise of Palestinian terrorism.
All together, this is the route to the legitimization of terrorism. It
starts with Amira Hass, and it ends with the killing of the Palmer father
and son by a well-aimed rock thrown from a moving vehicle. For Hass, this
is a legitimate deed. For me it is a legitimate reason to put her in jail
under the Prevention of Terror Ordinance for encouraging and collaborating
with acts of terrorism.
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Meir Indor is a lieutenant-colonel (ret.) in the IDF and head of the Almagor
Terror Victims Association.
Translated from Hebrew by David B. Greenberg
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IMRA - Independent Media Review and Analysis
Website: www.imra.org.il
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2. Is Iran guilty of an incitement to genocide? by Michael Gerson
 - The Washington Post, April 4th, 2013
Extracts:
WASHINGTON Â Over the years, Americans have come to discount statements on Israel and Zionism by Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Repetition has rendered them unremarkable.
Israel must be 'wiped off the map.' Zionism is a 'germ of corruption' that 'will be wiped off the face of the earth.' It is a 'cancer cell' that must be 'removed from the body.' 'Israel is destined for destruction and will soon disappear.'
One is tempted to add: blah, blah, blah. It is easy to dismiss this rhetoric as being designed for domestic consumption. And soon after Iran's June election, Ahmadinejad will be out of a job, history's single most persuasive argument in favor of term limits.
But the problem is this: Ahmadinejad's language is not exceptional within the Iranian regime.
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has also referred to Israel as a 'cancerous tumor.' In recent weeks, Khamenei has promised, if the Iranian nuclear program is attacked, to 'level down Tel Aviv and Haifa.'
Senior Iranian military leaders, presidential advisers and religious authorities can be quoted endlessly in a similar vein.
Such arguments are deeply embedded in the Iranian regim, as a statement of mission, an organizing principle. This won't be changed by a single election.
It is possible to overplay such rhetoric. The Iranian government is not simply an irrational, apocalyptic cult. It may eventually respond to sanctions. It is sometimes necessary for America to engage in diplomacy with very nasty people.
But it is possible to underplay this language as well. It is not merely hate speech. It has the hallmarks of incitement to genocide: the dehumanization of a targeted group and the use of code words to cover genocidal intent.
But Iranian incitement should not be glossed over. It is not common, culturally excusable or normal among nations. 'How many other states do we know,' asks Michael Abramowitz, director of the Center for Genocide Prevention at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 'that talk about other human beings in the way the Iranian leadership speaks of Israelis and Jews? They are conditioning generations of young people in their own country and the broader Middle East to think of Jews as subhuman, which makes acts of terror by groups like Hamas and Hezbollah seem more thinkable.'
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