Sarah Honig

THE JERUSALEM POST
Mar. 23, 2006

A few tedious nights ago, while watching an endless array of televised electioneering, I started to doze just as another Kadima luminary explained to the viewing public how the infamous Right cynically seeks to frighten the voters, who have absolutely no reason whatever to feel uneasy or unsafe.

Didn't Ehud Olmert, the great centrist enchanter, repeatedly stress that Hamas isn't a strategic danger to the state of Israel? We need to entrust the helm-of-state to him, put our faith in his braggadocio and suspect abilities, place our futures in untried hands, and most of all, not allow his political adversaries to scare us with malicious prophesies of doom.

Olmert's insistent voice invaded my drowsy consciousness. He kept urging that we not obsess about our national insecurity and collective vulnerability. "Leave your troubles outside," I heard him exclaim.

Imperceptibly Olmert's face grew chalky and across it stretched a garish red grin. He winked roguishly and with salacious solicitousness asked: "So, life's disappointing? Forget it. In here life is beautiful! The girls are beautiful! The orchestra is beautiful!"

As I drifted off, visions from Cabaret, the critically acclaimed 1972 hit, floated before my eyes. I was transported to the movie set of the Kit-Kat Club in decadent 1930s Berlin. Infectious rhythms resonated in my ears, when it dawned on me that Olmert was none other than the eerie emcee. Deftly doing his grotesque introduction number, Olmert bellowed: "Willkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome im cabaret, au cabaret, to cabaret..."

Inside the cabaret, as Olmert enticingly promised, everything was gaudy, syrupy and self-indulgent. Olmert did his seductive utmost to banish desperate anxiety and lull the clientele into obliviousness of the looming nightmare outside his pleasurable sanctuary.

Magnetic hallucination prevailed in Olmert's cabaret. His popular Jericho hocus-pocus - non-too-spectacular a feat of legerdemain and of limited impact - made him look macho and steadfast. Hamas faded into irrelevance, while the emcee advised cloyingly against fretting about an al-Qaida foothold next-door.

BESIDES, TERROR can be combated via the destruction of more settlements, this time only five minutes from Kfar Saba. The success of the abandoned Rafah Crossing can be replicated on the Allenby Bridge.

It's simpler to pretend to control demographics by uprooting Jews than to actually defeat genocidal enemies. It's less distressing to appease implacable foes with territorial tributes than face the truth that this conflict isn't about real estate but about our very existence in this land.

Unilateralism has regressed us 130 years, but better not dwell on the unpleasantness of a life-and-death struggle.

So far unilateralism erased the Left's territories-for-peace equation. We gave territories and got no peace. It also rubbed out the border-surveillance prerequisite of even minimalist Israeli defense doctrines. Likewise gone is the notion of demilitarizing the areas Israel cedes.

Israel retreated from Gaza but, contrary to disengagement's elementary logic, remains somehow responsible for its sworn enemies' welfare.

Last but hardly least - the Palestinians escaped penalty for unleashing their homicidal intifada. Their terrorist offensive was instead handsomely rewarded. Olmert has recently announced that yet more bountiful handovers (euphemistically dubbed "convergence") are in the pipeline. Can these realistically mitigate Hamas bloodlust?

Will more free gifts constitute significant disincentives for an Iranian-Hamas Axis, for raining Kassams on the densely populated Coastal Plain, Greater Jerusalem and Ben-Gurion Airport? Why desist from aggression when it pays off? The irrationality of Olmertian assumptions is what swept Hamas to power.

Moreover, it's only a matter of time - not much time - before Hamas rule gains international legitimacy. The junkets of Hamas kingpins to Russia and South Africa and their planned excursions to Turkey and Venezuela are only harbingers of what's to come.

Things are sure to go from bad to worse. When George Bush's term ends, he's likely to be replaced by a Carter-Clinton clone who'll rule out any American intervention in this region - even if Iran flexes nuclear muscles, Lebanon becomes a bastion of Islamic extremism and our own Hamastan destabilizes all neighboring regimes, primarily Jordan.

We'll be left on our own then, weaker and more exposed, restricted to our shrunken confines and under a vacillating, irresolute and unprincipled leadership.

We'll never know what drove Ariel Sharon to promote the disengagement opiate. Perhaps legal entanglements indeed tipped his scales. But Olmert pushed this drug way before Sharon ever came near it.

Olmert continues to hawk addictive delusion. Anyone who tries to poop his party is scorned. The merrymaking must go on regardless of occasional wake-up calls from pesky reality, including from in-your-face Hamas honchos, who have no intention of misleading us. They remind us at every opportunity that for them Israel is a candidate for termination.

Olmert plans to douse their destructive ardor by showering them with additional gratuitous concessions. There's really no need to worry or take savage threats seriously. It's all a lark. Life is a cabaret.

So Olmert hypnotically chanted, mesmerizing us to the bitter end - like the old film's iconic emcee - with the assurance that "we have no troubles here!" Before the credits, Olmert's musical accompaniment too switched to a fatalistic drumroll, which culminated in a cymbal's sharp reverberation and abruptly fell silent. As in the movie, the sudden stillness evoked a sense of approaching cataclysm, but the final blurred images that lingered ominously through the unfocused camera lenses weren't of Brownshirts and swastikas but of Hamas Green.

I awoke in a cold sweat. The Kadima commercial was still running on the boob-tube. All's well - no need to panic. The cabaret is still in business.

1.  The Global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000, or
20% of the world population.

They have received the following Nobel Prizes:

Literature:
1988 - Najib Mahfooz.

Peace:
1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat
1994 - Yaser Arafat

Physics:
1990 - Elias James Corey
1999 - Ahmed Zewail

Medicine:
1960 - Peter Brian Medawar
1998 - Ferid Mourad

2.  The Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000, or about
0.02% of the world population.

They have received the following Nobel Prizes:

Literature:
1910 - Paul Heyse
1927 - Henri Bergson
1958 - Boris Pasternak
1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon
1966 - Nelly Sachs
1976 - Saul Bellow
1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer
1981 - Elias Canetti
1987 - Joseph Brodsky
1991 - Nadine Gordimer World

Peace:
1911 - Alfred Fried
1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser
1968 - Rene Cassin
1973 - Henry Kissinger
1978 - Menachem Begin
1986 - Elie Wiesel
1994 - Shimon Peres
1994 - Yitzhak Rabin

Physics:
1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer
1906 - Henri Moissan
1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson
1908 - Gabriel Lippmann
1910 - Otto Wallach
1915 - Richard Willstaetter
1918 - Fritz Haber
1921 - Albert Einstein
1922 - Niels Bohr
1925 - James Franck
1925 - Gustav Hertz
1943 - Gustav Stern
1943 - George Charles de Hevesy
1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi
1952 - Felix Bloch
1954 - Max Born
1958 - Igor Tamm
1959 - Emilio Segre
1960 - Donald A. Glaser
1961 - Robert Hofstadter
1961 - Melvin Calvin
1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau
1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz
1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman
1965 - Julian Schwinger
1969 - Murray Gell-Mann
1971 - Dennis Gabor
1972 - William Howard Stein
1973 - Brian David Josephson
1975 - Benjamin Mottleson
1976 - Burton Richter
1977 - Ilya Prigogine
1978 - Arno Allan Penzias
1978 - Peter L Kapitza
1979 - Stephen Weinberg
1979 - Sheldon Glashow
1979 - Herbert Charle s Brown
1980 - Paul Berg
1980 - Walter Gilbert
1981 - Roald Hoffmann
1982 - Aaron Klug
1985 - Albert A. Hauptman
1985 - Jerome Karle
1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach
1988 - Robert Huber
1988 - Leon Lederman
1988 - Melvin Schwartz
1988 - Jack Steinberger
1989 - Sidney Altman
1990 - Jerome Friedman
1992 - Rudolph Marcus
1995 - Martin Perl
2000 - Alan J. Heeger

Economics:
1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson
1971 - Simon Kuznets
1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow
1975 - Leonid Kantorovich
1976 - Milton Friedman
1978 - Herbert A. Simon
1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein
1985 - Franco Modigliani
1987 - Robert M. Solow
1990 - Harry Markowitz
1990 - Merton Miller
1992 - Gary Becker
1993 - Robert Fogel

Medicine:
1908 - Elie Metchnikoff
1908 - Paul Erlich
1914 - Robert Barany
1922 - Otto Meyerhof
1930 - Karl Landsteiner
1931 - Otto Warburg
1936 - Otto Loewi
1944 - Joseph Erlanger
1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser
1945 - Ernst Boris Chain
1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller
1950 - Tadeus Reichstein
1952 - Selman Abra ham Waksman
1953 - Hans Krebs
1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann
1958 - Joshua Lederberg
1959 - Arthur Kornberg
1964 - Konrad Bloch
1965 - Francois Jacob
1965 - Andre Lwoff
1967 - George Wald
1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg
1969 - Salvador Luria
1970 - Julius Axelrod
1970 - Sir Bernard Katz
1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman
1975 - Howard Martin Temin
1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg
1977 - Roselyn Sussman Yalow
1978 - Daniel Nathans
1980 - Baruj Benacerraf
1984 - Cesar Milstein
1985 - Michael Stuart Brown
1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein
1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini]
1988 - Gertrude Elion
1989 - Harold Varmus
1991 - Erwin Neher
1991 - Bert Sakmann
1993 - Richard J. Roberts
1993 - Phillip Sharp
1994 - Alfred Gilman
1995 - Edward B. Lewis

The Jews are not demonstrating with their dead on the streets, yelling
and chanting and asking for revenge; the Jews are not promoting brain
washing the children in military training camps, teaching them how to
blow themselves up and cause maximum deaths of Jews and other non
Muslims.

The Jews don't hijack planes, nor kill athletes at the Olympics; the
Jews don't traffic slaves , nor have leaders calling for Jihad and
death to all the Infidels.

The Jews don't have the economic strength ofpetroleum, nor the
possibilities to force the world's media to see "their side" of the
question.

Perhaps the world's Muslims should consider investing more in standard
education and less in blaming the Jews for all their problems.

From a reader:

In case you missed this, Jerusalem Post recently ran several pieces, mainly a column by Sarah Honig, about Ehud Olmert's two sons and one daughter. One son never served in the Israeli army and today lives permanently in Paris. The other is an active member in Yesh Gvul, the seditious organization that foments mutiny and insurrection among Israeli soldiers, demanding that they refuse to serve until Israel completely capitulates to all Arab fascist demands. The daughter of Olmert is an activist in the communist-front organization

Machsom Watch (Checkpoint Watch), which harasses Israeli soldiers and policemen checking Palestinian vehicles for explosives and weapons.  In other words, she is trying to help Palestinians infiltrate Israel and murder Jewish children.

This is the guy who will be Israel's next prime minister. The above is his own personal family track record in education and Zionism.  A man who himself believes in nothing has raised a brood who believe in Israel's destruction.  He will shortly be in charge of educating Israeli children.

by Gary Cooperberg

I remember a few years ago, when the so called "intifada" was in full swing.  It was about this time of year when any time I would drive my car to or from Jerusalem I could expect to have to duck flying stones.  Then there was a period of time when rocks were no longer in fashion, and bullets were directed at passenger cars.  At that time I left my car at home and took the bullet proof bus whenever we went to Jerusalem.  Now it seems all of that is behind us.  For the last year or two did not experience even an attempt to throw a rock at my car.  I was even thinking about getting a new car and being able to keep the glass windows!

Then, on Sunday, as I was taking my family on an excursion, driving peacefully down the road, there was a loud smash against the window.  It seems that a young "liberator of Palestine" decided to renew the  successful efforts to wrest Israel from the Jews.  Had we not installed the rock proof windows in our car my dear wife would, G-d forbid, have either been seriously injured or murdered by that rock. . . for the crime of being a Jew living in Israel. Make no mistake.  That Arab youth had every intention to murder for the cause of  "Palestine". When a dog barks at you, if you run away he will chase you and bite you.  If you stand your ground and pick up a rock or a stick then the dog will run away.  When Arabs see the mighty IDF turning tail and running from them, like a dog they move in for the kill.

I agree with our Prime Minister that we have no choice but to disengage ourselves from the Arabs.  They will never accept the concept of living with a Jewish Israel of any size.   There are only two possible ways to disengage.  The one which Sharon has chosen is to abandon our homeland.  Clearly if we leave ! then terror will no longer have a purpose. His program is one which effectively declares that Zionism has failed and we must now undo everything and return to the Exile.

The other choice is to disengage by removing our enemies from our midst.  The concept of an Israeli Arab is an oxymoron.  And those Jews who insist upon living with our enemies are simply morons.  There was a slogan many years ago saying "Give Peace a Chance".  Well we gave "peace" too many chances.  All of them failed miserably and far too many Jews and Arabs have been killed as a result.  Ignoring problems or trying to run away from them will never solve the problem.  Every honest Jew knows that the Arabs do not want to live in peace with us.  They want us out of what they feel is their land.  Even Sharon knows what will happen to the cemeteries in Katif should we abandon them.  Only a hypocrite, a liar, or a complete fool would suggest that running away from an enemy will have positive results.

He who says "we have no need to stay in Gaza" is also a liar.  What he really means is that we have no need for so many Arabs.   But he is afraid to be so blunt, and he really feels that it would be easier to uproot Jews rather than uproot Arabs.  Running away always seems to be the easiest solution to a problem.  But, in the long run, as all cowards eventually discover, it only makes the problem worse.  First of all it encourages our enemies to continue their efforts to destroy us.  Secondly it sets the precedent for us to abandon more of our country to Arabs who have succeeded in over populating them, such as in Shechem and the Wadi Ara triangle and much of the north of our country, not to mention East Jerusalem.   Were we to take Sharon's method to its logical conclusion ! we would, step by step, physically turn over our country to the Arabs until we would be small enough and weak enough for them to take the rest away by force.

There are only two choices.  Either we remove all the Arabs from our country, or we just pack up and leave.  To pretend that we can surrender just a little and continue to live with our enemies is pure self deception and will result in much needless bloodshed.

How they vote in the United Nations:

Perhaps it is time to get out of the UN and give the tax savings back to
the American people.

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