Palestinians failed their "peaceful state-worthy" promise after they massacred the liberal Israelis who relocated from Gaza 2-decades ago this week

Israeli Prime Minister Sharon's 2005 choice to let Gazan Arabs prove their neighbor-readiness if the Gazan Jewish communities would be removed has failed long before the  Palestinians' October 7th '23 genocide of non-Muslims.

Over the past 20-years, JewTube.Info has chronicled evidence of Western pressure to empowering Palestinian nationalism, e.g.,

Israel withdrew all Jewish life from Gush Katif Gaza to give the Palestinians opportunity to prove safe sovereign neighbors  JewTube.Info August 2010

Many of those "disengaged" Jews moved to the Israeli side (referred to geographically as the Gaza Envelope) and attempted cohabitating for years. Yet in 2023 October, the Palestinians attempted to genocide the Jews - not only along the Gaza Envelope, but in central Israel. 

Why now, is the Democrat Administration and E.U. pushing Israel to cede more territory in East Jerusalem and the West Bank to trust that a sovereign Islamic State of Palestine would prove safe for Israelis? 

In 2018, the Jewish National Fund (which Canada this week removed charity status from) brought resettled Jewish Gaza residents to tour U.S. communities to discuss their experiences. 

Residents of Eshkol, a region along the border with Egypt and Gaza, share their challenges, including threats from Palestinian attacks and Hamas' intention to target them with short-range rockets. Eshkol is a county consisting of 32 communities along the border triangle of Israel, sharing a 40km border with Gaza and a further 20km Egypt. 

Mrs. Michal Uziyahu, at the time of this appearance in '18, directed the Community Center of the Eshkol Regional Council, explains that no matter where Jews sacrificed land, Muslims never ceased hating, nor endeavoring to drive them out, not only of Gaza & Judea / Samaria, but of the recognized 1948 armistice lines of Israel. 

Mrs. Michal Uziyahu, who grew up in Sinai and was displaced during "the Gaza disengagement," emphasizes that these communities are not heroes but people who love the land and Israel. The Jewish resident expresses her thoughts on the Palestinian situation in Gaza and the Sinai withdrawal, advocating for Palestinians to take responsibility for their revolution and remove Hamas from power. She questions the potential for peace with a Palestinian state in Gaza, expressing optimism for a democratic Palestinian state but doubting peace could be achieved if the Palestinian culture remains Islamist and fixated on reclaiming land. 

 

Mrs. Uziyahu is currently the volunteer Liaison for the Mayor of Eshkol Regional Council assisting with partnerships & collaborations for the rehabilitation of Eshkol following the massacre of the Black Sabbath on Oct 7th. 

Gazan Jewish man recalls life in & after '05 de-occupying Gaza gauging Palestinian reality of touted peace. 

First-hand Israeli perspective from Mr. Yedidiya Harush on Muslims driving out Jews from legal communities in Gush Katif on the Gaza Strip (such as Atzmona) resettled to "safer" new desert community Halutza, where the Jewish National Fund contributes to their habitat. Recorded at Stephen Wise Temple in Los Angeles.

 

'Israel withdrew for peace 19-years ago - what has Palestinian 'state' wrought?" 

19-years ago today, Israel uprooted Jewish Gaza/ Gush Katif resident, Yedidya Harush (among 8,000 other Jewish inhabitants) to test Palestinians' readiness to provide peace from their proposed "state." Today, Mr. Harush serves as the Jewish Nat'l Fund's representative to the re-settled Jews along Israel's southern border with Gaza. He reveals the Palestinians' terror attacks on his Jewish communities. 

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Israeli-American, Mrs. Mirie Ezer (of Free Israeli & American Hostages) Rally October 23, in Encino, Los Angeles argues against further empowering Palestinians led by Islamist Hamas and the Fatah Party-led Palestinian Authority.

 

The assassination of Rav Meir Kahane- al-Qaeda's first terror attack on US soil- Lessons on 30th anniversary

Rabbi Meir Kahane is known as a stalwart defender of the safety of the Jewish people's safety. But he was also a great religious scholar, writer, and leader many consider the author of "Why Be Jewish" and several other books a tzaddik and prophet.

J.D.L. members aid Rabbi Meir Kahane, shot by NY-area Islamist, Nosair
at NYC East-Side Marriott, 20-min til ambulance. (Photo: Shannon Taylor)

Omar Abdel-Rahman ("The Blind Sheikh") led Gamaa Islamiya terror group
inciting El Sayyid Nosair to murder Rabbi Kahane, bombing NYC's W.T.C.,
which killed 6 people, and plotting to blow up the U.N. and NYC landmarks

This National Geographic documentary illustrates the connection between the murderers of Rav Kahane, the first Al Qaeda terror act on American soil, and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing - which it is alleged could have been averted had the FBI & NYPD been able to better investigate the radical materials of El Sayid Nosair, convicted for assassinating Rav Kahane November 5th, 1990.


As Debbie Schlussel wrote:

Nosair’s trial was a travesty of epic proportions. The moronic O.J. Simpson-style jury acquitted Nosair (defended by Marxist Jewish self-hater William Kunstler) of murder charges, even though it was clear that he planned the murder of Rabbi Kahane and meticulously carried it out in front of a room full of witnesses. Thankfully, the courageous judge

overseeing the case, Judge Alvin Schlesinger, said the jury’s acquittal “was against the overwhelming weight of evidence and was devoid of common sense and logic,” and he sentenced Nosair to the maximum number of years possible, under the charges for which he was convicted–seven to 22 years."

Though acquitted of Kahane’s murder, three years later, while in prison, Nosair was also implicated in the first World Trade Center bombings that killed six and injured over a thousand others, through his association with those involved in the attack. 

Nosair’s cousin, Ibrahim A. El-Gabrowny, 45, received 57 years for the conspiracy and other charges, including possession of bogus passports and visas intended to get Nosair out of the country following a jailbreak. Seven other defendants received prison terms of 25 to 35 years for planning what prosecutors called a “war of urban terrorism” aimed at altering US policy in the Middle East.  (Source: Times of Israel, Feb '17).

Eyewitness to Nosair's assassination of Rabbi Kahane, former J.D.L. member, Shannon Taylor, recounts the murder, the trial, and it's ramifications - only days after the Pittsburgh Etz Chaim/ Tree of Life synagogue massacre by Robert Bowers (ironically professed to have been motivated by Jews' support for H.I.A.S. (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) resettling of Muslim immigrants in Pennsylvania and other cities across the United States).

Rabbi Kahane had intended to bring his message to Los Angeles' Beth Jacob Synagogue after his Marriott appearance.  If the congregational rabbi would not honor some congregants request for him to speak inside the sanctuary, Rabbi Kahane declared that he would speak outside on the street.

Rabbi Moshe Parry appeared in 2013 outside Beth Jacob Synagogue to honor Rabbi Kahane's ideology- published below.

"Just Who Stole Eretz Yisrael?" - "G-d is Creator of the Universe and Owner and Master of the earth and all that it contains: "The Earth is the L-rd's, and the fullness thereof" (Ps. 24:1). He gave Eretz Yisrael to the Jewish People as their land, to enable them to fulfill their mission of building a state and society in accordance with the laws and foundations of the Holy Torah: "He gave them the lands of nations; they inherited people's toils, that they might keep His statutes and observe His laws" (Ps. 105:44-45). As far as Eretz Yisrael, no apologies or justifications are necessary. The Jewish People came to the land where the seven nations dwelled and took it from them by decree of the Owner, G-d. G-d uprooted the nations who dwelled there and brought in His chosen people, Israel, because the land is His and does not belong to those who lived there as occupants.

A Jew must realize that everything -- the world, punishment, even he himself -- is under G-d's exclusive domain".

Nosair's son, Zak has changed his last name to Ebrahim and has written a book denouncing his father's Islamic terrorism.

My dad, the terrorist: 1993 WTC jihadist’s son reveals painful past
by Susannah Cahalan, New York Post, August 31, 2014.

“The Terrorist’s Son: A Story of Choice,” which he wrote in part, he explains, to show that not all Muslims are irredeemable supporters of extremist ideology.

The 3rd Jihad's route to spread the caliphate to fertile Europe runs through Jerusalem

What's the only thing standing in between 300 million Muslims and an invasion of Europe via Greece?  Americans for a Safe Israel's chairman, Mark Langfan, explained to JooTube.

Mapping out the 'actual conditions' of the Middle East

By Maxine Dovere /JNS.org  (Jewish News Service)

Israeli Minister of Tourism Uzi Landau caused a media stir last month when, at a cabinet meeting, he quoted from former Israeli foreign minister Abba Eban's statement that Israel's 1967 borders are reminiscent of "Auschwitz" because of their indefensibility. But New York attorney Mark Langfan has been saying-rather, portraying-that same point for years.

Langfan for more than two decades has been designing his own Middle East maps-which depict what he calls "actual conditions" in the region, including topography, natural resources, geopolitics, and trade and transportation routes-and schlepping (as he puts it) them to Capitol Hill, where members of Congress from day one told him their constituents believe Israel is an apartheid state.

  

"The maps provided a tool to enable [legislators] to say to these people, basically, Israel should exist," Langfan says in an interview with JNS.org.

Langfan says his maps work off the assumption that the 1967 "Auschwitz borders" mentioned by Landau "are indefensible and will cause another Holocaust." Furthermore, the maps seek to counter the assumption of Israel's enemies that all of the problems in the Middle East "are because of the Jews."

"According to that theory, if Israel is gone, all the regional problems are solved," Langfan says. "Well, that's not exactly what would be likely to happen."

  

The motivation behind Langfan's self-funded maps project, he says, is "trying to leverage the maps as a valuable tool to help Israel."

"The issues of the Middle East are complex and multifaceted," Langfan says. "The maps serve as a tool to help explain the realities and put them into perspective-an important means of presenting issues to Congress and American and Israeli Jews."

Langfan presents his maps in 8-10 minute explanatory talks during which the understanding of topography "becomes an important, simple base for additional information," he says.

"These are not interpretive renditions of reality," he says. "These maps show the actual conditions on the ground, presented for the sake of understanding. The intent is to be able to lecture to informed, varied audiences, from high school kids to generals and everyone in between."

One of Langfan's maps details major Palestinian rocket-launching sites, showing the close proximity of those battlements to Israeli population centers. 

"When you realize that both Hezbollah and Hamas can fire rockets-like firing from Brooklyn to Manhattan-it really brings home the reality of the distance, really, the lack of distance [between rocket-launching sites and Israel]," Langfan says.

Another Langfan map, designed around the issue of energy control, "simplifies understanding of the politics of energy," he says.

  

"The [Middle East] has 370 million Muslims and 11 million Christians in Greece," Langfan explains. "The only barrier between them is Israel. Without Israel, the Muslims will seek to conquer Greece and Cyprus. If Israel were not there, would oil and gas revenues be shared with the Christians of Cyprus? The discovery of natural gas and oil reserves makes the existence of a strong Israel all the more important."

Gaining control over what Langfan calls the "Black Gold Triangle-the oil-rich strip along the east and west coasts of the Persian Gulf-is what Langfan says the "world chess game is all about."

"Each component is a piece of puzzle," he says. "Oil is key. OPEC represents 78 percent of the world's oil-this area has 56 percent of that supply."

Langfan points out that Shi'ite Muslims hold virtually all of the Middle East oil reserves, even in Sunni-governed Saudi Arabia. He believes that Iran's encouragement of the continuation of turmoil in Syria "is not over Syria," but rather over the oil triangle.

"For Iran, it's a question of controlling territory-a smothering campaign," Langfan says. "Amman (the capital of Jordan) and Jerusalem are hardly involved." 

  

In almost any conversation about the Middle East, the question of Iran's attempt to develop nuclear weapons capacity arises. Langfan says the Iranians "are not fools" and   "have placed their nuclear facilities in as protected a place as possible." A strike on Iran's nuclear facilities "means crossing 4,500 meter-high-mountains," he says, explaining that attacking Iran is a tougher proposition than attacking Iraq, where all of the nuclear facilities are to the east of the mountains.

Regarding Israel, Langfan says, "The strategic value of that little piece of land is extraordinary." He is opposed to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and says the American Israel Political Affairs Committee (AIPAC) "has a problem" on that issue. 

"[AIPAC] has supported the two-state solution, but its position has morphed into one that recognizes Israel as a strategic asset of the United States," Langfan says, calling that position a "contradiction" because the two stances are "mutually exclusive."

"No matter what Israeli general or politician you speak to, they all say 'We will take painful risks for the peace process,'" Langfan says. "They never mention Israel as a strategic asset. If you have a strategic asset, do you expose your strategic asset to pain and risks for peace?"

"Israel is not a dependent little entity that needs to beg for its existence," he adds. "Rather, the Jewish state is a vital component in maintaining the integrity of western civilization."

Ultimately, Langfan dismisses the approach of those who believe "we have to beg for Israel and beg the politicians" to support of the Jewish state.

"My approach is radically different," he says. "If you think there are problems in the Middle East now, think what would happen if there were no Israel."

Al-Jazeera spoiler, Prof. Mordechai Kedar, on Muslim and Arab prejudices towards Jews and Israel

The number of bombing raids the Syrian Air Force executed upon the Syrian people in the last 2 years exceeds the number of air raids they launched against Israel during their wars in 1948, '67, '73, and '82 combined? Has Al Jazeera reported this?  Have the mainstream media sources?  Why do they not, yet instead focus on Judea and Samarians building new bathrooms?   Part 1 (38 min)


Watch 3 part series by Israeli Jewish scholar of Islamic and Arabic studies, Prof. Mordechai Kedar of Bar Ilan University. He says one of the purposes of Al Jazeera is to divert the Arab public from the unjust distribution of Gulf oil wealth to monarchs.  Part 2 - 21 min



Arabic-speaking Israeli Al-Jazeera spoiler spills Secrets of the Arab Royals. Mordechai Kedar (Part 3; 40 min)


Fascinating Question and Answers from L.A. audience to Israeli Jewish scholar of Islamic and Arabic studies, Prof. Mordechai Kedar of Bar iLan University. He says one of the purposes of Al Jazeera is to divert the Arab public from the unjust distribution of Gulf oil wealth to monarchs. The Professor says it is your responsibilty to help in whichever ways you are able.

Pat Condell says jihadist Hamas, not Israel, is the obstacle to Palestinians' freedom

Lucid cultural analyst, Britain's Pat Condell, shatters the cowed Western delusion that jihadist Palestinian Hamas can be negotiated into providing peace for Gazan Arabs or Israel before they conquer the Jewish state.

9/11 lessons: How 'pro-Palestinian anti-Zionism' bolsters jihadist influence in the West- and ensures greater terror to wedge Western support away from Israel

At 9/11 World Trade Center site, Chaim ben Pesach of the Jewish Task Force (JTF.org) addresses imperialist Islamist motivations for terror to intimidate the west into subjugation, President Barack Hussein Obama's Muslim cultural and poltical affinity, his policies which abet and bolster Islamic fundamentalist power and also hamper Israel; Mr. Ben Pesach addresses how he feels Israel-concerned Americans ought to be considering replacing Barack Hussein Obama as president in the coming elections.

 

At NYC 9/11 Memorial Site,Chaim ben Pesach, director of Jewish Task Force, reflects on anti-Semitism; revealing how in 1990-91 the FBI, CIA, and NYPD ignored 40 boxes of evidence of the terror networks which could have averted both attacks on NY's World Trade Center- because it was in the possession of a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israelist (El Sayyid Nosair) who assassinated Zionist-leader Rabbi Meir Kahane. Nosair operated in association with the architect of 9/11, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, "Blind Sheikh" Omar Abdel Rahman (who was being protected in NJ for collaborating with the CIA in Afghanistan), Ramsi Yousef (nephew of KSM), driver Mahmud Abouhalima (who later drove the '93 World Trade Center bombers). Read "Was KSM Behind the Murder of Meir Kahane?"

Can this Israeli unite Jews & Christians to resist the repressors of Israel and the god of Abraham, Isaac, & Jacob?

American-born Israeli, Avi Lipkin addressed an L.A.-area, Act! for America gathering with strategies gleaned from monitoring Islamic media, about their plans to Islamize the West - with the facilitation of Muslim-raised, Barack Hussein Obama in the White House.

In this video, he addresses what he sees as the plan to destroy Jewish Israel - and the Israeli political party he is forming, with Jews and Christians, to save Israel, according to Torah principles. 

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White Jihadist guilty of inciting attacks on Jewish schools and day-care centers via online forum

White American convert to Islam incited terrorism, including attacks on Jewish targets.
by Gavriel Queenann Israel National News

A 22-year-old Pennsylvania man pleaded guilty Tuesday in Pittsburgh to soliciting people to engage in acts of terrorism, including attacks on Jewish targets.

Emerson Winfield Begolly, of New Bethlehem, Pa., was an active administrator of an Islamic extremist internet forum that solicited jihadists to use firearms and explosives against police stations, post offices, Jewish schools and daycare centers, military facilities bridges and other targets.

"Jihadist propaganda on the Internet is a serious threat to our safety, and today's plea is the latest example of our Office's efforts to aggressively identify and prosecute homegrown terrorists," Neil MacBride, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, said.

Using the pseudonym Abu Nancy, Begolly used the Ansar al-Mujahideen English Forum to encourage followers to "write their legacy in blood." He applauded the shootings at military facilities throughout Northern

Virginia last October and even posted a manual on how to manufacture a bomb.

In early January of 2011, he assaulted FBI agents as they tried to stop him from pulling a gun, going as far as to biting agents on the fingers.

Begolly is scheduled to be sentenced on Nov. 29.

Glenn Beck calls Christians towards philo-Semitism, philo-Zionism

In his insightful remarks to Christians United for Israel in Washington  July 19, Glenn Beck addresses issues of Christian anti-Semitism, Christian complacency towards the Nazi Holocaust, Jewish fear of Christians, and mankind's obligation to act-up against anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, and defend Israel against threats, cultural, political, and violent.

Rabbi Nahum Shifren and Pastor Terry Jones advocate to Arab-Americans to observe American values & overcome anti-Zionism; Leftist-organized Muslims and Blacks taunt,"Send Jews back to Auschwitz!" Cops enable angry mob to thwart visit

Rabbi Nachum Shifren joined Pastor Terry Jones and Pastor Wayne Sass to draw attention to the bigotry of Muslim supremacism over Americanism - evident in large Muslim population areas around the world, such as America's largest Muslim community, in Dearborn, Michigan.



Left-wing activist organizers, By Any Means Necessary ("BAMN"), roused an aggressive protest to the No-Sharia for Americans Rally and absent adequate police protection for Pastor Terry Jones, physically impeded his contingent's march to the Arab Festival.



BAMN seemed to mis-interpret the political nature of the No-Sharia Rally, to rally opposition by accusing Pastor Jones and Rabbi Shifren of racism. See their flyer ALL OUT to Protect and Keep Safe the Arab and Muslim community!

The Muslim and Black protestors, however, readily exposed latent anti-Semitism within Muslim and Black cultures, swearing vulgarities at Rabbi Shifren, and cat-calling for him to "Go back to Auschwitz with the rest of your 6 million fucking Jews," belying BAMN's leftist, rally-organizer, Donna Stern's "anti-racism" mantra.



The martinet Dearborn Police, who chided me on the street for taking a still photograph (and who can be seen in the video with riot-gear clad officers) notably under-protected Pastor Jones' contingent as they attempted to walk to the Arab Festival. The BAMN mob were not prevented from getting directly in Pastor Jones' face, confronting him with signs and blaring megaphones.

Detroit-area radio-host, Phil Stargell, was offended by the police's kid-glove handling of the aggressive protestors, as he explains in this exclusive video:

Itamar massacre: the result of culture of hatred by Fiamma Nirenstein

Itamar massacre: the result of culture of hatred - Fiamma Nirenstein

Responsibility for the attack is claimed by the “moderate” side of the Palestinian political spectrum, the Brigades of Al Aqsa, the armed branch of Fatah, founded by Marwan Barghouti. Word has it that a meeting has also been held in Khartoum by members of Hamas and sundry Muslim Brothers, attended by Palestinians, Egyptians, Tunisians and even English people: they supposedly coordinated a large-scale international plan for Islamic terrorist attacks to be headed by Iran, the primary target of which would be Israel.

The background to the attack carried out the other night is on one side that of the revolution occurring in the surrounding Arab countries, and on the other side that of the most traditional form of hatred. The leadership of Abu Mazen and Fayyad is in a state of alarm, which led both of them to adopt aggressive, unwavering attitudes toward Israel in a bid to win over the masses who are threatening their power on Internet and out in the streets. They call Abu Mazen the slave of Israel and of the Americans and their campaign has been dominated by the call for unity with Hamas. The social networks act as a sounding board, praising the “resistance” and rejecting any peace projects, including the largely unknown new interim project which Netanyahu intends presenting at Washington to facilitate a return to the negotiation table. At any rate, Abu Mazen and Fayyad have already said they are not interested. 

They also issued indignant denials of stories revealed in the "Palestinian papers", which actually only stated that negotiations were underway with Olmert’s government. Current opinion has it that to be a pure and real Palestinian, you cannot be involved in negotiations and therefore they deny any evidence, even of speaking with the Israeli. As a matter of fact, the Palestinians have no intention of negotiating for "two States for two people": to them, Palestine is a single entity that includes Israel.

 Read more: Massacre- the result of culture of hatred by Fiamma Nirenstein

Egyptian Muslim physician admits the primary obstacle to Middle East peace

(Recorded at CPAC 2009 in Washington). Dr. Tawfik Hamid, an Egyptian, former-Islamist-radical, acknowledges that the lack of a sovereign state for Palestinian Arabs is not global Arabs'  difficulty with Israel, but Islam's taught enmity for Jews entirely - and certainly towards a sovereign Jewish state amidst Muslim states. Dr. Hamid admits that the change for peace must come from Muslims.

Egypt's shifting political sands- exclusive video interview with Israel's former Prime Ministers spokesman Dr. Ra'anan Gissin

We had an exclusive video interview with the former spokesman for Israeli Prime Ministers Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert, Dr. Ra'anan Gissin (courtesy of the Israeli Consulate in Los Angeles).  Here, he presents an Israeli reaction to Egypt's shifting political sands.


Here, he explains how Israel is overcoming its delegitimizers to share the fruits of freedom and innovation with those with open minds.

'Industry of lies' de-legitimizing Israel, whitewashing Islamism poses an existential threat

A hypocritical, delegitimizing movement seeking to defeat Zionism and whitewashing Islamist Palestinian-ism has overtaken the media and academia, asserts Israeli sociologist, Ben-Dror Yemini.

Israel, having lost the battle for the moral high-ground of its legitimacy against a pro-Palestinian, history rewriting, disinformation campaign, must prioritize resources to recoup its losses in the psych-ops war - which by capturing the worldview of most media and academia - has infiltrated most popular understanding.

Yemini asserts an "industry of lies" (which includes the UN) seeks to excommunicate and depose Jewish rule of Israel, in similar fashion to apartheid South Africa. This is an existential challenge more threatening than Hamas, Yemini cautions in his call for action (exclusive to DemoCast at the Herzliya Policy Conference in Israel.)



Seven Existential Threats by Michael B. Oren Commentary Magazine, May 2009

Rarely in modern history have nations faced genuine existential threats. Wars are waged to change regimes, alter borders, acquire resources, and impose ideologies, but almost never to eliminate another state and its people. This was certainly the case during World War II, in which the Allies sought to achieve the unconditional surrender of Germany and Japan and to oust their odious leaders, but never to destroy the German and Japanese states or to annihilate their populations. In the infrequent cases in which modern states were threatened with their survival, the experience proved to be traumatic in the extreme. Military coups, popular uprisings, and civil strife are typical by-products of a state’s encounter with even a single existential threat.

The State of Israel copes not only with one but with at least seven existential threats on a daily basis. These threats are extraordinary not only for their number but also for their diversity. In addition to external military dangers from hostile regimes and organizations, the Jewish State is endangered by domestic opposition, demographic trends, and the erosion of core values. Indeed, it is difficult if not impossible to find an example of another state in the modern epic that has faced such a multiplicity and variety of concurrent existential threats.

# 3 - Delegitimization

Since the mid-1970s, Israel’s enemies have waged an increasingly successful campaign of delegitimizing Israel in world forums, intellectual and academic circles, and the press. The campaign has sought to depict Israel as a racist, colonialist state that proffers extraordinary rights to its Jewish citizens and denies fundamental freedoms to the Arabs. These accusations have found their way into standard textbooks on the Middle East and have become part of the daily discourse at the United Nations and other influential international organizations. Most recently, Israel has been depicted as an apartheid state, effectively comparing the Jewish State to South Africa under its former white supremacist regime. Many of Israel’s counterterrorism efforts are branded as war crimes, and Israeli generals are indicted by foreign courts.

Though the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza clearly contributed to the tarnishing of Israel’s image, increasingly the delegitimization campaign focuses not on Israel’s policy in the territories but on its essence as the Jewish national state.

Such calumny was, in the past, dismissed as harmless rhetoric. But as the delegitimization of Israel gained prominence, the basis was laid for international measures to isolate Israel and punish it with sanctions similar to those that brought down the South African regime. The academic campaigns to boycott Israeli universities and intellectuals are adumbrations of the type of strictures that could destroy Israel economically and deny it the ability to defend itself against the existential threats posed by terrorism and Iran.

75-years since Hitler's inaugural, 60-years since Israel's

NY Times' rare, pro-Israel Op-Ed from Bill Kristol: The Jewish State at 60

I meant to pay tribute to the Zionists — men like Weizmann and Jabotinsky, Ben-Gurion and Begin — who made possible the almost miraculous redemption of the Jewish people in 1948. And I also intended to recognize the defenders of Israel at moments of crisis — men like Harry Truman and Richard Nixon and George W. Bush.

I thought I might even dwell on the amazing essay by the novelist George Eliot who made a case for Zionism in 1879 — 17 years before the publication of Theodor Herzl’s “The Jewish State.”

“The hinge of possibility,” Eliot wrote, is that among the Jews “there may arise some men of instruction and ardent public spirit, some new Ezras, some modern Maccabees, who will know how to use all favouring outward conditions, how to triumph by heroic example, over the indifference of their fellows and the scorn of their foes, and will steadfastly set their faces towards making their people once more one among the nations.”

The new Ezras and the modern Maccabees arose. But Jew-hatred didn’t go away. And so, today, in light of Ahmadinejad’s remarks, in the face of the weakness of the West before the Iranian regime — I can’t avoid being reminded of the fact that this year is not only the 60th anniversary of Israel, but also the 75th anniversary of Hitler’s coming to power.

Read The Jewish State at 60