Birds of a feather...

Moshe Weinbereg, Yossef Romano, Ze’ev Friedman. David Berger. Yaakov Springer. Eliezer Halfin, Yossed Gutfreund, Kehat Shorr, Mark Slavin, Andre Spitzer, Amitzur Shapira. Who are these 11 people? They’re the athletes (apart from US citizen Berger, all Israelis) massacred during the 1972 summer Olympics [1, 2]. The Munich attack’s terrorist mastermind, Mohammed Daoud Oudeh (‘Abu Daoud’) [3] wrote an autobiography, Palestine: From Jersusalem to Munich, which won the 1999 Palestine Prize for Culture. In it, Daoud reveals that Mahmoud Abbas (‘Abu Mazen’) – PLO Chairman since late 2004 and Palestinian National Authority President since early 2005 [4] – provided the funds and instructions to Black September for the 1972 Munich attack [5]. Daoud reiterated this in a 2002 Sports Illustrated interview [6]. Though you’d reckon Daoud would know Abbas’s Munich role, the fact is Abbas wasn’t targeted by ‘Operation Wrath of God’ [7] or ‘Operation Spring of Youth’ [8]. But Daoud and Abbas were close: After Daoud died last 3 July, Abbas wrote in a condolence letter: ‘He is missed. He was one of the leading figures of Fatah and spent his life in resistance and sincere work as well as physical sacrifice for his people’s just cause’ [9]. Do you think the man who wrote that three months ago could be, by any yardstick, a genuine partner in peace negotiations? Don’t answer that – it’s a rhetorical question.

P.S. h/t to Elder of Ziyon for the graphic top left [10, 11].

The PA's Judenfrei policy - a deal breaker

Judenfrei (German: Jew free) is a Nazi term referring to freeing an area of its Jews [1]. Though Hitler died 65 years ago, Judenfrei’s relevant today. Because the only place on Earth where Jews aren’t able to settle, build and live is the West Bank. Why? Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas (pictured) declared that a future Palestinian State should be free of Jews [2]. As a corollary, the PA deems new Jewish settlements and expansion of existing ones a provocation and a threat to peace [3]. Of course it’s fine by the PA that Arabs can be, are and will continue being citizens of Israel. But the obverse is anathema. To me, all Jews who reside within the borders of a future Palestinian State would be entitled to be its citizens – with the same rights and responsibilities as all its other citizens be they Muslim, Christian or whatever. And wouldn’t a Jewish minority be a great test of a nascent Palestinian State’s tolerance of minorities. Speaking of tolerance, the world tolerates the PA’s non-acceptance of the concept, and reality, of Israel being a Jewish State [4, 5]. Why, then, is the PA treated as if it’s a serious party in the current peace negotiations? I yearn for true Peace within a two-state solution. But I can’t see it occurring in my lifetime, or my grandchildren’s – because the PA’s Judenfrei policy’s a fair dinkum deal breaker, stinking as it does of racial discrimination, ethnic cleansing and apartheid.