GRAVISSIMO: il sito stoptheism indica gli attivisti dell'ISM a Gaza come bersagli da colpire

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GRAVISSIMO: il sito stoptheism indica gli attivisti dell'ISM a Gaza come bersagli da colpire

Da http://digilander.libero.it/israeledossier/italiano/I%20legami%20ISM%20con%20il%20Terrore.htm

I legami dell’ ISM con il Terrore
di Lee Kaplan
FrontPageMagazine.com | September 13, 2006
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=24377
Come gruppo di copertura per i terroristi palestinesi, l’International Solidarity Movement (ISM) manda giovani provenienti da tutto il mondo nei campi di addestramento di Gaza e della Cisgiordania per imparare dai terroristi e aiutarli logisticamente. Stop the ISM è riuscita ad avere fotografie di leader e organizzatori ISM mentre impugnano fucili d’assalto AK-47. Le immagini mostrano alcune delle donne ISM, travestite da ebree che vivono in Cisgiordania, in compagnia di un terrorista delle Brigate dei Martiri di Al-Aqsa
Uno dei nostri volontari in Gran Bretagna di Stop the ISM ha fatto in modo di infiltrarsi nell’ISM lo scorso giugno in Terrasanta, dove l’ISM opera in diretto sostegno dei terroristi. Il nostro volontario (che preferisce restare anonimo per evitare attacchi di ritorsione), ha avuto per la polizia in Gran Bretagna, precedenti esperienze di clandestinità. Le foto e le informazioni che ha portato con sé, sono prove inestimabili e sono stati nelle mani dei funzionari dei servizi di informazione, che controllano l’ISM, per oltre un mese prima di questa pubblicazione.
Sfortunatamente, né l’U.S. Homeland Security (Ministero della Sicurezza Interna degli Stati Uniti, N.d.T.), né le agenzie di sicurezza israeliane hanno considerato l’ISM come un serio pericolo. Alcune persone, appartenenti a questa organizzazione, che sono state riprese nelle foto, hanno tentato di fuggire: tuttavia sono state arrestate e altri arresti seguiranno a breve.
Nell’aprile del 2003, il Ministero degli Esteri Israeliano ha reso noto che “i membri ISM prendono parte attiva ad azioni violente ed illegali contro i soldati dell’IDF (Forze Armate Israeliane, N.d.T.). Talvolta, la loro attività in Giudea, Samaria (Cisgiordania, Ndt) e nella Striscia di Gaza è sotto la protezione delle organizzazioni terroristiche palestinesi”. L’ISM tenta sempre ad apparire come un “gruppo di pacifisti”; ad ogni modo, i fondatori dell’ISM Adam Shapiro, sua moglie Huwaida Arraf e il leader dell’ISM del Nord California Paul LaRudee, l’uomo che Stop the ISM è riuscito recentemente a fare espellere da Israele come pericoloso per la sicurezza, hanno iniziato a rivelare le loro vere intenzioni andando ultimamente in Libano ad erigersi come “scudi umani” per Hezbollah.
Finora, all’ISM è stato permesso l’uso dei nostri college e delle nostre università per trovare nuove reclute da mandare in Medioriente e interferire con i soldati di Israele e la polizia di confine, Per esempio, ogni venerdì l’ISM organizza disordini in Cisgiordania. I membri dell’ISM si vantano apertamente di essere stati arrestati per vandalismo e distruzione di apparecchiature e barriere di sicurezza israeliane. Nel Marzo 2003, il fuggitivo, terrorista della Jihad Islamica, Shadi Sukiya era stato arrestato a Jenin, in una casa presa in affitto da ISM. Due terroristi suicidi provenienti dalla Gran Bretagna si erano incontrati con l’ISM a Gaza, prima di saltare in aria da Mike’s Place, un bar di Tel Aviv, uccidendo tre persone e ferendone più di 50 nello scoppio.
Qui in USA, l’ISM sembrerebbe violare in modo evidente l’articolo 18 USC Code 2339a, una legge che proibisce di andare a portare aiuto a gruppi terroristici all’estero. Il governo ha sbagliato anche, a far rispettare un crimine contro le leggi sui passaporti, che sono state violate continuamente dagli attivisti dell’ISM. Questo permette all’ISM di operare attraverso confini internazionali.
Le leggi Rico (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations= Organizzazioni che Influenzano con la Corruzione e il Ricatto, N.d.T.) sono spesso violate ripetutamente negli Stati Uniti tramite le reti universitarie. Emiliano, un attivista ISM americano che appare in queste foto, è stato inviato nella West Bank (Cisgiordania, N.d.T.) con soldi ricevuti dall’ISM di New York come una “sovvenzione”. Ciò significa che un gruppo sovversivo e cospirativo, sta pagando, per mandare sovversivi a creare tumulti in un paese alleato in questa Guerra contro il Terrorismo. Quando chiamai tre volte l’ufficio FBI di San Francisco, per metterli in guardia relativamente alle informazioni contenute in questo articolo, sono stato sconnesso per un paio di volte e una terza volta c’era il messaggio registrato da parte dell’agente di turno. Nessuno mi ha richiamato..
Un nostro volontario di Stop the ISM arrivato all’aeroporto Ben Gurion di Tel Aviv due mesi fa è stato reclutato immediatamente da un attivista ISM di nome Emiliano, che si trovava là proveniente dagli Stati Uniti. Giovane come il nostro volontario, Emiliano lo ha avvicinato al suo arrivo all’aeroporto chiedendogli dove era diretto. Quando il nostro volontario, ha risposto “Gerusalemme”, Emiliano lo ha seguito su un autobus ed ha iniziato a conversare con lui, raccomandandogli un ostello della gioventù nella capitale israeliana vicino alla porta di Damasco. Destinazione: Ostello della Gioventù Faisal a Gerusalemme Est.
L’attivista ISM Joseph Smith, alias Joseph Carr, ha chiamato l’Ostello della Gioventù Faisal “Quartier Generale dell’ISM” a Gerusalemme. Carr è stato coinvolto nella morte di Rachel Corrie. Smith/Carr fa il giro dei college degli Stati Uniti per reclutare nuovi adepti. Due suoi seguaci ISM provenienti da St. Louis nel Missouri – Magan Wiles e Jennifer Presson – sono anche sotto indagine da parte dei servizi di sicurezza israeliani.
Wiles e Presson furono entrambi reclutati in una classe di Studi per la Giustizia Sociale della Università di St. Louis dal professore Mark Chmiel. Chmiel incoraggia i suoi studenti, come parte dei suoi corsi, a fornire ciò che chiama “inserimenti”, ad aiutare gli irredentisti palestinesi (E’ stato anche precedentemente arrestato e schedato)

                              Magan Wiles             Joseph Smith a.k.a. Joe Carr         Mark Chmiel
L’FBI manca consapevolmente di agire quando l’ISM viola le leggi degli Stati Uniti sull’anti-terrorismo nella raccolta fondi a favore di organizzazioni collegate con il terrorismo e ugualmente commette violazioni sui passaporti nell’insegnare ai suoi membri la creazione di false identità per eludere i controlli israeliani di confine. Molti attivisti ISM espulsi da Israele hanno semplicemente cambiato la loro identità per tornare indietro illegalmente nel paese e cercare di creare disordini. Annualmente vengono tenute conferenze nei campus americani per reclutare e addestrare nuovi membri ISM. ISM recluta anche all’interno dei confini di Israele. Cambiare identità e nazionalità di origine sui passaporti, sono procedure normali per la maggior parte degli intransigenti “attivisti” ISM. Questo è ciò che pensavano durante le sessioni di addestramento, anche nelle università americane, nonostante la legge sui passaporti negli S.U. consideri queste azioni un crimine, così come 18 USC 1542. Il Diplomatic Security Service negli S.U. è responsabile dell’applicazione di questa legge e non ha invece fatto niente.
L’Ostello della Gioventù Faisal, intanto, è gestito dal principale istruttore di molti “volontari” ISM, Hisham Jam Joun, un “formatore” dei terroristi del FPLP ferito mentre combatteva gli israeliani in Libano circa una decina di anni fa. Sebbene il Ministro degli Interni israeliano sia responsabile per la chiusura di un luogo di questo tipo, incluso un altro ostello della gioventù vicinissimo e frequentato da ISM chiamato l’Ostello Hebron, nessuna azione è stata presa nei confronti dell’Ostello Faisal.
Una volta arrivato all’Ostello Faisal, il nostro volontario è stato accolto e portato immediatamente ai piani superiori per incontrare qualche faccia amichevole - capi dell’ISM nella West Bank. Tra queste persone c’erano anche Gabi e Dave, entrambi irlandesi. Gabi è svedese con passaporto irlandese e suo marito Dave è di nazionalità irlandese. Gli attivisti ISM usano spesso passaporti irlandesi per entrare in Israele, talvolta sotto falso nome. Patrick O’ Connor, un irlandese leader e organizzatore dell’ISM di New York, ha usato anche un passaporto con il nome di Patrick Connors. Brian Malovany, un seguace di Paul LaRudee, è un cittadino statunitense, istruttore ISM che usa un passaporto irlandese per via delle origini irlandesi della nonna.
Anche Camille, una volontaria danese e Alan proveniente dalla Scozia sono stati opportunamente presentati al nostro infiltrato. Tutti, aggregati con l’ISM, hanno fatto avanti e indietro tra la West Bank e Israele.
Miliano ha chiarito che è un americano di origini messicane. Due altri americani si sono uniti al gruppo: un afro-americano di nome Jonathon M. K. Amayo proveniente dalla zona di Los Angeles in California e la sua ragazza di Los Angeles. Gaby era chiaramente il responsabile del gruppo assegnato al nostro infiltrato. Alan proveniente dalla Scozia è entrato in Israele attraverso la Giordania , un espediente che l’ISM usa di frequente in quanto i controlli applicati all’aeroporto Ben Gurion di Tel Aviv tendevano a essere severi. Solo di recente i controllori doganali in Israele hanno iniziato a prendere nota nei loro computer se qualcuno era già passato da qualche altro ingresso.

Alcuni membri dell’ISM mentre si rilassano in un bar di Gerusalemme. Quello sul bordo di sinistra, ripreso con parte della faccia proviene dall’Italia. Sulla destra proveniente dagli S.U. c’è Emiliano e poi (in mezzo) un attivista ISM sconosciuto, dalla Svezia. Tutti si sono vantati di aver preso parte ai disordini settimanali a Bi’lin nella West Bank—orchestrati nelle moschee ogni venerdì dagli attivisti anarchici dell’ISM e i loro manipolatori palestinesi. Emiliano è arrivato nella West Bank grazie a un sussidio dell’ISM di New York (Foto Copyrighted da Stoptheism.com)
Durante il suo secondo giorno all’ostello Faisal, il nostro infiltrato è stato invitato ad accompagnare alcuni membri ISM alla Prigione Jericho nella West Bank. Questa prigione è stata oggetto di una recente incursione militare condotta dall’esercito israeliano per arrestare gli assassini del Ministro del Turismo, Rab’aam Zevi, ucciso dai membri del FPLP.

Da sinistra a destra, Alan, proveniente dalla Scozia (con il cappellino da baseball); un arabo sconosciuto; Camille, ISM della Danimarca; David, leader ISM dall’Irlanda e la capogruppo ISM Gabi, svedese ma residente a Cork in Irlanda. Le donne sono camuffate da ebree ortodosse, nonostante non siano nemmeno ebree. Più tardi raggiunti da Emiliano hanno incoraggiato il nostro infiltrato ad unirsi all’ISM all’ostello Faisal. Dietro Alan, avvolto in un tessuto bianco c’è un arsenale nascosto contenente un micidiale fucile d’assalto AK-47 (Foto Copyrighted da Stoptheism.com)
Israele aveva un accordo che permetteva alle Autorità Palestinesi di imprigionare i killer. Tuttavia, con la vittoria delle elezioni da parte di Hamas, l’amministrazione dell’A.P. ha chiarito che non avrebbe più tenuti imprigionati i killer. Le truppe israeliane in un’operazione di combattimento hanno preso in custodia i killer per incarcerarli in Israele. Una nota speciale a margine è il fatto che Neta Golan , una dei fondatori dell’ISM, è venuta qui sulla scena di guerra ed interferire con i soldati israeliani. Golan, un’israeliana anarchica, è stata arrestata in questa occasione forse per la ventesima volta dalle forze di sicurezza israeliane, ma non è mai stata processata o è imprigionata per un lungo periodo. Risiede nella maggior parte del tempo a Ramallah tra i terroristi dell’OLP. Questo è perciò un ulteriore esempio dell’incompetenza del Ministero degli Interni israeliano per la protezione dei soldati, per gli agenti di confine ed ultimamente per la popolazione civile di Israele.
Secondo il rapporto del nostro volontario, egli è stato accolto calorosamente all’ingresso della prigione, da una guardia che ha preso sia lui che il palestinese dell’ISM, per una visita della stessa.

Al centro il nostro volontario di Stop l’ISM il quale ha la faccia nascosta per ragioni di sicurezza. Alla sua sinistra c’è invece il poliziotto dell’Autorità Palestinese o guardiano della prigione. L’uomo a destra si è identificato come un membro della Brigata dei Martiri di Al Aksa. Poiché un noto terrorista sta visitando una “prigione” governativa palestinese nella West Bank, il legame tra l’Autorità Palestinese e i terroristi, diventa evidente (Copyrighted photo by Stoptheism.com)
Il nostro volontario è stato successivamente scortato intorno alla prigione da un uomo che ha detto di essere un membro della Brigata dei Martiri di Al Aksa. Durante la visita, quest’uomo ha anche mostrato al nostro volontario, una ferita da proiettile sul polso e sulla gamba sinistra (colpiti dallo stesso proiettile), come risultato di una battaglia con le forze IDF.

David (a sinistra) e Camille (a destra) scherzano entrambi per gioco con un AK-47 del poliziotto palestinese, il quale sembra divertirsi. Al nostro volontario (seduto al centro) viene chiesto di posare con loro (Copyrighted photo by Stoptheism.com)

Dave, l’organizzatore ISM proveniente dall’Irlanda, è stato fotografato lo scorso 25 agosto (sopra, in centro), a un tumulto inscenato a Bi’lin che è stato pubblicato sul sito ufficiale dell’ISM. Jennifer Presson, una ISM proveniente da St. Louis, viaggia sotto lo pseudonimo di “Anna”, qui è ripresa mentre ostacola un poliziotto di confine israeliano. Emiliano ha partecipato anche ad un’altra violenta dimostrazione dove è stato anche ferito (Copyrighted photo by Stoptheism.com)
Secondo il nostro volontario, “conoscendo la situazione in cui mi trovavo, volevo una foto con loro, così ho chiesto una foto con accanto il poliziotto palestinese presente. Mi sono seduto vicino a lui e poi, come sapevo, c’erano nella stanza da quattro a sei fucili d’assalto AK-47 che ci sono stati passati per essere fotografati con loro. I fucili erano sul letto sotto la coperta bianca dietro Alan”.
Il nostro volontario è stato incoraggiato ad unirsi agli altri attivisti ISM che avevano tutti posato con i fucili mitragliatori AK-47 accanto al terrorista dei Martiri della Brigata Al Aksa.
Per evitare che l’ISM riesca ad individuare le persone con i fucili e gli altri membri dell’ISM ritratti in queste foto, essi non sono dell’ISM; nel proprio sito web si mette in evidenza Dave proveniente dall’Irlanda e Julie Presson (alias Anna), i quali dichiarano che sono stati “feriti” da proiettili di gomma sparati dai poliziotti di frontiera israeliani durante la settimana in cui si sono verificati i disordini al villaggio Bi’lin e non il 25 agosto scorso. Anche Magan Wiles è stata ferita durante questi incidenti. Inoltre la foto mostra chiaramente Dave e “Anna”, la pagina web descrive in dettaglio tutte le loro ferite e gli arresti:
Sotto ferite e arresti:
·        Dave proveniente dall’Irlanda ha subito percosse e un proiettile di gomma lo ha ferito alla schiena
·        Anna proveniente dagli S.U. ha subito ferite alle mani ed è stata colpita da due proiettili di gomma, uno all’anca e l’altro alla schiena.
·        Magan proveniente dagli S.U. ha subito dure percosse con lo sfollagente, incluso un colpo alla testa che le ha provocato una commozione cerebrale.
(Emiliano è stato elencato tra gli ISM feriti durante i disordini di Bi’lin e in una recente dimostrazione, quantunque non nel sito dell’ISM).
Secondo il volontario di Stop the ISM, come riferito “L’ISM sta inviando giovani da tutte le parti del mondo nei campi di addestramento della West Bank e di Gaza per imparare dai terroristi. A mio modo di vedere, questo fa dell’ISM e dei suoi capi un supporto al terrorismo... Il presidente Bush ha detto “o state con noi o con i terroristi”. Quale prova migliore è quella che può essere vista in queste foto?”

Gabi sorride in piedi mentre Alan, l’altro volontario ISM che lavora presso l’ostello della gioventù Faisal, ride con il suo fucile mitragliatore. Sul bordo destro c’è il terrorista della Brigata dei Martiri di Al Aksa che sorveglia i festeggiamenti. I veri attivisti “pacifisti” non si fanno fotografare con fucili mitragliatori in compagnia di terroristi, ma l’ISM lo fa. La foto è stata scattata nella prigione di Gerico nella West Bank. (Copyrighted photo by Stoptheism.com)
Ha continuato dicendo, “Dopo aver posato con i fucili mitragliatori e i terroristi, abbiamo fatto un giro della prigione per vedere com’era. Ho scorto su un muro la foto di Osama bin Laden, dove in Occidente uno si aspetterebbe di vedere la foto di una attrice del cinema. Abbiamo poi lasciato la prigione con un taxi per andare a Gerico dove abbiamo preso un autobus per tornare all’ostello Faisal. Sulla via dalla prigione al taxi, ho dovuto prendere i passaporti di ognuno per mostrarli alle guardie di confine israeliane al checkpoint per lasciare Israele. Ho così notato che quello di Gabi era una fotocopia.”
Gli attivisti ISM sono addestrati a fotocopiare i loro passaporti perché se trattenuti dalla polizia possono provare nella confusione generata durante “azioni dirette” dimostrative, a scappare. Incresciosamente, il Ministro degli Interni israeliano è troppo indolente per insistere che alla polizia deve essere presentato solo l’originale. Magan Wiles è stata arrestata durante gli incidenti di Bi’lin e rilasciata nonostante il fatto che non aveva con sé nemmeno un passaporto fotocopiato.
Ha poi detto, “Quando sono tornato all’ostello e dopo essermi rinfrescato e cambiato sono uscito con Alan, Milliano, l’italiano e lo svedese per vedere la partita tra l’Inghilterra e il Portogallo come fotografata nella scena del bar (vedi una delle foto)”.
Dopo la partita siamo ritornati all’ostello. Stavo mostrando ad alcune persone le mie foto della giornata e ne ho mostrate alcune al ragazzo svedese, che ha poi raccontato delle foto a una donna dai capelli rossi che era appena arrivata. Apparentemente questa donna doveva essere un pesce grosso nell’ambito dell’ISM , perché usciti dalla stanza, avevo capito che stavano parlando delle foto a Hisham Jam Joun. Sono andato allora ad estrarre la memoria dalla mia macchina fotografica nell’eventualità che mi obbligassero a dar loro le mie foto.” E ha proseguito, “ Si sedettero assieme a noi e ci dissero che dovevamo cancellare le foto. Alan e Dave cancellarono le proprie davanti a loro e io rimasi invece là con le braccia conserte.”
Il giorno dopo, il nostro infiltrato e un italiano ospite dell’ostello, sono andati a Hebron, quando “mi sono imbattuto in un arabo-cristiano israeliano che mi ha invitato a stare con lui e la sua famiglia nel nord del paese per alcuni giorni”. Ha accettato l’offerta ed ha lasciato l’ostello - e di conseguenza - l’ISM.
La pubblicazione di questo articolo dovrebbe servire come un segnale d’allarme diretto sia verso il Ministero degli Interni israeliano che nei confronti del Dipartimento della Sicurezza Interna qui negli Stati Uniti. Il nostro volontario mi ha riferito che armi da fuoco erano state portate fuori dal nascondiglio dai palestinesi presenti e che i “pacifisti attivisti” dell’ISM erano contenti e impazienti di averle. Il nucleo centrale degli attivisti ISM della West Bank si sottopongono all’addestramento dell’OLP e di Hamas ? Una e-mail inviata al nostro volontario da Dave dalla West Bank conteneva al suo interno una sinistra minaccia “ Stanno aumentando i palestinesi stanchi della resistenza non violenta. ”Resistenza non violenta ? Israele ha subito oltre 25.000 attacchi terroristici contro la popolazione civile a partire dall’anno 2000. Sta per cominciare subito la prossima intifada ? Se sì,
quale sarà in essa il ruolo dell’ISM ?
Grazie a ritardi burocratici dei servizi di intelligence di Israele, Gabi e Camille sono riusciti a lasciare Israele prima di essere arrestati. Entrambi hanno senza dubbio reclutato altri attivisti ISM una volta tornati in Irlanda e in Danimarca rispettivamente. In ogni caso, grazie ai nostri volontari e agli sforzi del team di Stop the ISM, Dave proveniente dall’Irlanda e Alan dalla Scozia sono ora in arresto in Israele.
Huwaida Arraf, uno dei fondatori dell’ISM è stata segnalata mentre partecipava a due conferenze nazionali e nelle due occasioni ha ammesso che l’ISM lavora con i gruppi terroristici come la Jihad Islamica , il FPLP e Hamas. Ha anche scritto al Washington Post ammettendo tutto. Paul LaRudee è stato espulso dopo che è stato provato che cambiò il suo nome per frodare le autorità doganali israeliane, per incontrare e lavorare con i gruppi che, anche se lui stesso ha detto che potevano essere affiliati con Hamas, non ha “chiesto queste cose”.
Tutti questi gruppi, dovrebbero essere indagati – forse anche dal Congresso – e ogni responsabile di college nel paese dovrebbe leggere questo articolo prima di permettere all’ISM di organizzare un’altra conferenza nei campus degli S.U. Diffondi il verbo.

Lee Kaplan è un giornalista investigatore segreto e collaboratore di Front Page Magazine. E’ anche cronista per Israel National News e Canada Free Press inoltre analista senior e direttore delle comunicazioni per Northeast Intelligence Network. Dirige l’organizzazione Defending America for Knowledge and Action (DAFKA) e Stop the ISM. E’ stato intervistato in più di un centinaio di trasmissioni radio nazionali e internazionali ed è stato ospitato nella trasmissione The Factor, nella TV Via Cavo Fox Dayside con Linda Vester e Bill O’Reilly. Inoltre ogni giovedì ospitato nella trasmissione Jim Kirkwood Show su Utah's K-Talk Radio 630am. Sta attualmente scrivendo un libro sui college Americani e la Guerra al Terrorismo.

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ISMer Ewa Jasiewicz in house of former DFLP commander killed by IDF claims she is just picking up "civilian" casualties. Jaseiwicz, in Abu Rabo's house, works with the terrorists. Rabo's house no doubt held weapons cache with children inside as human shields. Abu Rabo was the deputy of Naif Hawatma, the head of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Ewa Jasiewicz needs to be a target of IDF forces as well as she has shown she is in Gaza to work for Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups like DFLP. A picture of Ewa is below. If you know of her exact location, please email us at info@StoptheISM.com so we can target and take her out once and for all.
As with any good subversive, Ewa changes her haircolor frequently:

Want to bring a permanent peace to the Middle East? Help the IDF find and kill Ewa with her Hamas buddies. Ewa was previously a human shield for Iraqi insurgents. She is no peace activist, she is a Hamas enabler. She claims to be helping civilians, but all her "civilians" are in the homes of Hamas and other terrorist group operatives such as Abu-Rabo of the DFLP. She is aiding terrorists with homes that have weapons caches, not innocent Palestinians. It is people like her who will roil this conflict forever and once they are eliminated, only then can there potentially be a just peace for Arabs and Israelis alike.
ALERT THE IDF MILITARY TO TARGET ISM
Number to call if you can pinpoint the locations of Hamas with their ISM members with them. From the US call 011-972-2-5839749. From other countries drop the 011. Help us neutralize the ISM that is now definitely a part of Hamas since the war began.
#1 ISM TARGET FOR THE ISRAELI AIR FORCE AND IDF GROUND TROOPS:
VITTORIO ARRIGONI (PICTURED BELOW) IS CURRENTLY IN GAZA ASSISTING HAMAS

ARRIGONI HAS BEEN DEPORTED REPEATEDLY BY ISRAEL AND WAS DEPORTED NOT ONLY IN 2005 BUT JUST LAST MONTH AFTER ENTERING GAZA ILEGALLY WITH THE GAZA FLOTILLA. HE WAS CAPTURED BY THE IDF NAVY AND DEPORTED ONLY TO SHOW UP AGAIN IN GAZA WITH THE ISM HAVING REENTERED JUST DAYS LATER WITH THE GAZA FLOTILLA.
ARRIGONI WAS AWARDED A MEDAL FROM HAMAS AND IS CURRENTLY DOING HUMAN SHIELD WORK FOR HAMAS IN GAZA. WE PROVIDE THIS PHOTO SO THE IDF CAN HOPEFULLY FIND HIM AND GET RID OF HIM PERMANENTLY. THE ITALIAN GOVERNMENT BEHAVFED DISGRACEFULLY DURING THE ACHILLE LAURO AFFAIR AND ENABLED MACHMOUD ABBAS TO ESCAPE AFTER HIS CAPTURE BY THE US MILITARY> WE DOUBT THE ITALIAN GOVERNMENT WOULD BE OVERLY CONCERNED BY THIS RECIVIDVIST ANARCHIST FOR HAMAS AND THE ISM AND HOPE HE BECOMES A TARGET FOR PERMANENT REMOVAL:
(A more cleaned up Arrigoni, left, during a deportation hearing in Tel Aviv in 2005). Arrigoni has his left eyebrow pierced and sports at least one tattoo, a design on his left shoulder. The IDF should regard him as an operative of Hamas and treat him no differently.
TARGET #2 JENNY LINNELL
Jenny Linnel also received a medal from Hamas and has attempted to encourage the opening the sea lanes for the smuggling of weapons from Iran. She claims she's a human rights activist but is in fact another anarchist from the UK.
Jenny has appeared on Iranian TV in the English language to promote Hamas. See here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyokcGD9U9E
Of course, we all know the Iranians only have the best of motives. Hamas is an Iranian proxy and she is appearing on Iranian TV. She is not a human rights activist, she is an anarchist supporting Hamas and ultimately Iran.
Target #3 Ewa Jasiewicz

Ewa has also been awarded a medal from Hamas and works to support the Hamas terrorist groups while claiming she is a human rights worker. Also from the UK via Poland, she has been active in assisting Hamas during the Israeli incursion. She is skilled at promoting propaganda for Hamas and retelling incidents to hide her activity in support of Hamas. Currently she fabricates tales about houses of Hamas operatives destroyed because they were weapons caches by spinning the events as attacks on innocent civilians.
All three of these people should be regarded as enemy combattants who help with logisitcs, propaganda and God only knows what else. They were all deported and came immediately back in and should be targeted by the IDF with the rest of Hamas to remove them for good.
Target #4     Alberto Arce is from Spain, he fancies himself a film director Arce creates propaganda scenes for Hamas. He is accompanying Hamas operatives as a human shield while enhancing his filmmaker prospects for the future.
Target #5 Eva Bartlett from Australia Eva Bartlett is aiding the Hamas during the war campaign. No photo yet.
Target #6 Sharon Lock of Australia (no photo but a poor picture on Russian TV at:
http://www.youtube.com/v/uzxRGvVH8qQ&hl=en&fs=1) . A note about Lock's comments on the video:
She doesn't know anything about international law because the term "collective punishment" refers to taking hostages in a war zone and executing innocent people to force collaboration. It does not refer to civilian casualties that occur because the goddamned Hamas shoot their missiles from population centers and schoolyards. The fact is Sharon doesn't care when Hamas shoots missiles at Israeli schoolkids, she wants to distract when Israel fights back by calling collateral casualties (small, given Israel's attempt to avoid such) "collective punishment." She is now serving in ambulances used by Hamas to transport terrorists and weapons.
All of these Marxist anarchists above are responsible for proliferation of weapons smuggling tunnels in Rafah through the publicity campaign using the death of Rachel Corrie as an excuse to put pressure on Israel to stop destroying those tunnels. Today, the IDF has to go back in and destroy them. Up until now, with ISM help, those tunnels have provided weapons that killed even children in Sderot. The above people are on record as having gone into the tunnels and knowing where they are. Time to treat them as enemy combattants. In coming days, we'll tell you how to STOP THEM for good. Right now, these people are riding in ambulances used by Hamas to transport weapons and terrorists to provide human shield work for the killers.
By the way, here's a photo of Paul LaRudee of Norcal ISM, one their leaders meeting with his Hamas allies:
We're wondering if LaRudee (left) is asking Haniyeh if he has a suicide bomber's bed he can sleep in as he did in the past. LaRudee is earning big bucks now as an organizer for Hamas and also received a medal from the terrorist group. He also has been working with Hizballah.
NEW!!! CAIOHME BUTTERFLY IS TARGET #7 OF ISM IN GAZA
CAIOHME HAS BEEN REPEATEDLY DEPORTED FROM ISRAEL AND IS NOW IN GAZA DOING HER HUMAN SHIELD WORK FOR HAMAS. AN IRISH NATIONAL. HER PASSION IS TO DESTROY ISRAEL AND AID ALL TERRORIST GROPS THAT SEEK TO DO SO. HER HAIR COLOR MAY BE DIFFERENT AS IN THIS PHOTO:
SUPPORTING HAMAS TERRORISTS IN THE EMERALD ISLE IN THE PHOTO AT LEFT, CAIOHME IS NOW IN GAZA WORKING FOR HAMAS.
Listen to Stop the ISM's Lee Kaplan about the ISM on the Tovia Singer Show, Israel National Radio by clicking this link: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/455
       IDF NAVY STOPS ISM BOAT!!!
The IDF Navy finally stopped the IDF Flotilla boat Dignity today. As usual the ISM claims their boat was in international waters (like they never lie).
The Israeli Defense Ministry needs to do three things:
1) Sink the boat.
2) Sink the boat.
3) Sink the boat.
Arrest Huwaida Arraf and Neta Golan if on board and this time prosecute them. Golan, a former mental patient is a co-founder of the ISM with Huwaida Arraf.
Intercepted ISM email:

From: "Ramzi Kysia" <ramzi@riseup.net>
URGENT! Israeli Navy Attacking Civilian Mercy Ship! TAKE ACTION
IMMEDIATELY!

The Dignity, a Free Gaza boat on a mission of mercy to besieged Gaza, is
being attacked by the Israeli Navy in international waters. The Dignity
has been surrounded by at least half-a-dozen Israeli warships. They are
firing live ammunition around the Dignity, and one of the warships has
rammed the civilian craft causing an unknown amount of damage. Contrary to
international maritime law, the Israelis are actively preventing the
Dignity from approaching Gaza or finding safe haven in either Egypt or
Lebanon. Instead, the Israeli navy is demanding that the Dignity return to
Cyprus - despite the fact that the ship does not carry enough fuel to do
so. Fortunately, no one aboard the ship has yet been seriously injured.

There are 15 civilian passengers representing 11 different countries (see
below for a complete list). At approximately 5am (UST), well out in
international waters, Israeli warships began surrounding the Dignity,
threatening the ship. At 6:45am (UST) we were able to establish brief
contact with the crew and were told that the ship had been rammed by the
Israeli Navy in international waters, and that the Israelis were
preventing the ship from finding safe harbor. We heard heavy gunfire in
the background before all contact was lost with the Dignity.

It is urgent that you TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION!

CALL the Israeli Government and demand that it immediately STOP attacking
the Dignity and endangering the lives of its passengers! (DO CALL BUT TELL TEHM TO SINK THE SHIP!!!)

CALL Mark Regev in the Prime Minister's office at:
+972 2670 5354 or +972 5062 3264
mark.regev@it.pmo.gov.il

CALL Shlomo Dror in the Ministry of Defence at:
+972 33697 5339 or +972 50629 8148
mediasar@mod.gov.il

BACKGROUND INFORMATION
The Dignity departed from Larnaca Port in Cyprus at 7pm (UST) on Monday 29
December, bound for war-devastated Gaza with a cargo of over 3 tons of
desperately needed medical supplies donated by the people of Cyprus. At
our request, the ship was searched by Cypriot Port authorities prior to
departure, to certify that there was nothing "threatening" aboard - only
emergency medical supplies.

TAKE ACTION IMMEDIATELY TO STOP THE ISRAELI NAVY FROM ENDANGERING THE
DIGNITY AND ITS PASSENGERS!

Civilians aboard the Dignity being threatened by the Israeli military:

(UK) Denis Healey, Captain
Captain of the Dignity, Denis has been involved with boats for 45 years,
beginning with small fishing boats in Portsmouth. He learned to sail while
ats chool and has been part of the sea ever since. He's a certified
yachtmaster and has also worked on heavy marine equipment from yachts to
large dredgers. This is his fourth trip to Gaza. (He needs to be prosecuted by Israel and the US for violating US Neutrality Act).

(Greece) Nikolas Bolos, First Mate
Nikolas is a chemical engineer and human rights activist (bullshit artist). He has served as
a crewmember on several Free Gaza voyages, including the first one in
August. This guy needs to be prosecuted by Israel for repeat offenses.

(Jordan) Othman Abu Falah
Othman is a senior producer with Al-Jazeera Television. He will remain in
Gaza to report on the ongoing military onslaught. (Objective? Al Jazeera calls Hamas terrorist martyrs)

(Australia) Renee Bowyer
Renee is a schoolteacher and human rights activist (bullshit artist). She will remain in
Gaza to do human rights monitoring and reporting.

(Ireland) Caoimhe Butterly--ISM MANIAC FROM WAY BACK
Caoimhe is a reknowned human rights activist and Gaza Coordinator for the
Free Gaza Movement. She will be remaining in Gaza to do human rights
monitoring, assist with relief efforts, and work on project development
with Free Gaza.

(Cyprus) Ekaterini Christodulou
Ekaterini is a well-known and respected (by whom?) freelance journalist in Cyprus.
She is traveling to Gaza to report on the conflict.

(Sudan) Sami El-Haj - AN Al QAEDA MAN!
Sami is a former detainee at Guantanamo Bay, and head of the human rights
section at Al-Jazeera Television. He will remain in Gaza to report on the
ongoing military onslaught.

(UK) Dr. David Halpin-WOULD NEVER VOLUNTEER FOR JEWISH VICTIMS IN SDEROT
Dr. Halpin is an experienced orthopaedic surgeon, medical professor, and
ship's captain. He has organized humanitarian relief efforts in Gaza on
several occasions with the Dove and Dolphin. He is traveling to Gaza to
volunteer in hospitals and clinics.

(Germany) Dr. Mohamed Issa
Dr. Issa is a pediatric surgeon from Germany. He is traveling to Gaza to
volunteer in hospitals and clinics.

(UK/Tunisia) Fathi Jaouadi
Fathi is a television producer and human rights activist. He will remain
in Gaza to do human rights monitoring and reporting.

(USA) Cynthia McKinney-KNOWN VIRULENT ANTI-SEMITE WANTED TO ACCEPT SAUDI MONEY AFTER 9/11.
Cynthia is a former U.S. Congresswoman from Georgia, and the 2008 Green
Party presidential candidate. She is traveling to Gaza to assess the
ongoing conflict.

(Cyprus) Martha Paisi
Martha is a senior research fellow and experienced human rights activist (bulshit artist). She is traveling to Gaza to do human rights work and to assist with
humanitarian relief efforts.

(UK) Karl Penhaul
Karl Penhaul is a video correspondent for CNN, based out of Bogot?,
Colombia. Appointed to this position in February 2004, he covers breaking
news around the world utilizing CNN's new laptop-based 'Digital
Newsgathering' system. He is traveling to Gaza to report on the ongoing
conflict.

(Iraq) Thaer Shaker
Thaer is a cameraman with Al-Jazeera television. He will remain in Gaza to
report on the ongoing military onslaught.

(Cyprus) Dr. Elena Theoharous, MP
Dr. Theoharous is a surgeon and a Member of the Cypriot Parliament. She is
traveling to Gaza to assess the ongoing conflict, assist with humanitarian
relief efforts, and volunteer in hospitals.
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To: <gazafriends@lists.riseup.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 7:26 AM
Subject: [GazaFriends] URGENT! Israeli Navy Attacking Civilian Mercy Ship!
TAKE ACTION IMMEDIATELY!
ISRAEL IS ON THE MARCH IN GAZA. WE CAN ONLY HOPE THE ISM ACTS AS REAL HUMAN SHIELDS THIS TIME SO THEY CAN GET SHOT.
An old Arab ditty but with new lyrics:
In Blood and Spirit We will Redeem Thee Oh Sderot!!!
In Blood and Spirit We will Redeem Thee Oh Sderot!!!
In Blood and Spirit We will Redeem Thee Oh Sderot!!!
Bomb the shit out the the Gaza savages!
Let's have some smell of napalm in the morning over Rafiach.
Avenge Sderot!
In Blood and Spirit We will Redeem Thee Oh Sderot!!!
In Blood and Spirit We will Redeem Thee Oh Sderot!!!
In Blood and Spirit We will Redeem Thee Oh Sderot!!!
Die die die Hamas dogs!
In Blood and Spirit We will Redeem Thee Oh Sderot!!!
In Blood and Spirit We will Redeem Thee Oh Sderot!!!
In Blood and Spirit We will Redeem Thee Oh Sderot!!!
Zion gonna win!
In Blood and Spirit We will Redeem Thee Oh Sderot!!!
In Blood and Spirit We will Redeem Thee Oh Sderot!!!
In Blood and Spirit We will Redeem Thee Oh Sderot!!!
Killing the Jihad bastards is the answer!
In Blood and Spirit We will Redeem Thee Oh Sderot!!!
In Blood and Spirit We will Redeem Thee Oh Sderot!!!
In Blood and Spirit We will Redeem Thee Oh Sderot!!!
End the illegal Hamas occupation of Jewish land in Gaza!
In Blood and Spirit We will Redeem Thee Oh Sderot!!!
In Blood and Spirit We will Redeem Thee Oh Sderot!!!
In Blood and Spirit We will Redeem Thee Oh Sderot!!!
Stop the ISM's Lee Kaplan can salso be heard on the Tovia Singer Show (Israel National News Radio) on Thursday, December18th at 1 PM Pacific Time US to discuss Stop the ISM's involvement in the arrest and deportation of ISM activist Darlene Wallach by the Israeli Navy. If there is time, he will also discuss the newest ISM vile tactics of If American's Knew's head, Alsion Weir who is producing a film with the ISM's newest lie claiming Israel routinely sexcually abuses Arab women at Ben Gurion airport. For more on Alison Weir, visit the Rogues Section of Stop the ISM. The Tovia Singer Show can be heard at www.israelnationalnews.com and clicking on Radio Shows. The show also will be archived.

IDF Exercises Sovereignty off Gaza, Arrests Pro-Arab Activists

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

(IsraelNN.com) The IDF arrested 15 Arab fishermen and three International Solidarity Movement (ISM) activists Monday after their fishing boats veered into Israeli territorial waters. It was the first time the foreigners have been arrested since the pro-Arab "Free Gaza" movement began testing Israeli sovereignty in August.
They have broken Israeli sovereignty four times by landing at Gaza without authorization and without interference from Israeli authorities before Tuesday's arrests.

The Foreign Ministry originally said it did not want to create a media circus over arrests on the high seas. Further sailings were allowed by the office of the Prime Minister and the IDF, possibly out of fear of injuries to the activists, who have included European legislators.
The detained activists were identified as Andrew Muncie from Scotland, Darlene Wallach from the United States and Victor Arrigoni from Italy, all of whom were turned over to immigration authorities at Ben Gurion Airport for deportation. One of them is staging a hunger strike, and pro-Arab leaders from the Free Gaza movement charged Israel with "kidnapping them."
An IDF spokeswoman explained that the fishing boats wandered into prohibited territory and ignored orders to halt. "They interfered with security patrols," the spokeswoman explained. "The ISM activists are provocateurs, and the IDF allows fishing in permitted waters."

The activists accompany the fishermen to encourage them to sail beyond the allowed limit and claim that Israel's exercised sovereignty over the Gaza Coast violates the Oslo Agreements. The government has stated in the past that it will control the air and sea so long as the Palestinian Authority, which has been replaced by Hamas in Gaza, does not control terror.

The activists previously have charged the Navy with chemical warfare by spraying water cannons that drenched them with "a chemical substance." IDF spokesmen laughed off the allegations as ridiculous and said that "routine and acceptable" measures are taken when boats stray beyond legal limits.
The IDF also denied allegations that machine gunfire has been used to ward off the boats. Radio Netherlands reported that the fishing boats bear bullet holes, and it quoted an unnamed Arab's claim   that fishermen come under fire on a daily basis.
Muncie, one of the activists who was arrested, accused the Navy of throwing explosives into the sea in order to destabilize the boats. Radio Netherlands also reported claims that two fishermen have been killed and at least four others wounded. The IDF denied the claims.
ISM activist prosecuted for aiding Hamas and passport fraud:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/022457.php

Pennsylvania Leftist useful idiot guilty of aiding Hamas
A member of the International Solidarity Movement. Left/Jihad Nexus Update: "York County native gets 31/2 years for helping Hamas," by Nichole Dobo for The Evening Sun, August 23:
A 33-year-old York County native was sentenced Thursday morning to prison for aiding a group the United States designated as a terrorist organization.
Richard David Hupper, originally from York Township, was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in federal prison for aiding Hamas, a Palestinian military and political organization.
Hupper faced up to 15 years in prison. He admitted to giving about $20,000 to Hamas while working in Israel with the International Solidarity Movement, a non-governmental organization....
Hupper, a Dallastown Area High School graduate, became involved with the conflict in the Middle East after watching international newscasts. The machinist watched the TV shows while recovering from a work-related injury at his Alabama home, his lawyer has said.
Hupper traveled to the Gaza Strip, where he worked with the International Solidarity Movement to aid Palestinians, according to court documents. He was eventually deported by Israeli authorities, according to court documents.
To return to Israel, Hupper applied for a passport in Florida using false information, according to court documents. He pleaded guilty to passport fraud charges more than two years ago. He is finishing his 24-month federal prison sentence for those charges.
Where does an unemployed machinist get $20K for Hamas? Through ISM fundraising as with the Gaza Flotilla. See below and tune in to learn how to go after ISM -Hamas fundraising:
Stop the ISM's Lee Kaplan will be on the Tovia Singer Show on Israel National News Radio on Thrusday night , August 28th at 9 pm (Friday at midnight e.s.t. or 7 am Friday in Israel) to discuss the Gaza Flotilla and what you can do to have the ISM activists arrested involved in the event. Tune in to see what you can do at www.israelnationalnews.com click on radio and listen live or listen to the archived show.

Slow Boat to Gaza
By David Bedein

Nicosia, Cyprus - On Monday, a movement known as FreeGaza.org held a press conference in Nicosia, Cyprus, in which a group of 40 people from around the world announced that they would board two small boats to travel by sea to Gaza to "break the siege" that Israel has placed upon Gaza.
There was no acknowledgement that in June of 2007, the Hamas regime took over Gaza and formalized a total state of war against Israel with the aim of liberating all of Palestine and using Gaza as a stepping stone to recoup any and all land ruled by the Jewish state.
With increasing boatloads of Iranian military hardware landing on the Gaza coastline, the Israeli navy was forced to impose an embargo of goods coming into Gaza. Israel offered to oversee goods and services for humanitarian needs in Gaza, by allowing specified supervised land crossings for supply to Gaza.
The press conference, held at “Journalist House” in Nicosia, was launched with an opening statement by an Israeli American Jerusalem resident, Jeff Halper, who alleged that Israel was behaving in defiance of international law by closing shipping lanes to Gaza. He also claimed that the people of Gaza faced a severe shortage of milk and medical supplies.

Mr. Monir Deeb, a native Gazan who has lived in Los Angeles since 1979, explained to the media that he was boarding these boats to reunite with his siblings in Gaza. Mr. Deeb described Gaza as a "peaceful community under Israeli military siege" and said that this small convoy was meant to deliver a message to Israel to stop the siege of Gaza.

This reporter asked Mr. Deeb about the armed Gaza militias who have fired thousands of missiles over the past eight years against Israeli civilian communities that surround Gaza. I also asked for his comment on how the Hamas government is using the current cease fire period to regroup and train for the next attack on Israel. Mr. Deeb said that he "could not relate to this question," since it was "political" and his concern was "only humanitarian" in nature.

The convener of the FreeGaza.org press conference, Ms. Greta Berlin, an American woman formerly married to a Palestinian whose family was dislocated from Safed in Northern Israel during the 1948 war, gave examples of the humanitarian mission on which they were embarking. “One of her missions,” she said, “was to supply 9,000 hearing aids for Palestinian children who suffer hearing loss at a young age, due to Israeli missile attacks on Gaza.”

I asked Ms. Berlin if it were not the case that the missile attacks that she had claimed had been fired at Palestinians in Gaza by Israelis were actually fired by Palestinians towards the Western Negev, as they screech over Palestinian villages en route to hit Israeli civilian targets.

Ms. Berlin would not comment, saying repeatedly that the purpose of the voyage to Gaza was not political, even though the press statement issued by FreeGaza.org touched every raw political nerve possible.

FreeGaza.org also clearly stated that it strongly condemns Israel for not allowing "refugees and their descendants the right to return home" to the villages that have since been resettled by Israel after the 1948 war. Meanwhile, the "FreeGaza.org" press statement also decried "Israel's illegal occupation of Palestine," laying aside any pretensions that the group only favored Israel's full withdrawal from Gaza.

Ms. Berlin reported that the operation to bring two boats into Gaza was independent of any foreign entities. She mentioned that FreeGaza.org had already raised $210,000 of the total budget needed, more than $300,000 for the boats. However, on July 31st, the Palestine Information Center issued a press release in which it stated that a member of the Lebanese Parliament had confirmed to Hamas leader Abu Marzook in Cairo that the boats had been provided by Palestinian popular committees by the Hamas. That would mean, in effect, that FreeGaza.org received two sources of support for its work - from American Jewish groups and from the Palestinian popular committees which are run by Hamas.

Nothing like the profit motive to move things along the high seas.

The boats are timed to arrive in Gaza this coming Saturday night, which this year marks Tisha 'av, the ninth of Av on the Jewish calendar, a fast day which marks disasters which have befallen the Jewish people.
By coincidence or not, pro-Palestinian movements around the world have designated this Friday and Saturday as a time of solidarity with their cause.
Indeed, an international Palestinian solidarity conference will convene this coming weekend at Wyndam Ohare Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, where a coalition of fifty Arab groups will gather under the umbrella of the first “Palestinian Popular Conference in North America.” The theme of the conference, promoted in all of their publicity, leaves no room for the imagination: “Ending Zionist occupation and colonization of Palestine.
‘Popular Palestinian Conference’ Peddles Propaganda
By Cinnamon Stillwell

This weekend, the “Popular Palestinian Conference 2008” will be held in Chicago, and if past is prologue, a slew of anti-Israel propaganda will be part of the repertoire. The organizers make no effort to conceal their nefarious intentions, titling one of the workshops [emphasis added], “Inserting Palestine into High School Curricula in the US & Empowering Students to Challenge Dominant Narratives” and subtitling the conference, “Palestinians in the US: Reclaiming Our Voice, Asserting Our Narrative.” Unfortunately, this “narrative” is a false one in which Israel is the oppressor, the Palestinians its perpetual victims, and the United States an accomplice in crime.
Various Middle East studies academics will be on hand to help propagate this fictitious narrative. UC Berkeley lecturer Hatem Bazian, a skilled propagandist for Palestinian victimhood in the classroom and a radical activist outside it (he called for an “Intifada in this country!” at a 2004 anti-war rally in San Francisco), will be speaking on a panel titled, “Palestinian Political Prisoners in the US: The Attack on Palestinian Activists and Scholars.” Bazian has long perpetuated the idea that off-campus criticism of Middle East studies is a form of persecution. To state the obvious: there are no “Palestinian political prisoners” in the U.S., only criminals convicted through the justice system of aiding and abetting terrorist organizations.
One of them, former University of South Florida computer science professor Sami Al-Arian, who pled guilty in 2006 to conspiring to provide goods and services to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and who awaits an August 13 trial for criminal contempt, will be represented on the panel by his daughter, Laila Al-Arian. Al-Arian has enjoyed unstinting support from the Middle East studies establishment, particularly founding director of Georgetown University’s Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, John Esposito. Unmoved by the murder of innocent civilians by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Esposito penned a letter last month to the presiding judge urging that Al-Arian be granted bond and describing him as “a man of conscience with a strong commitment to peace and social justice.” Al-Arian’s radicalism is nothing new: at a 1991 commemoration of the Palestinian Intifada featuring Islamic Jihad spiritual leader Abdel-Aziz Odeh, he called Jews “apes and pigs.”
Wayne State University anthropologist Thomas Abowd will moderate the “political prisoners” panel. This is fitting, for Abowd fashions himself the victim of what his supporters call “right-wing Zionist elements on campus.” But Abowd is hardly impartial. He is affiliated with the radical group Anti-Racist Action (ARA-WSU), whose members have accused Israel of “ethnic cleansing” and pro-Israel groups at Wayne State of practicing “white supremacist politics,” along with defending the use of a swastika to equate Israel with Nazi Germany at one of their rallies.
Abowd spoke at “Palestine Awareness Week,” an anti-Israel event at the University of Michigan in February 2008. Several students who attended Abowd’s lecture described in a Michigan Daily op-ed his hostile and dismissive attitude towards a student who dared ask a challenging question. Abowd, as they put it, “smirked and glared” and “used scare tactics to intimidate and to alienate the student and to negate the importance of his question.”
The conference ends with the panel, “One-State Solution to the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict.” The so-called one state solution is really just a fig-leaf for the destruction of Israel. There’s no evidence that the Palestinian political leadership has any inclination towards the sort of multi-religious, multi-ethnic democratic nation envisioned by “one-state solution” proponents. The pathological hatred towards Jews, persecution of Christians, advocacy of Sharia law, indoctrination of children, and violence among rival Palestinian clans and terrorist groups all demonstrate the danger to Israel that lies down this path.
Yet some scholars advocate the “one-state solution” in spite of these glaring obstacles. Jennifer Loewenstein, associate director of the Middle East studies program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will be one of the conference panelists doing just that. In a March 2008 article for the rabidly anti-Israel, far-left publication Counterpunch with the ridiculous title, “Gazan Holocaust,” Loewenstein asserts that “Israel and its U.S. Master have long since resided in the lowest circle of Hell for betraying the name of humanity.” No word from Loewenstein on the betrayals of humanity by the Palestinians, both towards Israelis and each other.
Another panelist, Tomis Kapitan, chair and professor in the Department of Philosophy at Northern Illinois University, displays a similar blind spot. In a 2004 paper on the Arab-Israeli conflict, Kapitan waxes philosophically about the “reciprocal” nature of Arab terrorism, calls the suggestion that “cultural or religious beliefs” motivate suicide bombings “incredible,” and concludes that “the maximalists in charge of Israeli policy and their supporters in the United States and elsewhere, are chiefly to blame for the ongoing cycle of violence.”
Panelist Seif Da’Na, professor of sociology and international studies at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, takes a Marxist, populist approach. In a 2001 Media Monitors Network article, Da’Na calls for a “Palestinian liberation strategy” and urges activists to view the “Palestinian struggle against Israel…in the larger context of the struggle to bring human dignity and social justice to the world.” Surely “human dignity” and “social justice” would first need to be established within before serving as some sort of shining beacon to the world, but Da’Na overlooks this minor matter.
So too do conference organizers, who, as part of pushing their “narrative,” bemoan the 60th anniversary of “al Nakba,” the Arabic word for “catastrophe” used to describe the creation of the modern state of Israel in 1948. But the “60 Years of Catastrophe” trumpeted at the conference website would more appropriately be placed upon the heads of Palestinian and regional Arab leadership. They have perpetuated a constant state of victimhood and refugee status while fomenting chaos and violence. Palestinians are the second largest per capita recipients of foreign aid in the world, yet precious few resources have been dedicated to the building of a functioning civil society. In fact, rising levels of violence can be directly correlated to rising levels of aid. The current civil war between Fatah and Hamas and the resultant human rights abuses are just the latest examples.
If the Palestinians in the U.S. that conference organizers profess to represent, and Middle East studies academics sympathetic to their cause, truly wanted to effect a just resolution to the Arab-Israeli conflict, they would start looking within for answers. Instead, such conferences simply peddle propaganda intended to demonize Israel. Those seeking the truth would do well to steer clear.
See photos of the newest ISM recruits:
http://www.rachelgolem.com:80/mossad.htm
                                             FLASH!!!
U.S. Neutrality Act Violated by Gaza Boat Organizers Shurat HaDin Warns California AG

Nitsana Darshan-Leitner 917.519.9340

Sacramento: In an urgent letter dispatched to The Hon. Edmond G. Brown, Attorney General of the State of California, Shurat HaDin director Nitsana Darshan-Leitner warns the AG that the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), and others, have conspired to violate the U.S. Neutrality Act, 18 U.S.C. § 960, within the boundaries of his state.

Attorney Darshan-Leitner writes in her letter that the organizers of the "Gaza Boat" program have violated the Neutrality Act by illegally raising money in California to bankroll two boats which they plan to sail into Gaza on August 5. The boats are reportedly leaving Piraeus, Greece with ISM members on board on August 1. Based on prior experience, serious concerns
that the boats will be carrying weapons, explosives and contraband have been raised by security experts.

The U.S. Neutrality Act that is codified in section 960 of title 18 of the U.S. Code, stating:

"Whoever, within the United States, knowingly begins or sets on foot or provides or prepares a means for or furnishes the money for, or takes part in, any military or naval expedition or enterprise to be carried on from thence against the territory or dominion of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district, or people with whom the United States is at peace, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both."

According to the project website as archived by Google on July 24, 2008 - The Carter Center of former US President Jimmy Carter and the Archbishop Desmond Tutu have both endorsed the project ( www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=40027 ). According to news reports, the Carter Center was also involved in the funding of the project.

Shurat HaDin's letter charges that the organizers have openly solicited support for the hostile expedition against a friendly nation in violation of the U.S. Neutrality Act and urges the attorney general of California and the Federal Bureau of Investigations to launch a full inquiry into the funding of the flotilla and to prosecute all those involved to the full extent of the law should the allegation prove true.

The folllowing is the text of Shurat HaDin's Letter to Attorney General Brown:
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Attorney General Edmund G. Brown
Office of Attorney General
California Department of Justice
P.O. Box 944255 Sacramento, CA 94244-2550
Via Fax:

Dear Attorney General Brown,

Re:        Conspiracy to Violate the U.S. Neutrality Act, 18 U.S.C. § 960

Dear Attorney General

I am writing to bring to your attention to a serious matter regarding what might be an ongoing conspiracy to
violate the U.S. Neutrality Act, 18 U.S.C. § 960, and an attempt to aid & abet the Palestinian terrorist organization
Hamas which is occurring within your jurisdiction with the support and under the direction of an organization known as "The Free Gaza Movement," located at 405 Vista Heights Road, El Cerrito, California 94530.

The Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas is currently designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.
S. government. In June 2007, Hamas ousted Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party from the Gaza Strip and subsequently took power where it has engaged in a relentless campaign to obtain weapons and explosives and to terrorize both Israelis and moderate Palestinians. As a result of constant rocket attacks from Gaza on Israel's coastal cities, on September 19, 2007 the Israeli government declared that "Hamas is a terrorist organization that has taken control of the Gaza Strip and turned it into hostile territory."   Similarly, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice affirmed "Hamas is indeed a hostile entity. It's a hostile entity to the United States as well."

In an effort to prevent Hamas from obtaining any additional military equipment and to impose economic pressure
on the Hamas leadership in Gaza, the Israeli Security Cabinet imposed a series of sanctions on the Gaza Strip
including a coastal blockade that is being implemented by the Israeli navy. The naval blockade is particularly
important in light of previous attempts by the Iranian government to transfer weapons to Palestinian militants at
sea such as occurred in January 2002 when the Israeli navy seized the "Karine A" ship that was loaded with 50
tons of Iranian supplied weaponry.

There are several provisions within the agreements signed by Israel and the Palestinian Authority that grant Israel the right to implement a naval blockade on the Gaza Strip. Specifically, the September 28, 1995 Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip that was signed in Washington D.C. states in Article XIV that Israel has "the responsibility for defense against external threats, including . for defense against external threats from the sea and from the air."   Moreover, in Article XIV of the Interim Agreement titled "Security along the Coastline to the Sea of Gaza" Israel and the Palestinian Authority agreed that foreign vessels would" not approach closer than 12 nautical miles from the coast" unless specifically authorized pursuant to jointly agreed regulations and that in the absence of such conditions all foreign vessels would be required to dock at Israeli approved ports.   (Because there are no international ports open to foreign vessels in Gaza at this time, it is currently illegal for foreign vessels to attempt to dock in Gaza without explicit Israeli authorization.) Finally, in a letter to Prime Minister Sharon on April 14, 2004 shortly before Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip President
Bush confirmed " [t]he United States understands that after Israel withdraws from Gaza and/or parts of the West
Bank, and pending agreements on other arrangements, existing arrangements regarding control of airspace,
territorial waters, and land passages of the West Bank and Gaza will continue."

       Nevertheless, despite the clear unequivocal policy of the United States to support Israel's right to control the
security of the territorial waters around Gaza and to isolate Hamas from external support, the extremist Free
Gaza Movement is attempting to undermine the foreign policy of both the United States and Israel by raising
money to violate the Interim Agreement regarding foreign vessels and to undermine Israel's sovereign authority.

On The Free Gaza Movement website located at www.freegaza.org requests are being made to finance a "Break
the Siege ship" that is tentatively set to sail in August 2008 (See also http://freegaza.org/pages/joinIn.
html#aboard). According to information on its website the ship "will sail directly to Gaza without going through
Israeli territory and without seeking permission from Israeli authorities." However, because Israel has exclusive
security authority over foreign vessels that are attempting to dock in Gaza, The Free Gaza Movement is openly soliciting support in this country for a hostile expedition against a friendly nation in violation of the U.S. NeutralityAct that is codified in section 960 of title 18 of the U.S. Code. This law states:

Whoever, within the United States, knowingly begins or sets on foot or provides or prepares a means for or
furnishes the money for, or takes part in, any military or naval expedition or enterprise to be carried on from
thence against the territory or dominion of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district, or people with
whom the United States is at peace, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

       As such, the actions of The Free Gaza Movement are nothing short of an attempt to violate the laws of State
of Israel and to engage in conduct that has the effect of undermining the national security of a U.S. ally.
Consequently, I respectfully request that your office take all necessary and appropriate actions to uphold the
laws of the United States, to investigate those that are organizing and funding this illegal effort and to enjoin any
unlawful activity on the part of The Free Gaza Movement.

Thank you,

Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, Esq.
1.917.519.9340
info@israellawcenter.org
www.israellawcenter.org
Do your part to put Paul LaRudee in jail for assisting terrorists! Stop the ISM! If you want peace in the Middle East, that will help do it. Stop Hamas!
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Paul LaRudee of Norcal ISM, deported from Israel due to our efforts in 2006 is now trying to get a flotilla together of as many ISM creeps as possible in order to enter Gaza by sea against the Israeli Navy in order to open up the shipping lanes for the importation of more weapons to kill Israelis by Hamas. The scheduled date for setting sail is August 5th from Cyprus.
Riad Hamad, in the story below, the head of Palestine Childrens Welfare Fund was found murdered in Texas on July 14th. Hamad, who appointed LaRudee his fundraising chairman for this flotilla as probably killed by Hamas for attracting to much attention for the FBI over money laundering for Hamas. LaRudee, whose pathology against Israel is a complete mental illness, has been running around like a brass monkey promoting this flotilla. It is up to all Americans, Israelis and people for democratic free societies worldwide to stop LaRudee and his terrorist support gang that is really run by the Palestinian Arabs.
These are some of the ISM creeps who plan to be on this journey:
Huwaida Arraf, Patrick Connors, Greta Berlin, Adam Shapiro, Dorothy Naor, Brian Malovany, Lisa Nessan, Hedy Epstein, among other professional ISM activists. Many of these have been deported already from Israel.
Of course, the simplest and best solution would be for one missile to sink this ship and get rid of the ISM all together, but we realize thats not going to happen. So we are asking all of those concerned to contact the Embassy of Cypress in Washington, D.C. and New York City and demand that this ship not be allowed to use Cypriot ports to make this jounrney to aid Hamas. At the same time, call the Diplomatic Security Service division of the US State Department and tell them about this and demand the US passports of participants also be held back from travel to Cyprus or Egypt because this group aims to aid Hamas. Likewise, contact your congresspeople and demand that they do something to prevent this "voyage" from occuring.
The question also arises where the money came from for this event. Paul LaRudee has claimed he needed $300,000 to charter a boat. Last time he spoke about it he claimed to raise only $50,000. Where is the extra $250,000 coming from? Money was first to be sent to Riad Hamad's Palestine Children's Welfare Fund then later everything was sent to Paul LaRudee's home address in El Cerrito, California. The IRS in all its wisdom gave non-profit status to NorCal ISM last December without realizing the money was going for such a support- for -Hamas event. IN turn, readers here are urged to write the IRS criminal investigations unit and file a complaint for charities fraud, as well as the California Attorney Generals Office as well for the same purpose.
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RIAD HAMAD, the head of ISM NGO front Palestine Children's Welfare Fund was found murdered today, July 17th, 2008 in Texas. Hamad had tried suing various news agencies that identified the support of his organization for terrorism and suicide bombings but ended up paying over $50,000 in sanctions for his frivolous lawsuit.
More details below:
AUSTIN, Texas -- Police on Thursday identified a man who was found bound with duct tape in Lady Bird Lake in East Austin.
Parkgoers discovered the body of Riad Hamad, 55, Wednesday afternoon just east of the Interstate 35 bridge near Festival Beach.
Hamad was a computer teacher at Small Middle School and had been planning a trip to Palestine to teach children there.
Witnesses who found Hamad said the man had duct tape on his face, and his hands were tied.
Police have called the death suspicious. Investigators on Thursday said family and other sources have told them that Hamad was suicidal...
Hamad ran the Palestine Children's Welfare Fund (PCWF), a radical Gaza-based "charity" that helped children by teaching them to hate Jews. He sued a number of people and entities like David Horowitz, NGO Monitor and others, lost big and had to pay court costs.
On January 17, 2007, a Texas Federal Court judge dismissed as "wholly frivolous" and "baseless" Palestine Children's Welfare Fund (PCWF) Riad ElSolh Hamad's defamation suit against NGO Monitor, Frontpage Jerusalem, the Center for Study of Popular Culture and others. Hamad charged the organizations had defamed him and violated his constitutional and civil rights linking him and his charity in newspaper and Internet articles to Islamic fundamentalist terror.
In addition to dismissing Hamad's claims as "groundless", United States District Court Judge, Sam Sparks, leveled Rule 11 sanctions against Hamad and ordered him to pay defendants' attorney's fees and costs totaling almost $60,000 as well as a $1000 fine to each defendant for Hamad's repeated violation of court orders...
NGO Monitor's report on the PCWF:
...these worthy goals are being undermined by the promotion of an atmosphere of hatred and violence. There is no humanitarian justification for publishing drawings by small children depicting the burning maps of the State of Israel. The T-shirt on sale with the poem alluding to martyrdom only helps to push Palestinian children deeper into more misery. The message board includes outrageous claims that reflect the propaganda of those wishing to pursue the conflict without end. On the basis of this evidence, one can conclude that this NGO raises its funds on false premises, and that its activities are a far cry from the purely humanitarian mission claimed in its mission statement.
According to Discover the Networks:
...Hamad has said, "Britain allowed several hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants to land in Palestine, despite the opposition of the original inhabitants. In our opinion, [the Jews] arrived illegally and will be deported to their nation of origin...sooner or later." He has also suggested that it is a misconception to assume "that most of us Arabs recognize the right of Israel to exist."
The FBI has investigated Hamad on a number of occasions. His resume includes being fired from Austin Community College for allegedly "making racist slurs and sexist jokes in the classroom." In Hamad's version of the event, however, he explains that he was in fact fired for "making statements against the U.S. government." Hamad is currently an instructor at a different school, in his words, "till I get fired again."
Or he's murdered, apparently [Update: See below]. More about PCWF in this piece at FrontPage by Joe Kaufman.
Update: The Texas Scribbler links to the police press release [PDF] noting that:
...tape was found around the eyes, and the hands and legs were loosely bound. The bindings of his hands and legs and placement of the tape were consistent with Hamad having done this to himself. Detectives know that Hamad walked from his vehicle to the water on his own based on evidence retrieved from the scene.
Perhaps he was on the target list for Hamas due to his failure and exposure? It should be noted that Hamad also was organizing the upcoming Gaza Flotilla by the ISM and was accepting donations for this.
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Man Gets Jail for Funding Hamas -- ISM Freaking, May be Placed on Terror Sponsor List
Our story begins with one, Richard David Hupper, who was already serving time for passport fraud -- looks like he tried to get a new passport under a false name ( standard ISM tactic) in order to get back into Israel after he was banned for his activities with the International Solidarity Movement -- then they dragged him out of his cell and charged him with "giving about $20,000 to a group he knew supported Hamas.": Local man aided Hamas
A York County native who traveled to the war-torn Middle East to work with Palestinians will be sentenced in federal court this month for aiding a terrorist organization.
Richard David Hupper, 32, was charged with giving about $20,000 to a group he knew supported Hamas, the Palestinian military and political organization, according to court documents and his defense lawyer.
It is a crime to give money to Hamas, or to groups that support it, because it is considered a terrorist organization by the U.S. government. Hupper pleaded guilty in May.
The Leader Heights, York Township, native likely will be sentenced to about five years, his lawyer said.
Hupper's defense attorney, Neal R. Lewis, a Reading native who works in Florida, said the charges stem from Hupper's donations to a nonprofit agency that, in turn, supports Hamas.
He saw his mission as a humanitarian cause and wanted his donations to support the families of Palestinians who had been detained or killed, Lewis said...
...The charges against Hupper came more than a year after he pleaded guilty to attempting to obtain a passport using false information, a case that is related to his work with the Palestinians, Lewis said.
Hupper had been in Israel working with Palestinians, but the Israeli government kicked him out.
He wanted to go back, so he tried to get a passport using someone else's name, Social Security number and a forged birth certificate, and he was arrested, according to court documents...
...Hupper, who last lived in York County about six years ago, decided to involve himself in the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis while he was in Alabama working as a machinist, Lewis said.
While in Alabama, Hupper was injured at work, and he spent much of his time off watching TV, including international news, Lewis said. Hupper decided he wanted to travel to the Gaza Strip with the goal to help the Palestinian people...
...Hupper traveled to Israel, where he actively worked with a non-governmental agency to aid Palestinians impacted by the Middle East conflict, Lewis said. He was eventually ordered to leave Israel and returned to Florida after a stop in Jordan.
After spending some time in Florida, he decided he wanted to return to his work with Palestinians, and that's when he applied for the passport with false information.
Prosecutors agreed to recommend a light sentence on the passport charges, according to court documents. Hupper, who is in a Miami federal prison, was sentenced to serve a total of 24 months for those charges. His release date is set for November.
With the latest charges, Hupper faces more time in prison -- a maximum of 15 years -- and $250,000 in fines. But because he has admitted to his crime and pleaded guilty, it's likely he will be sentenced to about five years, Lewis said.
Unemployed machinist donates $20k to group working with Hamas...OK... But who are the non-profit and the NGO mentioned in the article? Who was he working with? Well that's where the International Solidarity Movement comes in.
You remember Paul Larudee, the "piano tuner"...oh, and also big-wig with the ISM? (He was also, BTW, one of the last people to speak [see Larudee comment] to Riad Hamad before his suicide.) Well he provides more information, courtesy of an exchange over an ISM email list. Looks like the ISM itself plays in here, and may be either an unindicted co-conspirator in the case, or -- dare we hope -- perhaps something more.
Photo of LaRudee available in our Rogues Gallery
Attached is a proposed letter to send to mailing lists, which can also be adapted for email lists. It refers to information coming out of a case reported in the Leader Heights Daily Record, shown at the end of this message. Tom Nelson, the lawyer for ISM-Northern California and the Free Gaza Movement, has managed to get some additional info, including the fact that ISM is the "nonprofit agency" referenced in the article, and that at least one individual in ISM-Palestine has been named.
ISM-Palestine is doing its own research on this, and it is best if we do not ask them to report back to us until they are ready. It seems that the convicted individual, Richard David Hupper, may have joined ISM as a volunteer and been later asked to leave because his actions were inconsistent with ISM principles, but even that is uncertain. Nevertheless, it seems likely that the U.S. is considering action against ISM, probably with Israeli prodding.
The Free Gaza Movement suspects that this is the latest in a series of attempts (the fifth, to be precise) to thwart and discredit its project to send boats to Gaza. The objective would be to time the placement of ISM on the terrorism sponsor list at the time the boats sail, in order to discredit the effort. [As if the US government would take such a step just to stop their idiotic boats. -S]
Tom suggests that a good way for us to deal with this in the U.S. is to mobilize public pressure on Congress. Hence the attached letter, which has been drafted by him, Greta Berlin and myself. ISM-Northern California is having a Newsletter mailing session Wednesday evening, so I suggest we try to complete discussion of this in time to be able to send out the letters at that session.
List member Patrick Connors didn't think it was a good idea to talk about this:
...I really strongly request that none of this information not be shared any further at this point - the article, this draft letter, etc. - on listservs or with anyone else. And I think it was not a good idea for Paul to have sent this email. Sharing this information on lists about this sensitive information contradicts previous email discussions about holding off until we have more info, and I am troubled to see that people have taken unilateral actions on this nonetheless.
Again, people are gathering information on this at this point, and I request that everyone hold off on any actions or even on emailing on this sensitive topic, especially to email lists, until more information is collected...
Oops. Larudee disagrees:
This is not a unilateral action and in fact it's not an action at all. It's a proposal for action, which is being presented for consensus. Except for two items of information, it is all in the public domain, i.e. published in a newspaper. The remaining two items are that ISM was named, which is essential information that is likely to soon be public anyway, because it was given to me by a reporter, and that a person was named, which is about as vague as it is possible to get...
He clearly thinks ISM is at risk of being put on the terror sponsor list:
...we do not have the kind of information needed to refute allegations, so we shouldn't try to. However, we definitely want to have the opportunity to refute allegations before ISM is designated a terrorism sponsor, not after, and that is what the proposed letter and the campaign is intended to accomplish. All it asks is for ISM to be permitted to remain off the list until an investigation includes ISM testimony, which would include the kind of information that Pat wants to have. There's nothing controversial about this request, and our experience with members of Congress in the Bay Area is that they will not have a problem asking for this...
I frankly think it's a bit much to hope for, but you never know. Here is a PDF copy of the letter they circulated, note that the file name is theirs: ISM in grave danger.pdf
We at Stop the ISM await further developments. We have always felt that a case could be made for naming ISM as a terror sponsoring group, or whatever the legal term of art is, but questioned whether anyone in government felt it was worth bothering with. Hopefully, if it happens, they'll have all of their evidentiary ducks well in a row. Stay tuned.
By the way, Paul LaRudee admitted to engaging in passport fraud in the summer of 2006. Call your local offices of the Diplomatic Security Service and the FBI and demand he be arrested for the same crimes as committed by Hupper.
Posted by Solomonia at 7:38 PM |

Read about The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation (the new name for ISM-USA with same leadership) and thier cease and desist letter to Lee Kaplan of Stop the ISM:

http://209.85.141.104/search?q=cache:0erBRLzimzcJ:www.omdurman.org/columns/uscampaign1.html+Lee+Kaplan+%2B+YOu+tube&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=21&gl=us

ISRAELI POLICE INEPTITUDE CONTRIBUTES TO THE ISM's SHENANIGANS. READ THIS IMPORTANT ARTICLE BY CAROLINE GLICK:
Anatomy of a massacre
Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST

Government and police spokesmen would have us believe that the carnage in
Jerusalem on Wednesday was unavoidable. Husam Taysir Dwayat, the convicted
rapist, burglar and drug dealer turned jihadist who mowed down innocent
people with his bulldozer on Jaffa Road was not suspected of links to terrorist organizations. The sociopathic, violent criminal who had "returned" to Islam over the past month raised no red flags. There was nothing to be done. No one is to blame.

If the protestations of the government and the police that nothing could have prevented Dwayat from using his bulldozer to murder three people sound familiar, it is because they are. Immediately after Ala Abu Dhaim entered into Mercaz Harav yeshiva on March 6 and massacred eight students, government and police spokesmen said the same thing. There was no way to prevent the attack. No one is to blame.

These statements are no more than easy excuses for incompetence. While it
may be true that neither Dwayat nor Dhaim were members of a terror group, it
is certainly true that both of these Jerusalemite terrorists operated in an
atmosphere that engenders both radicalism and lawlessness. Their decisions
to murder innocent people were products not only of their own evil natures,
but of an atmosphere of permissiveness that naturally intensifies any latent
desire to cause death and mayhem. If they had been operating in a different
environment, it is possible they would have behaved differently.

Four months ago, Dhaim was able to enter Mercaz Harav by dint of his job as
a driver for the Jerusalem Arab-owned transport company HaPnina.

HaPnina had a city contract to transport school children. Dhaim, who arrived
at the yeshiva in a company van, aroused no suspicion when he entered the yeshiva with a large box where he hid his rifle.

After Dhaim committed his massacre, the municipality immediately tried to abrogate its contract with HaPnina. HaPnina sued and the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court issued a temporary injunction requiring the city to
continue using HaPnina until the judge ruled on the case. When Judge Hagit Mack-Kalmanovich finally decided in the municipality's favor on June 13, she
noted that that the company had ignored a court order to provide documentation showing that its drivers had no criminal records and were qualified to transport children.

If the municipality were more vigilant in overseeing its contractors, it could have discovered that HaPnina was employing criminals well before the massacre. Perhaps then Dhaim wouldn't have been able to enter the yeshiva.

It is a criminal offense to praise acts of murder. When hundreds came to pay
their respects for Dhaim and proclaim him a hero, the police could have arrested and interrogated all of them. Among those who arrived at the Dhaim's mourning tent was Wednesday's terrorist, Dwayat. If he had been arrested then, it is possible that police would have discovered that this
convicted rapist had recently become a jihadist. It is also possible that
Dwayat himself would have been intimidated.

But rather than enforce the law, the police did nothing. Rather than arrest
the hundreds who came to praise Dhaim, the police excused their inaction by
bemoaning the fact that the due process rights of Jerusalem Arabs made it
impossible to destroy the homes of Arab terrorists in the capital without
proper legal authorization. That is, they justified their decision to do
nothing by complaining that they can't do everything.

The police's permissive behavior is nothing new. In Dhaim's and Dwayat's
Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem, as in the Beduin settlements in the Negev
and the Arab cities and villages in the Galilee, the police simply refuse to
enforce the law. They do not patrol the streets. They do not arrest religious, educational and political leaders who solicit terrorism or incite hatred. They do not enforce building laws. They do not protect state and privately owned land from squatters. Today some 90 percent of Arab construction in Israel is carried out without permits. Whole towns in the Negev have been built on stolen state land. And the police do nothing.

As a consequence of police inaction, thieves, smugglers, terror solicitors and other dangerous criminals are allowed to operate in the open. Fearing the wrath of human rights groups on the one hand and Arab rioters on the other, the police simply do not enforce Israeli law in the Arab sector.

This police passivity manifests itself not only in times of relative calm but also in emergency situations. For instance, at both Mercaz Harav and on Jaffa Road, the police were inexcusably passive. In both attacks the
terrorists were only stopped by citizens who took the initiative when the police failed to act.

On Wednesday Dwayat killed two motorists and overturned a truck before a policeman and a security guard climbed into the cab of his bulldozer. And then, instead of shooting him, the policeman simply tried to restrain him. Due to the police's refusal to shoot, Dwayat killed 33-year-old Batsheva
Unterman while the policeman was standing next to him in the bulldozer's cab. It was only the intervention of "M.," an unarmed IDF commando soldier on furlough, that ended the carnage.

M. climbed onto the bulldozer, took the security guard's gun and shot Dwayat
in the head three times. Another policeman only shot Dwayat after M. had already killed him.

At Mercaz Harav, it took the police some 20 minutes to show up in force. Until then, only one police officer was at the scene. And as he heard the anguished cries of teenagers being murdered, he opted not to go in and
protect them. He stood outside and did nothing. Dhaim was only stopped when
yeshiva student Moshe Dadon and furloughed paratrooper Capt. David Shapira killed him. As luck or providence would have it, Shapira is M.'s brother-in-law.

In failing to act against Arab Israeli lawlessness and the terror it engenders, the police are little different from the government. Like the police, the government turns a blind eye to the radicalization and
lawlessness of Arab Israeli society. And when the unchallenged lawless and
jihadist atmosphere leads inevitably to massacre, the government talks of
how its hands are tied and makes angry, tough declarations not backed by
policy. Then it quickly moves to change the subject.

The government's refusal to form a coherent policy regarding the deteriorating situation in Israeli-Arab society was exposed at the Knesset on Wednesday. There, just as Dwayat was on his killing spree, the Knesset
was scheduled to vote on two bills written by opposition lawmakers after the
Mercaz Harav massacre. If passed, the bills will allow the government to revoke the citizenship of terrorists and their family members and prohibit the families of dead terrorists from publicly celebrating their actions.

The government's Ministerial Committee on Legislation voted to oppose the bills some weeks ago. It only changed its mind in light of the massacre on Jaffa Road. As opposition leader and Likud Chairman Binyamin Netanyahu noted on Thursday morning in an interview with Israel Radio, the government's support of the bills was pure political opportunism. The sudden change in
its position made clear that the government has no policies, only postures.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Ehud Barak reacted to
Wednesday's attack by loudly proclaiming their support for destroying Dwayat's home. But as Netanyahu noted, they are policy-makers, not spokesmen. Their job is to act, not to declaim about their preferences.

And yet, making loud, crowd pleasing declarations is the only policy the
government has for dealing with anything. Both Barak and Olmert know that in
sovereign Israel it is legally impossible to simply destroy a house without
due process. Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz is still trying to work out how
to legally destroy Dhaim's home four months after he attacked. If Barak and
Olmert really were interested in destroying terrorists' homes, they could
pass a law explicitly empowering the government to do so.

While the police could end the atmosphere of lawlessness by enforcing the laws already on the books, the government can take positive steps to reverse the trends toward radicalization in Israeli Arab society. It can pass regulations barring anti-Zionist propaganda in public school curricula and
sanctioning the immediate firing of public school teachers who teach students to hate Israel. It can suspend government funding of municipalities and local councils that do not enforce building codes. It can set up
well-paid community police comprised of loyal citizens. The government can
prosecute Arab politicians and leaders who treat with the enemy for treason.

But not only is the government doing none of these things, it is taking active steps to legitimize Israeli-Arab rejection of the State of Israel. So it is that far from barring the study of the myth of the so-called Nakba, or
catastrophe of Israel's birth, in Arab schools, Education Minister Yuli Tamir is encouraging Israeli Jewish schools to teach the lie to their Jewish students. Rather than take action against Arab leaders who actively work to radicalize Israeli-Arab society and solicit terrorism, the government bends
over backwards to appease these leaders in the name of multicultural pluralism.

The government has not sufficed with seeking to appease Arab radicals by embracing their anti-Israeli propaganda as legitimate. It is also actively working to marginalize the sectors of Israeli society that support policies
aimed at reversing the trend of Arab radicalization.

M., the hero of Wednesday's attack, is case in point. M., a clearly motivated, resourceful and brave soldier, is 20 years old. At his age, he should have already been in the army for nearly two years. But he was only drafted four months ago. It turns out that the IDF didn't want him. Even as IDF commanders bemoan the dwindling draft rolls as more and more young men and women evade military service, the IDF fought for two years to keep M. out of its ranks.

The IDF opposed M.'s service because in 2005 he was arrested for protesting
against the withdrawal from Gaza. Charges were never filed against him. But
the mere fact that he was arrested for opposing one of the stupidest and
most disastrous government policies the IDF has ever implemented was sufficient to make him politically suspect.

Then, too, by Thursday morning, unnamed government sources were warning that
"right-wing extremists" were planning to start attacking Jerusalem Arab neighborhoods.

It is far easier to attack imaginary enemies than to face real ones.

It is possible that both Dhaim and Dwayat couldn't have been stopped. But it
is certainly true that given the environment of lawlessness and governmental
flaccidity in which they operated, there were no countervailing forces in
their lives that might have led these evil men to have second thoughts about
murdering innocent Israelis in the name of Allah.

Political bluster will not prevent the next attack. There are policies that Israel can enact today that will make the option of mass murder less attractive to its Arab citizenry. But as Barak, Olmert and their colleagues
have made clear, nothing will happen under the current government.
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For those of you who care about stopping the Arab fascist attempt to destroy democratic Israel by subterfuge, please write the IRS Criminal Investigations Unit at the address below and demand they investigate why Paul LaRudee and his ISM Support Group in Northern California were given non-profit tax exemption to raise money that is going to finance a flotilla to help the Hamas by trying to run the IDF Navy blockade of Gaza to help smuggle weapons in for Hamas. LaRudee was deported from Israel for Hamas connections and has openly worked to aid Hizballah, all known Foreign Terrorist Organizations. No doubt he lied on his application and he is also violating anti-terror laws in the US by training individuals to go abroad and aid terrorist groups.
Write to:
IRS- EO Classification
4910 DAL
1100 Commerce Street
Dallas TX 75242-1198
Attn: Criminal investigations
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