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July 9,1992
Page SEVEN
News, Views, & Reviews
DIRTY POLITICS
ByHERSCHELZVI
by Bernard J. Shapiro
and Baker used the issue of the tect the donor's anonymity.
The conference was held a few
Israel's answer to this threat
historian.
According to an account pro-
2
supported and run by Iran. Inside
Israel, especially in the Gaza
and discrimination against Jews
originated in the Islamic world.
In Part II we will see the conflict
filthy campaign of highly per-
sonal attacks against Shamir, one
Hamas are responsible for many
brutal murders of their rivals in
the Palestinian community and
so called "collaborators" with
world in its modern day incarna-
tion. When we speak of Islamic
fundamentalism, we are talking
about a state where political rule
and religious authority are Vested
in the same entity. That entity is
the supreme religious personality
or Ayatullah as in Iran. Muham-
med established the tradition of
Caliphs (e.g., Abu Bakr, Omar,
Osman and Ali) ruled the Arabs
as both religious and secular
leader. The Koran was the source
geria, where they recently won a
democratic election. A military
coup prevented them from com-
ing to power, but their strength
was demonstrated recently by
their ability to assassinate the
president of that country. The
fundamentalists are gaining
strength in Jordan, Libya, Tunisia,
ciple source of legislation with
all the dire consequences for
women and minorities. The fate
of non-Moslem minorities would
be similar to that meted out to
Black. Christians and Animists of
southern Sudan: expulsion, forced
starvation, and mass murder.
* Israel faces an apocalyptic
threat from the Islamic funda-
mentalist nations as they rush to
The recently-concluded elec-
tions in Israel included mud-
slinging worthy of a U.S. election
campaign. Many voters protested
that, in the final weeks, discussion
of the issues was. supplanted by
vicious .character assassination.
Rabin, the eventual’winner, was
called an emotionally unstable
drunk who would crack under
elections, there seems to be an
unrealistic, almost euphoric, feel-
ing that peace is just around the
corner. In the Book of Esther we
find the story of Purim. You may
remember that Queen Esther
succeeded in foiling Haman's evil
plan to kill the Jews of Persia. It
is significant that Haman was
hanged and the Jews were saved
and not that King Ahashuerus
area would practically annihilate guarantees after the elections,
the Jewish state. . n.ITSAT th. Chuteama s
vided by Wall Street lournal re-
porter Thomas Petzinger, Jr., in
his book "Oil and Honor", Liedtke
raised $700,000 in anonymous
contributions for the Committee
to Re-Elect the President (known
by the acronym CREEP), includ-
ing $100,000 which was laundered
through a Mexican bank to pro-
which was quickly halted by
Rabin, but not before some dam-
age had been done.
The campaign against Shamir
and Likud run by the Bush admin-
istration may not have been as
obvious as the broadsides launched
by the two major adversaries, but
it had a powerful impact. Bush
influence of the fundamentalists
is much stronger than these few
countries seem to show. Islamic
fectly willing to compete in demo-
cratic elections, but once in
power all aspects of democracy
Jerusalem. He traveled to Berlin
to lend his support to Hitler. After
viewing the death camps he peti-
tioned Hitler and I quote, "You
should accord to Palestine and
to the other Arab countries the
right to solve the problem of
Jewish elements in Palestine and
other Arab countries in accor-
dance with .. . the same method
to Support the Islamic Revolution
between Israel and the Islamic of Palestine on Oct. 19-22,1991.
unified political and religious who's who of the terrorist world,
rule. After his death a series of i
wait, and Oman are very vulner-
able to the message of Islamic,
fundamentalism. The five repub-
lics of the former Soviet Union in
central Asia have predominately
Moslem populations and already
have been penetrated by Iranian
emissaries hoping to spread their
brand of Islamic fundamentalism.
/ The problem for Israel is very
simple, but also devastating in its
impact on the possibility of peace
with its neighbors. The funda-
mentalists have added the di-
mension of religion to the na-
tionalist struggle between the
Arabs and Israel. While there
was no shortage of hatred for
• Israel and the fact that the Arabs
were Moslems was always a fac-
. tor before now we have A xeno-
phobic religious jihad (holy war).
Recently, a group of Moslem
clerics gathered in Jerusalem and
issued a religious opinion or
fatwa which bars any negotiated
agreement with Israel. It also
states that temporary agreements
may be reached like taking over
Judea and Samaria, if it is in the
Arabs' interests, but permanent
■ peace is forbidden and the battle
to liberate all of the occupied
Moslems lands (i.e. Israel) must
continue. Let there be no mis-
understanding, the message of
Islamic fundamentalism to Israel
and the Jewish people is: no
compromise - war until total vic-
Israel.
The Algerian model is quite in-
and Egypt. The conservative Arab structive on how the funda-
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that the question is now being
would disappear. In much the settled in the Axis countries." At
same way as Adolf Hitler came to that time the extermination of
power in Germany in 1933 fol- Jews was in full swing, so there
lowing elections, the Islamic mil- can be little doubt about what
itants would exploit the desire the Mufti meant by solving the
for democracy in many Arab Jewish problem.
countries. Once in power they Because of the victory of the
would make the Koran the prin- Labor Party in. Israel's recent
ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM AND ISRAEL
* Part II
The conflict today
In Part I we learned how hatred lory over the infidels (lews).
In pursuit of that aim, Iran host- pressure. Not to be outdone,
ed an International Conference some Labor activists unveiled a
monarchies of Saudi Arabia, Ku- mentalists operate. They are per-
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including Ahmed Jibril (Pan Am
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hall had a 100 foot banner across by OC Air Force Maj.-Gen. Herzl
the front proclaiming: "ISRAEL
MUST BE DESTROYED".
of all legislation and Islam was Even today, Islamic forces are
supreme in all aspects of life. , engaged in warfare against Israel, in order to prevent the introduc-
.Today there are onlythree Is- The battles across the Lebanese tion of nuclear weaponry in the
lamic fundamentalist nations: border are primarily with the region.” (Translation: preemptive
Iran, Sudan, and Pakistan. The Hizballah and Islamic Jihad, both ।
Bush will have to do more than
run a negative campaign to win.
His interference in the Israeli
elections may not have been a
decisive factor in the outcome of
the Shamir-Rabin contest. But it
is sad to see the filthy side of
American politics spilling into
other democracies.
Herschel Zvi is a noted research
acquire nuclear weapons. In Iran negotiated peace between Haman
alone, some 25 Russian nuclear and the Jews. The simple lesson
scientists have joined hundreds is that there is no way to make
of Iranians, Pakistanis, Algerians, peace with someone as evil as
and' Libyians in a "Manhattan" Haman who wants to destroy you.
type project to develop nuclear This might sound pessimistic,
weapons. There are unconfirmed but a study of Jewish history
reports that Iran already pos- would lead one to believe that
sesses four Soviet nuclear war- only the pessimists were realistic,
heads illicitly bought from the Consider this: The German Jews
Moslem Republic of Kazakhstan, who were pessimists fled Ger-
It is widely known that Pakistan many in the 30's; the optimists
is well on the way to a nuclear went to Auschwitz in the 40‘sl
bomb. Syria, Libya, Algeria, and Shapiro'S Rule #2: WE MUST
Iraq could have nuclear weapons KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT OUR
by the year 2000. It is important ENEMIES AND NEVER DROP
to remember that 75% of Israel's OUR GUARD. □
loan guarantee to undermine Liedtke raised the funds as a
Shamir. The decision by the Bush personal favor to Bush, who was
administration to hold off on the working hard on behalf of the
loan guarantee was used by Nixon White House.
Labor to frighten voters, to con- The money raised by Liedtke
vince them that Shamir's "intran- was flown by Pennzoil jet to
sigence" had endangered future. Washington and delivered to the
U.S. support for Israel. headquarters of CREEP, where it
This was played by Bush right was disbursed to Watergate burg
up to election day. Less than two lar G. Gordon Liddy. When fellow
weeks before the vote, he sent Watergate burglar Bernard Bark-
handwritten notes to several lead- er was apprehended during the
the size of the one dropped on ers of Jewish organizations in the break-in, he was carrying some
Hiroshima (equivalent to 10,000 U.S. telling them that he was of the money raised by Liedtke,
tons of TNT) targeted on this prepared to reopen talks on the In spite of the Bush connection
to Watergate, he was able to
"regardless of the outcome." emerge unscathed bythesubse-
Many commentators in the Israeli quent investigation. In fact, por-
press read that to mean that Bush trayed bY the press as Mr. Clean,
would reopen talks if the Shamir be was brought in by the reeling
Budinger when he said, "Israel government lost.Nixon White House to head the
must create the greatestdisrup-. The intervention of lhe Bush Republican National Committee
tion, whether military or political, u : n lnas the investigations into Water-
7 v team info. the Israel elections
should have come asno Surprise gate deepened.
to anyone who has been watch- While Bush escaped scrutiny in
ing U.S. politics this year The , 1’72- and was successful in em-
military action if political action “Opposition Research" team em- ‘ploying attack-dog laches in
fails.)1988 (such as the insultingly
9 ... ployed by the Bush camp has beena
The Islamic threat is serious deployed in depth against Bill racist Willie Horton ploy), one
Strip, the fundamentalists are and no one should minimize its Clinton, prepared to match the hopes that such tactics will not
movements are very strong in Al- organized under the name Hamas true nature. During WWII the slashing stale so successfully be rewarded this time around,
and are responsible for most of chief Islamic leader among the employed by the late, legendary With an angry electorate, a de-
the stabbings and other attacks Palestinians was Haj Amin al- . . : S.nm , dining economy, and a third
on Israeli civilians. Members of Hussehi;the Grand Mufti of buakts in 1988 choice, it is likely that President
In fact, there is a Bush connec-
tion which goes back to the most
famous recent dirty tricks' cam-
paign, the bugging of the Water-
gate headquarters of the Demo-
cratic Party in 1972. The Water-
gate operation was illegally fi-
nanced by contributions raised
by Bush crony Bill Liedtke of
.Houston.
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